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Online Reference Resources Research Guide by the Head of the Reference Department (718-960-7761) Almanacs: General The creators of the wonderful Information Please Almanac have introduced a version of this resource just for children. It has an easy interface, and includes an on-line dictionary, encyclopedia, a homework center, 'today in history,' and a word of the day. An excellent starting place for students! This categorized list pulls together a great collection of useful online ready reference tools for finding that elusive fact fast.
Another excellent resource from Gary Price, librarian at George Washington University. Online version of the popular almanac that can browsed by topic or search. Includes a biography database, a dictionary, an atlas, and articles from the Columbia Encyclopedia. An extensive listing of links to Web sites that provide factual and statistical information, such as would be found in almanacs or statistical abstracts. Resources listed here focus primarily on the United States and Canada, but other areas of the world are represented as well. Almanacs: Specialized Online edition of the print version of this annual compilation of information on United States and world governments and politics.
Includes: political calendars (includes independence days, admission days, election dates); political documents; World governments, U.S. Legislative, executive, and judicial branches; state and local governments (has mayors of U.S. Cities over 50,000); U.S. Political parties; economics; and political history (covers governors, presidents, rulers, etc.). Links to hundreds of government Web sites around the world.
Formerly the Almanac of Politics and Government. This site presents a historical perspective of a nation, its people, and its cultural evolution. Includes biographies, full-text books, folktales, documents, information about historic events, and trivia games. AFRO-Voices contains the text of commentaries, poetry, and speeches. There are related links and resources and a newsletter, Issues in the News.
A collection of numbers relevant to computers and their use, along with references. Includes statistics on Internet use, injuries, crime, market share of operating systems and companies, and more. Since 1792, The Old Farmer's Almanac has published useful and entertaining information that includes tide tables, sunrise tables, planting charts, recipes, and weather. This electronic version answers questions about weather, astronomy, folklore, and history, and provides gardening advice and household hints.
Sun and moon rise and set times for any U.S. Location are available through a simple 4-step process. This site on the fifty states (and the U.S.
Commonwealths and territories) has information such as: location (latitude and longitude), birds, colleges and universities, constitutions, flowers, genealogical resources, geological formations, geographical features, mottos, national forests and parks, newspapers, nicknames, nonprofit organizations, populations, state and federal representatives, songs, and the date of entry into the union. All facts are linked to over 1529 governmental or authoritative webpages.
Associations/Directories Associations Unlimited U.S. National Contains information for approximately 22,500 U.S. National nonprofit membership organizations in all fields.Access limited to Lehman College affiliation only. GuideStar, the national database of U.S. Charitable organizations, gathers and distributes data on more than 850,000 IRS-recognized nonprofits A searchable directory of the Web sites of associations.
Search by association name, category, and location and get a direct link each association's Web site. Quick and easy access to the wealth of information, services, and products that associations, trade groups, professional societies, enthusiast groups and other nonprofit organizations provide. A collection of over 2200 Internet sites providing information about a wide variety of professional and trade associations, cultural and art organizations, political parties and advocacy groups, labor unions, academic societies, and research institutions. Abstracts summarizing information about the association and its site are provided. A site run by a non-profit foundation which has a searchable directory of 10,000 Web sites of non-profit organizations, information on volunteering, jobs, projects and some tools for non-profits on subjects like fundraising, financial management, personnel, public relations, legal issues.
Atlases This site consists of nine main maps of the universe, ranging from the nearest stars to the sun, out to the limits of the visible universe. Each main map page contains a description of the map, as well as other, related maps.
The main map images can be printed. There are extensive annotated links to related Web sites and a glossary. Available in English, French, Portuguese, and Serbian. A searchable directory of links to online resources for country, regional, historical, and interactive maps; atlases; gazetteers; and place names guides.
Also includes links to topics including companies, libraries, magazines, other Web directories, and health and weather maps. This online exhibit presents the history of celestial cartography, covering the period from 1482 to 1851. From the Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering and Technology, Kansas City, Missouri. A 'portal to images of stars in the night sky' in the Northern hemisphere. Shows 'the sky in many different representations and wavelengths in addition to the optical view.'
There is a zoom feature to go deeper into space. Our solar system is not included. Biography Coverage 1984-present.Access limited to Lehman College affiliation only.Access limited to Lehman College affiliation only.
The Arts and Entertainment Network's biography site of over 20,000 entries of persons living and dead. Search or browse 25,000 biographies of notable personalities from antiquity to the present. The profiles range from one paragraph to several.
Searchable by name of person only. Over 28,000 entries with flexible searching capabilities and links to other sites. The dictionary can be searched by names, dates, positions held, professions, literary and artistic works, achievements, and other keywords. Links to individual biographical sites and collections of biographies are included in this megasite. Nearly 270,000 citations covering more than 125,000 individual and organizational proper names from approximately 700 investigative books published since 1962 and thousands of periodicals from 1973. Covers academia, high tech, media, political figures, the international intelligence community, U.S. Foreign policy, religion, crime, business and more.
The Web site is browsable by name or category. Over 1,000 composers are listed in nationality and alphabetical indexes. Other arrangements of information include Pulitzer winners, opera and classical masters, and chronologies. Classic authors, movie stars, famous frauds, kings and queens, mythical gods, cartoon dogs-anyone famous is fair game for Who2.' Each entry includes birth and death dates, birthplace, what the person is best known for, a couple of paragraphs with assorted other biographical information, and four links to good Web sites.
This site is part of Jim Martindale's Reference Desk and contains over 11,360 links to calculators online. The collection is in 4 parts: a general Alphabetical subject list; Mathematics, Science, and Engineering. There are links to calculators on almost every topic, e.g., finance, home repair, medicine, cooking, textiles, torque, and navigation. A collection of interactive Web sites that estimate, calculate, evaluate, and translate everything from acceleration conversions to the Morse Code to word frequencies. Sections include: Science & Math; Health; Finance; and Everything Else.
By Judi Wolinsky, librarian at Homewood Public Library (IL). A growing collection of weights, measures, and units conversion and calculation modules. There are several ways of accessing the more than 3 dozen calculators, but the least complex is from the simplified page for those with older browsers or who use large type.
From here, you also get explanations and definitions. If you use the dial or list versions, watch out for all the extra open windows. A directory of resources that will calculate a variety of weights and measures.
Includes a cost of living calculator that will compare cities within the U.S., a Roman numeral equivalencies calculator, a time zone converter, mortgage and credit card rates calculations, and a dictionary of most units of measurement found around the world. A useful set of links from the libraries of Western Washington University. Calculates the date and day of the week for all American secular holidays for any year after 1776. Will calculate the dates and days-of-the-week for Western and Orthodox Christian holy days, feasts, etc. For any year after 325 AD. Celestial Calendars, Cultural & Religious Calendars, Holidays, Millennium Info, Calendar Reform, Today Calendars, Web & Interactive Calendars, Y2K, also Calendar Information, Resources, Indexes & Directories, Calendar Software. A site covering the 'history of the human endeavor to organize our lives in accordance with the sun and stars.'
Discover the origins of modern and past calendar systems. This site covers the calendars of several different cultures and includes a timeline of calendar facts. This site calculates the length of daylight for your particular location, when twilight begins and ends, sunrise and sunset times, the height angle of the sun at noon and the declination. You can choose from a menu of cities or enter the latitude and longitude of the location that you want information on.
This is a browseable calendar of world events. Select a month and then a day to see what important events, births of famous people, or holidays occur on that date. Moveable holidays are listed at the beginning of each month.
'Greenwich is the official start-point of the Millennium.' This site contains links to worldwide celebration information, history, and explanations of time. English calendar dates for holidays and holy days for several different world religions. Includes the current month through the year 2004. Calendar of past literary events. Search by clicking on any day of the month and view notable events that happened on that day in history.
Other key features include a search engine and links to relevant topics within each entry. Holidays around the world. Search by month, holiday, country, or keywords. Many include recipes, crafts, history of holidays. A perpetual calendar; allows users to check days of the week for dates in history and in the future. Browsable, not searchable, but easy enough to use. A site that currently provides the calendar for any year in the 19th-21st centuries.
You can also look up the dates for holidays in the United States and Canada from 1995-2010. Other features include a quick reference to signs of the zodiac and seasons of the year along with their corresponding dates. Find the date and day of the week for the national holidays of dozens of countries around the world for the years 1999-2002. Search by country, year, and/or month. InfoShare brings together dozens of local, state and federal databases describing population, socio-economic and health conditions.
It gives this information for a variety of geographic areas, allowing for profiling and comparisons of areas of your choosing.Access limited to Lehman College affiliation only. FactFinder uses Census Bureau data to allow the user to create tables, reports, and maps with information down to the census block level. Use Data Sets for complete subject and geographic coverage. Basic Facts gives you a quick look at the most used data. You can also search by keyword or place name to locate data and maps.
Reference Maps has census tract and block numbers and Thematic Maps gives graphical representations of data. Searchable glossary to aid in reading publications of the United States Census Bureau. Provides '2000 Data by Population, Race, Sex, Age & Housing' for California as well as places, counties, cities, and areas large and small throughout the Bay Area. Includes news, a FAQ, maps, links to other census resources, and instructions for joining a discussion group about census data. The 'value of the Census 2000 Data Access and Use Web page is that it is organized for and from the perspective of the data user.adding data access and application perspectives that 'sit outside' of the Census Bureau.' The site was created by an 'econometrician and former Census Bureau official.' Data from the 2000 United States census available here includes summary tables focusing on age, sex, households, families, and occupied housing units; general demographic profiles; and redistricting data for state legislature redistricting and congressional apportionment.
There is also a schedule of release dates for additional data, a directory of regional and local sources for Census 2000, lesson plans and other material for classrooms use, and information on how the census is taken. 'CensusScope is an easy-to-use tool for investigating U.S. Demographic trends, brought to you by the Social Science Data Analysis Network (SSDAN) at the University of Michigan. With eye-catching graphics and exportable trend data, CensusScope is designed for generalists and specialists.'
Includes charts, maps, and ranking for national, state, metro, and county data from the 2000, 1990, and 1980 censuses (and sometimes earlier). Browsable from many data entry points. A collection of free Microsoft Excel spreadsheets to download for recording census data. Includes forms for all federal U.S.
Census data, some state censuses, Canadian, English, Irish, and Scottish censuses, and special topics such as 'the 1890 Surviving Veterans and Widows Schedule.' 'The data presented here describe the people and the economy of the US for each state and county from 1790 to 1960.' Start with one of the decennial census pages, and then select the variables that you want to view. Data is initially displayed by state.
County data can be displayed by selecting any or all states from the state display. 'Each page features county-level detail for the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. Each page also includes a small state-level map for a simplified view of the population theme.
The Census 2000 data in this report are based on the U.S. Census Bureau Redistricting (PL 94-171) Summary File.Use of this source limits the report themes to total population, race and ethnicity, and population under age 18.' Selected data from the 1970, 1990, and 2000 United States censuses including summary files, redistricting data, and race and ethnic data.
From the University of California, Berkeley. Very easy to use census information for national, state, and county levels. Tables include People Facts, Business Facts, and Geographical Facts (land area and density).
While not extensive, the People Facts do include recent population estimates; racial, age, and gender breakouts; high school and college graduates; households; children under the poverty level; etc. Business Facts include retail sales, minority- and women-owned businesses, building permits, etc. The most comprehensive for current U.S. Demographic data. Includes the nation's population, housing, business and manufacturing activity, international trade, farming, and state and local governments. There are links to U.S., state, and international statistical resources. See the American Housing Survey for 1997 data on the nation's housing, including apartments, single-family homes, mobile homes, and vacant housing units.
Data are shown for household characteristics, income, housing and neighborhood quality, housing costs, equipment and fuels, size of housing unit, and recent movers. Historical Tables shows trends since the first housing census in 1940.
There are also data on home ownership, affordability, market absorption of apartments, and New York City specifically. Some documents require Adobe Acrobat Reader. Information and accompanying glossary on the 'changes related to the geographic entities for which Census 2000 provides data.' From the United States Census Bureau. Contains a collection of statistics on social and economic conditions in the United States at the State and metropolitan area levels. Selected data for component counties and central cities of metropolitan areas are also included.
College catalogs/bulletins and guide to college selection.Access limited to Lehman College affiliation only. Commercial online access to the Peterson's huge database of educational institutions and services, with auxiliary help features. A comprehensive collection of links to sites that rank institutions of higher learning, with caveats about their validity. Pulls together thousands of overseas study opportunities from higher education institutions.
Up-to-date, with necessary links. A resource guide for parents, students, and education professionals. This site provides information for international students who are thinking about pursuing an undergraduate, graduate, or professional education in the United States. It also contains material of interest to international students who are already in the United States. Guide to the meaning, history and pronunciation of half a million words.Access limited to Lehman College affiliation only. Online dictionary and thesaurus; includes usage, pronunciations and brief etymologies.
GRAMMAR & WRITING see also STYLE MANUALS create hyperlink to style manuals Basic grammar and writing help, comprehensive and accessible. An academic writing site from a community college that includes The 1918 classic from William Strunk, Jr. Resource for professional writers it includes information about freelance writing, screenwriting, playwriting, writing novels, nonfiction, comic book writing, greeting cards, poetry, and songwriting.
English grammar usage and the underlying rules of punctuation. Common Errors in English is 'concerned only with deviations from the standard use of English as judged by sophisticated users such as professional writers, editors, teachers, and literate executives and personnel officers. The aim of this site is to help you avoid low grades, lost employment opportunities, lost business, and titters of amusement at the way you write or speak.' The style guide that is used by journalists at The Economist. Features English grammar and style rules, with a focus on British English. Questions and answers about English usage and grammar from a linguistics professor. Guide helps with how to choose a topic, craft a thesis, evaluate thesis and sources, identify a variety of information sources, take efficient notes, begin and organize a research paper, use parenthetical documentation, prepare a Works Cited page, draft and revise a research paper.
This hypertext reference is designed to introduce legal citation to the beginner and to serve as a reference on basic citation points for more experienced writers and citation checkers. Resource for students who have research papers to write. Consists of these sections: Idea Directory, which has pre-configured e-library and Infoseek searches for a variety of topics; and Discussion Area, where you can discuss your paper with other students.
Includes instructional materials used in the Writing Center. Sections include Academic Writing (Literature, Research, Reviews), Grammar & Style, Peer Reviews, Documentation Styles (APA, MLA, Turabian, etc.), and Letters & Application Essays. Organized into three handbooks containing information about grammatical rules, writing techniques, and bibliographic formats. The Bibliography Handbook shows you how to cite bibliographical references in three different standard formats: MLA (Modern Language Association) format, APA (American Psychological Association) format, and 'Old MLA' format (using endnotes and a bibliography page). (see also Encyclopedias - Specoalized Meets the research needs of elementary, middle and high schools students.Access limited to Lehman College affiliation only.
The Columbia Encyclopedia contains nearly 51,000 entries and with more than 80,000 hypertext cross-references.Access limited to Lehman College affiliation only. Microsoft's free standard encyclopedia with almost 40,000 articles and more than 12,000 photos, illustrations, maps, charts, and tables. Includes the World English Dictionary (includes current words and audio files for pronunciation), Online Atlas, a section to help with homework (including a Web directory), sections to help prepare and apply for college and graduate school. Full text encyclopedia articles are no longer free.
You get part of the first paragraph and an invitation to subcribe. Still free are the full text periodical articles from more than 70 magazines and newspapers-including Newsweek, Discover, The Economist, Library Journal, and the Christian Science Monitor; and news from the New York Times and Reuters. Their guide to the Web's best sites includes more than 125,000 sites, many of them rated. An annotated listing of subject-oriented encyclopedias available on the Web. The Smithsonian Institution receives a great many public inquiries covering a wide range of topics. Therefore, the following responses have been compiled to answer frequently asked questions or to provide guidance in finding the requested information.
Topics covered: Armed Forces History, Anthropology, Mineral Sciences, Musical History, Physical Sciences, Services, Textiles Conservation, Transportation History, and Vertebrate Zoology. Online version of the popular almanac which you can browse by topic or search. Also includes the Random House Websters College Dictionary and the Columbia Encyclopedia. Searchable and browseable encyclopedia that focuses primarily on gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer culture as it relates to the arts and literature. Individual entries include bibliographies, citation information, and links to related topics.
Also includes a discussion board, an e-mail newsletter, and sections for featured topics and birthdays. The Encyclopedia maps the social and behavioral sciences on a grand scale. It is the largest reference work ever published for the social and behavioral sciences and the first to appear in both print and electronic formats.Access limited to Lehman College affiliation only.
A searchable encyclopaedia for North Africa and the Middle East. A good resource for looking for locating background information about people, countries, and political or religious issues on this region of the world that is constantly in the news. Covers Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Lybia, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen. The 2003 edition of the 'authoritative encyclopedia about Canada and its people, updated and expanded,' available in full text and searchable. French and Junior versions are also available. Interactive maps are provided.
Shockwave, RealPlayer, and QuickTime plug-ins are required. This comprehensive Web resource details the history of space exploration with an emphasis on human missions to space.
Brief astronaut biographies, links to various spacecraft, boosters, rocket engines, fuels, space programs, and launch sites. The encyclopedia currently contains over 2,000 entries and is being added to continuously. It is 'an attempt to show the history of Britain through the eyes of people from all levels of society. Each entry includes narrative, illustrations, primary sources and bibliography.'
Produced by Spartacus, a publishing company formed by a group of teachers. Includes more than 1,000 original essays from more than 250 contributors and examines specific programs and people, historic moments and trends, major policy disputes and such topics as violence, tabloid television and the quiz show scandal. It also includes histories of major television networks as well as broadcasting systems around the world and is complemented by resource materials, photos and bibliographical information. From the Museum of Broadcast Communications. Information on research into planets outside our solar system is covered in this site maintained by Jean Schneider of the Paris Observatory.
Some good links to other relevant online resources are included. Similar to the DrKoop.com site, which uses the same encyclopedias from ADAM Software, the major content of this consumer-oriented site is the Library, where one can browse or search more than 6,000 diseases and 12,000 photos and illustrations in encyclopedias on: General Health, Pediatrics, and Sexual Health and the Centers, including Hot Topics, Alternative and Complementary medicines, Fitness and Nutrition, Life Issues, Wellness, and Diseases and Conditions. The site also features health news, TV and radio host Dr. Dean Edell, columnists, and personalized information. A searchable database of basic philosophy information and definitions.
Browse by subject or search by keyword, also includes a small library of philosophy texts in HTML format. Complete unedited contents of the 12-volume Jewish Encyclopedia, which was originally published between 1901-1906.'
It has over 15,000 articles and illustrations and is searchable. Topics covered include Jewish history, law, theology, philosophy, literature, biography, and traditions. Some pages may not fully load in older browsers. This site has legal information in non-legal language including wills, estate planning, retirement, elder care, small business, employment, independent contractors, Internet, trademarks, copyright, patent, trade secrets, landlords, tenants, real estate, consumer, travel, neighbors, pets, family law, living together, debt, bankruptcy, taxes, immigration, lawsuits, mediation, personal injury, criminal law, cars, and tickets. There are annotated lists of recommended Internet resources for each subject. Mathematical terms and concepts, browsable alphabetically. Limit search by level (elementary or advanced) as well as by specific categories, such as algebra, biography, calculus, computer science, geometry, number theory, statistics, trigonometry, and more.
Some definitions link to longer articles. A starting point for sports reference questions. The list of sports acts as a sports encyclopedia.
It links to information for all sports (noncommercial, adventure, amateur-level, etc.) and the Olympics. The links are categorized, including associations, teams, directories, newsgroups/mailing lists, statistics, and biographies. There are sections on statistics, current news, and much more. There's an additional listing by topics such as physical education, disabled, women, and coaching, as well as listings of Canadian sports. And, the site is searchable. Philosophy professors at Stanford University are developing this encyclopedia, which is designed so that the authors of articles can update them as needed.
Twelve editors and 120 scholars thus far have contributed to the encyclopedia, and the project's leader expects to have most entries completed within five years. Of almost 500 entries listed on the contents page, more than 80 have been completed and nearly 100 others have been assigned as of December, 1998. An encyclopedia in eighteen volumes this work was originally published from 1907 to 1921 by G.P.
Putnam's Sons in the U.S. And Cambridge University Press in England.
Includes an index to chapters, authors, and bibliographies, as well as a table of principle dates and contents of all the volumes. Not searchable. This searchable site provides a collection of articles about the many subfields of math and includes definitions, brief biographies, and explanations. Each topic includes a history, related areas, and subfields as well as related print and Internet resources. It also includes an introduction to the Mathematics Subject Classification (MSC) scheme on which the site's arrangement is based.
Cross-disciplinary topics of cognitive and brain sciences under six domains of computational intelligence; culture, cognition, and evolution; linguistics and language; neuroscience; philosophy; and psychology. The site includes abstracts to over 400 scholarly articles that are cross-referenced. The encyclopedia may be explored through broad topics or searched by keyword. Full-text is available only with purchase of the book. An eclectic and fascinating encyclopedia about the United States, from Great Britain. There are slave accounts, extensive information on the slavery system, events, people involved and more. Other topics covered include magazines and newspapers, artists and illustrators, photographers, cartoonists, writers, theater and cinema, scientists, and political figures.
There is information about World War I, trade unions, McCarthyism, Roosevelt and the New Deal, and famous criminal cases. Additionally, there is information about the Civil Rights Movement, immigration, and women's suffrage. Much of the material is biographical in nature. Produced by Spartacus, a publishing company formed by a group of teachers. (see also ) Basic grammar and writing help, comprehensive and accessible. An academic writing site from a community college that includes The 1918 classic from William Strunk, Jr.
Resource for professional writers it includes information about freelance writing, screenwriting, playwriting, writing novels, nonfiction, comic book writing, greeting cards, poetry, and songwriting. English grammar usage and the underlying rules of punctuation. Common Errors in English is 'concerned only with deviations from the standard use of English as judged by sophisticated users such as professional writers, editors, teachers, and literate executives and personnel officers.
The aim of this site is to help you avoid low grades, lost employment opportunities, lost business, and titters of amusement at the way you write or speak.' The style guide that is used by journalists at The Economist. Features English grammar and style rules, with a focus on British English. Questions and answers about English usage and grammar from a linguistics professor. Guide helps with how to choose a topic, craft a thesis, evaluate thesis and sources, identify a variety of information sources, take efficient notes, begin and organize a research paper, use parenthetical documentation, prepare a Works Cited page, draft and revise a research paper.
This hypertext reference is designed to introduce legal citation to the beginner and to serve as a reference on basic citation points for more experienced writers and citation checkers. Resource for students who have research papers to write.
Consists of these sections: Idea Directory, which has pre-configured e-library and Infoseek searches for a variety of topics; and Discussion Area, where you can discuss your paper with other students. Includes instructional materials used in the Writing Center.
Sections include Academic Writing (Literature, Research, Reviews), Grammar & Style, Peer Reviews, Documentation Styles (APA, MLA, Turabian, etc.), and Letters & Application Essays. Organized into three handbooks containing information about grammatical rules, writing techniques, and bibliographic formats. The Bibliography Handbook shows you how to cite bibliographical references in three different standard formats: MLA (Modern Language Association) format, APA (American Psychological Association) format, and 'Old MLA' format (using endnotes and a bibliography page). Albert Einstein College of Medicine Bank Street College of Education City University of New York - CUNY+ Columbia University - CLIO Fordham University Long Island University Mount Sinai School of Medicine New York University - BobCat SUNY Health Science Center Tri-Cat (Cornell, Sloan Kettering, Rockefeller) Yeshiva University http://www.yu.edu/libraries/index.html. In addition to featuring national and international news, ABC's news site also features recaps and transcripts and selected video clips back through late April 1997 from many of its news programs, including Nightline, 20/20, and PrimeTime Live. The Gateway in Arabic, is a comprehensive Middle Eastern portal on the Internet. It provides information on the Middle Eastern economy and business sectors, along with politics, tourism, culture, legal issues, health, entertainment and sports.
News items, in-depth reports and analysis on all these topics are undertaken daily. Includes a keyword search facility.
The site is available in Arabic and English. Updated throughout the day with hundreds of stories from more than 70 African news organizations, it is the largest electronic distributor of African news and information worldwide.' The news arm of the BBC.
The site is updated daily and includes the following sections: World, UK, UK Politics, Education, Health, Business, Sci/Tech, Sport, and Entertainment. News is available in several languages and in audio and video. Chronicles the daily social, political, cultural and economic realities of Black communities and countries. This site includes local, national, and international news, commentaries, chats, forums, and links to related sites.
National and International news from the Canadian network, including business, sports, weather, and entertainment. In addition to text and photos, there are also audio and video clips, and an hourly-updated RealAudio newscast.
Daily comprehensive mix of Daily News from the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary, and Slovenia with country home pages, special features, travel and cultural information, and useful links to other sites. Online edition of the newspaper, with global coverage, national news, audio updates and features geared to family life and community. Headlines and stories from CNN.
Sections include US News, World News, Business, Weather, Sports, Entertainment, Sci-Tech, Food, Health, Nature, Politics, Style. Up-to-date news, scores and results from all manner of sports, plus feature articles. A searchable database of recent NY Times articles organized into a directory of related academic fields.
Allows signing up for e-mail notification whenever there are new articles pertinent to any field. Features selected articles from the current issue, an archive of past issues, a style guide, and a library of key articles from past issues. A good source for news and discussion of events happening all over the globe. Each business day, the U.S. Department of State's Office of Research produces an Issue Focus of foreign media commentary on a major foreign policy issue or related event. These reports provide a global round-up of editorials and op-ed commentary from major newspapers, magazines and broadcast media around the world. Comprehensive News site for China, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, updated daily.
In addition to daily news, the site offers a news review, travel section and political and historical resources. A multimedia, analytical, news service search engine for the Third World.
Includes headline news, entertainment, religion, finance, travel, sports and weather. Offers its news services online and a guide to all online news agencies and newswires. In English, Persian and Arabic. Grafico: the Latino News Magazine, provides the audience with in-depth feature stories on topics and issues which impact the Latino community.
LATNN.com News delivers daily news stories of particular interest to Latinos nationally as well as in Latin America through their news wire service provider, Agencia EFE. The site is available in English and Spanish. Provides the latest news and feature stories, including business, sports, technology, and weather. A constantly updated online newspaper for the Internet community. Covers local, national and international news, sports, politics, business, technology, entertainment, and health & science with editorial and classified sections. Also available in mostly text version.
Based in Washington, DC, NPR is the world's first noncommercial, satellite-delivered radio system. This site provides access to popular NPR shows, as well as breaking news and archives. Listening to the radio broadcasts requires Real Audio Player. Online edition of the world renowned newspaper, updated daily. Access is free, but requires a password. A low graphics version is available. Search Current Articles from Newspapers from around the Globe.
Indexes over 250 newspapers and news sources from around the world. News24 updates breaking news 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, specializing in South and southern African news and events elsewhere in Africa. Includes links to several South African newspapers. Subject organized browsing of links to news stories from sources around the world. Canada's 24-hour all news and information specialty network. Articles, archives, special reports, and live radio broadcasts pertaining to Europe and European nations. Over 25 languages offered.
A current news search engine and news distribution service that delivers the latest online news about companies, industries, products, events and people. Indexes over 3,000 news sites, and allows searching for articles up to 5 days old.
Also browseable by topic categories. Comprehensive News site for Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States, updated daily. Includes daily press reviews, television reports, and business news. The online version of USA Today's popular Newspaper.
This site provides good, brief stories on current events, sports, weather and finance. The full text of articles which appear in the print version are available, including stories from the AP wire service. News reports from Voice of America (VOA), an official government news agency of the United States, dealing with events in all parts of the world. Includes live RealMedia broadcasts.
The online version of the Washington Post. This site is a good source of news and information about Washington D.C. The full text of articles that appear in the print version, including those from the AP wire service, are also provided. A full-service, general interest daily newspaper in Washington, D.C. News, politics and information from a conservative perspective. The lastest breaking news from the definitive, international news organization. Academic Info is an annotated subject directory that aims to be the premier educational gateway to online college and research level Internet resources.
Even though the target audience is the college and university community, the subject guides will prove useful to high school and general users as well. A comprehensive resource that includes arts, humanities, sciences, reference, area studies, business, education, law & government, health & medicine, social sciences, digital libraries, library and information science, and job placement resources. A vast archive of published articles that you can search for free. Constantly updated, it contains articles dating back to 1998 from more than 300 magazines and journals. You will find articles on a range of topics, including business, health, society, entertainment, sports and more. Unlike other online collections, each of the hundreds of thousands of articles in FindArticles can be read in its entirety and printed at no cost.' Quick way to access a number of different types of Internet resources.
Its “Search Tools' section offers different types of web searches, while the 'Language Tools' let you look-up words or translate them, and the 'Research Tools' offer quick fact lookup options. A searchable, annotated, subject directory of close to 3,000 Internet resources chosen for their usefulness to the public library user's information needs.
The items in the directory are selected and maintained by a team of librarians. The spiritual sister of the IPL's own Ready Reference Collection. INFOMINE is a virtual library holding a collection of thousands of annotated and indexed links to important university-level research and educational tools on the Internet. Links are divided in a variety of subjects, which can be browsed or searched by keyword. Subjects include social sciences and humanities, instructional resources, visual and performing arts, sciences, the Internet, and government information. One of the first Web sites created that is entirely in Spanish. Maintained by writers, journalists, artists, and investigators in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Spain, United States, Holland, Mexico and Venezuela.
Selection of the best Web sites in Spanish. Links to hundreds of Spanish language news sources, chat rooms, and educational sites. MyLITsearch is a search engine for those who are looking for information from or about the world's academic community. It allows users to search for research publications of all kinds (e.g., articles, book chapters, books, theses, conference papers) as well as researchers' CVs, universities, and academic departments. MyLITsearch does not provide direct access to the full text of these publications, and is only intended to assist in finding about a particular publication. Contents of myLITsearch are the result of information entered by researchers at getCITED.org. Refdesk is only about indexing quality Internet sites and assisting visitors in navigating these sites.
By providing reference resources, such as virtual encyclopedias, as well as search options and indexes for many subject areas, Refdesk is a comprehensive source for information. Resource guide to everything on search engines.
Metacrawlers and Metasearch Engines - search several search engines at once. Pulls matching responses from major search engines and automatically organizes the pages into categories. This meta search engine provides results from AllTheWeb, AltaVista, Google, Open Directory, Teoma, Wisenut and Yahoo. Advanced search offers access to more than 1,000 specialized resources, searchable by category.
If you like the idea of seeing your web results visually, this meta search site shows the results with sites being interconnected by keywords. Fazzle offers a highly flexible and customizable interface to a wide variety of information sources, ranging from general web results to specialized search resources in a number of subject specific categories.
Formerly called SearchOnline. See also create hyperlink to style manuals by Andrew Harnack and Gene Kleppinger from the University of Illinois Writers' Workshop On-Line Handbook University of Alberta Papers by Maurice Crouse University of Wisconsin Recommended electronic information citation guides The style guide that is used by journalists at The Economist.
Features English grammar and style rules, with a focus on British English. Part of the American Psychological Association Journals web site, this page provides information on how to cite various types of electronic sources, including email messages, web sites or specific documents within web sites, articles or abstracts from electronic databases, and web citations in text. This page gives the exact Greenwich Mean Time, of the moment you access the page. It also allows you to link to a specific city, listed by region, or to a specific time zone, designated by hours away from GMT. A collection of Internet clocks, counters, countdowns, and timers. Current time, international clocks, alternate time systems, national debt, world and US population, death, military spending, doomsday, sun, millenium, and other clocks. Also has a section on clock and counter programming code.
Click on any time zone on a map of the United States, and find out the official time for that zone, accurate within 1 second. This site also includes links to other time-related Web sites and exhibits. This guide attempts to list all of the world's countries, and many of its islands, with a pointer to the local time in the region. Times quoted as UTC offsets do not consider Daylight Savings Time. Except for the Pacific and Caribbean Islands, islands are often included with either the sovereign country listing, or with the nearest continent. TIme service Department of the US Naval Observatory maintains the official time for the US.
The site has information on leap years, the millenium, and various time devices. Find out the time anywhere in the world with The Time Zone Converter. Site also provides the ability to create a customized reference card that you can print and carry with you. The current time at over 500 locations worldwide. It can be customized to show only the cities you want. Weather forecasts (5 and 10 days) and current conditions for the United States and the world. Plus special weather sections for home, travel, health, marine, golf, gardening, aviation, and agriculture.
Also features astronomical timetables (sun, moon and planet rises and sets). Reports on civil and natural disasters (other than in the U.S.), chronologically arranged. Current reports are available as well as an archive of report from the last few years. Detailed weather maps online combined with constant updates throughout the day and night. In addition to U.S. And World weather reports, Intellicast provides specialized forecasts for outdoor recreation and sports enthusiasts. The National Weather Service is the primary source of weather forecast and warning information for the United States.
This site includes Current Weather, Climate & Historical Data, and Weather Topics. Covers astronomical events, weather conditions and forecasts, recipes, and gardening tips. This web site provides easy access to climatologies for cities throughout the US and its possessions. Simply click on the state you are interested in and then click on the city name (or the bullet that indicates the city's location).
You will then get a plot of the daily average climate for that city including maximum and minimum temperature, precipitation and snowfall. The online version of cable TV's Weather Channel. Current weather information and forecasting for the United States are easily accessed. This site also offers educational resources, such as the 'weather classroom.' Weather news, advisories and facts of interest are available, as is the Weather Channel's TV schedule.
An index of worldwide weather links, country profiles and maps. WeatherHub is organized by continent, country & city for quick and easy access. Forecasts for 3,600 cities worldwide. Weather images, historical data and more. Includes a weather reference desk with 'glossaries, calculators, storm chasers and more', plus the ability to send a question to the Washington Post's meteorologists.
Offering information on 'What the weather is normally like for tens of thousands of places worldwide!' Offers historical weather averages, typically including monthly and annual average rainfall and/or precipitation data. WxUSA is a weather information hub that offers an extensive list of weather links for over 1500 U.S. Cities and all 50 states.
Each WxUSA 'Weather Hub' is focused on a specific community with local links to current conditions, forecasts, radar and maps. Each hub also has links to hurricane, earthquake, tornado and severe weather information, in addition to weather cams and web sites for kid's.'