OC Library: Faculty Development Web Sites

Web Sites: FACULTY DEVELOPMENT

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All Academic: All Academic provides full-featured search tools for academic resources on the internet. The All Academic search index offers tools and browseable links for scholars looking for quality on-line academic resources. The search results are listed in a choice of APA, MLA, or Chicago style and include abstracts for articles as well as the date of posting and some author information. Searches can be run by subject, author, publication, or article title.
Amazon.com Books: Offers more than one million books online that are ready for purchase. Features the personal notification service - if you're waiting for a title to come out in paperback, they'll e-mail you when it does.
Booklist: The virtual counterpart to the American Library Association's Booklist magazine. For more than 90 years, Booklist has been the librarian's leading choice for reviews of the latest books and (more recently) electronic media. Every year they review nearly 4,000 books for adults, more than 2,500 titles for children, more than 500 reference books and electronic reference tools, and 1,000 other audiovisual materials. Booklist also publishes a wide variety of feature articles including author interviews, bibliographies, book-related essays by well-known writers, and a selection of columns. This web site is designed to introduce Booklist to a new group of readers and to provide current subscribers with additional services and points of access.
The Chronicle of Higher Education: Includes brief news of the academic world, including the complete job listing of the Chronicle. Includes archives of past issues as well as current issues.
Coalition for Christian Colleges and Universities: Helping Christian colleges and universities better fulfill their mission to effectively integrate Biblical faith, scholarship and service. Includes links to: 90 Coalition colleges & universities, semester programs, materials for faculty and administrators, and more.
Community of Science Funding Database: A comprehensive source of funding information with more than 22,000 records, representing over 400,000 funding opportunities, worth over $33 billion.
Copyright and Fair Use: Includes primary materials (statutes, judicial opinions, regulations), current legislation, cases and issues, resources on the Internet, and an overview of copyright law.
Copyright Clearance Center Online: Provides copyright licensing, clearance, and usage services. Contains catalogs for searching for material.
EDUCAUSE: EDUCAUSE is an international, nonprofit association whose mission is to help shape and enable transformational change in higher education through the introduction, use, and management of information resources and technologies in teaching, learning, scholarship, research, and institutional management. EDUCAUSE membership is open to institutions of higher education, corporations serving the higher education information technology market, and other related associations and organizations. EDUCAUSE programs include professional development activities, print and electronic publications, strategic/policy initiatives, research and development, and a wealth of online information services.
Global Campus: A collaborative multimedia database containing a variety of outstanding educational materials such as images, sounds, text, and video to be used for nonprofit, educational purposes.
GrantsWeb: Provides links to public and private funding sources.
How to Make a Website of Your Own Better: Tips on building Web sites that are user-friendly and usable.
Institute for Christian Leadership: Provider of resources to Christian higher education institutions since 1983. These services include publishing the "Faculty Dialogue". Contains resources about critical issues facing Christian higher education.
Instruction Resources Center: IRC provides teaching support services, faculty services, instructional technology and media, information about minigrant development projects, the IRC Newsletter, etc.
MLA Guidelines for Documenting Sources from the World Wide Web: Provides guidelines and examples on how to document various types of sources from the Web.
Multimedia Authoring Web: Authoring generally refers to programming by non-programmers. This Web site provides access for those desiring to learn to make multimedia instructional presentations. Access to: authoring languages, authoring listservs, centers for multimedia development, commercial multimedia producers, and multimedia resources.
New York Times Book Reviews: A free site that requires you to fill out a subscription form. Provides over 50,000 reviews back to 1980.
Peterson's Education Center: Brings together at one central address information about educational opportunities at all levels. Also gives individuals the ability to search Peterson's databases as well as to request more information, apply, and interact in other ways with faculty and administrators at educational institutions.
Preparing Scholarly Reviews of the Literature: A Webtorial: Discusses using research literature from the social sciences in a scholarly and professional manner. The site is intended for masters and doctoral degree students in all the social sciences.
Social Science Data Analysis Network: The SSDAN Project helps college teachers introduce user-friendly census data analysis into their classes. Datasets from the 1950-1990 censuses can be used in courses on race relations, gender studies, marriage and the family, U.S. income inequality, and other timely social issues. The SSDAN project facilitates the incorporation of data analysis into introductory social science classes by creating course materials, hosting in person workshops and "virtual" (internet accessible) workshops for instructors, posting this homepage, and providing a forum for networking via e-mail groups.
TIAA-CREF: Comprehensive menus of tools and information about TIAA-CREF, the retirement plan for OC staff and faculty.

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