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Electronic Reference
Desk
International Facts and Locations
Country Studies/Area Handbook
Series
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html
From
the Library of Congress.
INCORE:
International Conflict Research
http://www.incore.ulst.ac.uk/home/about/
The
INCORE Internet Service is a central resource on the internet for
those in the area of conflict resolution and ethnic conflict. It
is intended to serve not only academic researchers but also
policy-makers and practitioners.
Institute for Global
Communications
http://www.igc.org/igc/
Global
site for resources and action on human rights, peace, human
rights, environmental and labor activism.
International
and Area
Studies
http://www.library.northwestern.edu/govpub/resource/internat/foreign.html
For
links to individual countries, and even to individual agencies
within those countries, Northwestern University Library's International Documents can point the
way.
Labor
Market Information
http://www.calmis.ca.gov/
From the California Employment Development Department.
Lonely Planet
Online
http://www.lonelyplanet.com/
Country by
country descriptions of culture, history, geography, and tourism
from this popular travel publisher.
United
Nations Documentation: Research
Guide
http://www.un.org/Depts/dhl/resguide/index.html
This
guide provides an overview of the various types of documents and
publications issued by the Organization (e.g, reports,
resolutions, meeting records, sales publications, press releases)
and gives guidance on how to work with them.
World
Factbook
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
CIA's
World Factbook and other CIA publications, e.g., Chiefs of State
and Cabinet Ministers of Foreign
Governments.
Jobs and Career
Resources
America's Job
Bank
http://www.jobsearch.org/
Offers
information on employment opportunities; maintains a nationwide
database of jobs.
Bay
Area Careers
http://www.bayareacareers.com/bay_area.php
Links to jobs and employers in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Select area and search by location, industry or size of
company.
Career
Builder
http://www.careerbuilder.com/JobSeeker/Index.htm?siteid=cmhome
Leading
online job search resource.
Employment
Guide
http://www.employmentguide.com/site/index.html
Search
by job, location, employer, or keyword; can browse employer
profiles.
JobStar
http://jobsmart.org/
California
Job Search Guide with helpful pages on writing resumes and cover
letters, preparing for interviews, and more.
John
F. Kennedy University Libraries Employment Resources
http://www.watson.jfku.edu/lib/subject_guides/business/employ.html
Lists of web sites for local and national employment opportunities
and career resources.
Virtual
Reference Desk, Career Development
http://www.dvc.edu/library/careerdev.htm
Links to more Job and Career resources.
Legal
Resources
All
Law
http://www.AllLaw.com/
A thorough
collection of resources that are most useful for lawyers but are
helpful for anyone doing law-related research. You can find a
lawyer, various legal cases, government forms, and
more.
California Law
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/calaw.html
California
code, searchable; updated to include 1996 statutes.
The Consumer Law
Page
http://consumerlawpage.com/
Searchable
site with an emphasis on law for the non-lawyer.
FindLaw
http://www.findlaw.com/
A
comprehensive collection of legal information available over the
Internet, organized by topic.
LawCrawler
http://lawcrawler.findlaw.com/index.html
Search
for text of laws: U.S., California and other states, and other
countries.
Lawyers.com
http://www.lawyers.com
Profiles
of 420,000 attorneys and firms worldwide from legal publisher,
Martindale-Hubbell.
THOMAS: Legislative
Information on the
Internet
http://thomas.loc.gov/
Law and
legislative information sources, from the Library of
Congress.
Map
Services
Map
Collection
(PCL)
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/Map_collection.html
The
Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection, from UT Austin. Electronic
maps by region, maps of current interest (Bosnia, Gaza, Chechnya),
maps of U.S. national parks & historical sites.
Map
Machine
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/resources/ngo/maps/
From
National Geographic.
Map
Quest
http://www.mapquest.com/
An
interactive map site; get trip directions.
Maps
and
References
http://www.cgrer.uiowa.edu/servers/servers_references.html
Access
to Internet/WWW sites for maps; from University of Iowa Center for
Global and Regional Environmental Research.
Maps On
Us
http://www.mapsonus.com
Excellent mapping and
routing service from Lucent Technologies. In addition to
detailed maps and driving directions, you can listen to your
driving directions, with a choice of male or female voices.
If you register (for free), it will save your preferences and
addresses.
National
Geographic
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/
Access
to rich loads of National Geographic maps and geographic
information.
Thomas Bros.
Maps
http://www.thomas.com/
Click on Online
Maps. Thomas Bros. Maps® is best known for the Thomas
Guide®, the standard by which all street maps are measured.
USGS
Geographic Names Information
System
http://www-nmd.usgs.gov/www/gnis/gnisform.html
A
gazetteer and more! Retrieves detailed information (if any)
about a specific place or point of interest in the U.S.
Includes: Elevation, Population, Description, History Notes,
Variant Names, and USGS 7.5' Map Names. Query by Feature
Name, Count, State, or Feature Type. From the U.S.
Geological Survey.
Virtual
Tourist
http://www.vtourist.com/
Offers a
variety of services for learning about international travel and
country conditions.
News and
Newspapers
AJR (American Journalism
Review)
NewsLink
http://www.newslink.org/menu.html
Links
to newspapers, magazines, and a large number of broadcast media
stations.
CNN
Interactive
http://www.cnn.com/
Daily,
continuously updated news summaries from CNN.
Editor &
Publisher
Media
Links
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/editorandpublisher/index.jsp
Provides
links to over 1300 online newspapers from around the world (as of
7/96).
NewsDirectory
http://www.newsd.com
A
comprehensive guide to the world's English-language online
media. Current over 7000 newspapers and magazines are
listed, as well as more than 1000 U.S. television
broadcasters. Searchable. Also has a list of
newspapers with searchable archives and links to all the
organizations that provide breaking news.
OneWorld Online
News
http://www.oneworld.net
World
news service; provides summaries of major stories from Third World
countries and links to online newspapers worldwide.
Online
Newspapers
http://www.onlinenewspapers.com//index.htm
An
extensive list of online newspapers from around the world.
Television
News
Archives
http://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/
Searchable
television news archives, 1968 to present; from Vanderbilt
Television News Archive.
Yahoo!
News: Front Page
http://news.yahoo.com/
Phone Books and
Directories
555-1212.com
http://www.555-1212.com/
Access
to telephone numbers, e-mail addresses, and Web pages by area
code.
AnyWho
http://www.anywho.com
AT&T's
directory service database is the most feature-rich phone book on
the Internet. You can do reverse lookups, as for a street
proximity listing for a business or residence, use their "sounds
like" match for last name lookups, and get maps of the
address.
AnyWho Toll Free
Directory
http://www.tollfree.att.net/tf.html
Directory
of toll-free numbers.
At
Hand Network Yellow
Pages
http://www.athand.com/
Look up business
names or business types; city maps for some LA, SF, Silicon
Valley; lots more.
BigBook
http://www.bigbook.com/
Includes
maps of street locations for 16 million U.S. businesses.
GTE
Super Pages
http://yp.gte.net/
Can enter the
address to get company listings.
InfoSpace People
Search
http://www.infospace.com/people.html
Names,
addresses, phone numbers. Can do reverse lookups.
Switchboard
http://www.switchboard.com
Find
people and businesses.
Telephone Directories on the
Web
http://www.infobel.com/teldir/
Links to phone
directories accessible on the Web from Argentina to Yemen.
WhoWhere
http://www.whowhere.lycos.com/
Find
people (e-mail and phone), business addresses, web
pages.
Yahoo! People Search
http://people.yahoo.com/
A large white pages
directory.
Quotations
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
http://www.bartleby.com/100/
Online
search of the 1901 edition of Bartlett's Familiar
Quotations.
A Dictionary of
Scientific
Quotations
http://naturalscience.com/dsqhome.html
Published
by naturalSCIENCE, an independent online journal, this is a list
of famous science-related quotations, in order by the name of the
person to whom the quote is attributed.
Mathematical
Quotations
Server
http://math.furman.edu/~mwoodard/mquot.html
Fairly
sizable collection of quotes relating to mathematics, culled from
a variety of sources. The collection can be browsed by author's
name, or keyword searched. A random quote feature is also
available.
The Quotations
Page
http://www.quotationspage.com/
This
page was originally developed as a catalog of Quotation resources
on the Internet; it has since evolved into a large-scale Quotation
site with many original resources.
Statistical
Sources
Bureau of Labor
Statistics
http://www.bls.gov/
Economic
statistics from the U.S. Department of Labor.
Fedstats: One Stop Shopping for
Federal
Statistics
http://www.fedstats.gov/
Access to
statistical compilations from 70 U.S. government
agencies.
Global
Statistics
http://www.xist.org/
Excellent
source for country-by-country statistical data on population,
cities and regions, land use, climate, and industrial
output. Don't miss Tops of the World: the longest, highest,
most, largest, etc.
National Center for
Health
Statistics
http://www.cdc.gov/nchswww/default.htm
Provides
access to most of the Center's publications since
1994.
PopNet
http://www.popnet.org
Comprehensive
directory of population-related web sites, searchable by topic or
keyword, by organization, or through PopNet's clickable world
map. PopNet covers demographic statistics, economics,
education, environment, gender, policy, and reproductive
health.
Statistical
Resources on the
Web
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/stats.html
From
the University of Michigan.
U.S.
Census
Bureau
http://www.census.gov/
Socio-economic
and other data; includes access to
Statistical
Abstract.
Time, Date &
Calendars
The Calendar
Zone
http://www.calendarzone.com/
Celestial
Calendars, Cultural & Religious Calendars, Holidays,
Millennium Info, Calendar Reform, Today Calendars, Web &
Interactive Calendars, Y2K, also Calendar Information, Resources,
Indexes & Directories, Calendar Software.
Date and Time
Gateway
http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/home.htm
This
page gives the exact Greenwich Mean Time of the moment you access
the page. It also allows you to look up the time for a specific city, listed by
region, or for a specific time zone, designated by hours away from
GMT.
Literary Calendar: An Almanac
of Literary
Information
http://english.yasuda-u.ac.jp/lc/
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.
The 10,000 Year Calendar
http://calendarhome.com/tyc/
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.
Virtual
Perpetual
Calendars
http://www.vpcalendar.net/
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.
World Time Zone
http://www.worldtimeserver.com/
The most
accurate source for world time.
U.S. Facts and
Locations
Ameristat
http://www.ameristat.org/
Summaries in graphics and text of the demographic
characteristics of the U.S. population.
Demographics Journal
http://www.amcity.com/journals/demographics/
Statistics
and trends on U.S. demographics.
Zip Code Lookup and Address
Information
http://www.usps.com/ncsc/ziplookup/lookupmenu.htm
Look up zip
codes.
Weather
Automated Weather Service
http://www.aws.com/camera.asp?id=DVCCC
Live
local weather as displayed by the webcam from DVC's weather station.
Climate
Data
http://www.noaa.gov/
From
National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration.
Earth and
Moon
Viewer
http://www.fourmilab.ch/earthview/vplanet.html
Maps
of the earth from the sun, the moon, the night side of the planet,
or above any location specified by latitude, longitude and
altitude. Satellite images and composite images of superimposed
cloud cover.
Meteorology
Guide: The Online
Guides
http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/home.rxml
The
Online Meteorology Guide is a collection of web-based
instructional modules that use multimedia technology and the
dynamic capabilities of the web. These resources incorporate text,
colorful diagrams, animations, computer simulations, audio and
video to introduce fundamental concepts in the atmospheric
sciences.
National Weather
Service
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/
Forecasts,
climatic data; general information, e.g., about El Nino.
WeatherNex
http://cirrus.sprl.umich.edu/wxnet/
Most
comprehensive and up-to-date source of worldwide weather
links. A section of Weather Cams that takes live pictures of
current weather conditions in major North American tourist spots
is an added attraction. A non-profit service sponsored by
the Weather Underground at the University of Michigan.
WINDandSEA
http://www.lib.noaa.gov/docs/windandsea.html
From
National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration.
WWW Tide and
Current
Predictor
http://tbone.biol.sc.edu/tide/sitesel.html
Tides
and currents for the next three days for North American and about
three dozen other selected places around the world.
Weights and
Measures
Common
Weights And
Measures
http://chemistry.berkeley.edu/links/weights/index.html
Includes
mathematical notation for orders of magnitude, metric prefixes,
and common U.S. and metric equivalents.
A Dictionary of Measures, Units and
Conversions
http://www.ex.ac.uk/cimt/dictunit/dictunit.htm
This
provides 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').
MegaConverter’s
Home
Page
http://www.megaconverter.com/Mega2/index.html
The
web’s best place to figure what equals
what.
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