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Film
All Movie Guide Film searches, people
searches, reviews, and News. Can't be beat.
Film.com Movie reviews
Independent Film Channel Touting itself as
"a real Web site for real film fans"
Internet Movie Database Top movies,
photo galleries, etc.
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Food
Food Consumption and
Expenditures in American Households During the 1980's
Healthy
Eating Index By the Center for
Nutrition Policy and Promotion, United States Department of Agriculture
Kosher
Grocer Choose from hundreds of items, all shipped FedEx with a $5 service
charge and no state tax unless you live in (or are shipping to) NYC
Pesticides
in Baby Food The average baby eats hundreds of those little jars of
baby food in his or her first year of life
Shopper's Guide to
Pesticides in Produce You can reduce your health risks from pesticides in
fruits and vegetables by half, and still eat a diet rich in all the nutrients and benefits they supply. How?
Thomas
Food Industry Registry On this site, foodservice and food processing
professionals can search our database of more than 30,000 U.S. and Canadian suppliers.
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General Reference
Bible
Gateway Forgot where that line came from? Nice search service
with footnotes and cross-references.
Bibliography
Styles Handbook This handbook summarizes and illustrates the bibliographical
formatting rules for three different citation styles: the American Psychological
Association (APA) style, the new Modern Languages Association (MLA) style, and the old MLA
style.
Calendar of the Saints
November 17 is associated with 6 saints, for example. For 20 points, who are they?
Cornell
Lecture Recordings A searchable set of over
5000 audio recordings of public speaking events held at Cornell over the past 30 years.
Electric Library
The Grantsmanship Center
Federal, state, community, and international funding sources
Researchpaper.com A collection of topics, ideas, and assistance for school related research
projects
Search Bank a
web-based database of articles on popular culture, arts, sciences, sports, consumer
products, biography, entertainment and travel, as well as a specific database of
health-oriented periodical publications. Coverage is best for articles published after
1993, but articles on some themes are available from as far back as 1980
TipWorld's
Expert Advice on Books and Writing Register for free newsletters
UnCAT A database of
uncataloged materials, many of them self-published
Zip Code Directory Zip
Code look up and address information
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Health
American Medical Association Global medical
information on the Web available as a manageable set of quality resources, e.g. AMA Physician Select.
Blair's Quitting Smoking Resources.
Just visiting this site has helped thousands of people to quit smoking!
Communicating
with Adolescents about AIDS : Experience from Eastern and Southern Africa
Food Quiz
This computer quiz contains 54 questions and answers on
food-related topics ranging from food consumption to fast food
HealthWeb Specific, evaluated
resources, selected by librarians
Internet Mental Health
Disorders, medications, diagnoses, and more.
MEDLINE MEDLINE
is the National Library of Medicine's database of references to more than 9 million
articles published in 3900 biomedical journals.
NOAH: New York Online Access to Health
Provides high quality full-text health information for consumers in English or Spanish.
Oath and Law
of Hippocrates HIPPOCRATES, the celebrated Greek physician, was born in the
island of Cos between 470 and 460 B.C.
Patient's Guide to the
Internet Find the medical information that you need.
Trials search : online guide to HIV
clinical trials All HIV-related clinical trials in the U.S. that are open
for enrollment. Search by treatment, condition, or location.
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History
Making of America
Digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period
through reconstruction.
Medieval
feminist index Covers journal articles, book reviews, and essays in books about
women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages.
People of
Colonial Albany An "Image
Gallery"
Renaissance Forum An
Electronic Journal of Early-Modern Literary and Historical Studies
South and
Southeast Asia Video Archive Only college and university libraries may
borrow video cassette titles for their patrons
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
Includes oral histories.
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Home Repair
Appliance repair Fix it fast. Fix
it cheap.
How Stuff Works
Ever wondered how the engine in your car works, or what gears do, or what makes the inside
of your refrigerator cold?
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Internet: Portals
ComNet
2000:the Desktop Directory A portal: desktop directory, news, local guide, etc.
E-Pilot from eLiberation
The E-Zone
Computer reference center, copyright Macmillan Computer Publishing Co.
The Library Spot A virtual
library resource center for educators and students, librarians and their patrons,
families, and businesses
The Mining Company They mine
the net so you don't have to. Guides to every conceivable topic.
Open Directory The largest
human-edited directory of the web
The Ultimates A new type of
index, twenty-five net services at your fingertips
Usenet Reference FAQs,
links.
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Internet: Search Resources
Cata-List, the official catalog of Listserv
Lists Search for mailing lists of interest, and get information about
LISTSERV host sites.
37.Com 37 search engines at once.
The Digital Librarian
A great resource
The Free Site Many, many freebie
utilities, sounds, etc.
Free Launch A
"best-of-the-web" site
Google A search engine worth
trying
Internet Public Library Put
together by one of the leading Internet research schools, pathfinders, reference exhibits
LLNL's List of Lists A
List of Internet Searching Resources, including the beautiful and uncanny Deep Space
Network
Metacrawler Search
multiple search sites with Metacrawler.
Search Engine Show Down Statistics,
news, features.
Search Engine Watch
Tips, articles, and stats about internet search engines
Webopoedia Online
dictionary and search engine
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Internet: Facts About
CIAC Internet hoaxes
Describes many of the hoax virus warnings that are found on the Internet today so you only
spend time on real virus warnings.
The Disaster Center's Virus
Center This web site is about Disasters. It is about making the study
of potential disasters its number one priority.
IC's Guide to What You
See on the Web For fun and games and pretty pictures, the Web is fine.
But is the Web a good research tool?
Headcount Who's Online and
Where
Increase Your Search Options
Be a better searcher.
Internet Source Book
Detailed profiles of over 2,000 top technology companies
Internet Traffic Report
The Internet Traffic Report is a helpful tool for gauging in general, or in your area in
particular
Lake Oswego Public Library
lists the internet policies of 116 public libraries.
Libraries on the Web
At last count, 340 public libraries were on the web.
PubLib RefDesk
provides access to information on internet filtering and access policies, software, and
planning in public libraries.
Search Engine Watch
Search engine reviews, tutorials on how to use search engines, insight into search
engine technology and more.
Softwatcher Freeware, shareware,
commercial, software updates by e-mail.
StatMarket
Accurate internet statistics and user trends
Virus Bulletin The technical
journal on developments in the field of computer viruses and anti-virus products
W3C: The World Wide Web Consortium The
W3C was founded in 1994 to develop common protocols for the evolution of the World Wide
Web.
Webopoedia Online
dictionary and search engine
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Law
Code of Federal
Regulations Codification of the general and permanent rules published in the
Federal Register by the Executive departments and
agencies of the Federal Government.
The
impeachment process : a bibliographic guide By Thomas C. Kingsley, Revised edition by Joseph Luke (July 1998)
InSITE : a service of
Cornell Law Library A current awareness service of Cornell Law Library,
keyword-searchable.
Legal Information Institute
From the Cornell Law School.
National Center for
State Courts, a directory of state and local courts throughout the nation,
and links to their sites. Many state courts have their sites at
"www.courts.state.xx.us", where the "xx" represents the two-character
postal code for the state
U.S. District, Bankruptcy, and Appeals Courts databases,
site maintained by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts
U.S. Supreme Court This searchable
database of all Supreme Court findings was not put together by the Supreme Court.
Another take on the
Supreme Court's findings is maintained
by Northwestern University.
Web journal of current legal issues
Judicial decisions, law reform, legislation, legal research, policy related socio-legal
research, legal information, information technology and practice
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Libraries
Bi-Folkal Times
Get wonderful kits of materials designed to draw the public into your library
Cornell University Library Web
Catalog Catalog access to the millions of books, journals, microforms,
etc. available in the Cornell Library
Cumberland County Public Library &
Information Center GEAC catalog, Internet links and more
Lakenet is the homepage for the
South Central Research Library Council. SCRLC serves libraries of all types in the Finger
Lakes region of upstate New York.
Libraries on the Web
Who's got a web accessible catalog in your area?
Library of Congress Includes links to
the American Memory Project, Research and Reference Information, LC's
catalogs and other avenues to getting at this 110 million item collection.
Onondaga-Cortland-Madison BOCES
School Library System Includes the Electric Library, the Electric Library
makes it possible to conduct real research over the Internet, using a deep database of
reliable sources.
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Literature, Language
African
American Women Writers of the 19th Century
Bartlett's Familiar
Quotations "A collection of passages, phrases, and proverbs traced to
their sources in ancient and modern literature"
Bibliography
Styles Handbook This handbook summarizes and illustrates the bibliographical
formatting rules for three different citation styles: the American Psychological
Association (APA) style, the new Modern Languages Association (MLA) style, and the old MLA
style.
Electronic
Poetry Center home page Gateway to
resources in electronic poetry and poetics produced at the University at Buffalo as well
as elsewhere
The English Server The
English Server is a cooperative which has been publishing humanities texts online since
1990.
The Middle English
Collection consists of 40 titles, most of which are publicly-accessible.
Researchpaper.com A collection of topics, ideas, and assistance for
school related research projects
Roget's Thesaurus Find that word!
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Maps and Geography
Africa.Com Your gateway to all
that's African on the world wide web.
Altapedia Full color
physical and political maps
City of Ithaca GIS Home Page Interactive maps
giving tax parcel information for Ithaca, New York.
County and City
Data Books, 1988 & 1994 Data from
the CD-ROMs held by depository libraries.
Digital Atlas of New York City Population and Race, Ancestry, Income and Poverty, Adult
Educational Attainment, Household Types, Commuters
Getty Thesaurus of
Geographic Names The fourth entry for 'Ithaca" reads, in part,
"Located on Cayuga Lake; was part of military tract granted to veterans of Revolution
in 1782; later founded by Simeon DeWitt, surveyor general of New York; growth was
stimultated by establishment of Cornell University."
Library
of Congress Country Studies Presently contains studies of 100 countries.
Map Quest Lets you calculate the
distance between places, gives you road maps.
National Geographic
Has a good kids site as well as other things you might expect.
TCAT Bus Schedule Tompkins County
Consolidated Area Transit bus schedules and maps.
U. S. Cities at Your Fingertips
U.S.A.'s City Link Project is a city's interface to the world.
USA Counties Compiles
useful demographic, economic, and governmental information spanning several years and
sources for county comparisons and profiles.
USGS : Geographic Names
Information System Information about almost 2 million physical and cultural
geographic features in the United States
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Museums
The Museum of Modern Art (New York)
The Smithsonian Includes both text and
digital images related to the 11 buildings of the Smithsonian Institution on the
Washington Mall
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Music
All About Jazz Way more polished than its tag line "a magazine
for jazz fans by jazz fans" would lead you to believe
Greatest
Places on Earth This website is intended to extend inspiration and
education about the geographically diverse regions and cultures related to the film.
Musicnewswire The PBS/Fox/LNS of music
news.
POLLSTAR The concert hotwire
QRADIO Quincy Jones, music impresario
bar none, has just launched his first foray onto the Internet
Rodgers and Hammerstein!
Lyrics, sound clips and more
SONICNET One of the pioneering
music news, commentary, and lifestyle zines on the Web, including album reviews
Spinner
Free music
Trouser Press This
is your source for contemporary music. Don't even think about going to a "real"
store.
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News
AFP Worldwide News Agency
In your choice of six languages.
Chicago Tribune Online Written in Java,
looks like TV
Crayon.Net Create your own newspaper
by profiling which sections of which news services you'd like to have rolled into
your own special delivery
Digital Journalist Renowned photojournalist Dirck Halstead
Frontier Post A fresh look at the
world, from third-world eyes
National Public Radio Offers transcripts
of their latest news broadcasts, All Things Considered, and more.
Newslink offers links to 1700 news
sources.
Zona latina media resources Media
resources
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