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Am. Sign Language	Design	Immigration	Plays
Anatomy	Dictionaries	Jobs	Philosophy
Anthropology	Economics	Journals	Politics
Art & Design	Education	Kern County	Pop Culture
Asian Americans	Encyclopedias	Law	Psychology
Astronomy	Ethnic Studies	Literature	Religion
Awards & Prizes	Fairy Tales	Local & California	Research Institutes
Biography	Financial Aid	Magazines	Sciences
Biology & Botany	Fire Technology	Mathematics	Sociology
Business	Folklore	Media	Spanish
California	Genetic Engineering	Medicine	Statistics
Careers & Jobs	Geography	Minority Studies	Tax Information
Chemistry	Government	Monologues	Technology
Chicano & Latino	Health & Medicine	Motion Pictures	Theater
	Hispanic Studies	Music	Thesaurus
		Music -- World

Recommended Internet Subject Directories

Our First Choices:

• INFOMINE: Scholarly Internet Resources 
  UC Riverside guide to academic sites
• Intute  British based annotated guide to web resources on academic topics
• ipl2
  Annotated subject directory created by librarians
• Voice of the Shuttle: 
  UCSB's guide to Scholarly Humanities Resources

 

The Best of the Rest:

• Academic Info 
  A selective, annotated subject guide to websites aimed at college students
• Best Information on the Net 
  Websites selected for quality content and curriculum relatedness
• Open Directory
  Well-organized subject directory maintained by volunteer specialists
• Virtual Reference Shelf  Library of Congress
• Internet Public Library Reference Center
  Good source for many topics
• Refdesk.com: Best Source for Facts on the Net
• WWW Virtual Library
  Scholarly websites arranged by topic

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Agriculture & Horticulture [See also Botany]

• AgNIC: Agriculture Network Information Center
• California Dept of Food & Agriculture
• California Agricultural Statistics Service
• Checklist of Online Vegetation and Plant Distribution Maps
• Fruits of Warm Climates
• Horticulture & Crop Science in Virtual Perspective
  Ohio State University
• Kern County Agriculture Commissioner
  Statistics and other local agriculture information
• Society for Range Management
• United States Dept of Agriculture's Home Page
• University of California Small Farm Center

Almanacs

• Information Please: Dictionary, Internet Encyclopedia, & Almanac Reference
• Old Farmer's Almanac

Anthropology

• American Folklife Center (Library of Congress)
• Ancient Mesoamerican Civilizations

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Art & Design

• Artcyclopedia
  The Guide to Museum-Quality Art on the Internet
• Artchive: Art, Artists, & Criticism
• Cities & Buildings Database University of Washington
• Great Building Collection
• WorldArt Image Database at San Jose State University
• World Wide Arts Resources: Visual Arts, Performing Arts and Arts Information Gateway

Astronomy

• Cosmic Evolution
• Nick Strobel's Astronomy Notes

Awards & Prizes

• Nobel Prize
• Pulitzer Prizes

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Biography

• Biography.com
• Biographical Dictionary
• Biographies Polysearch
• Time 100
• Multnomah Library Mega Biography Site
• Women's Biographies: Distinguished Women of Past and Present
• Women Composers
  Links to further resources and biographies for more than 200 women composers.

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Biology, Botany &  Anatomy  [See also Horticulture]

• BioTech
  Life science resources and reference tools selected by instructors at Indiana University
• Classification of Living Things
• The eSkeletons Project
• Genetics Education Center
  Comprehensive site with everything on it from the Kansas University Medical Center
• Jepson Flora Project
• Kimball's Biology Pages   Possibly the best biology pages on the Web
• PubMedCentral  Free archive of life sciences journal

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Business & Economics

• EDGAR Database
• Hoover's Online: The Business Network
• History of Economic Thought

Careers & Jobs

• California Careers Info
• CareerOneStop -- Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor
• City Town Info -- Info and analysis on US places, careers, colleges, and more
• Job-Hunt.Org: The Job Hunter's On-Line Super-List
• JobStar: California Job Search Guide
• Occupational Outlook Handbook
• The Riley Guide: Employment Opportunities and Job Resources on the Internet

Chemistry

• Chemistry.org  -- American Chemical Society
• CS ChemFinder Webserver 
• WebElements -- The Periodic Table of Elements
• MathMol Library of 3-D Molecular Structures 
• ToxNet  Databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, environmental health, and toxic releases
• Yahoo's Chemistry Page

Colleges & Financial Aid

• California Virtual University
• City Town Info -- Info and analysis on US places, careers, colleges, and more
• CollegeNET - Online College Applications and Free Financial Aid Search
• FinAid! The SmartStudent Guide to Financial Aid
• FastWeb: Free Scholarship and College Searches, & Financial Aid Tools
• Universities Worldwide

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Deaf Culture & American Sign Language

• About.com's Deaf Links
• American Sign Language Browser
• Deaf Resource Library
• DeafMall -- a Yahoo-type site for deaf-related information
• Deaf Linx 
• DeafZone
• Fingerspelling includes a visual, animated dictionary
• Handspeak -- a practical sign language dictionary
• American Sign Language Teachers Association
• SignWritingSite

Dictionaries, Encyclopedias & & Thesauri

• Acronym Finder
• AskOxford  Dictionaries, grammar, usage and word origins
• Encyclopedia.com
• Encarta Encyclopedia
• Encyclopedia Smithsonian
• Lexical FreeNet  Thesaurus
• Merriam-Webster OnLine - Dictionary - Thesaurus
• OneLook Dictionary Search
• Thesaurus.com
• Symbols.com -- Encyclopedia of Western signs and ideograms
• Your Dictionary --  Global Language Resource; exhaustive collection of foreign language dictionaries

Education

• AskERIC (Educator's Reference Desk)
• Ed-Data: Fiscal, Demographic & Performance Data on California's K-12 Schools
• Education World

Ethnic Groups & Minorities:  African Americans,
      Chicanos, Latinos, Asian Americans, & Native Americans

General

• Center for Immigration Studies
• USC Center for Multilingual Multicultural Research
• FIVE VIEWS: An Ethnic Historic Site Survey for California
  

African Americans

• African-American Mosaic Exhibition (Library of Congress)
• Freedmen and Southern Society Project

Asian Americans

• Asian Nation:  The Landscape of Asian America
  

Hispanic, Latino & Chicano

• Andanzas al Web Latino
• CLNet Building Chicana/o Latina/o Communities through Networking

Native Americans  [see also Native American Websites]

• Native American Sites
• Native American Documents Project
• NativeWeb Indigenous Cultures around the World
• Oyate, Native Organization

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Fire Technology

• Fire on the Web  Building & Fire Research Lab, National Institute of Standards and Technology
• Fire Engineering  News, equipment, feature articles; searchable.
• Firehouse  Comprehensive website by the publishers of Firehouse magazine.

Genetic Engineering [see also  DNA & Stem Cell]

• Center for Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania
• Access Excellence -- Biotech

Geography & Area Studies

• CIA -- The World Factbook
  Current information and statistics on countries worldwide, plus great maps!
• City Town Info -- Info and analysis on US places, careers, colleges, and more
• Country Studies: Area Handbook Series Library of Congress / Federal Research Division
• CountryWatch
• FCO Country Profiles
• A Tapestry of Time and Terrain  US Geological Survey
• UNEP: Atlas of Our Changing Environment
• U.S. State Department - Background Notes
• World Atlas

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Government & Politics

• American Presidency Project   UCSB based collection of documents on the Presidency
• California Election Information   Links to text and advocacy and opposition groups from the California Voter Foundation
• Core Documents of U.S. Democracy
• FirstGov -- Umbrella site for U.S. government
• Multi-Issue Politicized Sites -- Comprehensive annotated list of links to diverse political groups
• OpenCongress -- U.S. Congress on the Internet
• Politics1.com -- Comprehensive Online Guide to American Politics
• Project Vote Smart   Praised by the New York Times, CNN, and PBS as the most trusted and comprehensive source for information on candidates and issues. 
• State and Local Government on the Net   Up-to-date directory for every state that covers organizations, legislation, and codes
• Thomas -- U.S. Congress on the Internet

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Health & Medicine

• BioEthics Net
• healthfinder® 
• InteliHealth
• Linus Pauling Institute:  Micronutrient Information Center
• MedlinePlus
• National Institutes of Health (NIH)

History

• Ancient Mexico  Arts, culture and history of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica
• Avalon Project  Yale Law School Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy
• "California History" Journal Index

• 20th Century History

• Ad Access   Duke University
• American Cultural History: The Twentieth Century
• BAD FADS Museum
• The Days of History
• Yahoo! 20th Century U.S. History

Immigration

Center For Immigration Studies
Federation for American Immigration Reform
Migration Policy Institute
National Immigration Law Center
NumbersUSA

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Law

• American Bar Association
• California Code
• California Code of Regulations
• California Courts   The slip opinions of the California Supreme Court and the California Courts of Appeal in the last 60 days are posted here in full text. Supreme Court opinions, which the court normally files at 10 a.m. on Mondays and Thursdays, are posted immediately after filing. Court of Appeal opinions are posted within hours of filing. 
• Famous Trials   U of Missouri Law School website on famous US trials
• FindLaw    A starting point for legal research that covers case law, 
  legal issues and law firms and much more
• Hastings College of the Law Library (Ballot propositions & initiatives)
• Internet Legal Resource Group
• Legal Information Institute-Cornell   Links to a full range of legal resources including Supreme, Federal and State opinions

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Literature, Plays, Fairy Tales & Folklore

• American Verse Project   U of Michigan's Humanities Text Initiative, an electronic archive of volumes of American poetry prior to 1920.
• Bartleby.com: Great Books Online
• California Fiction Index   Los Angeles Public Library
• Children's Literature Web Guide
• Common Errors in English
• Gale Literary Index
• Internet Public Library Online Literary Criticism Collection 
• Jack Lynch's Literary Resources on the Net
• On-Line Books Page
• Poetry Foundation  Find poetry by poet, title, first line etc.
• Plays
• Inter-Play: Online Index to Plays in Collections
• Dramatists Play Service
• Monologue Archive
• Play Index
• Samuel French Bookstores (Plays)
• Shakespeare's Monologues  Indexed by gender
• Fairy Tales
• Center for Story and Symbol
• Cinderella Project
• Guardians of the Fairy Tale:  the Brothers Grimm
• Little Red Riding Hood Project
• SurLaLune Fairy Tale Pages  Includes many fairy tales
• Folklore
• Encyclopedia Mythica
• Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts
• Hero's Journey Maricopa CC

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Local & California & Kern County

• Bakersfield Californian
• "California History" Journal Index
• California Research Bureau Reports  (Research reports on social issues)
• California Vital Statistics
• Calisphere
• Counting California
• City of Bakersfield, California
• County of Kern Government Homepage
• California Government Website
• Public Policy Institute of California
• Statistical Tour of California's Great Central Valley
• Valley Fever Vaccine Project of the Americas
• Weedpatch Camp

Mathematics

• Algebra in Simplest Terms
• Calculators On-Line Center
• Convert It!
• Measure 4 Measure: Sites That Do the Work For You

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Media, News & Current Issues

• AJR American Journalism Review
• AJR Newslink
• CNN
• Communication Resources  U of Iowa's exhaustive collection of links on advertising, media, & journalism
• Disinformation     Alternative news, conspiracies, propaganda, censorship, counterculture
• DRUDGE REPORT
• Encyclopedia of Television
• Free Press  Robert McChesney's site devoted to Freedom of the Press
• Investigative Reporters and Editors
• Los Angeles Times
• Media Matters for America  Conservative media watchdog
• News Headlines From 1stHeadlines
• Power Reporting  Resources for Journalists
• Robert McChesney's Alternative/Independent Media Links

 

Music (United States & World)

• Archives of African American Music and Culture Mission
• Ethnographic Studies Internet Resource Page
• Ethnomusicology University of Washington

 

Current Issues, Think Tanks & Research Institutes

• Annenberg Public Policy Center
• Better World 
• The Brookings Institution
• Global Issues
• National Institute on Drug Abuse
• Pew Research Center - All Things Census
• Pros and Cons of Controversial Issues
• Public Agenda Online: Public Opinion and Public Policy
• Rand Full text (or heavy abstracts) of papers on national security and public welfare. Subjects include drug policy, teen drinking, immigration, education, nursing homes, three strikes law, etc. 
• Rough & Tumble A daily snapshot of California public policy and politics
• SpeakOut.Com  Politics, Activism, Political Issues, Government, and Elections
• Urban Institute - Research by Topic.  Social and economic problems, such as welfare reform, teen sexuality, immigration, Medicare 

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Periodicals:  Magazines & Journals

• Directory of Open Access Journals
• BNET Research Center  Locate free full-text articles from magazines and journals
• MagPortal.com
• PubMedCentral  Free archive of life sciences journal

 

Philosophy & Religion

• Facets of Religion
• Internet Sacred Text Archive
• Religious Movements -- University of Virginia
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Virtual Religion Index

Popular Culture

• Ad Access   Duke University
• Ad Flip -- Large archive of print ads
• American Cultural History: The Twentieth Century
• BAD FADS Museum

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Psychology

• Current Topics in Psychology
• PsychCentral
• PsychWeb

Sciences

• Encyclopedia of Atmospheric Environment
• Energy Information Administration Statistics
• National Science Digital Library
• PubMedCentral  Free archive of life sciences journal
• RealClimate
• Science.gov U.S. government scientific information
• Scirus  Web & journal search for scientific information

Sociology

• Sociological Tour Through Cyberspace   A good starting point for general sociological links and resources on theory construction
• SocioWeb

Spanish

• Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes    Encyclopedia in Spanish from Universidad de Alicante

Statistics

• Census Bureau: Statistical Agencies (International)
• Community Information by Zip Code (CSU Northridge)
• Economic Indicators (Economics and Statistics Administration)
• Historical Census Browser
• Infonation
• NationMaster  Worldwide data
• Population Profile of the United States  US Bureau of Census
• Social Sciences Data Collection  UCSD guide to data in social sciences
• Statistical Resources on the Web     A great place to begin any statistical research from the University of Michigan..International

Statistics -- United States

• Counting California   Well-organized exhaustive site of current statistics
• California Statistical Abstract   A compilation of statistics issued annually by the state
• California Vital Statistics
• Fedstats: One Stop Shopping for Federal Statistics
• Historical United States Census Data Browser
• Pew Research Center - All Things Census
• RAND Publications
• State of Working America
• Statistical Abstract of the United States     A key source for U.S. statistics, issued annually by the federal government
• US Bureau of Census State and County Quickfacts

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Tax Information

• California State Tax Forms, Instructions and Publications
• U.S. Federal Tax Forms and Publications (IRS)

Technology

• The New Atlantis   Ethics and Public Policy Center
• How Stuff Works

Theater & Motion Pictures

• The Internet Movie Database (IMDb)
• Jack Wolcott's Theatre History on the Web
• Movie Review Query

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