Research
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Search Engines | Subject Guides
Directories
SuperPages.com Find people, places and things with this directory. Services include white pages, classifieds, shopping, city guides, finance, business services, community, news, fun stuff, and government.
Switchboard: The Internet Directory An Internet phonebook offering white pages, yellow pages, and maps & directions.
AnyWho Directory services from AT&T Labs include residential, business, toll-free, and reverse lookup.
Yellow Pages Find businesses serving local and other metropolitan areas.
Postal Services and Products, Mail and Addresses Information to help you get it mailed from the U.S. Postal Service.
UPS Online service guide and package tracking.
FedEx Online service guide and package tracking.
DHL Worldwide Express Online service guide and package tracking.
Dictionaries & Thesauri
WWWebster Dictionary The online edition of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate® Dictionary, Tenth Edition.
WordCentral.Com Merriam-Webster's Student's Electronic Dictionary and more.
Plumb Design Visual Thesaurus A thesaurus with an innovative interface.
A Web of On-line Dictionaries A metalist of dictionaries, thesauri, and grammars from linguistics professor Robert Beard (Bucknell University).
OneLook Dictionaries Search hundreds of online dictionaries at once to find the definition you're looking for.
Style Guides
Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL) The Resources for Writers section contains handouts on a wide range of writing topics as well as links to other writing websites. From Purdue University.
Paradigm Online Writing Assistant A writer's guide and handbook from Chuck Guilford (Associate Professor of English, Boise State University).
William Strunk's The Elements of Style The first (1918) edition of a classic style manual.
MLA Style The latest guidelines for documenting Internet sources. From the Modern Language Association.
Encyclopedias & Almanacs
Encyclopedia.com from Electric Library Over 17,000 articles from The Concise Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, Third Edition (1994).
Encarta Online The concise version of Microsoft's Encarta Encyclopedia. Information Please: On-Line Dictionary, Internet Encyclopedia, & Almanac Reference The
Information Please Almanac online. Also includes The Columbia Encyclopedia, Fifth Edition (1993).
FactMonster.com: On-Line Dictionary, Encyclopedia, and Homework Help Information Please geared for kids.
Atlases, Maps, & Travel
PCL Map Collection Historical and political maps from the Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection at the University of Texas (Austin). Includes links to maps at other web sites.
MapQuest Road maps, driving directions, and travel itinerary (Mobil Travel Guide).
Microsoft Expedia Maps Road maps, driving directions, and a link to Expedia Travel.
Travelinformation.com Use this site to select the latest free travel brochures, vacation guides, maps and travel planning kits and have them mailed to you free.
US State Department - Bureau of Consular Affairs Essential information for American citizens abroad: travel warnings, consular information sheets for every country, passports/visas, tips for travelers, and more.
CDC Travel Information Traveler's health precautions from the Centers for Disease Control.
Project visa Visa and embassy information for all countries.
OANDA Currency Converter Get today's and historical exchange rates.
Intellicast Weather Weather services include USA/world current conditions and forecasts.
National Weather Service The NWS homepage links to a wide variety of government weather services.
Government & Law
THOMAS -- Legislative Information on the Internet A Library of Congress metasite for tracking Federal legislation. Current bills (and public laws from several previous Congresses) receiving media attention are listed in Congress in the News. Thomas also provides links to legislative, executive, judicial, and state/local resources.
Library of Congress; American Memory American Memory is a gateway to the Library of Congress’s vast resources of digitized American historical materials. Comprising more than 9 million items that document U.S. history and culture, American Memory is organized into more than 100 thematic collections based on their original format, their subject matter, or who first created, assembled, or donated them to the Library. Browse over 20 collections in Government and Law.
FedWorld Information Network The U.S. Department of Commerce's online search service for information from government databases.
University of Michigan Documents Center Find government information at all levels -- local, state, federal, foreign, and international. Of interest is Government Documents in the News.
FindLaw: Internet Legal Resources A metasite for Internet legal resources.
stateline.org: your source for news on state policy innovations Current news, background information, and statistical data on public policy issues at the state level. Administered by the University of Richmond and funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts.
Public Agenda Online A nonpartisan, nonprofit public opinion and policy analysis organization founded by social scientist and author Daniel Yankelovich and former Secretary of State Cyrus Vance.
Policy.com A non-partisan public policy news and information service. From A2S2 Digital Projects, Inc.
The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School : Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy A collection of primary source materials from the fields of law, history, economics, politics, diplomacy and government.
Health
General Health Information
Center for Disease Control and Prevention. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention offers health news and information in English and Spanish. It is one of the best places to go for statistics, travel health, and immunization information.
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons Complete Home Medical Guide The Third Revised Edition of the comprehensive home reference.
Dr. Koop's Community This site helps consumers understand their medical conditions and treatment options. The company is led by former U.S. Surgeon General Dr. C. Everett Koop.
Hardin MD - Hardin Meta Directory of Internet Health Sources "We list the best sites that list the sites." From the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences, University of Iowa.
Health A to Z - The Search Engine for Health and Medicine This site from the Medical Network Inc. features both a search engine and sites organized by topic, rated, and briefly described.
Healthfinder - a gateway consumer health and human services information web site Use this Department of Health and Human Services site to find health information from U.S. government agencies and not-for-profit organizations.
Informedhealthonline The Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care, a German nonprofit, publishes this site. It explains evidence-based medicine and helps users understand published research studies.
InteliHealth Health information resources from the Harvard Medical School's consumer health information and Aetna, Inc.
Mayo Clinic This site provides information about diseases and conditions, treatment options, and drugs. Its coverage of nutrition is very good. It also has a Symptom Checker feature.
National Library of Medicine's MEDLINEplus The National Library of Medicine and National Institute of Health's site, which includes information about diseases and conditions, current health news, drug information, directories of health-care providers and organizations, a medical encyclopedia, and a medical dictionary. It also has videos of surgical procedures and tutorials for medical and surgical procedures. The site is available in Spanish, and it includes material that is easy to read.
NOAH New York Online Access to Health is a joint project of the City University of New York, the New York Academy of Medicine, and the New York Public Library. The bilingual (English-Spanish) site covers a wide range of health topics. In addition to the usual diseases and conditions, it includes alternative therapies and lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender concerns.
PubMed. PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 16 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources.It also has citations from consumer-health magazines. Some full-text articles are available free.
Alternative Medicine
The Alternative Medicine Home Page A medical librarian at the University of Pittsburgh maintains this page covering a wide range of complementary and alternative therapies.
The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine Part of the National Institutes of Health, the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine does research on alternative therapies. Its Web site provides objective, evidence-based information about complementary and alternative treatments.
Children's Health
The American Academy of Pediatrics The American Academy of Pediatrics has a comprehensive site covering child development, diseases and conditions, child safety, and parenting, from birth toe age 21. It has information for both health professionals and lay users.
Go Ask Alice. The health question and answer Internet site produced by Alice!, Columbia University’s Health Education Program. It is an excellent resource for teens seeking information about sexuality, relationships, and drugs as well as general health topics.
GirlsHealth.gov The National Women's Health Information Center offers a site for girls covering topics such as body image, fitness, and living with a disability.
KidsHealth The Nemours Foundation publishes this site with pages for parents, kids, and teens. It offers information in English and Spanish on health and safety and other relevant topics, such as bullying. The kids and teens sites have interactive quizzes.
Senior Health
American Association of Retired Persons. The AARP provides information for seniors on a variety of topics, including health. It is especially useful for learning about Medicare, Social Security, health insurance, and drug coverage. The site has variable type size for the visually impaired and a Spanish-language version.
NIH Senior Health. The National Institute on Aging publishes an outstanding site for seniors. It covers health problems that seniors face, fitness, how to take medicines correctly and Medicare. Users may adjust the type size and the contrast. It also has audio so that they may listen to the information.
Women's Health
4Women.gov. The National Women's Health Information Center provides coverage of women's health issues, health organizations, and statistics as well as information in Spanish.
Our Bodies Ourselves. The Boston Women's Health Book Collective has launched a Web site as a companion to its classic book. It offers information that supplements the book with current news, links to relevant Web sites, psychosocial support, political concerns, and personal comments.