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General Sources

 

• Academic Earth: Video Lectures from the World's Top Scholars Academic Earth offers more than 1,500 vidoes of course lectures from top-rated universties. Video and audio portions of lectures are provided among over 17 subjects.


• Bartlett's Familiar Quotations 10th Edition.


• Birds of North America detailed and scientific information covering each of the 716 species of birds that nest in the US and Canada.


• Braintrack The World's most complete Education-Index. Over 5500 Links to Higher Educational Institutions in 161 Countries.


• British Museum Collection Database Search This database provides two-dimensional works from around the world located in the collections of the British Museum.


• Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments


• CIA World Factbook


• The Columbia Gazetteer of the World is an encyclopedia of geographical places and features.


• Columbia Granger's World of Poetry 190,000 full-text poems.


• Credo Reference Center Credo Reference is a leading provider of reference services for libraries and information centers. By using unique proprietary technology that integrates information through a network of intelligent, multi-dimensional cross-references, Credo Reference delivers real added value to students, researchers, businesses and reference help desks worldwide.


• Currency Exchange - Universal Currency Converter provided by Xenon Laboratories.


• Digital Library SunSITE at UC Berkeley


• EDGAR U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission corporation filings (10-K, 10-Q etc.)


• The European Library This is a search engine that allows access to library catalogs across the European national library and other libraries throughout Europe. Searching collections of rare books and maps are accessible online through the library catalogs.


• Excite - Travel Travel information and more.


• FinAid the Financial Aid Information Page. This page provides a free, comprehensive, independent, and objective guide to student financial aid.


• Foreign Information by Country  Links to web sites for approximately 245 countries/territories is assembled here. Each country has a profile that contains links that are arranged into categories: Government Information, Country Profiles, Diplomatic Relations, Health, Peacekeeping and Military Information, and Related Topics. This is a valuable resource for those seeking in-depth, comprehensive information about a country.


• The Foundation Center The Foundation Center offers various resources for grant seekers. It provides comprehensive information about grant giving organizations and also includes information about the grant application process.


• Frequently Asked Questions on the Web can search for frequently asked questions (and answers to them) by keyword or quickly browse by newsgroup hierarchy.


• GPA Calculator


• GPO Access This online catalog is the finding tool for federal publications and provides direct links to documents available electronically on a wide variety of subjects. It includes descriptive records for both historical and current publications. To access only electronic documents, click on the Advanced Search tab, then select Internet Publications from Catalogs to Search at the top of the screen. Note: GPO Access is migrating to a new website, GPO FDsys. When the migration is complete the information here will be updated.


• HEIR - Higher Education Institution Registry sponsored by the Centre for International University Cooperation (SIU] contains information on about 7.000 institutions of higher education worldwide.


• Hoover's Online Features Masterlist Plus company database


• Human Rights Library a combined effort of the University of Minnesota Law Library and West Publishing.


• ibiblio "the public's library and digital archive" at the University of North Carolina


• Internet Public Library - Reference Collection


• Local Times Around the World


• Measure 4 Measure is a guide to Web-based calculators.


• The National Archives Experience: Digital Vaults The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) collects and preserves US government records. Its Digital Vaults include approximately 1,200 digitized documents, photographs, drawings, maps and film clips. Search by keyword and tags; customize the exhibit experience by collecting images and creating posters, movies and games that can be shared by email. This media-rich site requires Adobe Flash 9 player, but an html version of the site is accessible.


• National Debt


• The Nationalism Project The Nationalism Project is a scholarly website with information about anything regarding the topic of nationalism. It offers clearly unbiased information on nationalism with links to other useful websites.


• O*NET Online provides hundreds of occupation-specific records that detail information for each about the work, knowledge required, requirements, wages, employment data, and more. Search for various occupations by skill sets, industry codes, occupations in demand, and required schooling.


• Peterson's Education Center


• PollingReport.com provides trends in American public opinion.


• Postal Abbreviations


• Project Diana the international archive of human rights legal documentation.


• Publisher's Catalogs Home Page


• Pulitzer Prize Winners


• refdesk.com "Refdesk is free and family friendly. The site is the single best source for facts on the Net; a one-stop site for all things Internet: news, weather, sports, reference, encyclopedia, facts on file, dictionaries and encyclopedias, tutorials, search engines, Windows Operating Systems Resources, free stuff, games and much more."


• Research and Subject Guides from the University Library of the University of California, Santa Cruz.


• RHIN: Refuge Health Information Network This is a collaboration between health professionals and the National Library of Medicine to promote the health and welfare of refugees. This provides health information for both refugees and those providing care to them.


• Scholarly Societies Project links to scholarly society Web pages or gophers which meet the University of Waterloo Library's selection guidelines. It excludes state or local chapters of larger societies and some selective institutes.


• The Secular Web is an index of humanist, atheist, agnostic and other miscellaneous resources sponsored by the Internet Infidels.


• SIRS Web Resource Center Subject tree of Web links arranged by SIRS, Inc.
  

• Soshiku online semester-type planner that manages assignments.

• Sun and Moon Rise and Set [U.S. Naval Observatory)


• Tax Forms Replicas of the official IRS forms. Most can be printed, filled out, and filed with the IRS. Includes link to download Adobe Acrobat Reader necessary to view the forms


• Treasures from Europe's National Libraries is a virtual exhibition with descriptions and images of treasures from all over Europe, going back as far as the 8th century.


• United States Postal Service (USPS) Includes postal rates and Zip+4 database


• WeatherNet was created by the Weather Underground of the University of Michigan and has links to hundreds of other weather sites.


• The Weather Channel's home page


• CNN's Weather


• U.S. Weather Maps


• Victoria Research Web: Scholarly Sources for Victorian Research This site offers a collection of resources regarding the Victorian era, including searchable catalogs and sources for photographs and images.


• WebElements is an online periodic table. Two versions are available, a Professional edition and a Scholar's Edition.


• World Flags Database is maintained by Graham Bartram.