 Three
Basic Magical Tools
Google [www.google.com]
This is an uncannily precise
search engine. Use for almost everything, including spell checking and
finding quotes.
Librarians Index to the Internet
[lii.org]
Find quality information here,
searchable, classified, annotated, and signed.
About.com [about.com]
Here is a great place to get
the hobbyist’s view of “popular” topics on the Web.
Ready
Reference
The Internet Public Library
(IPL) [www.ipl.org]
Use their reference section
for current links to quality resources.
InfoPlease Almanac
[www.infoplease.com]
Quick answers to many questions.
Find maps, definitions, and brief biographies here.
Merriam-Webster [www.m-w.com/dictionary.htm]
It’s a dictionary and a
thesaurus. Keep it open always.
People
Finders
SuperPages [www.superpages.com]
Use Verizon’s interface
to do nationwide searches of white and yellow pages.
Worldpages.com [global.wpz.com]
Click into the phone books
of over 235 countries.
The Ultimates [www.theultimates.com]
The Ultimates will run a
name through several telephone directories without forcing the user to
retype.
Search Systems [www.searchsystems.net]
Here is a directory of links
to over 1,250 searchable, freely accessible public record databases.
KnowX [www.knowx.com]
Search its business, people,
and professional license databases for free. If you find your person, pay
a minimal fee to view detailed results.
Genealogy
American Family Immigration
History Center [www.ellisisland.org]
Records of those who passed
through Ellis Island.
Internet FamilyFinder
[www.genealogy.com/ifftop.html]
Searches thousands of genealogy
pages across the Internet.
FamilySearch Internet
Genealogy Service [www.familysearch.org]
The Mormon Church provides
this portal for searching their vast genealogical records.
Social Security Death
Index [ssdi.genealogy.rootsweb.com]
Covers those who lived—and
died--after the inauguration of Social Security in the 1930s.
Full
Text Online
On-line Books Page [digital.library.upenn.edu/books]
This definitive, searchable
directory to books freely readable over the Web will help you find any
copy of a classic you might need.
FindArticles.com [www.findarticles.com/PI/index.jhtml]
Free archive of full-text
articles dating back to 1998 from more than 300 magazines and journals.
MagPortal.com [magportal.com]
MagPortal collects and classifies
links to those newsletters and magazines that offer current, interesting,
yet free content online.
Business
Information
Hoovers Online [www.hoovers.com]
This is the best site for
reliable, and often free, business information on the Web.
Thomas Register [www.thomasregister.com]
In return for a free registration,
find out who manufactures what where in the U.S.
Yahoo! Finance [finance.yahoo.com]
Current and historical company
data, investment information, stock quotes from major U.S. and Canadian
exchanges.
CorporateInformation
[www.corporateinformation.com]
Register for free to find
information about companies in 65 countries.
Law
Resources
Nolo [www.nolopress.com]
Use their “Law Centers”
for free information on everyday legal topics.
FindLaw [www.findlaw.com]
This is the first-stop,
premier law resource on the Web
Legal Information Institute
at Cornell University [www.law.cornell.edu]
Find state laws, federal
laws, and laws from around the world. This is the research tool of choice
to find the text of laws.
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Medical
Resources
The Merck Manual of Diagnosis
and Therapy [www.merck.com/pubs/mmanual]
Lists the causes, symptoms,
and prognosis of most illnesses. Too hard to understand? Try The Merck
Manual Home Edition [www.merckhomeedition.com].
MayoClinic.com [www.mayohealth.org/home]
General information about
many different ailments.
InteliHealth [www.intelihealth.com]
Consumer health site from
the Harvard Medical School.
MEDLINEplus Health Information
[medlineplus.gov]
The National Library of
Medicine has assembled its resources onto one portal designed for general
health consumers.
RxList.com [www.rxlist.com]
RxList offers drug information
and direct access to Taber's Medical Encyclopedia.
ClinicalTrials.gov
[clinicaltrials.gov]
Provides patients, family
members and members of the public current information about clinical research
studies.
CenterWatch Clinical Trial
Listing Service [www.centerwatch.com]
CenterWatch lists approved
clinical trials and promising therapies newly approved by the FDA.
Statistics
FedStats: One Stop Shopping
for Federal Statistics [www.fedstats.gov]
Easy access to the full
range of statistics and information produced by Federal agencies.
University of Michigan
Documents Center [www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs]
Local, state, federal, or
international government information.
Sites
for Students
Biography.com [www.biography.com]
Use this site to "search
over 25,000 of the greatest lives, past and present."
Science Fair Central
[school.discovery.com/sciencefaircentral]
Visit the Discovery Channel's
guide to science fair projects.
QuickMath[www.quickmath.com]
Type in an algebra or calculus
problem and have the MathScript server calculate results for you.
FinAid: The Financial
Aid Information Page [www.finaid.org]
Here is a comprehensive
page of student financial aid links.
Travel
Sites
QIXO [www.qixo.com]
Here is a metasearch engine
for travel, a “bot” that aggregates data from at least 27 independent travel
sites.
MSN MapPoint [mappoint.msn.com]
MSN MapPoint, formerly MapBlast,
offers maps and directions for over 200 countries.
Indo.com: How Far Is It?
[www.indo.com/distance/]
Type the names of any two
cities (worldwide) into the search boxes on this Indonesian travel site
and it will tell you the distance between them.
Onanda.com [www.oanda.com/convert/classic]
Get your current and historical
currency conversion rates here.
Weather Underground
[www.wunderground.com]
This site offers forecasts
where others fear to tread. Cuba, for example.
Other
Useful Links
ConsumerSearch [www.consumersearch.com]
This site pulls consumer
advice from various consumer review sources into one place.
Kelley Blue Book [www.kbb.com]
Find the value of old and
new cars on this site.
Internet Movie Database
[www.imdb.com]
Visit this site for an amazing
amount of information about everything cinematic.
Keeping
Up With Changes
Librarians' Index to the
Internet: New This Week [www.lii.org/search/file/mailinglist]
Sign up for LII’s current
awareness service for keeping track of great new Web sites.
Yahoo! What's New [dir.yahoo.com/new]
Get the scoop on new, handpicked
sites added to Yahoo! in the last week.
ResearchBuzz [www.researchbuzz.com]
Tara Calishain covers the
world of Internet research.
SearchDay Newsletter
[www.searchenginewatch.com/searchday/index.php]
Chris Sherman keeps us informed
about Web search trends.
BusinessWeek
Online: Technology [www.businessweek.com/technology]
Designed so that non-technical
managers can stay abreast of new technologies. |