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Almanacs

• Atlapedia http://www.atlapedia.com/index.html

• Festivals.com http://www.festivals.com/

• Information Please http://www.infoplease.com/

• Disaster Almanac http://disasterium.com/indexb.shtml

• The Old Farmers Almanac http://www.almanac.com/index.html

Arts and Culture

• Barbados...sports...festivals...events...much more.. http://www.barbados.org/do.htm#Arts

• Bibliography of Creative Writing in Trinidad & Tobago http://www.users.interport.net/~alana/bibindex.html

• Caribe.com Caribbean art and artists...music...more

  http://archive.nandotimes.com/prof/caribe/Caribbean_Cultural_Center.html

• Cuban Culture...fact sheets and photos about arts and culture...more

  http://www.cubanculture.com/

• The Cuban Experience-Culture

  http://library.thinkquest.org/18355/culture.html?qskip1=1&tqtime=0225

• Jamaican Culture

  http://www.jamaicans.com/culture/index.htm

• Puerto Rican Culture...arts & crafts...folklore...literature...more

  http://welcome.topuertorico.org/culture/

 

Caribbean Studies

• Duke University Internet Resources on the Caribbean Region

  http://www.lib.duke.edu/ias/pmg.html

Copyright and Electronic Rights Information

• Authors in the New Information Age: A Working Paper on Electronic Issues www.nwu.org/docs/aniabeg.htm#173

• Copyright and Fair Use http://fairuse.stanford.edu/

• List of links with articles on the subject of copyright and fair usage.

• Copyright Protection in the New World of Electronic Publishing www.press.umich.edu/jep/works/strong.copyright.html

• Giving credit and requesting permission: Guidelines for using material other than your own www.oreilly.com/oreilly/author/permission

• Proper Use of a Domain Name for Trademark Protection http://www.arvic.com/library/DOMANUSE.asp

• U.S. Copyright Office www.lcweb.loc.gov/copyright

Critiquing Information and Online Writers Tools

• How to Critique Fiction http://www.crayne.com/howcrit.html

• Fiction and Critique’s How-To’s http://hollylisle.com/community/fiction.html

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Dictionaries

• Acronym Finder http://www.acronymfinder.com/

• American-British/British American Dictionary www.peak.org/~jeremy/dictionary/dict-toc.html

• Artlex Art Dictionary http://www.artlex.com/

• Cambridge Dictionaries Online http://dictionary.cambridge.org/

• Cliché Finder http://www.westegg.com/cliche/

• Glossary of Internet Terms www.matisse.net/files/glossary.html

• Glossary of Poetic Terms http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/rp/poetterm.html

• The Internet Press: Dictionaries www.gallery.uunet.be/Internetpress/diction.htm

• Historical Dictionaries, Slang and Proverbs Http://Ireland.iol.ie/~mazzold/lang/s-hist.htm

• Miriam Webster Online http://www.m-w.com/netdict.htm

• One-Look Dictionaries www.onelook.com

• Origins of Phrases http://members.aol.com/MorelandC/Phrases.htm

• Phrase Finder www.shu.ac.uk/web-admin/phrases/

• Synonym Dictionary http://vancouver-webpages.com/synonyms.html

• The Greatest Films http://www.filmsite.org/

• The Newbury House Online Dictionary http://nhd.heinle.com/

• Travlang www.travlang.com

• Web of On-Line Dictionaries http://www.yourdictionary.com/

• WordNet 1.6 Vocabulary Helper www.notredame.ac.jp/cgi-bin/wn

• WorldwideWeb Acronym and Abbreviation Server http://www.ucc.ie/info/net/acronyms/index.html

• Directories and Databases

• Handilinks www.handilinks.com

• A list of links arrange by subject on a wide variety of topics

• Internet Sleuth http://web.bilkent.edu.tr/Search/Sleuth/

• A good place to look for material not found by other search engines

• My Virtual Reference Desk/My Virtual Encyclopedia www.refdesk.com

• A listing of sites with databases, fact books and encyclopedias.

• Search.com www.search.com

• Web search databases and indexes

  E-Publishing Information

• Contract Issues: Books Published Online www.nwu.org/docs/online-p.htm

• E-Books and E-Publishing http://publishing.about.com/cs/ebooks/

• Ebook Publishing http://www.writerfind.com/resources/publish.htm

• KnowBetter.com Online zine with Ebook news, commentary, reviews, Epublishers...more

• www.knowbetter.com

• Why Sell Your Books to an Electronic Publisher? http://www.eclectics.com/articles/ebooks2

• Writer Beware: Epublishers www.sfwa.org/Beware/epublishers.html

  Grammar Sites

• Elements of Style www.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/bartlett/

• Grammar and Style Notes http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing/

• Guide to Grammar and Writing/Ask Grammar http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/index.htm

• The King’s English www.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/fowler/

• One-Look Dictionaries www.onelook.com

• Research-It! http://www.itools.com/research-it/

Literature

• Caribbean Authors http://contemporarylit.about.com/cs/worldlit

• Caribbean Literature http://www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/landow/post/caribbean/caribov.html

• Russ Filman's Caribbean Literature http://www.freenet.hamilton.on.ca/~aa462/cariblit.html.

• Studies in World Literature and Postcolonialism http://www.eng.fju.edu.tw/worldlit/world_link.htm

• The Caribbean Writer http://www.thecaribbeanwriter.com

• West Indian Literature http://www.westindiesbooks.com

Libraries: Caribbean

•   Caribbean Collection in the British Library

• Caribbean Regional Resources

• Jamaica Virtual Reference Library

• The National Library of Jamaica

• University of Puerto Rico Libraries

Media: Caribbean

• Caribbean Daily News http://www.caribbeandaily.com/

• CANA Online http://www.cananews.com/

• Caribbean News and Newspapers http://www.caribbeannewspapers.com/

Media: International

• Journalism.NET www.journalismnet.com/papers.htm

• Media and News Resources Around the Globe www.uct.ac.za/depts/politics/intnew.htm

• Media UK www.mediauk.com/directory/

• The Drudge Report www.drudge.com

Names

• BabyCenter: Baby Name Search www.babycenter.com/babyname/index/html

• Babynamefinder http://www.parentsoup.com/babynames

• Eponym http://www.eponym.org/

• The Etymology of First Names http://www.pacificcoast.net/~muck/etym.html

• What’s in Your name? www.kabalarians.com/gkh/your.htm

Newsgroups and Discussion Groups

• Caribbean Lit. Group at Yahoo

• Google groups http://groups.google.com/

• Internet Forum: The Virtual Caribbean Institute

• Topica: choose from thousands of newsletters and discussions www.liszt.com

• CyberFiber Newsgroups http://www.cyberfiber.com/

• Charter of uk.culture.arts.writing http://www.usenet.org.uk/uk.culture.arts.writing.html#uk.culture.arts.writing

 

 Publishing House

 Juno Books fantasy with a focus on female: Juno Books

Research: Internet

• Finding Information on the Internet: A Tutorial www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Findinfo.html

  A tutorial explaining many aspects of Internet research and explaining how to get the best results from search engines.

• Internet Tools for the Advanced Searcher www.philb.com/adint.htm

  Explains how to conduct advance search strategies.

• Using the Internet for Research www.purefiction.com/pages/res1.htm

  An article discussing research techniques.

Search Engines

• Alta Vista www.altavista.com

• CaribSeek Caribbean Search Directory www.caribseek.com/

• Caribesearch www.caribesearch.com

• Excite www.excite.com

• Google www.google.com

• Hotbot www.hotbot.com

• InfoSeek www.infoseek.com

• Lycos www.lycos.com

• SearchUK www.searchuk.com

• WebCrawler www.webcrawler.com

• Yahoo! www.yahoo.com

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