| ACRONYMS |
Acronyms and Abbreviations <http://mel.lib.mi.us/reference/REF-acronym.html> : Meta list of links to acronym web pages from the Michigan Electronic Library
| AEROSPACE |
AERADE Aerospace and Defence <http://aerade.cranfield.ac.uk/> : Aerade is a gateway to quality Aerospace and Defence resources on the Internet. It is searchable and browsable. From Cranfield University.
| ALMANACS |
Defense Almanac <http://www.defenselink.mil/pubs/almanac/> : This web site provides a variety of information and statistical material about the Department of Defense - its people, organization, equipment, and funding.
RefDesk <http://www.refdesk.com/> : A portal for quick facts. Lookup weather, zip codes, stock prices,daily almanac, quotations, grammar, news, etc. To get the flavour of this very rich compendium the site map should be visited.
| BIOGRAPHIES |
Composers <http://www.lib.virginia.edu/MusicLib/resources/composers.html> : Good webliography of sites. This list includes Web-accessible libraries, research centers, and Web sites devoted to research on selected composers. From the University of Virginia
| BIOLOGY |
Biosciences (Virtual Library) <http://golgi.harvard.edu/biopages/> : Meta list of www sites
| BUSINESS, GENERAL |
100hot Finance:The Web's Most Popular Finance Sites <http://www1.100hot.com/finance/> : Links to financial sites including: CNN Financial Network , Bloomberg PERSONAL, The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition, E*TRADE, Financial Times, etc. Finance Sites ranked in order of the number of hits they receive.
Business Connections <http://www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/reference/busconn.html> : A selective guide to Internet business financial and investing resources
Business English Online <http://eleaston.com/biz/bizhome.html> : This metasite inlcudes dictionaries, tutorials, writing and speaking guides for topics in business such as accounting, advertising, banking, bankruptcy, bonds, etc. the Job Search section has links to writing a resume and job interview information
Business Guides <http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/BUSI/bbg18.html> : This is one in a series of research guides produced by the Thomas J. Long Business & Economics Library at the Haas School of Business University of California, Berkeley.
CEO Express <http://www.ceoexpress.com> : Business oriented meta list with links to business magazines, newswires, newspapers, etc. Links to: Fortune 500 | Global 500 | Private 500 | Inc. 500 | Web 100 | Forbes Toolbox. Business News: Barrons | CNNfn | Crain's: NY, Chicago, Detroit | Financial Times | Investor's Business Daily | Journal of Commerce | Kiplinger | Law News Network | Singapore Business Times | Wall Street Journal| WSJ: public site | Daily Business Journals | Weekly Business Journals. An excellent gateway.
Fossick Web Search Alliance Directory: Business <http://fossick.com/Business.htm> : Search engines and directories are listed in alphabetical order. Includes: Business Directories and Company infomation, International Trade and Economics, Finance and Investment, Marketing and Public Relations
The Global Business Center <http://www.glreach.com/gbc/> : A guide to websites around the world. The site is organized according to subject matter within each language: business, culture, online publications and e-zines (electronic magazines), index (lists of sites in this online language community), leisure, jobs, shopping and travel.
GRA Research Hotlinks <http://www.grai.com/links.htm> : Over 100 links for international economic political and business research
Inomics Search Engine <http://www.inomics.com/query/search> : This search engine has only information indexed which is of interest to economists.
International Business Resources on the WWW <http://ciber.bus.msu.edu/busres.htm> : Michigan State University. Center for International Business Education and Research. This site contains a wealth of information including: News/Periodicals - Domestic (US) / News/Periodicals - International / Journals, Research Papers, and Articles / Regional or Country Specific Information (General) / Regional or Country Specific Information (Africa) / Regional or Country Specific Information (Asia and Oceania) / Regional or Country Specific Information (Europe) / Regional or Country Specific Information (Central and South America) / Regional or Country Specific Information (North America) / Statistical Data and Information Resources / Government Resources / International Trade Information / International Trade Leads / Company Directories and Yellow Pages / International Trade Shows and Business Events / Mailing Lists / Culture and Travel / Various Utilities and Useful Information / Other Indexes of Business Resources
International Business & Technology <http://www.brint.com/International.htm> : Comprehensive list of business resources
Know Marketing / KnowThis / Know this <http://www.knowthis.com/> : The Internet's marketing virtual library, this is a comprehensive metasite of resources covering Marketing, Advertising, Selling, Promotion, Research, E-Commerce. Entries are annotated and include careers, and running a business.
Smart Business Super Site <http://www.smartbiz.com/> : Business how-to information and resources. There are more than 80 categories of resources on SBS. Includes articles, checklists, reports, profiles of books, software, newsletters, magazines, trade show information. Searchable database.
Valuation Resources / ValuationResources <http://valuationresources.com/> : Valuation Resources For Business Appraisers, including valuation publications, industry resources, economic data, public company information, mergers and acquisitions data, legal and tax resources
| CALCULATORS |
iFigure <http://www.ifigure.com/index.html> : iFigure is a metasite which provides links to online calculators and worksheets. These are interactive, educational tools that provide information to help in planning, solving and making decisions for a multitude of problems and tasks that come up daily, such as buying a home, checking on your health, investing money, figuring business profits, making statistical comparisons, or calculating pump pressure.
Power Reporting <http://PowerReporting.com/> : Metasite compiled primarliy for journalists. Has links to calculators, news, weather, finding tools, dictionaries, encyclopedias, reference books, demographic materials, etc. Site is updated daily
Virtual Reference Site <http://www.dreamscape.com/frankvad/reference.html> : These Sites contain over 2,500 of the most popular information reference locations and tools on the Web. The site includes Maps, Facts, Calculators, Dictionaries, Directories, Chat, Travel, Health, Languages, Sports, Calendars, Jobs, Weather, Music, Autos, Humor.
Web Pages that Perform Statistical Calculations <http://members.aol.com/johnp71/javastat.html> : The web pages listed here comprise a powerful, conveniently-accessible, and FREE multi-platform statistical software package. There are also links to online statistics books, tutorials, downloadable software, and related resources. Includes: Calculators, Plotters, Function Integrators, Probability Distribution Functions: Tables, Graphs, Random Number Generators, Descriptive Statistics, Histograms, Charts, Contingency Tables, Cross-tabs, Chi-Square Tests, Regression, Correlation, Least Squares Curve-fitting, Non-parametric Correlation, Bayesian Methods, etc.
| CALENDARS, EVENTS and TRADE SHOWS |
Calendars <http://mel.lib.mi.us/reference/REF-calendars.html> : Meta list of calendars from the Michigan Electronic Library
Meetings and Conferences <http://meetings.cos.com/> : From Community of Science. Database is searchable by broad topic area, specific discipline, society
| CANADA |
Canada Business Service Centres. Busines Information System Search <http://www.cbsc.org/fedbis/search.html> : The CBSC initiative is the result of cooperative arrangements among 28 federal business departments, provincial governments the private sector, associations, academic and research communities.
Canada. ExportSource <http://exportsource.gc.ca./nonframe/engdoc/0.htm> : Export guides, trade shows/events, regulations and logistics
Canada. Federal Corporations Data On line <http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/sc_mrksv/corpdir/engdoc/corpns.html> : Database of federally chartered corporations
Canada Gazette <http://canada.gc.ca/gazette/gazette_e.html> : Government of Canada's official publisher since 1841. It consists of three parts: Canada Gazette, Part I ; Published every Saturday, it contains all formal public notices, official appointments, miscellaneous notices and proposed regulations from the government and private sectors that are required to be published by a federal statute or a regulation. Canada Gazette, Part II; Published every second Wednesday, it contains regulations as defined in the Statutory Instruments Act, and certain other classes of statutory instruments. Canada Gazette, Part III; Published as soon as is reasonably practicable after Royal Assent, it contains the most recent Public Acts of Parliament and their enactment proclamations.
Canada Internet Resources <http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/Collections/Romance/canada.html> : Includes: News | Statistics | Government Services | Politics/History | Education and Research | Culture/History | Switchboards. From UC Berkeley.
Canada Online <http://canadaonline.miningco.com/> : Categorized list of Canadian resources. Geared for the consumer. Includes art, careers, health, politics, sports, statistics, etc.
Canada. Parliamentary Internet <http://www.parl.gc.ca/36/rm-e.htm> : Collection of reference facts and figures about Canada's Parliament, including names of Prime Ministers, Governors General, Speakers of the House, etc.
Canada. Statutes <http://canada.justice.gc.ca/FTP/EN/Laws/index.html> : Complete documents of Consolidated Statutes available for download. Produced by Canada. Department of Justice
Canadian Company Capabilities <http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/sc_coinf/ccc/engdoc/search.html> : Search by company name or product/service description
Canadian Information By Subject <http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/caninfo/ecaninfo.htm> :
The Canadian Internet Law Resource Page <http://aix1.uottawa.ca/~geist/cilrp.html> : Includes links to case law, general Canadian Internet resources, government Internet related agencies, legislation international legal sites. There is also a topical index in a framed sidebar. Maintained by Michael Geist of the University of Ottawa Law School
Canadian Patents Database <http://Patents1.ic.gc.ca/intro-e.html> : Canadian Intellectual Property Office. The database contains issued patents and applications for patents that have been made available to the public from October 1, 1989 to the present. This database will be updated on a monthly basis. In the future, CIPO will be able to add patent abstracts, as well as provide data prior to October 1989.
Canadian Studies: A Guide to the Sources <http://www.iccs-ciec.ca/blackwell.html> : This bibliographic essay originally appeared as "Canadian Studies: A Core Collection," CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries 35 (September 1997):71-84, and was revised in June 1999 for the International Council for Canadian Studies World Wide Web Service. Copyright © 1997, 1999 by American Library Association and the authors. Reprinted with permission. All rights reserved. A most comprehensive site on Canadiana, by Professors John Blackwell and Laurie Stanley-Blackwell
Canadian Trademarks Database <http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/sc_consu/trade-marks/engdoc/cover.html> : Canadian Intellectual Property Office. Trade-mark information found in the database can include designs, wares and services covered by the registration, owner's name.
Canadiana: The Canadian Resource Page <http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Unofficial/Canadiana/> : Links to Canadian resources for government, media, facts and figures, etc.
CanLinks <http://www.canlinks.net/> : The Canlinks Directory is a comprehensive listing of world wide web sites with an emphasis on Canadian Sites. Categorized list that is consumer oriented.
GO HIGHER! - A GUIDE TO CANADIAN UNIVERSITIES <http://www.gohigher.net/resources/biguniversities.html> : General information about the largest Universities in Canada and links to their sites.
Government and Political Resources - Canada <http://www.synapse.net/%7Eradio/gsources.htm> : Comprehensive site, even has words to O Canada in English et en français
Merx: Canada's Electronic Tendering System <http://www.merx.cebra.com/> : MERX is an Internet-based, national electronic tendering service designed to increase competition and provide a level playing field for businesses competing for procurement opportunities within the public sector.
Micromedia CREDO: Canadian Government and Research Documents Index <http://www.micromedia.on.ca/> : Index & Abstracts for over 30,000 titles: Federal, Provincial, Municipal governments, Statistics Canada, House of Commons and Senate Committees, Royal Commissions, Inter-Provincial and Inter-Agency Reports. 1993-present. This is an abridged version of Canadian Research Index.
Sources - The Information Service for Journalists & Writers <http://www.sources.com/> : Resource for information on Canada's political leaders, embassies abroad, foreign embassies in Canada, etc. This is primarily a subscription service, however, there are valuable free listings included
| CHEMISTRY |
Chemindustry <http://chemindustry.com/index.asp> : Comprehensive site for web information in the chemical industry. Search by subject or browse the topical list.
Chemistry Resources on the Internet <http://www.library.ucsb.edu/istl/98-winter/interne1.html> : Webligraphy of chemistry resources
Information Retrieval in Chemistry <http://macedonia.chem.demokritos.gr/main.html> : Chemistry and Sciences resource compedium by field and by topic; Chemistry mailing lists overview; Internet resources by topic. This server, located at the Institute of Physical Chemistry, NCSR 'Demokritos' , Athens Greece
| CLIMATE and WEATHER |
National Climatic Data Center <http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/> : NCDC is the world's largest active archive of weather data. Plot weather conditions for various parts of the world and by date. Of particular note is Get/View Online Climate Data
The Weather Channel <http://www.weather.com/twc/homepage.twc> : Weather conditions for most cities in the world.
Weather Map Page <http://www.site-shop.com/weather/wpindex.htm> : Weather maps from the United States and other parts of the World
| COMPANY DATA |
Canadian Company Capabilities <http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/sc_coinf/ccc/engdoc/search.html> : Search by company name or product/service description
Industry Data Finder <http://www.rh.edu/library/industry/industry.htm> : From the Cole Library, Rensselaer at Hartford, this site offers a list of various industries. For each industry the site presents the SIC, related industry websites, links to trade publications, trade assoications, and links to prominent companies within the industry.
Industry Research Desk <http://www.virtualpet.com/industry/rdindex2.htm> : This web site provides tools for researching specific companies, industries, and manufacturing processes. For business researchers not yet familiar with the internet, a brief "Introduction to the Internet" is provided.
Infoseek Industry Watch <http://www.industrywatch.com/> : Daily news updates and search on U.S. industries, companies and quotes
Intellifact <http://www.intellifact.com/> : Business research portal. Includes a business research tutorial, as well as facilitates researching a company, a market, a technology
Investigator's Toolbox <http://www.virtuallibrarian.com/it/> : Compendium of resources for conducting research on the internet. Focus is on resources used in competiitive intelligence. Contains lists of annotated websites which can be used when conducting background investigations on individuals and/or competitive intelligence.
MergerStat <http://www.mergerstat.com> : News and analysis on mergers and acquisitions. Organized by industry. Statistics for today's mergers, dollar value, and dollar value for year to date.
NewEdge Newspage <http://www.newspage.com> : Daily news updates on companies, industries and quotes
Valuation Resources / ValuationResources <http://valuationresources.com/> : Valuation Resources For Business Appraisers, including valuation publications, industry resources, economic data, public company information, mergers and acquisitions data, legal and tax resources
| COMPUTERS and COMPUTING |
CMC Information Sources (The December List) <http://www.december.com/cmc/info/> : Comprehensive collection of information sources about the Internet and computer-mediated communication.
Computer Museum History Center <http://www.computerhistory.org/> : The Computer Museum History Center is the world's authority on the history of computing technology. Its mission is to preserve and present for posterity the artifacts and stories of the information age.The collection spans hardware, software, audio clips, films, documentation, etc. The timeline offers five decades of computing history searchable by year. Established in 1996, The Computer Museum History Center is a non-profit entity dedicated to the preservation and celebration of computing history. It is home to one of the largest collections of computing artifacts in the world, a collection comprising over 3,000 artifacts, 2,000 films and videotapes, 5,000 photographs, 2,000 linear feet of cataloged documentation and gigabytes of software. The collection is housed in a visible storage building in Mountain View, California, in the heart of Silicon Valley.
Special Subject Guides <http://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/ssgfi/> : MathGuide includes Algebra, Analysis, Topology, Differential Equations, Statistics, Computer Science. GeoGuide includes Geology, Mineralogy, Geophysics, Soil Sciences, Maps, Geography
| CONSTRUCTION |
Construction Web Site <http://www.constructionweblinks.com/> : Comprehensive source covering the construction industry. Includes legal information, resources, organization, industry topics, statistics, insurance, safety, etc.
| COPYRIGHT and INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY |
Canadian Copyright Legislation <http://stauffer.queensu.ca/copyright/> : Queens University site offering links to laws, amendments, and position papers
Canadian Patents Database <http://Patents1.ic.gc.ca/intro-e.html> : Canadian Intellectual Property Office. The database contains issued patents and applications for patents that have been made available to the public from October 1, 1989 to the present. This database will be updated on a monthly basis. In the future, CIPO will be able to add patent abstracts, as well as provide data prior to October 1989.
Canadian Trademarks Database <http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/sc_consu/trade-marks/engdoc/cover.html> : Canadian Intellectual Property Office. Trade-mark information found in the database can include designs, wares and services covered by the registration, owner's name.
COPYRIGHT RESOURCES ONLINE <http://www.library.yale.edu/%7Eokerson/copyproj.html> : Metal list of copyright resources in US and Canada. Includes many university sites.
Intellectual Property, Copyright, and Fair Use Resources <http://www.albany.edu/~ls973/copy.html> : Extensive webliography on the subject
Intellectual Property Mall <http://www.ipmall.fplc.edu/> : Collection of intellectual property resources from the Franklin Pierce Law Center and others on the Internet. It is intended to offer "one stop shopping" for intellectual property professionals in academia, business and science, as well as for inventors and entrepreneurs.
Intellectual Property Resources <http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/resources/infoecon/Intellectual_Property.html> : Page of Intellectual Property resources to general sites, legal resources, copyright and patent information
MUSIC And COPYRIGHT LAW <http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Music/musiclaw.html> : This site offers a substantial body of links and is devoted to Music Copyright. Of interest to music librarians. See also the bibliography of Music Copyright Sources at the University of Oregon.
| COUNTRY REPORTS and TRAVEL GUIDES |
50 States <http://www.50states.com/> : Information on each of the 50 states including weather, song, bird, flag, geography, history, motto, newspapers, libraries, famous people, economy, politics, etc.
Business Information Source on the Internet: Country Information <http://www.dis.strath.ac.uk/business/countries.html> : University of Strathclyde, Glasgow UK
Latin Americanist Resources on the Internet <http://www.duke.edu/web/las/other.html> : Good compendium of university websites devoted to Latin American studies. From the University of North Carolina and Duke University
M I T Caribbean Web Resources <http://web.mit.edu/caribbean/www/> : Collection of links to sources of information on the Caribbean. Includes academic institutions and resources, news and media, companies and organizations
Transitions Online <http://www.ijt.cz/> : Presents news and information on Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, including the Baltics, Balkans, Caucasus, and Central Asia.
| CURRENT AWARENESS |
Scout Report: Business and Economics Current Awareness Metapage <http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/scout/report/bus-econ/metapage/> : Links to selected current awareness (tables of contents, abstracts, preprints, new books, data, conferences, etc.) resources. Includes Current Resources for: Periodicals, Journals, Working Papers, New Books, Jobs, and Economic Data
| DIRECTORIES |
Sources - The Information Service for Journalists & Writers <http://www.sources.com/> : Resource for information on Canada's political leaders, embassies abroad, foreign embassies in Canada, etc. This is primarily a subscription service, however, there are valuable free listings included
| DOCUMENT DELIVERY |
Docdel <http://www.docdel.com/Full-Service_Providers.html> : A Directory for Document Delivery Services. This is a Qualified list of Full Service providers. Full Service is defined as: n this context, the term "full-service" refers to those document delivery firms that provide comprehensive coverage of any publicly available document - even those that are outside of their holdings.Qualified is defined as: The document delivery services selected by docdel.com must meet four requirements: They must be registered with the Copyright Clearance Center. They need a minimum of five years experience providing documents. They must have a URL with online ordering. And they are required to be a member, in good standing, of at least one professional association (SLA, AIIP, SCIP, EIRENE, IIA, EIIA, PRRA, IPN).
| ECONOMICS |
EconWPA <http://econwpa.wustl.edu/> : Working papers in economics. from the Economics Department of Washington University. Covers 22 subject areas including general economics, game theory, international finance, labor and demography, etc.
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LAW & ECONOMICS <http://encyclo.findlaw.com/> : Bibliographic Database, Reviews of the Literature, Law and Economics Web Resources
IDEAS <http://ideas.uqam.ca/> : IDEAS which stands for "Internet Documents in Economics Access Service" provides working papers in economics. From the University of Quebec at Montreal. Site is in English.
Resources for Economists on the Internet <http://www.rfe.org/> : This guide lists resources on the Internet of interest to academic and practicing economists, and those interested in economics. In all, more than 700 resources are listed, most with annotations.
VIBES: Virtual International Business and Economic Sources <http://libweb.uncc.edu/ref-bus/vibehome.htm> : Virtual International Business and Economic Sources (VIBES) provides over 1,300 links to Internet sources of international business and economic information that are in English and available free of charge. Links include: Full-text files of recent articles and research reports, Statistics tables and graphs, Meta pages (pages with links to other sources)
| EDUCATION and LEARNING |
American Society of Engineering Education: College Profiles <http://www.asee.org/colleges/> : This directory provides a detailed profile of U.S. and Canadian schools offering undergraduate and graduate engineering, as well as engineering technology programs
Braintrack University Index <http://www.braintrack.com/> : BRAINTRACK is a worldwide University-Index on the Internet. It contains Internet-Addresses of Universities, Polytechnics, Colleges and other higher educational institutions all over the world. There are over 5300 links to higher educational institutions in 152 countries
Canadian Education on the Web <http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/~mpress/eduweb.html> : The purpose of Canadian Education on the Web is to bring together everything relating to Canada and education that has a presence on the World Wide Web. Includes Boards of Education, Commercial Education sites, Databases, Clearinghouses and Directories, Education Journals and Networks, etc. The page is developed and maintained by Marian Press.
Canadian Universities / Universités Canadiennes <http://www.uwaterloo.ca/canu/index.html> : Comprehensive list of Canadian universities with links to their home pages. Arranged by province. This site is maintained at the University of Waterloo
College and University Rankings <http://www.library.uiuc.edu/edx/rankings.htm> : A webliography of rankings for universities and academic institutions maintained by the Education and Social Science Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The purpose of the rankings site is to draw together and provide context to various online sources of information on the ranking of institutions of higher education. Topics include: General / Undergraduate, Graduate / Research, Business, Law, International
The Directory of Canadian Universities / | Le répertoire des universités canadiennes <http://www.aucc.ca/dcu/> : From the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada, this site presents university descriptions, Programs of study, University web sites
Education Index <http://www.educationindex.com/education_resources.html> : Subject oriented metalist of internet sites
GO HIGHER! - A GUIDE TO CANADIAN UNIVERSITIES <http://www.gohigher.net/resources/biguniversities.html> : General information about the largest Universities in Canada and links to their sites.
The Library in the Sky <http://www.nwrel.org/sky/> : Containing over 10,000 links to educational resources on the Internet, The Library in the Sky guides teachers, students, parents, librarians, and members of the community on their journeys through cyberspace. From NorthWest Regional Educational Laboratory
Peterson's <http://www.petersons.com/> : A portal to information about universities and higher educations from the producer of the well known directory, Peterson's Register of Higher Education
ULinks.Com <http://www.ulinks.com/> : ULinks.com, a portal to universities, now lists over 2200 colleges, universities, tradeschools listed by category, state and alphabet. Includes a ranking of Best Universities Source: U.S. News & World Report
Universities.Com <http://www.universities.com/> : A free login account is required. Multiple searches, by U.S. map and state names, by country, by institution name.
Universities Worldwide <http://geowww.uibk.ac.at/univ/> : University & college home pages arranged geographically. Includes a searchable index.
The Writing Center <http://writing.colostate.edu/index.html> : Of note is Resources for Writers & Teachers. Online resources, including Interactive Tutorials, Demonstrations, Reference Guides, and Links to Other Web Resources. From Colorado State University
| ELECTRONIC BOOKS |
Primary Care Clinical Practice Guidelines : Resources <http://medicine.ucsf.edu/resources/guidelines/> : The University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine's Primary Care Clinical Practice Guidelines includes a comprehensive collection of web resources with links to online textbooks, journals, point of care sites, meta sites, teaching sites, and patient resources.
| ELECTRONICS |
Electronics Info Page <http://www.hut.fi/Misc/Electronics/> : Meta site with links to most electronics disciplines including circuits, components, emc, digital signal, processing, telecommunications, telephony, etc. Compiled by Tomi Engdahl at the Helsinki University of Technology.
| ENCYCLOPEDIAS |
Assorted Encyclopedias on the Web <http://edis.win.tue.nl/encyclop.html> : Collection of links to various encyclopedias including Biology - Environment - Medicine, Crafts - Hobbies - Sports, Cultures - Geography - History, Economics -Finance, General Knowledge, Internet, Mathematics - Computing, Mysticism - Mythology, Philosophy, Physics - Cosmology, Religion and Social Sciences
| ENGINEERING |
Analysys Telecom Virtual Library <http://www.analysys.co.uk/vlib/default.htm> : Links to Manufacturers and Vendors, Mobile Communications, Multimedia, Operators, Policy and Industry Information, Broadband Telecoms, ATM , Broadcasting, Cable TV and Communications, Consultancies, Economic and Legal Issues
Electronics Info Page <http://www.hut.fi/Misc/Electronics/> : Meta site with links to most electronics disciplines including circuits, components, emc, digital signal, processing, telecommunications, telephony, etc. Compiled by Tomi Engdahl at the Helsinki University of Technology.
iCrank: The Mechanical Engineering Portal <http://icrank.com/> : This site offers links to mechanical engineering sites, a directory of vendor sites, reference data such as Design codes & specifications, Material data, Machining data, Units conversion, Physical constants, etc. There are discussion forums. The site can be personalized by registering for my iCrank.
Questus Telecommunications Links Database <http://www.questus.co.uk/links.htm> : Searchable database of telecommunications links on the internet. A search by country will display a list of links to telecommunications companies and carriers in that country
Scout Report for Science and Engineering <http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/scout/report/sci-engr/> : The target audience of the Scout Report for Science & Engineering is faculty, students, staff, and librarians in the life sciences, physical sciences, and engineering. Each biweekly issue offers a selective collection of Internet resources covering topics in the sciences, and related fields such as math and engineering, that have been chosen by librarians and content specialists in the given field of study. The Report is divided into two parts, site annotation, and current awareness
| ENGLISH LANGUAGE |
Dictionaries, Thesauri, & Glossaries <http://mel.lib.mi.us/reference/REF-dict.html> : Meta list of dictionaries from the Michigan Electronic Library
English Literature on the Web <http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/EngLit.html> : A webliography of literature sites, organized along the following topics: General / British Authors / E-text Archives / Medieval (& Anglo-Saxon) / 17th Century (& Renaissance) / 18th Century (& Restoration) / 19th Century (Romantics & Victorian) / 20th Century / American Authors
Human Language Page <http://www.june29.com/HLP/> : The Human-Languages Page is a comprehensive catalog of language-related Internet resources with over 2000 links. Included are online language lessons, translating dictionaries, native literature, translation services, software, language schools, etc.
| ENVIRONMENT |
Fossick Web Search Alliance Directory <http://fossick.com/Science.htm> : Search engines and directories are listed in alphabetical order. Includes: Environment, Science, Natural and Technology
GEMI Online: Global Environmental Management Initiative <http://www.gemi.org/index.htm> : The Global Environmental Management Initiative (GEMI) is a non-profit organization of leading companies dedicated to fostering environmental, health and safety excellence worldwide through the sharing of tools and information in order for business to help business achieve environmental excellence. Through the collaborative efforts of its members, GEMI also promotes a worldwide business ethic for environmental, health and safety management and sustainable development through example and leadership. Of note is: Online Resources providing links to GEMI members' web pages and their online environmental information. There are also several benchmarking reports available to the public.
| FILM |
News Film Library <http://www.sc.edu/newsfilm/index.html> : University of South Carolina News Film Library houses a portion of the Fox Movietonews newsreel collection by the 20th Century Fox Film Corporation. USC owns all rights to these collections, and is able to make them available not only to academic scholars, but also documentary producers at all levels of production.
| FINANCE |
THE FINANCE PAGE in the World-Wide Web Virtual Library <http://www.cob.ohio-state.edu/dept/fin/overvw.htm> : Topics covered on this page include financial markets, corporate financial management, trading strategies and procedures, personal finance and academic research in financial economics. From Ohio State University
Financial Data Finder <http://www.cob.ohio-state.edu/dept/fin/osudata.htm> : Ohio State University. Meta list for finding financial data on the web
WebEc: World Wide Web Resources in Economics <http://netec.wustl.edu/WebEc.html> : Virtual Library in economics
| FOUNDATIONS, GRANTS and PROPOSAL WRITING |
Grants and Related Resources <http://www.lib.msu.edu/harris23/grants/grants.htm> : Comprehensive treatment of resources available to those seeking grants. Includes many WWW sites offering information on funding. Focus is on U.S. resources .From Michigan State Universities Libraries.
GUIDE FOR WRITING A FUNDING PROPOSAL: Links to proposal writing resources <http://www.canr.msu.edu/aee/dissthes/links.htm> : Links to resources and guidelines for proposal writing, especially as applied to application for funding and grants
Proposal writing: internet resources <http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/Memorial/grants/proposal.htm> : Links to resources and guidelines for proposal writing, especially as applied to application for funding and grants
| FREE DATABASES on the WEB |
AgNIC: Agriculture Network Information Center <http://www.agnic.org/> : AgNIC (Agriculture Network Information Center) is a distributed network that provides access to agriculture-related information, subject area experts, and other resources. It was established by an alliance of the National Agricultural Library, land-grant universities, and other organizations committed to facilitating public access to agricultural and related information. Includes: AgDB, a database that describes and links to 1,000+ Web-based agriculture information sources | AGRICOLA (Bibliographic database of more than 3 million records created by NAL and its cooperators) | Directories of Agriculture-related Internet Information Resources
Canada. Federal Corporations Data On line <http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/sc_mrksv/corpdir/engdoc/corpns.html> : Database of federally chartered corporations
Canadian Patents Database <http://Patents1.ic.gc.ca/intro-e.html> : Canadian Intellectual Property Office. The database contains issued patents and applications for patents that have been made available to the public from October 1, 1989 to the present. This database will be updated on a monthly basis. In the future, CIPO will be able to add patent abstracts, as well as provide data prior to October 1989.
Canadian Trademarks Database <http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/sc_consu/trade-marks/engdoc/cover.html> : Canadian Intellectual Property Office. Trade-mark information found in the database can include designs, wares and services covered by the registration, owner's name.
CancerNet <http://cancernet.nci.nih.gov/> : U.S. National Cancer Institute’s web site for health professionals, patients, and the public. Provides access to a wide range of cancer information including PDQ (peer-reviewed information summaries on cancer treatment, screening, prevention, and supportive care and NCI’s cancer clinical trials registry) and CANCERLIT (NCI’s bibliographic database).
Micromedia CREDO: Canadian Government and Research Documents Index <http://www.micromedia.on.ca/> : Index & Abstracts for over 30,000 titles: Federal, Provincial, Municipal governments, Statistics Canada, House of Commons and Senate Committees, Royal Commissions, Inter-Provincial and Inter-Agency Reports. 1993-present. This is an abridged version of Canadian Research Index.
Search Systems - Pacific Information Resources, Inc. <http://www.pac-info.com/> : This site brings together free searchable databases for every state in the union, D.C., U.S. federal government, and selected databases in Canada. Offerings vary from state to state. Typical databases include court records, state professional organizations, property records, etc. In addition the nationwide option offers databases for FDIC, FCC, SEC, U.S. Town/County search, the military, lobbyists, federal elections, etc.
| FRENCH LANGUAGE LEXICONS |
Clicnet: dictionnaires <http://www.swarthmore.edu/Humanities/clicnet/dictionnaires.html> : Metalist of French language dictionaries, encyclopedias, and grammars available on the internet
| FRENCH LANGUAGE RESOURCES |
Canadiana: La page des ressources canadiennes <http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Unofficial/Canadiana/LISEZ.html> : Liste des liens vers l'information gouvernementale, vers les sites de faits et de statistiques, et vers les sites des actualités au pays.
Carrefour.net <http://www.carrefour.net/> : Répertoire comprennant les affaires, les sciences et les technologies, les médias, etc. francophone. Concentration canadienne
Francité <http://www.i3d.qc.ca/> : Le monde francophone. Arrangé par sujet comme le site Infoseek.
La Toile du Québec <http://www.toile.qc.ca/> : Guide thèmatique aux liens francophone sur l'internet
Le réseau Franco Science <http://www.citeweb.net/science/franco/> : Le but du site est de donner un plus grand rayonnement aux sciences dans la francophonie
Nomade <http://www.nomade.fr/> : Répertoire comprennant les affaires, les sciences et les technologies, les médias, etc. francophone. Concentration européenne.
| GEOGRAPHY, MAPS and ATLASES |
50 States <http://www.50states.com/> : Information on each of the 50 states including weather, song, bird, flag, geography, history, motto, newspapers, libraries, famous people, economy, politics, etc.
The Fascinating World of Maps and Mapping <http://oddens.geog.uu.nl/index.html> : Oddens's is simply the most comprehensive collection of map links on the web.
Geographical Resources and Maps <http://mel.lib.mi.us/reference/REF-geomaps.html> : Meta List of geographical sources from the Michigan Electronic Library
Geography: the Mining Company's Guide <http://geography.miningco.com/> : Includes maps, natural phenomena such as weather and climate, cultural and physical geography, and a collection of geographic superlatives such as the highest and lowest points on earth. Of interest is Countries That No Longer Exist
GeoSource <http://www.library.uu.nl/geosource/> : Web resources for human geography, physical geography, planning, geoscience and environmental science. From the Faculty of Geographical Sciences of Utrecht Unversity, Netherlands. Focus on: Cartography - Environmental Science and Policy Studies - Human Geography - Physical Geography - Planning Science
National Geographic Map Resources <http://www.nationalgeographic.com/resources/ngo/maps/csites/index.html> : A roster of link lists—gateways to useful information on cartography, geographic names databases, government agencies, and map libraries.
Perry Castañeda Library Map Collection <http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/Map_collection.html> : One of the best electronic map collections on the internet. From the University of Texas
Special Subject Guides <http://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/ssgfi/> : MathGuide includes Algebra, Analysis, Topology, Differential Equations, Statistics, Computer Science. GeoGuide includes Geology, Mineralogy, Geophysics, Soil Sciences, Maps, Geography
Weather Map Page <http://www.site-shop.com/weather/wpindex.htm> : Weather maps from the United States and other parts of the World
World City Guide <http://cityguide.lycos.com/> :
| GOVERNMENT |
Canada Gazette <http://canada.gc.ca/gazette/gazette_e.html> : Government of Canada's official publisher since 1841. It consists of three parts: Canada Gazette, Part I ; Published every Saturday, it contains all formal public notices, official appointments, miscellaneous notices and proposed regulations from the government and private sectors that are required to be published by a federal statute or a regulation. Canada Gazette, Part II; Published every second Wednesday, it contains regulations as defined in the Statutory Instruments Act, and certain other classes of statutory instruments. Canada Gazette, Part III; Published as soon as is reasonably practicable after Royal Assent, it contains the most recent Public Acts of Parliament and their enactment proclamations.
DefenseLink <http://www.defenselink.mil/> : Official web site for the Department of Defense and the starting point for finding U.S. military information online.
EU [European Union] Official Documents <http://europa.eu.int/abc/off/index_en.htm> : EU treaties, directives and legislation in force
European Documentation Centre <http://www.uni-mannheim.de/users/ddz/edz/eedz.html> : The European Documentation Centre (EDC) at the University of Mannheim is part of an extensive information network, providing information on the European Union. This is a good source for locating laws and directives.
European Information <http://www.ex.ac.uk/~pcovery/lib/eurostudies.html> : Pointers to information resources for the European Union, and to research sponsored by the European Community.
Google Government Search <http://www.google.com/unclesam> : Searches for U.S. government sites and documents
Government and Political Resources - Canada <http://www.synapse.net/%7Eradio/gsources.htm> : Comprehensive site, even has words to O Canada in English et en français
Governments on the WWW <http://www.gksoft.com/govt/en/> : Comprehensive database of governmental institutions on the World Wide Web: parliaments, ministries, offices, law courts, embassies, city councils, public broadcasting corporations, central banks, multi-national organizations etc. Includes also political parties. Online since June 1995. Contains more than 12000 entries from 219 countries and territories as of April 1999. Frequently updated
GovSpot <http://www.govspot.com/> : Portal to U.S. government and civic resources and links. Inluded are: government Web sites and documents, facts and figures, news, political information, election spending, state home pages, etc.
GovStartPage <http://www.govstartpage.com/> : Portal to most U.S. departments' and agencies' web sites
International Affairs Resources <http://www.etown.edu/vl/> : This WWW Virtual Library presents over 1400 annotated links in a range of international affairs topics.Sites are chosen because of long-term value, favoring those with cost-free, high-quality information and analysis online. Many are gateway sites or have internal search engines.
International Inter-Governmental Organization Web Page Finder <http://www.libsci.sc.edu/bob/IGOs.htm> : This list of international inter-governmental organizations (IGOs) Web sites has been compiled as part of the work for a book titled, The Information Systems of International Inter-Governmental Organizations: A Reference Guide, published in December,1998 by Ablex Publishing (Stamford, CT; ISBN=156750339X).
Liberty Library of Constitutional Classics <http://www.constitution.org/liberlib.htm> : This site offers a list of the classic books and other works on constitutional government. Includes constitutions from antiquity to present day. There is a legend telling whether the work is available in HTML | Text | Zipped WP | Adobe PDF | RTF | MS Word | Image.
Library Resource List: Government Resources <http://www.dpi.state.wi.us/www/gov_res.html> : U.S. government resource list
Search Systems - Pacific Information Resources, Inc. <http://www.pac-info.com/> : This site brings together free searchable databases for every state in the union, D.C., U.S. federal government, and selected databases in Canada. Offerings vary from state to state. Typical databases include court records, state professional organizations, property records, etc. In addition the nationwide option offers databases for FDIC, FCC, SEC, U.S. Town/County search, the military, lobbyists, federal elections, etc.
Sources - The Information Service for Journalists & Writers <http://www.sources.com/> : Resource for information on Canada's political leaders, embassies abroad, foreign embassies in Canada, etc. This is primarily a subscription service, however, there are valuable free listings included
U.S. Federal Government Agencies Directory: A List of Federal Agencies on the Internet <http://www.lib.lsu.edu/gov/fedgov.html> : From Louisiana State University. One of the most comprehensive lists on the internet
U.S. Federal Government .Frequently Used Sites <http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/central/staff/fdtf.html> : Subject Index: Major Indexes | Business and Economics | Census | Congress | Consumer Information | Copyright, Patents, Trademarks | Crime and Justice | Education | Foreign Countries | Health and Welfare | Impeachment | Laws and Regulations | Natural Resources | President and Executive Branch | Scientific and Technical Reports | Statistics | Supreme Court | Tax Forms | Travel | Voting/Elections. Site developed byFederal Documents Task Force (FDTF), Government Documents Round Table, (GODORT), American Library Association (ALA)
U.S. Government Ready Reference Center <http://www.cc.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indiv/dsc/readyref.html> : A subject arrangement of the most frequently used depository document titles at Columbia University Libraries.
World Governments <http://www.adminet.com/world/gov/> : Links to government pages of most countries, flags, constitutions, G7, and nongovernment organizations.
| HEALTH and MEDICAL |
ACP-ASIM Online - The Web Site for Internal Medicine <http://www.acponline.org/> : American College of Physicians and American Society of Internal Medicine portal site which provides news, clinical and education resources, links to web sites and a search engine for all ACP resources including ASIM and ACP Journal Club
CancerNet <http://cancernet.nci.nih.gov/> : U.S. National Cancer Institute’s web site for health professionals, patients, and the public. Provides access to a wide range of cancer information including PDQ (peer-reviewed information summaries on cancer treatment, screening, prevention, and supportive care and NCI’s cancer clinical trials registry) and CANCERLIT (NCI’s bibliographic database).
CDC - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention <http://www.cdc.gov/health/diseases.htm> : Contains information on Traveler’s Health (disease outbreaks, geographic health recommendations); Health Risks, Prevention Guidelines and Strategies; Scientific Data (numeric and textual datasets); Surveillance; and Health Statistics. Health Topics A to Z provides a listing of disease and health topics found on the CDC Web site, which are added on an ongoing basis.
Comparison of Health Information Megasites <http://www.lib.umich.edu/megasite/> : Comprehensive links to and evaluations of medical information sites.
Consumer Health Resources on the Internet <http://library.uchc.edu/departm/hnet/inters.html> : Comprehensive site of evaluated internet resources resources for consumer health information were selected by Healthnet: Connecticut Consumer Health Information Network
Diseases, Disorders and Related Topics <http://www.mic.ki.se/Diseases/index.html> : Search for web pages or links. See also Alphabetical List of Specific Diseases/Disorders From the Karolinska Instituten, Sweden
Drug, Pharmaceutical, and Pharmacy-Related Sites: A Webliography of Core Sites <http://www.icaap.org/SouthernLibrarianship/> : For those seeking a concise, annotated core list of WWW links on pharmaceutical, drug, and pharmacy-related topics. Presented in the Journal of Southern Academic and Special Librarianship, v.1, no. 1
Ejournals <http://www.nnlm.nlm.nih.gov/libinfo/ejournals/> : Metasite of links to ejournal resources. Included is an explanation of ejournals; as well as directories of ejournals; directories of publishers and vendors; copyright, collection development, and licensing information. Strong emphasis on health science materials. From The National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM)
Emedicine Online Textbooks <http://www.emedicine.com/cgi-shl/foxweb.exe/onlinebooks@d:/em/ga> : Textbooks can be used free-of-charge by medical practitioners and the public, and allow unlimited downloading of thousands of x-rays, color illustrations, and pictures. The Emergency Medicine book is now complete. Other books will cover: dermatology, surgery, neurology, opthamology, otolaryngology, pediatrics, plastic surgery
Hardin Metadirectory of Internet Health Services <http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md/index.html> : As the name "meta directory" implies, Hardin MD is a "list of lists" - Its purpose is to provide easy access to comprehensive resource lists in health-related subjects. It includes subject listings in large "one-stop-shopping" sites, such as MedWeb and Yahoo, and also independent discipline-specific lists. Hardin MD subject pages indicate the length of lists in each subject, making it easy to see at a glance which lists are most comprehensive - These are often not the lists from the"one-stop-shopping" sites, but those developed by people within
Health World Online <http://www.healthy.net/> : Metasite covering: Family Health | Nutrition Center | Alternative Health | Referral Network | Associations | Fitness Center | Wellness Center
Healthfinder <http://www.healthfinder.gov/> : Healthfinder® is a free gateway to reliable consumer health and human services information developed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. healthfinder® can lead you to selected online publications, clearinghouses, databases, web sites, and support and self-help groups, as well as the government agencies and not-for-profit organizations that produce reliable information for the public.
Links 2 Health <http://www.thrall.org/health/> : Databases & General Information | Directories AIDS/HIV | Alternative Medicine | Fitness & Nutrition | Mental Health | Medical Journals | National Sites | New York State | Pharmaceutical Information
Medical/Health Sciences Libraries on the Web <http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin-www/hslibs.html> : List of libraries compiled at the University of Iowa
Medical Matrix <http://www.medmatrix.org/> : The Medical Matrix Project is devoted to posting, annotating, and continuously updating "full content, unrestricted access, Internet clinical medicine resources." The target audience is primarily United States physicians and healthworkers who are on the front line in prescribing treatment for disease conditions.
Medical Matrix assigns ranks to Internet resources based on their utility for point-of-care clinical application. Quality, peer review, full content, multimedia features, and unrestricted access are emphasized in the rankings. To ensure that the ranks are applied systematically, and as objectively as possible, they are reviewed by editorial board.
Registration is required, but free.
Medical Online Reference Centre <http://www.usc.edu/hsc/nml/oref/> : Developed by the staff at Norris Medical Library, University of Southern California. Includes not only medical (online books, drug info, hospital and physicians, etc.) resources, but also resources of interest to general publuc - government, business, finance, news, travel, career info, etc.
Medical World Search: Medical Intelligence At Your Fingertips <http://www.mwsearch.com/> : Search full text nearly 100,000 Web pages from thousands of SELECTED medical sites. Enter plain English - Medical World Search will automatically recognize terms from its thesaurus in your entry and hyperlink them.
MedWeb <http://www.medweb.emory.edu/MedWeb/> : Maintained by the Emory Health Sciences Center Library, MedWeb is a catalog of approximately 12,000 health related web sites. Access is through a simple or advanced search interface, as well as a directory style subject listing.
Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy <http://www.merck.com/pubs/mmanual/> : Seventeenth edition available on the internet
OSH <http://osh.net> : This metasite is a gateway to occupational safety and health information resources and information.
Physicians' Online <http://www.po.com/> : Limited to U.S. physicians (MDs and DOs), physicians-in-training and medical students, Physicians' Online (POL) mission is to assemble the content and communication tools to build the largest and only verifiable online community of physicians. POL offers its member physicians access to comprehensive medical and non-medical resources, secure communications and Web access in a private professional network.
Primary Care Clinical Practice Guidelines : Resources <http://medicine.ucsf.edu/resources/guidelines/> : The University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine's Primary Care Clinical Practice Guidelines includes a comprehensive collection of web resources with links to online textbooks, journals, point of care sites, meta sites, teaching sites, and patient resources.
QuackWatch <http://www.quackwatch.com> : Quackwatch, Inc., a member of Consumer Federation of America, is a nonprofit corporation whose purpose is to combat health-related frauds, myths, fads, and fallacies. Its primary focus is on quackery-related information that is difficult or impossible to get elsewhere.
Right to Know Hazardous Substance Factsheet <http://www.state.nj.us/health/eoh/rtkweb/rtkhsfs.htm> : Developed by the State of New Jersey, Dept. of Health, this site lists over 2000 substances. Common names for these are listed alphabetically
Selected Internet Resources for the Health Sciences Librarian <http://www.nnlm.nlm.nih.gov/sar/inet/bigones.html> :
U.S. National Library of Medicine <http://www.nlm.nih.gov/> : Provides access to NLM databases and resources, as well as research programs, news, and hot topics.
Virtual Hospital <http://www.vh.org/> : The Virtual Hospital is a digital health sciences library created in 1992 at the University of Iowa to help meet the information needs of health care providers and patients. The goal of the Virtual Hospital digital library is to make the Internet a useful medical reference and health promotion tool for health care providers and patients. The Virtual Hospital digital library contains hundreds of books and brochures for health care providers and patients.
Yahoo! Health <http://health.yahoo.com/> : This consumer oriented health information portal provides not only links to the web resources in the health category of the Yahoo! directory, but also to news, shopping, physician directories, chat rooms and message boards - all related to health and fitness.
| HISTORY |
Computer Museum History Center <http://www.computerhistory.org/> : The Computer Museum History Center is the world's authority on the history of computing technology. Its mission is to preserve and present for posterity the artifacts and stories of the information age.The collection spans hardware, software, audio clips, films, documentation, etc. The timeline offers five decades of computing history searchable by year. Established in 1996, The Computer Museum History Center is a non-profit entity dedicated to the preservation and celebration of computing history. It is home to one of the largest collections of computing artifacts in the world, a collection comprising over 3,000 artifacts, 2,000 films and videotapes, 5,000 photographs, 2,000 linear feet of cataloged documentation and gigabytes of software. The collection is housed in a visible storage building in Mountain View, California, in the heart of Silicon Valley.
| HUMAN RESOURCES |
Cornell University. Catherwood Library. School of Industrial and Labor Relations. Electronic Archives <http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/library/e_archive/default.html> : The Martin P. Catherwood Library offers government documents and public policy position papers free of charge. By special arrangement with government offices,commissions, task forces, and non-governmental associations, the Catherwood Library is an official Internet site for public access. This site specializes in acquiring and making available materials which encompass any and all aspects of the employer-employee relationship, and human resources.
Human Resources and the Internet <http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/library/reference/GUIDES/HRI_Manual/default.html> : Good metasite for information on the internet dealing with HR activity. From the Martin P. Catherwood Library, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University
OSH <http://osh.net> : This metasite is a gateway to occupational safety and health information resources and information.
| INTERNATIONAL TRADE |
Canada. ExportSource <http://exportsource.gc.ca./nonframe/engdoc/0.htm> : Export guides, trade shows/events, regulations and logistics
Fossick Web Search Alliance Directory: Business <http://fossick.com/Business.htm> : Search engines and directories are listed in alphabetical order. Includes: Business Directories and Company infomation, International Trade and Economics, Finance and Investment, Marketing and Public Relations
International Business Resources on the WWW <http://ciber.bus.msu.edu/busres.htm> : Michigan State University. Center for International Business Education and Research. This site contains a wealth of information including: News/Periodicals - Domestic (US) / News/Periodicals - International / Journals, Research Papers, and Articles / Regional or Country Specific Information (General) / Regional or Country Specific Information (Africa) / Regional or Country Specific Information (Asia and Oceania) / Regional or Country Specific Information (Europe) / Regional or Country Specific Information (Central and South America) / Regional or Country Specific Information (North America) / Statistical Data and Information Resources / Government Resources / International Trade Information / International Trade Leads / Company Directories and Yellow Pages / International Trade Shows and Business Events / Mailing Lists / Culture and Travel / Various Utilities and Useful Information / Other Indexes of Business Resources
International Trade Web Resources <http://www.fita.org/webindex.html> : A comprehensive portal to information on international trade on the web. More than 2000 links to international trade resources are annotated and indexed. Sites, organized under topic, can be browsed, or the entire database may be searched. From the Federation of International Trade Associations
Lex Mercatoria <http://lexmercatoria.net/> : Comprehensive legal site devoted to international trade and commercial law. The links are arranged by subjects including Free Trade, Agency, Economic Union, E-Commerce, Payments. Carriage Goods, Contracts, Disputes. Each section includes materials suc as treaties, model laws, and links to free trade, business, and economics sites. Lex Mercatoria is supported and hosted by the Law Faculty of the University of Tromsø the Law Faculty of the University of Oslo, Norway, the Institute of International Commercial Law of Pace University School of Law, USA and by the Australasian Legal Information Institute, a.k.a. AustLII, in a collaborative venture.
| INTERNET |
The Atlas of Cyberspaces <http://www.cybergeography.org/atlas/atlas.html> : This is an atlas of maps and graphic representations of the geographies of the new electronic territories of the Internet, the World-Wide Web and other emergingCyberspaces. These maps of Cyberspaces - cybermaps - help us visualise and comprehend the new digital landscapes beyond our computer screen, in the wires of the global communications networks and vast online information resources.
CyberAtlas <http://www.cyberatlas.com/> : Information on internet usage, statistics, demographics, markets, traffic patterns. Good resource for ecommerce.
Hoax, Myth, Fraud, Chain Letter and Anti-Spam Sites <http://www.internet-101.com/hoax/> : Meta list of sites that dispel internet hoaxes and myths
Information architecture: Tools for cutting-edge Web developers <http://www.ala.org/acrl/resoct00.html> : ACRL Internet Resources Oct. 2000 developed by Rob Withers, Rob Casson, Aaron Shrimplin, and Katherine C. Adams. The core of information architecture is Web site navigation, labeling/naming schemes, and Web site structure. Information architects determine the functional and conceptual building blocks of a site. Unlike Web designers who are concerned with typeface, graphics, and other particulars of constructing an interface, information architects create organizational and navigational structures that help people access information. This site includes links to newsgroups, tutorials, associations, etc.
Internet Smileys <http://members.aol.com/bearpage/smileys.htm> : Collection of smileys and emoticons
InternetStats <http://www.internetstats.com/index.php3> : Looking for statistics. This site offers statstics in the following areas: internet advertising, business, trade, finance, and trends
NetFactual / Net Factual <http://www.netfactual.com/> : NetFactual.com, the Guide to finding Facts about the Internet! Get reports and industry analysis about the rapidly changing markets, compiled from Internet sources
Urban Legends and Folklore <http://urbanlegends.miningco.com/msubarch.htm> : List of archival sites containing and/or debunking urban legends propagated on the internet. Other sites:
Snopes
Urban Legends
VMyths
Hoaxbusters
Viruses
Myths
Hoaxes
Scares
Hoaxes
CIAC Hoaxes
Norton
Symantec
Urban Legends
Scambusters
| INTRANETS |
Information architecture: Tools for cutting-edge Web developers <http://www.ala.org/acrl/resoct00.html> : ACRL Internet Resources Oct. 2000 developed by Rob Withers, Rob Casson, Aaron Shrimplin, and Katherine C. Adams. The core of information architecture is Web site navigation, labeling/naming schemes, and Web site structure. Information architects determine the functional and conceptual building blocks of a site. Unlike Web designers who are concerned with typeface, graphics, and other particulars of constructing an interface, information architects create organizational and navigational structures that help people access information. This site includes links to newsgroups, tutorials, associations, etc.
| JOURNALS, MAGAZINES, EZINES |
CIC Electronic Journal Collection <http://ejournals.cic.net/index.html> : The Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) Electronic Journals Collection (EJC) is a prototype electronic journal management system coordinated by the librarians of the CIC member universities, and the staffs of CICNet, Inc. and the CIC. Ultimately, this collection aims to be an authoritative source of electronic research and academic serial publications -- incorporating all freely distributed scholarly electronic journals available online
E-Zine List <http://www.meer.net/~johnl/e-zine-list/index.html> : This is a list of electronic 'zines around the world, accessible via the Web, FTP, email, and other services.
Ejournals <http://www.nnlm.nlm.nih.gov/libinfo/ejournals/> : Metasite of links to ejournal resources. Included is an explanation of ejournals; as well as directories of ejournals; directories of publishers and vendors; copyright, collection development, and licensing information. Strong emphasis on health science materials. From The National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM)
Electronic Journals: A Selected Resource Guide <http://www.harrassowitz.de/ms/ejresguide.html> : This Resource guide is an introduction to the rapidly growing field of electronic journals. Topics include: General sources of information: overviews, bibliographies and collections of papers | Exploring the Territory: e-journal lists and directories | Electronic journal providers Definitions, and a quick history of e-journals | Standards: Metadata Identifiers | Cataloging | Legal and business issues:licensing, pricing, intellectual property rights management, access management | Academic issues: the nature of scholarly publishing | Preservation and archiving of electronic material. The guide also suggests starting points for more in-depth investigations, and includes sources for keeping current with ongoing developments in electronic journals.
Electronic Journals Resource Directory <http://library.usask.ca/~scottp/links/> : Resource consolidating electronic journals on the Web. Categories: Directories: General electronic journal indexes | Library Indexes: Libraries with separate electronic journal databases | Miscellaneous: Not yet categorised | Publishers: Major electronic journal publishers | Software: Software for viewing electronic journals | Vendors: Electronic journal vendors services. Developed by Peter Scott
eZines Search <http://www.site-city.com/members/e-zine-master/> : Search engine for finding business oriented e-newsletters
IFLA Digital Libraries: Electronic Journal and Text Archives <http://www.ifla.org/II/etext.htm> : Listing of electronic journal indices and archives, electronic text archives, electronic media indices, electronic research including preprints.
The Magazine Rack <http://www.magazine-rack.com/> : The Magazine Rack is an internet guide to free online magazines. They state: at The Magazine Rack you won't find any so-called online magazines who's only content is an advertisement for their print magazine, or a site that never posts new articles, or that charge a fee to view their site.
NewJour <http://gort.ucsd.edu/newjour/> : Meta list of journals on the internet
Primary Care Clinical Practice Guidelines : Resources <http://medicine.ucsf.edu/resources/guidelines/> : The University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine's Primary Care Clinical Practice Guidelines includes a comprehensive collection of web resources with links to online textbooks, journals, point of care sites, meta sites, teaching sites, and patient resources.
World Ezine Library <http://www.ezinelibrary.com/> : Search engine for ezines. Also grouped by category
| JOURNALS, MAGAZINES, EZINES FOR LIBRARIANS |
IFLA Digital Libraries: Electronic Journal and Text Archives <http://www.ifla.org/II/etext.htm> : Listing of electronic journal indices and archives, electronic text archives, electronic media indices, electronic research including preprints.
NewJour <http://gort.ucsd.edu/newjour/> : Meta list of journals on the internet
| JUDAICA |
Judaica Libraries and Archives on the Web <http://www.bibliomaven.com/> : This page serves as a one-stop reference to the web pages of research-level Judaica collections in libraries and archives. It is a resource for learning more about Judaica collections and the cultural institutions which house them, as well as Jewish culture, history, and literature.
| KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT and COMPETITIVE INTELLIGENCE |
Investigator's Toolbox <http://www.virtuallibrarian.com/it/> : Compendium of resources for conducting research on the internet. Focus is on resources used in competiitive intelligence. Contains lists of annotated websites which can be used when conducting background investigations on individuals and/or competitive intelligence.
| LAW |
ALSO: American Law Resource Online <http://www.lawsource.com/also/> : The purpose of ALSO! is to provide a comprehensive, uniform, and useful compilation of links to all on-line sources of American law that are available without charge, including Canadian and Mexican law as well as federal and state law for the United States and provincial law in Canada.
ASIL Guide to Electronic Resources for International Law <http://www.asil.org/resource/home.htm> : The ASIL Guide to Electronic Resources for International Law is a development project of the American Society of International Law. Guide sections include: Introduction | United Nations | Human Rights | Lists, Newsgroups & Networks | Treaties | International Environmental Law | International Criminal Law | Private International Law | International Economic Law
BitLaw <http://www.bitlaw.com/index.html> : BitLaw is a comprehensive Internet resource on technology law, containing over 1,800 pages on patent, copyright, trademark, and Internet legal issues. BitLaw was created by Daniel A. Tysver. Of note is the section on internet law covering: Web Site Development Legal Issues; Service Provider Liability; Trademarks on the Internet; Domain Name Disputes and Web Page Linking and Legal Liability.
Canada. Statutes <http://canada.justice.gc.ca/FTP/EN/Laws/index.html> : Complete documents of Consolidated Statutes available for download. Produced by Canada. Department of Justice
Canadian Copyright Legislation <http://stauffer.queensu.ca/copyright/> : Queens University site offering links to laws, amendments, and position papers
The Canadian Internet Law Resource Page <http://aix1.uottawa.ca/~geist/cilrp.html> : Includes links to case law, general Canadian Internet resources, government Internet related agencies, legislation international legal sites. There is also a topical index in a framed sidebar. Maintained by Michael Geist of the University of Ottawa Law School
COPYRIGHT RESOURCES ONLINE <http://www.library.yale.edu/%7Eokerson/copyproj.html> : Metal list of copyright resources in US and Canada. Includes many university sites.
EU [European Union] Official Documents <http://europa.eu.int/abc/off/index_en.htm> : EU treaties, directives and legislation in force
Find Law: Internet Legal Resources <http://www.findlaw.com/> : One of the most comprehensive legal resources on the Internet, includes and consumer and small business section. Resources are primarily U.S.
Finding Law Related Internet Resources <http://www.llrx.com/sources.html> : Good compendium of law related sources on the internet. Primarily U.S. Compiled by Cindy L. Chick of the Law Library Resource Xchange (LLRX).
Guide To European Legal Databases <http://www.llrx.com/features/europe.htm> : The Guide offers recommendations for search engines and search tips/strategies for researching foreign law topics. Focus on databases in HTML format using Internet as a primary and unique carrier. Lexis/Nexis' and Westlaw's European legal databases are not reviewed.
A Hotlist on Law Guides <http://www.uakron.edu/law/richert/index1.html> : Contains legal research guides and pathfinders from various American law libraries. Some guides assist in learning to use basic legal research materials. Others guides deal with various specialized topics such as using legislative histories.
Jurist: the Law Professor's Network <http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/index.htm> : Legal portal. Includes links to: U.S. Legal News | U.S. Supreme Court News | U.S. Law School News | World Legal News | Today's Legal Press | Latest Law Reviews. JURIST's International Affiliates: JURIST Canada || JURIST UK || JURIST Australia
Katsuey Kat's Legal Links <http://www.katsuey.com/> : One of the most comprehensive metasites for doing legal research on the internet. Primary focus is on U.S., but also contains international references. A good place to look for information on state filings
Law Enforcement Links Directory - A Police Search Engine and Directory <http://www.leolinks.com/> : A comprehensive portal with links to operational support, crime statistics, information resources, and administrative support.
LawLinks / Law Links <http://library.ukc.ac.uk/library/lawlinks/default.htm> : Legal information on the internet: An annotated list of web sites, compiled by Sarah Carter at University of Kent, U.K.
Emphasis is on U.K. and European sites.
LawOffice / Law Office <http://www.lawoffice.com/> : Comprehensive site for U.S. law. Includes a database of materials covering such legal topics as business issues, commercial, taxation, bankruptcy, real estate and intellectual property law, and consumer-related issues, such as estate planning, health, family and employment law. There is a searchable directory of lawyers and legal professionals. There are law pathfinders arranged by state. From West Legal Directory
Laws Online <http://www.lawsonline.net/> : Laws Online is a directory of law text and case sites and a resource for other legal information as well. All Federal branches of government and state laws and courts are covered as well. Federal Court coverage includes the Supreme Court as well as Circuit Courts. State coverage includes state codes, rules, directories and legislatures as well as bar and trial associations. The Resource section of this page includes the following categories: law schools, law reviews, law students, law enforcement, international, bookshelf, new technology, publishers and services.While a one of two of the links on Laws Online are to fee based resources of LawChek, most are free for use by website visitors.
Legal Research and Legal Resources <http://www.pli.edu/links-home.html> : Some international content, focus mainly U.S.
Lex Mercatoria <http://lexmercatoria.net/> : Comprehensive legal site devoted to international trade and commercial law. The links are arranged by subjects including Free Trade, Agency, Economic Union, E-Commerce, Payments. Carriage Goods, Contracts, Disputes. Each section includes materials suc as treaties, model laws, and links to free trade, business, and economics sites. Lex Mercatoria is supported and hosted by the Law Faculty of the University of Tromsø the Law Faculty of the University of Oslo, Norway, the Institute of International Commercial Law of Pace University School of Law, USA and by the Australasian Legal Information Institute, a.k.a. AustLII, in a collaborative venture.
LLRX: Law Library Research Xchange <http://www.llrx.com/> : Webzine with a special focus on research, management and technology topics for legal professionals. Of particular note is LLRXlinks containing valuable links of interest to librarians, although primarily U.S. and focussed on law.
MegaLaw <http://www.megalaw.com/> : MegaLaw - a U.S. law site, includes LawBot, a legal search engine, cases and statutes at the state and federal level, codes, forms, law jobs, law reviews, law schools, bar associations, experts, etc.
United Kingdom Legislations <http://www.legislation.hmso.gov.uk/> : Full text of British laws from 1996 to date
World Wide Legal Information Association <http://www.wwlia.org/> : The World Wide Legal Information Association is a non-profit corporation whose mission is: making legal information available to the world. Gateway to legal meta sites in USA, Canada, Australia, UK, New Zealand
| LIBRARY CATALOGUES |
Medical/Health Sciences Libraries on the Web <http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin-www/hslibs.html> : List of libraries compiled at the University of Iowa
News Film Library <http://www.sc.edu/newsfilm/index.html> : University of South Carolina News Film Library houses a portion of the Fox Movietonews newsreel collection by the 20th Century Fox Film Corporation. USC owns all rights to these collections, and is able to make them available not only to academic scholars, but also documentary producers at all levels of production.
Toronto Public Library Virtual Library <http://vrl.tpl.toronto.on.ca/> : The Toronto Public Library Virtual Library guides users to Internet information sources and to the resources of the library itself. Staff at Toronto Public Library and Toronto Reference Library select and index the best of the Internet in over 25 subjects. The VRL Subject Guide to the Internet indexes about 8,000 - 10,000 Internet sites which can be browsed by subject or searched by keyword. Internet sites produced in Canada are a particular focus. Site descriptions include a brief annotation, the languages used on the site, and a Made in Canada flag.
| LITERATURE |
English Literature on the Web <http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/EngLit.html> : A webliography of literature sites, organized along the following topics: General / British Authors / E-text Archives / Medieval (& Anglo-Saxon) / 17th Century (& Renaissance) / 18th Century (& Restoration) / 19th Century (Romantics & Victorian) / 20th Century / American Authors
NovelGuide / Novel Guide <http://www.novelguide.com/> : Novelguide.com is a free source for literary analysis on the web. We provide an educational supplement for better understanding of classic and contemporary literature through Chapter Summaries, Character Profiles, Metaphor Analysis, Theme Analyses, and Author Biographies.
| MARKET RESEARCH |
Industry Data Finder <http://www.rh.edu/library/industry/industry.htm> : From the Cole Library, Rensselaer at Hartford, this site offers a list of various industries. For each industry the site presents the SIC, related industry websites, links to trade publications, trade assoications, and links to prominent companies within the industry.
Sociology Internet Resources <http://www.wcsu.ctstateu.edu/socialsci/socres.html> : Links to sociology resources on the internet from Western Connecticut State University
| MATHEMATICS |
Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Mathematics & Science Education <http://www.enc.org/> : A mathematics metasite from the Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Mathematics & Science Education. ENC’s mission is to identify effective curriculum resources, create high-quality professional development materials, and disseminate useful information and products to improvemathematics and science teaching and learning.
Special Subject Guides <http://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/ssgfi/> : MathGuide includes Algebra, Analysis, Topology, Differential Equations, Statistics, Computer Science. GeoGuide includes Geology, Mineralogy, Geophysics, Soil Sciences, Maps, Geography
| META SEARCH ENGINES |
Alba36 <http://www.alba36.com/> : Alba36.com is an annotated, edited metaguide, which is updated on a daily base in five languages. It offers global access to vertical portals, (vortals) subject-specific search sites and the most important websites.
Virtual LRC [Learning Resource Centre] <http://www.virtuallrc.com> : The reference search engine on the VLRC site searches the following web sites with just one search: Academic Info, InfoSeek Web Guide, Lycos Top 5%, My Virtual Reference Desk, Internet Sleuth, Bibliomania, Yahoo, StudyWeb, Michigan Electronic Library, Smithsonian, Suite101, InfoPlease.com, the LibrarySpot, and the AwesomeLibrary. Subject / information areas include: full-text magazines, newspapers, electronic text archives, art history, biography, biology, career information, psychology, history, government information, literature, medical information, social sciences, and legal information.
| MILITARY |
Defense Almanac <http://www.defenselink.mil/pubs/almanac/> : This web site provides a variety of information and statistical material about the Department of Defense - its people, organization, equipment, and funding.
| MULTIDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH DIRECTORIES |
Academic Info <http://www.academicinfo.net/> : The Mission of Academic Info is to provide the university community with a current and reliable directory of Internet resources free of institutional or commercial constraints. Links can be browsed in subject groupings or topics searched via a search engine
Argus Clearinghouse for Subject-Oriented Internet Resource Guides (Michigan) <http://www.clearinghouse.net/> :
BUBL LINK: Libraries of Networked Knowledge <http://bubl.ac.uk/link/> : Organized by Dewey Decimal System
Cyberstacks <http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/> : Collection of significant World Wide Web (WWW) and other Internet resources categorized using the Library of Congress classification scheme. From G. McKiernan, Cyberstacks
Education Index <http://www.educationindex.com/education_resources.html> : Subject oriented metalist of internet sites
Guides to Internet Resources (Rice University) <http://www.rice.edu/Fondren/Netguides/netguides.html> :
Infosurf: Resources by Subject (Univ. California Santa Barbara) <http://www.library.ucsb.edu/subj/resource.html> :
Librarians' Index to the Internet <http://lii.org> : The Librarians' Index to the Internet is a searchable, evaluated, and annotated subject directory of more than 3,500 Internet resources.
MEGASOURCES <http://www.ryerson.ca/~journal/megasources.html> : School of Journalism, Ryerson Polytechnic University, Toronto, Canada Strong Canadian bent.
Metaplus Directories <http://www.metaplus.com/waves.html> : Directories plus headlines and top stories
The Mining Company <http://home.miningco.com/> : Index of resources similar to Yahoo
Needle in a CyberStack - the InfoFinder <http://members.home.net/albeej/> : Very comprehensive list of sources for research
Neptune: culling the depths of the internet for the best information online <http://www.hail.icestorm.com/neptuneguide/> : Robert J. Tiess maintains this categorized meta list.
PINAKES: A Subject Launchpad <http://www.hw.ac.uk/libWWW/irn/pinakes/pinakes.html> : In ancient times, the Library of Alexandria was seen as a universal store of human knowledge. As the Library grew in size, however, it became increasingly difficult to locate relevant material. The poet Callimachus solved the problem by compiling a catalogue called The Pinakes. On a far smaller scale, these Web pages hope to provide a similar function for Internet resources, by linking to the major subject gateways.
Repositories of Primary Sources <http://www.uidaho.edu/special-collections/Other.Repositories.html> : A listing of over 3300 websites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary sources for the research scholar. All links have been tested for correctness and appropriateness. Those added within the last thirty days or so are marked {New}. From University of Idaho
Research Webring <http://webring.org/cgi-bin/webring?ring=researchwebring;list> : The Research Webring is a collection of the best Internet websites pushing the curtain in providing this assistance. Featured websites focus on the discipline of information research - the tools and resources important in serious research including library references, commercial tools and Internet resources.
Resources of Scholarly Societies - Subject Guide <http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/society/subjects_soc.html> : University of Waterloo Scholarly Societies Project
The Scout Report <http://wwwscout.cs.wisc.edu/scout/report/index.html> : The Scout Report is the flagship publication of the Internet Scout Project. Published every Friday both on the web and by email, it provides a fast, convenient way to stay informed of valuable resources on the Internet. A team of professional librarians and subject matter experts select, research, and annotate each resource.
The Scout Toolkit Homepage <http://wwwscout.cs.wisc.edu/scout/toolkit/index.html> : Includes Scout Select Bookmarks, Searching the Internet, End User's Column, Web Tools and Internet publications. All are finding tools for the Internet
SIRS Knowledge Source <http://www.sirs.com/tree/tree.htm> :
StudyWeb / Study Web <http://www.studyweb.com/> : Categorized directory of 'research quality' websites.
University of Waterloo Electronic Library: Resources by Discipline <http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/discipline/discip.html> : Resources and services accessible in the discipline area selected by UW Library's subject specialist librarians.
Virtual LRC [Learning Resource Centre] <http://www.virtuallrc.com> : The reference search engine on the VLRC site searches the following web sites with just one search: Academic Info, InfoSeek Web Guide, Lycos Top 5%, My Virtual Reference Desk, Internet Sleuth, Bibliomania, Yahoo, StudyWeb, Michigan Electronic Library, Smithsonian, Suite101, InfoPlease.com, the LibrarySpot, and the AwesomeLibrary. Subject / information areas include: full-text magazines, newspapers, electronic text archives, art history, biography, biology, career information, psychology, history, government information, literature, medical information, social sciences, and legal information.
The Webliography: Internet Subject Guides (LSU) <http://www.lib.lsu.edu/weblio.html> :
Webrary Links Menu <http://www.webrary.org/ref/weblinksmenu.html> : Webrary Links pages consist of links to useful reference and informational web sites, organized by subject according to Dewey Decimal System call numbers. Produced by the Morton Grove Public Library, this site contains web links valuable to all types of libraries.
Welcome to INFOMINE: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections <http://lib-www.ucr.edu/> : INFOMINE offers access to over 15,000 resources (both free/fee based access) of value to researchers and students.
Windweaver Search Pages <http://www.windweaver.com/searchpage4.htm> : An eclectic array of links to company finders, people finders, search engine tools and guides, personalized news sources, software archives, etc.
| MUSIC |
Classical Music Navigator <http://www.wku.edu/~smithch/music/index2.htm> : This site is arranged along five subject areas: Composers, Basic Library of Notable Works, Geographical Roster, Index of Forms and Styles of Music, and Glossary. Currently, 444 composers are listed.
Composers <http://www.lib.virginia.edu/MusicLib/resources/composers.html> : Good webliography of sites. This list includes Web-accessible libraries, research centers, and Web sites devoted to research on selected composers. From the University of Virginia
MUSIC And COPYRIGHT LAW <http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Music/musiclaw.html> : This site offers a substantial body of links and is devoted to Music Copyright. Of interest to music librarians. See also the bibliography of Music Copyright Sources at the University of Oregon.
| NEWS MEDIA |
Aileena <http://www.aileena.ch/> : AILEENA - The world's leading media-index Over 4300 Links to Newspapers, Radio- and TV-Stations in 153 countries
CANOE.CA <http://www.canoe.ca/home.html> :
Crayon News Links <http://crayon.net/using/links.html> : Links to U.S., Canadian news sites, as well as to specific sections, e.g. op-ed, business, etc.
First Headlines / 1st Headlines <http://www.1stheadlines.com/index.htm> : News From 61 Newspaper, Broadcast & Online News Sources, including ABC, BBC, CBC Newsworld New York Times, Washington Post, etc. Headlines are organized alphabetically by source. Click on the headline to go to the full story. Choice of News, Business, Health or Sports headlines.
Footage.Net <http://www.footage.net> : The Stock, Archival & News Footage Network. More than a million shots indexed on-line, 120+ Web sites, over a dozen footage databases, and keyword searchable.
Home Town Free Press <http://www.hometownfreepress.com/globe.htm> : Worldwide links to local newspapers. Many obscure and free newspapers are included. Arranged geographically
Hot Links to News Media <http://www.naa.org/hotlinks/index.asp> : Gateway to newspaper and other related media organizations' Internet Sites. U.S. dallies, Canadian newspapers, selected international papers, weeklies, business papers, and alternative press
Infoseek Industry Watch <http://www.industrywatch.com/> : Daily news updates and search on U.S. industries, companies and quotes
Internet Sources for Journalists and Broadcasters <http://www.synapse.net/%7Eradio/welcome.html> :
Just The News - Listen.To/TheNews <http://Listen.To/TheNews> : Direct RealAudio/Video Radio and Television News Links from Around the World. Comprehensive site with many national and foreign news links.
Les médias québécois sur le Net <http://www.cam.org/~paslap/medianet.html> : Links to French language media
MetaGrid Newspapers and Magazines <http://www.metagrid.com/> : The MetaGrid service helps you find online versions of newspapers, journals and magazines on the World Wide Web. Search by name and location, or by subject.
The MIT List of Radio Stations on the Internet <http://wmbr.mit.edu/stations/list.html> : Links to Over 8000 Radio Stations in the U.S., Canada and around the world
Moreover <http://www.moreover.com/> : A source for news. Offers Headlines from 1500 sources - In more than 150 categories, including subcategories of industry, regional, finance, technology You can customize your newspage.
N-NET <http://www.n-net.com/> : The newspaper network on the web. This site offers listings of local and regional newspapers in the U.S. There are no hyperlinks to the newspaper web pages, but the list includes niche and speciality papers, giving addresses and phone numbers. Organized by state.
NewEdge Newspage <http://www.newspage.com> : Daily news updates on companies, industries and quotes
News and Newspapers <http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/News.html> :
News Film Library <http://www.sc.edu/newsfilm/index.html> : University of South Carolina News Film Library houses a portion of the Fox Movietonews newsreel collection by the 20th Century Fox Film Corporation. USC owns all rights to these collections, and is able to make them available not only to academic scholars, but also documentary producers at all levels of production.
News Library / NewsLibrary <http://www.newslibrary.com/> : Newspaper article retrieval service. Search for articles in U.S. newspapers using date ranges and descriptions in the headlines main article, lead graph or bylines.
News on the Net <http://www.reporter.org/news/> :
NEWS TICKER: CANADA <http://www.canoe.ca/NationalTicker/home.html> :
NewsCentral <http://www.all-links.com/newscentral/> : The Largest Newspaper Index on the Web
NewsDirectory [formerly titled Ecola Newsstand] <http://www.newsdirectory.com/> : Gateway to English-Language Media Online. Over 7,000 newspapers and magazines and over 1,000 U.S. television broadcasters are listed. Browse by location or subject, or search by title.
NewsHub <http://web.newshub.com/> : NewsHub integrates and reports headlines from the world's premiere news sources every 15 minutes. Included are Technology News, Health News, Entertainment News, World News, U.S. News, Financial News
NewsMaps <http://www.newsmaps.com/> : Explore thousands of news articles and discussions, organized by topic onto an information landscape. A NewsMap is a visual landscape of the information in hundreds - or thousands - of articles or newsgroup postings. At a glance you can see the important topics and how they are related. A NewsMap looks like a topographical map of mountains and valleys. The concept of the layout is simple: documents with similar content are placed closer together, and peaks appear where there is a concentration of closely related documents. topics are grouped by U.S., Global, Business, Technology, and Press Releases.
Newspaper Links <http://www.newspaperlinks.com/> : Gateway to local (U.S.) newspapers. Contains a clickable U.S. map. Click on the state you're interested in and it will pull up a list of links to newspaper websites in that state. Also searchable by city or newspaper name.
NewsPlace for News and Sources <http://www.niu.edu/newsplace/> : Includes three categories, with a large collection of links for each: N.E.W.S. [News, entertainment, weather, sports] SOURCES [Government, activist, travel, corporate] TOOLS [Resource, reference, search, locator]
NewStation <http://www.newstation.com> : NewStation.com is THE News Portal! NewsStation has developed the Internet's most comprehensive guide to online news and information with a searchable database of over 7,000 of the most important online news sources.
Online Newspapers <http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/> : Claims to have over 10,000 listings. Metasite of newspaper links worldwide. Arranged by continent and country
The PaperBoy <http://www.thepaperboy.com/> : Links to newspapers worldwide. U.S. newspapers are searchable by state. There are non newspaper links to press agencies and broadcast media.. The Top Drawer selection lists the most important newspapers in a country
Planet Earth Home Page <http://www.tidusa.com/PEHP2000/Planet_Earth/us_newspapers.html> : Exhaustive list of U.S. newspapers arranged alphabetically by city name
PubList <http://www.publist.com/> : Comprehensive directory of information about more than 150,000 publications and more than 8000 newspapers around the world. Information comes from definitive sources such as Ulrich's™ International Periodicals Directory.
Sources - The Information Service for Journalists & Writers <http://www.sources.com/> : Resource for information on Canada's political leaders, embassies abroad, foreign embassies in Canada, etc. This is primarily a subscription service, however, there are valuable free listings included
Standard Periodical Directory <http://www.oxbridge.com/spd_home.cfm?tp=b> : Lists periodicals by subject category. Each entry includes target audience, cost, email address, contact name, frequency, etc.
Television News Archives (Vanderbilt U.) <http://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/> : Since August 5th. 1968, The Television News Archive has systematically recorded, abstracted, and indexed national television newscasts
TradePub <http://www.tradepub.com> : Links to professional trade publications. Over 100 trade publications to subscribe to, and as a qualified professional you can get them for FREE! covering a range of topics from computers and business to multimedia and telecommunications,
Transitions Online <http://www.ijt.cz/> : Presents news and information on Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, including the Baltics, Balkans, Caucasus, and Central Asia.
The Ultimate Collection of News Links <http://pppp.net/links/news/> : Organized by continent, and then listed by country
| NEWS WIRE SERVICES |
E-News Services <http://www.e-newsservices.com/en/today/> : BCE Emergis e-News Services is an authorized wire service recognized and approved by all securities commissions and stock exchanges. Disclosure of corporate press releases, financial news, business media, etc. The news delivered can be personalized.
| NEWSLINKS |
NewsDirectory [formerly titled Ecola Newsstand] <http://www.newsdirectory.com/> : Gateway to English-Language Media Online. Over 7,000 newspapers and magazines and over 1,000 U.S. television broadcasters are listed. Browse by location or subject, or search by title.
Online Newspapers <http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/> : Claims to have over 10,000 listings. Metasite of newspaper links worldwide. Arranged by continent and country
| PATENTS AND TRADEMARKS |
Canadian Patents Database <http://Patents1.ic.gc.ca/intro-e.html> : Canadian Intellectual Property Office. The database contains issued patents and applications for patents that have been made available to the public from October 1, 1989 to the present. This database will be updated on a monthly basis. In the future, CIPO will be able to add patent abstracts, as well as provide data prior to October 1989.
Canadian Trademarks Database <http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/sc_consu/trade-marks/engdoc/cover.html> : Canadian Intellectual Property Office. Trade-mark information found in the database can include designs, wares and services covered by the registration, owner's name.
esp@cenet patent information service at the United Kingdom Patent Office <http://dips.patent.gov.uk/> : esp@cenet patent information service at the United Kingdom Patent Office. Search in United Kingdom patents | Search in patents from other European countries | Search in European (EP) patents | Search in PCT (WO) patents | Search in Worldwide patents | Search in Japanese patents.
Intellectual Property Mall <http://www.ipmall.fplc.edu/> : Collection of intellectual property resources from the Franklin Pierce Law Center and others on the Internet. It is intended to offer "one stop shopping" for intellectual property professionals in academia, business and science, as well as for inventors and entrepreneurs.
Intellectual Property Resources <http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/resources/infoecon/Intellectual_Property.html> : Page of Intellectual Property resources to general sites, legal resources, copyright and patent information
Patent Law Links <http://www.patentlawlinks.com/> : Comprhensive Patent Law metasite. Includes: Case Law; Federal Circuit, District Courts...; Statutes & Regulations; USC, CFR, MPEP...; Patent Search Engines; U.S. Patent Office, IBM Patent Server...; Journals; Academics, Associations...; Worldwide Patent Office Sites; USPTO, WIPO, EPO...; IP Associations; PTO Society, AIPLA, ABA IP Section...; Patent Drawing Services; Northeast, DC Area...; Patent Search and Document Firms; Search Firms, Document Retrieval...; Patent Law Firms; Northeast, Foreign...; Intellectual Property News & Mailing Lists; Internet Patent News Service...; IP Law and Tech Schools;Franklin Pierce Law Center...; Legal Search Engines; LawCrawler, Martindale Lawyer Locator...; Career & CLE Info; PLI, ALI-ABA...; Templates of Legal Documents; PTO Forms, PCT Forms ...
Patents and Patent Searching <http://www.library.ucsb.edu/istl/98-summer/article5.html> : The definition, requirements for and types of patents are discussed, as well as tools available to access patents. Includes World Wide Web esources. Kawakami, Alice B., Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, Summer 1998.
| PHYSICS |
Physics Around the World <http://www.tp.umu.se/TIPTOP/paw/> : Meta list of physics sites
| PUBLIC RELATIONS |
Public Relations Industry <http://publicrelations.about.com/business/publicrelations/> : For public relations professionals and business people who want a a one stop website with in-depth PR resources. From corporate communications and ethics to Internet PR and Media Relations, more than 20 PR-related subject categories and 650+ direct links and growing. Other features include Forum, chat, newsletter and weekly feature articles. About.com site created by Jeff Domansky
| PUBLISHERS and VENDORS |
Publishers' Catalogues Home Page <http://www.lights.com/publisher/> : International in scope. There is a geographic index as well as a searchable database
PubList <http://www.publist.com/> : Comprehensive directory of information about more than 150,000 publications and more than 8000 newspapers around the world. Information comes from definitive sources such as Ulrich's™ International Periodicals Directory.
Standard Periodical Directory <http://www.oxbridge.com/spd_home.cfm?tp=b> : Lists periodicals by subject category. Each entry includes target audience, cost, email address, contact name, frequency, etc.
| RADIO and TELEVISION |
Aileena <http://www.aileena.ch/> : AILEENA - The world's leading media-index Over 4300 Links to Newspapers, Radio- and TV-Stations in 153 countries
Just The News - Listen.To/TheNews <http://Listen.To/TheNews> : Direct RealAudio/Video Radio and Television News Links from Around the World. Comprehensive site with many national and foreign news links.
The MIT List of Radio Stations on the Internet <http://wmbr.mit.edu/stations/list.html> : Links to Over 8000 Radio Stations in the U.S., Canada and around the world
| REFERENCE AND MISCELLANEA |
Academic Info Reference Desk <http://www.academicinfo.net/ref.html> :
All Experts <http://www.allexperts.com/> : Allexperts.com is a free reference, question and answer service
All things Automotive <http://www.autodirectory.com/> : Automotive directory covering over 3000 sites including finance, insurance, parts, ezines, organizations
Assorted Encyclopedias on the Web <http://edis.win.tue.nl/encyclop.html> : Collection of links to various encyclopedias including Biology - Environment - Medicine, Crafts - Hobbies - Sports, Cultures - Geography - History, Economics -Finance, General Knowledge, Internet, Mathematics - Computing, Mysticism - Mythology, Philosophy, Physics - Cosmology, Religion and Social Sciences
DeskRef: Quick Reference Links <http://ansernet.rcls.org/deskref/> : Ramapo Catskill Library System. Quick reference hotlist. This site has been redesigned to allow the user community to add, modify, and rate listed sites
Footage.Net <http://www.footage.net> : The Stock, Archival & News Footage Network. More than a million shots indexed on-line, 120+ Web sites, over a dozen footage databases, and keyword searchable.
Guinness World Records <http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/home.asp> : Searchable site for finding recordsfor the oldest, youngest, largest, smallest, etc.
iFigure <http://www.ifigure.com/index.html> : iFigure is a metasite which provides links to online calculators and worksheets. These are interactive, educational tools that provide information to help in planning, solving and making decisions for a multitude of problems and tasks that come up daily, such as buying a home, checking on your health, investing money, figuring business profits, making statistical comparisons, or calculating pump pressure.
LiveRef <http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/LiveRef.htm> : A Registry of Real-Time Digital Reference Services, _LiveRef(sm)_ is a categorized listing of libraries that offer real-time Library reference or information services using chat software, live interactive communications utilities, call cente rmanagement software, Web contact center software, bulletin board services, or related Internet technologies. Developed by Gerry McKiernan
Power Reporting <http://PowerReporting.com/> : Metasite compiled primarliy for journalists. Has links to calculators, news, weather, finding tools, dictionaries, encyclopedias, reference books, demographic materials, etc. Site is updated daily
Quick Reference Research <http://www.refdesk.com/instant.html> : Meta list of ready reference sources
RefDesk <http://www.refdesk.com/> : A portal for quick facts. Lookup weather, zip codes, stock prices,daily almanac, quotations, grammar, news, etc. To get the flavour of this very rich compendium the site map should be visited.
Scholarly Societies Project University of Waterloo <http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/society/> : Web Sites of 1229 Scholarly Societies
Toronto Public Library Virtual Library <http://vrl.tpl.toronto.on.ca/> : The Toronto Public Library Virtual Library guides users to Internet information sources and to the resources of the library itself. Staff at Toronto Public Library and Toronto Reference Library select and index the best of the Internet in over 25 subjects. The VRL Subject Guide to the Internet indexes about 8,000 - 10,000 Internet sites which can be browsed by subject or searched by keyword. Internet sites produced in Canada are a particular focus. Site descriptions include a brief annotation, the languages used on the site, and a Made in Canada flag.
Universities Worldwide <http://geowww.uibk.ac.at/univ/> : University & college home pages arranged geographically. Includes a searchable index.
Virtual Reference Site <http://www.dreamscape.com/frankvad/reference.html> : These Sites contain over 2,500 of the most popular information reference locations and tools on the Web. The site includes Maps, Facts, Calculators, Dictionaries, Directories, Chat, Travel, Health, Languages, Sports, Calendars, Jobs, Weather, Music, Autos, Humor.
Web Pages that Perform Statistical Calculations <http://members.aol.com/johnp71/javastat.html> : The web pages listed here comprise a powerful, conveniently-accessible, and FREE multi-platform statistical software package. There are also links to online statistics books, tutorials, downloadable software, and related resources. Includes: Calculators, Plotters, Function Integrators, Probability Distribution Functions: Tables, Graphs, Random Number Generators, Descriptive Statistics, Histograms, Charts, Contingency Tables, Cross-tabs, Chi-Square Tests, Regression, Correlation, Least Squares Curve-fitting, Non-parametric Correlation, Bayesian Methods, etc.
Webrary Links Menu <http://www.webrary.org/ref/weblinksmenu.html> : Webrary Links pages consist of links to useful reference and informational web sites, organized by subject according to Dewey Decimal System call numbers. Produced by the Morton Grove Public Library, this site contains web links valuable to all types of libraries.
World City Guide <http://cityguide.lycos.com/> :
| REGIONAL: ASIA |
Al Bawaba: Middle East Gateway <http://www.albawaba.com/main/index.ie.php3?flag7029=ok&lang=e> : Al Bawaba ("The Gateway" in Arabic), is a comprehensive Middle- Eastern portal on the Internet. Provides information on the Middle- Eastern economy and business sectors, along with politics, tourism, culture, legal issues, health, entertainment and sports. News items, in-depth reports and analysis on all these topics are undertaken daily. Includes a keyword search facility.
| REGIONAL: EUROPE |
ABC of the European Union <http://europa.eu.int/abc-en.htm> : his page provides basic information about the European Union and contains links to more detailed information.
Business information sources on the internet: index <http://www.dis.strath.ac.uk/business/index.html> : This aims to be a selective guide to some Internet sites which contain business information, with some emphasis on UK sources. University of Strathclyde, Glasgow UK
Greece: Hellenic WWW Directories & Portals <http://www.hri.org/nodes/grweb.html> : Portal offering news and links to foremost web sites for Greece
LawLinks / Law Links <http://library.ukc.ac.uk/library/lawlinks/default.htm> : Legal information on the internet: An annotated list of web sites, compiled by Sarah Carter at University of Kent, U.K.
Emphasis is on U.K. and European sites.
United Kingdom Legislations <http://www.legislation.hmso.gov.uk/> : Full text of British laws from 1996 to date
| REGIONAL: SOUTH AMERICA / CENTRAL AMERICA |
Internet Resources for Latin America <http://lib.NMSU.EDU/subject/bord/laguia/> : From New Mexico State University Library, this is a pathfinder to information on Latin America on the internet.
| REGIONAL: U.S. |
50 States <http://www.50states.com/> : Information on each of the 50 states including weather, song, bird, flag, geography, history, motto, newspapers, libraries, famous people, economy, politics, etc.
| RELIGION |
Judaica Libraries and Archives on the Web <http://www.bibliomaven.com/> : This page serves as a one-stop reference to the web pages of research-level Judaica collections in libraries and archives. It is a resource for learning more about Judaica collections and the cultural institutions which house them, as well as Jewish culture, history, and literature.
Virtual Religion Index <http://religion.rutgers.edu/vri/index.html> : Metasite for most religion sites on the internet
Wabash Center Internet Guide for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion <http://www.wabashcenter.wabash.edu/Internet/front.htm> : A selective, annotated guide to a wide variety of electronic resources of interest to those who are involved in the study and practice of religion: syllabi, electronic texts, electronic journals, websites, bibliographies, listserv discussion groups, liturgies, reference resources, software, etc.
| SCIENCE |
Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Mathematics & Science Education <http://www.enc.org/> : A mathematics metasite from the Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Mathematics & Science Education. ENC’s mission is to identify effective curriculum resources, create high-quality professional development materials, and disseminate useful information and products to improvemathematics and science teaching and learning.
Encyclozine <http://encyclozine.com/> : EncycloZine is a concise illustrated encyclopedic portal covering a wide range of topics in the arts, humanities, sciences, & technology. Includes links for learning web design, cascading style sheets, XHTML, etc.
Fossick Web Search Alliance Directory <http://fossick.com/Science.htm> : Search engines and directories are listed in alphabetical order. Includes: Environment, Science, Natural and Technology
Le réseau Franco Science <http://www.citeweb.net/science/franco/> : Le but du site est de donner un plus grand rayonnement aux sciences dans la francophonie
Scout Report for Science and Engineering <http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/scout/report/sci-engr/> : The target audience of the Scout Report for Science & Engineering is faculty, students, staff, and librarians in the life sciences, physical sciences, and engineering. Each biweekly issue offers a selective collection of Internet resources covering topics in the sciences, and related fields such as math and engineering, that have been chosen by librarians and content specialists in the given field of study. The Report is divided into two parts, site annotation, and current awareness
| SEARCH DIRECTORIES |
Al Bawaba: Middle East Gateway <http://www.albawaba.com/main/index.ie.php3?flag7029=ok&lang=e> : Al Bawaba ("The Gateway" in Arabic), is a comprehensive Middle- Eastern portal on the Internet. Provides information on the Middle- Eastern economy and business sectors, along with politics, tourism, culture, legal issues, health, entertainment and sports. News items, in-depth reports and analysis on all these topics are undertaken daily. Includes a keyword search facility.
| STANDARDS |
Computer and Communications Standards <http://www.cmpcmm.com/cc/standards.html> : Links fo information on ATM, Corba, Ethernet, FDDI, Frame Relay, ISDN, etc. From Carnegie Mellon University
STANDARDS <http://www.uky.edu/Subject/standards.html> : University of Kentucky, Comprehensive list of U.S. and international standards organizations
WSSN: World Standards Services Network <http://www.wssn.net/WSSN/> : World Standards Services Network (WSSN), is a network of publicly accessible World Wide Web servers of standards organizations around the world. Through the Web sites of its members, WSSN provides information on international, regional and national standardization and related activities and services.
| STATISTICAL INFORMATION |
B&E DataLinks: Business and Economics Statistics. American Statistical Association <http://www.econ-datalinks.org/> : B&E DataLinks, a project sponsored by the Business and Economic Statistics (B&E) Section of the American Statistical Association (ASA). This site contains links to data sources of interest to economists and business statisticians. Browse by categories including finance, macroeconomics, and labor and general microeconometrics, or search by keyword.
Criminal Justice Statistics Centre: Criminal Statistics <http://caag.state.ca.us/cjsc/> : This site contains more than 3400 statistical tables, as well as links to federal, state and local agencies statistics, and links to other statistics services.
Data on the Net <http://odwin.ucsd.edu/idata/> : Search or browse collection of 823 Internet sites of numeric Social Science statistical data, data catalogs, data libraries, social science gateways, addresses. University of California, San Diego
Fedstats: One Stop Shopping for Federal Statistics <http://www.fedstats.gov/> : More than 70 agencies in the United States Federal Government produce statistics of interest to the public.
Guinness World Records <http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/home.asp> : Searchable site for finding recordsfor the oldest, youngest, largest, smallest, etc.
International Data Base (IDB) <http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idbnew.html> : The International Data Base (IDB) is a computerized data bank containing statistical tables of demographic, and socio-economic data for all countries of the world.
InternetStats <http://www.internetstats.com/index.php3> : Looking for statistics. This site offers statstics in the following areas: internet advertising, business, trade, finance, and trends
Media Awareness Network <http://www.screen.com/mnet/eng/issues/stats/stats.htm> : Statistics on television, video and computer games, the Internet, film and video, and the print media. The emphasis is on Canadian statistics, but American and international figures are also included.
OECD. Frequently Requested Statistics <http://www.oecd.org/std/fas.htm> : Includes GDP, unemployment rates, leading indicators, etc. for member countries
Population Index <http://popindex.princeton.edu/> : Population Index, published since 1935, is the primary reference tool to the world's population literature. It presents an annotated bibliography of recently published books, journal articles, working papers, and other materials on population topics. This website provides a searchable and browsable database containing 43,463 abstracts of demographic literature published in Population Index in the period 1986-1999.
Statistical Links <http://www.cbs.nl/eng/link/index.htm> : An exhaustive listing of national and international organizations and agencies gathering statistics worldwide.
Statistics Every Writer Should Know <http://nilesonline.com/stats/> : Here, described in plain English, are some basic concepts in statistics
United States Vital Records Information <http://vitalrec.com/> : This page contains information about where to obtain vital records (such as birth, death & marriage certificates and divorce decrees) from each state, territory and county of the United States.
Web Pages that Perform Statistical Calculations <http://members.aol.com/johnp71/javastat.html> : The web pages listed here comprise a powerful, conveniently-accessible, and FREE multi-platform statistical software package. There are also links to online statistics books, tutorials, downloadable software, and related resources. Includes: Calculators, Plotters, Function Integrators, Probability Distribution Functions: Tables, Graphs, Random Number Generators, Descriptive Statistics, Histograms, Charts, Contingency Tables, Cross-tabs, Chi-Square Tests, Regression, Correlation, Least Squares Curve-fitting, Non-parametric Correlation, Bayesian Methods, etc.
| STOCK MARKETS |
Stock Research Sites on the Web <http://depts.washington.edu/balib/stocksites/> : This site contains evaluations of free stock research sites on the Web. There has been no attempt to apply any qualitative or quantitative ranking to the sites, rather, this lists the features available on the different sites along with some evaluative comments on usability and design. From the Foster Business Library, University of Washington
| TELECOMMUNICATIONS |
Analysys Telecom Virtual Library <http://www.analysys.co.uk/vlib/default.htm> : Links to Manufacturers and Vendors, Mobile Communications, Multimedia, Operators, Policy and Industry Information, Broadband Telecoms, ATM , Broadcasting, Cable TV and Communications, Consultancies, Economic and Legal Issues
Questus Telecommunications Links Database <http://www.questus.co.uk/links.htm> : Searchable database of telecommunications links on the internet. A search by country will display a list of links to telecommunications companies and carriers in that country
Telecom Links <http://www.angustel.ca/links/l-subj.html> : Comprehensive site for links to telecommunications information. Includes an alphabetical listing, as well as good government and regulatory information for the industry. Focus is on Canadian content, although international sites are included
| TOPICAL GUIDES & SUBJECT BASED META LISTS |
Industry Data Finder <http://www.rh.edu/library/industry/industry.htm> : From the Cole Library, Rensselaer at Hartford, this site offers a list of various industries. For each industry the site presents the SIC, related industry websites, links to trade publications, trade assoications, and links to prominent companies within the industry.
Industry Data Finder <http://www.rh.edu/library/subject/subject.htm> : From the Cole Library, Rensselaer at Hartford, this site offers a list of resources in various subjects.
| TRANSLATION |
Human Language Page <http://www.june29.com/HLP/> : The Human-Languages Page is a comprehensive catalog of language-related Internet resources with over 2000 links. Included are online language lessons, translating dictionaries, native literature, translation services, software, language schools, etc.
| TRAVEL |
50 States <http://www.50states.com/> : Information on each of the 50 states including weather, song, bird, flag, geography, history, motto, newspapers, libraries, famous people, economy, politics, etc.
| UNIVERSITY GUIDES |
American Society of Engineering Education: College Profiles <http://www.asee.org/colleges/> : This directory provides a detailed profile of U.S. and Canadian schools offering undergraduate and graduate engineering, as well as engineering technology programs
Braintrack University Index <http://www.braintrack.com/> : BRAINTRACK is a worldwide University-Index on the Internet. It contains Internet-Addresses of Universities, Polytechnics, Colleges and other higher educational institutions all over the world. There are over 5300 links to higher educational institutions in 152 countries
Canadian Education on the Web <http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/~mpress/eduweb.html> : The purpose of Canadian Education on the Web is to bring together everything relating to Canada and education that has a presence on the World Wide Web. Includes Boards of Education, Commercial Education sites, Databases, Clearinghouses and Directories, Education Journals and Networks, etc. The page is developed and maintained by Marian Press.
Canadian Universities / Universités Canadiennes <http://www.uwaterloo.ca/canu/index.html> : Comprehensive list of Canadian universities with links to their home pages. Arranged by province. This site is maintained at the University of Waterloo
College and University Rankings <http://www.library.uiuc.edu/edx/rankings.htm> : A webliography of rankings for universities and academic institutions maintained by the Education and Social Science Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The purpose of the rankings site is to draw together and provide context to various online sources of information on the ranking of institutions of higher education. Topics include: General / Undergraduate, Graduate / Research, Business, Law, International
The Directory of Canadian Universities / | Le répertoire des universités canadiennes <http://www.aucc.ca/dcu/> : From the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada, this site presents university descriptions, Programs of study, University web sites
GO HIGHER! - A GUIDE TO CANADIAN UNIVERSITIES <http://www.gohigher.net/resources/biguniversities.html> : General information about the largest Universities in Canada and links to their sites.
Peterson's <http://www.petersons.com/> : A portal to information about universities and higher educations from the producer of the well known directory, Peterson's Register of Higher Education
ULinks.Com <http://www.ulinks.com/> : ULinks.com, a portal to universities, now lists over 2200 colleges, universities, tradeschools listed by category, state and alphabet. Includes a ranking of Best Universities Source: U.S. News & World Report
Universities.Com <http://www.universities.com/> : A free login account is required. Multiple searches, by U.S. map and state names, by country, by institution name.
Universities Worldwide <http://geowww.uibk.ac.at/univ/> : University & college home pages arranged geographically. Includes a searchable index.
| WEB PUBLISHING |
Encyclozine <http://encyclozine.com/> : EncycloZine is a concise illustrated encyclopedic portal covering a wide range of topics in the arts, humanities, sciences, & technology. Includes links for learning web design, cascading style sheets, XHTML, etc.
Information architecture: Tools for cutting-edge Web developers <http://www.ala.org/acrl/resoct00.html> : ACRL Internet Resources Oct. 2000 developed by Rob Withers, Rob Casson, Aaron Shrimplin, and Katherine C. Adams. The core of information architecture is Web site navigation, labeling/naming schemes, and Web site structure. Information architects determine the functional and conceptual building blocks of a site. Unlike Web designers who are concerned with typeface, graphics, and other particulars of constructing an interface, information architects create organizational and navigational structures that help people access information. This site includes links to newsgroups, tutorials, associations, etc.
| WORLD NEWS |
stratfor <http://www.stratfor.com/> : This is a global intelligence site that provides news. Stratfor.com distinguishes itself from other online news services in going one step further to get behind the news. As result of Stratfor.com’s background as a private intelligence company engaged in open-source information monitoring. Regional news from Asia, CIS and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa, Latin America, U.S. and Canada, Europe.
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