RESOURCES

• • What’s on the Shelf Blog

• • World Book Encyclopedia

• • Research in Context

• • Expanded Academic ASAP

• • General Reference Center Gold

• • Student Edition

• • Ted Talks at Ted.com

• • Find It Virginia: Direct Access to All Gale Databases

BOOKS & READING

RECOMMENDED WEBSITES

• • The Big Read

• • Goodreads * Social media site for book lovers.

• • Ultra-Condensed Classics * Classic novels often assigned in English class humorously condensed into a few sentences.

• • Virginia Festival of the Book

EBOOKS

• • Project Gutenberg * Free, open-access college textbooks covering dozens of fields; all books reviewed by faculty at the University of Minnesota.

• • Project Gutenberg * The oldest digital library now consisting of tens of thousands of free ebooks, primarily classics of Western thought and literature.

• • TumbleBooks for Teens

• • Open Culture: The Best Free Cultural and Educational Media on the Web

• • Overdrive, Zinio and more! (JMRL)

WRITING & CITING

• • Creative Writing

  • Creative Writing Hints from OWL

  • NaNoWriMo

  • 365 Writing Prompts

MLA BASICS

• • MLA Style Center

• • Purdue University Online Writing Lab

AUTOMATIC CITATION GENERATIONS:

• • Citation Machine

• • Easy Bib

AVOIDING PLAGIARISM

• • Plagiarism.org

• • “Is it Plagiarism?” from the Purdue Online Writing Lab

ENGLISH DEPARTMENT

GENERAL

• • Wordsmith

• • The Forest of Rhetoric (Silva Rhetoricae)

• • Project Gutenberg

• • The Victorian Web

• • Bible Gateway

POETRY

• • For Better Verse

• • Poets.Org (Academy of American Poets)

• • Poetry Foundation * Excellent source of poems and essays on poetry from the editors of the legendary Poetry magazine.

SHAKESPEARE STUDIES

• • American Shakespeare Center

• • Shakespeare Documented

• • The Great Thinkers *

• • Shakespeare Revealed

• • Folger Digital Texts

HISTORY

GENERAL HISTORY

• • Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media

• • Gale World History Collection

ANCIENT HISTORY

• • Internet Ancient History Sourcebook (Fordham University)

EUROPEAN HISTORY

• • Map of Europe Game (Seterra)

• • German History in Documents and Images

• • Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution (George Mason University)

• • The Encyclopedia of Diderot and d’Alembert

• • The Glorious Revolution (UK Parliament)

U.S. HISTORY

• • The White House

• • United States Congress

• • Gale U.S. History Collection

• • Mr. Riddick’s U.S. History Blog

• • Mr. Riddick’s AP U.S. History Blog

WORLD WAR I

• • The Poetry of World War I

• • The Art of World War I in 52 Paintings

• • World War I Document Archive (Brigham Young University)

• • Animated Map of the Western Front (BBC)

LANGUAGE

FRENCH

• • DuoLingo

• • Word Reference

• • Larousse

• • Classzone

• • TV5Monde * For Advanced French students.–Mr. France

LATIN
HISTORY/CULTURE

• • Ancient and Classical History (About Education)

• • Encyclopedia Mythica

• • Illustrated History of the Roman Empire

• • Ancient Rome (History.com)

• • Ancient Rome (UNRV)

DICTIONARIES

• • Notre Dame Latin/English Translator (William Whitaker’s Words)

• • Core Vocabulary (Dickinson College) * This is a list of the 1000 most common words in Latin–Mrs. Burke

• • Glossa: A Latin Dictionary

TEXTS

• • The Latin Library *Site does not provide any notes or vocabulary; it is simply the original Latin for every author Miller students might encounter in their Latin courses—-Mrs. Burke

• • Ovid Amores Book 1 (Dickinson College) * Complete text along with notes and vocabulary; relevant to Miller students in Latin IV–Mrs. Burke

• • Julius Caesar Selections from The Gallic War (Dickinson College) *Useful for students in Latin III and AP Latin. It contains all the AP Latin Caesar passages with notes and vocabulary. –Mrs. Burke

SPANISH

• • Ciudad Seva * Great resource for poems, short stories, plays etc. Organized by genre. Super simple to use. This is especially helpful if you lost/forgot your book and need to look up a literary work for class. Free. (Spanish)

• • Word Reference * A great dictionary. Includes a forum if you have questions. The conjugator tool allows you to conjugate verbs in all forms with a simple click. Free. (English/Spanish)

• • Radio Ambulante * Great for listening practice. They offer a variety of podcasts in English/Spanish. Transcripts are also included. (English/Spanish)

• • Thesaurus * Simply type in a Spanish word and you will receive a list of synonyms in addition to definitions, parts of speech and other useful information. (Spanish)

• • Spanish Language and Culture with Barbara Kuczun Nelson

• • Study Spanish (studyspanish.com)

MATH

GENERAL MATH

• • Millermathmelis * Mr. Melis’s YouTube channel

• • MathScribble * Mr. Macdonald’s website

• • MathScribble – Youtube * Mr. Macdonald’s YouTube channel

• • KhanAcademy

• • Numberphile

• • EverythingMath

• • MathOpenReference

• • Geogebra App

COMPUTERS/COMPUTER PROGRAMMING

• • Codecademy

• • Hour of Code

• • What is Code?

• • Gale Computer Database

SCIENCE

GENERAL SCIENCE

• • Public Library of Science

• • Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History: Virtual Tour

• • Google Sky * Explore the stars. –Ms. Goodbar

• • Gale General Science Collection

CHEMISTRY

• • Interactive Periodic Table

• • On This Day in Chemistry

• • Careers in Chemistry

• • Chemistry Magazine Blog

ENGINEERING

• • ENR: Engineering News-Record

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE

• • Gale Environmental Studies and Policy Collection

• • EnvironmentalScience.Org * A gateway for students interested in pursuing degrees or careers related to environmental science.

• • NASA’s Global Climate Change Website * A 2015 winner of the Webby Awards for excellence on the internet.

PHYSICS

• • Learn AP Physics

FINE ARTS

DRAMA AND THEATER ART

• • American Shakespeare Center

• • Live Arts

• • The Paramount

MUSIC

• • MusicTheory.net

• • Pitchfork *Award-winning online music magazine.

VISUAL ARTS

• • Google Arts and Culture * Wide-reaching site, which included thousands of art works and virtual tours of museums (including MoMA, cultural sites, and architectural wonders of the world.

• • The Louvre

• • Digital Bodleian Library

• • British Library Images * A Flickr account of over a million free images from the British Library.

• • Gale Fine Arts and Music Collection

RESEARCH & DATABASES

ENCYCLOPEDIAS

• • World Book Encyclopedia

• • Encyclopedia Virginia

• • Wikipedia

SEARCH ENGINES

• • Google

• • Wolfram Alpha: Computational Knowledge Engine

• • Quora

NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES

• • National Geographic Archive

• • Time Magazine

• Newspapers

  • • New York Times

  • • Washington Post Online

  • • The Daily Progress * Local news for the Charlottesville area.

  • • The Wall Street Journal

  • • Financial Times

  • • The Chicago Tribune

  • • The Guardian

MILLER DATABASES
GENERAL DATABASES

• • Research in Context

• • Expanded Academic ASAP

• • General Reference Center Gold

• • Student Edition

SPECIAL DATABASES

• • Gale Agriculture Collection

• • Gale Business Economics and Theory Collection

• • Gale Communications and Mass Media Collection

• • Gale Computer Database

• • Gale Criminal Justice Collection

• • Gale Culinary Arts Collection

• • Gale Diversity Studies Collection

• • Gale Environmental Studies and Policy Collection

• • Gale Fine Arts and Music Collection

• • Gale General Science Collection

• • Gale Home Improvement Collection

• • Gale Military and Intelligence Collection

• • Gale Pop Culture Collection

• • Gale Psychology Collection

• • Gale Religion and Philosophy Collection

• • Gale U.S. History Collection

• • Gale War and Terrorism Collection

• • Gale World History Collection

ONLINE DATABASES

• • Directory of Open Access Journals * A Searchable database of over 6000 open access, peer-reviewed journals.

• • Proquest and other JMRL databases

• • Springer Link * Millions of open access documents.

• • Springer Open Access Journals

LOCAL LIBRARIES

• • Jefferson Madison Regional Library

• • University of Virginia Library

OTHER ONLINE RESOURCES

• • British Library Images * A Flickr account of over a million free images from the British Library.

• • Digital Public Library of America

• • JSTOR Daily

• • Open Culture: The Best Free Cultural and Educational Media on the Web

• • The Virtual Smithsonian * Tour the Smithsonian Museums online.

THE RESEARCH PROCESS

• • World Book Student * Begin your researh, track your research, learn about the research process — all care of World Book Student.

• • Purdue Guide to Research (OWL)

• • Research Like a Librarian (New York Public Library)