Citations Tools
There are many software tools available to help students and teachers collate and manage citations and references. Here are a few recommendations from the library staff. If after reading this documentation you require further assistance, please contact the librarian for further assistance.
Popular websites
PubMed Central (PMC) is a full-text, online archive of journal literature operated by the National Library of Medicine. NASA is using PMC to permanently preserve and provide easy public access to the peer-reviewed papers resulting from  NASA-funded research.
PBS has compiled a variety of short video clips from a variety of subjects for classroom use. Search by grade level and subject.
Google has archived hundreds of newspapers, even spanning back to the 1800’s. If you are looking for old newspaper articles, this is the place.
Awesome Library organizes 37,000 carefully reviewed resources, including the top 5 percent for teachers, students, parents, and librarians. It includes a search engine.
MLA (Modern Language Association) style is most commonly used to write papers and cite sources within the liberal arts and humanities. This resource, updated to reflect the MLA Handbook (8th ed.), offers examples for the general format of MLA research papers, in-text citations, endnotes/footnotes, and the Works Cited page.
You’ll find here collected links from all over the World Wide Web to help you discover William Shakespeare. There are millions of pages that reference Shakespeare on the Internet. This site aims to make it a little easier to find the most useful ones.
This site has offered Shakespeare’s plays and poetry to the Internet community since 1993.
The Folger Shakespeare Library is revolutionizing the way Shakespeare is taught, showing how the study of his work deepens knowledge and hones skills across key academic areas.
Absolute Shakespeare, the essential resource for William Shakespeare’s plays, sonnets, poems, quotes, biography and the legendary Globe Theatre.
Becoming the original online resource for poems, poets’ biographies, essays about poetry, and resources for K-12 teachers.
Sciences
Using the navigation bar on the left side of the screen, select “Mitosis” for an interactive tutorial.
The Mineralogy Database was last updated on 9/5/2012 and it contains 4,714 individual mineral species descriptions with links and a comprehensive image library.
Khan Academy offers practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard that empower learners to study at their own pace in and outside of the classroom. We tackle math, science, computer programming, history, art history, economics, and more.
Social Sciences
This site was designed by professors at the University of Houston to support the teaching of American history. The site includes an online textbook, historical documents, online exhibitions, interactive modules, and much more.
Making of America (MoA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.
Explore American History with hands-on activities, exhibits, lessons, historic documents and artifacts.