CIC Secondary Library
MLA and Research Documents
​A. MLA guides
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1. MLA citation examples guide
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2. Sample MLA works cited page
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3. MLA works cited and in-text citations PPT
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B. Website and Source Evaluation
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​1. Reliability of Websites checklist
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2. Types of Sources are Key to Good Research
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C. Guide - Database and Encyclopedia
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​​SUBSCRIPTION DATABASES
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User name: cic
Password: Valencia+2019
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MLA Citation References:
Citation Fox: This citation guide is based on the 7th edition of the Modern Language Association of America's style manual.
Additional Search Engines:
Purdue Owl: Free writing sources including MLA style guide, tutorials on grammar and mechanics and research.
Sweetsearch: Search engine designed for students, with selected websites evaluated by subject area experts.
Ref Seek: A web search engine for students and researchers that aims to make academic information easily accessible to everyone.
Reference Sites:
Infotopia: An academic search engine accessing trusted websites chosen by teachers, librarians and educational consortia.
Virtual Reference Shelf: Online resources selected and organized by the Library of Congress.
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​Encyclopedia.com: more than 100 trusted sources, including encyclopedias, dictionaries, and thesauruses.
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E-Books and Book Reviews:
Bartleby.com: Free versions of classics in literature and poetry and reference sources.
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Science and Math Websites:
Encyclopedia of Earth: An electronic reference about the Earth, its natural environments, and their interaction with society. The EoE is a free, expert-reviewed collection of content contributed by scholars, professionals, and educators.
teenreads.com: Book reviews, author interviews, reading lists and more for the teen reading audience.
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​Young Adult Books Central: Online community for young adult literature readers. Includes reviews, contests and blogs.
Encyclopedia of Life: A free online resource bringing together information about all life on Earth in text, images, video, sounds, maps, classifications and more.
Open Library: An open, editable library catalog with over 1,000,000 ebooks available for borrowing.
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National Science Digital Library: Library provides high quality online educational resources for teaching and learning, with current emphasis on the sciences, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) discipline.​
Red List: The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species provides taxonomic, conservation status and distribution information on plants and animals that have been globally evaluated using the IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria.
Public Library of Science: A nonprofit publisher and advocacy organization that provides free, open-access scientific and medical research articles.
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Khan Academy: Includes a library of over 4,000 videos on everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history and hundreds of skills to practice.
Wolfram Alpha: Website that introduces a fundamentally new way to get knowledge and answers—not by searching the web, but by doing dynamic computations based on a vast collection of built-in data, algorithms, and methods.
Social Studies Websites:
Best of History Websites: Web portal with links to 1,200 history websites, organized by time period and event.
ProCon.org: Website devoted to promoting critical thinking, education, and informed citizenship by presenting controversial issues in a straightforward, nonpartisan primarily pro-con format.
UNESCO Institute for Statistics: the primary source for cross-nationally comparable statistics on education, science and technology, culture, and communication for more than 200 countries and territories.
UN Data: Numerous databases, tables and glossaries containing over 60 million data points from the UN which cover a wide range of themes including Crime, Education, Employment, Health, Human Development, Population, and Trade.
Arts and Humanities
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Art Project: Explore museums from around the world, discover tens of thousands of artworks at incredible zoom levels, and even create your own galleries of masterpieces.
Web Gallery of Art: a virtual museum and searchable database of Western (European) fine arts of the Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Realism, and Impressionism periods (1000-1900), currently containing over 33.900 reproductions.