Her interest in using technology in new ways prompted me to select her site this month. The January 1998 issue of Yahoo Internet Life spotlights Abilock's site for its research paper help and the help she gives is more interactive than most. Click on a button and the form delivers to your screen a bibliographic citation for a book, article, or Web site that can be copied and pasted into research papers.
Students can choose a type of search, click on a link, and go to the appropriate search tool.
She includes a large number of them, including search engines like Hotbot and metaengines like Inference Find. While she designed them for her students, universities, businesses, and medical offices are linked to them as well.