Regardless of what sort of term system your school utilizes, at this point every college student in the land is up to their eyebrows in the hard damn work portion of their college education. Here’s a list of some of the tools that have elicited the most enthusiastic responses from college students around the blogosphere, along with some sites I thought were useful:

Doing the Research
ChunkIt
Google Book Search
Google Reader
Google Scholar
OEDb’s Research Beyond Google
Scholar Search Engines
WorldCat
Collecting the Research
Del.icio.us
Fireshot
PDFCreator

Resources
EnhanceMyWriting
How to Write a Term Paper
Idea Generator
LibrarianChick
Library Research Guide
Research 101
Bibliography
BibMe
EasyBib
EndNote
OttoBib
Zotero
Taking Notes
Evernote
Google Notebook
mynoteIT

Organization (Not Forgetting Stuff)
Google Calendar
Remember the Milk
30 Boxes
Study Tools
Flashcards
How to Study: A Brief Guide
Study Guides and Strategies
Quizlet
Office Suites (the writing, presenting and spreadsheet parts)
Google Docs (free)
Microsoft Office (not as free)
Zoho (free)