What follows is just a small sampling of what is available out on the net, but we hope it is a helpful one. If YOU see another source "out there" that you think would be useful enough to include here, please e-mail the name, address and a short description to LibWeb@umassd.edu.
The resources are arranged by the following headings:
Education & Financial Aid
Government & Politics
Law
Miscellaneous
Name, Address & Telephone
News
Organizations
People
Places and Travel
Publishing & Books
Statistics
Time & Date
University of Massachusetts
Weather
Words
Education & Financial Aid
American Universities from the University of Florida College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
College and Universities Home Pages - geographical listing of over 3000 entries from more than 80 countries
CollegeNET - searchable listings of schools, financial aid information, and more
www.EduFind.com - English language courses worldwide from the Digital Education Network
EASI-Easy Access for Students and Institutions - financial planning for higher education initiated by the U.S. Department of Education
Financial Aid Search Through the Web(fastWEB) - search 180,000 private sector scholarships, fellowships, grants, and loans
Greek Pages - fraternities and sororities nationwide
The University Pages - home pages of U.S. universities searchable by state name or clickable map
Government & Politics
Boston and Massachusetts Government
Congressional e-mail directory
CONGRESS.ORG - Congressional Information
The Constitution of the United States of America
Constituicao da Republica Portuguesa
Election Notes - worldwide election news; a service of Klipsan Press
The Electronic Embassy - links to staffs and resources of the Washington D.C. embassy community
The Embassy Page - Embassies, consulates and other links around the world from Globescope Internet Services
Full-text State Statutes and Legislation on the Internet
General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts - The Massachusetts Legislature
GovStats - an interactive website providing access to statistical data from the U.S. government. Our mission is to provide easy access to useful government data not available elsewhere on the Internet.
Government Information Xchange - Search for federal, state, and local government
Inaugural addresses of the presidents of the United States - from www.bartleby.com
Massachusetts - A Piper Resources guide to government sponsored Internet sites at www.statelocalgov.net
Massachusetts Department of Public Health
Massachusetts Representative - Barney Frank - 4th District
Massachusetts Representative - Michael E. Capuano - 8th District
Massachusetts Representative - William Delahunt - 10th District
Massachusetts Representative - Stephen F. Lynch - 9th District
Massachusetts Representative - Edward J. Markey - 7th District
Massachusetts Representative - Martin T. Meehan - 5th District
Massachusetts Representative - Jim McGovern - 3rd District
Massachusetts Representative - Richard E. Neal - 2nd District
Massachusetts Representative - John W. Olver - 1st District
Massachusetts Representative - John Tierney - 6th District
Massachusetts Senator - Edward M. Kennedy
Massachusetts Senator - John Kerry
Rhode Island - A Piper Resources guide to government sponsored Internet sites
Rhode Island Secretary of State's Public Information Kiosk
R.I. Representative - Patrick J. Kennedy
R.I. Representative - James R. Langevin
SRPEDD - Southeastern Regional Planning and Economic Development District - 27 S.E.Mass Cities & Towns
State and Local Governments - A Library of Congress Internet Resource Page
State and Local Government on the Net - A Piper Resources guide to government sponsored Internet sites
UMass Dartmouth Library's Access to Goverment Documents
The United States Copyright Office - The Library of Congress
U.S. Government Manual, the Federal Register and more - from the Office of the Federal Register
Uncle Sam MIGRATING GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS - tracks printed government publications that are migrating to the Internet by identifying URLs and linking them directly to the electronic documents
Law
Copyright and Fair Use - a service of Standford University Libraries
Copyright Law Materials - from the Legal Research Institute at Cornell
Internet Publications of the Legal Information Institute - a research activity of the Cornell Law School
Law and Politics Internet Guide
Patent Law Materials - from the Legal Research Institute at Cornell
Thomas; Legislative Information on the Internet - a service of the Library of Congress
The United States Code - generated from the Government Printing Office's CD-ROM version via Cornell
W3 Lawyer - a well organized site with links to numerous legal sources
Miscellaneous
Agricultural Research Service - Newsletters & Publications
Chambers of Commerce Directory
Common Equivalent Weights and Measures
The Culturefinder - "the online address for the performing arts"
Consumer Product Safety Commission
Conversion Factors (U.S. to International) - from the Washington State Dept. of Transportation
Edmund's Automobile Buyer's Guides
The Official Kelley Blue Book Car Guide - new & used cars
The Encyclopedia Mythica - an encyclopedia on mythology, folklore, legends, and more...
MLIN Massachusetts Library and Information Network
MBL/WHOI library - Woods Hole, Massachusetts
The National Budget Simulation
NIST Chemistry WebBook from the National Institute of Standards andTechnology
Dictionary of Occupational Titles Index
Occupational Outlook Handbook - from the Bureau of Labor Statistics
Periodic Table - from Los Alamos National Laboratory
Physical Reference Data - from the National Institute of Standards and Technology
Product Review NET - Consumer Product Reviews
Robert F. Kennedy Assassination Archives
RxList - The Internet Drug Index
Tax information - Federal & Massachusetts
Tax Forms - Available Online.
Virtual Facts on File - large collection of Internet reference sources
Name, Address, Telephone & Zip Codes
Area Code Listing, by Number; by AT&T Toll-Free Internet Directory
BigBook Yellow Pages of over 16 million U.S. businesses
Verizon SuperPages.com - search for U.S. businesses and view the locations on a map
InfoSpace: The Ultimate Directory - search through yellow pages, business directories, city information, government information, service directories, and info about people
International Telephone Directory
National Address Server - create formated mailing addresses with zip codes
N-Net - Information on thousands of U.S. newspapers
ZIP Code +4 Lookup and Address Information - from the U.S. Postal Service
News
AJR Newslink - American Jouranlism Reviews links to new from around the world
The Christian Science MonitorElectronic Edition
Electronic Telegraph - News from Great Britain
MSNBC - a daily news magazine NBC and Microsoft
N-Net - The Newspaper Network on the World Wide Web
Omnivore - Entry into myriad sources of news on the Web
PPPP.net - links to news sources from around the world
The Standard Times - New Bedford, MA
TimesFAX - a fax edition of the NY times that requires the Adobe reader
U.S. News Online - from U.S. News & World Report
washingtonpost.com - From The Washington Post
Yahoo! - Yahoo! news section
Organizations
The Foundation Center - information for "grantseekers and grantmakers"
Scholarly Societies Project - information on scholarly societies around the world from the Univesity of Waterloo
People
Biography - Over 15,000 biographies and more (A & E Television & Biography Magazine)
NameBase from PIR (Public Information Research) - information on people and books in business & politics; national & international
Notable Citizens of Planet Earth - a dictionary of over 18,000 people from ancient times to the present
Places and Travel
Boston & New York Insider Tips - San Francisco & Hawaii too
Boston Transportation - cars, trains, buses & planes
Cape Verde Related Resources - from the UMD Library
city.net - Over 4,300 destinations online
Country Studies - Area Handbook Program from the Library of Congress
The 50 States of the United States - capital cities and information links
Fodor's - an online information & travel service
Foreign Languages for Travelers - lessons & sound files in 30+
A Geographic Nameserver database - USGS National Mapping Information
How Far Is It? - distances between places calculated
Lonely Planet; down to earth travel information - from Lonely Planet Publications
Nantucket Island Information Center
Massachusetts Electronic Atlas - from the Harvard Map Colleciton
New Bedford, Masschusetts - official home page
Portuguese Related Resources - from the UMD Library
Republic of Cape Verde Home Page - UNOFFICIAL
Taunton, Masschusetts - official home page
Travel Warnings & Consular Information Sheets
The Universal Currency Converter
The Virtual Tourist II - map-based access to country information worldwide
Yahoo! Maps from Yahoo - enter street address, intersection or city, State
Publishing & Books
Alex - Books on the Net via a gopher search by Author, Title, Date, Language & Host
Banned Books Online - from Carnegie Mellon University
Booklist - Book reviews online from digital counterpart of Booklist magazine (American Library Association)
BookWire - Book information and related links
The Children's Literature Web Guide - from the University of Calgary Library
The Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia
MPA Music Publishers' Association Agency Sales Agency List - directory of music publishers and publisher's imprints
The On-Line Books Page - index of thousands of online books and documents
Project Gutenberg - Public domain texts from all over the world
Publishers Catalogs' Home Page
Reference Reviews Europe / IFB Abstracts - Reference reviews and bibliographies from the german review journal Informationsmittel fur Bibliotheken
Statistics
Historical, Social, Economic, and Demographic Data for the U.S. Decennial Census - from the ICPSR
The Statistical Abstract of the United States
Time & Date
Calendar - calenders past present and future
A Daily Almanac - by Craig J. Copi
Date and Time Gateway - for cities worldwide
U.S. Naval Observatory Master Clock
University of Masschusetts
UMass Worcester Medical Center
Weather
National Weather Service - Interactive Weather Information Network
WeatherNet - from The University of Michigan
Words
American English Dictionary - a searchable gopher index
ARTFL Project: ROGET'S Thesaurus Search Form
Bartelby.com featuring Bartlett's Book of Familiar Quotations - Passages, Phrases and Proverbs Traced to their Sources
Dictionaries - dictionaries of differenct types and languages
Internet Anagram Server or I, Rearrangement Servant
Know Play? - Reference - Dictionary, Thesaurus, Encyclopedia, World Atlas, Fine Artist Search, Quotations, Rhyming Dictionary, CIA World Factbook, Acronym Finder
Latin Grammar Aid and Wordlist from the University of Notre Dame Archives
Merriam-Webster Online - the dictionary and more
Net Lingo - "A Dictionary of Internet Language"
OneLook Dictionaries - the Faster Finder - search multiple dictionaries at once
A Web of On-line Dictionaries - by R.Beard, Bucknell University
Whatis.com - an internet dictionary
The World Wide Web Acronym and Abbreviation Server
A sampling of Internet resources for Reference
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