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These links take you to the types of resources you'll find
in the reference area of the library; for more subject-specific
sites, try Find Resources by Subject.
Helpful Handouts are also available
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- NEW! Academic Earth free academic video courses from leading universities
- American
Colleges & Universities
- College
and University Home Pages - Worldwide
- College
and University Rankings
- Global Directory of Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution Programs
- MIT OpenCourseWare
links to course syllabi, and more
- Peterson's guides
to undergraduate and graduate programs
- Syllabus
Finder Searching 507,011 syllabi at the Center for History
and New Media and over 500,000 syllabi via Google
- UChannel A
collection of public affairs lectures, panels and events
from academic institutions all over the world -- for you
to view, listen to, stream or download
- U.S.
Universities, by State
- Webcast.berkeley
look at an archive of course webcasts and podcasts or take
a gander at the archived webcasts that feature prominent
speakers who have visited the campus. In the course section,
view webcasts and also download podcasts. The range of courses
here is quite broad, and includes lectures on general chemistry,
wildlife ecology, and surprise, surprise: foundations of
American cyberculture
- World Lecture
Hall Links to pages created by faculty who are using
the Web to deliver course materials
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Premium Source Publishing is available to help PC faculty put together course readers, in either print or electronic format. Visit their site for answers to your copyright questions, and an online order form. Additionally, the bookstore manager or the librarians will be happy to work with you.
Plagiarism from The OWL at Purdue, "There are few intellectual offenses more serious than plagiarism in academic and professional contexts. This resource offers advice on how to avoid plagiarism in your work."
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- aneki.com
Country information, regional and world rankings in categories
such as "most populous," "most polluted," etc.
- Background
Notes ...publications include facts about the land,
people, history, government, political conditions, economy,
and foreign relations of independent states, some dependencies,
and areas of special sovereignty. The Notes are updated/revised
by the Office of Electronic Information and Publications
of the Bureau of Public Affairs as they are received from
the Department's regional bureaus and are added to the database
of the Department of State...
- BBC
News Country Profiles
- CIA
World Factbook 2009
- Country Insights from the
Centre for Intercultural Learning
- Earthtrends: the
Environmental Information Portal
- Global
Road Warrior helpful information for travelers
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- Library
of Congress Country Studies
- Lonely
Planet
- Portals
of the World resources selected by Library of Congress subject experts
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- Lexicool.com bilingual and multilingual dictionaries, plus translating...
- Wikipedia
web-based encyclopedia edited by its readers. NOTE: there
is a potential for mis-information - doublecheck your source!
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- the
Citizen's Almanac U.S. Citizen & Immigration Services
- Congress.org U.S.
membership directory, with various ways of searching for
info
- Constitutions,
Statutes, and Codes for all states
- Library of Congress
- Open Congress
brings together official government data with news and blog
coverage to give you the real story behind each bill.
- Project Vote Smart
Information on candidates and issues
- State and Local
Governments on the Net
- States and Capitals
- Thomas: Legislative Information
on the Internet
- USA.gov
One-stop access to all online U.S. Federal Government resources.
Topics include Agriculture, Arts, Economy, Environment and
Energy, Grants, Health, and Science
- U.S.
Government Documents a selection of full-text materials
in topics including Environment, Crime and Justice, Agriculture,
Education, Energy, and more
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- Berkeley
Digital Library Photo Collection People, plants, places,
plus links to photographers, and copyright info
- Image
collections from BUBL
- Internet
Moving Image Archive contains thousands of digital movies
uploaded by Archive users which range from classic full-length
films, to daily alternative news broadcasts, to cartoons
and concerts. Many of these videos are available for free
download
- NASA Images
- NYPL
Digital Gallery provides access to over 275,000 images
digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the
collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated
manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints
and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and
more
- NOAA
Photo Library
From the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
an incredible collection of images, including storms, space,
underwater, marine mammals, coastlines, etc.
- The
Online Archive of California categories include History,
Nature, People, Places, Society, & Technology. Copyright
information provided
- The Picture Collection
from The New York Public Library, 30,000+ images, mostly
created before 1923
- Prints
and Photographs from the Library of Congress. Copyright
information provided
- U.S. Geological Survey Photographic Library
- Visible Earth
A Catalog of NASA Images and Animations of Our Home Planet
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- cknow.com
Definitions/Acronyms/Abbreviations of computer terms
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- Biodiversity
Heritage Library Ten major natural history museum libraries,
botanical libraries, and research institutions joined together
to form the Biodiversity Heritage Library Project. They
are developing a strategy and operational plan to digitize
the published literature of biodiversity held in their respective
collections and make it available through a global “biodiversity
commons.”
- Google Book Search
finds ...any kind of book you can imagine: fiction, non-fiction,
reference, scholarly, textbooks, children's books, scientific,
medical, professional, educational, and other books of all
kinds; you'll only be able to see a limited portion –
in some cases only a few sentences – of books ...under
copyright. If the book is not under copyright, then you
can browse the entire book. In general, Google Book Search
aims to help you discover books, not read them from start
to finish
- Library of Congress
Online Catalog
- Library of Congress
- All Collections - U.S. historical and cultural collections
(American Memory), Library of Congress Online Catalog, Prints
& Photographs Online Catalog, Library of Congress Web
site
- World Cat 1.3 billion
items in 18,000 libraries worldwide - find titles you want,
see what library has this item
- Archives
and Manuscripts Collections ...a selective guide to
finding archives and manuscript collections. It includes
...national catalogs and databases. It also includes a list
of national archives and libraries, college and university
collections, and historical society archives
- Internet
Library for Librarians links to librarian's tools
- The Internet Public
Library an extensive collection of reference resourcesLibDex
Find a library by name or country; other links
- LIBWEB
find academic, public, state libraries and more, listed
by location, library type, or name
- National Library
for the Environment
- National Park Service
Libraries
- Open Access
Text Archives Access to collections from Open Source,
Project Gutenberg, etc.
- Public Libraries
in the United States
- Repositories
of Primary Sources A listing of over 5000 websites describing
holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical
photographs, and other primary sources for the esearch scholar
- Smithsonian Institution
Choices include Libraries, Archives, Bibliographies, & Chronology
- Virtual
Reference Shelf resources from the Library of Congress
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- Campbell Map Collection
donated to the Library by Dan Campbell of The Nature Conservancy,
who is also a member of our Board of Directors. Maps are
available to students and faculty; inquire at the Circulation
Desk.
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- American
FactFinder from the U.S. Census Bureau
- CensusScope
data, charts, trends in U.S. demographics
- GenderNet
statistics, resources and research from the World Bank
- Harpers
Index
- International
Data Base
- KIDS COUNT Census
Data Online
- nationmaster.com
a massive central data source and a handy way to graphically compare nations. NationMaster is a vast compilation of data from such sources as the CIA World Factbook, UN, and OECD. Categories include crime, economy, education,
energy, government, health
- Stats researches
current issues and the reliability of the statistics behind
the reports on those issues
- Gender Info 2007
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(see Handouts)
Try CrossRef - Cross Ref offers three ways to find a DOI (might be easier to cite your source if your article has a DOI)
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- Academic Earth videos of lectures by top scholars in subjects that range from Astronomy to Entrepreneurship to Religion, and come from universities as celebrated as MIT, Berkeley, Harvard, and Stanford. Visitors must register to view the lectures, but registration is free
- American Rhetoric
full text audio, and video (streaming) versions of political
and other speeches
- UChannel A
collection of public affairs lectures, panels and events
from academic institutions all over the world -- for you
to view, listen to, stream or download
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