See Also:
Links to Links
- American Association of Museums - Has a Directory of Museums and a list of Accredited Museums listed alphabetically and by state.
- American Council of Learned Societies - "Private, nonprofit federation of 71 national scholarly organizations, is the preeminent representative of American scholarship in the humanities and related social sciences." Provides:
- Directory
- ACLS Associate Members
- Societies and Profiles
- Conference of Administrative Officers (CAO) Directory
- American Society of Association Executives:
- Associapedia
- Gateway to Associations
- Directory of Societies of Association Executives
- Guide to Association Management Companies
- Association for Progressive Communications (APC) - "International network of civil society organisations dedicated to empowering and supporting groups and individuals working for peace, human rights, development and protection of the environment, through the strategic use of information and communication technologies..." Has a directory of members and partners.
- Association of Fundraising Professionals
- Canadian Information Centre for International Credentials - Has a list of National Professional Organizations
- CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation - International alliance "that has worked for over a decade to strengthen citizen action and civil society throughout the world, especially in areas where participatory democracy and citizens' freedom of association are threatened."
- Council on Foundations
- Directory of Development Organizations - "The directory of development organizations, listing 70,000 development organizations, has been prepared to facilitate international cooperation and knowledge sharing in development work, both among civil society organizations, academic and research institutions, governments and the private sector."
- DIRLINE: Directory of Health Organizations - National Library of Medicine. (See the DIRLINE Fact Sheet for more information about the database.)
- Environmental Grantmakers Association (EGA) - "Project of the Rockefeller Family Fund, was formed in 1987 with twelve member foundations from across the United States. Today, our members represent over 250 foundations from North America and around the world." There is a NGO Directory.
- FirstGov: Nonprofits
- Give.org - Better Business Bureau Wise Giving Alliance was created by the merger of National Charities Information Bureau with the Council of Better Business Bureaus' Foundation. National Charity Reports Index lists "charities and other organizations that solicit nationally."
- Great Nonprofits - "GreatNonprofits is the leading developer of tools that allow people to find, review, and share information about great -- and perhaps not yet great -- nonprofits."
- GuideStar - Philanthropic Research, Inc., has created a searchable database of over 700,000 non-profit organizations. This is a subscription-based service, although you can register to use the free GuideStar Basic search.
- IdeaList - A project of Action Without Borders, there is a searchable database of over 69,000 nonprofit and community organizations in 150 countries.
- Internal Revenue Service - The Charities and Nonprofits section provides:
- Tax Information for Charities & Other Non-Profits
- Recognized Charities
- Exempt Organizations Select Check
- Recent Revocations of 501(c)(3) Determinations.
- National Center for Charitable Statistics - "National clearinghouse of data on the nonprofit sector in the United States. NCCS is a program of the Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy (CNP) at the Urban Institute."
- National Council of Nonprofits
- National Health Information Center Health Information Resource Database - Keyword subject listing resources for 1,800 organizations and government offices that provide health information upon request. Also searchable by title, keyword, city or state. Federal Health Information Centers and Clearinghouses. There is also a directory of Toll-Free Numbers for Health Information.
- Union of International Associations - "Nonprofit clearing house for information on over 40,000 international organizations and constituencies."
- Association of National Tourist Offices in the United Kingdom (ANTOR UK) - With links to official sites.
- Background Notes - U.S. Department of State
- Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments - Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) publication.
- U.S. Commercial Service Market Research Library - Can be accessed via Export.gov's Market Research Home Page or from BuyUsa.gov. You can also do a Google search for Doing Business in ___: A Country Commercial Guide for U.S. Companies. (Fill in the blank with the country you are seeking.)
This Market Research Library contains "more than 100,000 industry and country-specific market reports, web sites, events, and trade directory listings." Reports include "Country Commercial Guides, Industry Sector Analyses, Marketing Insights, Multilateral Development Bank Reports, Best Markets, and other Industry/Regional Reports." For an example, see Doing Business in Ireland: A Country Commercial Guide for U.S.Companies
- Conseil de l'Europe | Council of Europe - Based in the French city of Strasbourg, its main role is to strengthen democracy, human rights and the rule of law throughout its 46 member states.
- Countries and Regions Index - World Bank
- Country Studies / Area Handbooks - Library of Congress
- ElectionWorld - Wilfried Derksen
- Embassy.Org - With links to Foreign Embassies of Washington D.C.
- European Union Member States
- Foreign Government Resources on the Web - University of Michigan Documents Center.
- Foreign Governments - Northwestern University Library
- Governments on the WWW - Gunnar Anzinger
- Guide to Law Online: Nations of the World - Law Library of Congress.
- Inter-Parliamentary Union - Provides links to Web Sites of National Parliaments.
- Tourism Offices Worldwide Directory - Searchable index listing only official government tourism offices, convention and visitors bureaus and similar agencies contains ver 1,800 entries.
- U.S. Embassy Websites - U.S. State Department provides links to U.S. embassies around the world. See also U.S. Embassies and Other Diplimatic Missions and Diplomatic List, a list of missions in the U.S., prepared quarterly by the Office of Protocol. It contains the names of members of the diplomatic staffs of all missions and their spouses. Members of the diplomatic staff are the members of the staff of the mission having diplomatic rank.
- World Political Leaders - Roberto Ortíz de Zárate
- Yahoo!: Embassies and Consulates
- AOL NetMail - Access your AOL e-mail from any location.
- Bigfoot
- 555-1212.com - Reverse E-mail Lookup
- 411 Locate
- Go Network - E-mail Addresses
- Infobel E-Mail Directory
- InfoSpace Email Search - Also has Reverse Email Search.
- Internet E-mail and Finding People on the Internet - Summer Institute of Linguistics. See also their Online Reference Desk.
- MESA - Acronym for MetaEmailSearchAgent, this site from the University of Hannover in Germany searches eight of the most popular email databases at once and claims to be the largest email address book worldwide
- Switchboard: Find Email
- Usenet Addresses Service - MIT database allows you to search for e-mail addresses if you know the name of a person, or the name of the organization that provides their net access.
- WhoWhere? Email Addresses - Lycos
- World Email Directory - Estimated access to more than 18.000.000 email addresses and more than 140.000.000 business and phone addresses.
- Yahoo! People Search
- Yahoo! Email Addresses
- Congressional Pictorial Directory - 107th Congress. (Directories are archived for the 106th and the 105th Congresses).
- Contacting the Congress - Provides names, e-mail addresses web sites and phone numbers for senators from the 107th Congress.
- International City/County Management Association (ICMA)
- My Government - Enter your zip code and this AOL site will find your elected representatives.
- National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS)
- NonProfit Gateway - Links to Federal Government information and services
- Official City Sites - Official city and county sites.
- Republican Senators Real Audio Directory - Audio clips of speeches of Republican Senators, offered by the
Senate Republican Conference.
- USGold - U.S. Government online directories
- U.S. Government Blue Pages
- Administrative Codes and Registers Section - With Access to Rules, by state.
- American Bar Association - Has a Lawyer Locator, a searchable directory for over 900,000 lawyers and firms and a Lawyer Referral Directory. There is also a Directory of Lawyer Disciplinary Agencies.
- American Association of Law Libraries
- Avvo - Lawyer ratings and profiles.
- Bar Council - Also known as the General Council of the Bar, the Bar Council was founded in 1894 to represent the interests of barristers. There are links to Specialist Bar Associations
- Canadian Legal Resources: Law Firms - Alan Gahtan
- Chambers and Partners - "The Chambers Guides list the top lawyers and law firms in 175 countries, providing independent rankings and editorial commentary."
- CostHelper - Provides costs of legal services such as a criminal attorney, immigration attorney, divorce, will, copyright and incorporating a business.
- FindLaw: Law Schools
- FindLaw: West's Legal Directory
- Hieros Gamos Worldwide Law Firms Directory
- ILRG: Lawyers on the Internet - Internet Legal Research Group
- International Centre for Commercial Law - Directory for law firms and lawyers in the UK, Europe, & Asia/Pacific.
- Law School Links - Law School Admission Council
- The Lawyer - UK "newspaper for the legal profession" has a Lawyer Top 100 list.
- LawyerRatingz - "Where people like you provide real, independent ratings, reviews and recommendations for lawyers and attorneys."
- Legal Services Corporation - Has a clickable map of LSC Funded Programs.
- Lex Mundi - Association of independent law firms has a member firm search
- Martindale-Hubbell Lawyer Locator
- National Association of Attorneys General
- National Center for State Courts - Williamsburg, Virginia. Has a directory of State Court Web Sites
- National Jurist Online
- New York State Bar Association
- Nolo's Lawyer Directory - California, Washington, Oregon, Arizona and Texas.
- State Law Libraries - Minnesota State Law Library
- Sweet and Maxwell's Searchable Online Bar Directory - UK
- UK Bar Directory - Sweet & Maxwell
- Washlaw: Law Firms - Washburn University School of Law
- CataList - Catalog of LISTSERV lists from L-Soft.
- H-Net Discussion Networks - Consortium of over 100 scholarly discussion lists (Michigan State University's Humanities Online)
- American Indian Tribal Directory: U.S. Federally Recognized Tribes - American Indian Heritage Foundation
- American Zoo and Aquarium Association - Search members by name or by state.
- AnyWho Toll Free Directory
- Caller ID Links: Links to Web Sites related to Caller ID - Mark J. Welch
- Carroll's Goverments Directories and Charts - Provides addresses for Municipal & County, State, Federal and Defense
- CETH - Directory of Electronic Text Centers - Princeton/Rutgers
- ChurchSurf Church Directory - Links to Christian churches worldwide
- Cities Online - Geographical listing of city homepages from the U.S. Conference of Mayors
- Directories of Biologists - BIOSIS
- Electronic Theses and Dissertations in the Humanities: A Directory of On-Line References and Resources - Matthew G. Kirschenbaum, University of Virginia
- Federal Bureau of Prisons - Has a Prison Directory
- 555-1212.com's Area Code Look-Up
- How To Contact A Celebrity
- ICP Software Directory - Search for software by keyword, product name or company name
- InfoSpace Fax Search
- InterNIC Registration Services - Search for domain names
- International Dialing Codes - Steve Kropla
- Lycos Pictures & Sounds Multimedia Directory - Photos, art, designs, videos, music, noises...
- National Association of Marine Laboratories
- National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners
- Native American Home Pages - LisaMitten; University of Pittsburgh
- New York Cemeteries Directory
- New York State Department of Correctional Services - Their Inmate Lookup provides "information on the status and location of inmates incarcerated in a New York State Department of Correctional Services prison. Information is also provided on former inmates; primarily so an inquiry regarding a released inmate results in a positive result telling when and why the inmate was released." A list of Correctional Facilities with Map is also provided.
- Oxbridge MediaFinder - Directories of magazines, newsletters and catalogs
- Sex Offender Registry Search - Virginia State Police. Other states with sex offender databases include Alaska, Florida, Iowa, Indiana, Kansas, Maryland, New York, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas,Utah, Vermont, West Virginia and Macomb County, Michigan. The National Community Notification Information and Education Services, Inc.(NCNIES) maintains a list of links to State Registries. There is also a collection of links to Community Sex Offender Registries.
- QuickAID - Airport directory
- Star Archive - Over 5,100 celebrity addresses
- Tribal Web Sites - National Park Service Heritage Preservation Services
- U.S. Government Laboratories - U.S. Geological Survey
- Virtual Library: Zoos
- Webgator - Investigative Resources on the Web - David Guss
- WHOIS - Database of Internet domain registrations run by Network Solutions Inc Type in domain name and find technical locating information, as well as a contact name, telephone number, and billing address of the company or person who owns the domain name.
- World Fax Directory - World Telecom
- ZIP Code Lookup and Address Information - U.S. Postal Service
- Zoos - Part of the WWW Virtual Library.
- ALHFAM: the Association for Living History, Farm and Agricultural Museums - Has links to Living History, Agricultural, and Open-Air Museums
- American Association of Museums - Provides links to Related Sites.
- Art History Libraries in London
- Art History Resources on the Web: Museums & Galleries - Chris Witcombe
- Art History Webmasters Association - Provides links to art history departments around the world.
- Cornucopia (Museums and Galleries Commission) - Provides information on the 50 museums in England with 'Designated collections' - i.e. pre-eminent museum collections outside the National museums.
- Elsas Producties - Dutch site has 10,000 links to museum sites
- Index Herbariorum - Detailed directory of over 3000 public herbaria of the world and the 8800+ staff members associated with them. Joint project of the International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT) and the New York Botanical Garden. Information available for searching includes addresses of herbaria, names of those to write to for use of the collections via loans or visits, names of staff members associated with herbaria, telephone and fax numbers, e-mail and URL addresses, and research specialties.
- Index Nominum Genericorum (ING) - Collaborative project of the International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT) and the Smithsonian Institution.
- International Association of Libraries and Museums of the Performing Arts (SIBMAS) - With links to Members (by country), Research Sites and National Collections.
- International Confederation of Architectural Museums: Directory
- International Council of Museums - Provides access to the archives of the International Council of Museums Discussion List
- International Directory of Art Libraries - IFLA
- Links to Museums Online - Art Dealers Association of America
- art in context - museums
- Guide to Museums and Cultural Resources - Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
- Library and Archival Exhibitions on the Web - Project of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries, "this site features links to online exhibitions that have been created by libraries, archives, and historical societies, as well as to museum online exhibitions with a significant focus on library and archival materials."
- Musee - Links to over 37,000 museums
- Muséofile: Le répertoire des musées français - Searchable database allows you to locate French musuems by location or by collection.
- Museum Computer Network - Has links to 1,000 international museum and museum-related WWW sites in Museum Sites Online.
- MuseumNet - Searchable database of UK museums by name, keyword and region.
- Museum USA - Use their Museum Search to locate museums
- Museums from A to Z - Video On Line, Italy
- Museums On Line - "World's most comprehensive museum Web site navigator with direct links to cultural institutions all over the globe."
- Nordic Museum Links
- Russian Museums
- WebMuseen: Museen und Ausstellungen in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz - Museums in Germany, Austria and Switzerland (in German).
- World Wide Arts Resources: Museums
- WWW Virtual Library Museums Page: a distributed directory of on-line museums - Jonathan Bowen
- Yahoo! - Museums and Galleries and Centers
- AcqWeb's Directory of Publishers and Vendors - Anna Belle Leiserson, Collection Development Librarian, Vanderbilt Law Library.
- Association of American Publishers - Has a list of Member Companies
- Book Wire Index - Publishers
- Children's Literature Publishers - AcqWeb, Vanderbilt University
- Publishers' Catalogues Home Page - Peter, Scott, Northern Lights Internet Solutions, Saskatoon, Canada
- Publishers on the Internet - A-M - And N-Z (Faxon)
- Publishing Companies Online - WWW Virtual Library (Part of the larger Publishers)
- PUBNET - With links to Publishers & Suppliers
- Yahoo! - Publishing
- American Association of School Administrators - Has links to State Associations
- American School Directory - Database of information on 108,000 public, private and Catholic schools.
- Association of Boarding Schools - Has a Boarding Schools Directory
- Association of Independent Schools in New England - With searchable Directory of Schools
- Council of Great City Schools - Organization of the nation's largest urban public school systems has links to Member Districts.
- Digital Librarian: East Coast Boarding School Home Pages
- EduNet - Has a directory of Irish Schools on the Internet and links to Schools Worldwide.
- Directory of ERIC Resource Collections - Lists more than 1,000 organizations that provide individuals with access to the ERIC database and related resources.
- Education Resource Organizations Directory - U.S. Department of Education provides a directory to Educational Resources by Area
- National Public School Locator - Searchable database from the National Center for Education Statistics was "developed to enable school officials and others to obtain the correct name, address, phone number, NCES ID number, and other characteristics of a public school or school district when only limited information is known by the requestor."
- National School Boards Association - Has a Federation Member Directory with links to State Associations.
- Netcraft - Their Web Site Finder will search 27,585,726 web sites. They also "report a site's operating system, web server, and netblock owner together with, if available, a graphical view of the time since last reboot for each of the computers serving the site." A search for k12.me.us, for example, locates 120 school web sites in Maine.
- New York State BOCES Listings - Provided by Monroe 2-Orleans BOCES
- New York State Education Department - Has a School District Index and School Report Cards.
- SavvySource - Lists 55,000 preschools and provides the opionions of over 10,000 parents. In-depth profiles for preschools in Austin, Berkeley, Boston, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, San Jose and Seattle.
- School Site Builders - SchoolNET provides links to Canadian schools on the Web and has links to Schools Online.
- Study in the USA - Has information about Secondary Schools and Summer Programs
- U.S. News & World Report School Resources
- Web66: International School Web Site Registry - With links to school web sites around the world. Include over 500 schools and districts in New York.
- Administrative Codes and Registers (ACR) Section of the National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS) - Portal to Administrative Rules "Unlike statutes which are made by a state's Legislature, rules are written and made by state agencies. A rule is a product of rulemaking by a state agency. "Rule" means the whole or a part of an agency statement of general applicability that implements, interprets, or prescribes law or policy or the organization, procedure, or practice requirements of an agency and has the force of law. The term includes the amendment or repeal of an existing rule. ~ Model Administrative Procedures Act."
- American Farm Bureau Federation - Has links to State Farm Bureaus.
- Council of State Governments
- Council of State Governments: Eastern Regional Conference
- Council of State Governments: Midwestern Office
- Council of State Governments: Southern Legislative Conference
- Council of State Governments: West
- National Assembly of State Arts Agencies - With links to State Agencies.
- National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners - With links to State Commissions.
- National Association of Secretaries of State
- National Center for State Courts - Williamsburg, Virginia. Has a directory of State Court Web Sites
- National Conference of State Legislatures - This is a valuable resource, frequently updated.
- State and Federal section provides extensive resources to various issues. See, for example, the section on Eminent Domain legislation and Kelo v. New London. "NCSL is summarizing and posting 2006 bills as they pass the legislatures. The summaries include a link to the legislation or to the legislature's bill tracking system." You'll find information on court decisions, legislation, presentations and podcasts, publications and staff contacts.
- State Legislatures
- National Governors' Association - With links to state governors
- National Conference of State Legislatures - Provides links to state legislatures
- National Transportation Library: State DOTs
- Pacific Information Resources: Searchable Public Record Databases - Valuable links to over 4,000 searchable public record databases. There are databases for corporations, bankruptcy, death & marriage records, professionals (architects, physicians etc.) assessors and a wide variety of other resources. Organized by subject and by state.
- State Libraries
- State Library Web Sites - Bob Bocher, Library Technology Consultant, Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, State Division for Libraries.
- State Statutes on the Internet - Topical arrangement (Legal Information Institute).
- State Tourism Offices - Travel Industry Association of America
- WashLaw Web - Has links to State Government and Legislative Information
- U.S. Conference of Mayors - Has a geographical listing of city homepages in Cities Online.
- USA Today: States News
- U.S. State Home Pages - Links to official state web sites.(Global Computing)
- Washlaw Web State Law Search Page
White Pages
- 1-800-FREE411 - Free directory assistance from your phone from Jingle Networks. See Free 411 on the Snopes Urban Legends Reference Page.
- ANNU.com - French telephone directory also known as L'annuaire des abonnes du telephone.
- AnyWho Directories - Directory from AT&T Labs integrates traditional business and consumer white and yellow pages telephone listings with enhanced, Internet-based contact information such as e-mail addresses and web site URLs, as well as toll free and FAX numbers. In Reverse LookUp, you can enter a phone number and retrieve an address, a map of the area and names, addresses and phone numbers of neighbors.
- AOL NetFind International Directories
- Australian White Pages
- Bigfoot - Searches public records (utility records, court records, county records, change of address records, property records, business records,
- Canada411 - Over 10 million listings, including postal codes
- Canada Post On-line Tools
- 555-1212.com - Includes telephone numbers, area codes, e-mail addresses and websites.
- Free 411
- Google 411 - 1-800-GOOG-411
- Infobel World Telephone Directories
- Infobel - Belgium
- Infobel - Denmark
- Infobel - France
- Infobel - UK
- InfoSpace - Offers White Pages, Yellow Pages and Reverse Lookup.
- Internet Directories - AT&T's collection of links to phone and address resources
- Lycos WhoWhere - Phone numbers and addresses
- National Address Server - Ajay Shekhawat. Searching for Someone is a comprehensive listing of online white pages that help locate someone, given just the name and city/state.
- Pages Blanches - French white pages
- PeopleSearch - With reverse lookup and international searching.
- Phonebook Gateway - Over 300 phonebook servers registered on the master list of servers maintained at Northwestern University by John Norstad.
- PhoneNumbers.net - Swedish site allows you to search for telephone numbers and email addresses worldwide, usually on the basis of a person's or company's name alone.Also available in English.
- Reverse Phone Directory - Identifies a name and address from a telephone number.
- Star Archive - Over 5,100 celebrity addresses
- Switchboard - National residential and business phonebook
- Telephone Directories on the Web - Robert Hoare's extensive list of online telephone, fax and business directories from around the world.
- Telephone Reference - Internet Public Library
- UK Telephone Code Locator
- University Search Page - American Historical Review provides links to campus directory search engines.
- U.S. Search.com - If you don't want anyone to know how old you are this database may come as an unpleasant surprise. Do a free search for someone by name, city, state and age. Subscription service provides "identity verification, individual location, criminal record checks, employment and education verifications, professional reference checks, credit and motor vehicle record checks, drug screening, and pre-employment verification services."
- Veromi
- WhitePages.com
- WorldPages
- Yahoo! People Search
- Alta Vista Yellow Pages
- AnyWho Directories - Directory from AT&T Labs integrates traditional business and consumer white and yellow pages telephone listings with enhanced, Internet-based contact information such as e-mail addresses and web site URLs, as well as toll free and FAX numbers. In Reverse LookUp, you can enter a phone number and retrieve an address, a map of the area and names, addresses and phone numbers of neighbors.
- Big Yellow - Verizon
- BigBook - Verizon
- BizWeb Business Guide to the Web - Company and product information guide for over 46290 companies listed in 208 categories
- Branchenbuch Deutschland - German yellow pages.
- Canada TollFree
- Dex Official Directory - Quest
- Directorio de empresas. Suplemento industrial - Spain
- Google 411 - 1-800-GOOG-411 (1-800-4664-411)
- InfoSpace Yellow Pages
- Internet 800 Directory
- Japan Telephone Directory
- MacRae's Blue Book - See also Europages, their European Industrial Directory.
- NumberWay - (This was originally Robert Hoare's extensive list of online telephone, fax and business directories from around the world)
- Pages Jeunes - France
- Pagine Gialle Online - Italian yellow pages
- SMARTpages
- Switchboard Yellow Pages
- Tellme - Microsoft service finds local businesses, maps, and directions.
- Yell.com - UK
- Yellow.com
- Yellow Pages
- Yellow.com - Netherlands
- Yell.com
- Yellow Book - You can Browse Local Directories and Browse by Category