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| FIND IT ALL HERE >>Consumer.gov(USA) |
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Assistance - Federal
Links --- Do Not Call Registry
--- Free
Annual Credit Reports --- GPO
ACCESS (U.S. Government Printing Office - Find Code of Federal Regulations
here too) --- and a whole lot more United States "gummint"
stuff than you can imagine... or probably even use. But hey! We're
paying for it. So use it. |
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Obtain VITAL RECORDS from
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| 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." |
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| 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. |
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A
and L Daily. It ranks right up there with one
of those internet links you really can't (shouldn't) be without. |
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| 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. |
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| Military
Index to the Internet From the (USAF) Air War College |
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| BOOKS-BOOKS-
BOOKS
Links to excellent book sources and reviews: Get lost in C.
Max Magee's bookblog: The
Millions - or try Opinion Journal's entire Five
Best Archives |
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| "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." |
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| 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. |
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| 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." |
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| The
Earth Warming Controversy - Includes long list of reference
links |
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| 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.' " |
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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. |
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| 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. |
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 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." |
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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 |
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| Homework
Hotline History
Hotline Two excellent (and very large) collections of
reference sources. via AMERICANS.NET |
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| 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" |
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| MARTINDALE's
REFERENCE DESK Super-size your resources here |
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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. |
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Bob Drudge's Virtual Reference Desk.
If you were allowed only one bookmark
- this should be it. |
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 "The
Directory" - An impressive collection |
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| And then there is always the World-Wide
Web Virtual Library For example try their HISTORY
INDEX It's huge! |
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| Librarian's
Index to the Internet |
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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
| 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 to be sure. Lots of "keepers". 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."
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| LibWeb
- LIBRARY SERVERS via WWW A complete listing of all the
world's libraries |
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| 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. |
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| LINKS
TO THE ARCHIVES OF THE WORLD |
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BUBL
LINK / 5:15 - Covering all academic subject areas
Catalogue of over 12,000 selected Internet
resources
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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.
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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.
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| Forbes'
LIST
of LISTS --- Includes Forbes'
BEST
OF THE WEB |
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The
Pinakes A Subject launchpad
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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
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The WEB
LINKS from Don
Mabry's HISTORICAL TEXT ARCHIVE
You want it ? He's got
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 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 |
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Web Guides - It is huge |
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Try the DLF portal. The amount of accessible
material is mind boggling. For example do a search for World War Two posters.
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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.
Digital
Library Federation
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| Wikipedia
(the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit) |
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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."
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