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Research Guide in General Religion


Books In Print (New York: R.R. Bowker )
Connect to Books in Print online (via FirstSearch)
Index to books in print, forthcoming books, and recently out-of-print books from U.S. publishers.

Books in Print pages on the Web
A collection of links to many international books in print catalogs.

Britannica Online
Connect to Britannica Online
Guide to Searching Britannica Online
Britannica Online includes the following:
* Britannica Online and Book of the Year articles -- More than 65,000 subjects are addressed in articles ranging from concise explanations to comprehensive expositions and from historical treatments of subjects to current-events coverage.
* The Index to Britannica Online -- More than 400,000 references have been compiled, edited, and hypertext-linked to text articles for easy navigation. Additionally, there are more than 10,000 links to images and tables.
* Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition -- The best-selling dictionary, with itscomprehensive treatment of words, has been included for your convenience.

Electronic Style Guides

Electronic references & scholarly citations of Internet resources

Li, Xia. Electronic styles : a handbook for citing electronic information / Xia Li and Nancy B. Crane. 2nd ed. Medford, N.J. : Information Today, c1996.
SML, Main Reference Room PN171 F56 L5X 1996
Divinity Library, Trowbridge Reading Room PN171 D37 L5 1996 (LC)
Abridged pre-publication version available online

University of Chicago. Press. The Chicago manual of style. 14th ed. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1993.
SML, Reference Desk Z253 U69 1993 (LC)
Divinity Library, Trowbridge Reading Room Z253 U69 1993 (LC)
See sections 15.423 and 16.209.
Infomine
Evaluating Websites

Checklist for an informational Web page (Widener University)

E valuating World Wide Web information (Purdie University)

Thinking critically about World Wide Web resources (University of California at Los Angeles)



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Yale University Library YUL Research Guide in Islam
Prepared October 1997 by Suzanne Lorimer Copyright (C) 1997, Yale University. All rights reserved.
Comments and questions to Emily Horning
Last updated February 6, 2001
URL is http://www.library.yale.edu/rsc/religion/islam/genref.htm