Reference

Country Information

World Report from the Humans Rights Watch.

CMU Pronouncing Dictionary - "Carnegie Mellon University Pronouncing Dictionary is a machine-readable pronunciation dictionary for North American English that contains over 100,000 words and their transcriptions." The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language allows you to hear 70,000 audio word pronunciations. Look up costermonger, naiveté.

Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) - Searchable by keyword or by citation; GPO Access and National Archives and Records Administration

College Opportunities On-Line (COOL) - Direct link to over 9,000 colleges and universities in the United States.You can search for a college based on its location, program, or degree offerings either alone or in combination. (Provided by the National Center for Education Statistics in the U.S. Department of Education.)

Computer Incident Advisory Capability (CIAC) - U.S. Department of Energy site provides information on virusus and Internet hoaxes in a number of categories including chain letters and urban myths. Other useful sites for virus information include CERT (Carnegie Mellon), Symantec (Norton AntiVirus), F-Secure, Security Focus, Incidents.org (SANS Institute) and DShield.

Congressional Pictorial Directory - 106th Congress

Congressional Research Service Reports - The Congressional Research Service does not make its publications directly available online. The Committee for the National Institute for the Environment (CNIE) provides access to over 1500 reports on environmental and related topics. Other sources include Index of Congressional Research Service Reports (CRS) provided by Congressman Mark Green of Wisconsin's 8th Congressional District; Federation of American Scientists; GPO Gate, with 222 titles; University of North Texas Libraries; and the U.S. Department of State.

County and City Data Book - Compare to the University of Virginia's County City Data Books 1988 & 1994

Currency Conversion - Yahoo!. Similar resources include OANDA's Classic 164 Currency Converter. (They also offer a Cheat Sheet for Travelers), the Universal Currency Converter, Currencies of the World, Currencies and Currency-Exchange, Bloomberg's Cross Currency Rates, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York's 10:00 a.m. Foreign Exchange Rates, the International Monetary Fund's Exchange Rates for Selected Currencies (updated at approximately 1:00 PM and 4:00 PM U.S. EST, Monday to Friday), the Washington Post's Currency Rates and Information Page, the BBC's So How Much is this in Euros?, (they also have a low bandwidth version) and the Euro Calculator.

Deja.com - "Discussions on a plethora of topics, reference ratings from peers on thousands of products and services to help make buying decisions."

Dictionaries

American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language - Over 90,000 entries feature 10,000 new words and senses, 70,000 audio word pronunciations, 900 full-page color illustrations, language notes and word-root appendixes. (From Bartleby.com.)

WordNet - Created by the Cognitive Science Laboratory, Princeton University, Wordnet is an "online lexical reference system whose design is inspired by current psycholinguistic theories of human lexical memory. English nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are organized into synonym sets, each representing one underlying lexical concept. Different relations link the synonym sets."

Merriam-Webster Online

British National Corpus (BNC) - "100 million word collection of samples of written and spoken language from a wide range of sources, designed to represent a wide cross-section of current British English, both spoken and written."

Logos Dictionary

OneLook Dictionary Search - "7,613,432 words in 1001 dictionaries indexed."

Online Etymology Dictionary - Douglas Harper

yourDictionary.com - Links to over 1800 dictionaries with more than 250 languages. See also yourDictionary's Grammars page.

Directories - Locate people and businesses (White Pages & 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. They have a Toll Free Directory. In Reverse LookUp, which functions like a city directory, you can enter a phone number and retrieve an address, a map of the area and names, addresses and phone numbers of neighbors.

Anywho: Business

Directory Assistance - AT&T

Switchboard

SuperPages: People Pages - Verizon

Yahoo! People Search

Myway.com

USA People Search

Lycos People Search

Switchboard: Business

SuperPages - Verizon

Digital Librarian: Directories - Business

Dr. Ed Yardeni's Economics Network - Ed Yardeni, the Chief Economist of Deutsche Bank Securities in New York, provides a very useful page of Economic Indicators. Included are urls, charts, tables, data files (requiring Adobe's Acrobat Reader) and audio files. Some parts of the site are open to subscribers only.

Edmund's Automobile Buyer's Guides - Excellent starting point, site provides reviews and prices for new and used cars. Other useful car resources include Kelley Blue Book Used Car Bluebook Values & New Car Pricing, NADA Appraisal Guides and Microsoft's CarPoint.

Edu.com - This useful U.S. News & World Report site features annual rankings of 1,400 American colleges, a searchable database with "up-to-date admission, academic and financial aid information", a College Comparison Worksheet and a Career Center. The 2000 College Rankings is an excellent resource and the College Search option allows you to " to find schools according to the following criteria: location, distance from home, cost, size, selectivity, major, student/faculty ratio, academic programs, single sex/coed, religious affiliation, setting, diversity, ranking, extracurriculars, and sports." College Opportunities On-Line (COOL) also is helpful.

Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) - National Library of Education site provides links to all ERIC sites and an ERIC Database Chart which provides multiple access points to the ERIC database. A vast resource for educational information.

eHow - Comprehensive source of information on how to do things, offering thousands of specific project instructions. Comparable sites include Learn2.com, a searchable skills database which covers cooking, crafts, home repair (including such subjects as Avoid Frostbite, Clean a Fish, Eat Sushi, Pick a Melon, Play Poker, Varnish a Wood Surface) and How2.com.

EH.Net Encyclopedia of Economic and Business History - Edited by Robert Whaples of Wake Forest University, this searchable encyclopedia is part of the Economic History Services fileserver, "created in 1993 to assist economists, historians and related social scientists through the use of electronic communication and information technology." Another useful feature is their What Was the Interest Rate Then? which "presents twelve interest rate series for the United Kingdom and the United States."

Elements of Style (1918) - From Bartleby.com which also offers the American Heritage Book of English Usage (1996). Another useful site is Robert Beard's Web of On-line Grammars.

Embassies

U.S. Embassy Websites - U.S. Department of State

Embassy World - Directory of Embassy and Consulate addresses

Embassy Page

Electronic Embassy

Encyclopedias:

Cambridge History of English and American Literature - 18 volumes

Canadian Encyclopedia Online

Catholic Encyclopedia - 15 volume 1913 edition

Dictionary of the History of Ideas: Studies of Selected Pivotal Ideas - Full-text of the out-of-print book edited by Philip P. Wiener, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1973-74. Topics include nature, humanity, art, history, politics, religion and philosophy, math and logic. Made available by the Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia Library.

Encyclopedia Mythica - Contains over 5700 definitions of gods and goddesses, supernatural beings, legendary creatures and monsters from all over the world.

Encyclopedia of Cleveland History

Handbook of Texas Online

Jewish Encyclopedia - "Contains the complete contents of the 12-volume Jewish Encyclopedia, which was originally published between 1901-1906. The Jewish Encyclopedia, which recently became part of the public domain, contains over 15,000 articles and illustrations."

New Georgia Encyclopedia

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - A publication of the Center for the Study of Language and Information at Stanford University, the site is edited by Edward N. Zalta and, as a 'dynamic encyclopedia,' "constantly changes with the addition of new entries and the modification of existing entries."

Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture -Tennessee Historical Society

Utah History Encyclopedia

Engines of our Ingenuity - Over 1300 episodes from the NPR series written and hosted by John Lienhard and KUHF-FM, Houston, with topics that range "from cable cars to Civil War submarines, from the connection between Romantic poets and Victorian science to the invention of the bar code." The site is searchable and includes an Index to the Episodes. Comparable sites include:

How Things Work

How Stuff Works - Created by Marshall Brain in 1998, it is now owned by the Discovery Communications.

Essentials of Music - W.W. Norton site offers overviews of the six main periods in music history, biographies of nearly 70 composers, and a glossary with 200 definitions with numerous musical examples in RealAudio.

Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home - 627-page first edition of Emily Post's 1922 classic provided by the Bartleby Library.

Factcheck - "Nonpartisan, nonprofit, "consumer advocate" for voters that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics. We monitor the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews, and news releases." A project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania. In August 2006 named by Time.com as "One of 25 Sites We Can't Live Without."

Fedstats - "Gateway to statistics from over 100 U.S. Federal agencies."

Finding Data on the Internet - "A journalist's guide" by Robert Niles

FirstGov - Search for government information by topic. There is a Reference Shelf for librarians and researchers as well as a detailed Site Map. Firstgov also has many sub-divisions targeted at specific groups and populations including DisabilityInfo.gov, Students.gov, Seniors.gov, Kids.gov, Childcare.gov, Afterschool.gov, Business.gov, Export.gov, Womenbiz.gov, Fedbizopps.gov, Consumer.gov, ConsumerAction.gov, Recreation.gov, Fedstats.gov, Health.gov and Nutrition.gov. See also the Global Legal Information Network, a Library of Congress "database of laws, regulations, judicial decisions, and other complementary legal sources contributed by governmental agencies and international organizations. These GLIN members contribute the official full texts of published documents to the database in their original language. Each document is accompanied by a summary in English and subject terms selected from the multilingual index to GLIN." There is also a Thesaurus for the Global Legal Information Network.

Flags of the World - Offered by the Maritime Command and Control Information System (MCCIS) for members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). (They also offer an Atlas of the World.) Other flag sites include Flags of the World from Belgium and Photo Disks's Anthems, Flags & Facts of Nations.

Geographic Names Information System - GNIS Database - U. S. Geological Survey database contains information about almost 2 million physical and cultural geographic features in the United States. Specify state and county and you can search for towns, lakes, canals, schools, churches, cemeteries, brideges and many other features. The GEOnet Names Server from the National Imagery and Mapping Agency provides information about foreign geographic feature names. Comparable resources include U.S. Gazetteer, PlaceNames.com which provides links to gazetteers, place name lists, town and city indexes from around the world and How Far is it? which find the latitude and longitude of two places, and then calculates the distance between them (as the crow flies). It also provides a map showing the two places, using the Xerox PARC Map Server.

Getty Center - Los Angeles. Location of the J. Paul Getty Museum. The site has an index and is searchable. It offers a number of art-related databases including the Art & Architecture Thesaurus, a "controlled vocabulary for describing and retrieving information on fine art, architecture, decorative art, and material culture," Categories for the Description of Works of Art, Census of Antique Art and Architecture Known to the Renaissance, Getty Provenance Index, Getty Standards Program the Guide to the Description of Architectural Drawings, Introduction to Imaging, Introduction to Metadata, Iris - Research Library Online Catalog, Object ID, Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN), which "contains approximately 900,000 records for places, arranged in hierarchies representing all nations of the modern world, and including vernacular and historical names, coordinates, place types, and other relevant information." The Union List of Artist Names (ULAN), is a "database of biographical and bibliographical information on artists and architects, including a wealth of variant names, pseudonyms, and language variants." The Getty Conservation Institute publishes a newsletter and Research WebStracts, a comprehensive list and abstracts of the writings of the Scientific staff of the Institute while ArtsEdNet (with site map) supports the needs of the K-12 arts education community. The Getty Research Institute has a Research Library with an online catalog and Collections Integrated Catalog displays links to those Getty databases available to all and provides access to subject and alphabetical lists of subscription databases and Internet links.

Hardin Meta Directory of Internet Health Sources - Comprehensive listing maintained by by librarians at theHardin Library for the Health Sciences at the University of Iowa.

Health on the Net Foundation - Non-profit organization, headquartered in Switzerland, "dedicated to realizing the benefits of the Internet and related technologies in the fields of medicine and healthcare", and intended to aid professionals and patients that are seeking reliable medical advice and information. It provides much useful information including MedHunt, a medical document finder, Hospitals on the Net, a hospital database, and the Media Gallery, "a searchable database of medical movies and images which includes x-rays, movies of surgery, articulation and various media of interest to medical professionals and students." Healthfinder, a gateway consumer health information web site from the United States government, provides links to "selected online publications, databases, web sites, and support and self-help groups, as well as the government agencies and not-for-profit organizations that produce reliable health information for the public."

Holidays

Calendar Zone

Trade Information Center

Business Holidays Around the World - U.S. Department of Commerce provides a list, by country

Federal Holidays - U.S. Office of Personnel Management

Public Holidays Around the World - VisitBritain

How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement - Created by Russ Rowlett, an education and mathematics professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Measurement converter sites include Convert It!, Measurement Conversion Calculator, Measurements Converter, Measurements Converter and Metric Converter.

Information Please

International Data Base (IDB) - U.S. Census Bureau site is " a computerized data bank containing statistical tables of demographic, and socio-economic data for all countries of the world." Their Population Pyramids "allows you to obtain population pyramids (graphs that show the distribution of population by age and sex) for one country."

International Lyrics Server - Swiss site provides over 40,000 lyrics, searchable by artist, album or song title. Other resources inlcude Digital Librarian's Locating Lyrics: sheet music, librettos & scores and Worldwide Internet Music Resources Song Lyrics; Libretti from Indiana University's School of Music.

Internet Movie Database - Search by character, title, quote, actor, director, plot summary. Other related sites include the Movie Review Query Engine (MRQE) with over 21,000 titles and the All-Movie Guide.

Journals & Magazines

jake (jointly administered knowledge environment) - Search for journal titles and ISSNs. (There's an alternate version)

Electronic Journals Resource Directory - Peter Scott, University of Saskatchewan Libraries.

PubMed - "Service of the National Library of Medicine that includes over 15 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources. "

Karla's Guide to Citation Style Guides - Links to style guides. Other resources include Citation Guides: How to Cite Sources, Online! A Reference Guide to Using Internet Sources, NARA: Citations, Bibliography Styles Handbook by the Writers' Workshop, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, which has guides to APA and MLA formats and Melvin E. Page's Brief Citation Guide for Internet Sources in History and the Humanities.

Labor Contracts Database - University of California, Berkeley. Related sites include Resource Guide for Students in Collective Bargaining, Labor Unions, Labor Project for Working Families, Collective Bargaining Negotiations and Contracts

Lancaster Index to Defence and International Security Literature- "On-line bibliographic database, indexed and cross-referenced, of journal articles and monographs dealing with military and security affairs. It does not provide full text of proprietary source material." There is a Source Publications Catalogue. Some information is available to subscribers only. (Military Policy Research Ltd.)

Law & Legislation

National Conference of State Legislatures - This is a valuable resource, frequently updated. The State and Federal Issues page 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. There is also a searchable database of State Legislatures Internet Links.

Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music - Part of Special Collections at the Milton S. Eisenhower Library of Johns Hopkins University. It is comprised of popular American music spanning the period 1780 to 1960. The over 26,000 pieces of music in the Levy Collection are indexed on this site, and images of the cover and music are available for pieces of music more than 75 years old. Searchable by keyword. Similar resources include the Mudcat Cafe DigiTrad Lyrics Search, with over 8000 songs and a list of titles, the Patchogue-Medford Library Song Index, the Lied and Song Texts Page, the Folk Music Index, the Folkways Database Search and the Disc-O-Logue, a catalogue of French-language popular music recordings available in Canada published between 1962 and 1979.

Library Catalogs

The European Library - Has information on Libraries

Lib-web-cats: A directory of libraries throughout the world - Marshall Breeding

Libweb: Library Servers via WWW - Thomas Dowling. On October 2, 2006, "Libweb currently lists over 7500 pages from libraries in over 135 countries."

LibDex: the Library Index - Peter Scott's index to 18,000 libraries

Library of Congress Online Catalog

National Library Catalogues Worldwide - John W. East

Open WorldCat - OCLC

RedLightGreen - Research Libraries Group catalog contains records for 130 million books. Service to end November 1, 2006

Z39.50 Gateway - Library of Congress

Mammal Species of the World - This database, provided by the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, and based on the information in the 1993 book of the same name edited by D.E. Wilson and D.M. Reeder, contains the names of the 4,629 currently recognized species of mammals, in a taxonomic hierarchy that includes Order, Family, Subfamily, and Genus, and is searchable by scientific name or common name.

MapBlast! - Enter address, get maps and driving directions. Comparable sites include Maps On Us, MapQuest, AOL Travel, miDirections, Yahoo! Maps & Driving Directions, DeLorme's Earthamaps, Expedia Maps, Rand McNally Maps andLycos Roadmaps.

Merck Manual Medical Library (18th edition) - Searchable. "Series of healthcare books for medical professionals and consumers. As a service to the community, the content of The Manuals is now available in enhanced online versions as part of The Merck Manuals Online Medical Library." See also Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy - The Merck Manual of Medical Information (2004/2005, an "all-new publication is based on the Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy, commonly referred to as The Merck Manual, the textbook of medicine most widely used by health care professionals in the U.S. and worldwide. The Home Edition transforms the language of the professionals' version into commonly used English while retaining the vital information about diseases, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment." The Merck Manual of Geriatrics (2000), third edition, and the Merck Manual of Health & Aging (2005) , are also available online. MedTerms Dictionary offers definitions of classical and contemporary medical terms.

Missing Persons' Cold Case Network - "Volunteer-maintained database profiling over 3,000 long-term missing persons from the United States." See also Unidentified Victims' Databases.

Multimedia Search Engines and Subject Directories (for audio and video): You can use Google or Yahoo to search for terms such as webcast, netcast, audiocast, cybercast, podcast, Internet broadcast, lecture series, archived lectures, web media, multimedia, audio, archived audio, archived video, audio archive, video archive, on demand, streaming, realaudio, mp3, sdp, etc. To locate university webcasts use this search query: inurl:webcast inurl:.edu. Specialized sites include: AlltheWeb: Audio, AlltheWeb: Video, Alta Vista Video Search, Audiofind: Multimedia Search Engine, Blinkx, CNET Music Center, FindSounds, Lycos Music Downloads, Lycos Multimedia, Open Video Project, Radio Scout, a public radio broadcast search, SingingFish, Songtext, and SpeechBot (11/4/05: no longer available), and University Channel.

National Geographic Society Publications Index

National Monuments Record Thesauri - Structured wordlists used by the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England to standardise terminology. Included here are Monument Types, Archaeological Objects, Building Materials, Defense Monuments, Maritime Place Names, Maritime Craft Type and Maritime Cargo. Curious about the word dovecote? In the Monument Types thesaurus (Agriculture and Subsistence class), you find that dovecote is the preferred term for Columbary, Culverhouse, Dovecot, Pigeon House, Pigeon Loft and is defined as "a house for doves and pigeons, usually placed at a height above the ground, with openings and provision inside for roosting and breeding."

Newsweek - Searchable with Site Index and Archive. The full text of all editions of Newsweek since February, 1997 are now available through Search at no charge. You can also search Time.com which has searchable archives from 1994 to present. (See also Netscape Search which has archives for Time and Newsweek.)

1990 Census Lookup - U.S. Bureau of the Census

Nobel Foundation - Official site, Stockholm, Sweden. See also the Nobel Prize Internet Archive and the Nobel Channel.

Nonverbal Dictionary: Dictionary of Gestures, Signs and Body Language Cues - By David B. Givens, Spokane, Washington: Center for Nonverbal Studies Press, 2006.

North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) - U.S Census Bureau. NAICS has replaced the U.S.Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) system.) There are 1997 NAICS and 1987 SIC Correspondence Tables. The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration provides a Standard Industrial Classification Search.

On-Line English Grammar - Anthony Hughes

Online Literary Criticism - "Contains critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period." Provided by the Internet Public Library Reference Center. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature (1907–21) is an 18 volume encyclopedia arranged chronologically, and the Outline of American Literature, published by the United States Information Agency, provides a historical overview. Another good resource is Alan Liu's Voice of the Shuttle: Web Page for Humanities Research.

Occupational Outlook Handbook - Bureau of Labor Statistics.

On-line Medical Dictionary - CancerWeb offers over 46,000 terms relating to biology, chemistry, medicine, science or technology. The Academic Press Dictionary of Science and Technology defines 130,000 terms in 130 fields of science.

Opinion Polls

Eagleton Poll Archive - Center for Public Interest (searchable)

Gallup Organization

National Opinion Research Center

Marist Poll

PollingReport.com - Service of the Polling Report, an independent, nonpartisan resource on American public opinion, published in Washington, D.C. Has a Table of Contents.

Roper Center for Public Opinion Research

Public Agenda Online

Survey Research Resources a collection of links to opinion polls.

Patents

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office - United States Department of Commerce

Databases and Search Resources - Search USPTO website documents only

Patent Full-Text and Full-Page Image Databases - Full-text database of issued patents since 1976, full-page images since 1790

Expired Patent Search - Expired Patents for failure to pay maintenance fees

Free Patents Online

Google Patents

Trademark Electronic Business Center

Trademark Official Gazette

Trademark Electronic Search System (TESS)

Trademark Database

Patent Attorney/Agent Search - "Contact information for attorneys and agents with licenses to practice before the US Patent and Trademark Office."

USPTO Web Patent Database - U.S. Patent and Trademark Office offers full text access to bibliographic and full-text patent databases

IBM Intellectual Property Network - With Patents Portfolio

European Patent Office

Patent Information Users Group - Has a helpful Patent Information Knowledge Base page.

Periodic Table - Provided by the Royal Society of Chemistry. Other sites include David D. Hsu's Chemicool Periodic Table, Mark Winter's WebElements, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Updating the Periodic Table and Julie Jensen's Periodic Table of the Elements.

Perpetual Calendar - Toke Nørby. Also try the Calendar Generator from HyperInfo Canada or Virtual Perpetual Calendars.

Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection - University of Texas, Austin. Has a large collection of online maps.

World Leaders & Governments

World Leaders: Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments - Central Intelligence Agency. Updated weekly.

Diplomatic List - U.S. State Department list "covers foreign missions (embassies, interest sections) in the United States."

Dirigentes en ejercicio - Fundación CIDOB. See also their Biografías Líderes Políticos.

Electronic Embassy (Washington D.C.) - "Provides information on each of the embassies in Washington D.C., with links to Web-based resources where available."

Foreign Government Resources on the Web - University of Michigan

Permanent Missionsof to the United Nations

Zárate's Political Collections - Roberto Ortiz de Zarate

Presidents of the United States (POTUS) - Internet Public Library. Related resources include Michael Cowan's US Presidents Lists, Brian Tompsett's Genealogy of the US Presidents, National Portrait Gallery's Hall of Presidents, the Library of Congress' By Popular Demand: Portraits of the Presidents and First Ladies, the University of Virginia's Presidential Elections Maps: 1860-1996, the National Archives' Presidential Libraries, Bartleby Library's Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States: From George Washington to Bill Clinton and the White House's Presidents of the United States.

Price's List of Lists - Prepared and updated by Gary Price a librarian at George Washington University, the site provides a collection of links to lists which "present information in the form of rankings of different people, organizations, companies, etc." See also his Direct Search page.

Public Agenda Online: Public Opinion and Public Policy - "Nonpartisan, nonprofit public opinion research and citizen education organization based in New York City. It was founded in 1975 by social scientist and author Daniel Yankelovich and former Secretary of State Cyrus Vance." Excellent resource for such issues as Abortion, Right to die, Illegal Drugs, Gay Rights and America's Global Role.A similar resource is Speakout.com which covers politics, activism, political issues, government and elections and has a useful Issues page.

PubList - Directory of information about more than 150,000 publications and more than 8000 newspapers around the world. Comparable resources include Columbia Journalism Review Newspaper Finder, a searchable database providing addresses and phone numbers for 11,000 U.S. and Canadian publications, Magazine Finder, Editor & Publisher's MediaINFO Links and AJR Newslink.

Religion & Philosophy: Encyclopedias and Dictionaries

Catholic Encyclopedia - Over 11,000 articles provided by New Advent .

Dictionary of the History of Ideas: Studies of Selected Pivotal Ideas - Full-text of the out-of-print book edited by Philip P. Wiener, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1973-74. Topics include nature, humanity, art, history, politics, religion and philosophy, math and logic. Made available by the Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia Library.

Dictionary of Unitarian and Universalist Biography

Easton's Bible Dictionary - Electronic edition of M.G. Easton's 1897 Illustrated Bible Dictionary from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library at Calvin College.

Encyclopedia of Shinto - "English translation of the Shinto jiten edited by the Institute for Japanese Culture and Classics and published by Kobundo in 1994 (the text as translated here reflects certain emendations to the original Japanese version). Links to video images, illustrations, photographs and sound files have been added anew." (Institute for Japanese Culture and Classics, Kokugakuin University)

Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online - Mennonite Historical Society of Canada

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary - Roswell D. Hitchcock, New York: A. J. Johnson, 1874, c1869. Contains "more than 2,500 Bible and Bible-related proper names and their meanings." (From the Christian Classics Ethereal Library)

Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Edited by James Fieser, University of Tennessee at Martin, the site is aimed at undergraduates and includes 200 philosophy articles and several original texts.

Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Signpost Articles - Selections

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - A publication of the Center for the Study of Language and Information at Stanford University, the site is edited by Edward N. Zalta and, as a 'dynamic encyclopedia,' "constantly changes with the addition of new entries and the modification of existing entries." The site is searchable and provides a What's New page.

RxList: the Internet Drug Index - Created by Neil Sandow, a San Francisco pharmacist, the site provides extensive information for over 500 prescription drugs. Of particular value are the Top 200 Prescriptions Ranked, the RxLists of Indications and Side Effects, Index of RxList Monographs and the RxList Keyword Search. Other useful sites include F.D.A. Drug Information, and CenterWatch: Clinical Trials Listing Service. DrugSearch offers information on illegal and legal drugs and street terms.

Roget's Thesaurus - ARTFL. Bartlyby.com offers Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, 3rd ed. (1995). There's also the WWWebster Thesaurus and Thesaurus.com.

Roman Numerals and Dates - Paul Lewis. Compare to Lee's Useless Decimal to Roman Numeral Converter.

Scout Report - InterNIC's weekly publication offers a selection of Internet resources of interest to researchers and educators. Scout Report Signpost "offers multiple methods of browsing (by subject) or searching the annotations that have appeared in the Scout Report. It provides browsing by Library of Congress Classification or Subject Headings and searching via both a Quick Search (full-text) and Advanced Search (fielded) interface, which use natural language querying."

Searchebooks.com - Locate e-texts. A search for Charolotte Bronte, for example, locates 102 matches.

Snopes - Identifies "urban legends, folklore, myths, rumors, and misinformation".

SOAR: Searchable Online Archive of Recipes - Indexing over 67,000 recipes and maintained by Jennifer Snider (and team) at the University of California at Berkeley, this site is an excellent resource for recipes, and is especially helpful for locating ethnic resources including Caribbean, Native American and African.

Stately Knowledge - Internet Public Library. Try also 50States.com and Global Computing's U.S. State Home Pages.

Statistical Abstract of the United States - U.S. Census Bureau site is available in Adobe Acrobat format only. Data is available from 1878 to the present.

Stumpers-L - "E-mail-based resource where reference librarians can help each other find the answers to difficult questions." Snopes is another useful site for librarians and researchers. It identifies "urban legends, folklore, myths, rumors, and misinformation".

Supreme Court Decisions:

Constitution of the United States of America - Sponsored by the U.S. Senate and the U.S. Government Printing Office, the site is subtitled "Analysis and Interpretation: Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 29, 1992. There are supplements for 1992, 1996 and 1998. Consists of the Constitution with Annotations, Amendments to the Constitution, and other introductory and supplementary material.

FLITE Supreme Court Decisions 1937-1975 - Search and view full text of Supreme Court decisions issued between 1937 and 1975. Contains 7,407 decisions from volumes 300 through 422 of US Reports.

FindLaw: U.S. Supreme Court Opinions

Findlaw: Supreme Court Opinions - Searchable database of Supreme Court decisions since 1937 .

Judges of the United States Courts - "Contains the service record and biographical information for all judges who have served on the U.S. District Courts, U.S. Circuit Courts, U.S. Courts of Appeals, and the Supreme Court since 1789."

Landmark Supreme Court Decisions

Oyez: U.S. Supreme Court Multimedia - Consists of digital recordings of major constitutional cases searchable by date, party or subject. The site, also known as Oyez Oyez Oyez, from the phrase by which the Marshal of the Court calls the courtroom to order. (You can hear the Marshal of the Supreme Court say the phrase.)

Stanley Forman Reed Oral History Collection Index - 21 full-text oral history interviews with colleagues, relatives, and law clerks of Stanley F. Reed (1884-1980), a United States Supreme Court Justice from 1938-1957. You can Browse Interviews.

Subject Directories

Academic Info: Your Gateway to Quality Internet Resources - Mike Madin, Seattle. Other selective Internet subject directories or gateways include, in alphabetical order,

Apple Learning Interchange,

AskA+ Locator,

Best Information on the Net,

BUBL Link,

Dutch Electronic Subject Service (DutchESS) - "Internet Guide for the academic community produced by the Koninklijke Bibliotheek in cooperation with a number of Dutch academic libraries." The service was online from 1997 until 2007.

Educator's Reference Desk,

Infomine: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections,

Internet Public Library Reference Center,

Internet Scout Project,

invisible-web.net (Chris Sherman and Gary Price),

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators,

Librarians' Index to the Internet,

Martindale's The Reference Desk,

Merlot,

Refdesk.com,

Resource Discovery Network (with a Virtual Training Suite),

Les Signets de la Bibliothèque Nationale de France,

WWW Virtual Library

Beyond the Black Stump

Digital Librarian: Internet Subject Directories

Telsun Spur: A Way Station for Snark Hunters.

Supreme Court Collection - Legal Information Institute, Cornell

Supreme Court of the United States - With Opinions.

Symbols.com - "Contains more than 2,500 Western signs, arranged into 54 groups according to their graphic characteristics. In 1,600 articles their histories, uses, and meanings are thoroughly discussed. The signs range from ideograms carved in mammoth teeth by Cro-Magnon men, to hobo signs and subway graffiti." A comparable site is Symbols.net.

Theses and Dissertations

Dissertation Express - UMI / Proquest. Searchable database

Electronic Theses and Dissertations in the Humanities: A Directory of On-Line References and Resources - Created by Matthew G. Kirschenbaum of the University of Virginia to serve as a "directory of most (maybe not quite all) of the ETDs that are currently in progress in the various disciplines that comprise the academic humanities."

Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations - Project to study and encourage electronic posting of graduate work at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Electronic Theses and Dissertations - West Virginia University

M.I.T. Theses Online

THESA - French doctoral theses in process

TheseNet - Database of French dissertations indexed by the Agence Bibliographique de l'Enseignement Superieur

Bases de Datos de Tesis Doctorales (TESEO)

Soutenances Thèses - Université Paris Diderot - Chronological listing of Université Paris Diderot thèses back to 2000.

Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) - Organization associated with Syracuse University provides "independent, and nonpartisan information on federal law enforcement." More specifically they offer "data gathering, data research and data distribution. describing the enforcement activities and staffing patterns of the FBI, the IRS, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms." A valuable resource for journalists, lawyers, public interest groups, businessmen and researchers. (Free registration.)

U.S. Department of Agriculture Nutrient Data Laboratory - Analyze nutritional value of food at this Agricultural Research Service site.

U.S. Government Manual - Searchable by key word

United States Code - Searchable

United States Department of State International Information Programs (US Info)

Publications

Outline of U.S. History

Outline of American Geography: Regional Landscapes of the United States - By Stephen S. Birdsall and John Florin

Outline of U.S. Government

Outline of the U.S. Economy

Outline of American Literature -By Kathryn VanSpanckeren

Outline of the U.S. Legal System

Protecting the Environment

Arms Control and Non-Proliferation

HIV/Aids

Human Rights

Terrorism

Narcotics and Substance Abuse

Africa

the Americas

East Asia - Pacific

Europe, Russia and the NIS

Middle East - North Africa

South Asia

U.S. Gazetteer - Place name search engine from the U.S. Census Bureau

U.S. Naval Observatory - Portions of the Astronomical Almanac are online. Provides a number of useful data services including

Complete Sun and Moon Data for One Day

Sun or Moon Rise/Set Table for One Year

Rise/Set/Transit Times for Major Solar System Bodies and Bright Stars

Duration of Daylight/Darkness Table for One Year. Another similar resource is Her Majesty's Nautical Almanac Office

Vanderbilt Television News Archive - Abstracts of evening news broadcasts since 1968, searchable by keywords. Try, also FOOTAGE.net, to search for ad, film, TV and digital video in stock, archival and news footage databases.

VisualRoute - Provides tools to measure the speed of your computer network. Anyone with a Java-enabled web browser can access their VisualRoute Server which provides traceroute, ping, and geographical location information from their server in Fairfax, Virginia, USA, to any URL or domain you select. Other sites to consult for Internet traffic: Internet Traffic Report, Internet Weather Report and MIQ Ratings.

Wex - "Collaboratively built, freely available legal dictionary and encyclopedia." Sponsored and hosted by the Legal Information Institute at the Cornell Law School.

whatis.com - Glossary of Internet and computer-related terms. There's also NetLingo: the Internet Language Dictionary, Wired's Encyclopedia of the New Economy, Webopedia: online computer dictionary for Internet terms and technical support , Gábor J.Tóth's Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, Mitchell Shnier's Dictionary of PC Hardware and Data Communications Terms and Matisse Enzer's Glossary of Internet Terms.

Wikipedia - "Free encyclopedia that anyone can edit." See also Encyclopedia.com with over 17,000 articles, and the sixth edition of the Columbia Encyclopedia (2000) offered by Bartleby.com.

World Clock - Steffen Thorsen. Other time-related sites include Timezone Converter, Local Times Around the World, U.S. Naval Observatory's Time Service Dept. with Master Clock time, the Date and Time Gateway and Daylight Saving Time.

Zip Code Lookup and Address Information - From the U.S. Postal Service. There's also Ajay Shekhawat's National Address Server, Zip Express, Wealthy Zip Codes and Postal Code Lookup for Canada.