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* Most of these refer to US sources. Taken with some adaptation and reorganization from Princeton University site at www.princeton.edu/~pressman/genref.htm. We continue however to add to, edit and rearrange these reference materials for both breadth of coverage and ease of use.
Acronyms & Abbreviations
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Arts & Leisure (Film,
Museums,
Sports,
Theater,
TV,
)
Film
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Internet Movie Database
covers over 140,000 movies; includes filmographies, plot summaries; character
names; movie ratings; year of release; genres; reviews; links to official
studio pages, Academy Awards info +. Also covers television series.
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CineMedia
18,000 link film and media directory; categories that include: tv shows,
cinema, actors, producers, schools, festivals, studios, and production.
(American Film Institute)
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Facets nation's largest
distributors of art, classic, cult, foreign and hard-to-find videos.
Facets has over 27,000 titles, all of which are available
for purchase through mail order.
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Film
Festival Directory & Film
Festivals List all film Festivals, 1995+
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Movie Guide in Theaters
includes the Motion Picture
Database ; lists the cast, credits and reviews for more than 30,000
U.S. movies, plus filmographies and biographical information.
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Movie Review Query
Engine includes reviews that have been posted in the
past to rec.arts.movies.reviews or appear on one of the WWW servers of
newspapers and periodicals.
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Movie-STAR
information on the Academy Awards since 1927, including more than 6,200
nominations and 1,200 Oscar awards in major categories for over 2400 motion
pictures and 3900 individuals.
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Oscars - Academy Awards
official site of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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Reel: the Planet's Biggest Movie Store
movie & video guide; rent or buy videos; lists current movie
and video releases; summaries of critics' reviews.
Museums
Theater
TV
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Biographies
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Biographical Dictionary 4,000
biographies covering ancient times to the present.
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Biographies of Leaders
in the News (ABC News) includes quotes, photo, and a
short biography.
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Biography.com site
of A & E's Biography television series; includes the searchable text
of 15,000 entries from The Cambridge Biographical Encyclopedia.
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Biography and Geneaology
Master Index (Princeton only)
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Britannica Lives
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Chiefs of State
and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments from the CIA,
updated list of current world leaders and their cabinets.
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Contemporary Authors
(Princeton only)
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Lives, the
Biography Resource "links to thousands of biographies,
autobiographies, memoirs, diaries, letters, narratives, oral histories
and more"
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NameBase Index over
200,000 citations covering more than 90,000 individual and organizational
names from approximately 500 books published since 1962 and thousands of
periodicals from 1973. Covers people in academia, high tech, media, politics,
intelligence, U.S. foreign policy, religion, crime, business and more.
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Newsmaker Profiles
(CNN) biographies of people in the news; U.S. and international.
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Poets & Writers Online the
Directory of American poets & fiction writers online; has over 2,000
names and addresses of writers.
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World Biographical
Index over 2 million brief biographies forindividuals
who lived in North and South America, Western and Central Europe, Australia,
New Zealand, and Oceania. (From K.G Saur)
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Books (Book Reviews, Publishers,
Stores)
Book Reviews & Literary Criticism
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BookWire comprehensive
book industry site; includes Library Journal; School Library Journal; Publishers
Weekly, with their Bestseller Lists and links to reviews; Computer Book
Review; Hungry Mind Review; indexes to publishers and booksellers on the
Web; calendars of authors on tour and book events, etc.
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Book Browser: a guide for avid
readers "collection of fiction reading lists. . . to
help avid fiction readers find books and authors;" lists by genre, location,
series.
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Los
Angeles Times: Books & Talks
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New York Review of
Books includes selections from its current issue and
archived selections from issues back to February, 1997, and promises of
an eventual complete record of its 34-year publishing history.
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New
York Times Book Review includes an archive of more than
50,000 reviews, book-related news pieces, and interviews back to 1980.
The full-text of first chapters of selected bestsellers and featured titles
are available.
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Online Literary Criticism
Collection from the Internet Public Library, includes
1576 critical and biographical websites about authors and their work; browse
by author, by title, or by literary period.
Online Books: electronic texts on the internet
Publishers
Online Bookstores
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Acses checks out prices,
availability, shipping times and shipping costs of any book at over 25
online stores, including Amazon.com and
Barnesandnoble.com.
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Best Book Buys
comparison sites that searches over 20 book stores stores simultaneously
to find who's got a book at the lowest price. Used, rare and out-of-print
bookstore comparison services include BookFinder, Bibliofind,
Advanced Book Exchange and Bibliocity. European resources include Antiqbook
from the Netherlands Antiquarian Booksellers' Network and Libri@ntichi.
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Bibliofind nine
million used and rare books, periodicals and ephemera offered for sale
by thousands of booksellers around the world.
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Bookfinder a
book shopping search engine that scans bookseller databases to
find new, used, rare, and out of print books.
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Booksellers
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Consumers
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U.S. Consumer gateway a
"one-stop" link to a broad range of federal information resources available
online. Information by category -- such as Food, Health, Product Safety,
Your Money, and Transportation.
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ConsumerGuide includes
Auto Guide to buying new and used cars, and has Best Buy ratings for everything
from cameras to freezers, home office products to baby equipment.
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Consumer World " a
public service site which has gathered over 1700 of the most useful consumer
resources and categorized them. " Offers product reviews, comparison shopping
for bargains and travel, info on filing a complaint with a government or
company consumer affairs department or the BBB, 100s of consumer rightsbooklets,
info on low rate credit card or mortgage, prices of cars, finance tips,
how to research a law, ...
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Kelley Blue Book New & Used Car Price
Reports lists both new car and used car prices &
reports, and a directory of important sites, including dealer and automobile
manufacturers' sites.
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Product ReviewNet
indexes and abstracts of product reviews from hundreds of online sites
and print publications. It covers a wide range of products, including consumer
appliances, computers and software, as well as CDs, gardening supplies
and books.
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Currency Rates & Measurement Tools
Measurement Tools
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Common
Weights And Measures
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A
Dictionary of Measures, Units and Conversions " a summary
of most of the units of measurement to be found in use around the world
today (and a few of historical interest), together with the appropriate
conversion factors needed to change them into a 'standard' unit of the
S I."( 'Systeme International')
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Measurement Conversion
Calculator converts any combination of approximately
800 SI, metric, American, English, historical, and ancient measures.
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Unit
Conversions This converter works for units of energy,
pressure, volume, temperature, and mass; calculates
the value of: acceleration, area, luminance, mass,
pressure, velocity, voltage, and volume.
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Dictionaries & Encyclopedias
Foreign Language Dictionaries
Dictionary gateways
Selected language Dictionaries
French
German
Spanish
Thesauri
Encyclopedias
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Directories
Phone & E-Mail Directories
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555-1212.com telephone
numbers, area code and country code information, e-mail addresses, and
website locations.
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AnyWho: Find Telephone Number and Address
from
AT&T: search for people or businesses; E-mail, FAX, and Toll Free Number
information . Includes re verse lookups, street proximity listings for
business or residential; match for last name lookups, maps of the address
.
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AT&T Toll Free Directory
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Bigfoot
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Internet 800 Directory
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Switchboardpeople
and business directory, with e-mail and web sites; includes Maps
on Us, a new mapping and routing service from Lucent
Technologies; has detailed maps and driving directions.
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Telephone Directories on the Web
international listing of online phone directories
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World Pages search
residential, business & government phone directories from over 50 countries
world-wide.
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Yelloweb Europe Directory provides
pointers to sites exclusively in Europe. The catalog is divided into 18
major categories from announcements to trade and services.
Zip Codes
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Government
Federal
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Government
documents in Princeton University Library information
on locating U.S. documents;comprehensive Government Sites; major databases
and reference works, statistics, resources by Subject and Agency.
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CapWeb - A Guide to the U.S. Congress
information about Congress .
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Congress.Org info
on the 105th Congress which began on January 7, 1997; photographs, room,
phone, and fax numbers, key staff, committee assignments, district office
addresses, etc.
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DefenseLink - Army, Navy, Air
Force, Marine Corps, National Guard U.S. Department of
Defense site
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Federal
Web Locator - from the Villanova Center--for federal
government information
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Government
Guide comprehensive U.S. government listings, state government,
local government and municipal government. Has embassy phone and fax numbers,
URLs, and addresses for every embassy and consulate in Washington.
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Internal Revenue Serviceinfo
on filing tax returns with the federal government.
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THOMAS: Legislative Information on
the Internet access full-text of bills from the 105th
Congress, as well as 104th and 103rd; also access the Congressional Record
full text.
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United States
Government Manual covers agencies of the legislative,
judicial, and executive branches; and quasi-official agencies; international
organizations in which the U.S. participates.
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Voting
Records of Members of Congress voting records from Library
of Congress
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The White House
International
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Governments on the WWWincludes:
institutions of the legislative branch (parliaments) ; institutions of
the executive branch (ministries, agencies, administrations, offices, institutes,
councils, committees and others); institutions of the judicative branch
(law courts) governmental representations in foreign countries (embassies,
consulates and others) ; political parties and party alliances.
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United Nations
Copyright Information
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Grants & Scholarships
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Graduate Fellowships and Contracts
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Grant Resources on
the Web from the July/August, 1999 issue
of the Association of College and Research Libraries' C&RL NewsNet
Internet Resources
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fastWEB:Financial
Aid Search Through the Web a free searchable database
of more than 275,000 private sector scholarships, fellowships, grants,
and loans from more than 10,000 sources.
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Federal Information Exchange, Inc. Home
Page
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(FEDIX/MOLIS)database
of research and education funding, includes minority institutions.
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Federal Loan and
Grant Programs (from the U.S. Department of Education)
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Financial Aid Information Page
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Foundation Center
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Grant Proposal Writing Guides
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GrantsNets funding
opportunities for training in the biological and medical sciences
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GrantsWeb lists
government, general, and private funding sources
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National Institutes of Health
(NIH)
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National Science Foundation
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Student Guide
to Financial Aid Financial Aid from the U.S. Department
of Education
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Research Funding Opportunities
(from
the National Council of University Research Administrators)
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Handbooks & Almanacs
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The
Almanac of Politics and Government
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Background Notes(U.S.
State Department ) full-text info on countries and international organizations;
organized by region and country or organization. History, government and
political conditions, economy, foreign relations and basic travel information.
Also lists principal U.S. officials and consulate officers.
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Flags of the World - FOTW
more than 1500 pages and more than 2500 images of flags.
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Information Please
includes the Information Please Almanac, the Entertainment Almanac, Sports
Almanac, the Columbia Encyclopedia, and the Random House College Dictionary
online.
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Nobel Prize Internet
Archive or The Nobel Foundation comprehensive
info on winners and discoveries.
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Old Farmer's Almanac
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The 50 States & Capitalsincludes:
latitude and longitude, birds, colleges and universities, constitutions,
flowers, genealogical resources, mottos, national forests and parks, newspapers,
nicknames, nonprofit organizations, populations, state and federal representatives,
songs, and the date of entry into the union.
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World Factbookannual
CIA handbook gives basic data on all the countries of the world.
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Health & Medicine
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Centers for Disease Control & Information
has info for travellers,such
as vaccine requirements, disease outbreaks, country health information,
and more.
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Complete Home Medical
Guide helpful medical reference work (3rd 1995 edition;
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons)
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Healthfinder from
the US government; links to selected online publications, clearinghouses,
databases, web sites, and support / self-help groups, as well as the government
agencies and not-for-profit organizations.
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HealthGate
Medline Search free access to the complete Medline database
from 1966; also available are AIDSDRUGS, AIDSTRIALS, AIDSLINE, Bioethicsline,
CANCERLIT, and HealthSTAR. (National Library of Medicine)
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Mayo Clinic Oasis
a searchable site, includes recent health news and a library of medical
references
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MEDLINE: PubMed
and Internet Grateful Med free access to Medline, The
National Library of Medicine's database of references to articles published
in medical journals . Search either Internet Grateful Med or PubMed.
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National Health Information Center
search
the Health Information Resource Database, which includes 1,110 U.S. organizations
and government officies that provide health information on request. Entries
include contact information, short abstracts, and information about publications
and services the organizations provide.
Includes a
list of toll-free numbers.
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Physician Select (from
the AMA) provides information on licensed physicians
in the United States and its possessions, including
more than 650,000 doctors of medicine (MD) and doctors of osteopathy or
osteopathic medicine (DO). All physician credential
data have been verified for accuracy and authenticated.
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RxList: the Internet Drug Index
provides extensive information for over 500 perscription drugs.
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Libraries & Publishers
Libraries Worldwide
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Libweb
library web pages worldwide
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Webcats library
catalogs of the world
Regional Libraries
National Libraries
U. S. National Libraries
National Libraries (worldwide)
Digital Libraries
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Maps & Geography
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News & Newspapers
Newspapers
US only
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NewsLibrary searchable
archives (many going back 10 or more years) of newspapers in the Knight-Ridder
chain. Included among the 25 papers currently archived are those from:
Boulder, CO, Detroit, MI, Long Beach, CA, Miami, FL, Philadelphia, PA,
San Jose, CA, St. Paul, MN, and Wichita, KS. Search and retrieval of citations
with brief abstract is free.
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Newspaper
Archives on the Web US papers sorted by state; access
newspaper home pages; provides the dates of the newspaper's archive &
cost to retrieve the full text of articles.
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NewspaperLinks.com
a gateway to local US newspapers
Newspapers Worldwide
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AILEENA media-index
with over 5200 links to newspapers, radio & TV stations in 173 countries.
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Directory of World Wide Electronic
Newspapers a listing of online newspapers and other media;
includes links to the paper, description, price, e-mail addresses and other
data.
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My Virtual Newspaper
links to newspapers worldwide, arranged by states in the US, then countries;
includes links to newswires. From refdesk.com
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Online Newspapers from
the Internet Public Library, links to newspapers worldwide.
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The Ultimate Collection of News
Links links to more than 3,700 newspapers around the
world; the directory is organized geographically by continent and then
by country and state.
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World News Index index
to the daily news sources on the Internet, with international coverage.
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Organizations
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Associations on the Net over
700 Internet sites with information about professional and trade associations,
cultural and art organizations, political parties, advocacy groups, labor
unions, academic societies, and research institutions.
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International Organizations
Web Site selected from the Yearbook of International
Organizations.
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Scholarly
Societies Project over a thousand scholarly societies.
(Univ. of Waterloo Electronic Library)
Princeton only
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Princeton & New Jersey
Princeton University
Around Princeton
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Amtrak
(train schedules) NJ
Transit (train & bus schedules) & Septa
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Educational Testing Service
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The Institute for Advanced Study
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Princeton Historical
Society
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PrincetonInfo
a guide to business & entertainment in Princeton and Central New Jersey,
by U.S. 1
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Princeton Online for
local government, news, events, businesses, and community organizations
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Princeton Packet for
Princeton news, events, movies & theater, business info, and classified
ads
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Princeton Public Library
includes a page with many useful N.
J. links
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State Library,
including
NJ
Union list of Serials
New Jersey
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New Jersey Internet Directory
official N J Directory, with over 1,000 links to New Jersey businesses,
services, organizations, schools, and towns on the Web.
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New Jersey InTouch - official
state site; has info on state services, lottery, businesses, education,
consumer info, employment, travel & tourism, taxes . . .
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New Jersey Links - search
engine for NJ; categories to search include: Business, Computers, Education,
Entertainment, Government, Health & Living, Recreation, Reference,
Science etc.
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New Jersey Search comprehensive
NJ search engine; topics include: Computers, Weather, Towns Directory,
Shopping, Official Gov. Site, Legislature, Business, Jobs, Education, News,
Health, Entertainment, Internet Providers, Real Estate, Events, Organizations,
Travel, Kids Sites, Legal Services, Museums, Shore, Sports
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NJ Online many
useful links; including NJ
Weather (& worldwide), NJO
Entertainment Guide and NJ
Maps
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Quotation Books
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Statistics
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American
Factfinder--US Census Bureau a "data access and dissemination
system" from the US Census Bureau offers access to some of the Bureau's
largest data sets. Users can create a variety of tables, reports, or maps
with information on their community, the economy, or American society.
There are 3 options for accessing data: Quick Tables and Thematic Maps,
which offers predefined reports on widely used statistics, & Build
A Query.
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Bureau of Labor Statistics
includes statistics and reports on employment and unemployment, price
(Consumer
Price Index ) and living conditions, compensation and more.
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County and City
Data Booklatest official statistics for 1,078 cities,
all 3,141 U.S. counties, and 11,097 places of 2,500 or more inhabitants
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Data & Statistical Services
(from Princeton University)
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Fedstats: One Stop Shopping Federal
Statistics statistical information from more than 70
government agencies organized in a subject-based A-Z Index.
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Statistical Abstract
of the United States contains a collection of statistics
on social and economic conditions in the United States. Selected international
data are also included.
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Statistical
Resources on the Web "Meta-index to statistical web sites
and individual statistical publications arranged by broad subject category
from the University of Michigan Documents Center."
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United
States Historical Census Data Browser "The data presented
here describe the people and the economy of the US for each state and county
from 1790 to 1970."
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World Population
Figures country statistical data on population, cities
and regions, land use, climate, and industrial output.
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World Population Profile
98 (US Census Bureau) this report offers "a comprehensive
assessment of world demographic prospects ..." The report highlights major
demographic trends.
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Style Manuals
APA Manuals (American Psychological Association)
MLA Style Manual (Modern Language Association)
Turabian
Others
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Time, Measurement & Calendars
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Travel
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Airlines of the World
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Airlines: Toll Free
Numbers
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Amtrak
(train schedules) & NJ
Transit (train & bus schedules)
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Best Fares Online
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City.net more than
2,400 cities and almost 900 other destinations, gives info on travel, entertainment,
local business, government, and community services in places worldwide;
includes maps. Updated daily.
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International Traveller's
Clinic useful health information and links to other travel
sites.
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Microsoft Expedia
services include access to published airfares, air and hotel reservations,
flight schedules, and e-mail updates on fares; map section & currency
converter, hotel guide,worldwide weather reports, and more.
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Travelocity
one-stop travel site; includes discount info, flight reservation service,
accommodations, cars,vacation packages, as well as destination materials
covering events, attractions, exchange rates, and weather along with maps.
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Weather Channel
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World Travel
Guide
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Universities & Colleges
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Graduate School Rankings lists
major graduate school rankings, including masters and doctoral programs.
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American
Universities includes a link to Maclean's magazine
rankings.
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America's
Best Graduate Schools (US News & World Report)
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Center For All Collegiate
Information hundreds of links to college home pages,
including universities, graduate programs, majors, admissions, international
study,departments, staff, collegiate sports, and more.
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College
and University Home Pages home pages for universities
and colleges all over the world.
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Peterson's.com: The Education
& Career Center
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Universities Worldwide
searchable database currently of 89 Countries and 3039 entries.
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University Linksguide
to U.S. colleges and universities sorted by alphabet, state, and type.
Also includes college newspapers, student governments, catholic schools,
historically black schools, women's colleges, business schools, ratings
for best colleges (from U.S. News and World Report), and more
Dissertations
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Web Searching & Meta-Sites
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Search
Engines including: AltaVista, InfoSeek, Lycos, Hotbot,
Yahoo, WebCrawler
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Web
Subject Guides created by Princeton Library staff, to
resources at Princeton and on the Internet
More Web Gateways
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Academic Info: Gateway to Quality
Internet Resources a subject directory of resources tailored
to a college audience; guide are annotated listings of the best general
Internet sites in the field.
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Argus Clearing House
guides describe and evaluate resources; categories include Arts & Humanities,
Business, Computers, Education, Engineering, Environment, Government &
Law, Health & Medicine, Science, Social Sciences.
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Bubl Link
from Britain,
a subject directory of Internet resources.
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Choice
selection of academic web sites by Choice, journal of academic reviews
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Digital Librarian:
A librarian's choice to the best of the Web
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Finding Images
on the Web compiled by Ruth S. Thomas, Art/Art
History Bibliographer;includes image search engines and archives
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Indexes, abstracts,
bibliographies, and table of contents services
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Infomine: Scholarly Internet Resource
Collections more than 11,000 annotated links to scholarly
resources on the Internet; maintained by librarians from various California
universities.
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Internet Public Library: Reference
Collection
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Librarians' Index
to the Internet excellent annotated directory of sites
arranged by subjects.
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Pinakes:
A subject Launchpad
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Re:
QUEST dot Net(tm) annotated list of reference tools,
including almanacs, encyclopedias, jobs etc.
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Refdesk.com
comprehensive listing of reference resources on numerous subjects
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Scout Report provides
weekly annotated reports on internet resources. Sponsored by the National
Science Foundation. Can search by Subject
or Library of Congress Classification.
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World Wide Web Virtual
Library subject guide to internet sites; categories include:Computing,Humanities,
Languages, Web, Media, Journalism, Education, Engineering, Law,Economics,
Recreation, Political Science, and more.
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