On-line Scholarship and Research Resources

Associations and Organizations

* National Academic Advising Association (NACADA)

http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/
NACADA is a membership organization for Academic Advisors
with a goal to advance the theory and the practice of academic
advising to ensure students’ intellectual, personal, and social
development.

* NACADA Technology in Advising Commission

http://www.psu.edu/dus/ncta/index.shtml
NACADA's Technology in Advising Commission is dedicated to
helping academic advisors understand the impact on academic
advising of technologies such as the World Wide Web, email,
degree audits, telephone and online registration, and student
information systems.

* TEXAAN - http://www.ee.ttu.edu/texaan/texaan4.htm -
TEXAAN is an organization which strives to Recognize and
Promote the profession of Academic Advising in higher education
throughout Texas.

* Integrated Counseling and Advisement Network (ICAN)

http://www.cpcc.cc.nc.us/ican/
The ICAN site provides resources for students, academic
advisors, and academic counselors.

* WCET - the Western Cooperative for Educational Technology

http://www.wcet.info/services/community/index.asp?section=pd
Telecommunications, membership-supported organization
open to providers and users of educational telecommunications.
Members represent the higher education community, nonprofit
organizations, schools, and corporations. Registration required.

Publications and Articles

* Student Affairs Online

http://studentaffairs.com/ejournal
An online magazine about technology and Student Affairs.
 * The Mentor: An Academic Advising Journal
http://www.psu.edu/dus/mentor/
The Mentor is a free electronic publication about academic
advising in higher education. The goal of this journal (available
only on the Web) is to provide a mechanism for the rapid
dissemination of new ideas about advising and for ongoing
discourse about advising issues.

* University of Delaware's Web Initiatives

http://www.mis.udel.edu/main/webinits/
This site provides a list of Web Initiatives, which are demos on
how to supply information to students and staff over the internet.

* NACADA Technology in Advising Commission -

http://www.psu.edu/dus/ncta/
NACADA help on use of technology in advising

* NACADA Technology in Advising Commission: Academic

Advising Resources on the Internet -
http://www.psu.edu/dus/ncta/links.htm
NACADA list of online advising aids.

* The Chronicle of Higher Education –

http://chronicle.com/chronicle/
Advising news and online forum

* Academic Counselors Association -

http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~acadv/
Established through UT-Austin, professional organization with
monthly meetings.

* National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and

Students in Transition page - http://www.sc.edu/fye/
Has listserv, encourages conferences/presentations with all
members of higher education community

* International Journal of Services and Standards -

http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=34
(publisher’s website) – journal devoted to articles about raising
professional service standards, including those in the professional
advising field.
 * National Center for Education Statistics - http://nces.ed.gov/ -
The center reports complete statistics on the condition of
higher education in the United States.

* The Academic Advising Network for Professionals and Faculty -

http://www.tcnj.edu/~shoes/acadv/acadv.htm
The National Academic Advising Association's (NACADA)
electronic network - known as ACADV - is a private electronic
network that provides academic advisors in higher education with
advising information quickly and easily by using electronic mail
(E-mail).

* EDUCAUSE - http://www.educause.edu/ -
EDUCAUSE is a nonprofit association whose mission is to
advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of
information technology.

Miscellaneous

*del.icio.us - http://del.icio.us/ -
This is free online service that lets you store and organize
everything you find and like on the web. For each page you store,
you can write comments and tag them with keywords. You can
also see how many other people like that page and see their
comments on it. Helpful for idea-gathering and brainstorming.

APA Formatting and Style Guide

APA (American Psychological Association) is most commonly
used to cite sources within the social sciences. This resource,
revised according to the 5th edition of the APA manual,
offers examples for the general format of APA research
papers, in-text citations, endnotes/footnotes, and the
reference page.
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/
Free resource, though not complete.

APA's style rules and guidelines are set out in a reference

book called The Publication Manual of the American
Psychological Association. You can check out the American
Psychological Association’s webpage on APA style formatting
at: http://www.apastyle.org/aboutstyle.html

Buy on-line tools that format papers APA style (average cost
for these tools is about $50):
http://www.styleease.com/APAMain.htm