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Online Federal and Local Government
Resources
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Fairfax
County Public Library - Northern Virginia |
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FedWorld.gov
- Program of US Dept. of Commerce |
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FirstGov
- Official Website for U.S. Federal Government information on the Internet:
"business and economy to money and benefits to science and technology,
and everything in between!" |
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GovBot
- Database of Government Web Sites |
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Government
Resources on the Web - University of Michigan Documents Center (extensive
collection) |
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Legislative
Information on the Internet - Thomas - legislation, congressional
record, committee information, etc. |
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Library
of Congress Catalog - approx. 12 million records - books, serials,
computer files, manuscripts, cartographic materials, music, sound recordings,
visual materials - provides references, notes, circulation status |
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National
Archives and Records Administration - research room, federal
law texts, online exhibits, digital classroom, grants, archives and presentation
resources |
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Smithsonian
Institution Libraries |
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State
and Local Government Gateway |
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Statistical Information |
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The
US Constitution - National Archives and Records Administration |
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U.S.
Supreme Court - docket, court rules, opinions, public info.... |
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The
White House |
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Government
Resources | Libraries, Document Centers
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Dictionaries,
Encyclopedias, Glossaries | Stats
| Metaphor
Resources | Poetry Resources
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Bookstores
| Publishers | Education
and Technology Resources | home
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Online Dictionaries / Encyclopedias
/ Glossaries
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Acronym
Finder - Over 162,000 acronyms, abbreviations, initialisms and their
definitions, including information technology |
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Bartleby.comReferences-
contemporary and classic reference works on the Web (literature, mythology,
anatomy, English usage ...) |
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Biographical
Dictionary - - more than 28,000 men and women can be searched by birth
years and death years, positions, professions, literary and artistic works,
achievements, and other keywords. |
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BioTech's
Life Science Dictionary - "most of our 8300+ terms deal with biochemistry,
biotechnology, botany, cell biology and genetics" |
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Cancer Web Online
Medical Dictionary |
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Dictionary.com
(numerous reference resources) |
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Electronic
Encyclopedias - GMU University Libraries Electronic Resources |
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A
Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples |
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Google
Glossary - definitions for words, phrases and acronyms |
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Legal
Encyclopedia |
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Online
Medical Dictionary |
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PC
Webopaedia - Internet.com (computer technology encyclopedia) |
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Tech
Encyclopedia - Techweb - CMP net - the Technology Network |
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Your
Dictionary.com - " features an index of 1300+ dictionaries in more
than 230 languages" |
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Government Resources
| Libraries, Document Centers
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Dictionaries,
Encyclopedias, Glossaries | Stats
| Metaphor
Resources | Poetry Resources
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| Publishers | Education
and Technology Resources | home
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Other Libraries and Document Centers
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Meta search
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Libweb-
Library Servers via WWW. Updated daily at midnight, Pacific time. Lists
over 3000 pages from libraries in over 90 countries- The Library, UC Berkeley
and Sun Microsystems, Inc.. |
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American
Communication Association - materials on communication law and First
Amendment issues and an extensive reference resource page for scholars
and activists. |
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American
Memory- Historical Collections for the National Digital Library (Library
of Congress)- includes a search function |
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Bartleby
Library - Steven H. van Leeuwen |
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Bookbrowser-
a guide for avid readers |
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Bookspot
- portal to award winners, dealer and publisher directories, etc. |
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Bookwire-
Inside the Book Business- reviews, etc. |
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Chronicle
of Higher Education |
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ClassicReader.com
- "read, search, and annotate great works of literature by authors such
as Dickens, Tolstoy, Shakespeare, and many others" |
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Computer-Mediated
Communication Magazine |
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David
Rumsey Map Collection - over 6,400 maps online, incl. rare 18th and
19th century North and South America cartographic history materials, historic
maps of Europe, Asia and Africa, atlases, globes, maritime charts, manuscript
maps, and many more... |
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Electric Library
- over 100,000 documents (fiction, non-fiction, maps, dissertations, ...) |
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Government Resources
| Libraries, Document Centers
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Dictionaries,
Encyclopedias, Glossaries | Stats
| Metaphor
Resources | Poetry Resources
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Bookstores
| Publishers | Education
and Technology Resources | home
| back
to top
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Gutenberg
and Beyond: Books, Libraries, and changing Technology: An Exhibit
of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Related Items, Georgetown University Library
/ Special Collections Division |
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Hypertext
Reading Room- Eastgate
Systems, Inc. - writing by hypertext writers |
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Internet Archive - The Internet Archive
is a 501(c)(3) public nonprofit that was founded to build an ‘Internet
library,’ with the purpose of offering permanent access for
researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that
exist in digital format. |
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Internet
Public Library - a public service organization and learning/teaching
environment at the University of Michigan School of Information |
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The
New York Public Library Digital Library Collection |
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NUA-
advertises as "The world's leading resource for Internet trends and statistics"
surveys by categories |
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ORB:
The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies - "a cooperative effort
on the part of scholars across the internet to establish an online textbook
source for medieval studies" |
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OVID
Web Gateway -scholarly bibliographic and full text resources (Bioethics
Line, Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature, Nursing,
Biomedical, Mental Health, Sociological Abstracts, Sport Discus |
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The
Online Books Page |
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The
Perseus Digital Library - Tufts
University - attempts to bring a wide range of source materials on
the humanities to as large an audience as possible. |
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Project
Gutenberg - information, books and other materials |
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refdesk.com
- facts at a glance, reference resources, dictionaries, encyclopedias,
reference tools,.... |
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A
Short List of On-line Text Resources |
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VIVA
- The Virtual Library of Virginia |
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University
of Virginia Library |
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University
of Virginia Electronic Text "Library" |
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World Civilization - Washington State University World Civilizations Image Repository (WCIR), "consists of a series of
image databases drawn from donated personal faculty collections and
images located in Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC)
at the WSU libraries" |
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Yahoo
- Science:Computer Science:Journals |
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Government Resources
| Libraries, Document Centers
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Dictionaries,
Encyclopedias, Glossaries | Stats
| Metaphor
Resources | Poetry Resources
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| Publishers | Education
and Technology Resources | home
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Statistical Resources
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Bureau
of Labor Statistics - U.S. Department of Labor |
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Energy
Information Administration - QuickStats |
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FedStats
- statistics from over 100 U.S. Federal agencies |
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The
Gallop Organization - Gallop Polls |
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Immigration
and Naturalization Service - Statistics |
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National
Center for Education Statistics |
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National
Center for Health Statistics - Center for Disease Control |
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NUA-
advertises as "The world's leading resource for Internet trends and statistics"
surveys by categories |
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Statistical
Abstract of the United States |
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Statistical
Resources on the Web - U. of Michigan Documents Center |
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U.S.
Census Bureau Facts Finder |
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U.S.
Census Bureau Statistical Agencies (International) |
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U.S.
Historical Census Data Browser |
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Metaphor Sites in Various Disciplines
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Metaphor
Sites - metaphors in science, technology, humanities, plus
biblio. of text-based metaphors
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Poetry Resources
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American
Poetry at the Electronic
Text Center, University of Virginia Library |
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British
Poetry at the Electronic
Text Center, University of Virginia Library |
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The
Web Page of Carolyn Forche', the poet, and her list of poetry resources |
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Government Resources
| Libraries, Document Centers
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Dictionaries,
Encyclopedias, Glossaries | Stats
| Metaphor
Resources | Poetry Resources
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Bookstores
| Publishers | Education
and Technology Resource | home
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to top
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Book Publishers and bookstores
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abebooks.com
- rare, used, and out-of-print books |
| -- |
alibris
- extensive list of used and out-of-print books |
| -- |
Amazon.com |
| -- |
Barnes
& Noble |
| -- |
Bedford/St.
Martins |
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Bibliofind
- search engine for used and rare titles |
| -- |
Booksense
- shop online at your favorite locally-owned bookstore |
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Borders |
| -- |
Harcourt
Brace |
| -- |
Harper
Collins |
| -- |
Harvard
University Press |
| -- |
Houghton-Mifflin
College Division |
| -- |
Johns
Hopkins University Press |
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MacMillan |
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McGraw-Hill
Higher Education |
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MIT
Press |
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National
Academy Press (NAP) |
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NTC/Contemporary
Publishing Group |
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Pearson Higher Education Publishing (Addison Wesley, Allyn Bacon, Longman, Prentice Hall, etc.)
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Powell's
Books - new and used books |
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Textbooks.com |
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VarsityBooks.com |
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Wiley
Publishers |
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WW
Norton |
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Yale
University Press |
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