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Search Engines

Search Portals| Mainly Searching | Specialty Searching
Kid-Friendly Searching | Metasearching | Search Engine Guides

Search Portals

These search engines feature additional services: news, stocks, weather, sports, yellow pages, white pages, maps, appointment calendars, TV listings, movie showtimes, online shopping, chat, free e-mail, and more are usually offered. This section looks at the basic search and directory services the portals provide.

Yahoo!: Yahoo! is primarily a directory of web sites, categorized by topics and subtopics. When you search, the first results you see are matching Yahoo! categories and sites. You then have the option to go to web page matches (provided by Inktomi's search engine) or continue your search on other major search engines.
Excite: In addition to searching for the exact words you enter in the search box, Excite also searches for related ideas and concepts. Search results include Excite Web Site Guide matches, web sites found, and news articles. Of interest is News Tracker, a clipping service that searches a wide variety of online newspapers and magazines for topics you're interested in.
Lycos: Your Personal Internet Guide: Search results are sorted by Lycos Open Directory categories, web sites, news & media, and web pages found. Lycos also offers a Search Guard adult content filter option.
GO Network: This Infoseek/Disney portal offers Infoseek searches with an optional GOguardian filter to screen objectionable content. The Advanced Search feature allows you to refine your search by selecting options from pulldown boxes. Click Topics to access the Reviewed Sites directory.
Netcenter: Netscape's portal offers several search engines to choose from, including Netscape Search by Excite. Browse by topic using the Netscape Open Directory. For even more search engines and directories to choose from, click Net Search.
MSN.COM: Run a Microsoft MSN web search or choose from a list of other search engines. Explore the "best of the web" with MSN's Web Directory.
Snap: Searches return matching Snap Directory categories & sites followed by matching web pages from Inktomi. NBC is developing Snap as their portal.
Go2Net: Go2Net features metasearching (searching the web using several engines at once) with MetaCrawler. Search results are collated to remove duplicates and ranked by relevance. Browse web sites by topic with the LookSmart directory.

Mainly Searching

These sites focus on searching.

AltaVista: AltaVista is currently ranked as the Internet's most powerful search engine, followed by Northern Light and Inktomi. Start your search by asking a question or entering a few keywords. AltaVista now features the LookSmart Directory, a Photo and Media Finder, and an optional AV Family Filter. The Advanced search option is only recommended for very specific searches using Boolean expressions.
Northern Light Search: Northern Light searches both the WWW and it's own fee-based Special Collection. In addition to providing a list of relevancy-ranked search results, Northern Light also groups some of the matches into optional Custom Search Folders to help you narrow your search.
HotBot: Wired's search interface uses pulldown menus and buttons to help you focus your search. Search results from Inktomi; HotBot Open Directory reviewed sites must be browsed separately.
Ask.com: Ask a question in plain English and you will be given a choice of web sites that may answer your question.
Google: New. Google features a simple interface: just enter some search terms (it only returns pages that contain all the words you enter). An "I'm feeling lucky" button retrieves Google's #1 pick for your search.

Specialty Searching

Search engines often overlook online databases and directories. Continue your search with these specialty engines. See also: Reference Desk Answers>Directories.

c|net SEARCH.COM: Specialty Search by category; each category starts off with a featured engine, followed by more in an A-Z list. Express Search using top general search engines.
Deja News: "Read, search, participate in and subscribe to more than 80,000 discussion forums, including Usenet newsgroups."
Liszt, the mailing list directory: A directory of Internet discussion forums: mailing lists, newsgroups, and IRC chat channels.
ZDNet: Technology news, blogs, White Papers and reviews of tech products.

Kid-Friendly Searching

Search engines especially for kids and search engines that offer adult content filters.

Ask for Kids: Children can ask questions in plain English and receive content-screened results run through SurfWatch's Internet filtering tool.
Yahooligans!: Yahoo! for kids.
GO Network: Features an optional GOguardian adult content filter. Even with the filter off, searchers are still warned of possible adult language with an "adult content alert."
Lycos: Your Personal Internet Guide: Features an optional Search Guard adult content filter.
AltaVista: Features an optional AV Family Filter adult content filter.

Metasearching

Run your search using several engines simultaneously.

MetaCrawler: In addition to sending your query to several major search engines at once, Metacrawler offers Go2Net portal services.
Search.com: Metasearch the major search engines or select from specialty and shopping categories. Over 200 search engines and databases are supported.
Dogpile: Metasearch the web, newsgroups, FTP, news wires, stock quotes, yellow/white pages, and maps. Dogpile also provides the Open Directory to browse.

Search Engine Guides

Expand your searching skills and Internet awareness.

Search Engine Watch: News, Tips and More About Search Engines: Danny Sullivan's page for web surfers and webmasters alike. Stay on top of the rapidly changing world of search engines with the Search Engine Report Newsletter. From internet.com.
About.com: Web Search: Chris Sherman's gateway to web searching.
Internet Scout Project: "Surf smarter, not longer" with Internet resources of interest to researchers, educators, and K-12 students. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation.

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Subject Guides

General | K-12 | Academic

These guides gather and evaluate Internet resources by subject; many are maintained by professional librarians or specialists in their field. Be sure to also consult search engine web directories for topics of interest.

General

The Internet Public Library: IPL librarians evalute and categorize online information resources in the Reference section. Special Teen and Youth pages address K-12 study needs. From the University of Michigan's School of Information.
Librarians' Index to the Internet: Library subject headings lead to lists of Internet resources, each described in brief. From the Berkeley Public Library/Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE.
About.com: Every topic (or GuideSite) is run by a subject specialist Guide. GuideSites feature website reviews, feature articles, and discussion areas. Formerly the miningco.com.
WWW Virtual Library: A "catalog of the web" run by volunteers who maintain guides for topics they are expert in.
LookSmart - exploring World: This web directory catalogs web sites into more than 24,000 categories. It's also licensed by many search engines.
Netscape Open Directory: A directory of the web maintained by volunteer editors. The Open Directory is also licensed to (and often modified by) other search engines, such as HotBot, Lycos, and Dogpile.

K-12

Blue Web'n Learning Sites Library: Pacific Bell's catalog of K-12 educational sites is categorized by subject area, audience, and type (lessons, activities, projects, resources, references, & tools).
Education World: Enter a search query or click "browse our database" to access Education World's extensive collection of educational sites. Site reviews and feature articles are also offered. Sponsored by American Fidelity Assurance Company.
Community Learning Network: K-12 educational resources by subject. From Canada's Open Learning Agency.

Academic

InfoSurf: Information Resources by Subject: A to Z Internet resources by subject (from Accounting to Women's Studies). From the University of California, Santa Barbara Library.
INFOMINE: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections: "Academically valuable resources" from the Library of the University of California at Riverside.
Webliography: An Internet subject guide maintained by the librarians and staff of the Louisiana State University Libraries.
BUBL LINK Catalogue of Selected Internet Resources: Selected Internet resources covering major academic subject areas. From the Andersonian Library, Strathclyde University, Glasgow, Scotland.
Using the Library of Congress: Collections & Services for Researchers, Libraries, and the Public: An access point for the LC Online Catalog and other online databases and Internet resources.

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Reference Desk Answers


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Gateways

IPL Ready Reference Collection: A comprehensive collection from the Internet Public Library at the University of Michigan's School of Information. Covers both standard reference and many subject areas.
University of Virginia Library: Internet Reference Sources: Explore General Topics or get specific with Arts & Humanities, Engineering, Science & Medicine, and Social Sciences.
Navigator: A Selective Guide to The Internet: "Navigator is the home page used by the newsroom of The New York Times for forays into the Web." Part of the New York Times Learning Network, it also features separate navigators for students, teachers, and parents.
LibrarySpot: Library and reference sites, all in one spot.
My Virtual Reference Desk: Bob Drudge's everything-but-the-kitchen-sink collection of reference sources on the web.
SciCentral: Gateway to the Best Science and Engineering Online Resources: SciLink's metadirectory serves as an online science desk reference. Features a special K-12 Science section.

Directories

InfoSpace.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.
GTE SuperPages®: Yellow Pages and E-Commerce Shopping Directory: Find business listings from all telephone companies. Shopping services include Consumer Guide.
Zip2 Yellow Pages: Find businesses near your home. Specialty categories range from Apparel to Sports & Recreation.
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.
WWWebster Thesaurus: The companion thesaurus to the WWWebster Dictionary.
Plumb Design Visual Thesaurus: A thesuarus 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.
Copyright Implementation Manual: Heartland Area Education Agency quick reference to copyright.

Encyclopedias & Almanacs

Encyclopedia.com from Electric Library: Over 17,000 articles from The Concise Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, Third Edition (1994).
FunkandWagnalls.com: Funk & Wagnalls Multimedia Encyclopedia online. Requires free registration.
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).
Information Please Kids' Almanac: On-Line Dictionary, Encyclopedia, and Homework Help: Information Please geared for kids.
Webopedia: internet.com's computer technology encyclopedia.

Atlases, Maps, & Travel

Map Machine @ nationalgeographic.com: Features the Map Machine Atlas, star charts, satellite imagery, and links to other map resources.
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.
CIA World Factbook: Country profiles from the CIA.
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.

Other Online Reference

BIOGRAPHY® Online Database: Brief bios from A&E's Biography and Cambridge University Press.
Allmovie.com: All Media Guide's searchable database over 220,000 movies. Search for information by name or by film title.
Learn2.com - The ability utility: Learn2 specializes in the training of Microsoft Office & Windows software, business skills, sales training, communication, writing techniques, Defensive Driving, Human Resource topics and more. Includes free 'Life and Time Management' tutorial.
How Stuff Works: HowStuffWorks is the leading source of credible, unbiased, and easy-to-understand explanations of how the world actually works. Founded by North Carolina State University Professor Marshall Brain in 1998, the site has since grown to be an award-winning online resource for millions of people of all ages.
iVillage: iVillage is "the Internet for women" and consists of several online and offline media-based properties that seek to enrich the lives of women, teenage girls and parents through the offering of unique content, community applications, tools and interactive features.
Better Homes and Gardens Home Improvement Encyclopedia: An online how-to book on home improvement.
cars.com: Everything cars: pricing, news, reviews, and buying information, plus advice from Tom & Ray Magliozzi of NPR's Car Talk.
ZDNet: Internet and computing technology resources are organized by channels in this metasite from publisher Ziff-Davis.
Internet.com: Internet.com's information site for the internet and IT network/community offers tutorials and tech support for Windows, PC hardware, web building, and more.

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Homework Help

TeenSpace: The Internet Public Library offers sites by subject and the A+ Research and Writing Guide. From the University of Michigan's School of Information.
Kidspace: Sites by subject and special features for children ages 4-11 from the Internet Public Library.
KidsClick! web search for kids by librarians: A searchable directory of web sites organized by subject. From the Ramapo Catskill Library System in New York State.
FEN's Homework Help: Homework resources by subject from the Family Education Network.
A+ Research & Writing for High School and College Students: The Internet Public Library's step-by-step guide to writing research papers.
Purdue University's Online Writing Lab: The OWL at Purdue offers online handouts covering writing, research, grammar, and MLA and APA style. The award-winning Writing Lab at Purdue offers free writing consultations, workshops, ESL conversation groups, and other services in Purdue University's Heavilon Hall to the Purdue campus community.
KidsConnect: Research ToolBox: In KCTools you'll find help with four basic phases of the research process - asking questions that begin with "I wonder..." , "I find...", "I evaluate..." and "I share...". Provides help and referral to K-12 students looking for resources on reports and projects. From the ALA's American Association of School Librarians.
Federal Resources for Educational Excellence: FREE is a clearinghouse of Internet-based education resources from agencies across the U.S. Federal government.
The New York Times Learning Network: An educational companion to the NYT for students in grades 6-12, their teachers, and parents.The site is updated weekdays throughout the school year.
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators: Not necessarily for educators! Students can find curriculum-related sites organized by subject here. Sponsored by the Discovery Channel School.
ALA Resources for Parents, Teens and Kids: All of the American Library Association's resources in one place.

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Books Online

Finding Tools | Book Reviews | Digital Book Collections

Finding Tools

The On-Line Books Page: John Mark Ockerbloom's gateway to books online.
IPL Online Texts: Referrals to a number of resources for online texts from the Internet Public Library.
The Literary Web: Literary fiction and poetry links from the School of Information Sciences at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
Literary Resources on the Net: Literary websites with a special focus on English and American literature. Maintained by Jack Lynch (Assistant English Professor, Rutgers University).
CLWG: Children's Literature Web Guide: Internet resources related to books for children and young adults. Maintained by David K. Brown (Director, Doucette Library of Teaching Resources, University of Calgary).

Book Reviews

The New York Times: Books: The New York Times Book Review online. Features First Chapters of current fiction and non-fiction.
washingtonpost.com: Style Live: Books & Reading: Includes the Sunday Book World supplement and Chapter One, a "first chapters" service.
Los Angeles Times Calendar Live: Books & Talks: Book news and reviews plus First Chapters.
Real Books: Reviews from Knight Ridder newspapers and Chapter One excerpts.
Atlantic Unbound | The Atlantic Monthly: Features Books and Poetry Pages departments.
BookBrowse: Excerpts of bestsellers and other current fiction and non-fiction.
BookWire: The book industry's online information service. Reviews, author interviews, and links to book-related sites can be found here. Bookwire also hosts online versions of Publisher's Weekly, Library Journal, and School Library Journal.
Booknotes: An online companion to C-SPAN's author interview series, Booknotes. Includes First Chapters of some of the books featured on the program.
Booklist: Book reviews and feature articles from the American Library Association.
Parents and Children Together Online: An online magazine devoted to reading from The Family Literacy Center.

Digital Book Collections

Digital Text Collections: A masterlist of online collections compiled by the Berkeley Digital Library.

Project Gutenberg: "Fine literature, digitally re-published." Thousands of books, now in the public domain, are available here. Note: Gutenberg selections only come in plain text format -- more easily navigable hyperlinked versions may be available from The On-Line Books Page or the IPL Online Texts Collection.
The Electronic Text Center's Modern English Collection: "Fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, letters, newspapers, manuscripts and illustrations from 1500 to the present" in hypertext format from the University of Virginia's Electronic Text Center.
Documenting the American South: A Digitized Library of Southern Literature, Beginnings to 1920: Electronic texts "documenting the riches and diversity of Southern experience as presented in one hundred of its most important literary works." From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries.
HTI American Verse Project: An electronic archive of 19th century poetry from the University of Michigan's Humanities Text Initiative.
Literature @ SunSITE: The Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE's growing collection of digital texts includes Jack London's writings.
The New Bartleby: This etext publisher currently features BartlebyVerse: American & English Poetry, 1250-1920.
American Memory from the Library of Congress: "America's Story in Words, Sounds, and Pictures." Multimedia Americana from the National Digital Library Program.
NYPL Digital Library Collections: Books, manuscripts, photographs, engravings, and other media arranged as online exhibitions by The New York Public Library.

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News Media Online

Finding Tools|Newspapers| Newsmagazines
Network News Services: News, Business, Sports, Weather, Local

Finding Tools

AJR NewsLink: Link to the websites of newspapers, magazines, and radio/tv stations worldwide. From the American Journalism Review magazine and NewsLink Associates.
NewsDirectory: A guide to English-language media online (newspapers, magazines, and television). Formerly Ecola Newstand.
MediaINFO Links: This online media directory covers Associations, City Guides, Magazines, Newspapers, Radio, Syndicates/News Services, and Television. From The Editor & Publisher Co.
IPL Reading Room: Serials: A listing of magazines, e-zines, newsletters, professional journals, and e-journals. From the Internet Public Library.
IPL Reading Room: Newspapers: Newspapers, English and foreign language.
Electronic Journals Resource Directory: An ejournal (electronic journals and newsletters) directory from the University of Saskatchewan Libraries.
Electronic Journal Access (Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries): An index of electronic journals -- broadly defined by the Alliance as "as any journal, magazine, e'zine, webzine, newsletter or type of electronic serial publication which is available over the Internet."
e-zine list: "Zines are generally produced by one person or a small group of people, done often for fun or personal reasons, and tend to be irreverent, bizarre, and/or esoteric." Maintained by John Labovitz.
Excite Headline News: In addition to news from Reuters and UPI, this page offers a directory of news web sites. A news search feature, NewsTracker, finds articles from hundreds of media sources.
Government Documents in the News: Link to resources on headline-making government issues. From the University of Michigan Documents Center.
RealGuide: A guide to RealNetworks streaming (real time) audio and video on the Internet. Most major news networks use this technology. Requires RealPlayer.
broadcast.com: A channel guide from the Internet's largest broadcaster of streaming media programming. Both RealPlayer and Windows Media Player streaming technologies are used to deliver audio and video.
RealPlayer: Download RealPlayer for your home computer here.
Windows Media Player: Download Windows Media Player for your home computer here. This site includes a Net Events program guide from MSN.
The MIT List of Radio Stations on the Internet: A world-wide listing of stations which broadcast live on the Internet.
TV Guide Online: Check your local listings. Also features The Motion Picture Guide movie database.
Cable in the Classroom Online: Educational programming from the cable networks.

Newspapers

The New London Day
The Norwich Bulletin
The Hartford Courant
CT Central (New Haven Register)
projo.com: The Providence Journal
newsday.com
Boston Globe Online
washingtonpost.com
The New York Times on the Web
New York Post Online Edition
USA TODAY
The Christian Science Monitor Electronic Edition

Newsmagazines

Newsweek.com
TIME.com
U.S. News Online
BusinessWeek Online
Forbes Digital Tool
Education Week on the Web
The Sporting News
Entertainment Weekly Online
Entertainment News Daily

Network News Services

News

CNN Interactive

ABCNEWS.com

CBS News

MSNBC

Fox News

C-SPAN

The PBS Online NewsHour

NPR Online (National Public Radio)

BBC News

The Wire - Breaking News from the Associated Press

Business

CNNfn - the financial network

Bloomberg.com : Top Financial News

CBS MarketWatch.com

CNBC

Sports

ESPN.com

CNN/Sports Illustrated

CBS SportsLine

Weather

The Weather Channel

AccuWeather

Local

WVIT-TV NBC 30 Connecticut

WTNH-TV News Channel 8

WFSB-TV 3 Eyewitness News

Connecticut Public Broadcasting

New England Cable News

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Family Interest Sites

Family Education Network: "We provide parents with the information and resources they need to actively participate in their children's learning process." FEN Partners include the American Association of School Administrators and the National PTA.
National Parent Information Network: NPIN offers an online magazine, Parenting News, and a gateway to "Internet Resources for and about Parents." Sponsored by the Department of Education's ERIC Clearinghouse on Urban Education and the ERIC Clearinghouse on Elementary and Early Childhood Education.
Partnership for Family Involvement in Education: A Department of Education site devoted to promoting children's learning through the development of family-school-community partnerships.
Family.com: Disney.com's website for families.
Parent Soup: A parenting "online community" from iVillage.
ParentsPlace.com: More iVillage parenting resources with a focus on pediatrics and health issues.
FinAid! The SmartStudent Guide to Financial Aid: A gateway to information about student financial aid on the web. Maintained by Mark Kantrowitz (author of The Prentice Hall Guide to Scholarships and Fellowships for Math and Science Students).

Great Sites!: 700+ "Amazing, Spectacular, Mysterious, Wonderful Web Sites for Kids and the Adults Who Care About Them." From the American Library Association.
ICONnect: FamiliesConnect - The Cybersite for Parents & Kids: The ALA's American Association of School Librarians helps families learn about the Internet.
Association for Library Service to Children: This division of the ALA maintains separate Internet resource pages for kids, parents & caregivers, teachers, and librarians.
ALA Resources for Parents, Teens and Kids: All of the American Library Association's resources in one place.

Teen Hoopla: An Internet Guide for Teens: Sites recommended for 12 to 18 year olds from the ALA's Young Adult Library Services Association.
IPL Teen Division: The Internet Public Library offers sites by subject and the A+ Research and Writing Guide. From the University of Michigan's School of Information.

IPL Youth Division: Sites by subject and special features for children ages 4-11 from the Internet Public Library.
Berit's Best Sites for Children: Librarian Berit Erickson's directory of sites geared toward children up to age 12.
Disney's Internet Guide: A directory for kids and families alike.
Surfing the Net with Kids: Top sites from Barbara J. Feldman's syndicated newspaper column.

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Local Interest Sites

Town of North Stonington Homepage

North Stonington Public Schools

North Stonington Elementary School


First Baptist Church, North Stonington Connecticut
The Weather Channel - North Stonington, Connecticut
State of Connecticut Website
State of Connecticut Municipality Home Page
Connecticut State Department of Education
L E A R N (Regional Education Service Center)
ctkidslink.org (Connecticut Voices for Children)
Connecticut Tourism Home Page
Mystic&More!

Visit Connecticut
Connecticut Magazine
CID (Connecticut Internet Directory)
The Connecticut Historical Society
Greater Mystic Chamber of Commerce
Mystic Seaport, the Museum of America and the Sea
Mystic Aquarium/Institute for Exploration

Historic Ship Nautilus
Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center
Amistad America
Florence Griswold Museum
Avery Point Campus - University of Connecticut
National Undersea Research Center (University of Connecticut at Avery Point)
UCONN-Marine Sciences Home Page
Connecticut Sea Grant
Three Rivers Community - Technical College
United States Coast Guard Academy
Connecticut State University System
Connecticut College
Mitchell College
The Lyme Academy of Fine Arts
The University of New Haven

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Last Updated: September 6, 2007
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