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See also links in the Non-fiction/ Journalism section See also links in the History Reference & Research Unsorted [/writers] A Research Guide for Students (and others) - links, style guides, how-to footnote, bibliography National Archives - Online Public Access Don Blaheta - Representation of IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) with ASCII Oanda - Currency Site Oanda - Historical Foreign Exchange Rates X-Rates - Currency Calculator, including Historic Lookup How Much Is That Worth? - compares the value of $$$ from a past year with current value or with another past year USPTO - Partial List of Trademarks - see Appendix I United States Patent and Trademark Office including "search for trademarks" and "search for patents" Use of Trademark Names in Fiction Library of Congress - Gateway to Library Catalogs (LOC and others) Library of Congress - Authority Files Library of Congress - Catalog search Open University (UK) - Information Skills for Researchers Marylaine Block - Librarian Without Walls Robert Harris - Virtual Salt - Evaluating Internet Research Sources Tools [/writers] Babel Fish - translation tool Answers.com - Download one-click quick reference tool (and more!) CleverKeys - one click to dictionary.com/thesaurus.com. Google - Translation tool TinyURL - make a looooooong URL tiny! and avoid line break and re-splicing problems SnipURL snip a looooooong URL! Visual Thesaurus - interactive dictionary and thesaurus th. creates word maps WordWeb - free tool: thesaurus and dictionary for Windows Search Engines [/writers] Google Groups (News) - Removing old Usenet posts Google Groups (News) - "How to x-no-archive" NoodleTools - Choose the Best Search for Your Information Need SEARCH ENGINES Ask.com Bing - fr Microsoft Dogpile DuckDuckGo - Search anonymously. Find instantly. Googja - Google's Advanced Usenet Search Google - Advanced Web Search Google News - search and browse thousands of continuously updated news sources. EXCELLENT! HighBeam - fee-based. online access available free if a card-carrying patron of some public libraries The Internet Archives Moving Images, Live Music, Audio, Texts, Wayback Machine (Web archive) and more! MagPortal.com Search.com - metasearch engine WebFerret (download). Fast. Free. Yahoo! search Google Book (and magazine) Search USA.gov - official government gateways (state and Federal) VIDEO SEARCHES blinkx Fora.tv - interesting & entertaining collection of informative videos. Google Videos Hulu.com Internet Archive Moving Images MetaCafe TED: Ideas worth spreading Yahoo! Video YouTube IMAGE SEARCHES Google Image Search - including LIFE magazine archive Picsearch - "always on" filtering Yahoo! Images Search IMAGE ARCHIVES Flickr - Web2.0 community of photographers. Zillions of photographs. Mark Harden - Art Archive - fine art scans, reviews, theory, links Artcyclopedia.com - 7500+ artists - 32K links Artnet.com - 13K artists - 36K works - Grove Dictionary of Art Corbis Archives - includes the Bettmann Archive Index of Artists and Architects >21K images Life Magazine photo archives New Yorker Cartoon collection New Yorker magazine covers Time Magazine Covers - 1923-current Carol Gerten - Fine Art-- CGFA: A Virtual Art Museum PURCHASE ART/PRINTS AllPosters.com Art.com - posters, photos, fine art BareWalls.com - "hundreds of thousands of" posters & prints BestPriceArt.com |
Experts [/writers] AuthorsandExperts.com ExpertClick.com - Yearbook of Experts Online Experts.com Journalist's Toolbox - Links to Expert Sources Ask A Librarian - virtual reference shelf Newswise - Contact Directory - experts and mouthpieces Help A Reporter. "over 200,000 mainstreet and expert sources responding directly to your query on your terms." ProfNet - where sources and journalists meet RefDesk.com - Ask The Experts Scientific American - Ask The Experts - archives SDSU - faculty and staff ready to talk to the media SLA News Division - Sources and Experts News Links [/writers] Google News - search and browse 4,000 continuously updated news sources Aljazeera America AP News Wire CNN.com Reuters UPI Newslink IWantMedia.com - site for media news junkies Poynter - MediaWire PR Newswire - "authoritative source of news and information for leading global media organizations" Worldnews.com - "Delivers breaking news from all over the world in 50 languages" Newseum - Today's Front Pages - front pages worldwide San Jose Mercury News San Francisco Chronicle New York Times - need to register AssignmentEditor.com - the newsroom home page for true news junkies Sal Towse - Links to Print Media RefDesk - First Things First - news/comics/columns links HeadlineSpot.com - "thousands of the best U.S. and international news resources on the Web" abyznewslinks floridalink.com - US-an newspapers - 2,400 newspapers / by state Paperboy.com - Links to over >12K Newspapers online Newslink American Journalism Review - AJR SLA News Division - Newspaper archives - USAn SLA News Division - List of all newspapers we know are or have been in Nexis, Factiva/DJ, DIALOG -- newspapers we suspect have had archives removed are highlighted in yellow AND List of newspapers with archives we think have been removed dmoz Open Directory - Newspaper Directories dmoz Open Directory - News Directories dmoz Open Directory - Magazines and E-zines Directories US Newspaper Links and more Crayon.net - News Links Maps [/writers] Bing Maps & Directions National Atlas - interactive atlases and maps with stats Library of Congress - American Memories - LC Map collections Google Maps w/ streetview MapQuest MapQuest lat/long lookup Find the Lat/Long for a location National Geographic - MapMaker Interactive United Nations - Cartographic Section Online Texts [/writers] Bartleby.com - Encyclopedias to Fannie Farmer online bibliomania - more than 2000 Classic Texts, book notes, author biographies, book summaries, more Charles W. Eliot, LLD - The Harvard Classics (50v) and The Shelf of Fiction (20v) (from Bartleby) Paul Halsall - Internet History Sourcebooks Project: a collection of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts [somewhat dated] Internet Public Library - Resources for online texts Internet Text Archive - over 5 million items! The Online Books Page - listing over 1 million free books on the Web Project Gutenberg - 42K books. Over 100K titles are available at Project Gutenberg Partners, Affiliates and Resources. Classic Reader - 3800 titles UMich - American Verse Project - American poetry prior to 1920. UMich - Making of America - primary texts from antebellum thru reconstruction (and later ...) approx 10K books and 50K journal articles with 19th century imprints UMich - Humanities Text Initiative Electronic Literature Foundation - 129 bks; 20 authors Internet Classics Archive 441 works; 59 authors Feeding America: an online collection of some of the most important and influential American cookbooks from the late 18th to early 20th century Religion Web Sites - incl. concordances, dictionaries, more. |
Research & Reference [/writers] AAAS -EurekAlert - science, medicine & technology news ALA-RUSA - Using Primary Sources on the Web British Library - Help for Researchers Christopher C. Brown - Virtual Reference Desk [somewhat dated] CIA - World Fact Book Cleveland State University - Virtual Reference Desk Copac® - merged online catalogues of many major University, Specialist, and National Libraries in the UK and Ireland Encyclopedia Smithsonian - A to Z FITA - Really Useful Links for International Trade Charlie Harris - Internet Search FAQ (2005) Infography.com - reference tool with resource citations from subject specialists Internet Scout Project - Report & Archives & Weblog ipl2: Librarians' Internet Index & the Internet Public Library - information you can trust ipl2 - news & information blog - available by e-mail or RSS feed IRE Resource Center - tipsheets. - more. (Membership $70+) IUPUI - Quick Reference Resources IUPUI - Government Reference Resources Journalist Express - one page/one stop for busy journalists The Journalist's Toolbox Libdex - Index to 18,000 Libraries Alan Liu - Voice of the Shuttle: Web Page for Humanities Research NUJ- London Freelance - Media Resources Martindale's * The Reference Desk * National Archives and Records Administration - USAn Newswise - news releases & "expert" contacts. NICAR (National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting) - Net Tour - Links to Web-based reference resources Robert Niles - Finding Data on the Internet David Novak - The Spire Project - better ways to find information dmoz - Open Directory Project - human-edited Web directory The Pollution Information site - More than 400 scientific and governmental databases - USAn Power Reporting - Resources for Journalists. [no longer updated] Refdesk.com Reporter's Desktop Resource Help Saguee Saraf - WhereToDoResearch.com - [flashy, colorful] SearchSystems.net - free public records directory. 55K public record databases SLA News Division - Reference links with national focus SLA News Division - by state SLA News Division - Resources for News Librarians and Researchers [Last updated 2004] SreeTips.com - Web surfing tips & links St. Ambrose University - Hot Topics (formerly Best Information on the Net) Stumpers-L has become Project Wombat - e-mail discussion list for difficult reference questions. Archives. U.S. Senate - Virtual Reference Desk Web rings Writers Guild of America, West - Research links The WWW Virtual Library WWW Virtual Library - Statistics links Assorted Information [/writers] ASL Fingerspelling site Cecil Adams - The Straight Dope - archives Applied Math and Science Education Repository Joan Bunning -Free online tarot reading course Alistair Fraser - Bad Science UK Public Libraries Sarawak State Library Portal - international libraries Internet Society - History of the Internet Language of Flowers [warning: soundtrack] Steven Milloy - Junk Science Mystical WWW - Mystical Mythology and Folklore Paul Nagai - Internet Clocks, Counters, and Countdowns including the Doomsday Clock, National Debt clock, more. New Scientist - The Last Word - blog The Invisible Library - books that only appear in other books [a blog by Ed Park and Levi Stahl] US Patent & Trademark Office - Patent Grants since 1790 - full text WebMonkey an amazing resource for Web designers Web Monkey - HTML Color Codes Chart Web Monkey - Special Characters Warnings & Rumors [/writers] F-Secure - Security Advisories F-Secure - Hoax Warnings McAfee - Virus Information McAfee - Virus Hoaxes Snopes - Urban Legends Reference Pages Symantec - Security Response Symantec - Virus hoax reference page Names & Naming [/writers] 20000-Names.com - by nationality/ethnicity USA Social Security Administration - Most Popular Names - by state, by year, by decade since 1900. Writing-World.com - Character Naming Resources (from Ancient Egyptian Names to Sikh Names and Their Meanings) Mike Campbell - BehindTheName.com - etymology & history for >10K names Mark Isaak - Curiosities of Biological Nomenclature AskOxford Collective Terms for Animals Names of Winds |