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The Electronic Reference Shelf
A convenient, selected list of
Internet sources. |
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| Acronyms & Abbreviations |
Government |
Speeches |
Biographies
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Grants & Scholarships |
Statistics |
| Books (Books in & Out of Print, Book
Reviews, Electronic Texts, Publishers, Stores...) |
Handbooks & Almanacs |
Time, Dates & Calendars
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| Computers and the Internet (Browsers, Downloads, ISPs, Statistics) |
Health & Medicine |
Translation
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| Consumers |
Libraries (Worldwide, National, Regional, Digital) |
Travel |
| Conversions & Currency
Rates |
Maps & Geography |
Universities & Colleges
(Directories, Information and Rankings, Dissertations , Studying Abroad)
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| Dictionaries & Thesauri |
Measurement Tools |
Weather |
| Directories (Phone, E-Mail, Zip Codes...) |
News & Newspapers (U.S., Worldwide, Newswires and Online
News, TV and Radio, News Archives
and Transcripts, Obituaries) |
Web Searching & Meta-Sites
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| Electronic Journals/Periodicals
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Organizations |
Writing Aids (Grammar, Style
Manuals) |
| Encyclopedias |
Quotations |
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| Acronyms & Abbreviations |
- Acronyms and
Abbreviations
- Acronym Finder searchable database containing common acronyms
and abbreviations about all subjects, with a focus on computers,
technology, telecommunications, and the military.
- Onelook.com A meta-dictionary which searches
for words or acronyms in over 460 dictionaries.
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| Biographies |
- Biographical Dictionary
27,000 biographies covering ancient times to the present.
- Biographical Directory of
the United States Congress
- Biography.com site of A &
E's Biography television series; includes the searchable text of
15,000+ entries from The Cambridge Biographical Encyclopedia. Tends to
be a little out-of-date.
- Biography and Geneaology
Index (off-campus access
instructions)
- *Biography Resource
Center Comprehensive database of biographical information on
more that 150,000 people from throughout history, around the world,
and across all disciplines and subject areas.(off-campus access
instructions)
- Distinguished Women of
Past and Present
- Encyclopedia Britannica Online
(off-campus
access instructions)
- Lives, the
Biography Resource Links to thousands of biographies,
autobiographies, memoirs, diaries, letters, narratives, oral histories
and more.
- NameBase Index over 200,000
citations covering more than 90,000 individual and organizational
names from approximately 500 books published since 1962 and thousands
of periodicals from 1973. Covers people in academia, high tech, media,
politics, intelligence, U.S. foreign policy, religion, crime, business
and more.
- Newsmaker Profiles
(CNN) biographies of people in the news; U.S. and
international.
- The Political Graveyard
Tells where the dead politicians are buried.
- World Biographical
Index over 2 million brief biographies forindividuals who
lived in North and South America, Western and Central Europe,
Australia, New Zealand, and Oceania. (From K.G Saur). Entries contain
brief biographical information, citations to all original reference
works in which information on the individual appears, and the location
of the source work in the companion biographical archive microfiche
collection. The fiche collection can be found in the Government
Documents and Microforms Dept. on the 1st floor of the Lauinger
Library.
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Books
(Book Reviews, Online Books, Publishers, Online Bookstores)
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| Books In and Out of Print |
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Print and Price Listing Resources from AcqWeb
Includes
links to the following worldwide sources: Argentina,
Australia,
Austria,
Belgium,Canada,
China,
France,
Germany,
India,
International,
Italy,
Netherlands,
New
Zealand, Spain,
Spanish/Portugese,
Switzerland,
United
Kingdom, and the United
States. Also includes links to Serials,
Music,
Videos
and DVDs.
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Book
Reviews & Literary Criticism
for more information see the GU
Research Guide on Book
Reviews
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- BookWire comprehensive book industry site; includes
Library Journal; School Library Journal; Publishers Weekly, with their
Bestseller Lists and links to reviews; Computer Book Review; Hungry
Mind Review; indexes to publishers and booksellers on the Web;
calendars of authors on tour and book events, etc.
- Book Browser: a guide for avid
readers "collection of
fiction reading lists. . . to help avid fiction readers find books and
authors;" lists by genre, location, series.
- New York Review of
Books includes selections
from its current issue and archived selections from issues back to
February, 1997, and promises of an eventual complete record of its
34-year publishing history.
- New
York Times Book Review includes an archive of more than 50,000 reviews,
book-related news pieces, and interviews back to 1980. The full-text
of first chapters of selected bestsellers and featured titles are
available.
- Online Literary Criticism
Collection from the Internet
Public Library, includes 1576 critical and biographical websites about
authors and their work; browse by author, by title, or by literary
period.
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| Online Books: electronic texts on the
internet |
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| Publishers |
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| Online Bookstores |
- DealPilot.com checks out
prices, availability, shipping times and shipping costs of any book at
over 25 online stores, including Amazon.com and Barnesandnoble.com.
- Bibliofind nine million used
and rare books, periodicals and ephemera offered for sale by thousands
of booksellers around the world.
- Bookfinder a book shopping search engine that scans
bookseller databases to find new, used, rare, and out of print books.
- Booksellers
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| Consumers |
- U.S. Consumer gateway a
"one-stop" link to a broad range of federal information resources
available online. Information by category -- such as Food, Health,
Product Safety, Your Money, and Transportation.
- ConsumerGuide includes Auto Guide to
buying new and used cars, and has Best Buy ratings for everything from
cameras to freezers, home office products to baby equipment.
- Consumer World
" a public service site which
has gathered over 1700 of the most useful consumer resources and
categorized them. " Offers product reviews, comparison shopping for
bargains and travel, info on filing a complaint with a government or
company consumer affairs department or the BBB, 100s of consumer
rightsbooklets, info on low rate credit card or mortgage, prices of
cars, finance tips, how to research a law, ...
- Kelley Blue Book New & Used Car Price
Reports lists both new car
and used car prices & reports, and a directory of important sites,
including dealer and automobile manufacturers' sites.
- RegistrationVillage.com
extensive list of recalls, also safety tips and product
how-tos.
- Product ReviewNet
indexes and abstracts of product
reviews from hundreds of online sites and print publications. It
covers a wide range of products, including consumer appliances,
computers and software, as well as CDs, gardening supplies and
books.
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| Conversions and Currency Rates |
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| Grants &
Scholarships |
- Grant Resources on the
Web from the July/August, 1999 issue of the Association
of College and Research Libraries' C&RL NewsNet Internet
Resources
- fastWEB:Financial Aid
Search Through the Web a free searchable database of more than
275,000 private sector scholarships, fellowships, grants, and loans
from more than 10,000 sources.
- Federal Information Exchange, Inc. Home
Page includes (FEDIX/MOLIS)database of research
and education funding, includes minority institutions.
- Federal Loan and Grant
Programs (from the U.S. Department of Education)
- Financial Aid Information
Page
- Foundation Center
- GrantsNets funding
opportunities for training in the biological and medical
sciences
- GrantsWeblists
government, general, and private funding sources
- National Institutes of
Health (NIH)
- National Science Foundation
- Student Guide to
Financial Aid Financial Aid from the U.S. Department of
Education
- SPIN (Sponsored Programs
Information Network) Database of scholarly grants,
fellowships, and sponsored programs (off-campus access
instructions)
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| Handbooks &
Almanacs |
- The Almanac of Politics and
Government
- Background
Notes (U.S. State Department
) full-text info on countries and international organizations;
organized by region and country or organization. History, government
and political conditions, economy, foreign relations and basic travel
information. Also lists principal U.S. officials and consulate
officers.
- Flags of the World - FOTW
more than 1500 pages and more
than 2500 images of flags.
- Information Please
includes the Information Please
Almanac, the Entertainment Almanac, Sports Almanac, the Columbia
Encyclopedia, and the Random House College Dictionary
online.
- Nobel Prize Internet
Archive or The Nobel Foundation
comprehensive info on
winners and discoveries.
- Old Farmer's
Almanac
- The 50 States & Capitals
includes: latitude and
longitude, birds, colleges and universities, constitutions, flowers,
genealogical resources, mottos, national forests and parks,
newspapers, nicknames, nonprofit organizations, populations, state and
federal representatives, songs, and the date of entry into the
union.
- World Factbook
annual CIA
handbook gives basic data on all the countries of the
world.
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| Health &
Medicine |
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AMA Health
Insight. Health information for a general audience, sponsored
by the American Medical Association.
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Centers for Disease Control &
Information has info for travellers,such as
vaccine requirements, disease outbreaks, country health information,
and more.
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Complete Home Medical
Guide helpful medical reference work (3rd 1995 edition;
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons)
- Dr. Koop. Extensive health
information site led by Dr. C. Everett Koop, former U.S. Surgeon
General, dedicated to improving the quality of people's lives by
empowering them to improve their health.
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Healthfinder from the US
government; links to selected online publications, clearinghouses,
databases, web sites, and support / self-help groups, as well as the
government agencies and not-for-profit organizations.
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Mayo Clinic Oasis a
searchable site, includes recent health news and a library of medical
references
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MEDLINE: PubMed
and Internet Grateful Med free access to Medline, The National
Library of Medicine's database of references to articles published in
medical journals . Search either Internet Grateful Med or
PubMed.
- MEDLINEplus provides access
to reviewed, authoritative information about nearly 400 diseases and
conditions (cancer, diabetes, etc.), a medical encyclopedia, medical
dictionaries, lists of hospitals and physicians, health information in
Spanish, and information about prescription and nonprescription
drugs.
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National Health Information Center
search the Health Information Resource Database, which
includes 1,110 U.S. organizations and government officies that provide
health information on request. Entries include contact information,
short abstracts, and information about publications and services the
organizations provide. Includes a list of toll-free numbers.
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Physician Select
(from the AMA) provides information on licensed physicians in
the United States and its possessions, including more than 650,000
doctors of medicine (MD) and doctors of osteopathy or osteopathic
medicine (DO). All physician credential data have been verified for
accuracy and authenticated.
- Profusion, Health. Site
that searches using a number of search engines at once.
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RxList: the Internet Drug Index
provides extensive information for over 500 perscription
drugs. |
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Maps &
Geography
(Local and
U.S. Maps, Directions and Distance, Topographical
and Relief Maps, World Maps, Gazetteers and Thesauri) |
Local and U.S. Maps
Directions and Distance
- How Far Is It? data
from the US Census and a supplementary list of cities around the
world to find thelatitude and longitude of two places, and then
calculates the distance between them.
- Mapquest street atlas of the
U S provides mileage, and streep maps with driving directions. Also
has trip information that includes hotels, restaurants, sites and
weather.
- Maps on Us, mapping and
routing service from Lucent Technologies; detailed maps and driving
directions.
Topographical and Relief Maps
World Maps
Gazetteers and Thesauri
- Global Gazetteer
locates and identifies nearly three million cities and towns around
the world. Locales are organized by country and linked to a map for
each place. A Google search engine links to internet sites related
to each city or town.
- U.S. Census Bureau's
Gazetteer identify places with the Tiger Map Server and
obtain census data from the 1990 Census. Search for places, counties
or MCDs by entering the name and state abbreviation (or 5-digit
zip)
- The Thesaurus of
Geographical Names
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| Measurement Tools |
- Common
Weights And Measures
- A Dictionary of
Measures, Units and Conversions "a summary of most of the
units of measurement to be found in use around the world today (and a
few of historical interest), together with the appropriate conversion
factors needed to change them into a 'standard' unit of the S I."(
'Systeme International')
- Measurement
Conversion Calculator converts any combination of approximately 800 SI,
metric, American, English, historical, and ancient
measures.
- **Unit
Conversions This converter
works for units of energy, pressure, volume, temperature, and mass;
calculates the value of: acceleration, area, luminance, mass,
pressure, velocity, voltage, and volume.
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| Statistics
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- American
Factfinder--US Census Bureau a "data access and dissemination system" from the
US Census Bureau offers access to some of the Bureau's largest data
sets. Users can create a variety of tables, reports, or maps with
information on their community, the economy, or American society.
There are 3 options for accessing data: Quick Tables and Thematic
Maps, which offers predefined reports on widely used statistics, &
Build A Query.
- Bureau of Labor Statistics
includes statistics and reports
on employment and unemployment, price(Consumer Price
Index ) and living
conditions, compensation and more.
- City Rankings
from the County and City Data Book
- CyberAtlas Internet
statistics. Links to research reports tracking general usage, usage
breakdowns by Web site, demographic, locale and computer
platform.
- Fedstats: One Stop Shopping Federal
Statistics statistical
information from more than 70 government agencies organized in a
subject-based A-Z Index.
- Statistical Abstract
of the United States contains a collection of statistics on social and
economic conditions in the United States. Selected international data
are also included.
- Statistical
Resources on the Web "Meta-index to statistical web sites and
individual statistical publications arranged by broad subject category
from the University of Michigan Documents Center."
- United States Historical
Census Data Browser "The
data presented here describe the people and the economy of the US for
each state and county from 1790 to 1970."
- World Population
Profile 98 (US Census
Bureau) this report offers "a comprehensive assessment of world
demographic prospects ..." The report highlights major demographic
trends.
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| Time, Dates
& Calendars |
- CalendarLand Interactive, perpetual, cultural, celestial
calendars and more.
- Calendar
Conversions Julian,
Georgian, Jewish, French Republican.
- Countdown
see how many days, hours or seconds until some event in the future, or
the past.
- Perpetual
Calendar
- Roman
Numeral Date Conversion Table
- This date is history
famous dates in history from the
History Channel
- Times Around the
World
- Sun, Moon Rise & Set
Calculator, US Naval
Observatory
- World Holiday and Festival
Homepage
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| Translation |
- Babelfish Translation
Service from AltaVista "AltaVista Translation Assistant
provides you with a tool to translate a grammatically correct document
into something comprehensible, but not perfect." Translations
available for: French to English; German to English; Italian to
English; Portugese to English; Spanish to English; English to French;
English to German; English to Italian; English to Portugese; English
to Spanish.
- ECHO: EuroDicautom Created by the
European Union. Translates words between thirteen European languages.
Best for translating technical terms.
- Foreignword.com's
Translate Now single-point access to 22 of the best systems for over 30
different languages.
- SYSTRAN uses the
software that Babelfish runs on to translate words or pages, but it
has a larger selection of languages (and can translate between 2
non-English languages).
- Universal Translator
Dictionary - Single word translations between any 2 of 33
languages.
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Travel
(Comprehensive Travel Sites, Planes and
Trains, Other Travel
Sites) |
Comprehensive Travel Sites
- Concierge.com - online
home for the travel magazine, Conde Nast Traveler. Sign-up for
bargain notification services; find consumer advice, airport guides
and research vacation destinations.
- Microsoft
Expedia services include access to published airfares, air and
hotel reservations, flight schedules, and e-mail updates on fares; map
section & currency converter, hotel guide,worldwide weather
reports, and more.
- Travelocity one-stop travel
site; includes discount info, flight reservation service,
accommodations, cars,vacation packages, as well as destination
materials covering events, attractions, exchange rates, and weather
along with maps.
Planes and Trains
Other Travel Sites
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| Web Searching
& Doing Research on the
Internet |
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Writing
Aids
(Grammar, Style
Manuals) |
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Grammar
Style Manuals
(for specifics on citing electronic
resources see our page on Citing Internet
Resouces)
APA Manuals
(American Psychological Association)
MLA Style Manual
(Modern Language Association)
- MLA
Style
- NoodleBib
NoodleBib
is a free service that simplifies the process of creating and editing
MLA-style bibliographies.
Others
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Last
Updated: 12/7/00
Please send comments or suggestions to Beth Marhanka
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