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SEARCH ENGINES Google the Web’s premier search engine Scirus science search; comprehensive science-specific search engine BioMedSearch comprehensive biomedical search engine CompletePlanet over 70,000 searchable databases and specialty search engines Google image search Google news search Google book search Audio files FindSounds	DIRECTORIES Martindale’s reference desk WWW Virtual Library founded by Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the World Wide Web Librarians’ Internet Index Internet Public Library Virtual Reference Shelf resources selected by the Library of Congress
RESEARCH JSTOR more than 1,000 academic journals; free registration Countries CIA World Factbook the gold standard of country descriptions & facts Country Studies Library of Congress U.S. Census Bureau Canada official government website Canadian Encyclopedia over 50,000 articles European Union Webmaster’s content Library of Congress LC online catalog LC classification outline	Law Justia.com U.S. laws Legal Information Institute Cornell Law School LawResearch Internet Law Library FindLaw trademarks United States Canada U.K.
REFERENCE Time Naval Observatory time check NIST time by U.S. time zone daylight saving time domestic and world coverage calendars daylight map astronomical data U.S. Naval Observatory Time Zones world time cities table Canadian time zones .pdf file Russian time zones Webmaster’s content Measures Conversion NIST weights & measures tables units converter megaConverter 2 OnlineConversion Martindale’s calculators Julian Date Converter U.S. Naval Observatory	Currency currency conversion calculator more than 180 currencies inflation calculator 1800–2010 Food & Drink Allrecipes.com largest U.S. cooking website The Webtender mixed drink recipes, forums, statistics Baseball Baseball Almanac every historical datum you can think of Official MLB Baseball Rules Book html format; single .pdf file here
LOCATORS Telephones anywho/AT&T Switchboard GetHuman shortcuts through automated voice menus to reach a human company representative; invaluable Canada 411 reverse telephone look-up AnyWho/AT&T FoneFinder area codes LincMad by state or number; also country codes AreaCodeLocations all of North America	Mail PostOffice.com world post office portal Mail Codes United States Canada Universities world U.S. by state U.S. alphabetical Canada
MAPS U. of Texas Library Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection Library of Congress map collections nationalatlas.gov U.S. Geological Survey Color Landform Atlas United States Daily Chart The Economist; also maps Google Earth satellite imagery MapPoint msn Odden’s Bookmarks cartography links, Utrecht University, Faculty of Geosciences Old Maps Online Atlas of Canada Travel Google Maps lonely planet with additional travel services air distances	Gazetteers Columbia Gazetteer North America; 50,000 entries U.S. Gazetteer U.S. Census Bureau U.S. Board on Geographic Names U.S. Geological Survey Antarctica U.S. Board on Geogrpahic Names GEOnet Names Server National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency PlaceNames.com Coordinates Latitude/longitude digital converter
NEWS Google News w/ news search; can be customized BBC World Edition Reuters Associated Press New York Times the “Gray Lady” on line Washington Post Los Angeles Times The Wall Street Journal The Times the U.K.’s leading daily newspaper The Independent U.K. The Guardian U.K. The Economist world’s best English-language weekly news magazine Daily Chart The Economist; also maps The Register IT news TLS (London) Times Literary Supplement Arts & Letters Daily The Chronicle of Higher Education Professional Cartoonists Index by Daryl Cagle AAEC Association of American Editorial Cartoonists W3Newspapers international listings; includes world magazines by topic world newspapers on line Paperboy over 6,000 listings on-line magazines by subject Sports ESPN	WEATHER Intellicast all services; the Regional Radar Summaries are particularly good (click your location on the opening map) The Weather Channel all services Weather Underground all services WeatherBug Doppler Weather Radars goWally.com National Weather Service Weather Network Canada Live Weather Images Meteorology NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration AMS glossary of weather terminology American Meteorological Society NOAA glossary of weather terminology Weather Glossary The Weather Channel
HUMANITIES Literature Art and Culture EServer Project Gutenberg Alex Catalogue about 14,000 “classic” public-domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy bibliomania more than 2,000 Classic Texts The Forest of Rhetoric figures of speech and other topics in rhetoric poetry British poetry 1780–1910 poets.org Academy of American Poets Shakespeare complete works Irish Writers Online concise dictionary of Irish writers Books book reviews The TLS Times Literary Supplement used books bibliofind large database of used books for sale BookFinder.com over 150 million books for sale: new, used, rare, out-of-print, international, textbooks	History history sourcebooks History Link 101 various cultures and subcategories HyperHistory Online Encyclopedia of Cleveland History & Dictionary of Cleveland Biography Philosophy Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names Philosophy of Mind Religion King James (Authorized Version) Bible full text King James (Authorized Version) Bible searchable database Codex Sinaiticus the oldest Bible known Mythology Encyclopedia Mythica Greek, Norse, Roman, Celtic mythologies Style and Usage Manuals Monroe C.C. ACS, APA, CSE, MLA London Times British English OnlineStylebooks.com 43 different stylebooks Economist Style Guide
ARTS Art and Culture The Sister Arts British gardening, painting, poetry 1700–1832 Art art.com Artchive ArtCyclopedia ArtLex Art Dictionary Google Art Project virtual museuem tours & high-resolution images Art on the Web Metropolitan Museum of Art Architecture Great Buildings ArchitectureWeek Digital Archive of American Architeture nearly 1,500 digitized images (280 buildings) Film IMDb Internet Movie Database	Music Classical Net Medieval and Renaissance Music Early Music resources early music survey Medieval and Renaissance Music SCA list of links Medieval and Renaissance Music Resources Opera Glass Stanford University Classical Live Online Radio world listings, convenient links composers Classical Composers Database Master Composer Index Classical Net Timelines of Composers Classical Net other music Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project collection of the first sound recordings Archive collection of 78rpm records and cylinder recordings Red Hot Jazz Archive history of jazz before 1930 History of Rock ’n’ Roll the Golden Decade 1954–1963
LANGUAGE Dictionaries Online Etymology Dictionary OneLook meta-lookup & reverse dictionary given names etymologies symbols archaic medical terms Corpora COCA corpus of Contemporary American English; more than 400 million words WordNet Princeton University; use on line or download application Dialect English Dialect Dictionary Joseph Wright North American English Dialects American Dialect Links general and local Telsur Project survey of linguistic changes in progress in North American English Dictionary of Newfoundland English	Blogs Language Log World Wide Words Multilingual Ethnologue languages of the world; Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL) Omniglot writing systems and languages of the world TravLang translation dictionaries Digital Dictionaries of South Asia U. of Chicago Software SIL Summer Institute of Linguistics
SCIENCE Search Scirus science search; comprehensive science-specific search engine Journals Nature Science AAAS ScienceXpress early online articles The Scientist General Science U.S. Naval Oceanography Portal time, earth orientation, astronomy, meteorology, oceanography, ice Popular Science Scientific American Science News SciCentral ScienceDaily Meteorology NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration AMS glossary of weather terminology American Meteorological Society NOAA glossary of weather terminology Weather Glossary The Weather Channel Oceanography glossary Scripps resource links Scripps Institution of Oceanography Library Geology USGS U.S. Geological Survey geologic time scale I USGS geologic time scale II U. of California, Berkeley geologic time scale III ICS geologic time scale IV Fossil Museum earthquakes data links Pacific Northwest Seismic Network volcanoes Volcanoes.com	Aerospace NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration Astronomy solar system Bill Arnett’s magisterial survey, “The Nine⁸ Planets” NASA image center NSSDC Photo Gallery NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day NASA Hubble website Physics NIST Reference physical constants, International System of Units (SI), uncertainty measurement physical reference data NIST Particle physics Standard Model I CERN Standard Model II Fermilab Web publications Chemistry Chemistry WebBook NIST NIST databases elements WebElements U. of Sheffield Mathematics Math Forum Library Drexel U. History of Mathematics archive incl. biographies; U. of St Andrews
BIOLOGY Encyclopedia of Life project to organize virtually all information about life on Earth ITIS Integrated Taxonomic System Catalogue of Life ITIS Tree of Life phylogeny Nomenclator Zoologicus citations for original publications of genera NatureServe Explorer more than 70,000 plants, animals, and ecosystems of the United States and Canada NatureServe Infonatura more than 8,500 animals and ecosystems of Latin America and the Caribbean Dictionaries and other resources Kimball’s Biology Pages Glossary of Marine Biology Botany Flora of North America U.S. Plants Database USDA Zoology Amphibia world coverage TIGR Reptile Database Paleontology Dinobase dinosaurs; U. of Bristol DinoData dinosaurs	Ornithology Parulini.net daughter site to www.semelfactive.net; Webmaster’s content, under construction IOC World Bird List International Ornithologists’ Union SORA Searchable Ornithological Research Archive World Bird Info exceptionally detailed database Birds of the World Zoonomen Clements Checklist of Birds of the World downloadable, with updates Aves – A Taxonomy in Flux J. Boyd’s comprehensive survey of emerging avian taxonomies Internet Bird Collection photos, videos, sound recordings North American birds USGS Patuxent Bird Identification InfoCenter WhatBird.com N.Am. bird identification engine Checklist of North American Birds multilingual, with citations, new taxonomies, downloads; Webmaster’s content North American raptors dimensions, subspecies, color morphs; Webmaster’s content state and province bird checklists Webmaster’s content BOU checklist of British birds British Ornithologists’ Union Cleveland Warblers spring migration dates; Webmaster’s content
MEDICINE Federal Institutions National Institutes of Health NIH Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC Search BioMedSearch comprehensive biomedical search engine Resources I Merck Manuals incl. The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy, the most widely used medical reference book MedTerms Medical Dictionary MedicineNet.com Dictionary of Cancer Terms National Cancer Institute	Resources II NIH SeniorHealth National Institutes of Health WebMD patient information health topics by category and alphabetical; U. of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics emedicine continually updated clinical reference; WebMD MedlinePlus National Institutes of Health Medscape WebMD National Library of Medicine NIH MedicineNet.com archaic medical terms google.org/flutrends worldwide influenza tracking
COMPUTING web domains whois lookup; see who owns a domain top-level domains Web address suffixes international country domain codes ISPs North America and overseas cnet.com ZDNet The Register IT news Snopes.com hoaxes, phishing, scams, etc. Domain Hosting reviews bluehost Webmaster’s recommendation Computer Fonts & Printing Typography dmoz open directory Identifont MyFonts with “WhatTheFont” font identification MS Vista fonts Calibri, Cambria, Candara, Consolas, Constantia, Corbel Gentium fonts Summer Institute of Linguistics Prince XML converts HTML and XML to .PDF via CSS	Reference dictionary of computer technology terms whatis.com Webopedia online dictionary NetLingo internet dictionary Support Knowledge Base U. of Indiana Freeware Freeware Home tucows download.com cnet.com
WEB CODING W3C World Wide Web Consortium XHTML XHTML 1.1 W3C XHTML Basic 1.1 W3C HTML 5 W3C w3schools.com complete references and tutorials XHTML Reference David Chau XHTML 1.1 Quick Reference Guide David Chau; local content XHTML validator W3C Link checker W3C validator language codes W3C language codes IANA country codes IANA Unicode character charts	Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) CSS 2.1 W3C CSS profiles w3schools.com complete references and tutorials W3C Core Styles · previews HTML 4 style sheet W3C CSS color tables Webmaster’s content CSS validator W3C
TRAVEL Air FlightStats airline phone numbers flights departures & arrivals, status, more airports complete pilot information World Airport Codes AOW online information and reservations for airline travel Ground hotel chains Webmaster’s content	RADIO Broadcast Internet radio Web-Radio HD Radio technical information, consumer guidance, station listing radio-locator Classical Live Online Radio world listings, convenient links OperadiO 10 channels of continuous music Amateur/Industrial/Government U.S. callsigns Canadian callsigns airport radio frequencies
РУССКИЙ Яндекс Yandex: search for text, images, videos, news, more «Желтые страницы» Russian Yellow Pages; with maps Picsearch image search Moscow Times news in English Большая советская энциклопедия Great Soviet Encyclopedia Библиологический словарь encyclopedic dictionary of proper names Словари Dictionaries Академик Akademik dictionaries and encyclopedias: complete list Яндекс: словари Yandex dictionaries: complete list Словарь Ушакова Ushakov dictionary Толковый словарь Даля Dahl dictionary Словарь русских сокращений dictionary of Russian abbreviations Этимологический словарь Фасмера Vasmer etymological dictionary; download four .pdf files (bottom of page) Русские диалекты Russian dialects Карты Maps Часовые пояса Росии Russian time zones; Webmaster’s content Яндекс: атлас Yandex world atlas; beta version Яндекс: карты Yandex Russian and European city & regional maps eAtlas: карты excellent maps of Russian cities Бани Москвы Moscow banyas Список listings; Webmaster’s content Карта map; Webmaster’s content	CLEVELAND official city website Convention and Visitors Bureau Downtown Cleveland Alliance Hopkins Int’l Airport Port of Cleveland Encyclopedia of Cleveland History & Dictionary of Cleveland Biography hotels downtown hotels, with map links; Webmaster’s content taxicabs RTA Regional Transit Authority map 1 downtown; 1.2MB .pdf file map 2 RTA, downtown; 40kB .pdf file map 3 Cleveland Clinic; 0.8MB large map graphic historical maps I historical maps II Cleveland Public Library Image Collection activities downtown; Webmaster’s content sports baseball, basketball, football, hockey; Webmaster’s content radio stations Webmaster’s content Cleveland Public Library climatology NOAA Ohio counties map with list & county seats; Webmaster’s content Cleveland Warblers spring migration dates; Webmaster’s content Ohio Breeding Bird Atlas both I and II downtown peregrines webcams & forums Great Lakes Great Lakes Information Network ‘Our Great Lakes’ Environment Canada Great Lakes EPA Great Lakes Atlas EPA
CANADA Government, education, law official government website ‘About Canada’ provinces ‘Our Great Lakes’ Environment Canada Canadian Encyclopedia Canada’s Digital Collections Canadian universities Canadian trademarks Maps province maps Atlas of Canada Canadian time zones .pdf file News CBC Canadian Press Globe and Mail Canadian newspapers Weather Intellicast	Locators Canada 411 White Pages Yellow Pages reverse look-up area codes Canada Portals U. Waterloo Travel Air Canada Canadian airports Miscellaneous Dictionary of Newfoundland English Amateur radio callsigns see also Great Lakes links in CLEVELAND section, above
UPDATE LOG 2011 Language North American English Dialects 01.02.2011 archaic medical terms 01.25.2011 Medicine archaic medical terms 01.25.2011 Arts Google Art Project 02.01.2011 Locators GetHuman shortcuts through automated voice menus to reach a company rep 02.12.2011 News The Wall Street Journal Daily Chart The Economist; also maps 02.18.2011 Maps Daily Chart The Economist; also maps 02.18.2011 Language Language Log 02.19.2011 World Wide Words 02.19.2011 Weather WeatherBug 02.20.2011 Русский Moscow Times news in English 03.03.2011 Zoology state and province bird checklists Webmaster’s content 03.09.2011 IOC World Bird List International Ornithologists’ Union 03.16.2011 Clements Checklist of Birds of the World downloadable, with updates 03.29.2011 Cleveland climatology 01.13.2011 Ohio Breeding Bird Atlas 05.13.2011 Computing Snopes.com 05.20.2011	Ornithology SORA Searchable Ornithological Research Archive 08.11.2011 RESEARCH JSTOR more than 1,000 academic journals 08.28.2011 Ornithology Aves – A Taxonomy in Flux J. Boyd’s comprehensive survey of the emerging avian taxonomy 09.05.2011 Biology Nomenclator Zoologicus citations for original publications of genera 09.02.2011 News W3Newspapers international listings; includes world magazines by topic 09.14.2011 Biology Parulini.net daughter site to www.semelfactive.net; Webmaster’s content 12.01.2011 2012 Maps Old Maps Online 03.04.2012 Biology & Cleveland Cleveland Warblers spring migration dates; Webmaster’s content 03.06.2012 Maps Latitude/longitude digital converter 06.06.2012 Language English Dialect Dictionary 08.05.2012 Reference Baseball Almanac 09.04.2012 Official MLB Baseball Rules Book 09.04.2012