NEWS SITES A-Z

NEWS SITES A-Z

DATABASES

ADS / Political Ads Analyzed/

Presidential Campaign Commercials (1952-2004)

http://livingroomcandidate.movingimage.us/index.php

Presidential Campaign Analysis

http://www.factcheck.org/

AERIAL PHOTOS/Maps GIS/ See Maps/Satellite

www.mapquest.com

http://www.terrafly.com

http://www.globexplorer.com/cfviewer/viewer.cfm From USGS

/enter place name or zip code to get aerial photo: takes 3-4 weeks to order copy/

http://mapserver.maptech.com/homepage/index.cfm

/the largest online mapping resource for topographic maps and charts for land, sea, and
air. Browse, view, print, and email the maps for free.

http://www.spaceimaging.com/index_text.htm

DigitalGlobe

www.digitalglobe.com

Colo.-based DigitalGlobe is the clear leader in the global commercial Earth imagery and geospatial information market. The company’s QuickBird satellite is the world’s highest resolution commercial imaging satellite, and the company will launch its next-generation WorldView satellite no later than 2006. The company’s updated and growing ImageLibrary contains over one hundred million square kilometers of global imagery for countless mapping and planning needs. Some images are free.

AIRLINE/AIRPORTS

Airport, Registration, Aircraft, Airplanes, Air Companies, Flight Information

http://www.landings.com/_landings/pages/search.html

Airlines, Airport, Flight Status / Conditions, Status/

http://www.fly.faa.gov/flyFAA/index.html

ACRONYM FINDERS

University College

http://www.ucc.ie/cgi-bin/acronym

Look up an acronym and see its expansion. From University College, Cork, Ireland

AcronymFinder

http://www.acronymfinder.com/

More than 356 000 definitions. There is also reverse lookup ( find words that mach an acronym).

African Journals

http://www.ajol.info/

African Journals Online has information about journals available from all over Africa, as well
as information on the contents of those journals.

Analyze Text

http://textalyser.net

The site allows you to analyze either blocks of text or entire Web pages. Either specify an URL or enter a block of text. The site gives you number of words total, number of unique words, two different estimates of difficulty, a sentence count, the longest and shortest sentences, and other details. There's
also a word frequency count e t c

Art Directory/ ArtStar.com/(Art organizations and information)

http://www.artstar.com/bin/aad_home

Aviation Safety

http://aviation-safety.net/statistics/index.html

Archives- National Archives and Records Administration/ NARA/

www.nara.gov

Archives Broadcast

National Public Radio (NPR)
http://www.npr.org/archives/

University of Maryland (NPR News Collection)
http://www.lib.umd.edu/NPBA/

From the announcement, The University of Maryland Libraries in College Park, MD have become the institutional curator and depository for the NPR News Programming Collection. This valuable collection of more than 29,500 audiotape reels chronicles, in depth, all of the major world news events that occurred from1971 to 1988.

Television News Archive ( Vanderbilt University)

http://lib14.library.vanderbilt.edu/diglib/tvn-database-info.pl

The Television News Archive collection at Vanderbilt University is the world's most extensive and complete archive of television news. The collection holds more than 30,000 individual network evening news broadcasts from the major U.S. national broadcast networks: ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN, and more than 9,000 hours of special news-related programming including ABC's Nightline since 1989. You can read abstracts online.

Footage.net

http://www.footage.net/

Search material (abstracts available) from CNN, NBC News, AP Television News, and many other film/video archives. Most of the material in these database is available for licensing but CANNOT be viewed online.

ABC News Video Source

Search and purchase material online.

The C-Span Archive

http://www.pava.purdue.edu/Info/aboutarchives.php
The database cannot be searched online.

AUCTIONS ( BY ZIPCODE)

http://www.auctionzip.com/

BASEBALL

Baseball Almanac

http://www.baseball-almanac.com

From the left menu you can browse pitching charts, lists of managers, player stats, record
books, and a lot more. But you can also browse charts that provide information on the heaviest and lightest players in baseball, a disconcerting amount of information on umpires, songs and poetry, etc.

Baseball/ seating charts of every major league team and ballpark/

http://www.ballparks.com/baseball/index.htm

Brutal news/ Daily/

http://www.brutal.com

Black History Month

http://www.poynter.org/dj/shedden/020100.htm

Books / Search Full Text/

http://www.concordance.com/

Online Books Page --Full-Text
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/

As of today, the OBP is home to a directory of over 17,000 free, full-text books and documents from a wide variety of sources. The compilation was created and is still developed by John Mark Ockerbloom, a digital library planner at the University of Pennsylvania. Searchable fields are: author, title, subject, archive and even banned books.

Buslib Index Online

http://www.montaguelab.com/Public/indexes.htm

NEWSLIB ( BEST PRACTICES-COPYRIGHT, HISTORY)

http://parklibrary.jomc.unc.edu/newsliblyris.html#Copyright

CALENDARS

Reference Calendars

http://www.rice.edu/cgi-bin/refcal

Enter a year and you will get the 12 month calendar .

CAR SAFETY

Safe Car

http://www.safercar.gov

This collection of consumer resources and data on automobile safety features crash test and rollover ratings for vehicles (models back to 1990), tire ratings, air bag safety and rollover prevention information, and details about recalls and reporting defects. Includes videos of specific rollover situations, air bags, and other driving safety topics. From the National Highway Traffic Safety Association (NHTSA) of the U.S. Department of Transportation

CATHOLIC STATISTICS

Catholic Statistics

http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/danch.html,

CATHOLIC SITES

Catholic Church sites

http://www.vatican.va/phome_en.htm

This is the official Vatican web site. Anything you need to know about the Vatican is on this> site and much more. There are separate sections covering the Secretariat of State, Congregations, Tribunals, Pontifical Councils, Synod of Bishops, Offices, Pontifical Commissions, Swiss Guard, Institutions connected with the Holy See, Labor Office of the Apostolic See, and Pontifical Academics.

John Paul II

http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/index.htm

Vatican Information Service

http://www.vatican.va/news_services/press/vis/englinde.php#start

United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) -

http://www.usccb.org/

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops

USCCB) is an assembly of the hierarchy of the United States and the U.S.

Virgin Islands who jointly exercise certain pastoral functions on behalf

of the Christian faithful of the United States. The purpose of the

Conference is to promote the greater good which the Church offers

humankind, especially through forms and programs of the apostolate

fittingly adapted to the circumstances of time and place.

CATHOLIC NEWS SITES

National Catholic Reporter

http://natcath.org/

"The National Catholic Reporter Publishing Company reports, comments and reflects on the church and society. It strives for excellence in its publications, supporting a full, honest and open exchange of ideas.

ACI Digital (Catholic News Agency)

http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/ -

ACI Prensa is the Catholic press agency in Latin America. It was founded

in Lima, Peru, in 1980 by Fr. Adalbert Marie Mohm (†1986). The German

missionary's desire was to provide a steady flow of Catholic news to the

secular media and to end-users in order to increase the visibility to the Catholic Church in the public square and help in its mission.

Zenit News Agency

http://zenit.org/english/

ZENIT is an international news agency whose mission is provide objective and professional coverage of events, documents and issues emanating from or concerning the Catholic Church for a worldwide audience, especially the media. Focal areas are activities of John Paul II, life at the Vatican, and interviews with men and women of the Church or other personalities on religious issues. This is a great place to find news that effects the Church as well as a large database of document, audiences, and other resources.

Inside the Vatican

http://www.insidethevatican.com/index.htm  -

"Published ten times a year, Inside the Vatican provides a comprehensive, independent report on Vatican affairs with occasional special supplements."

National Catholic Register

http://www.ncregister.com/current/

"The news the secular media doesn't want you to see from the nation's premier Catholic weekly newspaper."

Catholic World News

http://www.cwnews.com/

Catholic World News is an independent Catholic news service staffed by lay Catholic journalists, dedicated to providing accurate world news, written from a distinctively Catholic perspective. With correspondents all around the world, CWNews.com seeks to provide loyal Catholics and other interested readers with all the daily news that affects their Church and their faith. The most complete source for Catholic news, CWN offers full global news coverage as well as an email subscription to all of its services.

U.S. Catholic

http://www.uscatholic.org/

U.S. Catholic is a monthly forum for lay Catholics, covering issues of concern to Catholics in their everyday lives. U.S. Catholic is not afraid to tackle the controversial topics of our times. Recent issues have included reports and reader surveys on the death penalty, welfare reform, and America's culture of violence. U.S. Catholic celebrates Catholic tradition, yet embraces the spirit of Vatican II reform and rejuvenation. U.S. Catholic can be your source for contemporary theological and spiritual discussions that help average Catholics understand their faith better.

New Advent

http://www.newadvent.org/

The New Advent Catholic Supersite is published by a Colorado-based nonprofit organization whose goal is to provide resources for those desiring to know more about the Catholic Faith. The main feature of this great site is an online, indexed, fully searchable version of the Catholic Encyclopedia. However, the resources by no means end there. The site also contains full text versions of many> encyclicals and other church documents, a large directory of faithful Catholic links, summaries of each of the ecumenical councils of the  Catholic Church, dozens of questions excerpted from Catholic Answers' This

> Rock magazine, and much more. This site is truly one of the best Catholic resources on the web.

Catholic Encyclopedia

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/

Papal Elections

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11456a.htm

Election of the Popes

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12270a.htm

Universi Dominici Gregis: Apostolic Constitution of Pope John Paul

II on the Vacancy of the Apostolic See and the Election of the Roman

Pontiff (22 February, 1996)

Catholic Exchange

http://www.catholicexchange.com/

Catholic Exchange is a non-profit charity endeavoring “to evangelize the world via the Internet with the Good News of Jesus Christ in the Catholic Church in obedience to Pope John Paul II's call for a ‘Springtime of World Evangelization.’ This is in response to the need for greater catechesis and revival of the lay faithful in a time when materialism and relativism are marginalizing Biblical principles as the basis on which people make moral choices.” This is a very well designed site that is easy and fun to use. The columnists are some of the Church’s most well respected authors.

EWTN Global Catholic Network

http://www.ewtn.com/

This is the home page of Mother Angelica's ministry on the Internet. The site contains extensive information about EWTN's television programs and scheduling, but there is also much more. Some of its best features include up to date  Catholic news, a great question and answer section, and a library of Church documents. This is a mega-site for Catholics, with a multitude of information all in one place.

Catholic.net

http://www.catholic.net/

Catholic.net is the successor

site to the Catholic Information Center on the Internet. On this site you can find access to a wide variety of resources including leading Catholic magazines and newspapers, papal encyclicals, Church documents, and helpful devotional services, all in a smartly-designed and easy to use format. Every day new content is added, including Catholic news from around the world, articles, documents, interviews, papers, testimonials, prayers, merchandise, and web sites.

Catholic Online

http://www.catholic.org/

Catholic Online is one of the  largest Catholic internet operations in the world, and has been recognized internationally. A great deal of Catholic information is provided, and many outstanding organizations are hosted on the Catholic Online servers.

Catholic Answers

http://www.catholic.com/

Catholic Answers is the largest Catholic apologetics and evangelization organization in North America. Their site is among the best and most comprehensive of the Catholics sites on the internet. It features a large library of online answer tracts, personal and insightful newsletters, a number of their popular booklets, and an audio archive of their popular radio programs "Catholic Answers Live" and "The Doctor is In."

American Catholic

http://www.americancatholic.org/

AmericanCatholic.org, home of the online editions of St. Anthony

Messenger, Catholic Update, Millennium Monthly, Youth Update, Scripture

Spirit Daily

http://www.spiritdaily.com/

Spirit Daily is a Catholic start page of news and links. Unfortunately, the site includes a wide range of sites including secular and Protestant sources. Also, all of the information is gathered on the front page, making the site hard to use.

Internet Padre

http://www.internetpadre.com/

This Roman Catholic resource on the world wide web offers a directory of links to some of the most valuable Catholic resources on the web. The site features an excellent Student Resource Page under the Theology Link. These links are arranged according to the curriculum for secondary schools of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. This section will also be useful to home schooling families. The priest who is the webmaster for this site is also a teacher in the diocese and his website is a tool to assist students in their study by faithfully communicating the Sacred Deposit of Faith. Father is most concerned with fidelity to the Magisterium.

Catholic Information Network

http://www.cin.org/

The purpose of this site is Catholic evangelization, accomplished through providing Catholic information in the forms of news briefs, papal addresses and encyclicals, Church documents, and various links. Updated regularly to provide current news and documents, this is an excellent source for information on Catholicism. Unfortunately, the overall design and organization leave something to be desired, but there is a general search engine to help users find what they are looking for.

Opus Dei

http://www.opusdei.org/

Opus Dei is a personal prelature of the Catholic Church. It was founded in 1928, by Saint Josemaria Escriva. It seeks to spread the message that all men and women are called to the fullness of Christian life and to bear witness to Jesus Christ in the fulfillment of their ordinary lives, especially through their work. This site does an excellent job of explaining the prelature and its works, as well as providing related resources.

Catholic Pages

http://www.catholic-pages.com/

The Catholic Pages is an all Catholic web portal and directory. The main resource of the site is the personalizable start page for your browser. This feature allows you to be presented with daily information, such the feast of the day, a meditation, the Mass readings and homily, the Divine Office, and a spiritual reading, each time you open your browser. There is also an excellent directory of Catholic sites. Catholic Pages is a well-rounded Catholic resource providing both Catholic information and resources for spiritual nourishment.

MISCELLANEOUS PAGES RELATED TO PAPAL SUCCESSION

Pope John Paul II News / BBC/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/news/newspope.shtml

The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church Biographical Dictionary (1903-2004)

http://www.fiu.edu/~mirandas/a-z-all.htm

Next Pope Odds

http://www.online-betting-guide.co.uk/Next-Pope.htm

A Papal Succession Primer

http://www.time.com/time/daily/special/papacy/how.html

From Time.com.Papal succession would be wide-open race

Papal transition

http://www.americamagazine.org/papaltransition.cfm

PBS: FRONTLINE: "John Paul II: The Millennial Pope"

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/pope/

"An exploration into his character and beliefs and his fierce defiance and challenge to the modern world."

The "Unofficial" Pope John Paul II Page

http://www.zpub.com/un/pope/

A brief biography, writings from the Pope and articles on his travels

Pages about cardinals who have been named as likely successors

The Holy See Press Office College of Cardinals

http://www.vatican.va/news_services/press/documentazione/documents/cardinali_index_en.html

Catholic.Hierarchy.org -

http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/btett.html

CAMPAIGN FINANCE /LOBBYING

Campaign Finance /US/

http://www.opensecrets.org

Fundrace

http://www.fundrace.org/

Follow the money contributed to the U.S. presidential campaign. Browse a map of contributions by area, or "use the location search (on your home address) to find those who live near you that have made presidential campaign contributions. You can also search for friends or celebrities by name. ... All calculations are based on records filed with the FEC of contributions by all individuals." Information is produced by Eyebeam, an artists' nonprofit.

CARTOON DATABASE

Cartoon Database

http://www.bcdb.com/bcdb/search.cgi

Welcome to the Big cartoon Database. Here you can search for or do a cross reference search for directors, titles, writers, characters, voice talent, description, production notes and other crew.

Comments on Popular News Events(Confidential Documents)

http://www.thesmokinggun.com

COMPUTER ; INTERNET ; E-MAIL - STATISTICS

Hacker Attacks –Descriptions

http://members.chello.nl/h.vandalen7/exploit.htm

Cyberatlas
http://www.cyberatlas.com

NUA Internet Surveys
http://www.nua.ie/surveys/

eMarketer
http://www.emarketer.com

Info Tech Trends (sign up for a free search)
http://www.infotechtrends.com/

Internet Stats
http://www.internetstats.com

Internet Demographics and eCommerce Statistics
http://www.commerce.net/research/stats/stats.html

Pew Internet
http://www.pewinternet.org/

Corante Vital Stats
http://www.corante.com/vital/

COMPUTER SECURITY

The SANS Institute

http://www.sand.org

ISCA Labs

http://www.isca.net/html/labs

CERT Coordination Center

http://www.cert.org

The Computer Security Institute

http://www.gocsi.com

Computer terms

http://rel.semi.harris.com/docs/lexicon/A.htm

Computer technology Encyclopedia

http://webopedia.internet.com/quick_ref/

COPYRIGHT

http://www.learnthenet.com/english/index.html

Stanford Copyright and Fair Use Site

http://fairuse.stanford.edu/

http://www.copyrightlaws.com/

When US Works Pass Into the Public Domain / Chart/

http://www.unc.edu/~unclng/public-d.htm

CONVERTERS

Converter / Measure/

http://www.convertit.com/Go/ConvertIt/Measurement/Converter.ASP

Cost of Living Calculator

http://www.newsengin.com/NewsEngin.nsf/JumpOffPoints/Free+Tools

Converter / Measure/

http://www.convertit.com/Go/ConvertIt/Measurement/Converter.ASP

CRIME STATISTICS

Criminal databases/ US/

http://www.journalismnet.com/people/uscrime.htm

Crime Statistics/In US + historical data /

NCJRS is a federally funded resource offering justice and substance abuse information to support research, policy, and program development worldwide.

http://www.ncjrs.org/

Crime Statistics/Outside US/

http://www.crime.org/links_intern.html

Crime Library/ Mass & Serial Killers/

http://crimelibrary.com/

Child Exploitation Section of the Criminal Division of
the U.S. Dept. of Justice

http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/ceos/index.html

CURRENCY CONVERTERS

Currency converter

http://www.xe.net/

Currency exchange database / by year & date/

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

Converter / Measure/

http://www.convertit.com/Go/ConvertIt/Measurement/Converter.ASP

CONGRESSIONAL RESEARCH SERVICE REPORTS (CRS)

The Congressional Research Service is the non-partisan public policy research arm of the United States Congress that provides congressional members and committees with in-depth, non-partisan analysis of legislative issues. With a budget of more than $96.6 million and a staff of more than 700, the division produces or updates approximately 3,000 studies and other publications annually.

Considered among the most authoritative sources of information on topics of national and international interest, the agency does not distribute its reports to the public, it does not make them available to the public on its website, nor does it provide public notice of the availability or existence of these reports

http://www.usembassy.it/policy/crs.htm ( Embassy)

http://www.house.gov/shays/resources/leginfo/crs.htm (CRS Getaway)

A single publicly available source offering access to CRS reports is not available. The site of the U.S. Embassy in Rome is one of a few sites that does a good job of making the most current version of reports (the ones it collects) available.

http://www.gallerywatch.com/ ( For Fee)

Provides subscription based access to numbered Congressional Research Service (CRS) Documents and CRS Electronic Briefing Books services.

Offered via web access and DVD-ROM, the services provide unprecedented access to thousands of reports previously unavailable or, at best, extremely difficult to obtain.

The Web site subscriptions feature continuous updates while the DVD-ROMs are available on a quarterly updated subscription basis or as annual archive editions. An index to CRS reports back to 1995 will also be available for Internet subscribers."

LLRX Guide to CSR reports

http://www.llrx.com/features/crsreports.htm

A thorough guide with historical overview, general listings, subject specialist listings, limited listings and suppliers.

Thurgood Marshal Law Library

http://www.law.umaryland.edu/marshall/ElectronicResources/crsreports/crssubject.asp?subjectchoice=Terrorism

CONSUMER RESOURCES

Recall Warnings

http://www.recall-warnings.com/

This site features information about recalls of consumer
products, including food, drugs, clothing, appliances,
equipment, vehicles, pet care products, and autos. Also
provides links to information about the 2003 California
gubernatorial recall and to state voter recall provisions.
Includes opportunity to sign up for e-mail alerts. Browsable
by category or date, or searchable.

Patient Safety Network

http://psnet.ahrq.gov/

A continuously updated, annotated, and carefully selected collection of patient
safety news, literature, tools, and resources

Self-Help Consumer Protection Resources

Consumer.gov

Scambusters

FraudBureau.com

Better Business Bureaus

Federal Consumer Information Center

NASD Dispute Resolutions

Quack Watch

Digital Books Database

http://www.digitalbookindex.com/

A searchable database (free to use) containing information about more than 72,000 digitized books from over 1800 publishers. More than one third of the titles are available in full-text format at no charge while other titles are fee-based. Registration, also fee, is required to access the database

Diplomatic Monitor

http://diplomacymonitor.com/stu/dm.nsf/infoaboutdm!OpenForm

The St. Thomas University School of Law (Miami, Florida, USA) has deployed specially developed proprietary software to monitor the global output of communiqués, official statements, press briefings, position papers, interview transcripts and news releases from hundreds of diplomacy-related websites in near real-time and channel it into a synthesized information stream for scholars, diplomats, journalists, researchers, students and others interested in the interaction among nations

CBS Disaster Links

http://www.cbsnews.com/digitaldan/disaster/disasters.shtml

The site contains information about a variety of disaster-related web sites: airplane, terrorism, drought, satellite and severe weather disasters. Links to state by state disaster agencies are also provided.

Diseases Control and Information / US and International/

http://www.cdc.gov/travel

Disease Outbreak World Health Organization

http://www.who.int/disease-outbreak-news/

Rare Diseases / US/

http://www.rarediseases.org/cgi-bin/nord

DISTANCE BETWEEN TWO CITIES

http://www.wcrl.ars.usda.gov/cec/java/lat-long.htm

What is Dollar worth?/ CPI index inflation ; Inflation rates 1800-present)

http://woodrow.mpls.frb.fed.us/economy/calc/cpihome.html

Doctor Board Certification Check / Registration/

http://www.abms.org/login.asp

Doctors/ License check

Info from individual states is not cross-referenced ( info from one state may not be listed in another )

Check links on the left for additional search options

http://www.docboard.org/

Dream Guide & Index

http://www.dreammoods.com/

Drugs

www.drugs.com

Comprehensive and up-to-date Prescription Drug information for consumers & professionals. Fast, easy searching or browsing of over 24,000 approved medications. The Drugs.com drug-information database is powered by three independent leading medical-information suppliers: Physicians’ Desk Reference, Cerner Multum and Thomson Micromedex. Individual drug (or drug-class) information content compiled by these sources is delivered complete and unaltered by Drugs.com.

Drugs/ FDA

http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cder/drugsatfda/index.cfm

A database listing most brand name and generic drug products
approved by the Food and Drug Administration since 1939, including
prescription and over-the-counter human drugs currently approved
for sale in the United States, as well as discontinued drugs. "The
majority of labels, approval letters, reviews, and other
information are available for drug products approved from 1998 to
the present." Browsable, or searchable by drug name, active
ingredient, company, FDA action date, and more

Domain Name Search

http://www.checkdomain.com

http://allwhois.com

Both sites are the most complete service on the Internet. They automatically locate the appropriate "whois" or “checkdomain:” database server for a particular domain name and the organization or a person registered behind the domain. Some of the registrants have provided their websites too. If a database does not exist for a particular domain name, a Root Name Server query will check the domain's availability.

CentralOps

http://centralops.net/co/

Here you can quickly determine, whether domain is available, who is registered behind the domain name. You can also search by IP number, validate and track e-mail addressees and see what your browser reveals.

Economy.com/ FREE LUNCH-FREE STATISTICS; SOURCE LOCATOR/

http://www.economy.com/freelunch/

Presidential Election Atlas /US 1936-1996/

http://www.klipsan.com/usp32-96.htm

Energy and Fuel Information

http://www.eia.doe.gov/

Energy-Efficient Economy

http://www.sustainableenergy.org/

ERIC

Educator's Reference Desk. ERD

http://www.eduref.org/

AskERIC is gone. However, many of the important resources AskERIC provided are now available via The Educator's Reference Desk. ERD is a service of The Information Institute at Syracuse University.
At site you can access AskERIC's 2,000+ lesson plans, 3,000+ links to online education information, and 200+ question archive responses. While the question answer service will no longer be active, The Educator's Reference Desk provides a search interface to the ERIC Database, providing access to over one million bibliographic records on educational research, theory, and practice

Espionage /Cases 1975-1999/

http://www.dss.mil/training/espionage_

EVENTS CALENDARS

Festival Networks Online

http://www.festivalnet.com/index.html

Festivals Network Online is a, "nationwide craft show, art fair, music, festival & event guide." A new feature on the web site allows you to access event info within a certain mile radius of a any zip code. Searching and basic info is free. To view full event details, a subscription (fee-based) is required. The database has info on more than 14,000 events

Whatsonwhen

http://www.whatsonwhen.com/

Whatsonwhen was launched in 1999 to let people plan their leisure time according to their interests and to make sure they didn't miss an event they really wanted to see

BBC Monitoring

http://www.monitor.bbc.co.uk/weekahead.shtml

Lists key political and economic events expected to take place over a period of 10 days and is

available tool for planning."

News Ahead

http://www.newsahead.com/

A free preview provides a list of upcoming events (1-2 weeks). A fee-based database containing events up to one year out is also available.

World Events Calendar

http://www.cfr.org/worldevents.php
From the Council on Foreign Relations.
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US Public Diplomacy Calendar

http://usinfo.state.gov/products/calendar/calendar.htm

Lists the future events according to the US State Department

Campaign Calendar for the 2004 Election Cycle-US

http://www.ascribe.org/election.html
Compiled by AScribe. Available as a pdf file. You'll need to register (free) to download a copy.

Election Guide

http://209.50.195.230/eguide/elecguide.htm
Gives future election dates and past election summaries.

ABC’s “ The Note” Calendar

http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/politics/TheNote/TheNote.html
From the ABC political unit “ The note”: the list near the bottom of each issue.

The Meeting Index

http://www.interdok.com/mind/

The site lists academic events. Most listings are for conferences, congresses, meetings and symposia that eventually will result in published proceedings.

Conference Alerts
http://www.interdok.com/mind/

Constantly updated database of conferences.

Space Calendar

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/calendar/
From NASA -the Space Calendar covers space-related activities and anniversaries for the current and upcoming year

TSNN
http://www.tsnn.com/

TSNN.com offers searchable database of trade shows. Global coverage.

Facts about newspapers in US

http://www.naa.org/artpage.cfm?AID=4510&SID=167

Film / resume ; phone book, bio; news/

http://filmstew.com/

Flight Delays+tracker/US/

http://www.fly.faa.gov_

http://www.flightview.com

Foundations

www.fdncenter.org_.

http://www.fdncenter.org/research/trends_analysis/pdf/03fyhl.pdf

The Foundation Yearbook

http://www.fdncenter.org/research/trends_analysis/pdf/03fyhl.pdf

This is the premier resource on the nation's nearly 62,000 foundations. The Yearbook tracks the development of all active U.S. corporate, independent, and community foundations from 1975 through 2001. It also ranks grantmakers by their grant and asset dollars and provides a regional breakdown of regional growth and giving trends.

Federal Budget/2000

http://w3.access.gpo.gov/usbudget/fy2001/guidetoc.html_

FBI/ Track law enforcement agencies/

http://trac.syr.edu/media_

FBI / Staticis/

http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/ucr.htm

FOOD/AGRICULTURE/FARMING/ RURAL AMERICA STATISTICS

http://www.ers.usda.gov/

ERS produces data products in a range of formats, including online databases, spreadsheets, and web files on food, agriculture, natural resources, farming and rural America.

FRAUD

Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG)
http://www.antiphishing.org/

Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG)
This consumer protection site provides news about and current examples of e-mail fraud and scams (archived back to September 2003 with commentaries and summaries of known details). Also includes a list of Web resources providing trend reports, help for
those who have been scammed, and the origin of the term "phishing." The APWG is "focused on eliminating the identity theft and fraud that result from the growing problem of phishing and email spoofing."

Fuel Price Data

AAA: Daily Fuel Gauge Report

http://www.fuelgaugereport.com/

The results of daily surveys (via credit card transactions) of more than 60,000 self-serve gas stations in the U.S. are posted here courtesy of the American Automobile Association (AAA). Find national, state, and metropolitan area prices for regular, premium, and diesel fuel. Also lists price yesterday, a month, and a year ago as well as highest recorded price for regular unleaded and diesel.

Gazetteer ( US/Census/Tiger map/track/ )

http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer

GENERAL REFERENCE

http://www.library.unr.edu/geninfo.html

Homework Help

Burlington Public Library: BPL Kids
http://www.bpl.on.ca/bplkids.htm

Features book reviews and Web resources for children, as well as
information for parents. Provides annotated Web links organized by
Dewey classification, lists of award-winning books and books on
specific topics, reviews written by librarians, online picture
books, and links to game and activity sites.

Geographic Correspondence Engine

http://mcdc2.missouri.edu/websas/geocorr2k.html#OUTOPTS

The Geographic Correspondence Engine / Geocorr/ application allows you to create reports and/or comma-separated value ("csv") files shohttp://mcdc2.missouri.edu/websas/geocorr2k.html#OUTOPTSwing various kinds of information about U.S. geography, especially census geography (i.e., things like census tracts and blocks -- defined by the U.S. Census Bureau for the purpose of tabulating the decennial census.)
Probably the most common application of geocorr is the creation of a correlation list report showing how one kind of geography relates to another. For example, you can create a report showing how ZIP codes correspond to counties and cities (places) for the state of Missouri (or just for specified counties in Missouri

REFERENCE

http://www.itools.com

http://www.beaucoup.com/1refeng.html

The Journalist's Toolbox

http://www.journaliststoolbox.com/

Power Reporting-/general business resources also/

http://powerreporting.com/

Garry GWU / DIRECT SEARCH/

http://www.freepint.com/gary/direct.htm

Virtual Acquisition Shelf & News Desk / Garry GWU /
http://resourceshelf.blogspot.com/

San Jose Public Library

http://www.sjpl.lib.ca.us/research/databases/

It leads to a wealth of databases that information about biographies, political speeches, businesses, authors and health, to name a few.

Geographic Names Database

http://www.nima.mil/gns/html/

The GEOnet Names Server (GNS) provides access to the National Imagery and Mapping Agency's (NIMA) database of foreign geographic feature names. The database is the official repository of foreign place-name decisions approved by the US Board of Geographic Names (US BGN). Approximately 20,000 of the database's features are updated monthly. The database contains 3.90 million features with 5.37 million names (approximate) updated on a bi-weekly schedule.

General reference / academic description major databases /

http://www.library.georgetown.edu/resource/

Government Publications Catalog

http://www.access.gpo.gov/catalog_

http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/tools.html_

GIS

Geographic reference databases are typically areal databases depicting political or statistical boundaries, such as states and counties or congressional districts, or depicting land use, such as national parks or military bases. This polygonal data can be used in conjunction with transportation networks and other facilities to provide a locational frame of reference or a base for demographic or environmental information. Attributes associated with these reference databases include feature or place name, area measures, and census data aggregated to the area level. Most reference database boundaries in the National Transportation Atlas (NTA) have been digitized to a geographic accuracy consistent with that of a 1:100,000 scale map.

http://www.bts.gov/gis/ntatlas/background.html

GIS / General Reference / For fee + free; general site/

http://gislounge.com/ll/airports.shtml

Governments ( Chief of State)

http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/chiefs/

The Central Intelligence Agency publishes and updates the online directory of Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments weekly. The directory is intended to be used primarily as a reference aid and includes as many governments of the world as is considered practical, some of them not officially recognized by the United States. Regimes with which the United States has no diplomatic exchanges are indicated by the initials NDE.

Governors/ Historical Statistics by State/

http://americanhistory.about.com/homework/americanhistory/library/weekly/blgovern.htm_

Gulf War Information

http://www.gulflink.osd.mil_

Headlines Summarized / International/ !

http://www.1stheadlines.com_

History/Wars/US History/not that great/

http://www.historyguy.com_

Historical Interactive Atlas

http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/20centry.htm

Highway Conditions and Construction Schedule and Weather/ US/

http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/trafficinfo/index.htm_

Health policy and regulations

http://hippo.findlaw.com_

How to cite a Web cite

http://www.apa.org/journals/webref.html_

Human Genome Project Working Draft ?

http://genome.ucsc.edu_

Historical Hurricane Tracks / Historical data/

The Historical Hurricane Tracks tool is an interactive mapping application that allows you to easily search and display 150 years of Atlantic Basin tropical cyclone data. After using this tool, you should be able to better understand the history of tropical cyclones in your area , the overall climatology of tropical cyclones, or different areas within the Atlantic Basin (Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, and Gulf of Mexico) and the problems faced by increasing coastal population from landfalling hurricanes and tropical storms.

http://hurricane.csc.noaa.gov/hurricanes/index.htm

Investigative Reports / Worldwide /

http://www.icij.org/investigate/

Inflation Calculator

http://www.westegg.com/inflation_

Inmate Locator

Federal Bureau of Prisons.

http://www.bop.gov/

Only persons convicted of violating Federal laws (that is, laws of the United States) are sent to Federal prisons and could be found in the database of Federal Bureau of Prisons. Includes all Federal inmates from 1982 to present. You can search by first and last name or register number.

Offenders

VINELink

http://www.vinelink.com/index.jsp

A service of Appriss Inc., VINELink provides access to information about the custody status of offenders in many states. First, select the state you want to search. Then choose whether you want to query Department of Corrections records, conduct a statewide search, or query the records of a specific county entity. You can search by SSN or name, and limit a search (optional) by date of birth or age range. The information provided includes the name of the offender, his/her date of birth, custody status, holding facility and more. Victims may opt to register their names for notification when the individual's status changes

Internet Discussion Lists

CataList

http://www.lsoft.com/lists/listref.html

From this page, you can browse any of the 71,456 public LISTSERV lists on the Internet, search for mailing lists of interest, and get information about LISTSERV host sites

TileNet (Discussion & Information Lists)

http://www.tile.net/

A comprehensive site to get information about Discussion & Information Lists on the Internet , Usenet Newsgroups and FTP sites. Each group can be searched by different criteria: name, description, domain, and country.

Internet-Tutorial

http://www.learnthenet.com

Center for Immigration Studies / comprehensive statistics and articles/

http://www.cis.org/

Immigration Family History / Ellis Island Records/

http://www.ellisislandrecords.org/

Invisible Web

http://www.invisible-web.net/

It includes a directory of some of the best resources the Invisible Web has to offer. The directory includes resources that are informative, of high quality, and contain worthy information from reliable information providers that are not visible to general-purpose search engines

Internet Infringement

http://www.copyscape.com/

Copyscape finds copies of your content on the Web. You can use Copyscape to identify sites that have copied your content without permission. Copyscape will also show you who is quoting your site. Simply type in the URL of your original content, and Copyscape does the rest.

Journals

Directory of Open Access Journals

http://www.doaj.org/

Welcome to the Directory of Open Access Journals. This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. . The database can not be search for articles. But you can browse for the subject of the journals, or search by title, ISBN, publisher or do simple Boolean search . For more information see the “help” section.

Find Articles

http://www.findarticles.com

Now owned by Looksmart with access to full text material from about 700 sources and

advanced search possibilities by title, author name, range of publication e t c.

Magportal

http://www.magportal.com/

Find individual articles from many free magazines by browsing the categories or using the search engine. When you find an article you like, use
to mark it, or
to get similar articles. Covers free text from 150 sources.

K

LAW

Internet Law Library

http://www.phillipsnizer.com/library/

Internet Law Library features extensive summaries of over 290 court decisions shaping the law of the web; providing facts, analysis and pertinent quotes from cases of interest to those involved in New Media addressing copyright, trademark, dilution and other intellectual property issues, jurisdiction, linking, framing, meta tags, clip-art, defamation, domain name, e-mail, encryption, gambling, click-wrap agreements, shrink-wrap licenses, spamming and other subjects indexed below.

Law Library of Congress

http://www.loc.gov/law/public/law-guide.html

The mission of the Law Library of Congress is to provide research and legal information to the U.S. Congress as well as to U.S. Federal Courts and Executive Agencies. The site also offers a very well explained guide to state and federal law resources and a short index of international country law guides.

Law Directory / Articles/

www.law.com

Directory provides articles from legal magazines and local laws and news for each US state. Free registration required for some materials

Law Dictionary

www.nolo.com

Nolo contains plain-English definitions for more than one thousand legal terms

Find Law

www.findlaw.com

Find Law is the highest-trafficked legal Web site, providing the most comprehensive set of legal resources on the Internet for lawyers, businesses, students and individuals

Legal History Resources on the Web

http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/rare/legalhis.htm
A selective guide to legal history resources on the Web, with special emphasis on archives and rare book collections

Law- General Reference

Virtual Chase

http://www.virtualchase.com/

Since Summer 1996, The Virtual Chase has assisted legal professionals conducting research on the Internet. Though it began as a simple means by which to disseminate articles and teaching aids to law librarians and other instructors of Internet research, it has evolved into a site comprising more than 250 pages of information about resources and research strategies. Designed especially for lawyers and other experienced legal researchers, the site attempts to sift through the Internet chaff to find the grains of quality wheat."

LANGUAGES

Languages / spoken in a country; language families/

http://www.ethnologue.com/web.asp

Language Map ( USA)

http://www.mla.org/census_main/

The Modern Language Association (MLA) "Language Map uses data from
the 2000 United States census to display the locations and numbers
of speakers of thirty languages and seven groups of less commonly
spoken languages." The site features maps with data displayed by
county, ZIP code or city.

Latin Countries / Ranking Lists –Top CEO, companies, mergers, banks, forecast /

http://www.latintrade.com/newsite/index.cfm

Licensed Occupations Database

http://www.acinet.org/acinet/lois_start.asp?soccode=&stfips=

This database was formerly known as LOIS. It offers occupational licensing requirements by state, occupation or agency. This tool includes information on licenses that maybe required by law in order for you to practice a particular occupation. Information for all states, agencies, and licenses may not be included

Library Surveys Online

The following sites offer good survey examples :

http://www.sconul.ac.uk/Survey.doc
http://www.king.edu/library/survey.asp
http://www.rcvslibrary.org.uk/survey2002.html
http://www.jflalc.org/library/ssv.html
http://cognet.mit.edu/questionnaire/
http://209.100.134.195/mwr/Library2000.pdf
http://www.britishcouncil.org.pk/infoexch/paklissr.htm
http://wesley.stanford.edu/library/contact/librarywebsurvey_form.html
http://www.surveytools.com/library.htm
http://www.laniertech.org/library/Survey.htm
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~biomed/about.htmld/usersurvey.htmld/survey2.shtml
http://www.tnstate.edu/library/survey.htm
http://library.nevada.edu/info/1999survey.pdf

Literature, Articles…

http://www.salon.com

Literature / Classic Works Online/

http://www.gutenberg.net.

Lobbyist Directory ( Federal)

http://www.politicalmoneyline.com/cgi-win/lb_directory.exe?DoFn=

The Federal Lobbyist Directory offers material for about 2500 lobbying organizations, 25,000 clients, and over 28,000 individual lobbyists. Searching “Microsoft” returns a list of current lobbyists, and links to images of original filings. A search for “Patton Boggs” returns a client list, links to political action committee data, a list of company lobbyists, and direct links to quickly access new registrations and former clients.

Local Events ( Directory)

http://www.evite.com/pages/homepage/index.jsp

The biggest local event directory. You choose a category (lifestyle, nightlife, sports,
including “all categories”) and a zip code.

Mailing Lists ( Internet Discussion Lists )

CataList

http://www.lsoft.com/lists/listref.html

From this page, you can browse any of the 71,456 public LISTSERV lists on the Internet, search for mailing lists of interest, and get information about LISTSERV host sites

Mailing Lists ( Library)

Library Oriented Lists & Electronic Serials

http://www.aladin.wrlc.org/gsdl/cgi-bin/library?p=about&c=liblists

This document is a compilation of electronic discussion lists, distribution lists and serials which are of interest to library professionals and staff. Click subjects too see the topics or titles to see the actual mailing lists.

MAPS/ SATELLITE see AERIAL PHOTOS

DigitalGlobe

www.digitalglobe.com

Maps / Historical)

http://www.common-place.org/vol-03/no-04/tales/

Mr. David Rumsey website allows free viewing of maps via high-resolution images on the Internet. The Web site now has over eight thousand historical maps available for close examination.

Maps / Historical +Current/

Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/index.html

Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection, from the University of Texas at Austin, includes many electronic versions of printed maps, for all regions of the world. Additionally, the historical maps section provides maps which are from the 19th and early 20th centuries (some covering time periods dating back to 980 C.E.). This site also links to many other sites with electronic

MEDIA/DIRECTORY

Media Post

http://www.mediapost.com/

Media Post All Media Directory offers FREE access to a database containing directory information for about "13,000 stations, 8,000 publications, 3,000 sites and networks." Media Post also contains names, numbers, and addresses for thousands of people working in the media industry; media outlets are also searchable by state, market and format.

From the person just needing a list of radio stations in a specific market to the media professional needing names and numbers of colleagues around the country this is free and invaluable source.

Mental Health / Association and Resources/

http://www.nmha.org

Measurement Converter

www.convertit.com

Dictionary of Unit Measurements

http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/ .

Pick a letter and you'll get a list of measurements; H, for example, goes from h to hyl. Each listing has an explanation of the measurement and where it's used. There's some cross-linking but not so much that everything becomes unwieldy. Back on the front page you'll get a list of the most recent additions, links to commentary and explanation, and an index of tables and scales

Military Dictionary

Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms

http://www.dtic.mil/doctrine/jel/new_pubs/jp1_02.pdf

The 734 page pdf dictionary is a valuable source for military terms. The downsize it is in pdf format.

Center for Defense Information/

http://www.cdi.org/pubs/

Has three major publications, which are a great source of information.

Miltary Almanac: with info on military forces, personnel, budgets, deployments and security arrangements for the United States and around the world;

Arms Control: 139-page record of arms control efforts undertaken since the beginning of the nuclear age through 2002.

America’s Defense Monitor: analyzes the military's impact on the political system, the economy, the environment, and society as a whole. Other topics include foreign policy, international affairs, armed intervention, and nuclear and conventional weapons.

Military Casualties

http://www.defendamerica.mil/fallen.html

The site gives updated information on military casualties within day or two. The only downsize is that the numbers have to be counted by the researcher.

Military Information US

http://www.defenselink.mil

http://www.defence-discovery.com/

www.military.com / general reference/

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/index.html

/ general reference; military bases worldwide/

Combat Aircraft / pictures and specifications for military aircraft worldwide/

http://www.combataircraft.com

Military News/Contracts ( DOD)

http://www.dod.mil/news/dodnews.html

Military Info/ Worldwide, All kinds, low daily fee/

http://www.periscopeone.com/about.html

Military Statistics/ Contractors Department of Defense DOD/

Directorate for Information Operations and Reports / DIOR/

http://web1.whs.osd.mil

The DIOR web site is a wonderful one stop site for military statistics like personnel data, contracting with the Department of Defense (DOD), military casualty information. manpower statistics, including medical care statistics.

Defense National Interest

http://d-n-i.net/

The purpose of this site "is to foster debate on the roles of the U.S. armed forces in the post-Cold War era and to help create a more effective national defense. ... Contributors to this site are, with a few exceptions, active/reserve, former, or retired military." The site features documents and commentary on topics such as weapon system effectiveness, leadership, and Iraq. Also includes charts, data, and links to related sites. Searchable.

SIPRI YEARBOOK 2002 (ARMAMENTS, DISARMAMENT AND INTERNATIONAL SECURITY)

http://editors.sipri.se/pubs/yearb.html

http://first.sipri.org/ ( FIRST)

Military Personnel Records

http://www.archives.gov/facilities/mo/st_louis/military_personnel_records.html

The National Personnel Records Center, Military Personnel Records (NPRC-MPR) is the repository of millions of military personnel, health, and medical records of discharged and deceased veterans of all services during the 20th century. This site is provided for those seeking information regarding military personnel, health and medical records stored at NPRC (MPR). It includes complete instructions for preparing and submitting requests. Please Note: All requests must be in writing, signed and mailed to us at the address shown below

Military Deployment

http://www.militarycity.com/map/

US Military Deployment in the Middle East by country and region. ned to each country or area

CNN Worldwide Troop Deployment Map

http://www.cnn.com/interactive/maps/world/fullpage.troop.deployments/world.index.html

Military Installations (In-Active and Closed Bases )

http://www.military.com

Military.com

http://www.military.com

The Military. Com database provides information about military US installations. Look under “Resources” than “Active Duty” and “Installations”.

U.S. Military Base Closures and Realignments

http://www.defenselink.mil/news/fact_sheets/f960530_baseclose_report.html

BASE REALIGNMENT AND CLOSURE (BRAC) COMMISSION

http://www.military.com/Resources/BRAC_2005.doc

http://www.defenselink.mil/brac/

MONITOR FILE SHARING DOWNLOADS

BigChampagne

http://www.bigchampagne.com/

The site tracks 25 million searches each day, conducted by an estimated 20 million individuals, noting downloads from specific artists and by individual song track. Despite their public battle against P2P music users, the music industry is very interested in monitoring the choices of this huge file . Copyright and piracy issues associated with file sharing are the subject of news articles, lawsuits and web forum discussion groups.

Movie Database

http://us.imdb.com

Movie Locations

http://www.famouslocations.com

Just as the name says, thousands of famous locations from around the world - with photos and explanations about how they were used. You can vist by title - "The Sound of Music" for instance; or by director - "Alfred Hitchcock; or city - "New York."

Most Important Newspapers / Worldwide/

Guardian (UK)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardian/

BBC Online (UK)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/home/today

/

The Globe and Mail (Canada)
http://www.globeandmail.com/

Nikkei Net (Japan)
http://www.nni.nikkei.co.jp

The Japan Times (Japan)
http://www.japantimes.co.jp

Asahi Shimbun (Japan)
http://www.asahi.com/english/english.html

Motto & Nicknames / Cities & States /

http://www.pe.net/~rksnow/mottos.htm

What cities or communities are associated with these mottos, slogans, nicknames

Murdered and Assassinated Politicians / US/

http://politicalgraveyard.com/death/murder.html

Native American History

http://www.lib.washington.edu/subject/History/tm/native.html

National Security Archive

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/special/iraq/index.htm

The National Security Archive was founded in 1985 and is located at the George Washington University's Gelman Library in Washington, D.C. . The National Security Archive is a research institute on international affairs, a library and archive of declassified U.S. documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). The National Security Archive is a public interest law firm defending and expanding public access to U.S. government information through the FOIA. Additional access for a yearly subscription is provided to The Digital National Security Archive, which cover 12 collections of primary documents central to US foreign and military policy since 1945 ranging from Afghanistan, to Cuba Missile Crisis, Iran, US military uses of the space and the U.S. nuclear non-proliferation policy.

9/11 Funding Database

http://fdncenter.org/911db/
Users can search the database to find out how much a specific corporation or foundation gave and to which organizations. The database also makes it possible to look at donors and recipients in various geographic areas, as well as the organizations receiving
funds in human services, culture, immigrant rights and other service areas.

Newspaper Directories / International/

1 International Newspaper Marketing Association,

www.INMA.org

They have an online directory of members and it truly is an international association.
The only problem is that you have to be a member to access the directory.
They may also have a listing of international newspapers as well.

2 E&P Yearbook covers both national and international media. The
listings are pretty thorough, including not only main address & phone
number, but also circulation stats, personnel lists, e-mail addresses,
advertising costs, deadlines, etc. It's the staple of every media
library www.editorandpublisher.com/yearbook

5 CARD - Canadian Advertising Rates and Data. http://www.cardmedia.com/. CARD is a listing of all Canadian media outlets that accept advertising - television stations, radio stations,newspapers, magazines, newsletters, etc.

6 For European Directories, Statistics, etc, see publications available from: www.abc.org.uk

7 The International Media Guide includes www.srds.com.magazines, newspapers, business publications and TV/Radio/Cable for Mexico and Canada. IMG is not as comprehensive as the U.S. SRDS edition yet it'sworth looking into. It's a gated web site with annual subscription.

Newspaper/TV/Media Directory

Media Post

http://www.mediapost.com/

From the person just needing a list of radio stations in a specific market to the media professional needing names and numbers of colleagues around the country this is free and invaluable source.

Newspaper network / addresses; phones/

http://www.n-net.com

NEWSPAPERS ONLINE

www.ecola.com

Newspapers/ US local + International/

http://www.kidon.com/media-link/index.shtml

http://www.usnpl.com / by state + tv stations + radios/

News and Reviews Daily

http://www.cybereditions.com/aldaily

www.worldnews.com

Read 170 Newspapers Online

http://www.pressdisplay.com/pressdisplay/viewer.aspx – image ( by country)

You can read all 170 newspapers from 45 countries right on this site. All newspapers are published online in their original form and layout. Newspapers are available before they appear on newsstands in their respective countries.

News Research Portal

http://www.newssearchportal.com/

The site has a lot of links to news search resources and they are categorized (video news search, audio news search, news photo search, etc.) into useful groups.

Local News by Zip Code

Topix.net

www.topix.net

If you want local news, Topix.net may work better. The site monitors breaking news from more than 6,000 sources and lets users filter results by ZIP code

NEWSPAPER MISTAKES

http://www.regrettheerror.com/

Regret The Error

Reports on corrections, retractions, clarifications, and trends regarding accuracy and honesty in North American media.

NEWSIMAGES(WORLDWIDE)

News Images

http://www.newsimages.com/

This site offers nothing but a collection of news images, gathered from all
over the Web. Categories range from Business and Financial to Science and Technology to Sports and Entertainment. Most categories are updated every hour. Each picture is linked directly to the story

Todays News( Front Newspages ( Map)

http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/ -map

NEWSFORECAST

Washington Post Day Book

http://www.washtimes.com/national/daybook.htm

The service is free, it can be recived via e-mail also and covers the presidency, federal agencies, supreme court, senate, and house of representatives.

BBC Monitoring: The Week Ahead
http://www.monitor.bbc.co.uk/weekahead.shtml

APTN (AP Television) Weekly Editorial News Planner
http://www.aptn.com
Look for the link in the gray box, right side of page (url changes weekly)

U.S. State Department: Public Diplomacy Calendar
http://usinfo.state.gov/products/calendar/calendar.htm

NewsAhead (Free Sample, Full-Database Fee-Based)
http://www.newsahead.com/

Upcoming Elections Around the World
http://www.ifes.org/eguide/elecguide.htm

Space Calendar
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/calendar/

News and gossip

http://www.poynter.org/medianews

Media Watch ( fired-hired reporters)
http://www.mediamap.com/mediawatch/default.htm

O'Dwyer's PR Daily.
Always has many comings and goings at newspapers and magazines
http://www.odwyerpr.com/media_news/media.htm

I WantMedia.Com ( review of big gossips or news in the industry)
Actually, they provide the daily feed to Media Bistro.
http://www.mediabistro.com

Drudge Report (Matt Drudge)
News and gossip about politics, media and more.
http://www.drudgereport.com/

News Summarization / NewsBlaster/

/ automatic generation of text summaries/

http://www.cs.columbia.edu/nlp/newsblaster

Newspaper /Archive – Local Papers by State/

http://wire.ap.org.

Newspapers, Magazines / General Statistics/

Magazine Publishers of America
http://www.magazine.org/resources/research.html

New Search Engines

http://www.why.com

http://www.wisenut.com / Claimed high relevance results/

http://www.teoma.com / Good Subject headings/

http://www.alltheweb.com / PDF documents scanned above 120 K (Google= PDF= 120 K) + more often scans the Internet ( more recent info on Internet better than Google )

NONPROFIT ORGHANIZATIONS

GudeStar

www.guidestar.org

Research database of more than 850,000 IRS-recognized nonprofit organizations.

These filings—known as Forms 990—provide specific information on a charity's revenues, expenses, executive salaries, board members, programs and activities.

Non-profit organizations Directory

The NonProfit Times

www.nptimes.com/main/directory.html

The NonProfit Times, published 24 times a year, is read by over 34,000 full time nonprofit executive management around the country. Each issue is packed with hard hitting and useful business information on managing their organizations more effectively.

There is also a study of the top 100 non profit organization by income, public and government support, total assets, expenses, findrising, membership.

Charitable Contributions / track in US raw numbers /

http://www.aafrc.org

The following charts from GIVING USA 2002 present overviews of giving by source of contributions and by recipient organizations.

Grantsmart

www.grantsmart.org

GrantSmart now hosts a complete database of all Section 527 – taxation of political parties that have filed form 8871. You can search by keyword, browse an alphabetical list, or use an organization's Employer Identification Number (EIN). Direct links are provided to each organization's Form 8871 in Adobe Acrobat PDF. Financial information regarding the contributions and expenditures of political organizations (Form 8872) is not yet available on our site. Political organizations that are subject to new periodic reporting requirements will begin filing Form 8872 in the near future.

NEWS

www.worldnews.com

News Search Engines

www.researchville.com

http://news.google.com/

http://www.altavista.com/news/default

Newsnow

http://www.newsnow.co.uk/

With more than 300,000 users and more thaan 15 000 sources, NewsNow is the UK's leading online press monitoring company. The site offers limited search functionality (only single words) for non-subscribers. There are several fee-based services.

New York Organized Crime

http://ganglandnews.com

Open Access Journals

http://www.doaj.org/

Quotations

www.famous-quotations.com

http://powerreporting.com/5answer.html

Police Organizations / Directory US/

http://www.officer.com/

Payphone Directory / US, Europe, Canada, Germany, Hawaii, UK/

http://www.payphone-directory.org/

Panoramic Maps(1847-1929)

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/pmhtml/panhome.html

PENSION / WELFARE DATABASE/

FreeERISA.

http://www.freeerisa.com/info/freeerisa.asp

FreeERISA.com is intended as a useful, free web-site where visitors may view or print retirement and welfare benefit information on the group or groups of their choice as this data appears on Form 5500.

PLAGIARISM / TRACK/

Turnitin

http://www.plagiarism.org/

Turnitin products and services help educators and students maximize the Internet's educational potential by making it a safe place for research and learning. Turnitin is the world's most widely recognized and trusted resource for preventing Internet plagiarism.

Our plagiarism prevention system was the first of its kind, and has been helping educators identify and deter digital plagiarism since 1996. Turnitin is now used by thousands of high schools and universities worldwide.

Polls / Opinion, Surveys-International/

http://www.mori.com

Poll Releases Gallup / Politics, Business, Social Issues, Life Style/

http://www.gallup.com/poll/releases/index.asp

Presidential debates

http://www.debates.org

Poverty – Hunger

http://www.centeronhunger.org/FSI/fsistate.html

Data on poverty and hunger: national and state data and rankings of states from the Food Security Institute, Center on Hunger and Poverty, Brandeis University. To get the national figures click Food Security Institute “ national facts & figures ”.

PROGRAMMING CODE

Koders

http://www.koders.com/

Koders is a search engine for finding programming code. The site makes it easy for software developers to find existing source code that solves many common development problems with our vast index of working source code from a variety of open source projects. In many cases you may find code that solves the exact problem you are working on, and in other cases, you can find an 80% solution - where existing code can be suited to your needs with minor modifications.

Protest/ Events World Wide/

http://protest.net

Public records /US databases/

http://www.pac-info.com

http://www.cpfbi.com/ Choice Point public records for fee + additional free resources/

http://www.brbpub.com/ Public record Research System/

http://www.crimetime.com/online.html / NB!!!/

PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH CENTERS

NIRA Directory of Think Thanks

http://www.nira.go.jp/ice/nwdtt/index.html#1

NIRA's World Directory of Think Tanks provides a systematic introduction to the world's most prominent and innovative public policy research institutes, better known as think tanks. This completely revised edition contains up-to-date information available on 320 specially selected think tanks from 77 countries and regions

PolicyBot

http://www.heartland.org/policybot.cfm

PolicyBot is the Internet's most extensive clearing-house for the work of free-market think tanks, with more than 12,500 studies and commentaries from over 350 think tanks and advocacy groups. To search the PolicyBot database, navigate through the topic list on the left, or use the form below to specify keywords or the name of an author or publisher. You can also search for a specific document number if you know it, or for all documents added during a specified time period.

PUBLISHERS

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

This Online Directory from Ascweb, which is a gathering place for acquisition librarians. Entries are divided by subject, e-mail adress, web site, alphabetically and by geographical location.

Radar / Satellite Weather Forecast

http://www.nws.noaa.gov/

The site from National Weather Service offers weather forecasts with images ( satellite, radar and local maps) In addition there are local, marine, aviation and hurricane forecasts. Excellent site for weather reference with satellite and radar images

Radioactive Waste

WasteLink
http://www.radwaste.org

Provides over 9,000 links to radioactive waste, nuclear, and
radiation Web sites, including research centers, regulatory
agencies, governmental and nongovernmental organizations,
and publications. Recognizing that these are emotional and
polarizing topics, the site provides information from "pro,
anti, academic, governments, and professional societies to
name a few." Browsable and searchable. Links are listed free
of charge; enhanced listings (logo and description) are
offered for a fee. From Herne Data Systems, Canada.

REFUGEE / MIGRATION/ DISPLACED PEOPLE

IDP Project

http://www.idpproject.org/

IDP is short for “internally displaced person”. Some 25 million people worldwide currently live in situations of internal displacement as a result of conflicts or human rights violations. They were forced to flee their homes because their lives were at danger, but unlike refugees they did not cross international borders. The database provides country reports on countries with IDP.

Amnesty International Library

http://web.amnesty.org/library/engindex

The Amnesty International library contains an archive of most reports, news releases and urgent actions published from 1996 to date. Documents are available in English, French, Spanish and Arabic. The site is searchable by documents, regions, countries and subjects.

World Refugee Survey

http://www.refugees.org/world/worldmain.htm

Provides exclusive insight and expert analysis of the most up-to-date issues facing refugees and internally displaced persons worldwide. Reports on 131 countries around the globe. It consists of the most accurate and comprehensive refugee statistics available

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

http://www.unhcr.ch/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/country?iso=sen

The site of The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees provides data, trends and statistical reports on more than 150 countries. You can find information by country and subject, or you can download the latest Statistical Yearbook.

Reports on Environment, Defense, Energy and NASA

http://www.osti.gov/graylit

Recall Warnings

http://www.recall-warnings.com/

Research Projects in the US Government

http://www.osti.gov/fedrnd

Real Time Digital Reference

http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/LiveRef.htm#Special

Religion / Statistics-worldwide-US politicians-US famous people/

Adherents.com is a growing collection of over 41,000 adherent statistics and religious geography citations -- references to published membership/adherent statistics and congregation statistics for over 4,200 religions, churches, denominations, religious bodies, faith groups, tribes, cultures, movements, ultimate concerns, etc.

www.adherents.com

Retirement / Pension –Benefit / Database

http://www.freeerisa.com/

Free access to pension and benefit data from the government and private sector. . Registration required.

Safety

Federal Transit Administration (FTA):

http://transit-safety.volpe.dot.gov/

This website collects reports, statistics, newsletters, guidelines and best practices, and other documents related to safety and security of the U.S. transit infrastructure. Topics include rail and bus safety, transit security design, alcohol and drug testing, response to terrorist threats, and emergency management. Most materials are from the 1990s to the present. The FTA is an administration within the U.S. Department of Transportation.

Salary, Occupational information

www.salary.com

http://216.74.129.205/kforce/kf049/me.get?web.websections.show&KFORCE_710

http://146.142.4.24/labjava/classes/ncs_java.html

Seaports/ Canada, Caribbean, Mexico & Central America, South America, USA+more?/

http://www.seaportsinfo.com/portmenu.html

Security ( International)

Overseas Advisory Safety Council (OASC)

http://www.ds-osac.org/

On The Overseas Advisory Safety Council (OSAC) web site you learn that the organization "was established in 1985 by the U.S. Department of State to foster the exchange of security related information between the U.S. Government and American private sector operating abroad. Administered by the Bureau of Diplomatic Security, OSAC has developed into an enormously successful joint venture for effective security cooperation".
The web site is home to numerous resources aimed at those with an interest in international security: daily updated news, regional reports e t c.

Security Archive / US and International/ world's largest repository of non-governmental material of declassified documents

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv

School Crime and Safety

http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2001/crime2000/

SCAM (INTERNET)

Anthiphishing.org

http://www.antiphishing.org/phishing_archive.htm

Anthiphishing.org it's a list of phishing examples divided by date, company (company being faked, that is), and title of the phish. Click on the phish and you will get additional information about the phish: summary data (scam target, e-mail format, goal, visible link, called link, etc.) e-mail (including screen shots), and some comments about the phish -- telltale signs that it is a phish, problems with the fake pages, etc.

Science ( Most cited ! )

http://www.in-cites.com/index.html

In cites provides data about the most cited scientists, journals, institutions, papers and countries. Read interviews and first-person essays about people in a wide variety of fields and professions. Updated weekly is SCI-BYTES: a summary of what’s new in research. The site also offers a search engine with multiple search options.

Slang Dictionary and Colloquialisms

http://www.pseudodictionary.com

Sport / Official sites Portal/

http://members.nbci.com/_XMCM/hotsheet/sports.html

Spanish news resources online

http://www.lanic.utexas.edu ( English)

http://www.saladeprensa.org/medios.htm ( Spanish)

Software for Researchers /very good/

http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~jaytate/software.htm#search

Social Security Death Index (SSDI)

http://ssdi.genealogy.rootsweb.com/

The site provides 71,812,210 Records and it is updated through November 2003. Search the Social Security Death Index by entering one or more fields in the form and clicking on the "submit" button. Keep in mind that the more fields you fill in, the more restricted your results will be (and you may even eliminate the record you are seeking

The Department of Veterans Affairs – Cemetery Records

http://www.cem.va.gov/

This is a database with over three million veterans' cemetery records online. Coverage is from for veterans and dependents buried in VA cemeteries (there are 120 of those) since
the civil war. Choose the Nationwide Gravesite Locator link at the left to search the database. You may search by first name and last name, with modifiers to
specify "exact match" or "begins with". An advanced search allows for many more options, including middle name, date of birth, date of death, and cemetery.

K –12 Students

http://www.web4study.com

States / Short Facts/

http://www2.thingstodo.com/symbols.html

Statistics

http://www.fedstats.gov

http://www.census.gov/qfd / by state-relevant sites/

Population / US/

http://www.ameristat.org

Subject Index to Literature on Electronic Sources of Information

http://library.usask.ca/~dworacze/SUBJIN_A.HTM

Telephones in Europe/World

Infobel

http://www.infobel.com

Infospace

This site allows to search by last name and country. There's also a list of available directories by country and region.
http://www.infospace.com/home/white-pages/world

International White and Yellow Pages

www.wayp.com

Which phone companies ( cities, countries) have which numbers?

http://www.fonefinder.net/index.php

http://members.dandy.net/~czg/search.html#ocnname

TELEVISION

Television Encyclopedia

http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/index.html

The Encyclopedia of Television includes more than 1,000 original essays from more than 250 contributors and examines specific programs and people, historic moments and trends, major policy disputes and such topics as violence, tabloid television and the quiz show scandal. It also includes histories of major television networks as well as broadcasting systems around the world and is complemented by resource materials, photos and bibliographical information. The book is not searchable but does contain hyperlinked cross-references

TV show database

http://tv.yahoo.com/db/

A browsable database containing basic directory info (premiere date, description, stars, brief history) for hundreds of television programs new and old. Browsing by category is not a good idea since these categories contain only a few of the many entries available if you browse by title

TERRORISM DATABASES

RAND and the Oklahoma City National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism (MIPT) have prepared an online database of terrorism incidents to help researchers, analysts, and others working to prevent terrorism.

RAND Terrorism Chronology Database

http://db.mipt.org/rand_68_97.cfm

Records international terrorist incidents that occurred between 1968 and 1997

RAND-MIPT Terrorism Incident Database

http://db.mipt.org/mipt_rand.cfm

Records domestic and international terrorist incidents occurred from 1998 to present.

Terrorism ( from Library of Congress)

http://www.loc.gov/rr/international/hispanic/terrorism/terrorism.html

From the Library of Congress -selected Internet resources on terrorism, organized by such topics as bioterrorism, law, Osama bin Laden, Mullah Omar, and Al Qaeda.
Each category provides a list of annotated links.

Terrorism Library

http://www.terrorismlibrary.com

TEXT

Text / Analyzer/

http://textalyser.net

TRANSCRIPTS

Transcripts / $ TV, Newspapers, Radio /

http://www.burrelles.com/tvrframe.html

Track persons, businesses, phones, e-mail addresses, mail/

http://www.cactive.com/BCP%20Sleuth%20Bookmarks.htm

Track anything / public, federal, state records; person..etc /

http://www.crimetime.com/online.html

Tobacco Database/ Legacy Tobacco Documents Library/

http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu

20 million fully searchable documents
from the 1930s to the 1990s -- previously secret stuff from tobacco industry
files obtained as part of the lawsuits settled in 1998/ advanced search/

Tobacco control country report

http://www1.worldbank.org/tobacco/database.asp

Tobacco control

http://www1.worldbank.org/tobacco/index.htm

Tourism industries

http://tinet.ita.doc.gov

Using the Internet Anonymously

Anonymous/Alias Surfing

Anomymizer
AIXS

Zero Knowledge

Remailers

Anonymous Remailer Information
Anonymity/Privacy on the Net

United Nations Crime Statistics

http://www.uncjin.org/Statistics/statistics.html

US Presidents-/Statistics/

http://www.fujisan.demon.co.uk/USPresidents/preslist.htm

The Vietnam Project

http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/

From Texas Tech University: the Vietnam Archive
currently administers two projects, the Oral History Project and
the Virtual Vietnam Archive." The site features oral histories,
documents (such as official military records) and photographs.
Also includes operations and acronyms databases. Searchable.

Note: Some material not available online due to

VERIFY STUDENT DEGREE

National Student Clearinghouse

http://www.nslc.org/about/aboutus.htm

The National Student Clearinghouse, a non-profit organization founded by the higher education community, streamlines the student record verification process for colleges and universities, students and alumni, lending institutions, employers, and other organizations

More than 2,700 colleges, enrolling 91% of US college students, participate in the Clearinghouse.

Degree Check

http://www.degreechk.com/

Providing Business, Alumni, Students & Parents with 24-hour access to the Registrar's Office. Degree and enrollment status verification.

Web site Check ( Total check, domain, validate, archive)

http://www.faganfinder.com/urlinfo/ .

Enter an URL in the box at the top of the screen. From there, you'll see a
series of tabs at the top of the screen. There's a tab for general information , page rank, page count, text analyzer, a tab for caches including Google and the Internet Archive), a tab for developers (several different flavors of validation) and a tab for blogs and feeds. You can get all that information about a specified URL from this one page.

Web Design Resources

http://www.ecompany.com/webguide/0,1660,4750|125|0|0|1|a,00.html

Web Building Tutorials / Free/

http://www.w3schools.com/

White Pages/ business, email, person, webpage, toll free numbers…)

http://www.whitepages.com

Who Represents Who/ Actors, Managers, Lawyers, Publicists, Agents/

http://www.whorepresents.com/

Who owns who in the media world

http://www.cjr.org/owners/

World Wide Web / Domain name registration information/

http://whois.userland.com

Weather Forecast / Year in Advance- Fee/

http://www.weatherplanner.com

Weather Underground / Historical data –city, state, zip code /

http://www.weatherunderground.com/

WEBLOGS

DAYPOP

http://www.daypop.com/

DayPop is a search engine with capabilities of searching 14600 News Sites and Weblogs for Current Events and Breaking News. It offers standard and advanced search options, where someone can limit the search in different languages and countries.

Weblogs Database

http://www.blogcensus.net/?page=Home

The NITLE ( National Institute for Technology & Liberal education) Blog Census is an attempt to create and share a regularly updated database of all known weblogs. The census has been active since early May, 2003. Our crawlers search the Web for weblogs, and attempt to categorize them by language and authoring tool. Data gathered during the census is archived every two weeks, and is available for non-commercial use

WORDCOUNT / See Text Analyzer/

WordCount

http://www.wordcount.org

The site is "an artistic experiment in the way we use language. It presents the 86,800 most frequently used English words, ranked in order of commonness. Each word is scaled to reflect its frequency relative to the words that precede and follow it, giving a visual barometer of relevance." The "data currently comes from the British National Corpus, a 100 million word collection of samples of written and spoken language." Searchable.

WORLD RECORDS

The Guinness World Records guide is online, free registration is required

http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/

YA Programs

See YA Around
http://www.cplrmh.com

Beneath the unabashed promotion of her books on library services, young adult (YA) librarian RoseMary Honnold provides access to many programming ideas. Ranging from
descriptions of specific activities to brief listings of similarly goal-oriented programs (such as summer reading) this site offers enough to inspire the seasoned YA librarian
to try something new and to whet the interest of library school students looking for project ideas.

THE MAN WHO KNEW ( Al Qeida)

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/knew