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Updated 6/18/2002 Reference Contents Starting Points Biography Statistics Phone #s Education Jobs Language Science Quick Menu Site Contents Services People Search Entire Site Journal Holdings Catalog Internet Resources Web Engines Reference Health Grants Law Libraries Finance Fun Medline Starting Points & Meta Pages Martinadale's Virtual Reference Center is a large annotated list of links to reference resources for all fields. Purdue's Virtual Reference Desk is really a list of good Web reference resources. "Virtual" doesn't quite fit. Reference Page from the Internet Public Library has many useful links that are well organized and annotated. All disciplines are covered. Information Please Sources lets you search the Information Please Almanac, the Columbia Encyclopedia, and the Random House College Dictionary, and a few other sources either separately or together. Users can select whether they want to search article titles or full -text. Good for statistics, biography, current affairs, geography, sports. Bartleby.com has a wide range of traditional reference works online as well as selected full-text works of many of the top American and British authors, even the complete works of Shakespeare. Reference works include the Columbia Encyclopedia, Roget's II Thesaurus, Grays Anatomy, Farmer's Cookbook, and many other works. Biography Biography Page has 15K entries for historical and current subjects, all fields, and is international in scope. Entries are only 150 words, but have links to related biographies. You can browse or search for a person. The top ten selling biographies are reviewed and there is a quiz. Medical Biographical Articles and Necrologies is a bibliography drawn from the Münchener Medizinischen Wochenschrift (MMW) v 53 (1906) to v 91 (1944) and the Deutschen Medizinischen Wochenschrift (DMW) v 76 (1951) to v 100 (1975). By Axel W. Bauer and Jelena I. Schufmann Numerical and Statistical Data FedStats "The Federal Interagency Council on Statistical Policy maintains this site to provide easy access to the full range of statistics and information produced" by 70 Federal agencies for public use. This bountiful resource that can be browsed A-Z or use the Search Engine to find very specific statistics. See Law & Goverment Page For US Census Data. Statistical Abstract of the United States - 1997-1999 Pages look just like the printed version using Acrobat (PDF) formats. Very comprehensive coverage, including: health, demography, vital statistics, socioeconomic data, agriculture, commerce, industry, science, etc. Each of the 31 chapters is downloaded and displayed separately. The front html page shows the sequence of table numbers for each Chapter. The index shows table numbers, not page numbers. Economic Statistics Briefing Room is a well presented display of the most commonly requested statistics about, output, Income, employment, unemployment, earning, production and business activity, prices, money, transportation, and international statistics. Each entry includes a thumbnail graph which links to a full screen version. It's produced by the Whitehouse, but there are links to the agency which is responsible for collecting and publishing the data. Social Statistics Briefing Room looks just like the Economics Briefing Room above, but covers crime , demography, health, and education. County City Data Book is a standard reference that is now available on the Web. The user builds a request form for a list of states, cities or counties and specific types of statistics by working through a series of menus. The data range is broad; starting with population and including housing, income, health, work, commerce, agriculture, and government. Data from the 1988 and 1994 editions are searched separately. From the University of Virginia. State and Metropolitan Area Data Book - 5th Edition has population, housing, labor, income, and demographic data. Most data was reported for 1995-96. West Virginia Vital and Health Statistics has Birth, Death, Marriage, Divorce, and population data by entire state and counties. Provided by the State Health Statistics Center. Digest of Education Statistics is an unabridged Web version of the 1996 statistics from the The U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics. All type of statistics for all levels of education are include, even comparisons with foreign countries. There are over 400 high-quality tables and graphs. Data is current as of the 1994-95 year. representation of minorities and women in S & E fields. The Data Briefs and Reports area available in html, PDF, or text files. Most reports have informative tables of statistics. Projections of Education Statistics to 2009 covers enrollment, expenditures, and teachers for elementary and secondary schools, and institutions of higher education; data by state or nation in PDF format. Science and Technology Pocket Data Book has both tables and graphs covering topics such as: National R&D Funding Patterns, Academic R&D, R&D in U.S. Industry , Education of Scientists and Engineers, Working Scientists and Engineers, Public Attitudes Toward S&T, International S&T Trends. Produced by the Division of Science Resources Studies of the National Science Foundation (NSF), which reports on topics like R & D expenditures, comparison of countries and world regions, science education, number of Phd's, foreign students and graduates. Data Briefs report on surveys of current scientific activities and issues . Many NSF Publications are online including Science & Engineering Indicators - 1996, which is a basic resource for socioeconomic studies of science. NSF publications are available in either HTML or PDF formats. Food & Agriculture Organization (FAO) Statistical Databases allow the user to custom build graphs or tables reporting population, land use, or crop and animal production for any of the World's countries and regions. If the system responds with an error message, just click on the submit button a second time to get the requested table. Agriculture Fact Book 1998 has text and charts about cost of food, what Americans eat, land use, agricultural economics, rural socioeconomic data, rural development, USDA operations, food, safety, nutrition, marketing and regulation, and consumer information. You can Download the entire Fact Book (277 pages) in PFD format. The Fact Book 1997 is also available. Census of Agriculture 1997 has summary data for the county level for farm size, number of full-time farms, dollar value of production, acres in production. Also, a catalog of data publications and ordering information. Telephone and Zip Code Numbers United States Postal Service WWW has a Zip Code +4 look-up form search. The user fills in the City and State and either the Street address or Company name. The search returns the 9 Digit Zip, plus the street address for the Company. No retrieval for names. Also, postal rates and other postal information. 5 Digit Zip Code Search if you know a city or town name. Telephone Number Sites Database Sites Available People Business Government Comments Database America Switchboard Phone Only White Yellow Pages Federal Only Metromail Four11 Yahoo People Search Phone & Email White Pages Only ProCD Infospace Phone & Email White Yellow Pages Down to City-County Level Maps Switchboard Phone Database has the numbers and addresses from all white pages books in the US, 90 million people and 10 million businesses. Search form includes last and first names, city, and state. If you type in a city you must type in the two letter state code. Since data comes from Database America files, unlisted or recently activated numbers are not included. Users my correct, delete, or add entries for their numbers by registering. There are safe guards to prevent tampering with records, but Switchboard admits that they are not full proof. Names will not be sold to mail order organizations and automatic capture of data is blocked, but your name and number is on the Web for anyone to see and use. Users can do reverse phone number or address searches at Infospace. The address search is challenging because of the lack of standardization in abbreviations. AT&T's Toll-Free Telephone Number Index can be browsed or searched by company name or 800 number. You may also browse a list of subject categories. Of course, 800 numbers from MCI and Sprint, and other service providers will not be represented here. Education Braintrack University Index lists the web sites of universities, colleges, community colleges, polytechnics, etc. world wide. Browse through a geographic arrangement or type in a search. ERIC- National Library of Education describes ERIC resources and links to sites where you can search the ERIC Databases ERIC at Syracuse is one of those sites. ERIC is the premier resource for education and related topics. You can leave questions for experts to respond to on the Ask ERIC Q&A Form or search the ERIC database . (Search Hint: The search form will not display retrieved citations when using Netscape 2.x or America Online. A maxium of 40 citations can be displayed for one search.) Also, a large array of educational resouces on the Web are listed on the Virtual Library Page. ERIC Clearinghouses "collect, abstract, and index education materials for the ERIC database; respond to requests for information in their subject specific areas; and produce special publications on current research, programs, and practices." The Chronicle of Higher Education -- Academe This Week features the top news of the week, a weekly guide to the Chronicle, information technology, Internet resources for education, best selling books on campuses, and facts and figures on U.S. higher education. Jobs and Careers Jobs for Scientists Jobs in the Chronicle of Higher Education EEO Affirmative Action Register announces openings for professional, managerial and administrative positions. Job "advertisers represent institutions, organizations and companies who make extra effort to reach qualified candidates within all segments of our society, with special effort to notify members of Federally mandated groups" about job openings. Most advertisers are Universities. Online Career Center OCC Keyword Search form for All Jobs index Language and Literature Review of Biblical Literature "is the most comprehensive review of monographic literature in the field of biblical and related studies as well as reference works, commentaries, dictionaries, and biblical translations. Along with the typical critical book review, RBL will publish review essays, reviews of multi-author volumes, multiple review of the same monograph in English, French, German and Spanish. This international review publishes in both electronic and print formats." Ethnologue Languages of the World Users can find the number of speakers and their locations for 6,703 languages. There are indexes for countries, language families, and language name or dialect. You can also find the number of deaf and blind in a country and whether a Bible exists for a language or dialect. Goshen Online Bible Study is suitable for a scholar or a layman preparing a Sunday School lesson. It allows users to search by word, phrase, boolean, or by Chapter and Verse. You can search any of the following versions: Authorized Version (AV/KJV), Bible in Basic English (BBE), Darby translation (DBY), New Revised Standard Version (NRSV), Revised Standard Version (RSV), KJV w/ Strong's #'s (STR), Webster translation (WEB), Young's Literal translation (YLT). Quran Browser Search by sura number and verse or by keyword for a passages in the Koran. You can choose to search english translations by M. M. Pickthall, Abdullah Yusufali, or M. H. Shakir. Gutenberg Project Full-Text works from World Literature that are now in the public domain and have been transferred to machine readable text. Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts enables searching for books in American and English Literature and Philosophy. Not only titles and authors, but content of works can be searched. You can even search for a topic across a group of works. The reader can design PDF formats that will be very readable when printed. Also, content analysis tools are available. Acronym Server by Peter Flynn returns a list of acronyms that match your input and gives the names from which they were derived; or look for a word within an "expansion" ; or submit an acronym. Go directly to an Acronym Search . Quotes Page by Michael Moncur allows users to search 10 different quotation sites, including his own, but only one at a time. The Advanced Search searches all 10 together. Covers quotations from literature, historical characters, and current personalities. Bartlett's Quotations allows you to search on a words from quotations or authors. The Oxford Book of English Verse is a full-text version of the 1919 edition, edited by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, which contains poetry written by 883 different authors who lived from the Thirteenth Century to the end of the Nineteenth Century. There are chronological, author, title, and first line indexes. A key word search is handy for finding which verses belong to which poems. Foreign Language Dictionaries many of the entries are from or into English, but there is a wide variety of languages. Some languages also have links to grammar and tutorial pages. Travel Language Page lets the user choose a language and then select the type of phrase to construct such as directional or numbers. Translation Page offers free translations from English or into English from German, French, Spanish, or Italian. The user fills out a form with a message of 200-300 words and receives an e-mail with the translated message. Provided by GlobaLink, which also offers other translation services. French-English/ English-French Dictionary is provided by the ARTFL Project at the University of Chicago. The Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language offers an excellent textual search tool for a large corpus of French literature, but it is open only to members from subscribing universities. German-English or English-German Dictionary has about 110,000 words. Use the same form to input words in either language and systems returns definitions for both languages. Very handy. Science Nobel Prize Archives takes full advantage of the HTML Frames feature to make finding a prize winner very easy. You can call up chronologic or alphabetic lists of winners in the 6 prize categories: Physics, Chemistry, Economics, Literature, Peace, and Physiology-Medicine. Also, search for any winner across categories. Basic information about the winner's birthdate, residence, affiliation, reason for winning, and links to additional information are displayed over a fancy background that interfers with easy reading. Also, a list of women winners, a quiz, and announcements of new winners in October 1996. Physical and Chemical Properties Index shows webs sites and printed reference books that contain data on specific properties. Includes cross references to sources. From the Noble Library at Arizona State University. Martindale's Scientific Tables has a rich list of sources for physical, chemical, and biological properties, time measurement, Physical Constants, Periodic Tables, Science Dictionaries, and Analytical Databases. Chemcool Periodic Table let's you click on an element's symbol in the table to retrieve voluminous data such as states, energy, oxidation, electrons, reaction, radus, conductivity, abundance, cost for naturally occurring and pure states. Periodical Table of Elements is a nice image map. Click on the element to see more data. From the The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Department of Radiology, Division of Medical Physics. MIT Biology Tutorial has chapters on Chemistry Review, Large Molecules Cell Biology, Enzyme Biochemistry, Photosynthesis, Mendelian Genetics, Prokaryotic Genetics and Gene Expression, Recombinant DNA, and Immunology. Suitable for layman or undergraduate. Weather Information (11) Maps, forecasts, archives for US and the World.

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