Selected Bookmarks

(Updated: 3/29/04)

ALMANAC

The Old Farmer’s Almanac

http://www.almanac.com

BIOGRAPHICAL SOURCES:

Online version of the Cambridge Biographical Encyclopedia

http://www.biography.com/

Biographical Dictionary

http://s9.com/biography/

World Biographical Index

http://www.biblio.tu-bs.de/acwww25u/wbi_en/

Vivisimo

http://www.vivisimo.com

Time's Man of the Year - A 70-year retrospective of the complete text of the annual cover story http://www.time.com/time/special/moy/

BUSINESS & FINANCE

North American Industry Classification System

http://www.census.gov/epcd/www/naicstab.htm

Standard Industrial Classification Search

http://www.osha.gov/oshstats/sicser.html

Yahoo! Finance

http://finance.yahoo.com/

Hoovers Online

http://www.hoovers.com/

Salary

http://www.salary.com/

Detailed financial: SEC’s Edgar Online

http://www.sec.gov/edgar/searchedgar/webusers.htm

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Price Index (CPI)

http://www.bls.gov/cpi/

http://146.142.4.24/cgi-bin/surveymost?cu

Foreign Exchange 164 Currency Converter

http://www.oanda.com/convert/classic

Historical Currency Exchange Rates

http://www.oanda.com/convert/fxhistory

Internal Revenue Service (Federal forms)

http://www.irs.gov/

http://www.irs.gov/formspubs/index.html

NYS The Department of Taxation and Finance (State Forms)

http://www.tax.state.ny.us/

COUNTRIES

Information Please

http://www.infoplease.com/

CIA World Factbook (Basic economic, social, political, and geographical information.) http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html

Info Nation (by the United Nation)

http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/infonation/e_i_map.htm

The State Department Background Notes (Info on countries, regions. U.S. relations.)

http://www.state.gov/www/background_notes/

DICTIONARY, ENCYCLOPEDIA, THESAURUS

Merriam-Webster Online

http://www.m-w.com/

One Look Dictionaries

http://www.onelook.com/

Roget Thesaurus

http://www.thesaurus.com/

Encyclopædia Britannica

http://search.eb.com/

Encyberpedia (Dictionaries, Glossaries & Thesauri)

http://www.encyberpedia.com/glossary.htm

Acronym Finder

http://www.acronymfinder.com/

Yahoo! list of online acronym and abbreviation finders.

http://dir.yahoo.com/Reference/Acronyms_and_Abbreviations/

Symbols

http://www.symbols.com/

Abbreviations and Acronyms of the U.S. Government

http://www.ulib.iupui.edu/subjectareas/gov/docs_abbrev.html

Dictionary of Occupational Titles Index

http://www.wave.net/upg/immigration/dot_index.html

Tech Encyclopedia

http://www.techweb.com/encyclopedia/

Glossary of Internet Terms

http://www.matisse.net/files/glossary.html

NetLingo (An online dictionary about the Internet)

http://www.netlingo.com/

Logos Dictionary (Translation)

http://www.logos.it/dictionary/owa/sp?lg=EN

Bartleby Reference (Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Thesauri)

http://www.bartleby.com/reference/

DIRECTORY

Switchboard Directory

http://www.switchboard.com/

InfoSpace Directory

http://www.infospace.com/

The Electronic Embassy

http://www.embassy.org/

EDUCATION

Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC)

http://www.eduref.org/

ERIC Digests

http://www.ericfacility.net/ericdigests/index/

The Chronicle of Higher Education

http://chronicle.com/

EMPLOYMENT

Career Builder

http://www.Headhunter.net

FULL TEXT JOURNAL

CUNY Full Text Electronic Journal Holdings

http://libraries.cuny.edu/jnlsIndex.html

Electronic Journals and Periodicals

http://psych.hanover.edu/Krantz/journal.html

Electronic Journal Miner (The Colorado Alliance)

http://ejournal.coalliance.org/

BUBL Information Service (BUlletin Board for Libraries)

http://bubl.ac.uk/

Find Articles (free, 1998-, 300 magazines and journals.)

http://www.findarticles.com/PI/index.jhtml

GOVERNMENT

The Official Government Gateways

http://www.firstgov.gov/

U.S. Census Bureau

http://www.census.gov/

Code of Federal Regulations

http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/

The United States Constitution Online

http://www.usconstitution.net/

The United States Government Manual

http://www.gpoaccess.gov/gmanual/index.html

HANDBOOKS & MANUALS

Occupational Outlook Handbook

http://www.bls.gov/oco/

Style manuals: MLA, APA, Chicago, CBE (Council of Biology Editors)

http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/hacker/resdoc/

APA Style Guide - Brooklyn College of the City University of New York

http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/polisci/pcurrah/apa.htm

Bibliographic references and notes (Lund University Library, Sweden)

http://www.lu.se/IIIEE/library/referens.html

INTERNET

BetterWhois.com - Searches all domain registrars, finds who is behind the site.

http://www.betterwhois.com/

InterNIC - Public information regarding Internet domain name registration services

http://www.internic.net/whois.html

Search Engine Watch

http://www.searchenginewatch.com/

Search Engine Showdown - by Greg R. Notess

http://searchengineshowdown.com/

LIBRARY WEB PORTALS READY-REFERENCE PAGE

Library of Congress

http://lcweb.loc.gov/homepage/lchp.html

UC Berkeley

http://sunsite.berkeley.edu

Michigan Electronic Library

http://mel.lib.mi.us

BUBL (England)

http://bubl.ac.uk

Infomine

http://infomine.ucr.edu

Columbia University

http://ilt.columbia.edu/net/guides/ILTrefdesk

NYPL

http://www.nypl.org

Question Point

http://www.questionpoint.org/

LITERATURE

Project Gutenberg

http://promo.net/pg/

Bartleby Reference (Poems, Quotations, Plays)

http://www.bartleby.com/reference/

MEDICAL

MEDLINE/PubMed National Library of Medicine

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi

PubMed Central - An archive of life sciences journals

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=Pmc

The American Medical Association (AMA) Physician Select

http://www.ama-assn.org/aps/amahg.htm

World Health Organization

http://www.who.int/

NEWS

The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/

USA Today

http://www.usatoday.com/

Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/

BBC News

http://www.bbc.co.uk/

ABYZ News Links

http://www.abyznewslinks.com/

On This Day – New York Times Archive

http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/archive.html

OPAC

Library of Congress Classification System

http://geography.about.com/library/congress/bllc.htm

Individual catalogs

Academic:

Yale

http://www.library.yale.edu/orbis/

Harvard (Choose Union Catalog of the Harvard Libraries)

http://hollisweb.harvard.edu/

UT Austin

http://utdirect.utexas.edu/lib/utnetcat/

Public:

NYPL

http://www.nypl.org/catalogs/index.html

Library of Congress Online Catalog

http://catalog.loc.gov/

Collection of OPACs with access to individual catalogs

Metro OPACs

http://www.metro.org/opacs.html

LOC Gateway to Library Catalogs

http://www.loc.gov/z3950/

Library Consortium: search collections at several libraries simultaneously

CTW Library Catalog: combined catalogs of Connecticut College, Trinity College, & Wesleyan University (all in Connecticut)

http://www.wesleyan.edu/libr/index.ctt

CUNY+: all CUNY libraries

http://libraries.cuny.edu/lib-cpl.htm

The European Library - a portal which offers access to the combined resources (books, magazines, journals.... - both digital and non-digital) of the 43 national libraries of Europe.

http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/portal/index.htm

Directory of OPACs

Lib-Web-Cats: a directory of over 5,000 libraries worldwide

http://lib11.library.vanderbilt.edu/ltg/lwc-search.pl

LibDex: an index to 17,800 Libraries (as of May 29, 2002)

http://www.libdex.com

OCLC Links to Web Resources

http://lis.oclc.org/resources/index.htm

Public Libraries

NYPL

http://www.nypl.org/catalogs/index.html

QBPL

http://web2.queenslibrary.org/

BPL

http://www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/eresources/catalog_frameset.htm

Nassau County, Long Island

http://www.alisweb.org/

Academic Libraries

Yale

http://www.library.yale.edu/

Harvard

http://hollisweb.harvard.edu/

Columbia

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/eresources/catalogs.html

UT Austin

http://utdirect.utexas.edu/lib/utnetcat/

NYU BobCatPlus

http://www.bobcat.nyu.edu/

SUNY Libraries

http://albweb2.sunyconnect.suny.edu/

CUNY Libraries

http://libraries.cuny.edu/lib-cpl.htm

The University of California Libraries

http://libraries.universityofcalifornia.edu/

The Internet Public Library (The University of Michigan)

http://www.ipl.org/

Other

Library of Congress

http://catalog.loc.gov/

Oxford University (OLIS)

http://library.ox.ac.uk/

The British Library

http://www.bl.uk/

PUBLICATION & PUBLISHER

Directory of Publishers and Vendors

http://acqweb.library.vanderbilt.edu/acqweb/pubr.html

Publist

http://www.publist.com/

REMOTE ACCESS DATABASES

NYPL Electronic Resources

http://www.nypl.org/branch/iresources.html

QBPL Reference Databases

http://www.queenslibrary.org/internet/refdb1.asp

BPL Electronic Resources

http://www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/eresources/index.htm

CUNY E-Journals & Reference Databases

http://libraries.cuny.edu/resource.htm

SEARCH ENGINES

Google

http://www.google.com/

Wise Nut

http://www.wisenut.com/

All the Web

http://www.alltheweb.com/

Alta Vista

http://www.altavista.com/

Northern Light

http://www.northernlight.com/

Vivisimo

http://vivisimo.com/

STATISTICS

Statistical Abstract of the United States

http://www.census.gov/statab/www/

“Quick Access.” Information Outlook May 1999

http://www.sla.org/pubs/serial/io/1999/may99/disu.shtml

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