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ANNOTATED LINKS TO MAJOR WEB REFERENCE SITES
MAJOR WEB REFERENCE SITES TABLE OF CONTENTS:
DICTIONARIES ABOUT.COM ESL PRONUNCIATION RESOURCES BABELFISH TRANSLATION Bartlett's Book of Familiar Quotations Columbia uses the 1901 edition of Bartlett's to provide a Web site of familiar quotations from passages, phrases, and proverbs with a straightforward search interface. Also included is a list of author's names whose quotes are used. [C&RL 57 (12)] ECHO: EuroDicautom The Euro-Dicautom is a translating dictionary. Type in a word in one language and have it translated into another language. A product of the European Union, this dictionary translates between European languages. [C&RL 57 (12)] The Exploding Dictionary/Technojargon Two sets of definitions are offered. The first is a collection of "clean" straightforward definitions listed by the source dictionary used. The second collection is a riot of hyperlinks, cross-referencing all of the individual words used to define the original word. Technojargon, a recent adjunct to the dictionary, contains a very large collection of technology words and phrases, and may be browsed alphabetically or keyword searched. [MD] [From SCOUT REPORT] FOLKLORE & MYTHOLOGY ELECTRONIC TEXTS (VIA UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH) The LOGOS Pronouncing Dictionary The LOGOS dictionary from Italy is a dictionary site consisting of around 30 languages and more than 3.5 million words. LOGOS is unique because it is updated and added to by entries submitted by Internet users. Adding to the unique nature of this dictionary are the audible sound files demonstrating pronunciation of certain words. [C&RL 57 (12)] TEOMA THE VIRTUAL HOSPITAL This Illustrated Encyclopedia of Human Anatomic Variation features a highly useful Glossary of Terms. Webster's Dictionary (Searchable) Despite the lack of graphical adornment, Webster's is a very comprehensive dictionary. It not only provides definitions,but also a pronunciation key,spelling correction suggestions, and a direct link to a thesaurus entry for the selected word. [C&RL 57 (12)] ENCYCLOPEDIAS ASSORTED ENCYCLOPEDIAS ON THE WEB BRITANNICA.COM COLUMBIAENCYCLOPEDIA 2000 COMPTON'S ENCYCLOPEDIA ONLINE 1998 ENCARTA ENCYCLOPEDIA.COM FREEALITY INTERNET SEARCH ONLINE ENCYCLOPEDIAS INTERNET ENCYCLOPEDIA LIBRARY SPOT NUPEDIA: THE OPEN CONTENT ENCYCLOPEDIA THE PROBERT ENCYCLOPEDIA RESOURCECENTRAL YAHOO DIRECTORY JOURNALS ON-LINE ____________________________________________________________________________ ACCESS AMERICA E-GOV E-ZINE INDEX Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drug Journals on the Web E-JOURNALS.ORG ELECTRONIC JOURNALS ONLINE IDEAL: INTERNATIONAL DIGITAL ELECTRONIC LIBRARY THE RESEARCHING LIBRARIAN ONLINE JOURNALS LIBRARY LITERATURE: PEER-REVIEWED
JOURNALS ON-LINE: REFERENCE ABOUT.COM Authoritative human guides select, organize, and annotate sources, and it shows. My first stop in any general search. (Pat Ensor) EDGAR, the Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval System EDGAR consists of electronic filings by corporations to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). EDGAR's primary purpose is to increase the fairness of the securities market by accelerating the dissemination of time-sensitive corporate information filed with the agency for the benefit of investors.[C&RL 57 (12)] Hoover's OnLine As a major supplier of business information for investing purposes, Hoover's Online includes company capsules, stock quotes, links to company Web sites, and job sites to the general public. It also includes, for paying subscribers only, specific company profiles, personal portfolio information, and other interesting investing news. [C&RL 57 (12)] IPL READY REFERENCE COLLECTION & SEARCH The INTERNET PUBLIC LIBRARY General/Reference Collection is a collection of Internet resources gathered together with the needs of the Internet community in mind. It is not intended to be a comprehensive hotlist to all sites on every subject, but rather an annotated collection, chosen to help answer specific questions quickly and efficiently. Sources are selected according to ease of use, quality and quantity of information, frequency of updating, and authoritativeness. LII: LIBRARIAN'S INDEX TO THE INTERNET "Personal choices by a librarian of interesting sites in a number of categories. Doesn't try to cover something in all areas, and subject categories are non-traditional at times, but a lot of fun to browse and often provides a quick intro to searching in a particular area." [Pat Ensor] LITA: TOOLKIT FOR THE EXPERT WEB SEARCHER Developed and maintained by Pat Ensor: "Tired of endless lists of Web search tools that give you no guidance as to which ones to use? Or that were last updated when Gophers were alive? I'm inviting you to look over my shoulder and use what I use every day for Web searching in an academic library. I keep up with this stuff so you don't have to!" SEARCH.COM Strength is in the number of sites you can search at once and the metasearch subsets. Includes Excite and Alta Vista. [Pat Ensor.] TECHSOUP The Technology Place for Nonprofits THOMAS (LEGISLATIVE INFORMATION ON THE INTERNET) THOMAS has the Congressional Record and full text of legislation available from 1989 (101st Congress) to the present. In addition, THOMAS has summaries (not full text) of legislation are available back to 1975 (94th Congress). Congressional Documents and Debates 1774-1873 provides a century's worth of congressional proceedings, statutes, and other information. WWW VIRTUAL LIBRARY Search via categories: Agriculture, Business and Economics, Computing, Communications and Media, Education, Engineering, Humanities, Information & Libraries, International Affairs, Law, Recreation, Regional Studies, Science and Society. XREFER & ALLBOOKS "There are more than 50 ready reference sources in xrefer, and each one is better than the next. The publishers include OUP, Penguin, Bloomsbury and Macmillan...If all this sounds like a dream team, it is." --Péter Jacsó, Information Today, April 2001. ALSO SEE: Accurate Eye's Reference Desk Anthropology and Sociology Ready Reference Desk (U Wisconsin) Brevard County Library's Books,libraries, literature Resources BUBL Link: Browse LINK by DDC (University of Bath) BUBL LINK: 5:15 Catalogue of Selected Internet Resources Canadian Information by Subject (National Library of Canada) CSUMB journals list DIGITAL LIBRARIAN: A LIBRARIAN'S GUIDE TO THE BEST OF THE INTERNET The English Server at Carnegie Mellon University Galaxy's EINET Reference HOLLIS JAKE (YALE) Lakewood Public Library Ready Reference List (Dewey) LUDKE LIBRARY E-JOURNALS AND NEWSPAPERS (LESLEY COLLEGE) LYCOS SEARCHABLE DIRECTORY Middleborough Schools (SE MASS) Favorite Links MULTNOMAH COUNTY LIBRARYHomework Center Online Reference Tools (Earlham College) Providence Public Library Quick Reference (University of Texas at Austin) Ready Reference Using the Internet (Winsor School, Boston MA) Reference Shelf (University of Pennsylvania) Quick Reference (Indiana University) Quick Reference Sources on the Internet (Michigan State University) The Reference Desk (Michigan Electronic Library) Seattle Public Library LOOK IT UP! Virtual Library (SUNY at Albany) Virtual Reference Collection (M.I.T.) SEARCH ENGINES ADOBE PDF ONLINE SEARCH Search through more than a million summaries of Adobe® Portable Document Format (PDF) files on the Web. Your search results will allow you to see the summaries before deciding to view the original Adobe PDF. DIRECT SEARCH Direct search is a growing compilation of links to the search interfaces of resources that contain data not easily or entirely searchable/accessible from general search tools like Alta Vista, Google, or Hotbot. Although these "general" tools are essential for the retrieval of Internet based data, searchers often fail to realize that a massive amount of information is not easily or entirely searchable/accessible via these search tools. Material "hidden" from the general search tools is said to reside on the Invisible Web. GLOBAL FEDERATED SEARCH Here's a search engine that gives you some interesting options. Global Federated Search is a meta-search engine, which means it allows you to search in multiple places at once. What's neat about Global Federated Search is that you can specify if you want it to search: the top ten search engines; image collections; theses and dissertations; libraries on the Web; law/legal sites; and other categories. If none of the predefined categories works for you, there's also something called Site Metadata Search, which lets you search the whole GFR catalog to find sites that might have your information. [From Really Useful Sites #172 27 Oct 2000.] GOOGLE TOOLBAR Enables you to access google from any browser taskbar. GOOGLE WEB DIRECTORY Enables you to access google resources by subject. INFOMINE The University of California's InfoMine is a top-level research tool. It has a fast-loading, easy-to-use home page organized into subject areas like Biological, Agricultural & Medical Sciences; Government Information; Instructional Resources: K-12; Internet Enabling Tools; Maps & GIS; Visual & Performing Arts, etc. You click on one of the subject areas and go to another screen where you can do a keyword search, or browse the table of contents by subject, title, or keyword. Each section has a What's New area, which shows sites added recently, and there's also a list of recommended search engines and finding tools if you can't locate what you need at the InfoMine site. InfoMine has thousands of resources in its database, and it is constantly being updated. Academics and researchers all over the country contribute useful Internet addresses to InfoMine, and each submission is reviewed and catalogued by the InfoMine staff. [From Really Useful Sites #172 27 Oct 2000.] INVISIBLE WEB: HIDDEN SEARCHABLE SITES Vast expanses of the Web are completely invisible to general purpose search engines like AltaVista, HotBot and Google: find the hidden gems search engines can't see. KARNAK Do research while you're sleeping. At Karnak you construct a search query, then go about your life. In the meantime, Karnak is gathering information from the Internet and adding it to your "personal library".Karnak...notifies you by e-mail when it finds new or changed information for your query....helps you to construct a more accurate search query, then scours the Web at a deeper level than other search engines to find what you're looking for (and eliminates dead or stale links from your results). Karnak has several pricing plans available, but there is also a free membership option. [From Really Useful Sites #171 20 Oct 2000] LEXIBOT Lexibot says it searches the "Deep Web", which is the part of the Web that isn't covered by conventional search engines. These databases and other repositories of information may be useful to you, and Lexibot claims to include them in its search, scanning hundreds of databases and search engines at the same time. Lexibot has a lot of features that allow you more control over your search, and it has a free version that you can download and try out. If you choose to use the fee-based version, it's $89. [From Really Useful Sites #173 03 Nov 2000] Northern Lights Internet Solutions Ltd. Publisher's Catalogues Database of information on over 6,000 publishers may prove useful to a number of users, including, writers, librarians, and book collectors and sellers. Users may keyword search the database by publisher or city or browse by location, topic, or type of material. Entries for each publisher include a brief sentence or two from the publisher describing itself and a link to its homepage. [MD] [From SCOUT REPORT 20000630] SEARCHPOWER: WORLD'S LARGEST SEARCH DIRECTORY Provides access to reference sites broken down by category, such as MEDICAL. SimpliFind SimpliFind cuts through...potential confusion by first trying to establish the real concept of your query before it begins the search. For instance, a query for "drive" produces ten concepts, including device, computer drive, road, journey, and golf stroke, among others, allowing users searching for golf tips to receive more relevant returns than those interested in hard drives. If none of the concepts match the query you have in mind, you can enter your own to generate more precise returns. After free registration, users can even customize SimpliFind, as it will store all their new concepts and search queries for future use. [MD] [From SCOUT REPORT 20000707.] SUBJEX: HAVE A DIALOGUE WITH YOUR SEARCH ENGINE Type a sentence in your own words about what you're looking for, and you then start a dialogue that helps you get an exact match. For each search query, Subjex returns a list of hits, just like a regular search engine, but it asks you questions about those hits, to help you target your search more narrowly.Continue this dialogue with Subjex for as long as you like, and you'll get more accurate results the longer you do. [From Really Useful Sites #170 13 Oct 2000] SUITE101.COM Organized along the lines of the Dewey Decimal System, this site features over 1,400 topics, 40,000+ articles and 43,000+ links. WEBHELP Type your query and wait for an online assistant to help you find the best answer. USEFUL RESOURCES: Auto's Autotropolis CALENDARS
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REFERENCE SOURCES OTHER SITES OF INTEREST Online poetry archive at Ubuweb:
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Websites for Women's History:
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS CAPE AND ISLANDS LIGHTHOUSE HEALTH ACCESS ALLIANCE COMM-PASS Facing the Future: How Should We Respond to the Attacks on Our Nation? Massachusetts Crime statistics MASSACHUSETTS DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION MASSACHUSETTS DEPT OF PUBLIC HEALTH MASSACHUSETTS DIVISION OF PROFESSIONAL LICENSURE MASSHEALTH Masschip Instant Topics home page Mass DPH Bureau of Substance Abuse Services Links MASS FAMILY TIES (Together In Enhancing Support) RESOURCE DIRECTORY MASS FAMILY TIES (Together In Enhancing Support) MASS STATE AGENCIES MASS GENERAL HOSPITAL VIRTUAL REFERENCE DESK ARCH: ACCESS TO RESOURCES FOR CONSUMER HEALTH INDEX CHRC: CONSUMER HEALTH REFERENCE CENTER MASSACHUSETTS CENSUS REDISTRICTING FILE Massachusetts Census 2000 Demographic Profiles MASSACHUSETTS HEALTH DATA CONSORTIUM MASSACHUSETTS LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SERVICES MISER (Massachusetts Institute for Social and Economic Research) NM/LM (National Network of Libraries of Medicine) SEARCH(1-800-338-7657) Portuguese and Spanish: A Guide to Spelling Differences Portuguese Population Statistic Summary Regional Center for Health Communities Support Services SOUTHEAST MASSACHUSETTS AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER UMA/dartmouth internet reference sources UNITED STATES NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE MEDLINE/PUBMEDSEARCH Page updated 5 December 2003 |
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