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General Reference Links
ALABAMA LAW | U.S. FEDERAL LAW | LEGAL NEWS | LEGAL REFERENCE | LEGAL RESEARCH STARTING POINTS | OTHER LIBRARIES
New & Interesting Links
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Statistical Resources on the Web: This site, created by librarians at the University of Michigan, provides an index by subject to hundreds of statistical web sites.
CIAC Security Website: Have you ever received email about an offer too good to be true? How about a note warning of a terrible new computer virus? Next time, check the information against the authoritative lists of current hoaxes, viruses, and chain letters maintained by the The Computer Incident Advisory Capability (CIAC) of the Department of Energy.
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Virtual Reference Desks
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These sites attempt to provide a vast array of general reference resources or links to such resources.
- Desk Reference
- direct search
- Encyberpedia
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- The Internet Public Library
- Library of Congress Electronic Reference Desk Resources
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- The Virtual Reference Desk - Christopher C. Brown
- Yahoo! Reference
- See Also: The commercial indexes & databases on our Indexes & Databases page.
Internet Search Engines
& Search Tools
These sites provide tools to simplify the search for information on the Web.
- All-in-One Search Page
- AltaVista
- direct search
- Dogpile, the Friendly Multi-Engine Search Tool
- The Electric Library
- Excite
- FindLaw - LawCrawler
- Go.com
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- yourDictionary.com
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Encyclopedias
- CIA World Factbook 2000
- E-Conflict World Encyclopedia
- Encarta® Online
- Encyclopędia Britannica
- Encyclopedia.com from Electric Library
- FREE Internet Encyclopedia
- See Also: The commercial indexes & databases on our Indexes & Databases page.
Thesauri
- Roget's Thesaurus
- Synonym Dictionary
- Web Thesaurus Compendium
- The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
- WWWebster Thesaurus
Quotations
Acronyms &
Abbreviations
- Acronym Finder
- EURODICAUTOM WWW Interface
- The Great Abbreviations Hunt
- The Opaui Pages: Acronyms, Abbreviations, Initialisms
- StarBits - Acronyms, Abbreviations, and so on
- WorldWideWeb Acronym and Abbreviation Server
Bibliographic Tools
- HYTELNET (List of library catalogs)
- Howard University Libraries: Electronic Texts and Publishing Resources
- IPL Online Serials
- IPL Online Texts Collection
- The On-Line Books Page
- webCATS: Library Catalogs on the World Wide Web
- The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Electronic Journals
- See Also: The commercial indexes & databases on our Indexes & Databases page.
Demographic &
Statistical Information
General Sites:
- Statistical Resources on the Web (From the University of Michigan Documents Center)
- Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research
- See Also: The commercial indexes & databases on our Indexes & Databases page.
- U.S. Census Bureau
- FedStats: One Stop Shopping for Federal Statistics
- Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics Online (From the Bureau of Justice Statistics and the University at Albany, SUNY; includes updates to information in the print edition)
- STAT-USA/Internet (A service of the U.S. Department of Commerce)
- Statistical Abstract of the United States
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- U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics
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- U.S. State Fact Sheets (From the Economic Research Service of the Department of Agriculture)
International:
- Census Bureau's International Data Base
- Infonation (From the United Nations)
- PopNet (From the Population Reference Bureau)
Directories
- AnyWho: Find Telephone Number, Email, Home Page URL, FAX, Toll Free Number, and Address
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Internet &
Technical Reference
- CIAC Security Website
- The CPU Info Center
- Cyberspace Law Bibliography (From The UCLA Online Institute for Cyberspace Law and Policy)
- Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (FOLDOC)
- Internet Public Library: Computers & Internet
- The List (Internet Service Providers)
- Name Lookup Form
- NCSA - National Computational Science Alliance
- UNIX Reference Desk
- WDVL: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Web Technology
- W3C - The World Wide Web Consortium
Maps & Geography
- The University of Alabama Campus Map
- 50 States and Capitals
- Atlapedia Online
- CIA World Factbook 2000
- Country Studies: Area Handbook Series (Library of Congress / Federal Research Division)
- E-Conflict World Encyclopedia
- GEONet Names Server from the National Imagery and Mapping Agency
- Geographic Names Information System from the U.S. Geological Survey
- Lycos RoadMaps
- Map Machine @ nationalgeographic.com
- MapQuest! Interactive Atlas
- Perry-Casteñeda Library Map Collection
- U.S. Gazetteer
- US State Department - Services - Background Notes
- Washingtonpost.com: Euro Special Report
- Yahoo! Maps and Driving Directions
Tax Forms
- Federal Tax Forms And Publications from the IRS
- Alabama Tax Forms from the Alabama Department of Revenue
- Tax Forms for All States from the Federation of Tax Administrators
- Tax Forms for All States from Louisiana State University Libraries
Weather Resources
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - NOAA Home Page
- USA TODAY
- USA Weather--Intellicast
- The Weather Channel
- UM Weather
- The Weather Underground, Inc.
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