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Arts & Leisure (Film,
Museums, Sports, Theater,
TV)
Film
- 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.
- 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.
- Film
Festivals.com includes all Film Festivals from
1995 - to date; search by country, date or name.
- Film
Studies links maintained by M. Norden for the American
Communication Center
- 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.
- 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.
- Oscars
- Academy Awards official site of the Academy of Motion
Picture Arts and Sciences.
- Reel:
the Planet's Biggest Movie Store movie/video guide;
rent or buy videos; lists current releases; summaries of critics'
reviews.
Museums
Sports
- ESPN.COM covers all the major sports,including daily
game summaries, scores, schedules, etc.
- SportQuest
searchable directory of sport websites.
- Sports
Server - comprehensive sports site; covers teams,
scores, players, statistics, history. Has special sections on This Day
in Sports history, what sports are on TV, . . .
- Total
College Sports (FANSonly) news and features on major
and some minor college sports.
- CBS
SportsLine site for major college & professional
teams; has schedules, scores, & statistics.
- Sports
Network continuously updated sports scores.
- Sports
Schedules As You Like 'Em schedules for all major
professional and most minor league teams.
Theater
TV
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Biographies
- American
National Biography
- Biographical
Dictionary 4000 biographies covering ancient times
to the present.
- Biographical
Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to the Present
- Biography.com
site of A & E's Biography television series; includes the searchable
text of 15,000 entries from The Cambridge Biographical Encyclopedia.
- Biography
and Geneaology Master Index (Princeton
only), use internet explorer
- Chiefs
of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments
from the CIA, updated list of current world leaders and their cabinets.
- Contemporary
Authors accessed through
Literature Resource Center (Princeton only)
- Contemporary
Literary Criticism accessed through Literature Resource
Center (Princeton only)
- Dictionary
of Literary Biography accessed through Literature
Resource Center (Princeton only)
- Lives,
the Biography Resource "links
to thousands of biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, diaries, letters,
narratives, oral histories and more"
- NameBase
Index over 200,000 citations covering more than 90,000
individual and organizational names from approximately 500 books published
since 1962 and periodicals from 1973. Covers people in academia, high
tech, media, politics, intelligence, U.S. foreign policy, religion,
crime, business.
- ObitFinder
recent obituaries from more than 1,000 newspapers
- Poets
& Writers Online the Directory of American poets
& fiction writers online; has over 2,000 names and addresses of
writers.
- World
Biographical Index two million brief
biographies for individuals who lived in North and South America, Western
& Central Europe, Africa, Australia, New Zealand, & Oceania.
Princeton owns microfiche of some of the works cited in this database.
Check titles in the main catalog.
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Books
(Online Stores, Publishers,
Book Reviews, E-Texts )
Online
Stores
- Abebooks.com
searches used, secondhand, rare, and out-of-print booksellers
around the world.
- AddALL
book search and price comparison
- Alibris
database of out-of-print, rare, and antiquarian books. Updated
daily
- Amazon.com
- Antiqbook:
antiquarian booksellers online
- Barnesandnoble.com
- Best
Book Buys comparison site that searches over
20 book stores stores to find the lowest price. Used, rare and out-of-print
bookstore sites compared include:
European resources
include Antiqbook from the Netherlands
and Libri@ntichi.
- BookWeb.org
from the American Booksellers Association,
lists "over 4,500 booksellers, complete with URLs, email addresses and
descriptions." Lists bookstores by specialty.
- Internet
Book Shop Europe's largest online bookshop
- Meta
Book Search (Searchenginez)
- Strand
Bookstore (NYC)
- Tomfolio.com
an international cooperative of used and rare booksellers
- UsedBookSearch
used book search engine for secondhand, rare and out of print books
Publishers
Book Reviews & Literary Criticism
- 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.
- 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.
- Cambridge
History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen
Volumes "comprises the largest reference work
of literary criticism and history on the internet." The online version
is searchable by keyword and browseable by volume, chapter, and section.
Includes an Index
to Authors, Index
to Chapters , & an Index
to Bibliographies.
- Choice
Reviews Online (Princeton only)
- Dictionary
of Literary Biography accessed through Literature
Resource Center (Princeton only)
- New
York Review of Books includes selections from its
current issue and archived selections from issues back to February,1997;
an eventual complete record of its publishing history is expected..
- 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.
- 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.
Electronic
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Consumers
- 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.
- Consumer
Search provides links to product reviews ; content
added weekly with plans to cover 800 product categories
- Consumer
World " a public service site which has gathered over
1700 of the most useful consumer resources..." Offers product
reviews, comparison shopping for bargains and travel, info on filing
a complaint with a consumer affairs department or the BBB, info
on low rate credit card or mortgage, prices of cars, finance tips, how
to research a law, ...
- 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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Currency
Rates & Measurement Tools
Measurement
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Dictionaries
& Encyclopedias
- Bartleby.com
includes database of more than twenty reference works, (encyclopedias,
dictionaries, thesauri, quotations, and English usage), such as: Bulfinch,
1913; the Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th edition, 2000; the American Heritage
Book of English Usage, 1996; Roget's II: the New Thesaurus, 3rd edition,
1995; the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th
edition, 2000; and more.
- The
Century Dictionary Online "the largest freely available
online dictionary."
- Dictionary
of Slang by Ted Duckworth; from a British perspective;
also includes words and phrases that originate from outside the UK and
indicates the country of origin, if known.
- Glossarist:
a searchable directory of glossaries and topical dictionaries.
- Hypertext
Webster Gateway access various dictionary services.
- Infoplease.com
includes the contents of the Information Please Almanacs;coverage includes
world, us, history & government, biography, sports, arts & entertainment,
health and science, etc.
- Merriam-Webster's
Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition
- Oxford
English Dictionary (Princeton only) updated
quarterly; from Oxford UP
- Oxford
Reference Online "contains about 100 dictionary,
language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University
Press." (Princeton only)
- Princeton University Library: Recommended Language Dictionaries
- Webster's
Revised Unabridged 1913 Ed. ARTFL Project
- WordNet
online lexical system developed by the Cognitive Science Laboratory
at Princeton University.
- Wordsmyth:The
Educational Dictionary-Thesaurus
Dictionary
gateways
- Linguist's List comprehensive directory of foreign language and English dictionaries.
- Your
Dictionary.com word lists, dictionaries and thesauri
for over 130 languages. (R. Beard, Bucknell University;
formerly Web of Online Dictionaries)
Medical Dictionaries
Selected language
Dictionaries
French
German
Thesauri
Encyclopedias
- Bartleby.com
includes database of more than twenty reference works, (encyclopedias,
dictionaries, thesauri, quotations, and English usage), such as:Bulfinch,
1913; the Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th edition, 2000; the American Heritage
Book of English Usage, 1996; Roget's II: the New Thesaurus, 3rd edition,
1995; the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th
edition, 2000; and more.
- Britannica
Online Encyclopedia Britannica (Princeton
only)
- Encyclopedia
Britannica, 1911 edition. Includes all 29 volumes
of the 1911 edition.
- Cambridge
History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen
Volumes "comprises the largest reference work
of literary criticism and history on the internet." The online version
is searchable by keyword and browseable by volume, chapter, and section.Includes
an Index
to Authors,Index
to Chapters , & an Index
to Bibliographies.
- The
Concise Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia 3rd Edition
- Infoplease.com
includes the contents of the Information Please Almanacs;coverage includes
world, us, history & government, biography, sports, arts & entertainment,
health and science, etc.
- International
Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences
(Princeton only)
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Directories
Phone
& E-Mail Directories
- 555-1212.com
telephone numbers, area code and country code information,
e-mail addresses, and website locations.
- 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 .
- AT&T
Toll Free Directory
- Bigfoot
- Internet
800 Directory
- Switchboard
people 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
- People
Search (Yahoo provides e-mail & telephone information.
- Telephone
Directories on the Web international listing of online
phone directories
- The
Ultimate Directory (InfoSpace) Access to over 112
million U.S. and Canadian listings of people, government offices and
businesses; includes e-mail addresses.
- Whitepages.com
- World
Pages residential, business & government phone
directories from over 50 countries.
- 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
AmeriCom
Long Distance Area Decoder
International
Calling Codes
ZIP
Code Lookup and Address Information from the US Postal
Service
Zip
Codes (State of NJ)
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Government
Federal
- Government
documents in Princeton University Library info on
locating U.S. documents; comprehensive Government Sites; major databases
& reference works, statistics, resources by subject.
- CapWeb
- A Guide to the U.S. Congress information about Congress
.
- 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.
- DefenseLink
- Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, National Guard
from U.S. Depart. of Defense
- Federal
Web Locator- gateway for federal government information.
- Findlaw
Constitutional Law Center free caselaw, including
US Supreme Court cases from 1893--
- IRS:
Internal Revenue Service info on filing tax returns
with the U.S. government; IRS
Tax Forms.
- Law
Library of Congress
- State
and Local Government on the Net:guide
to government sponsored Internet
sites; contains over 6000 links to U.S. state and local
government web pages
- 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.
- Voting
Records of Members of Congress voting records from
Library of Congress
- The
White House
Selected US government databases
Copyright Information
International
- Altapedia
Online contains color physical maps, political
maps as well as key facts and statistics on countries of the world.
- 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.
- CountryWatch
provides up-to-date information on countries, including news wires,
population, currency, maps, as well as brief summaries on history, economy,
agriculture, and environment. The Country Review, in-depth reports and
News Archive/Search Engine is available only through subscription.
- Elections
around the World results around the world, parties,
parliaments etc.
- European
Union
- Flags
of the World - FOTW includes pages about flags and
more than 22,300 images of flags.
- Foreign
Governent Resources on the Web (University of Michigan)
- Governments
on the WWW includes: institutions of the legislative
branch (parliaments); of the executive branch (ministries, agencies,
administrations, offices, institutes, councils, committees and others);
and of the judicative branch (law courts) governmental representations
in foreign countries (embassies, consulates and others) ; political
parties and party alliances.
- Information
Please includes information on the countries of the
world from the famous Information Please Almanac
- Library
of Congress Country Studies "contains the on-line
versions of books published by under the Country Studies/Area Handbook
Program sponsored by the U.S. Depart of Army. Not comprehsenisve,
the series covers 101 countries;excluded are Canada, France, the United
Kingdom, and other Western nations, as well as a number of African nations.
The date of information for each country appears on the title page of
each country and at the end of each section of text.
- United
Nations
- World
Factbook annual CIA handbook gives basic data on all
the countries of the world.
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Grants
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Handbooks & Almanacs
- The
Almanac of Politics and Government
- 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.
- Flags
of the World - FOTW includes pages about flags and
more than 22,300 images of flags.
- Information
Please includes the Information Please Almanac, the
Entertainment Almanac, Sports Almanac, the Columbia Encyclopedia, and
the Random House College Dictionary online.
- Nobel
Prize Internet Archive or The Nobel
Foundation comprehensive info on winners and discoveries.
- Old
Farmer's Almanac
- The
50 States & Capitals includes: latitude and longitude,
birds, colleges/universities, constitutions, flowers, genealogical resources,
mottos, national forests/parks, newspapers, nicknames, nonprofit organizations,
populations, state/federal representatives, songs, and the date of entry
into the union.
- World
Factbook annual CIA handbook gives basic data on all
the countries of the world.
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Health
& Medicine
- AMA
Physician Select provides information on licensed
physicians in the US and its possessions, including
more than 650,000 doctors of medicine (MD) and doctors of osteopathy
or osteopathicmedicine (DO).
- Centers
for Disease Control & Information has info for
travelers,such
as vaccine requirements, disease outbreaks, country health information,
and more.
- Complete
Home Medical Guide helpful medical reference work
(3rd 1995 edition; Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons)
- 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.
- Intelihealth.com
- Mayo
Clinic Oasis a searchable site, includes recent health
news and a library of medical references
- MEDLINE:
PubMed free access to Medline, The National Library
of Medicine's database of references to articles published in medical
journals .
- National
Health Information Center access to the Health Information
Resource Database, which includes 1,110 U.S. organizations and government
officies that provide health information. Entries include contact
information, toll-free numbers, and information about publications and
services.
- RxList:
the Internet Drug Index provides extensive information
for over 500 perscription drugs.
Medical Dictionaries
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Libraries
Libraries
Worldwide
National Libraries of the World
National
Libraries
United States
National Libraries of the World
Regional Libraries
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Maps
& Geography
- How
Far Is It? data from the US Census and a supplementary
list of cities around the world to find thelatitude and longitude of
two places, and then calculates the distance between them.
- Map
Machine (National Geographic) has political, physical,
country maps and more.
- Mapquest
street atlas of the U S provides mileage, and streep maps with driving
directions. Also has trip information that includes hotels, restaurants,
sites and weather.
- Maps
on Us mapping and routing service from Lucent Technologies;
detailed maps and driving directions.
- Perry-Castaneda
Library Map Collection (University of Texas-Austin)political
maps covering the entire world, with extensive coverage of Latin America.
- NJ
Online: Maps & Directions
- Relief
Maps of the United States (by Andrew Birrell)
- U.S.
Census Bureau's Gazetteer identify places with the
Tiger Map Server and obtain census data from the 1990 Census. Search
for places, counties or MCDs by entering the name and state abbreviation
(or 5-digit zip)
- U.S.
Census Bureau's Online Maps (Tiger) road maps for
U.S. cities.
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News
& Newspapers
Newspapers
US
only
- Daily
Newspapers on the Internet also includes radio stations
- National
Public Radio Archives browse the archives of : All
Things Considered Morning
Edition, etc.
- NewsLibrary
searchable archives (many going back 10 or more years) of newspapers
(Knight-Ridder chain). Includes archives of papers currently
from: Boulder, CO, Detroit, MI, Long Beach, CA, Miami, Philadelphia,
San Jose, St. Paul, MN, and Wichita, KS. Search and retrieval of citations
with brief abstract is free.
- NewspaperLinks.com
a gateway to local US newspapers; also includes link to foreign papers
- U.S.
News Archives on the Web provides links to US news
archives. Papers are arranged by state. Includes the dates of
the archive & cost to retrieve the full text. Unless noted,
searching is free. Archives of non-US newspaper archives
are also available. Pages maintained by Special Libraries
Association.
Newspapers
Worldwide
- ABYZ
Newslinks links to more than 16,400 newspapers &
other news sources from around the world
- My
Virtual Newspaper links to newspapers worldwide, arranged
by states in the US, then countries; includes links to newswires. From refdesk.com
- OnlineNewspapers.com
index of over 5,000 online newspapers published in 200 countries
- News
and Newspapers Online links to "hundreds of
news resources from around the world...that offer full-text news; from
the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
- Online
Newspapers links to newspapers worldwide (Internet
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Organizations
- 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.
- International
Organizations Web Site selected from the Yearbook
of International Organizations.
- Scholarly
Societies Project over a thousand scholarly societies.
(Univ. of Waterloo Electronic Library)
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Princeton
& New Jersey
Princeton University
Around Princeton
- Albert
Einstein Online includes: biography, physics, writings,
quotes, pictures, etc.
- Amtrak
(train schedules) NJ
Transit (train & bus schedules) & Septa
- Educational
Testing Service
- The
Institute for Advanced Study
- NJ
State Library, including NJ
Union list of Serials
- Princeton
Historical Society
- PrincetonInfo
a guide to business & entertainment in Princeton and Central New
Jersey, by U.S. 1
- Princeton
Online for local government, news, events, businesses,
and community organizations
- Princeton
Packet for Princeton news, events, movies & theater,
business info, and classified ads
- Princeton
Public Library includes a page with many useful N.
J. links
- U.S.
1 guide to central NJ business and entertainment
New Jersey
- 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.
- New
Jersey InTouch - official state site; has info on
state services, lottery, businesses, education, consumer info, employment,
travel & tourism, taxes . . .
- NJ
Online many useful links; including NJ
Weather (& worldwide), NJO
Entertainment Guide ,NJ
Maps, and
NJO Movie finder--
searches the titles of all movies currenlty playing in NJ and NY
- NJ
Zip Code Directory
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Quotation
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Statistics
- 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.
- Bureau
of Labor Statistics includes statistics and reports
on employment and unemployment, price
(Consumer
Price Index ) and living conditions, compensation and more.
- County
and City Data Book latest official statistics for
1,078 cities, all 3,141 U.S. counties, and 11,097 places of 2,500 or
more inhabitants
- Data
& Statistical Services (from Princeton University)
- Fedstats:
One Stop Shopping Federal Statistics statistical information
from more than 70 government agencies organized in a subject-based A-Z
Index.
- Statistical
Abstract of the United States collection of statistics
on social and economic conditions in the US. Selected international
data also included.
- 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."
- 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."
- World
Population Information (US Census Bureau)
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Style/Citation
Manuals (Citing Sources)
Multiple Style Listings
* Research and Documentation
in the Electronic Age By Diana Hacker; includes
examples
for citing the MLA, APA and CBE
APA Manuals (American
Psychological Association)
- APAStyle.org
covers commonly asked questions regarding how to cite electronic media.
MLA Style Manual (Modern
Language Association)
Turabian
Others
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Time,
Measurement & Calendars
Travel
- Airlines
of the World
- Airlines:
Toll Free Numbers
- Amtrak
(train schedules) & NJ
Transit (train & bus schedules) & Septa
- Best
Fares Online
- 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.
- International
Traveller's Clinic useful health info and links to
other travel sites.
- Microsoft
Expedia services include published airfares, air and
hotel reservations, flight schedules, and e-mail updates on fares; map
section & currency converter, hotel guide, weather reports,
and more.
- Travelocity
one-stop travel site; includes discount info, flight & hotel reservations
info, weather.
- Weather
Channel
- World
Travel Guide
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Universities & Colleges
- Galilei:
Global Directory of Universities
- American
Universities includes a link to Maclean's magazine
rankings.
- America's
Best Graduate Schools (US News & World Report)
- 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.
- College
and University Home Pages home pages for universities
and colleges all over the world.
- Peterson's.com:
The Education & Career Center
- Universities
Worldwide searchable database currently of 89 Countries
and 3039 entries.
- University
Links guide 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
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Web
Searching & Meta-Sites
More Web
Gateways
- 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.
- Bubl
Link from Britain, a subject
directory of Internet resources.
- Digital
Librarian: A librarian's choice to the best of the Web
- Humbul
Humanities Hub a gateway for humanities resources
from the UK
- Infomine:
Scholarly Internet Resource Collections more than
11,000 annotated links to scholarly resources on the Internet; maintained
by librarians from various California universities.
- Internet
Public Library: Reference Collection
- Librarians'
Index to the Internet excellent annotated directory
of sites arranged by subjects.
- LibrarySpot
easy to use listing of reference works in many subjects
- Open
Directory Project a comprehensive directory
of the web, relies on volunteer editors.
- Scout
Report provides weekly annotated reports on internet
resources.
- Visual
Resources Online (Princeton
University. Dept of Art & Archeology)
- WWW
Virtual Library subject guide to internet sites; categories
include:computing,humanities, social sciences, journalism, education,
engineering,law, etc.
- xrefer.com
quick resource for looking up quotations, terms, or subjects.
Web Archives
- Internet
Web Archive offers
permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical
collections that exist in digital format.
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