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Administration of Justice

Bureau of Justice Assistance
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/BJA/
A component of the Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice.

California Law
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/calaw.html
Fulltext available for the 29 California Codes. Select Penal Code , or search other code titles by keywords.

Corrections Connection Network
http://www.corrections.com/
Includes professional association sites.

Death Penalty Information Center
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/

Justice Information Center
http://www.ncjrs.org/
A service of the National Criminal Justice Reference Service.  Includes Web resources for: Drug Policy Information; Courts; International Criminal Justice; Juvenile Justice Links -- From the Florida State University School of Criminology & Criminal Justice.

Law Enforcement Agencies on the Web
http://www.fsu.edu/~crimdo/police.html
An index to Federal, State and Municipal departments with homepages from Florida State University's School of Criminology and Criminal Justice.

Anthropology

Anthropology Links
http://galaxy.einet.net/galaxy/Social-Sciences/Anthropology.html
From EINet Galaxy.

Archaeological Resource Guide for Europe
http://odur.let.rug.nl/arge/
A virtual library for European archaeology.

ArchNet
http://archnet.uconn.edu/
Information is categorized by geographic region and subject; from University of Connecticut.

Geographic Information Systems GIS
http://www.usgs.gov/research/gis/title.html
From U.S. Geological Survey.

Native Web
http://www.nativeweb.org/
A Web site for the indigenous people of the earth.

UCSB Anthropology Cool Web Sites
http://www.sscf.ucsb.edu/anth/netinfo.html
Extensive links to anthropology resources on the Internet; updated frequently.

Economics

Consumer Price Indexes Home Page
http://www.bls.gov/cpi/

Current Economic Conditions (Beige Book) (Federal Reserve Bank)
http://www.bog.frb.fed.us/fomc/BeigeBook/Current/

Economic Growth Resources
http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Economics/Growth/index.htm
From Nuffield College, Oxford.

Economic Statistics Briefing Room
http://www.whitehouse.gov/fsbr/esbr.html
U.S. Economic Indicators from the White House Web site.

EPI DataZone
http://www.epinet.org/datazone/
Economic data from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI).

Survey of Current Business (U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis)
http://www.bea.doc.gov/bea/pubs.htm

WebEc
http://www.helsinki.fi/WebEc/
WWW Resources in Economics.

Web Resources of International Economics & Business
http://dylee.keel.econ.ship.edu/econ/

 

Geography

Geography Resources
http://galaxy.einet.net/galaxy/Social-Sciences/Geography.html
From EINet Galaxy.

Geography Resources on the Internet

http://www.geog.buffalo.edu:80/GIAL/netgeog.html
From the University of Buffalo

InfoNation 
http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/infonation/e_infonation.htm
From the United Nations; country information and country comparisons.

Online Meteorology Guide
http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(gh)/guides/mtr/home.rxml
From University of Illinois.

The Perry-Castaneda Map Collection
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/Map_collection.html
Electronic maps by region; from Univ. of Texas, Austin.

History

American Memory Project
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/amhome.html
Historical collections; from the Library of Congress.

Documenting The American South
http://sunsite.unc.edu/docsouth/index.html
This database presents primary source materials documenting the cultural history of the American South from the viewpoint of Southerners. It offers diaries, autobiographies, travel accounts, titles on slavery and regional literature drawn from the Southern holdings of the University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill Academic Affairs Library.

Electronic Documents in History
http://www.tntech.edu/history/edocs.html
From Tennessee Technological University.

Electric Renaissance Timelines
http://www.idbsu.edu/courses/hy309/timelines.html
Done at Boise State University, timelines from different perspectives.

Free Speech Movement Archives - FSM
http://www.fsm-a.org/
A Growing Collection of documents, photos, and media from the Free Speech Movement Archives, Berkeley, California.

From Revolution to Reconstruction
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/
American history site, from Rutgers.

Historical Text Archive
http://historicaltextarchive.com/

HyperHistory Online
http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html
A timeline covering the last 3000 years of world history. It includes "major events, empires and invasions, inventions and achievements, rulers and leaders, writers, philosophers, and scientists." Based on the World History Chart.

Index to History Network Resources
http://blair.library.rhodes.edu/histhtmls/histnet.html
From Rhodes College, Memphis, TN.

Internet Classics Archive
http://webatomics.com/Classics/
Searchable collection of almost 400 classical Greek and Roman texts (in English translation) with user-provided commentary.

Internet Resources for Historians
http://library.berkeley.edu/Collections/History/#sites
Internet directory produced by UC Berkeley History Department librarians.

The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies
http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/
Sponsored by Georgetown University, comprehensive list of sources on the topic.

Online Text Materials for Medieval Studies
http://orb.rhodes.edu
Written and maintained by medieval scholars.

Perseus Project
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/
For classical studies; from Tufts University.

Romantic Chronology
http://english.ucsb.edu:591/rchrono/
Lists important events for select time periods.

Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
http://ce.eng.usf.edu/pharos/wonders/
Lists them, gives information on them, and provides photos or renditions.

The Sixties Project and Viet Nam Generation, Inc.
http://lists.village.virginia.edu/sixties/

The Wars for Viet Nam, 1945-1975
http://vietnam.vassar.edu/

Political Science

The Almanac of Politics and Government
http://www.polisci.com/
Annual compilation of information on U.S. and world governments and politics.  Includes political calendars, documents, world governments, U.S. executive, legislative, and judicial branches, state and local governments, parties, economics, and history.

Political Resources on the Net
http://www.politicalresources.net/
Sorted by country with "links to Parties, Organizations, Governments, Media and more from all around the world."

Political Science Resources on the Web
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/polisci.html
From University of Michigan.

Psychology

Developmental Psychology Links
http://www.socialpsychology.org/
From Wesleyan University.

Encyclopedia of Psychology
http://www.psychology.org/
Original information generated by respected researchers and practitioners in various fields of psychology. Search by keywords and phrases or browse through a hierarchy of fields of study.

PsychCrawler
http://www.psychcrawler.com
From the American Psychological Association; created "to provide quick access to quality content in the field of psychology."

Psychology: Links to Internet Resources
http://galaxy.einet.net/galaxy/Social-Sciences/Psychology.html
From EINet Galaxy.

Whole Brain Atlas
http://www.med.harvard.edu:80/AANLIB/home.html
From MIT.

Social Science

Social Science Information Gateway
http://sosig.esrc.bris.ac.uk/
Sponsored by the Economic and Social Research Council, UK.

Social Sciences Data Center
http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/active_data/social.html
From University of Virginia.

Sociology

Poverty Related Resources
http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/irp/links/povlinks.htm

Sociological Tour through Cyberspace
http://www.trinity.edu/~mkearl/index.html
From Trinity University, San Antonio.

Sociology Links
http://www.abacon.com/sociology/soclinks/index.html
Provides links to categories such as research methods, violence & abuse, social psychology; from Allyn and Bacon.

SocioWeb
http://www.socioweb.com/~markbl/socioweb/
Provides links to a vast array of Internet resources for sociology.

Special Education

American Council on Rural Special Education
http://extension.usu.edu/acres/
The only national organization devoted entirely to special education issues that affect rural America.

Special Education and Rehabilitative Services
http://www.ed.gov/EdRes/EdFed/specedrs.html
Provides links to specialized web sites relating to Special Education.

Special Education Lesson Plans
http://www.awesomelibrary.org/Library/Special_Education/Special_Education.html
Includes helpful information on different types of special education programs. From the Awesome Library.

Special Education Resources on the Internet
http://seriweb.com/
Includes resources for those involved in fields relating to Special Education.

 

 

 

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