Useful Internet Resources

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Agriculture & Horticulture

• 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
• Kern County Agriculture and Measurement Standards
• National Institute of Food and Agriculture
• Society for Range Management
• United States Dept of Agriculture's Home Page
• University of California Small Farm Program

Almanacs

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

Anthropology

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

Art & Design

• Artcyclopedia: The Guide to Museum-Quality Art on the Internet
• Artchive: Art, Artists, & Criticism
• Cities & Buildings Database University of Washington
• Marble: collection of digitized materials created by University of Notre Dame

Astronomy

• Nick Strobel’s Astronomy Notes

Awards and Prizes

• Nobel Prize
• Pulitzer Prizes

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Biography

• Biography.com
• LinkedPeople: family trees of important people in life and literature
• Muhammad Ali Digitial Museum: from the Muhammad Ali Center
• Time 100
• Women Composers: Links to further resources and biographies for more than 200 women composers.

Biology, Botany and Anatomy

• Anatomy Videos: From the National Library of Medicine (requires QuickTime)
• Classification of Living Things
• The eSkeletons Project
• Jepson Flora Project
• Kimball's Biology Pages: Possibly the best biology pages on the Web
• PubMedCentral: Free archive of life sciences journal

Business and Economics

• Economic Indicators (Economics and Statistics Administration)
• EDGAR Database

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Careers & Jobs

• California Career Center
• California Career Resource Network
• 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
• O*Net Online: U.S. Department of Labor

Chemistry

• Chemistry.org: American Chemical Society
• WebElements: The Periodic Table of Elements
• MathMol Library of 3-D Molecular Structures

Colleges & Financial Aid

• California Virtual Campus
• 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
• ICanGoToCollege
• Peterson’s - Your Comprehensive Guide to College Information
• Universities Worldwide

Current Issues, Think Tanks and Research Institutes

• Better World Info
• 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.
• Rough & Tumble A daily snapshot of California public policy and politics
• Urban Institute - Research by Topic. Social and economic problems, such as welfare reform, teen sexuality, immigration, Medicare.

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Deaf Culture and ASL

• American Sign Language Teachers Association
• American Society of Deaf Children
• Deaf Art
• DeafMall: a Yahoo-type site for deaf-related information
• Deaf Resource Library 
• Gallaudet University
• Hearing Health Foundation
• National Association of the Deaf
• National Technical Institute for the Deaf
• SignWritingSite
• Start ASL

Dictionaries, Encyclopedias and Thesuari

• Acronym Finder
• Oxford Dictionaries Dictionaries, grammar, usage and word origins
• Encyclopedia.com
• 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

• ERIC (Education Resources Information Center)
• Ed-Data: Fiscal, Demographic & Performance Data on California's K-12 Schools

Ethnic Groups and Minorities

• General
  • Center for Immigration Studies
• African Americans
  • African-American Mosaic Exhibition (Library of Congress)
  • BlackPast - African American History
  • Freedmen and Southern Society Project
  • National Museum of African-American History and Culture
• Asian Americans
  • Asian Nation: The Landscape of Asian America
• Hispanic, Latino and Chicano
  • Latin American Network Information Center Internet portal for Latin American studies
  • Farmworker Movement Documentation Project: UC San Diego Library
• Native Americans
  • Native American Sites
  • Native American Documents Project

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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

• Center for Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania

Geography

• 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
• UNEP: Atlas of Our Changing Environment
• U.S. State Department - Bilateral Relations Fact Sheets
• World Atlas

Government

• 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
• FirstGov: Umbrella site for U.S. government
• Multi-Issue Politicized Sites: Comprehensive annotated list of links to diverse political groups
• GovTrack U.S. Congress on the Internet
• Politics1.com: Comprehensive Online Guide to American Politics
• Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse: staffing, spending, and enforcement activities of the federal government
• 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
• Congress.gov: U.S. Congress on the Internet

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Health & Medicine

• healthfinder: From the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
• Linus Pauling Institute: Micronutrient Information Center
• MedlinePlus
• National Institutes of Health (NIH)

History

• Ad Access : Duke University
• Avalon Project: Yale Law School Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy
• Civil Rights History Project : Library of Congress
• Founders Early Access: Early American documents - primary sources
• LinkedPeople: family trees of important people in life and literature
• Office of the Historian: U.S Department of State
• The American Soldier in World War II : Thoughts and opinions of those who served during WWII 
• Who Owned Slaves in Congress?: from the Washington Post
• World Digital Library : Library of Congress - primary source materials from all countries and cultures

Immigration

• Center For Immigration Studies
• FAIR: Federation for American Immigration Reform
• Migration Policy Institute
• National Immigration Law Center
• NumbersUSA
• Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse: staffing, spending, and enforcement activities of the federal government

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.
• Climate Change Laws of the World: from the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment
• Famous Trials: Created by law professor Douglas O. Linder - famous US trials
• FindLaw: A starting point for legal research that covers case law, legal issues and law firms and much more
• PrivaSeer: privacy policies housed across the web - Penn State College of Information Science and Technology
• PublicLegal: From the Internet Legal Research Group
• Legal Information Institute-Cornell: Links to a full range of legal resources including Supreme, Federal and State opinions

LGBTQ

• ACLU LGBT Rights
• GLAAD Media Reference Guide
• Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders (GLAD)
• Human Rights Campaign
• National LGBTQ Task Force
• The Trevor Project
• Victory Fund
• Athlete Ally
• Equality Federation

Literature, Plays, Fairy Tales & Folklore

• General
  • American Verse Project Univ. of Michigan's Humanities Text Initiative, an electronic archive of volumes of American poetry prior to 1920.
  • Bartleby.com: Great Books Online
  • Children's Literature Web Guide
  • Common Errors in English
  • Jack Lynch's Literary Resources on the Net
  • LinkedPeople: family trees of important people in life and literature
  • On-Line Books Page
  • Poetry Foundation: Find poetry by poet, title, first line etc.
• Plays
  • Dramatists Play Service
  • Monologue Archive
  • Shakespeare's Monologues Indexed by gender
• Fairy Tales
  • Center for Story and Symbol
  • SurLaLune Fairy Tale Pages Includes many fairy tales
• Folklore
  • Encyclopedia Mythica

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Local and California

• Bakersfield Californian
• California Research Bureau Reports (Research reports on social issues)
• Calisphere
• City of Bakersfield, California
• Historic Bakersfield and Kern County by Gilbert Gia (local history research)
• Kern County Government Homepage
• California Government Website
• Public Policy Institute of California

Mathematics

• Convert It! - Conversion and calculation center

News and Current Issues

• AJR American Journalism Review
• AJR Newslink
• CNN
• Drudgereport
• Free Press Robert McChesney's site devoted to Freedom of the Press
• Los Angeles Times
• Media Matters for America: Watchdog of conservative media misinformation
• News Headlines From 1stHeadlines

Music

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

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Periodicals, Magazines and Journals

• Directory of Open Access Journals
• PubMedCentral Free archive of life sciences journal

Philosophy and Religion

• Internet Sacred Text Archive
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Virtual Religion Index

Pop Culture/Advertising

• Ad Access: Duke University
• Ad Flip: Large archive of print ads

Primary Sources

• Calisphere: ditigal image collection from the California Digital Library
• Digitizing Local History: digitization project from Long Island University
• Marble: collection of digitized materials created by University of Notre Dame
• Muhammad Ali Digital Museum: from the Muhammad Ali Center
• Rev: transcripts for speeches, rallies, announcements, other events
• Who Owned Slaves in Congress: database from the Washington Post

Psychology

• Current Topics in Psychology
• PsychCentral
• PsychWeb

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Sciences

 

• Carbon Footprint of Nations
• Energy Information Administration
• National Science Digital Library
• PubMedCentral: Free archive of life sciences journal
• RealClimate
• Science.gov: U.S. government scientific information

Sociology

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

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Statistics

• Economic Indicators
• Eurostat Statistical unit of the EU
• NationMaster Worldwide data
• Our World in Data: from Global Change Data Lab

Statistics - U.S.

• Fedstats: One stop shopping for federal statistics
• Pew Research Center - All Things Census
• RAND Corporation
• State of Working America
• Statistical Abstract of the United States: A key source for U.S. statistics, issued annually by the federal government
• Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse: staffing, spending, and enforcement activities of the federal government
• US Census Bureau Quickfacts

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Tax Information

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

Technology

• ATE (Advanced Technological Education) Central Resource Collection
• Automation World Magazine (can view "Current Issue" or "Archive")
• IEEE (Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers) Spectrum Magazine
• In Tech Magazine
• How Stuff Works
• PrivaSeer: privacy policies housed across the web - Penn State College of Information Science and Technology
• The New Atlantis - Ethics and Public Policy Center

Theater and Motion Pictures

• IMDB: The Internet Movie Database
• Jack Wolcott's Theatre History on the Web
• Movie Review Query

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Search Tools and Subject Directories

Voice of the Shuttle:

UCSB’s guide to Scholarly Humanities Resources

Refseek

Search engine that returns reliable and academic results

Virtual Reference Shelf

Library of Congress

Refdesk.com

Fact checker for the Internet

Quick Reference Links

LC Classification Outline

Guide to the subject scheme of Library of Congress call numbers, courtesy of The Library Corporation

Library of Congress Subject Headings Online

Library of Congress Subject Heading list from the Library of Congress website

Gale Literary Index

Online index to Contemporary Authors and many other Gale publications. Use this to locate biography information about an author

Websites for Classes

• Banned or Challenged Books
• The Great Depression and the Thirties
• Evaluating Internet Sources - Luiz
• Russell Web evaluation