OAIster
Their goal is to create a collection of freely available, difficult-to-access, academically-oriented digital resources that are easily searchable by anyone.
KnowPlay
Provides one-stop access to a variety of popular information services such as search engines, telephone number lookups, dictionaries, encyclopedias, recipe databases, movie listings, dining guides, and more
Associations on the Net
The Internet Public Library's guide to web sites of prominent organizations and associations including cultural and art organizations, political parties and advocacy groups, labor unions, academic societies, and research institutions. Includes abstracts summarizing information about the association plus links to the Web pages.
Background Notes (Geographical Regions & International Organizations)
Consumer Action Website (formerly Consumer's Resource Handbook).
EuroDocs: Online Sources for European History
Western European (mainly primary) historical documents that are transcribed, reproduced in facsimile, or translated. Covers Medieval & Renaissance Europe, Europe as a Supranational Region, Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Monaco, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, San Marino, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom,and Vatican City.
FedForms
Access to U.S. federal Government forms for numerous agencies.
Federal Register Online
Search from volume 59 (1994) to present.
Foundation Center Online
Information on grants and grantmakers.
Literature of the Nonprofit Center Online
LNPS Online is a searchable database of the literature of philanthropy. It incorporates the unique contents of the Foundation Center's five libraries and contains more than 21,700 full bibliographic citations, with descriptive abstracts for more than 14,400 have. It is updated regularly.
Internet Broadway Database
A comprehensive, searchable database of shows produced on Broadway, including all "title page" information about each production. IBDB also offers historical information (from the 1700s) about theatres and various statistics and fun facts related to Broadway.
Martindale's "the Reference Desk"
Medline Plus
Searches Medline database and offers a vast amount of other information for the health care consumer.
Merck Manual of Medical Information- Second Home Edition
The full-text, searchable consumer edition of the Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy, 17th edition, edited by Mark H. Beers, M.D. and Robert Berkow, M.D. 1999.
Merck Manual of Geriatrics
The full-text of the 3rd edition, edited by Mark H. Beers, M.D. and Robert Berkow, M.D. 2000.
NIRA's World Directory of Think Tanks
Provides up-to-date information on 320 of the world's most prominent public policy research institutes, or think tanks selected from 77 countries and regions.
Peterson's Education and Career Center
Regional Economic Conditions (RECON) Allows users to drill down to any state, Metropolitan Statistical Area, or county to view standard graphs, tables, and maps depicting economic conditions and how they have changed over time. RECON contains a 'shopping cart' feature that allows the user to assemble charts and tables of interest and then print them together at the end of their session.
Research-It!
Quick access to the best internet tools.
RefDesk.com
A good source for facts.
Scholarly Societies
Searchable and browseable database of over 3,100 scholarly societies with links to websites of scholarly societies across the world. Searchable by subject, country, language, founding date, and other attributes.
Treaties in Force as of January 1, 2000
A List of Treaties and Other International Agreements of the United States in force as of January 1, 2000.
U.S. Census Bureau
Population Estimates-2010
U.S. Federal Budget - FY2010
Contains the budget for Fiscal Year 2010, Citizen's Guide to the Federal Budget, and several supporting documents. Also contains previous budgets back to 1997.
U.S. Government Documents Ready Reference Collection
A handy directory with links to popular government reports on business, crime, education, energy, environment, health, and transportation.
U.S. Government Manual
The annual guide to information on the executive, judicial, and legislative branches of the federal government. Previous editions back to 1995-1996 are available.
World Factbook 2009 edition (country info)
MapQuest
Road maps, city maps, trip planners, and more.
AAA (American Automobile Association)
Road Maps, trip planners, and more.
Massachusetts Electronic Atlas
User Guide
National Atlas
Provides high-quality, small-scalemaps, plus geospatial data such as soils, county boundaries, volcanoes, and watersheds, and geostatistical data such as Crime patterns, population distribution, and incidence of disease.
U.S. Gazetteer Files
Download census data files for counties, county subdivisions, places, and Zip Code tabulation areas. Based on 2000 census data.
U.S. Topographic Maps
The National Mapping Program of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).
Biography.Com
Searchable database with 20,000 brief bios of persons living and dead.
Biographical Dictionary
Searchable database of 22,000 people from ancient times to the present.
Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress: 1774-Present
Occupational Outlook Handbook
A nationally recognized source of career information.
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language Fourth Edition
Over 90,000 entries feature 10,000 new words and senses, 70,000 audio word pronunciations, 900 full-page color illustrations, language notes and word-root appendixes.
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
1895 edition can be browsed or searched by keyword or phrase.
Dictionaries and Translators
Includes many languages such as Hawaiian, Somali, and Japanese. Includes travel information.
InterActive Terminology for Europe
IATE is the European Commission's searchable, multilingual term bank covering major European languages. At present the term bank contains about five and a half million entries (terms and abbreviations), subdivided into more than 800 collections. The database rich in technical and specialised terminology (agriculture, telecommunications, transport, legislation, finance) related to EU policy.
Web of OnLine Dictionaries
300 dictionaries in 175 languages.
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus
Searchable, online version of the printed third edition published in 1995.
Roget's International Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases
Searchable; includes an Alphabetical Index; Roget's original Categorical Index; Word of the Day; Fun and Games; and Crossword Puzzles.
Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th edition
The largest one-volume general encyclopedia available. Published in 2001, it offers the most timely and up-to-the minute encyclopedic reference information with over 50,000 article entries, 40,000 bibliographic citations, and over 80,000 cross-reference entries.
Ethnologue: Languages of the World
Read the Introduction first. Organized according to language families.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Famous Quotes and Authors
Contains more than 25,000 quotes online from over 6,700 famous authors.
NewJour
Electronic Journals & Newsletters
Pathfinder
Time Warner Publications
Amazon.com
Online bookstore with 2.5 million titles.
Barnes and Noble
Online bookstore with more than one million titles.
Bibliofind
Database of 4 million out-of-print books.
Alibris
Formerly Interloc. Database and global computer network for locating used, rare, and hard-to-find books. Database contains over 3 million out-of-print books, maps, autographs, and ephemera.
Publishers' Catalogs
Links to the catalogs of U.S. Publishers and University Presses and Foreign Publishers.
Follett
New and used college textbooks.
On-Line Books Page
A searchable index of more than 25,000 English works available online in various formats that meet these criteria. All are free for personal, noncommercial use. The Online Books Page was founded, and is edited, by John Mark Ockerbloom.
EServer
The EServer, based at the University of Washington, has 34,503 online texts in the humanities plus links to associated sites. Searchable and browsable.
Project Gutenberg Index
A project to put out-of-copyright books online in full-text. More than 6,200 texts online.
New York Times Books
Includes the complete Sunday Book Review, daily book related news and reviews, a searchable archive of over 50,000 New York Times Book Reviews, bestseller lists, and more. Registration required.
Scitech Daily Review
Provides links to science and technology articles including Books and Media Reviews, Features and Background articles, and Analysis and Opinion articles.
Stateline.org
From the Pew Center on the States. Provides comprehensive and comparative information on the public policies of all 50 states.
State and Metropolitan Area Data Book
Statistics on social and economic conditions in the United States at the State and metropolitan area levels. Selected data for component counties and central cities of metropolitan areas are also included.
Governing Sourcebook, State & Local
Authoritative compendium of data on the states and the largest U.S. municipalities. From Congressional Quarterly.
State Government Websites
Leads you to official websites for the 50 states, District of Columbia, and U.S. Territories.
Fifty States and Capitals
Links to a vast array of information on each state and five U.S. territories.
State Fact Sheets
The State Fact Sheets from the Economic Research Service of the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture contain information on: Population, Per-capita income, Earnings per job, Poverty rate, Total number of jobs, Unemployment rate, Percent employment change, Farm & related jobs, Top export commodities, Farm characteristics, and financial indicators.
Mass. Facts
Boston.com's guide to public records, databases, and useful information.
Massachusetts Institute for Social and Economic Research (MISER)
Provides data on social, economic, and demographic issues affecting Massachusetts.
Statistical Abstract of the United States - (Latest Issue)
State and County Quickfacts
New from the U.S. Census Bureau. Provides comparative data in 33 categories for each state and county or parish.
State of the Cities Data System
Provides data for individual Metropolitan Areas, Central Cities, and Suburbs including census data (1970,1980,1990,2000), employment statistics, information on Jobs, Business Establishments, and Average Pay in the 1990s, and crime data.
American Factfinder
Browse, search, and map data from many Census Bureau sources: the 2000 Census, the 1997 Economic Census, the annual American Community Survey, plus annual population estimates.
StateMaster.Com
Allows you to research and compare a multitude of different data on US states. Information is compiled from various primary sources including the US Census Bureau, the FBI, and the National Center for Educational Statistics. Also provides visualization technology that transforms statistical data into pie charts, maps, graphs and scatterplots.
NationMaster.Com
A massive central data source and a handy way to graphically compare nations and country statistics on numerous topics. NationMaster is a vast compilation of data from such sources as the CIA World Factbook, UN, and OECD. Users can generate maps and graphs on all kinds of statistics, view profiles of individual countries including their maps and flags, use correlation reports and scatterplots to find relationships between variables, and refer to a fully integrated encyclopedia with over 800,000 articles.
OFFSTATS: Official Statistics on the Web
A metasite that provides Free statistics from official sources including: Current data, Time series, downloadable data set (as text or spreadsheet files), Data for individual countries, Regions, and Topics with the ability to compare countries.
Statistical Resources on the Web
Provides U.S. and International Statistics from Univ. of Michigan Documents Center.
FedStats
From more than 100 agencies in the U.S. Government.
National Center for Health Statistics
Data on health status, lifestyle and exposure to unhealthy influences, the onset and diagnosis of illness and disability, and the use of health care in the United States.
OECD Statistics
European Community Statistics.
Population Reference Bureau’s Country Statistics & Reports
Quick access to essential information on population, health, and the environment for over 200 countries. Each page contains a fact sheet with demographic, health, and other development indicators, selected PRB reports or articles, and links to key sources of information, including the most relevant searchable databases on international development.
InfoNation
An easy-to-use, two-step database that allows users to view and compare the most up-to-date statistical data for the Member States of the United Nations.Users can select up to seven countries.
International Data Base (IDB)
A computerized source of demographic and socio-economic statistics for 227 countries and areas of the world. The IDB combines data from country sources (especially censuses and surveys) with IPC's estimates and projections to provide information dating back as far as 1950 and as far ahead as 2050. The amount of information available for each country may vary.
Infospace Phone Directories
Access to over 112 million U.S. and Canadian listings of people, government offices, and businesses. Search for a listing by name, address, business category, phone number, or address. International Resources and World Directories cover the rest of the world. Maps/Directions available for U.S. and Canada.
Telephone Directories on the Web
The Internet's original and most complete index of online phone books, with over 400 links to Yellow Pages, White Pages, Business Directories, Email Addresses and Fax Listings from over 170 countries all around the world.
Zip Code Lookup
Zip code + 4 looks from the United States Postal Service.
Find Email
Numerous sites for finding email addresses.
FindLaw Legal Forms
Provides access to 8,000 forms from United States federal and state courts. The federal forms collection contains court forms for federal appellate, district and bankruptcy courts and the state forms collection contains court forms on topics ranging from adoption to divorce to civil harassment. All the forms are available in PDF format and are searchable by title or form number.
Law.com Legal Forms
Provides access to legal forms by state plus atete codes, statutes, and other forms.
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Last updated 9-19-2012