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Books and Libraries
Alibiris
"Books you thought you'd never find" Which is a shorthand description of this global supplier of out-of-print, used, foreign, and collectible books of all kinds.
Amazon Books
The Bookwire Homepage
If you are looking for a particular publisher or for book news from the publishers/booksellers perspectives, this is it.
Dissertation Services [formerly University Microfilms]
Wondering if someone has written a dissertation on a particular topic? This is the site. But be patient, this site has the worst design around, with the possible exception of the American Airlines website.
ISBN Search
If you have the ISBN, the International Standard Book number which appears on the back of a book, you can check "the majors" to compare cost & availability for that book. This compares Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Borders and more.
lib-web-catsa directory of libraries worldwide
The On-Line Books Page
There are many books in the public domain, and this site links to over 20,000 of them. Read on.
Uncover formerly, now this is INGENTA
Ingenta indexes >26,000 titles.
Yahoo's index to Libraries
College and Universities
College and University Home Pages
College Board
Scholarly Societies Project (webs of scholarly societies)
Scholarship/ Financial Aid Information
Maps
Map Collection from the University of Texas at Austin
Yahoo! Maps
Reference Shelf
Acronym Finder
How do you judge an acronym finder? I look for SPWLA (The Society of Professional Well Log Analysts).This site has it, and plenty more besides
AnyWho Toll Free Directory
Biography Index
CIA World Fact Book
"Intelligence is information that has been collected, integrated, evaluated, analyzed, and interpreted. Finished intelligence is the final product of the Intelligence Cycle ready to be delivered to the policymaker." And here we have it, the fruits of the Intelligence Cycle, freely available to us all.
CNET.com
Are you now, or will you ever be buying software, hardware or peripherals? Check out CNET! They tell you what's selling, who has it for how much (plus shipping), real reviews are included as well as the trends, game information, job listings and business information. If you take technology seriously, you need to check out CNET.
Community of Science Web Server
an encyclopedia of experts on the Web
Documents in the News
This site from the University of Michigan "identifies issues about government making news headlines and web sources with additional information." So if you've read about the Enron collapse and want to read the Senate hearing, the Arthur Anderson statement or even the original whistleblower's letter, the links are here. A VERY impressive site, and a wonderful resource.
Emedicine
"instant access to the minds of medicine"
Fedstats: One Stop Shopping for Federal Statistics
Finding the right government information at the right time can be quite a trick. Sometimes it seems as if different parts of the same agency don't know anything about one another....
Foundation Center Online
Foundation directory... A guide to funding research....proposal writing...there's a lot of useful information here.
GovTrack.us
"a nexus of information about the United States Congress" If you want to follow the issues in Congress, this site will make it a lot easier.
The History Net
How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement
Hoover's Online: the business network
Need information about a business? Hoover's is great. It has a subscription service that I haven't used, but its public information has met my needs when I wanted facts fast.
Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms (from Iowa State)
Instant Information Systems
InterNIC Scout Report
JobHunt
Measurement Converter
Newslink
the American Journalism Review's site which links to newspapers,magazines, radio & television stations across the country.
National Gallery of Art [USA]
Fewer images available, still of interest.
National Portrait Library [UK] - Picture Library Search
"The online database contains information on approximately 10,000 works; the National Portrait Gallery's collection includes over 1,000,000 works."
Patent Lens
an independent, public-good global resource for increasing patent transparency.
The Reference Desk
RxList The Internet Drug Index
Switchboard
"it's the yellow pages electrified" well, kinda.
Symbols.com
the world's largest online encyclopedia of graphic symbols!
Texas Links
Ultimate White Pages
They look like a pretty good resource to me.
USA.Gov
"your first click to the U.S. Government" this site is "the only official U.S. Government portal to 47 million pages of government information, services, and online transactions."
Vital Records Information for the United States
Web of On-line Dictionaries
English dictionary, from Merriam-Webster Online.
ZD net
This is ZD as in Ziff Davis. Technology news, discussions, reviews, downloads, it's all here.
Search Starting Points
Ask.com
Google
Scirus - for scientific information
Search tools from Librarians' Index to the Internet
the best of the search tools, collected by librarians

 

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