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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






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