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Current Law News
Legal Research Tools
Search Engines
  • Infomine Scholarly internet resource collections. A showcase of Internet/Web resources of relevance to faculty, students, and research staff at the university level.
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Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Quotations
  • Merriam Webster Online
  • Encyclopedia Britannica
  • Bartleby.com A collection of passages, phrases, and proverbs traced to their sources in ancient and modern literature.
  • Word Spy "Word Spy is devoted to lexpionage, the sleuthing of new words and phrases. These aren't 'stunt words' or 'sniglets,' but new terms that have appeared multiple times in newspapers, magazines, books, Web sites, and other recorded sources."
Style and Grammar Manuals
Newspapers
  • Newspaperindex.com ""We collect and maintain links only to newspapers and publications containing local, free and independent news from each country in the world...We only include websites with free public access that have a local editorial staff of independent journalists and in most cases a print version as well."
  • NewsVoyager Search for newspapers by state, city or newspaper name.
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