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Selected Websites

Acronyms

Acronym Finder
http://www.acronymfinder.com/

Almanacs

InfoPlease
http://www.infoplease.com/

Art

Google Art Project
http://www.googleartproject.com/

WebMuseum
http://webmuseum.meulie.net/wm/paint/

Biographies

American Presidents
http://www.americanpresidents.org/

Biographical Dictionary
http://www.s9.com/biography/

The Biography Channel
http://www.biography.com/

Business

Annual Reports
http://www.annualreports.com/

Fortune 500 Companies
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500/

Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Code
http://www.osha.gov/pls/imis/sicsearch.html

Stock Market
http://finance.yahoo.com

Calendars

10,000 Year Calendar
http://calendarhome.com/tyc/

Calculators

Martindale’s Calculators On-Line Center
http://www.martindalecenter.com/Calculators.html

Math.com
http://www.math.com/students/calculators/calculators.html

Careers

CareerBuilder
http://www.careerbuilder.com/

careerZone
http://www.nycareerzone.org/

College Grad -- Resumes and Templates
http://www.collegegrad.com/resumes/quickstart/agree.shtml

JobStar Central -- Resumes
http://jobstar.org/tools/resume/index.cfm

Occupational Outlook Handbook
http://www.bls.gov/ooh/

Workplace Writers
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/pw/index.html

Colleges & Universities

America’s Best Colleges (U.S. News & World Report)
http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/college

American Universities
http://www.clas.ufl.edu/au/

Braintrack University Index
http://www.braintrack.com/

Historically Black Colleges & Universities
http://www.edonline.com/hbcu/

Peterson's
http://iiswinprd03.petersons.com/ugchannel/

Princeton Review
http://www.princetonreview.com/?popup=no

U.S. Two-Year Colleges
http://cset.sp.utoledo.edu/twoyrcol.html

Countries, Geography, Maps

CIA World Factbook
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.html

How Far is it?
http://www.indo.com/distance/

MapQuest.com
http://www.mapquest.com/

Outline Maps
http://geography.about.com/library/blank/blxindex.htm

Perry Castanada Library – Map Collection
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/

Portals to the World
http://www.loc.gov/rr/international/portals.html

World Bank
http://data.worldbank.org/

Directories

Area Code Listing, by Number
http://www.bennetyee.org/ucsd-pages/area.html

Area Code Listing, by State/Country
http://www.bennetyee.org/ucsd-pages/area.state.html

Internet 800 Directory
http://inter800.com/

ThomasNet
http://www.thomasregister.com/

USPS Zip Code Lookup
http://zip4.usps.com/zip4/welcome.jsp

Encyclopedias

Britannica Concise
http://concise.britannica.com

Columbia Encyclopedia, 2001-4
http://www.bartleby.com/65/

Encyclopedia.com
http://www.encyclopedia.com/

Encyclopedia Smithsonian
http://www.si.edu/Encyclopedia

Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Ethnic Studies

The King Center
http://www.thekingcenter.org/

Government & Politics

Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/chiefs/#U

Gotham Gazette - New York City News and Policy
http://www.gothamgazette.com/

League of Women Voters - Find Your Elected Officials
http://hq-salsa.wiredforchange.com/o/5950/getLocal.jsp

New York City Home Page
http://www.nyc.gov/portal/index.jsp?front_door=true

New York City Community District Information
http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/neigh_info/nhmap.shtml

New York State Home Page
http://www.state.ny.us/

Office of the Federal Register
https://www.federalregister.gov/

Project Visa: Visa and Embassy Information around the World
http://www.embpage.org/

Project Vote Smart
http://www.votesmart.org/

Rulers of the World (going back to 1700)
http://rulers.org/

Tax Policy Center
http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/

THOMAS - U.S. Congress on the Internet
http://thomas.loc.gov/

United States Congress
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/congress/index.html

United States Historical Documents
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/help/constRedir.html


Health

Global Health Facts
http://www.globalhealthfacts.org/

Medline
http://medlineplus.gov/

Mayo Clinic
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health-information/

Law

Findlaw
http://findlaw.com/

Library Catalogs

New York City Public Libraries
New York Public Library
Brooklyn Public Library
Queens Library

CUNY Libraries

Other New York City University Libraries Columbia University
New York University Libraries

WorldCat (world catalog)

Literature

Books Online (Internet Public Library - includes selected short stories, fables, and poetry)
http://www.ipl.org/div/subject/browse/hum60.60.00/

Poetry Foundation (full-text poetry)
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/

Dictionaries

Merriam-Webster Online
http://www.m-w.com/

Visual Dictonary
http://www.infovisual.info/

WordReference.com
http://wordreference.com/

yourDictionary.com
http://www.yourdictionary.com/

Thesaurus

ARTFL Project: Roget's Thesaurus
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/ARTFL/forms_unrest/ROGET.html

Quotations

The Columbia World of Quotations
http://www.bartleby.com/66/

Movies

Internet Movie Database
http://www.imdb.com/

News

ABC News
http://abcnews.go.com/

CNN
http://www.cnn.com/

MSNBC
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/

Newsday.com
http://www.newsday.com/

NewsDirectory
http://www.ecola.com/

The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/

Online Newspapers
http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/

The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/

Statistics

Census 2000 Data Access and Use
http://www.proximityone.com/cen2000.htm

Census Bureau
http://www.census.gov/

FedStats
http://www.fedstats.gov/

Geostat Center: Collections: Historical Census Browser
http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/collections/stats/histcensus/

U.S. PopClock
http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/popclock

Style & Writing Guides

Diana Hacker's Research and Documentation Online
http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/

Writing Center at University of WI-Madison
http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/

Modern Language Association (MLA): Handbook FAQ
http://www.mla.org/handbook_faq

Purdue's MLA and APA style pages
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/01/ (MLA)
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/ (APA)

St. Martin's MLA style
http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/smhandbook/

Laguardia Community College MLA Guide
http://library.laguardia.edu/research/mla

Laguardia Community College APA Guide
http://library.laguardia.edu/research/apa

Units & Measurements

College of Chemistry
http://chemistry.berkeley.edu/links/weights/equivalences.html

Weather

NOAA National Weather Service
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/

Weather.com
http://www.weather.com/