ENGL 705: Seminar in Creative Writing

• UNR's Best Online Resources for Nature & Environmental Writing
• Selected World Wide Web Sources
• Citation Style Guides
• Links with Advice on Evaluating Information Sources

UNR's Best Online Resources for Nature & Environmental Writing

• Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost)
  • Indexes 7,800+ scholarly journals, with full text for 4,000 titles. Covers social sciences, humanities, education, computer science and engineering, general science, medicine, ethnic studies, and more. 1965- present for selected titles.
• Arts & Humanities Search
  • A citation index covering more than 8,000 of leading arts and humanities journals from 1980 to the present.
• Biography and Genealogy Master Index
  • Index to more than 10 million biographical sketches of individuals from dictionaries, encyclopedias, and "Who's Who" publications.
• Books in Print
  • Listings of in-print, forthcoming, and recently out-of-print books from North American publishers, updated weekly.
• Dissertation Abstracts
  • ProQuest's Digital Dissertations allows access to the text of digitized dissertations from UNR at no cost. Dissertations from other institutions can be purchased and downloaded. Covers dissertations from 1861 to the present. Dissertation abstracts available 1980- present; Master's theses abstracts, 1988- present.
• Global Newsbank
  • Index and full text of print and broadcast news, with worldwide coverage from 1996 to the present.
• Information Resources for English and Literature
  • The UNR Libraries' web site for literary information sources.
• Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
  • Index and full text to news, business, legal, medical, and reference materials and links to congressional and statistical information.
• Literature Resources Center (Galenet)
  • Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of Literary Biography, and Contemporary Literary Criticism Select.
• MLA International Bibliography
  • Citations to books, scholarly journals, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies from the disciplines of language, literature, linguistics and folklore. Covers 1926 to present.
• U.S. Government Publications: Electronic Indexes & Full Text Sources
  • LexisNexis Congressional
  • Government Periodicals Universe
  • Microforms in the Business and Government Information Center (Government-related Primary Source Collections)
  • Monthly Catalog of U.S. Government Publications: 1976-present
• UNR Libraries' Special Collections Department 
• WorldCat
  • A catalog of library materials in all formats from libraries worldwide. The database contains more than 40 million items and includes manuscripts written as early as the 12th century.

Selected World Wide Web Sources for Nature & Environmental Writers

• American Memory Project from the Library of Congress
• Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment
• Environmental Health News
  • A news site, the intent of which is to "increase public understanding of emerging scientific links between environmental exposures and human health."
• Headwaters News
  • News & analysis focused on the Rocky Mountain region.
• High Country News
  • News, commentary & humor on parks, forests, wildlife & communities.
• National Library for the Environment
  • Collection of full text reports and links to related web sites.
• National Park Service
• Natural Resources Defense Council
  • News, background papers and more from this environmental organization.
• Orion Magazine
  • Publication of the Orion Society, an environmental organization.
• Sierra Club
• U.S Dept. of the Interior
• The Wilderness Society
• Yahoo: Environment and Nature
  • Contains links to many issue-oriented sites.
• Yahoo's Index to History

Citation Style Guides

• Guide to Citing Government Information Sources in a Bibliography
• Guides to MLA Style
• MLA Style: Frequently asked questions

Critically Evaluating Information Sources

• Evaluating Information Sources
• Evaluating Internet Resources by Richard Terass
  • Provides links to sites on evaluating Internet-based information.
• How to Critically Analyze Information Sources (Cornell University Library)
• The Internet: A Solution to Your Information Needs or Media Hype?