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A select compilation of links to the biggest and best

LISTS-of-LISTS and REFERENCE / RESOURCE PORTALS

Access Wikipedia --- and all about WIKIs

FIND GUMMINT STUFF HERE

USA.gov "Visit USA.gov for information and resources from local, state, and federal government agencies.
FTC.gov "Visit FTC.gov for information and resources on consumer protection issues."

You're paying for it.... might as well use it.

Obtain VITAL RECORDS from

Their Mission (their words): "The mission of the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) is to provide statistical information that will guide actions and policies to improve the health of the American people. As the Nation's principal health statistics agency, NCHS leads the way with accurate, relevant, and timely data."

Spartacus Educational Warning: Go to Spartacus and you may never come back. This is a UK site with excellent subject links, seemingly without number.

Their motto is Veritas odit moras. A and L Daily says it is from line 850 of Seneca’s version of Oedipus and it means Truth hates delay.

So don't delay - explore A and L Daily. It ranks right up there with one of those internet links you really can't (shouldn't) be without.

Navigating The Military Internet A very large, well done collection. From the Dudley Knox Library Naval Postgraduate School Note: Military websites (.mil) are sometimes very slow or have temporary shut-downs.

Military Index to the Internet From the (USAF) Air War College

"Free access to millions of topics from the world's leading publishers"

"INFOMINE is a virtual library of Internet resources relevant to faculty, students, and research staff at the university level. It contains useful Internet resources such as databases, electronic journals, electronic books, bulletin boards, mailing lists, online library card catalogs, articles, directories of researchers, and many other types of information."

The Millions Links to excellent book sources and reviews

NASA Earth Observatory The purpose of NASA’s Earth Observatory is to provide a freely-accessible publication on the Internet where the public can obtain new satellite imagery and scientific information about our home planet. The focus is on Earth’s climate and environmental change.

The University Research Magazine Association(URMA) "promotes excellence and professionalism among those who write, edit, design and publish magazines about the research and scholarly activities of a university, nonprofit research center or institute. These publications---aimed at general audiences with an interest in higher education---offer the inside story from a range of disciplines, from music and medicine to earth sciences and engineering."

Here is the complete (long) list of magazines from URMA. (Links for Web versions of the magazines or Web-only publications) For example here is the online magazine ENDEAVORS from the Univ. of North Carolina. And here is a sampling of one of the many articles from the Spring 2009 issue: What’s stopping bird flu’s big step?

List Universe "... the greatest resource online for top 10 lists and more! To view a complete list of all articles, use the navigation tabs at the top of each page, or click here. (They) update the site daily so be sure to check back regularly... Check out the forums (or the) Daily Hotlinks."

The Earth Warming Controversy - Includes long list of reference links

American History - Past, Present, and Future --- A WebRing: hub ... An extensive listing of American History websites "Past accounts, present historical or significant happenings, or future major events (that will become history) - 'today will be yesterday come tomorrow.' "

MINERVA Web Preservation Project The Library of Congress’ mission is to make its resources available and useful to the Congress and the American people and to sustain and preserve a universal collection of knowledge and creativity for future generations. An ever-increasing amount of the world’s cultural and intellectual output is presently created in digital formats and does not exist in any physical form. The MINERVA Web Preservation Project was established to initiate a broad program to collect and preserve these (digital) primary source materials.

For more see LIBRARY of CONGRESS DIGITAL COLLECTION which includes the MINERVA website collection.

The Internet Archives Wayback Machine Browse through 85 billion web pages archived from 1996 to a few months ago. The Internet archive at the New Library of Alexandria, Egypt, ( http://archive.bibalex.org ) mirrors the Waybck Machine. Try your search there when you have trouble connecting to the Wayback servers.

About DMOZ --- "The Open Directory Project is the largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web. It is constructed and maintained by a vast, global community of volunteer editors."

You will be dazzled by this resource zipskinny.com For example here is data from where I live: ZIPskinny demographics 13625 - COLTON NY -- So what is ZIPSKINNY? Here is an edited excerpt from the website:

( ZIPSKINNY) was created as a Web development "hobby" project using Census 2000 data obtained from the (US) Census website. While every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of the information, errors and omissions can occur, and visitors are encouraged to use the actual Census site instead of this one for any serious research.
... there are certain important limitations to the data presented (in ZIPSKINNY). Because many of the measurements are based on sample data, certain results may be skewed in some cases, especially when the ZIP code area in question represents a very small sample. Please bear in mind that ZIP codes are not uniform population units. They were invented for mail delivery, not population comparisons.

Thanks to Rontini for passing this link along

Homework Hotline History Hotline Two excellent (and very large) collections of reference sources. via AMERICANS.NET

I just had to add this one to the Heavy Hitters list. It may be the most useful link on this page. Click it and you'll see why: THIS TO THAT Try their LINKS ... and they say "Because people have a need to glue things to other things"

MARTINDALE's REFERENCE DESK Super-size your resources here

There are many good info portals on the net. ABOUT.com is one of the best. Use their SEARCH feature for topics. Also try the A to Z LISTING - and a highly recommended place to start is the HOMEWORK section.

Bob Drudge's Virtual Reference Desk.
If you were allowed only one bookmark
- this should be it.

"The Directory" - An impressive collection

And then there is always the World-Wide Web Virtual Library For example try their HISTORY INDEX It's huge!

Librarian's Index to the Internet

Marylaine Block's Website
What internet sites does Marylaine Block use to find new stuff? HERE THEY ARE. Also see EX LIBRIS: SUBJECT INDEX - it has good articles about using the internet to find info. And check out the LECTURE LIST

Note: She was the original creator of
BEST INFORMATION ON THE NET (Alphabetical Listing)

Sid Note: ( June 2008)

The section of Marylaine Block's site that I check each week is titled Neat New Stuff I Found This Week and it is always a great source of new stuff

On her posting for June 20-27, 2008 I found this very thought provoking item titled:
Is Google Making Us Stupid?

She adds this comment (dated 1995) to her June 20-27, 2008 posting:
"If there was ever a case where I would have preferred not to be right, it's my fears about the effect the web could have on our attention spans - see my 1995 column, Mostly Progress, Maybe, Sort of. This piece in the Atlantic suggests that that has in fact happened to book readers - including himself - already."

LibWeb - LIBRARY SERVERS via WWW A complete listing of all the world's libraries

THE FEDERATION OF AMERICAN SCIENTISTS (FAS) An extensive collection of information about a lot of stuff you never knew about. All in one place and likely not to be easily found anywhere else. Spend some time here.

LINKS TO THE ARCHIVES OF THE WORLD

BUBL LINK / 5:15 - Covering all academic subject areas
Catalogue of over 12,000 selected Internet resources

The ibiblio.org COLLECTIONS INDEX Home to one of the largest "collections of collections" on the Internet. Also hosted by Ibiblio.org is the Special Libraries Association News Division.

A good place to start is with their Reference Tools section:

This section contains lists of reference tools for news librarians such as a list of essential books for U.S. news library, links to Web sites, finding expert sources on the Web and newspaper archives on the Web.

Forbes' LIST of LISTS --- Includes Forbes' BEST OF THE WEB

The Pinakes A Subject launchpad

About The Pinakes:

In ancient times, the Library of Alexandria was seen as a universal store of human knowledge. As the Library grew in size, however, it became increasingly difficult to locate relevant material. The poet Callimachus solved the problem by compiling a catalogue called The Pinakes. On a far smaller scale, these Web pages hope to provide a similar function for Internet resources, by linking to the major subject gateways.

Also see THE INTERNET RESOURCES NEWSLETTER

WEB LINKS from Don Mabry's HISTORICAL TEXT ARCHIVE
You want it ? He's got it.

CLICK fortheScout Report of The Internet Scout Project

The Scout Report is a weekly publication offering a selection of new and newly discovered Internet resources of interest to researchers and educators.
In the course of their daily web surfing, looking for new resources for the Scout Reports, they come across many interesting items that for one reason or other don't make it into those publications. The best of those materials are posted to the Internet Scout Weblog, a rolling record of interesting and entertaining web tidbits

Jensen's Web Guides - It is huge

Try the Digital Library Federation. The amount of accessible material is mind boggling. For example do a search for World War Two posters.

The DLF Collections Registry is a collaboration among the University of Illinois Library, and the Digital Library Federation, a consortium of libraries and related agencies that are pioneering the use of electronic-information technologies to extend collections and services.

LoveToKnow Free Online Encyclopedia From their website:

"The LoveTo Know Free Online Encyclopedia is based on what many consider to be the best encyclopedia ever written: the eleventh edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, first published in 1911. While many of the science and health articles are obviously outdated, much of the biographical and historical articles is more complete and in-depth compared to those available elsewhere. At a time when many encyclopedias have capsulated and condensed important knowledge, the 11th edition is generally much more in-depth and thorough on its topics. It is not uncommon for its entries to be 5 to 10 times the length of other encyclopedias. As a research tool, this 11th edition is unparallelled - even today. LoveToKnow is now giving you all these thousands of entries, preserving the treasured entries that make it so unique, and where necessary and possible adding the current point of view. We hope that you enjoy and learn from the LoveToKnow Free Online Encyclopedia and that it becomes one of your favorite places for reference information.
The Eleventh Edition filled 29 volumes and contains over 44 million words. It contains over 40,000 articles written by over 1,500 authors within their various fields of expertise. What was particularly remarkable was that many of the entries were written by the most famous people of the age. As such, it was considered to represent the sum of human knowledge at the beginning of the 20th Century.
(The) website and project are not related to the current Encyclopeaedia Britannica, Inc. other than it being based on its 1911 Edition."

From their website:

"Suite101.com's door is open to the curious novice looking for a '101' intro to any of our 400 topics, but it's also a meeting place for over twelve million readers each month who ask 101 burning questions.

We aim for the ground-floor appeal our name implies, spiced with an eclectic mix of topical commentary and candid advice. In short, the genuine article.

With 12 years online, over 150,000 articles and more than 2,000 professional, paid contract writers, Suite101.com is dedicated to delivering great articles by skilled writers.

Suite101.com Media Inc. is a private Canadian company based in Vancouver, British Columbia with an office in Berlin and an international staff of 20.
...

Suite101.com Media Inc operates Suite101.com and Suite101.de, two general interest online magazines. For freelance writers and journalists, these sites provide a new outlet for their work while delivering an audience of millions per month. For curious readers these sites offer authoritative articles, reviews, and expert commentary written by aspiring professional writers."

From their website:

"Simplifying the Search for the Best Library and Reference Resources on the Web

...LibrarySpot.com, a free virtual library resource center for ...anyone exploring the Web for ...research information.

...bring(s) the best library and reference sites together with insightful editorial in one user-friendly spot. Sites featured on LibrarySpot.com are hand-selected and reviewed... for their exceptional quality, content and utility.

Published by StartSpot Mediaworks, Inc. in the Northwestern University/Evanston Research Park in Evanston, Ill., LibrarySpot.com is the first in a family of vertical information portals designed to make finding the best topical information on the Internet a quick, easy and enjoyable experience."

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