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Unsorted [/writers] See also links in the Non-fiction/ Journalism section Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press - Access to Electronic Records Don Blaheta - Representation of IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) with ASCII Currency Conversion Oanda - Currency Site Oanda - Historical Foreign Exchange Rates How Much Is That Worth? - compares the value of $$$ from a past year with current value or with another past year INTA - Trademark Checklist - how to refer to trademarked items WSJ -Free Trademark Search United States Patent and Trademark Office Library of Congress - LC's catalog and other institutions' Library of Congress - Authority Files Library of Congress - Catalog search David Novak - Information Research FAQ Marylaine Block - Librarian Without Walls Robert Harris - Virtual Salt - Evaluating Internet Research Sources Tools [/writers] AltaVista - Babel Fish - translation tool Answers.com - Download one-click quick reference tool (and more!) CleverKeys - one click to dictionary.com/thesaurus.com. Google - Translation tool TinyURL - make a looooooong URL tiny! and avoid line break and re-splicing problems Visual Thesaurus WordWeb - free tool: thesaurus and dictionary for Windows Search Engines [/writers] [returning soon] Sal Towse - The Needle in the Haystack: Simple tricks to supercharge your Net searches ... Computer Bits 07/1998 [returning soon] Sal Towse - Invisible Web resources ... Computer Bits 06/2001 GoogleNews - HELP! including 'how to nuke' and 'how to x-no-archive' Laura Cohen - How to Choose a Search Engine or Directory SEARCH ENGINES All the Web, All the Time(tm) AltaVista Ask.com Googja - Google's Advanced Usenet Search Google - Advanced Web Search Google News - search and browse 4,000 continuously updated news sources. EXCELLENT! HighBeam - fee-based. online access available free if a card-carrying patron of some public libraries The Internet Archives Moving Images, Live Music, Audio, Texts, Wayback Machine (Web archive) and more! Kartoo - metasearch engine with visual display interfaces LookSmart FindArticles.com - archives dating to 1984 >300 magazines/ journals >10m articles MagPortal.com St. Ambrose University - Best Information on the Net UltimaSurf - over 350 search engines -- search four search engines with one click WebFerret (download) xrefer - xreferenced search results from a large collection of reference works USA.gov - official government gateways (state and Federal) VIDEO SEARCHES AltaVista video search blinkx video search Google Video Internet Archive Moving Images, Live Music, Audio, Texts, Wayback Machine. Yahoo! Video IMAGE SEARCHES Google Image Search Alta Vista Multimedia Search Ditto - "always on" filtering Picsearch - "always on" filtering Lycos Multimedia Search IMAGE ARCHIVES Mark Harden - Art Archive - fine art scans, reviews, theory, links Artcyclopedia.com - 7500+ artists - 32K links Artnet.com - 13K artists - 36K works - Grove Dictionary of Art Corbis Archives Index of Artists and Architects >13K images Life Magazine covers - 1936-1972 New Yorker Cartoon collection New Yorker magazine covers Time Magazine Covers - 1923-current Carol Gerten - Fine Art-- CGFA: A Virtual Art Museum PURCHASE ART/PRINTS AllPosters.com Art.com - posters, photos, fine art BareWalls.com - 150K posters & prints BestPriceArt.com |
Experts [/writers] AskAnExpert.com AuthorsandExperts.com ExpertClick.com Yearbook of Experts Online - "America's Favorite Newsroom Resource in print, on the web and via LexisNexis® since 1984." Media Link - free research to journalists since 1987. Canadian. Newswise - Contact Directory - experts and mouthpieces PowerReporting.com - terrific list of Expert Resource sites ProfNet - where sources and journalists meet RefDesk.com - Ask The Experts Scientific American - Ask The Experts - archives SDSU - faculty and staff ready to talk to the media SLA News Division - Sources and Experts News Links [/writers] AssignmentEditor.com - the newsroom home page for true news junkies Google News - search and browse 4,000 continuously updated news sources San Jose Mercury News New York Times - need to register CNN.com Reuters AP News Wire UPI NewsDirectory.com - online English-language media American Journalism Review - Newslink IWantMedia.com - site for media news junkies Poynter - Jim Romenesko's MediaNews mywire PR Newswire US Newswire Worldnews.com - Latest World News Newseum - Today's Front Pages - front pages worldwide Sal Towse - Links to Print Media RefDesk - First Things First - news/comics/columns links HeadlineSpot.com - "indispensable guide to thousands of the best U.S. and international news resources on the Web" abyznewslinks.com - North American media links floridalink.com - US-an newspapers - 2,400 newspapers / by state Paperboy.com - Links to 6217 Newspapers online Newslink American Journalism Review - AJR SLA News Division - Newspaper archives - USAn SLA News Division - List of all newspapers we know are or have been in Nexis, Factiva/DJ, DIALOG -- newspapers we suspect have had archives removed are highlighted in yellow AND List of newspapers with archives we think have been removed Open Directory - Newspaper Directories Open Directory - News Directories Open Directory - Magazines and E-zines Directories US Newspaper Links Crayon.net - News Links NewsVoyager: a gateway to your local newspaper Maps [/writers] National Atlas - interactive atlases and maps with stats Library of Congress - American Memories - LC Map collections Google Maps MapQuest MapQuest w/ lat/long lookup msn Maps & Directions National Geographic - Map Server United Nations - Cartographic Section Online Texts [/writers] Bartleby.com - Encyclopedias to Fannie Farmer online bibliomania - more than 2000 Classic Texts, book notes, author biographies, book summaries, more Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia - English Religious Resources - Concordance for the Bible (RSV/KJV), Koran, Book of Mormon &c. Charles W. Eliot, LLD - The Harvard Classics (50v) and The Shelf of Fiction (20v) (from Bartleby) Paul Halsall - Internet History Sourcebooks Project: a collection of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly (without advertising or excessive layout) for educational use. Internet Public Library - Resources for online texts Internet Text Archive - over 175K books! The Online Books Page - listing over 25K free books on the Web Project Gutenberg 20K books. Over 100K titles are available at Project Gutenberg Partners, Affiliates and Resources. Classic Reader - 398 works of literature (including 1959 short stories) by 338 authors UMich - American Verse Project - American poetry prior to 1920. UMich - Making of America - primary texts from antebellum thru reconstruction (and later ...) approx 10K books and 50K journal articles with 19th century imprints UMich - Humanities Text Initiative Electronic Literature Foundation - 128 bks; 19 authors Internet Classics Archive 441 works; 59 authors Feeding America: an online collection of some of the most important and influential American cookbooks from the late 18th to early 20th century Names & Naming [/writers] 20000-Names.com - by nationality/ethnicity [returning soon] Sal Towse - A Rose is a Rose is a Rose - for expectant parents, fiction writers and others Mike Campbell - BehindTheName.com >10K names Mark Isaak -Curiosities of Biological Nomenclature Names of Winds Steve Schmidt - PlacesNamed.com - geographic, also last and first name popularity. Towse is the 77,020th most popular last name in USA. USA Social Security Administration - Most Popular Names - by state, by year, by decade since 1900. Writing-World.com - Character Naming Resources (from Ancient Egyptian Names to Sikh Names and Their Meanings) |
Research & Reference [/writers] AAAS -EurekAlert - science, medicine & technology news Christopher C. Brown - Virtual Reference Desk Peter Bruce - Statistics.com exceptional collection of links to stats and more CIA - World Fact Book - 2007 CyberJournalist.Net - SuperSearch Power Reporting - Resources for Journalists Encyclopedia Smithsonian - FAQs and resouce links FITA - Really Useful LInks for International Trade Charlie Harris - Internet Search FAQ (2003) Infography.com - reference tool with resource citations from subject specialists Internet Scout Project - Report & Archives & Weblog IUPUI - Quick Reference Resources IUPUI - Government Reference Resources IRE Resource Center - "a rich reserve of print and broadcast stories, tipsheets and guides ... abstracts of more than 20K investigative reporting stories" Journalist Express - one page/one stop for busy journalists The Journalist's Toolbox Alan Levine - Swiss Web Knife - "quick and direct reference tools" >decommissioned. some dead links Libdex - Index to 18,000 Libraries Librarians' Index to the Internet - "new this week" available by e-mail or RSS feed Alan Liu - Voice of the Shuttle: Web Page for Humanities Research NUJ- London Freelance - Media Resources Martindale's * The Reference Desk * National Archives and Records Administration - USAn Newswise - news releases & "expert" contacts. NICAR (National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting) - Net Tour - A Strategy Guide with Starting Points. Links to Web-based reference resources Robert Niles - Finding Data on the Internet David Novak - The Spire Project - better ways to find information online! a reference guide to using internet sources - Links by Chapter Open Directory Project - human-edited Web directory The Pollution Information site - 400 scientific and governmental databases - USAn Refdesk.com Reporter's Desktop Resource Central RTNDA - Wired Journalist: Newsroom Guide to the Internet - online resources for different subject areas Saguee Saraf - WhereToDoResearch.com - fabulous collection of research links: nearly 100 subject areas and over 6K external links. SearchSystems.net - "public records directory" Barbara Gellis Shapiro - News Researcher's Page SLA News Division - Reference links with national focus SLA News Division - by state SLA News Division - Resources for News Librarians and Researchers Stumpers-L has become Project Wombat - e-mail discussion list for difficult reference questions. Archives. Virtual Reference Desk - AskA+ Locator Virtual Reference Sites - 2500+ Web references sources and tools Web rings The WWW Virtual Library Writers Guild of America - Research links Assorted Information [/writers] Cecil Adams - The Straight Dope - archives Joan Bunning -Free online tarot reading course Alistair Fraser - Bad Science Scott Gaertner - ASL Fingerspelling site Sheila and Robert Harden - UK Public Libraries UNESCO Library Portal including public libraries - international ISOC - ALL About the Internet Language of Flowers [warning: soundtrack] Steven Milloy - Junk Science Mystic's Menagerie - Animals in Mythology and Folklore Paul Nagai - Internet Clocks, Counters, and Countdowns including the Doomsday Clock, National Debt clock, more. New Scientist - The Last Word - archives Brian Quinette - The Invisible Library - books that only appear in other books [via Internet Archive] AskOxford Collective Terms for Animals US Patent & Trademark Office - Patent Grants since 1790 WebMonkey an amazing resource for Web designers Web Monkey - HTML Color Codes Chart Web Monkey - Special Characters Warnings & Rumors [/writers] Snopes - Urban Legends Reference Pages Break The Chain - Stop junk e-mail and misinformation. Symantec Threat Explorer Symantec Virus hoax reference page CIAC HoaxBusters - your taxes at work. Use it! Truth or Fiction - eRumors, viruses, Internet hoaxes...and more Virus Warnings |