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- Academic Information
: A directory of Internet resources tailored to a
college or advanced high school audience. Each subject guide is
an annotated listing of the best general Internet sites in the
field, as well as a gateway to more advanced research tools. On
each page you may find links to online publications, language
and study aids, reference materials, databases, archives, virtual
libraries, tutorials, as well as other educational materials.
- All
That JAS: Journal Abbreviation Sources is a registry
of Web resources that list or provide access to the full title
of journal abbreviations.
- AllAfrica.com
- is among the Internet's largest content sites, posting over
800 stories daily in English and French and offering a diversity
of multi-lingual streaming programming as well as over 750,000
articles in our searchable archive (which includes the archive
of Africa News Service dating from 1997). Produced by AllAfrica
Global Media.
- Bibliomania-
Access Roget's Thesarus, Webster's Dictionary (1913 edition)and
other online dictionaries and encyclopedias.
- Bibliomania:
A collection of electronic texts -Fiction, Drama, Poetry, Short
stories, Study guides, Biographies etc. Includes works by:
Louisa May Alcott | Joseph Conrad | Susan Coolidge | Daniel Defoe
| Charles Dickens | George Eliot | Thomas Hardy | James Joyce
| Rudyard Kipling | D.H. Lawrence | J. Meade-Falkner | Robert
Louis Stevenson | Jules Verne | Oscar Wilde
- The Biography Channel
- Britannica Internet
Guide: Includes the complete, updated Encyclopædia
Britannica, the oldest and largest general reference in the English
language. Selected articles from more than 70 of the world's top
magazines--including Newsweek, Discover, and The Economist--provide
additional feature and current-events coverage.
- BUBL Information Service
(UK) A national information service for the higher education community
- Cambridge
Dictionaries Online From Cambridge University Press.
Includes the Cambridge Dictionary of American English, Cambridge
International Dictionary of English, Cambridge International Dictionary
of Phrasal Verbs and Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms.
- Canadian
Encyclopedia (courtesy: Historia, a charitable foundation
dedicated to promoting Canadian history education)
- Caribbean
Digital Library. The Caribbean Digital Library is
a joint venture initiative in regional and national information
centres collaborate in the building of a comprehensive resource
on the World Wide Web to provide information on sectors and subjects
of importance to Caribbean development. The primary point of focus
for this library is the collection of references to the electronic
resources on the Internet. It is an attempt to be fairly definitive
within that realm only - not a library covering all material about
the Caribbean - only that which exists virtually
- Directory
of Electronic Text Centers, compiled by Mary Mallery
- Dissertations
Database (indexes doctoral dissertations from countries
other than Canada and the USA)
- Encarta
Encyclopedia
- FindArticles.com
(Contains full articles from more than 300 magazines
and journals, from 1998 to the present.)
- Google Alerts
- email updates of the latest relevant Google results (web, news,
etc.) based on your choice of query or topic. You can
monitor how often you are alerted.
- Google Scholar
- a search engine by Google that searches exclusively
peer reviewed literature as well as Google Alerts
- Governments on
the Web: Comprehensive database of governmental institutions
on the World Wide Web: parliaments, ministries, offices, law courts,
embassies, city councils, public broadcasting corporations, central
banks, multi-governmental institutions etc. Includes also political
parties. Online since June 1995. Contains more than 14000 entries
from more than 220 countries and territories as of December 1999.
Frequently updated.
- High
Wire Hosted-Journals (Available Free until October
31, 2004) There are 14,873,627 articles in over 4,500 Medline
journals, 754,193 free full text articles from 361 HighWire-hosted
journals free fulltext.
- Hyperdictionary.
This is an educational project to provide free dictionary services
to any user. Presently, it comprises four dictionaries, including
English, Computer and Medical dictionaries. A thesaurus is also
included.
- Infomine
From the University of California, contains useful Internet/Web
resources including databases, electronic journals, electronic
books, bulletin boards, listservs, online library card catalogs,
articles and directories of researchers, among many other types
of information.
- Information Please.
A one-stop reference site that offers millions of up-to-date facts
and statistics, The site integrates the various Information Please?
Almanacs on sports, entertainment and general knowledge with the
Random House, Webster's College Dictionary and the Columbia Encyclopedia
into a single reference source.
- International
Governmental Organizations (Government publications
& maps - Northwestern University Library)
- Internet Public Library.
Hosted by the University of Michigan's School of
Information, this site has been described as the first 'public
library' on the Internet. Contains links to a variety of subject
resources, online newspapers and texts.
- Internet
Roadmap An online tutorial on using the Internet
- Librarian's Index to the Internet.
This site lists resources under a number of categories including,
arts, world cultures, education, law, music, women.
- Library
of Congress Foreign Newspapers. This searchable database
lists foreign newspapers currently received and permanently retained
on microfilm. It supersedes the foreign portion of the printed
publication Newspapers Received Currently in the Library of Congress
(Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1993).
- Little
Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
- Lives: the Biography
Resource Links to thousands of biographies, autobiographies,
memoirs, diaries, letters, narratives, oral histories and more.
Individual lives of the famous, the infamous, and the not so famous.
Group biographies about people who share a common profession,
historical era or geography. * Also general collections, resources
on biographical criticism and special collections.
- Merriam-Webster Dictionary
- National Bureau of
Economic Research (NBER) - working papers
-
Nations of the World. This index of governments points
to sites on which the content is controlled by their respective
authorities. The content of some sites is not available in English
and is presented in a local language.
- The Networked Digital
Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD)
- Online Newspapers.
Thousands of world newspapers from USA, Europe, United Kingdom,
Asia Pacific, West Indies etc.are available for online searching.
- Peterson's Guide
to US College
- Political
Resources on the Net Listings of political sites
available on the Internet sorted by country, with links to Parties,
Organizations, Governments, Media and more from all around the
world.
- Portals
to the World : Links to electronic resources from
around the world.
- Resource Discovery
Network. The Resource Discovery Network is a co-operative
network of subject gateways providing access to descriptions of
Internet resources selected for their quality and accuracy by
subject specialists throughout the UK academic community
- Social Science Information
Gateway
- Telephone Directories
on the Web
- Theses
Canada Portal - Gives access to full text electronic
versions of Canadian Theses
- Un Wire
- Provides relevant information on the UN, international
affairs, and the United Nations Foundation
- U.S.
Government (courtesy: U.S. Government Printing Office)
- The
WorldWide Web Acronym and Abbreviation Server
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