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Articles
Atlases & maps
Biographies links
Books
British monarchy
Calculator
Calendar: create any year
Charities & NPOs
Chemistry Research
Children's Book Council
Christian books, libraries etc.
CIA World Factbook - See World Factbook below
Colleges/Universities worldwide
Computer Science bibliographies/databases
Countries of the World (Library of Congress)
Currency converter
Databases on the Web
Dictionaries etc.
Economics
Education
Encyclopedias on-line
Environment - Earthweek
ePublishing - Ebookomatic
Facts search
Flags of the world
Geography - Atlapedia Online
Genealogy
Government (mostly U.S.)
History - World History Compass
Internet - Who owns that Website?
Jargon & Slang
Journalism (tips & education)
Law
Libraries (MIT)
Literature
Magazines - See News below
Maps - See Atlases above
Medical Online
Medicines
Monarchy - See British Monarchy above
MIR Space Station
Museums and Online Libraries
National Geographic
News
Old Farmers' Almanac
Online Global Mobile Phone
Online Books
Online Publishing - See ePublishing above
Opinion Polls
Patent Search
Phone books/postcodes
Photo research
Political Resources on the Net
Population/demographics
Postal information
Prescription Drugs - See Medicines above
Publications
Quotations - See Thesauri below
Recipe finder
Reference
Salaries (US)
Science - How Stuff Works
Skeptics' Dictionary
Slang - See Jargon above
Smoking Gun (great alternative news site based largely on FOI requests)
Speech & Transcript Center
Statistics & reports - Australia
Statistics & reports - Canada
Statistics & reports - UK
Statistics & reports - US
Statistics & reports - International
Terrorist group profiles
Thesauri/quotations
Time/date
Trademarks - International Trademark Association
United Nations
Universities/Colleges world-wide
Weathernet
Web-based databases
Weights & measures
White House
WhoWhere? (find phone numbers, addresses, email, etc)
World Factbook
World Population Clock
Writing - Absolute Write
Yellow Pages worldwide
ZDNet
Zero Population Growth
... and the same again, but with the URLs shown
just in case you need them:
Articles
Daily-Update www.daily-update.com/
About (articles from over 700 sites) www.about.com/
Arts & Letters Daily www.cybereditions.com/aldaily
InfoJump (5 million articles from 4000 publications, all rated) www.infojump.com
Infomine (really is a mine for scholarly information) www.infomine.ucr.edu
Suite101.com (articles from over 1500 topics) www.suite101.com
Atlases & maps
www.refdesk.com
www.InterGO.com
Maps- countries, streets etc www.mapquest.com/
Maps www.kartoserver.frw.ruu.nl
World Atlas www.InterGO.com
Biographies links
www.refdesk.com
Books
Page One (reviews,author interviews, literary news, etc) www.pageonelit.com
Readerville www.readerville.com
SeekBOOKS (reviews & bookseller to rival the big names) www.seekbooks.com
See also Christian Books; Children's Book Council; Online Books
British monarchy
http://www.royal.gov.uk/
Calculator
www.math.scarolina.edu
Calendar: create any year
Create any year www.stud.unit.no
Ecclesiastical Calendar cssa.stanford.edu
Charities & NPOs
www.charity.com
Chemistry Research
Research (search chemicals) www.chemfinder.com
Children's Book Council
Resources for children's writing www.cbcbooks.org
Children's Book Publishers Guidelines www.signaleader.com/chldwrit.html
Christian books, libraries etc.
www.eskimo.com
CIA World Factbook - See World Factbook below
Colleges/Universities worldwide
www.mit.edu:8001
Computer Science bibliographies/databases
www.library.cmu.edu
Countries of the World (Library of Congress)
www.lcweb2.loc.gov
Currency converter
Databases on the Web
www.refdesk.com
Dictionaries etc.
www.refdesk.com/factdict.html www.m-w.com/
American Dialect Society (current and regional words) www.americandialect.org
OneLook Dictionaries (access over 500 dictionaries) www.onelook.com
Skeptics' Dictionary www.wheel.ucdavis.edu
YourDictionary (over 200 translation dictionaries and nine thesauri) www.yourdictionary.com
See also Reference Works below
Economics
Dr Ed Yardeni's Economic Network www.yardeni.com/
Education
www.webpages.marshall.edu
Exploratorium (fascinating) www.exploratorium.edu/
Increase and Diffusion (educational articles from the "Smithsonian Web Magazine") www.si.edu/i+d/
NOVA (fun & educational) www.pbs.org
Encyclopedias on-line
www.refdesk.com Atlapedia Online www.geopedia.com/
Concise Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia www.encyclopedia.com
Encyclopedia Britannica www.britannica.com
Encyclopedia of Computing www.mcp.com/
Encyclopedia of Computing www.techweb.com
Legal Encyclopedia www.nolo.com
Virtual Encyclopedia www.refdesk.com
Environment - Earthweek
Earthweek www.earthweek.com
ePublishing - Ebookomatic
Ebookomatic www.hop.clickbank.net
Rosedog (getting writers, publisher and agents together for free) www.rosedog.com
Facts search
www.refdesk.com
Fast facts www.refdesk.com/fastfact.html
Find Out www.findout.com/
Infoplease (fascinating facts) www.infoplease.com
Useless Facts www.home.nycap.rr.com
USIA - United States Information Agency
See also Articles above
Flags of the world
www.fotw.digibel.be
Geography - Atlapedia Online
Atlapedia Online www.geopedia.com/
Geographic database www.mit.edu:8001
Genealogy
www.rootsweb.com
Genealogy Toolbox www.query.tbox.com
Government (mostly U.S.)
www.refdesk.com
Governments on the WWW www.gksoft.com
History - World History Compass
World History Compass www.SchillerComputing.com
Internet - Who owns that Website?
www.netsol.com
Jargon & Slang
www.locke.ccil.org
Jargon of Hackers www.tuxedo.org
Journalism (tips & education)
www.newslab.org
Columbia Journalism Review www.cjr.org Disinformation (media inaccuracies) www.disinfo.com
Expert Source for Reporters www.businesswire.com
or www.experts.com
MediaNews www.poynter.org/medianews
News and resources on the media (especially film and TV)MediaCentral www.mediacentral.com
Poynter Institute www.poynter.org
Project for Excellence in Journalism www.journalism.org
Journalism Research (including statistics) www.robertniles.com
Law
www.refdesk.com
Findlaw (numerous links & search engine) www.findlaw.com
Legal Information Institute (Cornell Law School's comprehensive site) www.law.cornell.edu
Legal Research Resources www.academicinfo.net
See also Daily-Update Links page (Australian, Chinese, International Law) www.daily-update.com
Libraries (MIT)
(MIT) www.libraries.mit.edu
Baker Library, Harvard Business School www.library.hbs.edu
British Library www.bl.uk
Electric Library www3.elibrary.com
Library of Congress www.loc.gov
Lippincott Library, Uni of Pennsylvania http://www.library.upenn.edu
Online Libraries and Museums www.writesite.org
Public Library Network
(OPLIN) www.oplin.lib.oh.us
Virtual Library index www.refdesk.com
WWW Virtual Library www.vlib.org
Literature
Bartleby (Shakespeare) www.bartleby.com
Literary Resources on the Net www.andromeda.rutgers.edu
See also Books above; Online Books below
Magazines - See News below
Maps - See Atlases above
Medical Online
www.medicalonline.com.au
Medical terms (in several languages) www.allserv.rug.ac.be
Medicines
www.rxlist.com
Monarchy - See British Monarchy above
MIR Space Station
www.nonline.com
Museums and Online Libraries
www.writesite.org
American Museum of Natural History www.amnh.org
News Museum (including the stories behind those Pulitzer Prize photos) www.newseum.org
Oregon Museum of Science and Industry www.omsi.org
Smithsonian Institutewww.si.edu
Vatican Museum www.christusrex.org
National Geographic
www.nationalgeographic.com/
News
Journalismnet (find any newspaper) www.journalismnet.com
AJR Newslink (18,000 links to news resources) www.ajr.newslink.org
Cyber Paperboy www.cyberpaperboy.com
Magazines www.webwombat.com.au
News Museum (including the stories behind those Pulitzer Prize photos) www.newseum.org
Online Newspapers www.onlinenewspapers.com/
Smoking Gun (great alternative news site based largely on FOI requests) www.thesmokinggun.com
See also Journalism above
Old Farmers' Almanac
www.almanac.com/
Online Global Mobile Phone
www.mtn.co.za
Online Books
(new and old e-books) www.1stbooks.com/
Bartleby (classic e-books) www.bartleby.com
Free e-Books (information on locating them) www.skybusiness.com
iUniverse www.iuniverse.com
Project Gutenberg (1150 electronic texts and rising) www.promo.net
www.spacestation42.com
University of Pennsylvania (over 10,000
e-books)www.digital.library.upenn.edu
Online Publishing - See ePublishing above
Opinion Polls
list of all the major ones www.library.miami.edu
Patent Search
www.patents.ibm.com
Phone books/postcodes
www.refdesk.com
Photo research
www.corbis.com
Political Resources on the Net
www.agora.stm.it
Population/demographics
www.refdesk.com
Current population (eerily ticks over as you watch) www.emuseum.mankato.msus.edu
Postal information
www.refdesk.com
Postage Rates Worldwide ww.geocities.com
Prescription Drugs - See Medicines above
Publications
(all details needed for over 150,000 publications) www.publist.com
Quotations - See Thesauri below
Recipe finder
With pictures, cooking directions etc. www.homearts.com
Reference
Bartleby (Strunk's; Gray's Anatomy; Columbia
Encyclopedia; Quotations; etc) www.bartleby.com
Eastfield College Library (comprehensive research resources) www.efc.dcccd.edu
iTools www.itools.com
Journalist Express (including hundreds of useful links) www.journalistexpress.com
LibrarySpot (links to the best reference sites) www.libraryspot.com
Martindale's resources/links (comprehensive) www-sci.lib.uci.edu:80
MIT's Virtual Reference Links www.libraries.mit.edu
Reference works (dictionaries, thesauri, quotations etc.) www.cs.cmu.edu
Research Beat www.writesite.org
See also Articles above; Libraries above
Salaries (US)
(US) www.salary.com
Science
www.howstuffworks.com
Skeptics' Dictionary
www.wheel.ucdavis.edu
Slang - See Jargon above
Smoking Gun (great alternative news site based largely on FOI requests)
www.thesmokinggun.com
Speech & Transcript Center
www.gwis2.circ.gwu.edu
Statistics & reports - Australia
Australian Bureau of Statistics www.abs.gov.au
Statistics & reports - Canada
E-STAT Canadian educational statistics www.statcan.ca
Statistics Canada www.statcan.ca/start.html
Statistics & reports - UK
DFES - Department for Education & Skills, including wide-ranging statistics www.dfes.gov.uk
Higher Education Statistics Agency (UK) www.hesa.ac.uk/
Office for National Statistics (UK) education statistics on the official British statistics site (which includes the census) www.statistics.gov.uk
StatBase R - Datasets from National Statistics for education and training www.statistics.gov.uk
Statistics & reports - US
Factfinder Search engine for US Census 2000 www.factfinder.census.gov
Fedstats - Statistics from over 100 US Federal Agencies www.fedstats.gov/
FedWorld Information Network (locate US Federal reports or statistics) www.fedworld.gov
Government Information Sharing Project - (Oregon State University) Demographic and economic statistical information from the Bureau of the Census and other federal agencies. www.govinfo.kerr.orst.edu
NCES - National Center for Education Statistics (US) www.nces.ed.gov/
Statistics for business and trade www.stat-usa.gov
US Bureau of Economic Analysis www.bea.doc.gov
US Census Bureau www.census.gov
Statistics & reports - International
Alexander Library - CD-ROMs and Data Sources - A searchable database, including statistical sources from U.S., state, and foreign governments, and international agencies. www.scc.rutgers.edu
EuroStat - (European Union) The latest statistical data on the European Union, including economic and social indicators, trade, regional statistics www.europa.eu.int
OECD Education Statistics Internationally comparable education statistics www1.oecd.org
UNESCO Institute for Statistics www.unescostat.unesco.org/ www.uis.unesco.org
www.ibe.unesco.org
www.ibe.unesco.org
World Statistical Agencies www.econofinance.com
Terrorist group profiles
web.nps.navy.mil
Thesauri/quotations
www.refdesk.com
Bartleby (Roget's Thesaurus & Bartlett's "Familiar Quotations") www.bartleby.com
Time/date
www.refdesk.com
Trademarks - International Trademark Association
(including search function for trademarks) www.inta.org
United Nations
www.un.org
Universities/Colleges world-wide
www.mit.edu:8001
Weathernet
www.cirrus.sprl.umich.edu
Web-based databases
www.library.cmu.edu
See also Databases above
Weights & measures
www.refdesk.com
White House
www.whitehouse.gov
WhoWhere? (find phone numbers, addresses, email, etc)
(find phone numbers, addresses, email, etc) www.whowhere.lycos.com
World Factbook
www.odci.gov
World Population Clock
www.sunsite.unc.edu
Writing - Absolute Write
Absolute Write (great resources for all types of writing)www.absolutewrite.com
Academy of American Poets www.poets.org/index.cfm
Acronym Finder www.acronymfinder.com/
African American Online Writers' Guild www.blackwriters.org
Artslynx (excellent writing links) www.artslynx.org/writing
Assoc. of Authors' Rep.s (independent, non-profit assoc.of author's agents) www.publishersweekly.com
Bartleby
(Strunk's "Elements of Style"; Quotations; Shakespeare; etc) www.bartleby.com
Beaucoup Writers Resources (excellent research links) www.beaucoup.com
Guide to Grammar and Writing www.webster.commnet.edu
Misc.Writing (more good writing links) www.scalar.com
Writers' Toolbox www.writerstoolbox.com/
Writing Corner (book reviews and online writing) www.writingcorner.com
Yellow Pages worldwide
www.worldyellowpages.com/
ZDNet
software downloads & all things computerish www.zdnet.com
Zero Population Growth
www.zpg.org
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