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Almanacs
Associations & Organizations
Atlases, Maps & Geographical Data
Awards
Colleges & Universities
Currency Converters
Databases
(WorldCAT)
Dictionaries & Thesauri
Electronic Texts & Digital Libraries
Encyclopedias
Government Documents
Legal
Maps, Atlases & Geographical Data
Magazines
Newsgroups and Listservs
Newspapers
People Finders & Telephone Books
Public Opinion Polls
Quotations
Search Engines
Statistics
Style Manuals
Telephone Books & People Finders
Thesauri & Dictionaries
Zip Codes & Country Codes
- 50
States and Capitals
From: Pike Street Industries,
Inc.,
Many fast facts including admission to statehood, local newspapers,
state song, state constitution, and tax forms!
- Information
Please
From: Family Education Network
Combining the contents of an encyclopedia, a dictionary, an atlas
and several up-to-the minute almanacs loaded with statistics, facts,
and historical records.
- Old
Farmer's Almanac
From: Old
Farmer's Almanac (Yankee Publishing, Inc.)
There are probably many reasons why this almanac has been published
continuously since 1792. It provides time-tested information on
environmental events (worst drought in U.S. history, frost charts,
tide information, star charts) all in one place. Use the drop-down
box at the top of the page to navigate the site.
- AFRO-American
Almanac
From: Digital Development Group
This award-winning site is a historical perspective of a nation, its
people, and its cultural evolution. From the beginning of the slave
trade through the Civil Rights movement to the present. Historical
documents and events, biographies, folk tales, selected books and
more.
- Associations
on the Net
From: The Internet Public Library
Guide to websites of prominent organizations and associations.
- AssociationCentral
From: AssociationCentral.com
Provides descriptions of associations, homepages, publications and
news.
- The
Scholarly Societies Project
From: University of Waterloo
Library
The Scholarly Societies Project offers free access to directory
information for a selection of scholarly societies across the world.
- Gateway
to Associations
From: the
American Society of Association Executives.
Use the drop-down box to access a directory of over 1,000
associations with links to their home pages. Inclusion appears to be
based on self-submission. Note: There
is a box on the left side of the screen asking you to register and
become a member. You do not need to do so to use this resource.
- Idealist
From: Action
without Borders.
A directory of over 20,000 nonprofit organizations in 140 countries.
Includes information on employment and internships as well as
management and funding of nonprofit groups.
- CIA
World Factbook
From: U.S. Government, Central
Intelligence Agency
Describes the geography, people, economy, communication, military,
transportation and transnational issues of the countries of the
world.
- Color
Landform Atlas of the United States
From: Ray Sterner, The Johns Hopkins University,
Applied Physics Laboratory. Version 2 contains a menu of links
to maps and other online information about each state. User fees may
be encountered; however, educational use may be free. Contact Ray
Sterner.
- The
Columbia Gazetteer of North America, 2000
From: Bartleby.com
The 2000 edition of this well-known reference book, the Columbia
Gazetteer is a dictionary of places in North America. It contains
entries for 50,000+ incorporated places (cities and counties), and
includes population data, longitudinal/latitudinal placement, and a
brief description of major industries of the area.
- Country
Studies
From: Library of Congress
The Country Studies Series presents a description and analysis of
the historical setting and the social, economic, political, and
national security systems and institutions of countries throughout
the world and examines the interrelationships of those systems and
the ways they are shaped by cultural factors.
- Portals
to the World
From: Library of Congress
In-depth information about nations and other areas of the world.
Link to business and commerce, genealogy, politics, listservs, and
embassies.
- United
Nations Cartographic Section
From: United
Nations
Country and regional color maps in .PDF format (requires
Adobe Acrobat Reader to view) as well
as peacekeeping mission maps. These are some of the best of the
basic maps available. The peacekeeping mission maps must be searched
by the mission name acronym. To find the correct acronym for the
mission map of your choice, click on the "deployment maps"
link directly above the drop-down menu.
- American
Factfinder
From: U.S. Census Bureau
Popular tables and maps for the U.S., states, counties, cities,
towns, and American Indian reservations. All tables and maps for all
geographies including the U.S., States, counties, cities, towns,
American Indian reservations, metropolitan areas, zip codes, census
tracts, blocks, and more.
- Internet
Resources in Maps and Cartography
From: University of
California at Berkeley
Gateways to cartographic information on the Internet. Gazetteers,
GIS resources, name indexes, and other publishers online.
- Perry-Castañeda
Library Map Collection
From: Perry-Castañeda
Library, University of Texas at Austin
A large collection of varying types of maps, some more detailed than
others. A good table of contents makes it easy to browse. Note
especially the somewhat idiosyncratic collection of historic maps.
- Mapquest
From: R.R. Donnelley & Sons
Enter an address on MapQuest and access millions of locations around
the world, obtain detailed maps and accurate driving directions,
locate places of interest, customize road trip plans, and create,
save, download or email personalized maps.
- Nobel
e-Museum
From: Nobel Foundation
Provide easy access to information about the scientific and literary
achievements as well as peace efforts recognized by the Nobel Prize,
and to stimulate interest of students in the prize areas.
- Pulitzer
Prizes
From: Journalism Collection, Columbia University
Libraries
The Pulitzer Prize Website includes a database of winners and
nominated finalists for each prize category. In addition, for
winners from 1995 - 2002, there is a complete inventory of winning
cartoons, photos, and texts of journalism articles.
- American
Universities
Author:
Mike Conlon, Chief Information Officer and Assistant Vice President
for Information Systems and Support, University of Florida Health
Science Center
From: College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Florida
This page is quite long and may load slowly.
An almost exhaustive list of U.S. university and college websites.
This site includes links to sites for community colleges and
international universities.
- Canadian
Universities
From: University of Waterloo
Connect to university websites located in Canada.
- International
Universities
From:
General Education Online
Connect to university websites located around the world.
- CollegeNET
From: CollegeNET
The CollegeNET search engine finds colleges. Narrow down by region,
college sports, major, tuition, and several other criteria. Hotlink
from your search list directly to homepages of the schools in which
you are interested.
Community
College Web
From: Maricopa Center for Learning and
Instruction (MCLI)
This site contains a searchable index to the websites for 1283
community colleges in the United States, Canada, and elsewhere
around the world.
- Directory
of Higher Education
From: EDUCAUSE
EDUCAUSE has collected information on nearly 4,000 unique higher
education organizations throughout the U.S. and abroad. Search the
Directory of Higher Education Organizations by name, location, or
Carnegie Classification.
- Petersons.Com
From: Thomson Corporation
The most comprehensive directory of education. Identify colleges,
practice test preparations, graduate program searches, and financial
aid.
- Princeton
Review
From: The Princeton Review Inc.
Identify colleges, and many practice test preparations.
- ERIC
Clearinghouse on Higher Education
Established by:
George Washington University's Graduate School of Education and
Human Development
From: Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC)
An excellent service related to the subject of higher
education, covering such topics as "... students, faculty,
graduate and professional education, legal issues, financing,
planning and evaluation, curriculum, teaching methods, and
state-federal institutional questions." Includes topical
digests, a catalog of reports, links to the ERIC education database,
links to other educational sites and resources, frequently requested
bibliographies and consulting information.
- The
Foundation Center
From: The Foundation Center
Locate basic facts and contact information on approximately 70,000
U.S. private and community grant-making organizations.
- Johns
Hopkins University Research Information Systems
From: The Johns Hopkins University
Excellent website connecting to information on grants and funding,
as well as access to IRIS, the grant database fro the University of
Illinois.
- American
Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
From: Bartleby.com
Includes over 90,000 entries of words, biographical references and
geographical listings.Offers a feature unique to a web-based
dictionary: the ability to listen to a pronunciation of the word
(requires a sound card on your computer.) Also includes an
alphabetical index to 900+ full-page illustrations--here's the place
to find the definition and picture of a "dibble"! A
drawback to the site's search mechanism is that there are no
suggestions for alternate spellings if you mistype or spell the word
incorrectly.
- Merriam-Webster
Online Dictionary and Thesaurus
From: Merriam-Webster, Incorporated
The online dictionary includes the main A-Z listing of the
Collegiate® Dictionary, as well as the Abbreviations, Foreign Words
and Phrases, Biographical Names, and Geographical Names.
- Roget's
II: The New Thesaurus
From: Bartleby.com
Containing 35,000 synonyms and over 250,000 cross-references in an
easy-to-use format, this thesaurus features succinct word
definitions and an innovative hyperlinked category index.
- xrefer
From: xrefer, London
Search engine which searches over 40 specialized reference sources
including Bloomsbury Guide to Art, Grove Concise Dictionary of
Music, Oxford Dictionary of Art, A Dictionary of Business (Oxford
University Press), A Dictionary of Law (Oxford University Press),
Penguin Dictionary of Economics, Penguin International Dictionary of
Finance, Bloomsbury Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, Macmillan
Dictionary of Women's Biography, Who's Who in the Twentieth Century
(Oxford University Press), Bloomsbury Thematic Dictionary of
Quotations, The Oxford Companion to Philosophy, and more.
- Your
Dictionary.Com
From: yourDictionary.com Inc
Provides a portal for language and language-related products and
services on the web with more than 1800 dictionaries with more than
250 languages.
Foreign
Dictionaries:
- Digita
Web Garzanti
Publisher:
Garzanti (Italy)
Italian dictionary (note: not
Italian-English or English-Italian) by the respected Italian
publisher. Easy interface, allows lemmatization (you need only type
in the beginning or root of a word and the dictionary will search
for all applicable terms).
- German-English/English-German
Dictionary From LEO
From: LEO (Link Everything
Online) Department of Informatics at the Technische Universität München
Enter search term in English or German. Choose from the options
below the search term to determine translation, spelling tolerance
and more. Advise reading Usage
Hints and FAQ
for more direction.
- Perseus
Project Greek Dictionary
Publisher:
Perseus Project, Tufts University
Dictionary of classical, not modern Greek
permits searches in Latin transliteration (using the Roman, not
Greek, alphabet) of Greek words and lemmas. Returns English
definitions and citations in Perseus texts.
- Perseus
Project Latin Dictionary
Publisher:
Perseus Project, Tufts University
This dictionary allows you to search for Latin words and lemmas, and
returns both the English definition with Latin derivatives and a
list of Perseus texts in which the term is found.
Top
of Page
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Ebrary
From: Ebrary
Over 9000 books to browse and search for free in
the areas of business & economics, computers & technology,
education, history & biography, classics, and selected social
& behavioral sciences. Content is provided by more than 100
leading publishers. Fees apply only if you print or copy portions
of the full text. Prices range from approximately .18 cents to
approximately .50 cents per page. You must download their free
software (http://shop.ebrary.com/support/plugin_download.jsp)
before browsing the collection, but it is a quick and painless
process. Ebrary provides solid help throughout the site including
information on how to get started and search tips.
-
Electronic
Text Center
From: University of Virginia
Contains "1,600 publicly-available e-books including classic
British and American fiction, major authors, children's
literature, the Bible, Shakespeare, American history,
African-American documents, and much more." Users can search
through the full text, or browse by subject. The Electronic
Text Center has many other publicly accessible e-books. They
have an English
language collection in addition to literature in several other
languages.
-
National
Academy Press
From: Press of the National Academies of
Science and Engineering,
National Research Council, Institute of Medicine
Current research in policy relating to a variety of areas in
health and social sciences. Most of the National Academy Press's
titles are available online using a variety of technologies (PDF,
Web pages, other Web-viewable images). Readers may browse the
categories (topics) list, search for words in titles, or even
search the complete set of full texts. Readers should note that,
because texts are accessible in different formats, they will
"look" different on the screen. In most all cases, click
on the Read button to access the full
text.
-
Online
Texts Collection
From: Internet Public Library
Organization, variety. The Internet is not
the world's largest library, but the Internet Public Library does
a good job of organizing over 10,000 electronic texts of all
varieties into the online equivalent of a library. Browse by
author, title, or subject (even the Dewey Decimal system has found
a niche in cyberspace). The texts collected by the IPL come from a
variety of sources and most are suitable for pleasure reading or
for background information, although there are some
resources that come from standard editions, and list all pertinent
information.
- Oxford
Text Archive
Publisher: Oxford University Computing Services
Humanities Computing Unit
Multiple formats, known editions. Since it paved the way as the
first electronic text archive in 1976, the OTA has grown to 2500
texts from all eras. Readers should take the time to read through
the screens (you will need to click through several before you get
to the list of titles in the catalogue),
which offer a great deal of helpful information. In most cases,
multiple formats will be available. If you want to read online
immediately, choose HTML or ASCII. For those who wish to use the
SGML TEI versions, software is available for reading online (if you
don't know what this is, and you simply want to read the text, we
recommend HTML instead). Complete
edition information available for all texts.
- Rand
Publications
From: Rand
Information about and publications from many of the research studies
of this "nonprofit institution that helps improve policy and
decision making through research and analysis." Areas of study
include child policy, civil and criminal justice, education,
environment and energy, health, international policy, labor markets,
national security, population and regional studies, science and
technology, social welfare, and transportation. Many of the
documents may be viewed online or downloaded at no charge.
-
University
of California Press Collection
From: U. C. Press (scholarly publisher)
Best for: Current scholarship in liberal arts.Scholarly
editions fully suitable for academic work
in the fields of African, Middle Eastern, and South Asian studies;
classics; European history; literature. Click on links in the
Contents of the UC Press Books Collection frame
to access individual titles. Abstracts are available for each
title. Click on the book icon
to view the full text.
-
African
Americans
From: University of Virginia
A collection of essays and literature by or about African
Americans, spanning a period from 1772 to 1930. Includes such
notable authors as Frederick Douglass and Harriet Beecher Stowe,
as well as less well-known writers, and covers topics ranging from
life as a slave to African American voting rights. Each text is
available as a web document, or formatted for palm devices and MS
readers.
-
Bartleby.com
From: Bartleby.com
Best for: Literature, poetry, non-fiction, reference books
Provides full text access to 19th and 20th century British,
American, French, and Russian literature, including the Harvard
Classics Shelf of Fiction . A strength of this site is its
poetry collection. It contains hundreds of poets and thousands of
poems, and provides four different types of indexes:
chronological, author, title, and first line. Each record includes
a brief biographical sketch of the author through Columbia
Encyclopedia, and a complete
bibliographical citation including all details of original
publication. Also contains a small, eclectic nonfiction
collection.
-
Bartleby.com
Fiction Collection
From: Bartleby.com
This collection comprises several anthologies as well as the full
text of many literature classics from antiquity to modern times.
The anthologies include the Harvard Classics Shelf of Literature,
a collection of short stories called "The Short Story,"
and a collection of ghost stories called "The Haunters and
the Haunted." The individual texts span a range of authors
from Aeschylus to Virginia Woolf, and include works by Cervantes,
Henry James, Sinclair Lewis and Leo Tolstoy, to name just a few.
The entire fiction site is searchable by keyword, and many of the
texts include critical notes.
-
Bartleby.com
Nonfiction Collection
From: Bartleby.com
Includes both anthologies and full text of individual volumes of
classic nonfiction works. The anthologies span a variety of
topics, ranging from American historical documents to accounts of
the voyages of both ancient and modern explorers of the world.
Writers whose individual works are featured in the
"Volumes" section range from Henry Adams, an American
writer and historian, to John Woolman, an early American Quaker,
and include a wide variety of other writers covering the sciences,
politics, philosophy and history.
- English
Server
From: The English Server at University of
Washington
Wide range of humanities and social science topics
Some texts in their book collection are
electronic versions of standard editions, and names of editors are
listed, making them acceptable for scholarly
work.
- Internet
Classics Archive
From: Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
A repository of over 400 texts from the classical world. All texts
are in English and provide reader comment areas; some texts
available in Greek or Latin. Translators'
names are listed.
- Making
of America
From: University of Michigan and Cornell
University
Full text digital library of primary resources. Contains about 8500
books and 50,000 journal articles. Focuses on education, psychology,
American History, sociology, religion, science and technology, from
the antebellum period through reconstruction.
- Native
Americans
From:
University of Virginia
A collection of both fiction and nonfiction works written by or
about Native Americans spanning 1860-1920. E-book, palm device and
web versions are available; some volumes contain illustrations.
Browse through Mary Austin's story of "The Land of Little
Rain," or read about "Myths and Legends of the Sioux"
by Marie L. McLaughlin.
- Perseus
Project
Editor: Gregory
Crane
From: Dept. of the Classics, Tufts University
Original languages; background information on authors; special
collections with images.This spectacular collection of Greek and
Roman texts allows readers to view and read Greek texts (font tools
may be downloaded) as well as Latin; many texts include links to
English translations. Most texts are
"special Perseus-edited editions of the Loeb Classical
Library." Also provided are Greek and Latin grammars,
background works on classical literature and history, collections of
art and archaeological images, atlases, etc. Use the Texts
link on the home page to find the titles included in the collection.
An incomparable resource for readers interested in the ancient world.
- Schoenberg
Center for Electronic Text and Image
From: University
of Pennsylvania
Beautiful scanned images from the University of Pennsylvania library
collection. Several main collections, including: women's studies,
South Asia Studies, Furness Shakespeare Library, and science occult
and religion. Items scanned include books, maps, manuscripts,
photographs, broadsides, ephemera, and recorded sound.
- Women
Writers
From:
University of Virginia
The works of over ninety women authors, from Louisa May Alcott to
Zitkala-Sa. Includes American, African American, Native American,
British and Chinese writers. Find such classics as Emily Bronte's
"Wuthering Heights" or discover a new treasure in Sui Sin
Far's, "An Autumn Fan."
- The
Works of William Shakespeare
From:
University of Virginia
A collection of Shakespeare's comedies, histories, tragedies, poems
and romances. The entire collection is searchable by keyword or
phrase.
- Alex
Catalogue of Electronic texts
From:
Eric Lease Morgan
Best for: Pleasure Reading
Only
Public Domain Documents of American and English Literature and
Western Philosophy. Allows users to search for keywords within and
across texts. Also provides a concordance in which you can search
for keywords within the text. Contains a "browse" feature
which lists all the words in the concordance beginning with a
specified letter. Users can create .PDF files of full text items.
- The
On-Line Books Page
Editor: John
Mark Ockerbloom, digital library planner and researcher at the
University of Pennsylvania
From: Digital Library Project, University of Pennsylvania
Library
Links to foreign language collections, sheer size. A veritable grab
bag of over 10,000 titles, this repository points readers to
everything from Charles Babbage to the Zapatista National Liberation
Army by way of Chekhov, Macaulay and Zola. The quality of texts is
uneven, as they come from a variety of resources, not all of which
claim to be standard editions, or even single editions. Readers
looking at texts that offer no edition information should use these
for background information or pleasure
reading.
- Project
Gutenberg
From: Michael
Hart and PromoNet.
Best for: Pleasure reading only.
It's enormous; connect time may be slow due to high use; sometimes
readers will be asked to pay a small fee (we recommend that you look
elsewhere in these circumstances, since another place may offer the
same title free); texts are "plain vanilla ASCII", or text
files; readers will need to scroll through yards of disclaimers or
Project background material to get to the text; texts
are hand-typed and not do not duplicate professionally published
editions. Why tell you about it? It is
enormous, it includes foreign literatures, and when it's a snowy day
and you're thinking you always meant to read The
Thirty-Nine Steps but
the public library is closed and the car hasn't been dug out...you
can read it here.
- Columbia
Encyclopedia
From:
Bartleby.com
Containing nearly 51,000 entries (marshaling six and one-half
million words on a vast range of topics), and with more than 80,000
hypertext cross-references, the current Sixth Edition is among the
most complete and up-to-date encyclopediæ ever produced.
- Britannica.com
From: Encyclopedia
Britannica.
Non subscribers can browse the names of entries in the encyclopedia,
and read a portion of the entry. Requires
a $5/month subscription fee to view full entries.
- How
Stuff Works
From: Marshall
Brain
Provides in-depth articles that explain the world from the inside
out (i.e., How computer viruses work, how virtual private networks
work, how the euro works, etc.,)
- Xrefer
From: xrefer.com
Search through a reliable array of dictionaries and encyclopedias in
the arts and sciences from established publishers. Some sources
include: The Penguin Dictionary
of Psychology, Oxford
Dictionary of Music, and Macmillan Dictionary of Women's
Biography. Also includes quotation
books. Provides source citation, and allows users to e-mail pages.
- American
Memory
From:
Library of Congress
Best for: Primary source material on all topics
Over 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical
collections. A fascinating resource to browse. Search within
individual collections, or search across collections. Covers a range
of subjects in the social sciences, humanities, and technology.
Users may also search by format: text, maps, motion pictures, photos
and prints, and sound recordings.
- GPO
ACCESS (List of Databases)
From: U.S.
Government Printing Office
Encompassing 1,900 government websites and databases, such as the Federal
Register,
the Budget of the United States,
the U.S. Code, and
the Congressional Record to
name a few. Many electronic documents appear on the day of
publication exactly as they do in print, and are the officially
published version.
- Federal
Depository in your Area
From: U.S.
Government Printing Office
Federal Government publications and other information products are
made available for free public use in Federal depository libraries
throughout the United States. Find the one closest to you!
- Thomas
From:
Library of Congress
The best single source of information for all the steps in the
legislative process. Provides access to bills, roll call votes,
public laws, hearing transcripts(selective), reports, links to both
chambers, to legislative branch agencies, executive, and judicial
branches.
- The
White House
From: U.S.
Government
The U.S. President's home and home page.
- Reports
Collection
Compiled by: Capella Library
Reports
written by government officials or individuals working for think
tank organizations can be quite useful. Reports often contain
helpful bibliographies and attempt to analyze or study a topic.
- Findlaw
From: West Group
The best single starting point on the Web for doing legal research.
Full text, searchable database of all law reviews and journals on
the Internet. Updated nightly. Another search interface, LawCrawler,
helps you focus your search on legal issues on the Web. Also
includes Legal News, legal forms, organizations, law firms and
lawyers, judicial opinions and case law, consultants, and more.
- Law
Library of Congress
From:
Library of Congress
An annotated guide to sources of information on government and law
available online. Treaties, Law Reviews online, International
constitutions, U.S. Executive Agencies and Regulations, The Federal
Court System and Decisions, The U.S. Congress and the Federal
Legislative Process, Guide to Law Online: Criminal Justice System,
Guide to Law Online: Elections, Guide to Law Online: Terrorism and
more! To ACCESS site click on
"Law Online", then "Guide to Law Online".
Constitution
Bills
& Public Laws
- Thomas
From:
Library of Congress
Full text of bills, bill summary & status, Major
Legislation by Topics, the Congressional Record and more! Search
summaries of Public Laws from 1973-1989. Full text of Public
Laws from 1990 to present.
- GPO
Access
From: US Government Printing Office -
Gateways are libraries that are in special partnership with GPO
providing a more customized access to the GPO databases. Download
complete text of bills from 1995-present.
US Code
(Subject arrangement of Federal Laws currently in force)
- US
Code via Cornell
From:
Cornell US Code via Cornell University Law School
Very flexible presentation of the US Code. Browse by title or
search a separate table of popular names.
- US
Code via GPO Access
From:
US Government Printing Office.
State
Legislative Law
Federal
Regulatory/Administrative Laws
Code of
Federal Regulations(CFR) - Final
regulations from the Executive Agencies.
- Cornell's
Interface to CFR on GPO
From:
Cornell University Law School
Flexible presentation of the CFR. Browse the outline; easily
limit search to section headings.
- CFR
via GPO access
From:
US Government Printing Office
Federal Register
-The Federal Register (FR) lists US federal agency announcements
and information, such as presidential documents, agency meetings,
grant opportunities, and proposed and final federal
regulations. The GPO publishes a new edition of the Federal Register
every business day.
- FR
via GPO Access
From:
US Government Printing Office
Full text since 1994.
Federal
Case Law:
Supreme Court Opinions
Court
of Appeals Opinions
- Legal
Information Institute
From:
Cornell University
Nice search engine across all of the Court of Appeals opinions.
The Court of Appeals opinions are generally posted by different law
schools in the various circuits with cooperation of the United
States Court of Appeals for the circuit.
- Georgetown
- Map of the Court of Appeals
From:
Georgetown University Law School
Clickable map that takes you to the site(s) hosting the Court
of Appeals Opinions for the circuit.
District
Court Opinions
State
Case Law
Legal
Periodicals
- CIA
World Factbook
From: U.S. Government, Central
Intelligence Agency
Describes the geography, people, economy, communication, military,
transportation and transnational issues of the countries of the
world.
- Color
Landform Atlas of the United States
From: Ray Sterner, The Johns Hopkins University,
Applied Physics Laboratory
Version 2 contains a menu of links to maps and other online
information about each state. User fees may be encountered; however,
educational use may be free. Contact Ray Sterner.
- The
Columbia Gazetteer of North America, 2000
From: Bartleby.com
The 2000 edition of this well-known reference book, the Columbia
Gazetteer is a dictionary of places in North America. It contains
entries for 50,000+ incorporated places (cities and counties), and
includes population data, longitudinal/latitudinal placement, and a
brief description of major industries of the area.
- Country
Studies
From: Library of Congress
The Country Studies Series presents a description and analysis of
the historical setting and the social, economic, political, and
national security systems and institutions of countries throughout
the world and examines the interrelationships of those systems and
the ways they are shaped by cultural factors.
- Portals
to the World
From: Library of Congress
In-depth information about nations and other areas of the world.
Link to business and commerce, genealogy, politics, listservs, and
embassies.
- United
Nations Cartographic Section
From: United
Nations
Country and regional color maps in .PDF format (requires
Adobe Acrobat Reader to view) as well
as peacekeeping mission maps. These are some of the best of the
basic maps available. The peacekeeping mission maps must be searched
by the mission name acronym. To find the correct acronym for the
mission map of your choice, click on the "deployment maps"
link directly above the drop-down menu.
- American
Factfinder
From: U.S. Census Bureau
Popular tables and maps for the U.S., states, counties, cities,
towns, and American Indian reservations. All tables and maps for all
geographies including the U.S., States, counties, cities, towns,
American Indian reservations, metropolitan areas, zip codes, census
tracts, blocks, and more.
- Internet
Resources in Maps and Cartography
From:
University of California at Berkeley
Gateways to cartographic information on the Internet. Gazetteers,
GIS resources, name indexes, and other publishers online.
- Perry-Castañeda
Library Map Collection
From: Perry-Castañeda
Library, University of Texas at Austin
A large collection of varying types of maps, some more detailed than
others. A good table of contents makes it easy to browse. Note
especially the somewhat idiosyncratic collection of historic maps.
- Mapquest
From: R.R. Donnelley & Sons
Enter an address on MapQuest and access millions of locations around
the world, obtain detailed maps and accurate driving directions,
locate places of interest, customize road trip plans, and create,
save, download or email personalized maps.
The
General Periodical Collection: Magazines and Journals
Compiled by: CUVL
This page includes links to a wide variety of popular journals as
provided by their publishers.
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- Directory
of Scholarly and Professional E-Conferences
From: Kovacs
Consulting Internet & Web Training
The Directory screens, evaluates and organizes discussion lists,
newsgroups, MUDS, MOO'S, Muck's, Mushes, mailing lists, interactive
Web chat groups etc. (e-conferences) on topics of interest to
scholars and professionals for use in their scholarly, pedagogical
and professional activities.
- Liszt
From: Topica
An independent provider of email newsletter publishers, from
multinational media companies to individuals publishing news about a
hobby or interest.
- The
Tile.Net/Lists
From:
List-Universe
Another massive list of listserv conferences. Search by keyword or
browse by name, subject, or domain (Internet address).
- List
of commands for managing your mailing list subscriptions
Author: James
Milles, Case Western Reserve University Law Library
When you join an online discussion list, you will be corresponding
with people...but you will be dealing with a computer. There are
commands you need to know to manage your subscription, and you need
to know where to send the commands (to the computer, not the
people). This document will help you avoid frustration and potential
embarrassment.
- The
Newspaper Rack
Compiled by: CUVL
Links to U.S. and international newspapers.
- Foreign
Media Reaction
From: U.S. State
Department
A global round-up of editorials and op-ed commentary from major
newspapers, magazines and broadcast media around the world.
Following a one-page analysis of the commentary, readers will find
block quotes sorted by geographic region and country.
- Newslink
From: NewsLink
Associates
The resource for online newspapers around the world. The newspapers
section lists about 5,400 papers and is searchable by title or
location and is also indexed geographically. In addition, U.S.
papers are indexed by state, frequency of publication, and
publication category. There are links to magazines, roadcasters, and
news services worldwide.
- Week
in Europe
From: the United
Kingdom Offices of the European Commission
A weekly summary of political, economic, and social events in the
European Union (EU). Articles are arranged by date of publication,
with a title and first sentence that links to the complete article.
- NewsDirectory.Com
From:
NewsDirectory.Com
A comprehensive guide to the world's English-language online media.
Currently over 8,000 newspapers and magazines are listed.
Searchable. Newspapers are also browsable geographically (including
by U.S. state, zip code, and city) and magazines geographically and
by subject. Also has a list of newspapers with searchable archives
and links to all the organizations that provide breaking news.
Formerly Ecola Newsstand.
- Online
Newspapers
From: Internet
Public Library
This directory of online newspapers is browsable by geographic
region. In addition to a link to the site, language, publisher, and
frequency are given for each entry. If available, features of the
paper are also given.
- CNN's
multimedia news
From: AOL Time
Warner Company
Updated continually. Features current stories and provides a search
engine to find information on specific topics.
- CSPAN
From: National
Cable Satellite Corporation
Links to ElectionLine , public affairs Internet resources, and audio
files of House and Senate sessions of interest.
- The
Weather Channel
From: The
Weather Channel Enterprises, Inc.
Provides weather data, such as current conditions, five day
forecasts, severe weather alerts, maps and more!
- All-in-One
Search
From: Danfield
Automation
Gateway site that provides links to a variety of people-finding
search engines and directories.
- Internet
Address Finder
From:
PeopleFind.com
Free whitepages and email. Other services available for a fee.
- MESA:
Your Meta Email Search Agent
From: University
of Hanover Germany
Find email addresses at home or abroad. Contains FAQ on "How to
find people's E-mail addresses".
- Telephone
Directories on the Web
From: Teldir.com
Index of online phone books, with over 400 links to Yellow Pages,
White Pages, Business Directories, Email Addresses and Fax Listings
from over 170 countries all around the world.
- U.S.
Yellow Pages
From: Verizon
People pages, reverse phone number; searches by distance, category
and nationwide phone numbers.
- WhoWhere?
From: Lycos, Inc
Provides Yellow pages, public records, and web searches nationwide.
- Gallup
Polls
From: Gallup
Organization
The Gallup Organization is a for-profit think-tank that has studied
human nature and behavior for more than 70 years. Find out how polls
are conducted. FAQ
- Roper
Center's links to other Survey Research Organizations
From: University
of Connecticut
Gateway to associations, academic research institutes, commercial
firms and international links.
- Voter
Information Services
From: Voter
Information Services, Inc. (VIS)
Federal Laws enacted (or not enacted) by the U.S. Congress have
profound effects on our lives. Our easy-to-use, non-partisan
Congressional Report Cards help you find out what kind of laws your
Congress members supported or opposed.
- Familiar
Quotations
From:
Bartleby.com
Including over 11,000 quotations, the first new edition of John
Bartlett's corpus to be published after his death in 1905 keeps most
of his original work intact.
- The
Columbia World of Quotations
From:
Bartleby.com
Editors:
Robert Andrews, Mary Biggs, and Michael Seidel
A vast reference work of quotations containing over 65,000 entries
from a variety of sources. Searchable by author or keyword. Subject
classification is searchable from the main page Search box, under
Categories.
Includes quotations not only from literature, but also from movies
and plays (quotations from these sources can be unclear as to the
original speaker).
- Simpson's
Contemporary Quotations
From:
Bartleby.com
With over 10,000 quotations from 4,000 sources organized into 25
categories and 60 sections, this comprehensive reference contains
words of wit and wisdom from such modern notables as Ezra Pound,
Henry Kissinger, George Orwell, Dorothy Parker, and Desmond Tutu.
- Alta
Vista
From: AltaVista
Company
Searches its index made up of one of the most comprehensive
collections of research-related, academic, community and
international web pages currently available.
- Google
From: Google
Preferred for finding specific web pages and for researching general
topics, as the web pages in the large Google index are selected
according to the number of websites that link to them. PDF documents
are now among the documents searched by Google.
- Guides
To Search Engines
From:
SearchEngineWatch.com
Link to many more search engines.
- The
Invisible Web
From:
Intelliseek
The InvisibleWeb.com is a directory of over 10,000 databases,
archives, and search engines that contain information that
traditional search engines have been unable to access.
InvisibleWeb.com take you to these invisible sources.
- Directory
of Networked Resources
From: National
Information Services and Systems (NISS)
Vast amount of search engines. Can find full text case studies,
journals and much more.
- InfoMine
From: The
Regents of the University of California
A virtual library of Internet resources relevant to faculty,
students, and research staff at the university level. It contains
useful Internet
resources like databases, electronic journals, electronic books,
bulletin boards, mailing lists, online library catalogs, articles,
directories of
researchers, and many other types of information.
- SCHOLARS'
GUIDE TO WWW
From: Richard
Jensen, Professor Emeritus of History, U of Illinois-Chicago
Links to Full Text Online Magazines & Books, Online Maps and
many subject specific websites.
Background
information
- Virtual
Statistical Assistant
From: Department
of Communication Studies, University of Kansas.
This site will help students needing to use statistical methods of
analysis to learn which statistical techniques are appropriate for
different research designs. Includes decision trees and a grid
selection model. Also links to other resources providing help in
understanding statistics and their use.
US
national and local sources
-
Statistical
Abstract of the United States
From: US Census
Bureau
The Statistical Abstract offers a multi-year view of the nation.
Information at this site is viewable in two formats: excerpts may be
viewed as plain Web pages, or the full abstract (all 1045 pages) is
available in a series of Adobe Acrobat PDF files. The PDF files are
accessed through a table of contents which lists section headings
and years.
-
White
House Briefing Room Latest Federal Government Statistics
From: Executive
Office of the President (US Federal Government)
Much briefer than FedStats, offers a "snapshot" of the
most recent summary statistics on economics, demographics, health,
crime, etc. Charts; links to agencies and full reports. Use this
site for a quick look at the most recent figures.
-
US
Census Bureau
From: US
Department of Commerce
The Census Bureau is the chief collection point for US demographic
and economic information. National, regional, state and community
resources; GIS tools; foreign trade and economic indicators; much
more.
-
FedStats
Authors: Diverse
agencies of the US federal government.
From: The Federal Interagency Council on Statistical Policy
The US federal government compiles and publishes statistical
information of unbelievable breadth. FedStat acts as a portal for
the seventy federal agencies that offer statistics to the public.
Choose the A-Z index for both topics and agencies; choose the site
map to see what other types of information are available via the
site.
-
Population
and Health Data
From: Population
Reference Bureau.
Search for data by country or state. Choose from a number of
different variables. Also provides links to the source of the data,
and suggests related publications of interest.
-
US
Counties
Compiled by: US
Census Bureau
From: Oregon State University
A wide variety of statistical information (economic, demographic,
labor, etc.) at the county level. All states and counties
represented.
- State
of the Cities Data Systems
Compiled by: US
Dept. of Housing and Urban Development
From: Aspen Systems Corp.
Provides data for state, metropolitan area, individual city, and
suburb. Also lists suburbs as defined by HUD, and contains
historical data from the 1970, 1980, and 1990 census.
International
sources
-
InfoNation
From: United
Nations.
Point-and-click menus allow searcher to extract basic statistical
comparisons of UN member nations. Social indicators, population,
economy, and geography of up to seven nations may be compared per
search. A good starting point for comparing unemployment statistics,
etc.
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OFFSTATS:
Official Statistics on the Web
Editor: Rainer
Wolcke, International Commerce and Statistics Librarian, University
of Auckland Library.
From: University of Auckland Library (New Zealand)
Excellent site "offering free and easily accessible social,
economic and general data from official or similar
"quotable" sources, especially those that provide both
current data and time series." Offers information by country
and by topic. Everything from the federal budget of Austria to
transnational arms transfers.
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- Research
and Documentation Online
From: Diane
Hacker
An extensive annotated list of specialized sources for more than 25
disciplines. The resources are organized by type-databases and
indexes, websites, and reference texts-under four main categories:
Humanities, Social Sciences, History, and Sciences. Guidelines for
documenting print and online sources. These guidelines provide the
most current advice available for MLA, APA, Chicago, and CBE styles.
Sample
papers with annotations for APA styles.
- APA
Electronic Style Guide
From: American
Psychological Association
Electronic Reference Formats - Citing e-mail, website, quotations,
and general reference information.
- APA
Publication Manual Crib Sheet
From: Russ
Dewey, Georgia Southern University
This page is a summary of rules from the APA Publication Manual.
More APA style resources.
- Citation
and Style Guides
From: Concordia
University
APA, MLA, Turabian, and Grammar Guides.
- Uncle
Sam - BRIEF GUIDE TO CITING GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS
From: University
of Memphis
Citations for issuing agency, state data center publications,
microform collections (i.e., SRI, ASI, CRSI), and much more….
- Introduction
to Basic Legal Citation (2000-2001 ed.)
From: Cornell
Law
Based on the17th edition of the "Bluebook" - introduction
and examples.
- All-in-One
Search
From: Danfield
Automation
Gateway site that provides links to a variety of people-finding
search engines and directories.
- Internet
Address Finder
From:
PeopleFind.com
Free whitepages and email. Other services available for a fee.
- MESA:
Your Meta Email Search Agent
From: University
of Hanover Germany
Find email addresses at home or abroad. Contains FAQ on "How to
find people's E-mail addresses".
- Telephone
Directories on the Web
From: Teldir.com
Index of online phone books, with over 400 links to Yellow Pages,
White Pages, Business Directories, Email Addresses and Fax Listings
from over 170 countries all around the world.
- U.S.
Yellow Pages
From: Verizon
People pages, reverse phone number, searches by distance, category
and nationwide phone numbers.
- WhoWhere?
From: Lycos, Inc
Provides Yellow pages, public records, and , web searches
nationwide.
- American
Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
From: Bartleby.com
Includes over 90,000 entries of words, biographical references and
geographical listings.Offers a feature unique to a web-based
dictionary: the ability to listen to a pronunciation of the word
(requires a sound card on your computer.) Also includes an
alphabetical index to 900+ full-page illustrations--here's the place
to find the definition and picture of a "dibble"! A
drawback to the site's search mechanism is that there are no
suggestions for alternate spellings if you mistype or spell the word
incorrectly.
- Merriam-Webster
Online Dictionary and Thesaurus
From: Merriam-Webster, Incorporated
The online dictionary includes the main AZ listing of the Collegiate®
Dictionary, as well as the Abbreviations, Foreign Words and Phrases,
Biographical Names, and Geographical Names.
- Roget's
II: The New Thesaurus
From: Bartleby.com
Containing 35,000 synonyms and over 250,000 cross-references in an
easy-to-use format, this thesaurus features succinct word
definitions and an innovative hyperlinked category index.
- xrefer
From: xrefer, London
Search engine which searches over 40 specialized reference sources
including Bloomsbury Guide to Art, Grove Concise Dictionary of
Music, Oxford Dictionary of Art, A Dictionary of Business (Oxford
University Press), A Dictionary of Law (Oxford University Press),
Penguin Dictionary of Economics, Penguin International Dictionary of
Finance, Bloomsbury Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, Macmillan
Dictionary of Women's Biography, Who's Who in the Twentieth Century
(Oxford University Press), Bloomsbury Thematic Dictionary of
Quotations, The Oxford Companion to Philosophy, and more.
- Your
Dictionary.Com
From: yourDictionary.com Inc
Provides a portal for language and language-related products and
services on the web with more than 1800 dictionaries with more than
250 languages.
Foreign
Dictionaries:
-
Digita
Web Garzanti
Publisher:
Garzanti (Italy)
Italian dictionary (note: not
Italian-English or English-Italian) by the respected Italian
publisher. Easy interface, allows lemmatization (you need only type
in the beginning or root of a word and the dictionary will search
for all applicable terms).
-
German-English/English-German
Dictionary From LEO
From: LEO (Link Everthing Online)
Department of Informatics at the Technische Universität München
Enter search term in English or German. Choose from the options
below the search term to determine translation, spelling tolerance
and more. Advise reading Usage
Hints and FAQ
for more direction.
-
Perseus
Project Greek Dictionary
Publisher:
Perseus Project, Tufts University
Dictionary of classical, not modern Greek
permits searches in Latin transliteration (using the Roman, not
Greek, alphabet) of Greek words and lemmas. Returns English
definitions and citations in Perseus texts.
- Perseus
Project Latin Dictionary
Publisher:
Perseus Project, Tufts University
This dictionary allows you to search for Latin words and lemmas, and
returns both the English definition with Latin derivatives and a
list of Perseus texts in which the term is found.
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