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Web Resources -- Reference Links

refdesk.com, "The single best source for facts on the Net."

Almanacs and Encyclopedias

• The Catholic encyclopedia
• The Encyclopedia Britannica
• Encyclopedia Mythica
• Information Please Almanac
• PC Webopedia
• World Factbook

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Business

• Ad*Access, 7000 advertisements from US newspapers and magazine from 1911-1955.
• Annual Report Gallery
• Arizona Business Information, web site compiled jointly by Arizona Library Association and ASU Library staff
• Arizona Department of Commerce
• Big Charts
• The Business Search Engine
• CER - The Center For Economic Research at Cochise College
• Hoover's On-line
• The Library of economics and liberty

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Computer and Internet Tutorials

• ITM Online Help Collection, Office, Blackboard, etc.
• Pew Internet & American Life reports
• VisualMetrics, Search Tutorial: A Guide to Effective Searching on the Internet

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Dictionaries and Thesauruses

• American Sign Language Browser
• Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
• The NASA Thesaurus
• Roget's Thesaurus
• PSYBox Ltd., The web's biggest dictionary of psychology.
• Webster's Dictionary
• WorldWideWeb Acronym and Abbreviation server

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Health and Medical

• All the Virology on the WWW
• American Medical Association
• Arizona Health Sciences Library
• AZHealthInfo.org
• Family Doctor
• Food and Drug Association
• Health Answers
• HEALTHFINDER
• Kids Health
• MEDLINEplus
• National Cancer Institute
• National Institue of Health's consumer health information site
• OncoLink
• Substance Abuse & Mental Health Association

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History

• The Encyclopedia Mythica
• A Hypertext on American History, An extensive student-created website with outlines of historical periods, documents from the eras, biographies, and Presidents.
• Interactive Ancient Mediterranean Home, clickable maps
• The Oklahoma City National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism
• Perseus Digital Library
• The September 11 Digital Archive
• September 11 Web Archive

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Legal Web Sites

• American Bar Association
• Arizona Law Library
• Compleat Internet Researcher, select sites for Legal Reference
• Findlaw, legal news, news & reference
• Links to statutes, the Constitution and other legal sites for every state and territory, FAQs, Internet Law Library host
• The Virtual Chase, Legal research on the Web.

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Librarians Resources

• The Toolbox, The Librarians' resource Centre
• VisualMetrics, Search Tutorial: A Guide to Effective Searching on the Internet

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Literature

• The Academy of American Poets
• Bartlett's Quotations
• The Eserver, Carnegie Mellon's site for collections for the Arts & Humanities
• Poet's Corner,  Poetry resources and activities
• The Shakespeare Bookshelf
• Theatre Central
• Voice of the Shuttle Humanities research

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Locators

• Area codes listed by number
• Bigfoot
• College and University, It will save you a tremendous amount of time if you are trying to contact any college or university.
• Four11
• GTE SuperPages
• Microsoft TerraServer, find spots anywhere in the world, USGS and Spin2 maps
• QWest Dex
• Zip code look-up and addresses

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Maps

• Data mapping sites
• Interactive mapping sites
• Virtual map collections

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Movies and Television

• Internet Movie Database

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Museums

• Arizona Memory Project
• Arizona State Museum
• Bisbee Mining & Historical Museum
• Desert Museum, Tucson, AZ
• Museum of Modern Art, New York
• Vatican Museums
• Yahoo Museum directory
• The WebMuseum network
• National Gallery UK
• National Gallery USA
• National Museum of the American Indian
• Metropolitan
• Paris
• Louvre
• Musée d'Orsay
• WebMuseum
• Web Expo
• galleries on the web
• image surfer
• photo.net

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Science

• FirstGov for Science
• COGPRINTS: Cognitive Sciences eprint archive

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Water Resources

• Bi-national Colonias Planning Project, Interactive GIS database mapping colonias in Arizona and Mexico.
• SALSA, Semi-Arid Land-Surface-Atmosphere Program. "The Semi-Arid Land-Surface-Atmosphere ("SALSA") Program is a multi-agency, multi-national global-change research effort that seeks to evaluate the consequences of natural and human-induced changes in semi-arid environments. Current SALSA research is focused on the upper San Pedro River basin in southeastern Arizona, USA, and northeastern Sonora, Mexico".
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, "EPA enforces federal clean water and safe drinking water laws, provides support for municipal wastewater treatment plants, and takes part in pollution prevention efforts aimed at protecting watersheds and sources of drinking water. The Agency carries out both regulatory and voluntary programs to fulfill its mission to protect the nation's waters."
• University of Arizona Library Water/Hydrology Subject Area, An extensive site with local and Web resources.
• U.S. Geological Survey: Water Resources of the United States, The U.S. Geological Survey has the principal responsibility within the Federal Government to provide the hydrologic information and understanding needed by others to achieve the best use and management of the Nation's water resources.

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Writing

• Citation Machine
• Rapid Cite
• Noodle Tools, Resarch Tools and Citation Formatting (free for one citation at a time).
• The OWL's Nest, The Cochise College Online Writing Lab.
• Modern Language Association
• Purdue University Writing Center  (MLA and APA styles)
• Language is a Virus -- Writing toys, games, and gizmos to inspire your creativity.

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