| Net Search | Data Collections | Reference | Directories | Publications | Politics | Chicago Related | Commerce | Entertainment | Sports | Odds and Ends | Education Specific Searching the Net? Here Are Places to Start
- Google so good it became a verb. It includes a search of Usenet discussions, a government search, an image search, maps, local listings and a new video search and viewing tool
- Answers.com - gives them to you on an array of topics
- LII - Useful sites organized and annotated by librarians in California and Washington
- Britannica online - huge list of ranked and sorted web links with annotations - extremely useful.
- Blinkx - Video from a wide variety of sources can be viewed and searched.
- Clusty - meta searcher with "clustering".
- About.com has humans who scour the Net and assemble mini-sites on a wide variety of topics.
- Reference Desk excellent collection of well organized site links. A subjects covered
- Beaucoup Listing of specialized databases on the web that cannot be accessed with other search tools
- search.com has the Infoseek engine as well as more obscure topic-oriented choices
- A9 - Amazons attempt at searching full text books online.
- del.icio.us - social bookmarking site - why search for something that's already been found?
- Fagan Finder - specialized meta searcher for ALL types of data
College and Career Resources
Our Travel Blog
- Columbia 2006 Encyclopedia - full text of this famous one volume encyclopedia
- Portals to the World - find information about hundreds of countries and thier best web sites.
- StartSpot - starting points that cover numerous topics - people, government, travel, homework, plus more
- Online Tutorial finder - Check here to find sites that offer online just in time learning.
- Guidebeam - new search tool that creates customized portals on demand.
- Country Report.org - up to date reference for statistics and facts about countries from around the world
- Fast Search newest and largest of the search tools . Over 200,000 sites indexed.
- Search Engines World Wide quite simply an extensive list of search engines and directories
- Abuzz - people with questions get connected to people with answers
- Ultimate Bulletin Board actual humans answering questions from each other
- Wired Cybrarian Selected links, with descriptions, in two dozen categories
- Looksmart searches a selection of sites chosen by humans, but emphasizes those who pay for placement.
- Reference.com searches and archives mailing lists, web forums and Usenet groups.
- ForumOne One-stop guide to forum topics around the Web
- Deja.com (formerly Dejanews) lets you search for Usenet postings or posters
- C|Net combines computer news, reviews, software and services. Also see their news.com and Snap! service
- Achoo and The Hardin Library for the Health Sciences catalog health related sites
- Gopher Jewels an index of gopher sites (yes, they still exist)
- Archieplex: Search FTP archives around the Internet
- Liszt and Tile.Net will help you find Internet mailing lists
- Yack Guide to live events on the Web
- Ultimate Google - Not official Google but takes advanced searching to the next level.
- Digital Communication
Tools
- Podzinger - podcasting search tool
- Podcast Alley - podcasting portal - tutorials, directory, rankings and tools.
- Bloglines - Find blogs by topic and read them here.
- Create a Blog - they are everywhere, but where do you start?
- Blogpluse - les you search blogs and sutomatically find trends.
- Flickr - Not quite blogging, but fascinating. Storytelling through photosharing.
| Net Search | Data Collections | Reference | Directories | Publications | Politics | Chicago Related | Commerce | Entertainment | Sports | Odds and Ends | Education Specific- Refdesk leads you to a world of reference materials.
- Time Ticker - Tells you the time anyplace in the world.
- OnLine Converstion - makes over 8000 conversions available with the click of a mouse
- Library Spot - Extensive guide to online reference works.
- YourDictionary.com and Onelook give access to hundreds of dictionaries, specialized and general
- National Geographic's Map Machine - great mapping site
- Encyclopedia Britannica - the real thing now for free
- Research It all-in-one reference desk: dictionary, quotes, translators, more
- Onelook has 260 dictionaries, specialized and general
- Roget's Internet Thesaurus
- Visual Thesaurus - a new way to look at word connections
- Information Please Almanac Almanac, dictionary and the full Columbia Encyclopedia
- Cambridge Biographical Encyclopedia brief, cross-referenced biographies of more than 15,000 notables.
- Travlang language-to-language translation dictionaries
- Shark Talk: Nolo's Law Dictionary
- Gov Spot - index of US government web accessible info.
- FedWorld Information Services: Comprehensive guide to Government databases
- Gov Engine.com - Organizes federal, state, and local government links.
- 50 States.Com - comprehensive information about each state
- FirstGov gives organized access to a variety of government web sites and services.
- Hardin
Medical data - catalogs health-related sites and
databases
| Net Search | Data Collections | Reference | Directories | Publications | Politics | Chicago Related | Commerce | Entertainment | Sports | Odds and Ends | Education SpecificSpecial Reference Sites
- ConvertIt converts measurements, currencies, timezones and more
- The Elements of Style The 1918 version
- Yahoo Yellow Pages comprehensive yellow page index of business throughout North America
- ZIP Code search fast easy way to look up ZIP (and ZIP+4) codes for any U.S. address
- Area Code Decoder enables you to look up country, area, and city telephone codes.
- C.I.A. World Factbook
- Library of Congress,
- The New York Public Library
- Chicago Public Library
- The World Wide Web Virtual Library
- National Library of Medicine and Medline
- The Merck Manual, guide to diseases
- RxList: The Internet Drug Index Extensive information on prescription and over-the-counter drugs
- Nutrient database from the U.S.D.A.
- West's Legal Directory and Martindale-Hubbell's Lawyer Locator
- U.S. Patents since 1971, from I.B.M.
- I.R.S. information and publications. For more tax sites, try taxsites.com.
- Citynet guide to Net information in and about major cities
- Metroscope city, business, entertainment guides for major cities
- Mapquest gives a street-level map for any U.S. address
- Social Security death index
- Consumer World has consumer finance rates, company contacts, consumer information
- Currency converter from Olsen & Associates converts from any currency to another
- Cost-of-living calculator and other useful tools
- How Far Is It? gives the distance between two cities
- U.S. Naval Observatory clock
- state and local government websites - find sites for local governmental units.
- Free Email Providers Guide - the definitive source for free email, over 1300 sources listed.
- State and County QuickFacts - from US Census bureau
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Telephone & E-mail Directories- InfoSpace personal, business and goverment phone, fax and e-mail
- Switchboard nationwide telephone and address directory
- AnyWho reverse lookup, phone numbers, addresses, find your neighbors, all on one site
- Zip2 Yellow Pages lets you search businesses by name, category, or distance from your home
- Directory of toll free numbers from Infospace
- Big Yellow National business yellow pages and residential listings from NYNEX
- Thomas Register of Manufacturers
- WhoWhere, Internet Address Finder and Yahoo People Finder can help find e-mail addresses
- Network Solutions domain name database
- Zip Code and Zip+4 Finder Simple and efficient, but sometimes busy. Also try the Postal Service.
- Superpages.com
National business yellow pages and residential
listings from Verizon
| Net Search | Data Collections | Reference | Directories | Publications | Politics | Chicago Related | Commerce | Entertainment | Sports | Odds and Ends | Education SpecificBreaking News & Daily Publications
- Today's Front Pages - Visual listing of the fronts of 240 newspapers from around the world
- ABC News offers top news, including the current ABC radio report, and (large) video clips.
- Agence France-Presse world report from Yahoo Asia
- BBC News British Broadcasting Corporation
- CNN Interactive and CNNfn
- Fox News Clean, simple search of AP and Reuters wires
- MSNBC, from Microsoft and NBC News
- NPR Online from National Public Radioss
- Al Jazeera - English-language service, from the middle eastern television network.
- Digg
- News stories as voted by
users.
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- Boston.com, from The Boston Globe
- The Electronic Telegraph from The Daily Telegraph of London
- The Gate, from the San Francisco Examiner and Chronicle
- Los Angeles Times
- Philadelphia Inquirer
- San Jose Mercury News
- The Times of London
- USA Today
- The Wall Street Journal
- The Washington Post
- The Chicago Tribune
- Chicago
Sun-Times Online
- GoogleNews - the first "bot" created current news site.
- Newsdirectory.com provides quick and easy access to web sites of hundreds of publications by name, location or subject.
- 1stHeadlines offers headlines from 50-some news organizations
- Media Central, from Cowles New Media, stays on top of media and marketing
- NewsHub culls technology business headlines from major Web sites
- News Index and TotalNews search for breaking news on the Web
- Newspaper archives on the Web from the Special Libraries Association
- Wired News and Newsbot
- The European Journalism page
- Newsahead
upcoming news events around the globe
- Full Text Daily News Archives - links page of searchable full text news article sites
- Newspaper
archives on the Web Provides links to United
States news archives available on the Web
Magazines & Features
- The Atlantic
- CareerPath.com,a classified ad service from many papers (including The Times)
- The Drudge Report
- Salon cyber-literary-trend Web publication
- Law.com legal news from several sources
- Mr. Showbiz, entertainment news and gossip from Starwave
- National Inquirer The supermarket tabloid comes to the Web
- Pathfinder and Netly News from Time-Warner
- Rolling Stone
- The Drudge Report - the influcencial and very current news rumor site
- Slate, Microsoft's cyber magazine
- Thrive Health and fitness features and information
- United Media, a collection of comics
- U.S. News
- The Onion and Modern Humorist Comic relief
Guides to Many Publications
- Newslink, a guide to newspapers, magazines and broadcast organizations.
- Ecola's 24 hour newsstand, quick and easy access to web sites of more than 900 publications
- Electric Book Newspapers, magazines, e-zines and books online
- Editor & Publisher's MediaInfo Links also read Steve Outing's Stop the Presses column here.)
- Newspaper Association of America
- The Electronic Newsstand
- Project Gutenberg
- Newspapers of the world on the Internet -yahoo like index of newspapers online
- International Affairs.com - extensive list of links to news sources from around the world
- The European Journalism page
- News Directory and The Paper Boy- provides quick and easy access to web sites of hundreds of publications by name, location or subject.
| Net Search | Data Collections | Reference | Directories | Publications | Politics | Chicago Related | Commerce | Entertainment | Sports | Odds and Ends | Education SpecificPolitics
- Project Vote Smart, a guide to candidates and issues
- All Politics from Time and CNN
- Congressional Quarterly's American Voter and Vote Watch
- Federal Election Commission data on campaign contributions
- Federal Election Commission data in a more useful format, compiled by two former F.E.C. employees
- The American Presidency a history of the office from Grolier Online
- Congressional Guide A wealth of information on members and committees of the 105th Congress, from Capitol Advantage
- Congressional Quarterly's Campaigns and Elections
- Congressional roll calls from Congressional Observer Publications
- Council on Foreign Relations tracks the candidates on foreign policy issues
- Policy.com offers looks at major national issues from various perspectives
- Turn Left calls itself the home of liberalism on the Web
- Political Points, also from The Times on the Web, has more political links
- Democratic National Committee
- Democrats.com has relaunched as an online community site for Democrats
- Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
- Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee
- Republican National Committee
- National Republican Congressional Committee
- National Republican Senatorial Committee
- State Republican parties and candidates
- Libertarian Party
- Reform Party of Ross Perot fame
- The Green Parties of North America
- Democratic Socialists of America
- Communist Party U.S.A.
- Socialist Party U.S.A.
- New Party
- Natural Law Party
- Constitution Party formerly United States Taxpayers Party
- The Hill Capitol Hill newspaper
- The Media Studies Center is studying how the public feels about political news coverage
- PBS Democracy Project
- Politics 2000 from Salon
- Roll Call Online Capitol Hill newspaper
- The Skeleton Closet, a bipartisan listing of character allegations against the candidates
| Net Search | Data Collections | Reference | Directories | Publications | Politics | Chicago Related | Commerce | Entertainment | Sports | Odds and Ends | Education SpecificThe Chicago and Illinois on the Web
Chicago City
- Chicago Traveler - many links to interesting things to do in the second city.
- Millennium
Park - One of Chicagos newest lake front
attractions. Spectacular location with multiple
attractions.
- Chicago Architecture Foundation take a walking or bus tour of Chicago's famous buildings
- Explore Chicago
- Chicago Mosaic official Chicago homepage also traffic info
- Chicago Convention and Tourism Bureau
- The Best of Chicago
- An Essential Chicago Guide
- Yahoo! Chicago
- A Great Restaurant Guide
- Guide to Chicago Museums
- Chicago Public Library
- Chicago Virtual Tourist
- CTA
- Chicago's Airports
Places
Fine Arts
- The Chicago Symphony
- Jazz in Chicago
- Lyric Opera of Chicago
- Sandburg's Chicago Poems
- Metromix - Chicago's leading entertainment guide.
ILLINOIS
- General Information
- Illinois State Board of Education
- Tourism
- Brookfield Zoo - everything about Chicago's largest zoo
- Abraham
Lincoln Presidential
Library - a must see in
Springfield
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Commerce
- AddALL no-frills book price comparison service.
- Amazon The online megastore. Books, music, videos, games, electronics, auctions -- and growing
- Bankrate.com and E-loan can help find the best interest rates for a mortgage, auto, credit card or other loan
- Bizrate lets you see how fellow consumers rate online merchants and compares prices
- BizWeb: Internet commercial sites by category
- Buy.com good prices and service on electronics, books, music and video.
- Buyer's Index searches 19,000 Web sites and catalogs for the product you seek.
- CD Now Playcentric and Alphacraze Discounts for music, videos and dvds.
- Cheap Tickets and Hotwire help you find bargains on travel if you're flexible
- Consumer Search Reviews of products from a variety of publications
- DeepDiscountDVD has consistently low DVD prices, and now has a DeepDiscountCD service.
- Ebay The online auction house and storefront
- Epinions has consumer reviews of many products, and price comparisons
- Internet Fashion Mall
- NetMarket has discounts on brand name goods.
- PriceLine lets you name your own price for travel, cars or mortgages, and see if anyone will bite.
- PriceGrabber and PriceScan compare prices for computer hardware and software, electronics, movies and books.
- Travelocity, Orbitz, Expedia, Trip.com have airline tickets, car rentals, hotel reservations, travel information
- Travelzoo collects special travel offers from many sites
- Travel Links series of travellinks that are invaluable for both general information and pricing.
- JohnnyJet
- Hundreds of travel related links plus an
interesting commentary about the travel
industry.
- Craigs
list - free site that offers "want ad" type of
listing for all type of stuff and services.
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Entertainment/Culture/Pastimes
- YouTube
- 1000s of short videos of every kind uploaded by the
general public
- Rotten Tomatoes - movie reviews, database of movie info and much more
- Movie Review Query Engine Find movie reviews from all over
- he Internet Movie Database
- Movielink from 777-FILM has theater times and advance ticket purchases in major cities
- Ticketmaster has information and tickets for music, theater and sporting events
- Film.com News from the movie industry, as well as links to film resources and studios around the Web
- Reel surveys your movie tastes and recommends ones it thinks you'll like
- Atom Films offers short films and animations on the Web
- RadioLovers.com
- Old Time Radio Shows They hundreds of vintage
radio shows for you to listen to online in mp3 format, all
for free
- TitanTV a new tv schedule source with emphasis on digial media - HDTV listings as well as the usual listing
- TV Guide Now includes an extensive movie database
- Gist provides customized TV listings
- PBS Online
- The Discovery Channel
Online
- Culturefinder has schedules for the performing arts around the U.S.
- National Endowment for the Arts
- World Wide Arts Resources
- NWHQ:Independent artists on the Web
- The Louvre More fun to visit in person, but you can see many exhibits without leaving home.
- Art on the Net, an
exhibit by 80 artists, and links to other art sites
- Coffee Break Arcade - Free Online Games Links to over 100 free online games grouped into 6 category
- Broadcast.com Audio and video of all sorts, from all over
- mp3.com makes a wide variety of music available in its eponymous Internet format
- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
- Internet Underground Music Archives
- Classical Music Archive Thousands of classical music samples in midi format
- Epicurious, the Food Network, Recipes from the Net and Gemini and Leo's recipe links will help you answer the question, "What's for dinner?"
- AdCritic.com - you'll find your favorite TV commercials in Quicktime
- Classical Music archive - An extensive collection of classical music to hear and download
- Pandora
- using the music genome porject, you can create
a customized radtion station on the web.
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- ESPN SportsZone
- Sportsline from CBS
- CNN/SI from CNN and Sports Illustrated
- The Sports Network gives up to the minute news and results
- Allsports has news, scores, odds, audio feeds and more
- Total Sports well organized sports news, plus Head to Head Baseball, which lets you compete online with others using real players' stats.
- NFL.com from the N.F.L.
- majorleaguebaseball.com from Major League Baseball
- GORP, the Great Outdoor Recreation Pages, has extensive information on parks and outdoor activities of all sorts
- The WWW Bicycle Lane A bit dated, but still a good collection of links
- The Tennis Server has news, schedules, rules and more
- Golf.com and GolfWeb cover the golf world
- The Chicago Bulls
- Michael Jordan
- The Chicago White Sox
- The Chicago Cubs
- Chicago Bears
- Chicago Blackhawks
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Odds and Ends - Web specific demonstrations and miscellany
- Rollyo
- Create personal search engines using only the sources that
you trust.
- Thinkfree-
create MS office compatible wp, ss, and preso files ONLINE,
no software to download +1 gig of storage
- QuickBrowse - lets you combine and fetch Web pages you frequently read into one long page.
- How Stuff Works tells you just that
- Cool Site of the Day
- Useless Pages Useless, maybe, but fun.
- Ghost Sites of the Web will guide you to some of the rusting hulks along the information superhighway.
- The F.B.I.'s Most Wanted
- Learn2.com teaches you how to do useful everyday things
- Sites for parents and children from the American Library Association
- Tarot Card Reader, I Ching and moree
- iVillage and women.com concentrate on the women's perspective.
- Internet virus myths and Virus hoax information from the U.S. Energy Department
- Vmyths - virus and internet myths explained.
- Urban Legends Reference Pages help you avoid passing bogus chain e-mails to your friends.
- Earthcam and Jasbits Netcams - have links to live cameras all over the Net
- Purportal - reference to combat hoaxes and misinformation about technology such as urban legends
- The Wayback Machine archives many Web pages back to 1996.
- dMarie time Capsule - put in the date and year and find out a ton of things that happened on that date...from history to movies.
- Fontifier - create a font in your own handwriting for fre
- No Telemarket - plays the tones that will stop telemarketing calls
- HotSpotList - a directory of public 802.11b hot spots for finding WiFi wirele WiFi connection points listed
- Backflip
- store your bookmarks on the web of
access from any computer in the world.
- Earthcam and Jasbits Netcams have links to live cameras all over the Net
- Voip Review
- reviews various VOIP services
- EyeSpot
- video editing on the web. Upload your clips and you'll be
ready to start editing.
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Data Collections for Research
- FedWorld Information Services: Comprehensive guide to Government databases
- Microsoft Live
Local - Aerial maps of the US - add your
own push pins for important locations.
- Microsoft Terra Server - Satellite images of large portions of the US.
- Google Maps - takes online maps to a new level
- NASA World Wind - 3D satellite photos - largest photo library on the web.
- Federal Government Agencies, a clean, easy-to-use listing
- Federal Web Locator allows searching
- Federal Information Exchange
- Fedstats collects and organizes statistics from 70 agencies
- National Archives and Records Administration catalogs records held by Government agencies
- Statesearch, state-level information on a variety of topics
- The White House
- House of Representatives
- The Senate
- GPO Access searches the Federal Register, U.S. Code, Congressional bills and other Government publications
- Thomas, the Library of Congress information service. Also try the experimental Web catalog
- Census Bureau home page, 1990 Census tables and Ferret, for recent population and income data
- National Criminal Justice Reference Service
- Criminal justice links assembled by Cecil Greek at the University of South Florida
- United States Geological Survey, current earthquake information and Earthquake Information Center
- United Nations and U.N. Web locator
- FindLaw has an extensive collection of legal links
- KnowX Free and low-cost information about lawsuits, bankruptcies, U.C.C. and other public filings for businesses and individuals
- Virtual Gumshoe has a variety of useful investigative links
- Federal Aviation Administration databases of airline safety reports
- Landings Comprehensive aviation site offers databases of plane registrations, service difficulty reports, pilot certifications
- UniSci gives updates on scientific research at U.S. universities
- Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press has links and information, including a fill-in-the-blanks Freedom of Information request. (This list of Federal freedom of information officers may be useful, as well as this New York State FOI page)
- The Freedom Forum Journalism, journalism education and first amendment issues
- Telecommunications information resources: social, economic, political
- The Smoking Gun presents (undigested) documents obtained from court files and through freedom of information requests
- Welcome to EduNET! A great source to locate top education sites on the internet. Many links organized by subject area
- PiNet Library -- The Landmark Project Great site for organizing and caputing content for webquests.
- The Gateway to
Educational Materials -
lesson plans, curriculum units and other Free
educational metasearch tool provide by the US dept of Ed.
Lesson plans, curriculum and classroom related
materials
- The Lesson
Plans Page - Over
1,500 Lesson Plans
- Scout Report Archives A small but superb annotated A-to-Z index of web information resources.
- Web 66 Large searchable site that lists all of the homepages of K-12 institutions throughout the world
- Blue Web'n Applications Library A comprehensive database of links to lesson plans and Net integration tips.
- Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators Great resource of lesson plans and other information for teachers.
- Education and Technology links Features include a database of education and technology links
- Homework center of the Multnomah County Library - Divide resources into 40 logical categories
- WannaLearn links to online tutorals in many categories both academic and recreational.
- eHow - teaches you to do many everyday things.
- HPRTec - Region lab that has created some great online resources for teachers to utilize the web. Includes trackStar, RubiStar, QuizStar and NoteStar.
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