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INTERNET RESEARCH DEVELOPER v 10.5 Go To Websites for Writers
From Tom Welch’s desktop, a broad, comprehensive, and meaningful – Internet Research Developer v 10.5 – Go To Websites for Writers helps you quickly drill down and explore major topics and avoid irreverent search engine results. The goal is research productivity and quality! This friendly and practical ebook offers quick and dirty access to vital internet resources available today for research purposes. Educators, executives and students will also benefit from this handy tool.
Explore Art (and Entertainment) Audio Books Books Business (and Economics) Copyright Criminal Justice Databases Dictionaries (and Glossaries) Education Encyclopedias Environment Finance (Money and Investing) Forums Geography Government International Law Libraries Media (Alternative) Media (International) Media (USA National) Medical Politics Psychology Religion Science (and Math) Search Engines Search Tools (Groups, Info and Lists) Style Guides Technology (Ideas and Innovation) Tools - Writing (and Related Stuff)
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Tip For large and complex research projects, start your research efforts at a major public and/or university library. Make it a point to seek out the reference librarian as a starting point. Use this ebook to first identify pertinent topic categories, drilldown and review information sources, and then perform additional research tasks.
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Dedication Internet Research Cheat Sheet is dedicated to the staff of Red Mountian Dialysis, Mesa, Arizona USA.
Credits Author: Tom Welch ([email protected]) Publisher: Tom Welch, MBA, CPC (www.facebook.com/HireTom) Book Cover: Jeff Welch Version: 10.1e Copyright: Copyright 1995 to 2013 Tom Welch, MBA, CPC, All Rights Reserved
Notice This ebook is offered for information purposes only and does not constitute legal or business advice. The reader should seek competent professional advice before acting on the information in this ebook.
Art (and Entertainment) Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scientists www.oscars.org Ain’t It Cool News (Movies) www.aint-it-cool-news.com All Movie www.allmovie.com All Music www.allmusic.com American Federation of Television and Radio Artists www.aftra.com American Film Institute www.afi.com American Music Resource www.amrhome.net Art Find www.art-find.net Arts Journal www.artsjournal.com ASCAP www.ascap.com AskArt www.askart.com Billboard Online www.billboard.com Biography www.biography.com Bomb Magazine http://bombsite.com Broadway (Reviews) www.broadway.com Broadway League www.broadwayleague.com Charts All Over the World (Music) www.lanet.lv/misc/charts Country Music Association www.cmaworld.com Culture Kiosque (European) www.culturekiosque.com
Ready Reference Curtain Up (Theater Magazine) www.curtainup.com Cyber Dance (Ballet) www.cyberdance.org Deadline www.deadline.com DirectorsNet www.directorsnet.com Dramatists Play Service www.dramatists.com Drive-Ins www.drive-ins.com eInsiders (Movies) www.einsiders.com Film Festivals www.filmfestivals.com FilmSite www.filmsite.org Find A Grave www.findagrave.com Foreign Films www.foreignfilms.com Hollywood (Movie and TV) www.hollywood.com Hollywood Film Institute (School) www.webfilmschool.com IndieWire www.indiewire.com International Arts Resources www.artslynx.org Internet Movie Database www.imdb.org Joost (Shows, Films and Music) www.joost.com MetaCritic www.metacritic.com Movies www.movies.com Mr. Cranky (Movie Reviews) www.mrcranky.com Museum and Art www.museum.com Musi-Cal (Concert Listings) www.musi-cal.com Music Publishers Association http://mpa.org National Gallery of Art www.nga.gov National Gallery of London www.nationalgallery.org.uk National Jukebox www.loc.gov/jukebox National Portrait Gallery www.npg.org.uk New York Foundation for Arts www.nyfa.org New York Theatre www.nytheatre.com Opera Glass
Ready Reference http://opera.stanford.edu Operissimo (Opera) www.operissimo.com Play Bill www.playbill.com PollStar www.pollstar.com Recording Industry Association of America www.riaa.com Rock and Roll Hall of Fame http://rockhall.com Roughstock (Country Music) www.roughstock.com SIBMAS (International Directory of Performing Arts) www.theatrelibrary.org/sibmas/idpac Stage and Song (Theatre) www.stageandsong.com Stage Specs (for Entertainers) www.stagespecs.com Sundance Channel www.sundancechannel.com The Wrap www.thewrap.com Theatermania www.theatermania.com Tenement Museum www.tenement.org Thinkers Network www.thinkers.net The Golden Globes (Awards) www.thegoldenglobes.com The Stage (UK) www.thestage.co.uk The Wrap (The Business Side of the Entertainment Industry) www.thewrap.com TV Guide www.tvguide.com US National Gallery of Art www.nga.gov Variety Online www.variety.com Weiss Ratings www.weissratings.com Who’s Alive and Who’s Dead www.whosaliveandwhosdead.com Wikimedia Commons http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page World Wide Arts Resources http://wwar.com World Wide Box Office www.worldwideboxoffice.com
Audio Books Audible www.audible.com Audiobooks.Com www.audiobooks.com
Ready Reference Audiobooks.Org www.autiobooks.org iTunes www.apple.com/itunes LibriVox www.librivox.org Simply Audio Books www.simplyaudiobooks.com Note: Go to www.wiredforbooks.org for insightful author interviews.
Books Abe Books (Rare Books) www.abebooks.com Affordable Book (Search Engine) www.affordabook.com Alibris (Used and Out-Print-Books) www.alibris.com Amazon www.amazon.com Association of American University Presses http://aaupnet.org Barnes and Noble www.bn.com Book Genie (Buy and Sell Used Text Books) www.bookgenies.com Book Page www.bookpage.com Book Reporter www.bookreporter.com Book Spot www.bookspot.com Book Wire www.bookwire.com Books A Million www.booksamillion.com Books In Print www.booksinprint.com Borders www.borders.com Braille International www.brailleintl.org Chambal (Compare Book Prices) www.chambal.com Choose Books (Used and Rare Books) www.choosebooks.com Christian Book www.christianbook.com FetchBook (Search Engine) www.fetchbook.info Free Book Search www.freebooksearch.net Google Books http://books.google.com ISBN Search Engine www.isbn.nu Library of Congress Catalog http://catalog.loc.gov
Ready Reference Literati www.literati.net Melvyl (University of California) http://melvyl.cdlib.org National Book Awards www.nationalbook.org National Book Critics Circle www.bookcritics.org Powell’s (America’s largest independent bookstore ) www.powells.com Publishers Weekly www.publishersweekly.com Pulitzer Prizes www.pulitzer.org Stanford Copyright and Fair Use http://fairuse.stanford.edu The Online Books Page http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books Used Book Search (International) www.usedbooksearch.co.uk Voice of the Shuttle http://vos.ucsb.edu
Business (and Economics) Abbott Wool’s Market Segment Resources www.awool.com Accoona (International Business Profiles) www.accoona.com Alacrastore (Business Profiles and Databases) www.alacrastore.com Alibaba (Global Manufacturing Directory) www.alibaba.com American Bankers Association www.aba.com American Society of Association Executives www.asaecenter.org Annual Report Service www.annualreportservice.com BankRate www.bankrate.com Bankers Almanac www.bankersalmanac.com Barrons http://online.barrons.com Beige Book Archive www.minneapolisfed.org/bb/index.cfm BizMiner (Industry Analysis) www.bizminer.com Bloomberg www.bloomberg.com BPubs (Business Publication Search) www.bpubs.com Business Insider www.businessinsider.com Business Valuation Resources http://valuationresources.com Business Week
Ready Reference www.businessweek.com Business Wire (PR Distribution) www.businesswire.com CAROL (European Annual Reports) www.carol.co.uk Center on Budget and Priorities www.cbpp.org CEO Express www.ceoexpress.com Chamber of Commerce www.chamberofcommerce.com CNBC www.cnbc.com CNN Money http://money.cnn.com Coleman Publishing (SBA Loans) www.colemanpublishing.com Competitive Intelligence (CI Resource Index) www.bidigital.com/ci Consumer Reports www.consumerreports.org/cro/index.htm Consumer Search (Product Reviews) www.consumersearch.com Corporate Crime Reporter www.corporatecrimereporter.com Corporate Information www.corporateinformation.com Dun and Bradstreet www.dnb.com/US EconData www.econdata.net EconoMagic www.economagic.com Economic Expert (Macro) www.economicexpert.com Economic Policy Institute www.epi.org Economy Watch http://www.economywatch.com/ Entrepreneur www.entrepreneur.com EU Business www.eubusiness.com Factiva http://factiva.com Fair Warning (Safety News and Corporate Conduct) www.fairwarning.org Fast Company www.fastcompany.com FDIC Institutional Directory www.fdic.gov/idasp FDIC State Economic Profiles www.fdic.gov/bank/analytical/stateprofile Forbes www.forbes.com FreeLunch (Free Economic Data) www.economy.com/freelunch/default.asp Global Edge (International Business) http://globaledge.msu.edu
Ready Reference Harvard Business Review www.hbr.org Hoover’s (Company Profiles) www.hoovers.com Inc. www.inc.com International Directory of Professional Associations www.associationsdirectory.org KellySearch (B to B Suppliers) www.kellysearch.com Investor’s Business Daily www.investors.com Kompass (B to B Search Engine) http://us.kompass.com Invest IQ http://dowjones.investiq.com/dowjones Manta (Small Business Profiles) www.manta.com MarketNews International www.marketnews.com MarketWatch www.marketwatch.com Mena Business Report www.menareport.com National Association for Business Economics (NABE) www.nabe.com Oil Price Information Service www.opisnet.com Morningstar www.morningstar.com National Trade and Professional Associations (Directory) www.columbiabooks.com Researcha (Company Information) www.researcha.com RFE (Resources for Economists) www.rfe.org Seeking Alpha (Stocks) www.seekingalpha.com Shadow Government Statistics www.shadowstats.com Smart Money www.smartmoney.com SourceTool (B to B Search Engine) www.sourcetool.com Strategic News Service (Technology) www.tapsns.com Stratfor (Global Intelligence) www.stratfor.com Teach Me Finance www.teachmefinance.com The Competitive Intelligence Index www.bidigital.com/ci The Economist www.economist.com The National Bureau of Economic Research www.nber.org The Public Register (Annual Reports) www.prars.com The Street
Ready Reference www.thestreet.com The World Economic Forum www.weforum.org Tip’d (Financial News) www.tipd.com ThomasNet (Manufacturing Industry Directory) www.thomasnet.com The Inflation Calculator www.westegg.com/inflation USA Data (Marketing Demographics) www.usadata.com World Chambers Network www.worldchambers.com 10K Wizard www.10kwizard.com 123Jump (IPOs and Stock) www.123jump.com 24/7 Wall Street http://247wallst.com
Copyright Copyright Society of USA www.csusa.org Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org US Copyright Office www.copyright.gov
Criminal Justice American Bar Association www.abanet.org American Society of Criminology www.asc41.com Black Book Online (Public Records Search) www.blackbookonline.info BRB Publications (Public Records Search) www.brbpub.com CopSeek (International Law Enforcement Search Engine) www.copseek.com DocuSearch (Asset, Business, and Civil Searches) www.docusearch.com FSU Criminal Justice Links www.criminology.fsu.edu/p/cjl-main.php Investigative Resources International www.factfind.com Lloyd Sealy Library www.lib.jjay.cuny.edu National Criminal Justice Reference Service www.ncjrs.gov National Whistleblowers Center www.whistleblowers.org North American Missing Persons Network www.nampn.org Officer (Police News and Forum) www.officer.com Records Check (Public Records)
Ready Reference www.recordscheck.net Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Stats www.albany.edu/sourcebook Terrorism Research Center www.terrorism.com The Crime Report www.thecrimereport.org The Doe Network www.doenetwork.org US Bureau of Criminal Justice http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov World’s Most Wanted www.mostwanted.org Zeno’s Forensic Site http://forensic.to/forensic.html
Databases Accurint www.accurint.com Addresses www.addresses.com All Academic www.allacademic.com AnyWho (White Phone Pages) www.anywho.com AllPages www.allpages.com Archive (Web Content) www.archive.org aRMadillo (Business and Credit Reports) www.rmonline.com Bankruptcy Data www.bankruptcydata.com Baseline Research (Entertainment Industry) www.baselineresearch.com Bible Gateway www.biblegateway.com BUBL (Academic Research Topics) http://bubl.ac.uk Complete Planet www.completeplanet.com DataFerrett (Analysis and Extraction) www.thedataweb.org DialogWeb (Business, Technical and Scientific Publications) www.dialogweb.com DoE Information Bridge (Scientific and Technical) www.osti.gov/bridge Electronic Text Center http://etext.lib.virginia.edu Find The Data www.findthedata.org HathiTrust Digital Library (Collection) http://catalog.hathitrust.org Hoover’s (Industry, Company and Executive Profiles) www.hoovers.com Infomine (Scholarly Collections) http://infomine.ucr.edu
Ready Reference Internet Broadway Database www.ibdb.com Janes (Defense Industry) www.janes.com KnowX (Public Records) www.knowx.com Landings Aircraft Database www.landings.com LexisNexis (Business, Law, Education and Government) www.lexisnexis.com Media Finder www.mediafinder.com National Obituary Archive www.nationalobituaryarchive.com NewsBank www.newsbank.com NewsStand (Digital Newspapers) www.newsstand.com Ovid (Journal and Database Search) www.ovid.com Play Database www.playdatabase.com Pipl (Deep Web People Search) www.pipl.com ProQuest www.proquest.com/en-US Superpages (Yellow Pages) www.superpages.com The Human Mortality Database www.mortality.org The New Testament (Web Directory) www.ntgateway.com USA Trace www.usatrace.com Virtual Gum Shoe (for Investigators) www.virtualgumshoe.com
Dictionaries (and Glossaries) Acronym Finder www.acronymfinder.com AllWords www.allwords.com AlphaDictionary www.alphadictionary.com American Heritage Dictionary http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary Answers (Aggregator) www.answers.com ArtLex www.artlex.com Bartleby www.bartleby.com Bloomberg Financial Glossary www.bloomberg.com/invest/glossary/bfglosa.htm Dictionary www.dictionary.net Dicts (Free Dictionary Project)
Ready Reference www.dicts.info Dorland’s Medical Dictionary www.dorlands.com DoubleTongued www.doubletongued.org Google Dictionary (International) www.google.com/dictionary Idiom Dictionary www.idiomdictionary.com King’s Medical Library Engine (and Dictionary) www.kmle.com Law Dictionary http://dictionary.law.com Merriam-Webster Online www.m-w.com MoneyGlossary www.moneyglossary.com NetLingo www.netlingo.com Onelook (Aggregator) www.onelook.com Political Quotations www.politicalquotes.org QuotationsPage www.quotationspage.com Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus www.bartleby.com/thesauri Stedman’s Medical Dictionary www.stedmans.com Taber’s Medical Dictionary www.tabers.com The Devil’s Dictionary www.thedevilsdictionary.com The Free Dictionary (and Resources) www.thefreedictionary.com Travlang’s Translating Dictionaries http://dictionaries.travlang.com Urban Dictionary www.urbandictionary.com Vocabulary www.vocabulary.com Webster’s New World Dictionary www.yourdictionary.com Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary www.dictionary.com What IS (technology) http://whatis.techtarget.com Who2 (biographical) www.who2.com Wordnik www.wordnik.com WordSmith http://wordsmith.org Your Dictionary www.yourdictionary.com
Education
Ready Reference Achieve (Educational Standards) www.achieve.org Add Resource (Attention Deficit) www.addresource.com All the Tests www.allthetests.com American Council on Education www.acenet.edu American Educational Research Association www.aera.net American Students Access www.students.gov American Youth Policy Forum www.aypf.org ASU Educational Policy Analysis Archive http://epaa.asu.edu/ojs Broadcast Educational Association www.beaweb.org Canadian Universities List www.uwaterloo.ca/canu Center for Educational Reform www.edreform.com ChildSTATS (Federal/State) www.childstats.gov College Board www.collegeboard.com College Degree (Accredited Distance Learning) www.collegedegree.com Community College Directory www.community-college.org Connect for Kids www.connectforkids.org Council for Exceptional Children www.cec.sped.org Council of Chief State Officers www.ccsso.org Council of the Great City Schools (Urban Public Education) www.cgcs.org CyberSmart www.cybersmart.org Educating Jane www.educatingjane.com Education Atlas www.educationatlas.com Education Commission of the States www.ecs.org Education Data Partnership www.ed-data.k12.ca.us Education Resources Information Center www.eric.ed.gov Education Week www.edweek.org Education World www.educationworld.com Educational Writers Association www.ewa.org Educause www.educause.edu/eq Edudemic
Ready Reference www.edudemic.com Educator’s Reference Desk www.eduref.org Family Friendly Search www.familyfriendlysearch.com Federal Resources for Educational Excellence www.free.ed.gov FinAid www.finaid.org Gateway to Educational Materials http://thegateway.org Go College www.gocollege.com Go ENC www.goenc.com Google Curriculum Search http://code.google.com/edu/curriculumsearch Index of American Universities www.aera.net Kathy Schock’s Guide for Educators http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schrockguide Keep Schools Safe www.keepschoolssafe.org National Association for Gifted Children www.nagc.org National Center for Children in Poverty www.nccp.org National Center for Educational Statistics http://nces.ed.gov National Clearinghouse on Families and Youth www.ncfy.com National Education Association www.nea.org Peterson’s Guide (College Search) www.petersons.com Search EDU www.searchedu.com Study Web www.studyweb.com The Annie E Casey Foundation (Disadvantaged Children) www.aecf.org The Black Collegian www.black-collegian.com The Chronicle of Higher Education www.chronicle.com The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education www.highereducation.org The Thomas B. Fordham Institute www.edexcellence.net US Charter Schools www.uscharterschools.org US Department of Education www.ed.gov WestEd www.wested.org Wikieducator www.wikieducator.org
Ready Reference Encyclopedias Artcyclopedia www.artcyclopedia.com Britannica www.britannica.com Citizendium http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Welcome_to_Citizendium Classic Encyclopedia www.1911encyclopedia.org Credo Reference (Business) http://corp.credoreference.com Encyclopedia (Aggregator) www.encyclopedia.com FindHow www.findhow.com Healthopedia www.healthopedia.com Open Site www.open-site.org Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy http://plato.stanford.edu/contents.html Symbols (Encyclopedia of Western Symbols and Ideograms) www.symbols.com The Catholic Encyclopedia http://newadvent.org/cathen Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Wixpert www.wixpert.com
Environment EnviroLink www.envirolink.org Environment News Service www.ens-newswire.com Environmental Defense Fund www.edf.org Environmental Literacy Council www.enviroliteracy.org Environmental News Network www.enn.com Food Industry Environmental Network http://users.erols.com/jlc Natural Resources Defense Council www.nrdc.org Pollution Prevention Resource Exchange www.p2rx.org Scorecard www.scorecard.org Sierra Club www.sierraclub.org Society of Environmental Journalists www.sej.org The Right to Know Network http://rtknet.org
Ready Reference Finance (Money and Investing) American Association of Individual Investors www.aaii.com Big Charts http://bigcharts.marketwatch.com BusinessWire www.businesswire.com Chicago Board of Trade (aka Chicago Mercantile Exchange) www.cmegroup.com Chicago Board Options Exchange www.cboe.com ConvertCenter www.convertcenter.com Economic Report of the President www.gpoaccess.gov/eop/index.html EDGAR Filings and Forms www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml Euronext (Global Stock Market) www.euronext.com Financial Industry Regulatory Authority www.finra.org Free EDGAR http://freeedgar.com Fund Alarm (Mutual Funds) www.fundalarm.com INO (Stock, Futures and Options) www.ino.com InterContinental Exchange www.theice.com Investor Guide www.investorguide.com Investor Protection Trust www.investorprotection.org Investopedia www.investopedia.com Investor’s Business Daily www.investors.com InvestorLinks www.investorlinks.com IPO Central www.hoovers.com/ipo-central/100004160-1.html Kansas City Board of Trade www.kcbt.com Kiplinger www.kiplinger.com Measuring Worth www.measuringworth.com Motley Fool www.fool.com NASDAQ www.nasdaq.com NASDAQ Trader www.nasdaqtrader.com New York Stock Exchange www.nyse.com Online Conversion www.onlineconversion.com OSU Virtual Finance Library http://fisher.osu.edu/fin/overview.htm
Ready Reference Quote.Com www.quote.com Research Mag www.researchmag.com Silicon Investor (Global Reach) http://siliconinvestor.advfn.com Uniform Bank Performance Report www.ffiec.gov/UBPR.htm US Congressional Budget Office www.cbo.gov US Federal Economic Census www.census.gov/econ/census02 World Bank www.worldbank.org Worth Online www.worth.com XE (Currency Exchange) www.xe.com
Forums Absolute Write www.absolutewrite.com/forums Bay Areas Editors’ Forum www.editorsforum.org Boardreader (Forum Search Engine) http://boardreader.com Big Boards (Largest Message Forum Search) www.big-boards.com Boardtracker (Tracking 38,000 Forums) www.boardtracker.com Creative NonFiction Writing Forums http://forums.personalessays.org Delphi Forums (Over 8,000) www.delphiforums.com Omgili (Forum Search) http://omgili.com Yuku (Forum Service Provider) www.yuku.com
Geography Atlapedia Online (Maps) www.atlapedia.com American FactFinder http://factfinder.census.gov/home/saff/main.html?_lang=en Arcgis Online Services http://resources.esri.com/arcgisonlineservices Bing Maps www.bing.com/maps David Rumsey Map Collection www.davidrumsey.com Geody (The World’s Search Engine) www.geody.com Geosource www.library.uu.nl/geosource Google Earth http://earth.google.com
Ready Reference MapQuest www.mapquest.com Maps On Us www.mapsonus.com MultiMap www.multimap.com National Geographic www.nationalgeographic.com Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/index.html Places Online www.placesonline.org Rand McNally (Maps) www.randmcnally.com Terrafly www.terrafly.com TerraServer (Online Imagery) www.terraserver.com The National Map http://nationalmap.gov University of Texas Map Collection www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/index.html US Geographical Survey www.usgs.gov US Postal Zip Code Finder www.usps.gov/zip4 Via Michelin (European Maps) www.viamichelin.com Note: National Geographic’s Map Machine offers road, satellite, and physical maps at http://maps.nationalgeographic.com/map-machine
Government Best History Sites (Teacher Resource) www.besthistorysites.net Congress www.congress.org Crossroads in Social Science www.disc.wisc.edu Energy Information Administration www.eia.doe.gov ePodunk (City/County Information) www.epodunk.com Export (International Trade) www.export.gov FBI www.fbi.gov Federal Business Opportunities www.fbo.gov Federal Citizen Information Center www.pueblo.gsa.gov FedStats (Organizes Statistics) www.fedstats.gov FedWorld (Government Databases) www.fedworld.gov GovEngine (Federal and State) www.govengine.com GovSpot
Ready Reference www.govspot.com GovTrack (Monitor US Congress) www.govtrack.us Grants www.grants.gov LSU Federal Agencies Directory www.lib.lsu.edu/gov/index.html National Security Archive www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv National Weather Service www.weather.gov Open CRS (Congressional Reports) http://opencrs.com Pentagon Channel www.pentagonchannel.mil Policy Archive www.policyarchive.org SEC Filings and Forms www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml Social Sciences Info Gateway www.intute.ac.uk/socialsciences StateLine (Updated Daily) www.stateline.org United Nations www.un.org Search Systems (Public Records) http://publicrecords.searchsystems.net Small Business Administration (SBA) www.sba.gov STAT-USA (Business/Economics) www.stat-usa.gov State and Local Government on the Net www.statelocalgov.net UoM Government Documents Center www.lib.umich.edu/government-documents-center/explore US Bureau of Labor Statistics www.bls.gov US Consumer Product Safety Commission www.cpsc.gov US Department of Defense www.defense.gov US Economic Development Administration www.eda.gov US Energy Information Administration www.eia.doe.gov US Federal Census Bureau www.census.gov US Federal Communications Commission www.fcc.gov US Federal Government Information www.library.vanderbilt.edu/romans/fdtf/index.shtml US Federal Government Portal www.usa.gov US Federal Stats www.fedstats.gov US Food and Drug Administration www.fda.gov US Government Accountability Office www.gao.gov
Ready Reference US Nuclear Regulatory Commission www.nrc.gov US Weather Reports www.wxusa.com USA.Gov www.usa.gov White House Briefing Room www.whitehouse.gov 50 States www.50states.com
International American Translations Association www.atanet.org Amnesty International www.amnestyusa.org Aneki (World Rankings and Records) www.aneki.com Applied Language Solutions (Translations) www.appliedlanguage.com BBC Country Profiles http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/country_profiles/default.stm BBC Guide to World Religions www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions Catholic Hierarchy Guide www.catholic-hierarchy.org CIA World Factbook www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html Center for Strategic and International Studies http://csis.org Council On Foreign Relations www.cfr.org Country Briefings (from The Economist) www.economist.com/countries Country Reports www.countryreports.org Country Studies http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html Direct Gov (UK) www.direct.gov.uk/en/index.htm Eldis Country and Regional Profiles www.eldis.org/country Electronic Information for International Law www.eisil.org Embassy World www.embassyworld.com Europeana (Culture) www.europeana.eu/portal ForeignWord (Translation Tool) www.foreignword.com Foreign Affairs www.foreignaffairs.com Foreign Affairs Online http://people.virginia.edu/~rjb3v/rjb.html Free Translation www.freetranslation.com Global Edge (International Business Resource)
Ready Reference http://globaledge.msu.edu Global Gazetteer 2.0 (Cities and Towns in the World) www.fallingrain.com/world Google Translate http://translate.google.com Government of Canada http://canada.gc.ca Governments on the WWW www.gksoft.com/govt/en Guinness World Records www.guinnessworldrecords.com Hinduism Today www.hinduismtoday.com I M Translator http://imtranslator.net/translate-and-speak International Committee of the Red Cross www.icrc.org/eng International Monetary Fund www.imf.org International White and Yellow Pages www.wayp.com Into Islam www.intoislam.com Islam Online www.islamonline.net Hot Sites – Jewish www.jr.co.il/hotsites/jewish.htm Info Bel (International Directories) www.infobel.com Latin World (Latin America Information) www.latinworld.com Military Periscope www.militaryperiscope.com Nation Master www.nationmaster.com Nations Online www.nationsonline.org Native Web www.nativeweb.org OffStats www.offstats.auckland.ac.nz Population Research Bureau www.prb.org PROMT (Online Translations) www.online-translator.com Reverso (Translation Service) www.reverso.net The European Commission http://ec.europa.eu/atoz_en.htm The Globalist (Economics, Politics and Culture) www.theglobalist.com The World Bank www.worldbank.org Translated.Net http://mymemory.translated.net/english TranslationBooth http://translationbooth.com Transparency International www.transparency.org
Ready Reference Tricycle (The Buddhist Review) www.tricycle.com United Nations www.un.org Voice of America Pronunciation Guide http://ibb7.ibb.gov/pronunciations Word 2 Word Language Resources www.word2word.com World Information www.worldinformation.com World Gazetteer (Population Data) www.world-gazetteer.com World Statesmen www.worldstatesmen.org World Time Zone www.worldtimezone.com WorldLingo (Free Translations) www.worldlingo.com World Watch http://www.worldwatch.org Yahoo Babelfish (Translations) http://babelfish.yahoo.com
Law American Law Sources Online (USA, Canada and Mexico) www.lawsource.com Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law www.bazelon.org Code of Federal Regulations www.gpoaccess.gov/cfr Cornell’s Legal Information Institute www.law.cornell.edu Digestible Law (Internet Case Law) www.digestiblelaw.com Findlaw www.findlaw.com GlobaLex www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex Guide to Law Online www.loc.gov/law/help/guide.php HG (Legal Directories Worldwide) www.hg.org Inter-Alia (Legal Research Weblog) www.inter-alia.net Justia (Free Legal Resources) www.justia.com Katsuey Legal Gateway www.katsuey.com Law Guru www.lawguru.com Law Library of Congress www.loc.gov/law Law & Policy Institutions www.lpig.org Law Periscope (Law Firms) www.lawperiscope.com Lawyers.Com
Ready Reference www.lawyers.com Lectric Law Library www.lectlaw.com LLRX (Legal and Technology Resources) www.llrx.com Martindale www.martindale.com National Center for State Courts www.ncsc.org National Criminal Justice Reference Service www.ncjrs.gov Nolo (Legal Information and Forms) www.nolo.com PACER (Public Access to Court Electronic Records) www.pacer.gov Stanford’s Securities Class Action Clearinghouse http://securities.stanford.edu The Lawyers’ List www.thelawyerlist.net The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press (Media Law) www.rcfp.org The Virtual Chase (Legal Research) www.virtualchase.com Thomas Legislative Information http://thomas.loc.gov US Code http://uscode.house.gov/lawrevisioncounsel.shtml US Supreme Court www.supremecourt.gov US Supreme Court Decisions www.findlaw.com/casecode/supreme.html US Supreme Court Media Archive www.oyez.org WestLaw http://west.thomson.com/default.aspx Yale’s Avalon Project http://avalon.law.yale.edu/default.asp
Libraries American Library Association www.ala.org American Memory http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html Ask Oxford www.askoxford.com Awesome Library www.awesomelibrary.org Biography www.biography.com Bubl Link (Academic) http://bubl.ac.uk Digital Librarian (Best of the Web) www.digital-librarian.com EBSCO (Reference Databases) www.ebscohost.com Eserver Reference (Online References) http://reference.eserver.org
Ready Reference Essential Links www.el.com EuroDocs http://eudocs.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Main_Page eXtension www.extension.org Google Scholar http://scholar.google.com Hennen’s American Public Library Rating Index www.haplr-index.com Info Please www.infoplease.com InfoMine http://infomine.ucr.edu Information Today www.infotoday.com Internet Public Library www.ipl.org Internship Programs www.internshipprograms.com Intute (Academic Research) www.intute.ac.uk iZito www.izito.com JournalSeek (Database of Scholarly Journals) http://journalseek.net JSTOR (Researchers/Scholars) www.jstor.org Libdex (Search Library Indexes) www.libdex.com Library Law www.librarylaw.com Library of Congress www.loc.gov Library Spot www.libraryspot.com Library Support Staff www.librarysupportstaff.com Martindale’s Reference Center www.martindalecenter.com National Library of Canada www.collectionscanada.gc.ca Net Library www.netlibrary.com New York Public Library www.nypl.org News Library www.newslibrary.com NYPL Digital Library http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/index.cfm Open Library http://openlibrary.org Questia (Social Science Research) www.questia.com Refdesk www.refdesk.com Scholars’ Lab www2.lib.virginia.edu/scholarslab Special Library Association
Ready Reference www.sla.org Super Searchers Web Page www.infotoday.com/supersearchers The British Library www.bl.uk The Internet Archive (eBooks and Texts) http://networkedblogs.com/21eEZ The Mining Company http://miningco.com The Researching Librarian www.researchinglibrarian.com The Virtual Reference Library (Canada) www.virtualreferencelibrary.ca Virtual Library www.vlib.org WorldCat (Global Library Access) www.worldcat.org Note: Go to www.worldcat.org to find a library near you. To monitor a specific topic on the web, set up an alert at www.google.com/alerts.
Media (Alternative) All Voices www.allvoices.com Alter Net www.alternet.org Alternative Press Center www.altpress.org Association of Alternative Weeklies www.altweeklies.com Boulevards (National Directory) www.boulevards.com Corporate Crime Reporter www.corporatecrimereporter.com CorpWatch www.corpwatch.org Crooks and Liars www.crooksandliars.com Daily Censored http://dailycensored.com Democracy Now www.democracynow.org Demotix www.demotix.com Drudge Report www.drudgereport.com Information Clearing House www.informationclearinghouse.info Investigative Reporters and Editors www.ire.org/extraextra Media Alliance www.media-alliance.org Media Channel www.mediachannel.org Media Studies www.media-alliance.org Mediaite www.mediaite.com
Ready Reference Mother Jones www.motherjones.com Nieman Watchdog www.niemanwatchdog.org Now Public www.nowpublic.com Pacific Free Press www.pacificfreepress.com Pacifica Radio www.pacifica.org PR Watch www.prwatch.org Project Censored www.projectcensored.org Qewz www.qewz.com Rabble (Canadian) www.rabble.ca Talking Points Memo www.talkingpointsmemo.com TBR News www.tbrnews.org The Alternative Press Center www.altpress.org The Communication Initiative Network (Economic Development) www.comminit.com The National Interest www.nationalinterest.org The Smoking Gun (Public Records) www.thesmokinggun.com The Village Voice www.villagevoice.com Third World Traveler www.thirdworldtraveler.com TomDispatch www.tomdispatch.com Truthdig www.truthdig.com Note: Alternative Press Center provides 350 alternative news sources in their index.
Media (International) ABYZ Newslinks www.abyznewslinks.com Agence France Presse www.afp.com Aljazeera http://english.aljazeera.net All You Can Read www.allyoucanread.com Arabic News www.arabicnews.com Asia Pacific News www.asiapacificnews.com Asia Times www.atimes.com Australian Broadcasting Corporation www.abc.net.au
Ready Reference BBC www.bbc.co.uk/radio Breaking News Online www.bnonews.com Breaking Tweets www.breakingtweets.com Business Times Online (Asia) www.businesstimes.com.sg Calgary Herald www.calgaryherald.com CannyLink Internet Guide www.cannylink.com CBC www.cbc.ca Daily Earth (Newspaper Directory) www.dailyearth.com DEBKA File (Middle East) www.debka.com EarthCam www.earthcam.com EasyNewspapers www.easynewspapers.com Eurasia Net www.eurasianet.org European Journalism Centre www.ejc.net Fifth Estate Online www.fifth-estate-online.co.uk Financial Times www.ft.com Foreign Policy Portal www.foreignpolicy.com Global Info www.globalinfo.org Global Post www.globalpost.com India Times www.indiatimes.com Inter Press Service http://ipsnews.net International Center for Journalists www.icfj.org International Herald Tribune www.iht.com International Press Institute www.freemedia.at InterNews www.internews.org Jerusalem Post www.jpost.com Kidon Media Links www.kidon.com/media-link/index.php MEED (Middle East Economic Digest) www.meed.com Metagrid (Newspapers & Magazines) www.metagrid.com Montreal Gazette www.montrealgazette.com Morning Star
Ready Reference www.morningstaronline.co.uk Multinational Monitor www.multinationalmonitor.org National Post www.nationalpost.com NATO News http://natonews.com News In Pictures (Pictorial News Stories – Comprehensive) www.newsinpictures.com News Now (UK) www.newsnow.co.uk/h News Wealth (International Paper Directory) www.newswealth.com NewsAhead (Future World News) www.newsahead.com Nikkei (Japan Business News) http://e.nikkei.com/e/fr/freetop.aspx One World http://us.oneworld.net Online Newspapers www.onlinenewspapers.com Press TV www.presstv.ir Press Display www.pressdisplay.com PRI’s The World www.theworld.org Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty www.rferl.org Reporters Without Borders http://en.rsf.org Rocket News www.rocketnews.com Sky News http://news.sky.com Spin Watch www.spinwatch.org.uk The Globe and Mail www.theglobeandmail.com The Guardian www.guardian.co.uk The Intelligence Daily www.inteldaily.com The Vancouver Sun www.vancouversun.com Thomson Reuters (for Business and Professionals) http://thomsonreuters.com Vested Owl (Middle East) www.vestedowl.com Watching America http://watchingamerica.com/News World Press Review www.worldpress.org World Public Opinion www.worldpublicopinion.org World News (News Aggregator) www.wn.com World Newspapers www.world-newspapers.com
Ready Reference World Radio Network www.wrn.org
Media (USA National) About www.about.com Accuracy in Media www.aim.org Ad Critic http://creativity-online.com AJR Newslink www.newslink.org Assignment Editor (Sources) http://assignmenteditor.com BlogPulse www.blogpulse.com Boston Globe www.boston.com C-Span www.c-span.org CBS News www.cbsnews.com Center for Investigative Reporting www.centerforinvestigativereporting.org Christian Science Monitor www.csmonitor.com Columbia Journalism Review www.cjr.org Columbia’s Who Owns What www.cjr.org/resources Congoo (Create a News Portal) www.congoo.com CNN www.cnn.com Crains New York (Business) www.crainsnewyork.com Cyber Journalist www.cyberjournalist.net eNews Wires www.enewswires.com Entrepreneur Magazine www.entrepreneur.com EnviroLink www.envirolink.org Environmental News Network www.enn.com FAIR www.fair.org Federal News Service www.fednews.com Fox News www.foxnews.com Google News http://news.google.com Headline Spot www.headlinespot.com I Want Media
Ready Reference www.iwantmedia.com IceRocket (Blog Search) www.icerocket.com Los Angeles Times www.latimes.com MagPortal www.magportal.com Marketplace www.marketplace.org McClatchy www.mcclatchydc.com Media Bistro www.mediabistro.com Media Channel http://mediachannel.org MSNBC www.msnbc.msn.com National Association of Broadcasters www.nab.org National Press Club http://npc.press.org National Public Radio www.npr.org News Frontier Database (CJR) www.cjr.org/the_news_frontier_database Newseum (Washington DC based) www.newseum.org NewsLink www.newslink.org NewsMap www.newsmap.jp Newspaper Association of America www.naa.org NewsTrust http://newstrust.net Newsweek www.newsweek.com New York Times www.nytimes.com On the Media www.onthemedia.org Pollution Prevention Resource Exchange www.p2rx.org Poynter Online www.poynter.org Press Release Network www.pressreleasenetwork.com Propublica www.propublica.org Regret the Error (Stuff Happens) www.regrettheerror.com Religion News Service www.religionnews.com San Jose Mercury News www.mercurynews.com Statistical Assessment Service (Numbers Behind the News) www.stats.org The Alliance of Business Publications www.bizpubs.org
Ready Reference The American Reporter www.american-reporter.com The Associated Press www.ap.org The Chronicle of Philanthropy http://philanthropy.com The Daily Beast www.thedailybeast.com The New Yorker www.newyorker.com The Washington Independent http://washinogtnindependent.com Time Magazine www.time.com/time Topix (News Search Engine) www.topix.net United Press International www.upi.com USA Today www.usatoday.com Vanderbilt Television News Archive http://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu Wall Street Journal www.wsj.com Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com Wikileaks www.wikileaks.org Women’s Enews www.womensenews.org 1st Headlines http://1stheadlines.com
Medical All Refer www.allrefer.com American Medical Association www.ama-assn.org BiomedExperts (> 300,000 Experts) www.biomedexperts.com Center for Disease Control www.cdc.gov Center Watch (Clinical Trials) www.centerwatch.com Doctor Directory www.doctordirectory.com Drug Bank www.drugbank.ca eMedicine Health www.emedicinehealth.com/script/main/hp.asp EurekAlert www.eurekalert.org Family Doctor (Patient Friendly Info) http://familydoctor.org Free Medical Journals www.freemedicaljournals.com Global Health Facts
Ready Reference http://globalhealthfacts.org/index.jsp Hardin MD www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md Healia (Search Engine) www.healia.com Health Behavior News Service www.cfah.org/hbns/index.cfm HealthCare www.healthcare.gov HealthFinder www.healthfinder.gov HealthGrades (Ratings Organization) www.healthgrades.com Health News Review www.healthnewsreview.org HospiceNet www.hospicenet.org InsiderMedicine www.insidermedicine.ca Intelihealth www.intelihealth.com Innerbody www.innerbody.com Journal Watch www.jwatch.org Kaiser Health News www.kaiserhealthnews.org Lab Tests Online www.labtestsonline.org Lane Medical Library http://lane.stanford.edu/index.html Mayo Clinic www.mayoclinic.com MD Travel Health www.mdtravelhealth.com MDLinx (Journals & Reviews) www.mdlinx.com Medical World Search www.mwsearch.com MedicineNet www.medicinenet.com Medline Plus http://medlineplus.gov MedPage Today www.medpagetoday.com Medscape (News and Articles) www.medscape.com Merck Manuals www.merck.com/pubs National Library of Medicine www.nlm.nih.gov National Network of Immunization Information www.immunizationinfo.org National Sexual Violence Resource Center www.nsvrc.org Omni Medical Search www.omnimedicalsearch.com OncoLink (Cancer Treatment) www.oncolink.org
Ready Reference Physicians' Desk Reference www.pdr.net Planned Parenthood www.plannedparenthood.org Pubmed (Search Engine) www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed QuackWatch www.quackwatch.org RXList www.rxlist.com Search Medica (Search Engine) www.searchmedica.com SlideWorld (Medical Power Point Presentations) www.slideworld.org The Medical News www.news-medical.net The National Association of Free Clinics http://freeclinics.us The New England Journal of Medicine http://content.nejm.org Virtual Hospital www.vh.org WebMD www.webmd.com World Medical Association www.wma.net
Politics Atlas of US Presidential Elections www.uselectionatlas.org CampaignFinance www.campaignfinance.org CampaignMoney www.campaignmoney.com Common Cause www.commoncause.org Council on Foreign Relations www.cfr.org Counter Punch www.counterpunch.org CQ Moneyline http://moneyline.cq.com CQ Politics www.cqpolitics.com Debate USA www.debateusa.com/news/index.htm Fact Check www.factcheck.org Federal Elections Commission www.fec.gov Follow The money www.followthemoney.org Global Issues www.globalissues.org History and Politics Out Loud www.hpol.org MapLight (Money and Politics)
Ready Reference http://maplight.org MapStats (State, County and City) www.fedstats.gov/mapstats National Political Index www.politicalindex.com New America Foundation www.newamerica.net Open Secrets www.opensecrets.org Political Information (Search Engine) http://politicalinformation.com Political Science Resources www.politicsresources.net Politico www.politico.com Politics1 http://politics1.com PolitiFact (Pulitzer Prize Winner) www.politifact.com Polling Report www.pollingreport.com Project Vote Smart www.votesmart.org Public Agenda www.publicagenda.org Publicampaign www.publicampaign.org Real Clear Politics www.realclearpolitics.com Right Wing Watch www.rightwingwatch.org Rollcall www.rollcall.com Taxpayers for Common Sense www.taxpayer.net The Activist www.theactivist.co.uk The Black Vault www.theblackvault.com The Brookings Institute www.brookings.edu The Cook Political Report http://cookpolitical.com The Fiscal Times www.thefiscaltimes.com The Heritage Foundation www.heritage.org The Hill http://thehill.com The Political Graveyard http://politicalgraveyard.com Town Hall http://townhall.com
Psychology American Psychiatric Association www.psych.org
Ready Reference American Psychological Association www.apa.org National Institute of Mental Health www.nimh.nih.gov/index.shtml Psych Web www.psywww.com Social Psychology Network www.socialpsychology.org
Religion Adherents (Religious Stats) www.adherents.com BeliefNet www.beliefnet.com Catholic Online www.catholic.org Charity Navigator (Evaluator) www.charitynavigator.org Gospel www.gospel.com Islam www.al-islam.com/eng Judaism and Jewish Resources http://shamash.org/trb/judaism.html Mennonite Information Source http://info.mennolink.org Ministry Watch (Evaluator) www.ministrywatch.com New Advent (Catholic Religion) www.newadvent.org Padmasambhava (Buddhist Center) www.padmasambhava.org Papal Encyclicals Online (Office Documents of the Catholic Church) www.papalencyclicals.net Religion Online www.religion-online.org Religion Research Hub (Archive) www.thearda.com Religion Source www.religionsource.org Southern Baptist Convention www.sbc.net The Hindu Universe www.hindunet.org The Religious Society of Friends www.quaker.org The Unbound Bible http://unbound.biola.edu Vatican www.vatican.va Virtual Religion Index http://virtualreligion.net/vri
Science (and Math) AccuWeather www.accuweather.com
Ready Reference AMSER (Applied Science/Math) www.amser.org Chemdex www.chemdex.org Council of Science Editors www.councilscienceeditors.org Elsevier www.elsevier.com European Bioinformatics Institute www.ebi.ac.uk Federation of American Scientist www.fas.org Food Reference www.foodreference.com Food Timeline www.foodtimeline.org HighWire ePub (Stanford University) http://highwire.stanford.edu Kimball’s Biology Pages http://biology-pages.info Life Sciences World www.lifesciencesworld.com Lunar and Planetary Institute www.lpi.usra.edu Math Forum http://mathforum.org Mathematica http://library.wolfram.com MathWord (Extensive Resource) http://mathworld.wolfram.com Mineralogy Database http://webmineral.com National Hurricane Center www.nhc.noaa.gov National Science Foundation www.nsf.gov New Scientist www.newscientist.com Online Journal Search Engine www.ojose.com PhysLink (Physics and Astronomy) www.physlink.com SciCentral www.scicentral.com Science Magazine www.sciencemag.org Science Research www.scienceresearch.com Scientific America www.scientificamerican.com Scirus (Search Engine) www.scirus.com The National Science Digital Library http://nsdl.org The Weather Channel www.weather.com Tree of Life Web Project http://tolweb.org/tree/phylogeny.html Union of Concerned Scientist
Ready Reference www.ucsusa.org Why Files (Science Behind the News) http://whyfiles.org
Search Engines Ajax Whois 2.0 http://ajaxwhois.com All The Web www.alltheweb.com Ask www.ask.com Bing www.bing.com Blekko (Targeted Searches) http://blekko.com Blog Net News www.blognetnews.com BlogDigger www.blogdigger.com BlogLines (Blogs & News Feed) www.bloglines.com BlogScope (Analysis Tool) www.blogscope.net Buzzom (Twitter People Search) www.buzzom.com Clusty (Aggregator) http://clusty.com Collecta (Real-time Internet Search) http://collecta.com Congoo (News) www.congoo.com CV Fox (Resume Search Engine) www.cvfox.com DeepDyve (Scientific, Medical and Technical Research Articles) www.deepdyve.com DeepWebTech (Academic/Research) www.deepwebtech.com Diesel Point www.dieselpoint.com DT Search (Search Terabytes of Text) www.dtsearch.com DuckDuckGo (Semanic Search Engine) http://duckduckgo.com Eco-Find (Ecology) www.eco-find.com Endeca (Search-Based Application) www.endeca.com Excite www.excite.com Evri (Semanic Search Engine) www.evri.com Expert System (Knowledge Management Software) www.expertsystem.net Fazzle www.fazzle.com Find Articles www.findarticle.com
Ready Reference Find Tutorials www.findtutorials.com Funnelback (Enterprise Search) http://funnelback.com GigaBlast www.gigablast.com Google www.google.com Google Blog Search http://blogsearch.google.com Hakia (Semanic Search Engine) www.hakia.com IncyWincy www.incywincy.com IXQuick (Private Web Searches) http://us2.ixquick.com/eng Info (Metasearch Engine) http://info.com Justcite (Law) www.justcite.com Kayak (Travel Search Engine) www.kayak.com Kngine (Semanic Search Engine) http://kngine.com Lycos www.lycos.com Mamma (Aggregator) www.mamma.com MagPortal www.magportal.com Metacrawler (Aggregator) www.metacrawler.com MetaGer (Worldwide Email Search) http://mesa.rrzn.uni-hannover.de Mozbot www.mozbot.com News Lookup (Aggregator) www.newslookup.com OneRiot (Realtime Web Search) www.oneriot.com Onkosh (Arabic Search Engine) www.onkosh.com/en Pandia News Finder www.pandia.com/news/index.html Powerset (Wiki Articles) www.powerset.com QuickFound (News Search Engine) http://quickfound.net Scoopler (Real-time Internet Search) www.scoopler.com Search Engine Colossus www.searchenginecolossus.com Search Engines Showdown (Blog) www.searchengineshowdown.com Search Systems (Public Records) www.searchsystems.net SearchEDU (Search Education) www.searchedu.com SearchMil (Search Military)
Ready Reference www.searchmil.com SideStep (Travel Search Engine) www.sidestep.com Silobreaker (Media Search – National Security Issues) www.silobreaker.com SortFix www.sortfix.com SurfWax www.surfwax.com Sweet Search (for Students) www.sweetsearch.com Technorati (Blog Search) www.technorati.com TechXtra www.techxtra.ac.uk Topsys (Search Twitter) http://topsy.com Trexy (Searches 4,000 Search Engines) www.trexy.com Turbo 10 (Invisible Web) www.turbo10.com Twazzup (Twitter Search) www.twazzup.com TwitScoop (Twitter Search) www.twitscoop.com Twitter Search Engine http://search.twitter.com Twitterment www.twitterment.com Uclue (Ask a Question) http://uclue.com Web Cam Search www.web-cam-search.com Web World Index www.webworldindex.com Wiki www.wiki.com Wink (Social Networks Search) http://wink.com Wolfram Alpha (Computational Knowledge Engine) www.wolframalpha.com Yahoo www.yahoo.com 1 Page MultiSearch (Aggregator) www.bjorgul.com 4 Greatest (Aggregator) www.4greatest.com Zvents (Things to Do) www.zvents.com Note: Subscribe to www.searchenginewatch.com to get search engine change updates. Also, checkout Cornell’s The Seven Steps of the Research Process by pointing your browser to www.library.cornell.edu/olinuris/ref/research/skill1.htm. Duke also offers research guidance, go to http://library.duke.edu/services/instruction/libraryguide.
Search Tools (Groups, Info and Lists) Browse Topics (Fact Checking) www.browsetopics.gov Catalist by L-Soft
Ready Reference www.lsoft.com/catalist.html Copyediting-L www.copyediting-l.info Ezilon (Regional Directories and Search Engines) www.ezilon.com Google Groups (Newsgroups) http://groups.google.com Monitor This http://monitorthis.info iTools www.itools.com Search Engine Colossus (International Directory of Search Engines) www.searchenginecolossus.com Search Engine Guide (Small Business) www.searchengineguide.com Search Engines Index (International) www.searchenginesindex.com Search Engine Watch www.searchenginewatch.com Search Engine World www.searchengineworld.com Statsaholic (Website Comparisons) www.statsaholic.com Techwr-L www.techwr-l.com/techwr-l-list Tile.net (Newsletters and Ezines) www.tile.net Topica (Discussion Groups) http://lists.topica.com WatchThatPage www.watchthatpage.com Website-Watcher www.aignes.com Where To Do Research www.wheretodoresearch.com Windows Secrets Lounge www.wopr.com 100 Hot (Top 100 Searches by Topic) www.100hot.com Note: iTools is an excellent starting point in your research effort.
Sociology Alexander Street Press (Social Sciences) www.alexanderstreet.com British Sociological Association www.britsoc.co.uk Foundation Finder http://lnp.fdncenter.org/finder.html Social Explorer (Demographic Maps) www.socialexplorer.com Idealist www.idealist.org Numbers USA www.numbersusa.com Sociosite www.sociosite.net Urban Institute
Ready Reference www.urban.org
Style Guides Associated Press Style Guide www.apstylebook.com The Economist Style Guide www.economist.com/research/styleguide The Elements of Style www.bartleby.com/141 Web Style Guide www.webstyleguide.com
Technology (Ideas and Innovation) Army Technology www.army-technology.com Bitlaw (Technology Law) www.bitlaw.com Center for Democracy and Technology www.cdt.org Center for Internet and Security http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu CERT (Internet Security) www.cert.org/cert CNET News http://news.cnet.com Daily Rotation (Tech News) www.dailyrotation.com Delphion Research (Patents) www.delphion.com Dr Dobbs www.drdobbs.com Electronic Privacy Information Center http://epic.org European Patent Office www.epo.org Fresh News (Tech Headlines) www.freshnews.org Goodman’s Book Marks (Telcom) www.gbmarks.com Help http://help.com Industry Standard (Internet) www.infoworld.com/d/the-industry-standard InfoWorld www.infoworld.com Internet News www.internetnews.com Internet Scout Project (Research) http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/index.php IT Conversations http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org Link Popularity www.linkpopularity.com Knovel (Technical Engineering Reference) http://why.knovel.com Make
Ready Reference http://makezine.com News Linx www.internetnews.com/newslinx On Innovation www.oninnovation.com ReadWriteWeb www.readwriteweb.com Silicon Valley Junto (Professional Development) http://svjunto.wikispaces.com Silicon Valley Watcher (Media Blog) www.siliconvalleywatcher.com Slashdot (News for Nerds) http://slashdot.org Tech Expo (Technology and Medical/Life Sciences) www.techexpo.com Tech Tutorials www.techtutorials.net TED (Innovative Ideas) www.ted.com Tom’s Hardware Reviews www.tomshardware.com/us Traffick (Business of Search Blog) http://blog.traffick.com US Patent and Trademark Office http://patents.uspto.gov WebProNews (Internet Business News) www.webpronews.com Win Insider www.wininsider.com Venture Beat http://venturebeat.com Venture Myths http://vmyths.com ZDNet www.zdnet.com
Tools CalcuScribe www.calcuscribe.com Cloud Convert https://cloudconvert.org Constant Contact (Email Marketing) www.constantcontact.com Fusion Writer www.writerlearning.com How Far Is It www.how-far-is-it.com Libreoffice (Free Office Suite) www.libreoffice.org MailChimp (Content Distribution) www.mailchimp.com Microsoft Word Tips http://word.tips.net PB Works (Online Collaboration) http://pbworks.com Portable Apps (PC-Based Software) http://portableapps.com
Ready Reference Regus (Temporary Office Space) www.regus.com ResophNotes www.resoph.com Softmaker Office Suite (European Competitor to Microsoft Office) www.softmaker.com/english/index_en.htm Toodledo (Online To Do list) www.toodledo.com Who Called Us http://whocalled.us You Convert It www.youconvertit.com You Send It (File Sharing) www.yousendit.com Note: Checkout www.shareware.com for inexpensive and quality software solutions.
Video (Audio, Images, Photos and Multimedia) AOL Video Search http://video.aol.com Associated Press Archive (Over 700,000 images) www.apimages.com Blinkx (Multimedia Search) www.blinkx.com Corbis Images www.corbisimages.com Daryl Cagle Professional Cartoonists Index www.cagle.com Editorial Photographers www.editorialphoto.com Exalead (Image Database) www.exalead.com FindSounds www.findsounds.com FOR A.TV http://fora.tv Foto Search www.fotosearch.com Free Documentaries www.freedocumentaries.org Free Graphics www.freegraphics.com GeoBloggers http://geobloggers.com Get A Podcast www.getapodcast.com Google Image Search http://images.google.com Graphic Artists Guild www.graphicartistsguild.org Image Rights www.imagerights.com LIFE Photo Archive (hosted by Google) http://images.google.com/hosted/life MediaStorm http://mediastorm.com Metacafe www.metacafe.com
Ready Reference Moviesounds www.moviesounds.com Musgle (Music Search) www.musgle.com New York Times Video Library http://video.nytimes.com PicSearch www.picsearch.com Playaudiovideo (Multimedia Search) www.playaudiovideo.com Podcastalley (Free the Airwaves) www.podcastalley.com Podcastdirectory www.podcastdirectory.com Podcasting Tools (A Starting Point) www.podcasting-tools.com PodScope (Audio and Video Search) www.podscope.com Public Radio Fan www.publicradiofan.com Shadow TV (All Media Monitoring) www.shadowtv.com SoundSnap www.soundsnap.com Stock Xchng (Stock Photos) http://sxc.hu The Digital Journalist http://digitaljournalist.org Transom (Public Radio Tools) http://transom.org Truveo (Video Search) www.truveo.com TV Eyes (Media Monitoring) www.tveyes.com US Presswire (Sports Photo Source) www.uspresswire.com Vimeo (Video Sharing Site) http://vimeo.com We Say www.wesay.com YouTube www.youtube.com YouTube Instant (Search Engine) http://ytinstant.com
Writing (and Related Stuff) A Reporter’s Guide to the Internet http://reporter.asu.edu AllExperts www.allexperts.com American Journalism Review www.ajr.org/index.asp BBC Academy (Media Training) www.bbctraining.com Big Book Yellow Pages www.bigbook.com BuzzWhack
Ready Reference www.buzzwhack.com Cliché Site www.clichesite.com/index.asp Come Back Alive (High Risk Travel) www.comebackalive.com Committee to Protect Journalists www.cpj.org CopyEditing www.copyediting.com Dart Center for Journalism http://dartcenter.org Designing Documents http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/rewriting/wr4.html Designing for the Web http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/rewriting/wr3.html EasiDemographics www.easidemographics.com Editor and Publisher www.editorandpublisher.com Edit Teach www.editteach.org English Grammar Tutor www.englishgrammartutor.com Evernote (Capture Ideas) www.evernote.com Every Time Zone http://everytimezone.com Extra Extra (Investigative Reporting) www.ire.org/extraextra Fone Finder http://fonefinder.net Foreign Lobbying Influence Tracker http://foreignlobbying.org Forrester Research www.forrester.com/rb/research Freedom Forum www.freedomforum.org Gallop Poll www.gallup.com Graphic Design & Publishing www.graphic-design.com Hear Names www.hearnames.com Highbeam Research (Business and Academic Research Tool) www.highbeam.com Hoax Busters http://hoaxbusters.org Hoover Institute (Think Tank) www.hoover.org HTML Goodies www.htmlgoodies.com/primers/html/article.php/3478131 InfoSpace (People Search) www.infospace.com Intelius (People Search) http://search.intelius.com IngentaConnect (Scholarly Publications...Comprehensive) www.ingentaconnect.com Investigative Reporters and Editors www.ire.org
Ready Reference J Ideas (1st Amendment Institute) www.jideas.org Journalism Education Association www.jea.org Journalism Training www.journalismtraining.org Journalists Toolbox www.journaliststoolbox.com JSTOR (Digital Journal Archive) www.jstor.org Media Week www.mediaweek.com National Freedom of Information Coalition www.nfoic.org National Press Photographers Association www.nppa.org National Speakers Association www.nsaspeaker.org National Writers Union https://nwu.org NewsBasis (News Content Development) http://newsbasis.com NewsLab www.newslab.org NewsWatch www.newswatch.org Nielsen www.nielsen.com No Train, No Gain www.notrain-nogain.org Office Watch http://news.office-watch.com Online Journalism Review www.ojr.org Polling Report www.pollingreport.com PR Newswire www.prnewswire.com Pronounce Names www.pronouncenames.com Proofreaders Marks www.inkwelleditorial.com/proofreaders_marks.htm Public Records Online Portal www.netronline.com Purdue Writing Lab http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl Purportal (Investigate Hoaxes and urban Legends) http://purportal.com QuoteLand www.quoteland.com Rand Corporation (Research and Analysis) www.rand.org Reporter Connection (Expert Sources) www.reporterconnection.com ShortTask (Research and Writing Solutions) www.shorttask.com Snopes (Rumors and Urband Legends) www.snopes.com So You Wanna
Ready Reference www.soyouwanna.com Social Explorer (Demographics) www.socialexplorer.com Society of Professional Journalist www.spj.org Sources for Journalists www.sources.com STATS (Numbers Behind the News) www.stats.org Switchboard (Yellow Pages Directory) www.switchboard.com The American Copyeditors Society www.copydesk.org The Authors Guild www.authorsguild.org The Blue Book www.grammarbook.com The Center for Public Integrity www.publicintegrity.org The Editorium www.editorium.com/index.htm The Electric Editors www.electriceditors.net/index.php The Farmer’s Almanac www.almanac.com The Jewish Network www.shamash.org The Newspaper Guild www.newsguild.org The Pew Research Center for the People and the Press http://people-press.org The Slot www.theslot.com The Tongue Untied www.grammaruntied.com The Word MPV Site http://word.mvps.org/index.html Thinking Critically Tutorial http://online.santarosa.edu/philo/tutorial/index.html Vital Records (Birth Certificates, Death Records and Marriages) http://vitalrec.com Web Style Guide www.webstyleguide.com/index.html?/index.html White Pages (People Search) www.whitepages.com Wink (People Search) http://wink.com Word Counter (Text Analysis) www.wordcounter.com Word Tips by Allen Wyatt http://word.tips.net World Airport Codes www.world-airport-codes.com Writer’s Handbook http://writing.wisc.edu/Handbook/index.html Writing Center http://writing2.richmond.edu/writing/wweb.html YouSwear (Swear Words in Various Languages) www.youswear.com
Ready Reference ZabaSearch (People and Public Information) www.zabasearch.com Zamzar (File Conversion Tool) www.zamzar.com Note: A nationwide list of grammar hotlines and writing help are available at www.tcc.edu/students/resources/writcent/GH/hotlinol.htm