Useful resources for academic and education writers

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AudioBook Resources:
Blackstone: http://www.blackstoneaudio.com/
Books on Tape: http://www.booksontape.com/
Recorded Books: http://www.recordedbooks.com/
Audio Books for Free on MP3 or DVD: http://www.dvdaudiobooks.com/
Audible.Com: http://www.audible.com/

Author Guidelines (Examples):
Author Guidelines: http://www.wiley.com/legacy/authors/guidelines/stmguides/6frames.htm
Guidelines for Camera-Ready Copy: http://www.ablongman.com/html/author/cameraready.html
Publisher Style Guidelines: http://www.mhhe.com/catalogs/work/supplements.mhtml
Author Guidelines for Test Banks: http://www.ablongman.com/html/author/supplemental.html

Authoring Software:
Test Gen: http://www.aw.com/testgen/
For Mathematicians: http://www.ams.org
Tamarack Information on FirstClass, QuizMaster, TestGen, and StudyWizard: http://www.tamarack-software.com/
Snag It: http://www.cooltoolawards.com/software/multimedia/snagit.htm
FrameMaker: http://www.adobe.com/products/framemaker/main.html
Microsoft’s Office OneNote 2003 (Notetaking System): http://www.microsoft.com/office/onenote/trial/che
Macromedia (XML, Flash, Dreamweaver): http://www.macromedia.com/resources/elearning/objects/
Remote Collaboration Tool: http://www.openRCT.org
RSS feeds for news and data: http://www.webreference.com/authoring/languages/xml/rss/intro/
Night Kitchen’s TK3 eBook Engine: http://www.nightkitchen.com/product/reader/index.phtml

Content Providers:
Social sciences content providers: http://www.socsciresearch.com/r3.html
MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching): http://www.merlot.org/Home.po

Copyright and Copyright Clearance:
Copyright Clearance Center: http://www.copyright.com
Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 Summary: http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/iclp/dmca1.htm
U.S. Copyright Office: http://www.copyright.gov
Links to the patent, trademark, and copyright policies of colleges and universities: http://www.nethics.umd.edu/copyown/policies/index.html

Course Management Systems:
Blackboard and WebCT: http://www.blackboard.com/
Pearson’s Course Compass: http://www.booksites.net/faqs/faqcc_geninfo.htm

Creating E-Texts:
Basic Guidelines for creating E-Texts: http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/textbooks/creatingtextbooks.html; http://ebooks.strath.ac.uk/eboni/guidelines/contents.html

Creating Puzzles and Games:
Ed Helper: http://www.edhelper.com/crossword.htm
Puzzlemaker: http://puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com/

Digital Multimedia:
Guidelines for Multimedia Storyboard: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/adrian_mallon_multimedia/story.htm
File Extensions: http://www.ace.net.nz/tech/TechFileFormat.html
University of Texas Interactive Multimedia Development: http://www.edb.utexas.edu/multimedia/PDFfolder/PDF.html

Electronic Transparencies:
PowerPoint in the Classroom: http://www.actden.com/pp/
PowerPoint Tutorial: http://einstein.cs.uri.edu/tutorials/csc101/powerpoint/ppt.html
Links Page on Electronic Transparencies: http://www.geocities.com/~webwinds/classes/powerpt.htm

Information Databases:
Factiva: http://www.factiva.com/
Lexus-Nexus (business): http://www.forbes.com
Dialog (reference): http://www.dialog.com
Scirus (science): http://www.scirus.com
FirstGov.gov (government): http://www.firstgov.gov/
EbscoHost: http://ejournals.ebsco.com
ProQuest (e-periodicals): http://www.il.proquest.com/

Information Literacy and Design:
Edward Tufte, Information Design: http://www.edwardtufte.com
Instructional design: http://www.fgcu.edu/onlinedesign/designDev.html; http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/idmodels.html
Links to instructional design for online courses: http://www.ibritt.com/resources/dc_instructionaldesign.htm
Mark Dibble’s Directory of Online Resources for Information Literacy: http://bulldogs.tlu.edu/mdibble/doril/
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Center for Academic Transformation: http://www.center.rpi.edu)

Learning Objects
The Instructional Use of Learning Objects: http://www.reusability.org/read/
Defining learning objects: http://coe.sdsu.edu/eet/Articles/learnobject/index.htm; http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/CIE/AOP/LO_what.html
New Media Consortium’s Guidelines: http://www.nmc.org/
Links for developing e-learning and distance learning objects: http://www.ibritt.com/resources/dc_objects.htm

Online Courses
2004 Sloan report, “Entering the Mainstream:” http://www.sloan-c.org/resources/survey.asp; http://www.virtualstudent.com/html/sloan_survey.html
North American Council for Online Learning: http://www.nacol.org/
E-CLASS: Creating a Guide to Online Course Development For Distance Learning Faculty: http://www.westga.edu/~distance/ojdla/winter34/gerson34.html

Open Source Resources:
Project Gutenberg: http://gutenberg.net/; http://promo.net/pg/index.html
Globally Accessible Statistics Procedures (University of South Carolina): http://www.stat.sc.edu/rsrch/gasp
Scripps Library at the University of Virginia: http://www.millercenter.virginia.edu/scripps
PubMed Central (National Library of Medicine): http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/
Words without Borders (Oxford University): http://www.wordswithoutborders.org
Dspace (MIT): http://libraries.mit.edu/dspace-mit/
Moodle Course Management Software: http://www.edutools.info/course/index.jsp
Course Management: http://staff.philau.edu/bells/cmsresourcepage.htm
MIT’s OpenCourseWare program at http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html

Publisher Directories:
American Association of Publishers (AAP): http://www.publishers.org/Association of American University Presses (AAUP): http://aaupnet.org/
Library of Congress (LOC): http://www.loc.gov/
BookWire: http://www.bookwire.com
Literary Market Place (LMP): http://www.literarymarketplace.com

Teaching and Learning

Articles on implementing the Seven Principles of Good Practice in Undergraduate Education: http://www.tltgroup.org/programs/seven.html

Teaching Goals Inventory: http://www.uiowa.edu/~centeach/tgi
Bloom’s Taxonomy: http://chiron.valdosta.edu/whuitt/col/cogsys/bloom.html

Video Sources
Documentary Educational Resources: http://www.der.org/
PBS Shop: http://www.shoppbs.org/home/index.jsp
Free teachers’ materials for PBS videos: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/teachers.html
Films for the Humanities & Sciences: http://www.films.com/Films_Home/Index.cfm?S=1
Library of Congress Video Web Casts: http://www.connectlive.com/events/libraryofcongress/
NASA Video: http://teacherlink.ed.usu.edu/tlnasa/videos/
C-Span video: http://www.c-span.org/
National Geographic online video: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/channel/highspeed/2004/07/20040705news.html
National Archives video: http://www.archives.gov/research_room/media_formats/film_sound_video.html

Web Authoring
Browsers: http://www.learnthenet.com/english/html/12browser.htm

W3 Consortium specifications for universal HTML 3.2 or 4.0: http://www.w3.org/
Web Design Group Guide to HTML 3.2: http://www.htmlhelp.com/
HTML 4.0: http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/
Cascading Style Sheets: http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/css/

Writers and Editors:
Editorial Freelancers Association: http://www.the-efa.org/

Authorlink: http://authorlink.com/
American Medical Writers Association: http://www.amwa.org/
National Association of Science Writers: http://nasw.org/
National Education Writers Association: http://www.ewa.org/
Writers Net: http://www.writers.net/writers.php
Dan Poynter: http://www.parapublishing.com/

Writing Cases
Example of Approaches to Case-Based Assessment: http://www.bioquest.org/eval.html
Links site on case-based learning in higher education: http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/awceauth.htm#casebased

Writing Study Guides
Learning Styles Online home page: http://www.learning-styles-online.com/style/visual-spatial/
Study Guides and Strategies: http://www.studygs.net/
Study Guides and Test-Taking Tips: http://www.eop.mu.edu/study/
Designing Secondary-Level Study Guides: http://coe.sdsu.edu/people/jmora/Pages/ContentStudyGds.htm

Writing Test Items
Michigan State University’s Comprehensive Guidelines for Writing Test Items: http://www.msu.edu/dept/soweb/writitem.html
Park University Guidelines and Links Page on Writing Test Items: http://park.edu/cetl/quicktips/
Dr. Robert Runté’s tutorial on how to write tests: http://www.edu.uleth.ca/runte/tests/
Annotated Links Page on Writing Tests from the Center for Teaching Excellence: http://cte.umdnj.edu/student_evaluation/evaluation_constructing.cfm
Alabama Professional Development Module on Constructing Essay Tests: http://web.utk.edu/~mccay/apdm/essay/essay_b.htm