Websites of Special Interest to Faculty

• Alibris
  (C) A source for locating hard-to-find, used, or out-of-print books.  http://www.alibris.com/
  
  
• Bartleby.com
  (P)An electronic reference shelf with such titles as Strunk's "Elements of Style," "Roget's Thesaurus," dictionaries, encyclopedias, anthologies, and more.  
  http://www.bartleby.com
  
  
• Best Information on the Net
  (P) A portal of sites created by librarians at St. Ambrose University.  http://library.sau.edu/bestinfo/Default.htm
  
  
• Copyright and Licensing Resources
  (P) A selection of sites from Florida's CCLA. Includes a section on "Copyright for the classroom."  
  http://www.ccla.lib.fl.us/docs/resourcesharing/copyright.asp
  
  
• Copyright, Fair Use, Etc  
  (P) A collection of sites addressing copyright, intellectual property rights, and fair use in the academic environment. From the University of South Florida library.   
  http://www.lib.usf.edu/~ifrank/copyright.html
  
  
• Detecting Plagiarism
  (C and P) Hints, techniques, and resources for detecting plagiarism in student work.  
  http://www.library.dal.ca/how/detect.htm
  
  
• Eldis--Website Tales
  (C) Provides information about electronic publishing for academia. Includes tips on creating readable and useable Web documents for the dissemination of research and information. 
  http://www.eldis.org/tales/writing/index.htm
  
  
• Fair Use of Copyrighted Materials 
  (C) Extensive tutorial on the application of Fair Use in the academic environment. University of Texas. 
  http://www.utsystem.edu/OGC/IntellectualProperty/copypol2.htm
  
  
• Florida Community College System 
  (C) The official site of the Florida CC system.  
  http://www.fldoe.org/cc/
  
  
• National Center for Education Statistics 
  (C) The national clearinghouse for education statistics from kindergarten through post-graduate. Also includes tuition and other information on universities and colleges.  
  http://nces.ed.gov/
  
  
• Scholarly Societies Project
  (P) Links to scholarly societies by discipline, country, etc. Also publishes articles about scholarly communication and publishing.  
  http://www.scholarly-societies.org/
  
  
• Snopes.com
  (C) Find out if that forwarded email you recieved is based on factual information or just another urban legend.  
  http://www.snopes2.com/

The Learning Technologies Department offers many tutorials for getting faculty members acquainted with software available here at OWC.

• Adobe Reader (PDF)
• Camtasia
• Creating and using a blog
• Clickers
• D2L
• Elluminate
• Microsoft Programs
• Microsoft Office 2007
• NovusNews
• Studymate & Respondus
• Turnitin
• Vision
• Writers' Workbench
• Computer Tips

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