Reference Sources

General Reference

Biographies
Dictionaries	North Carolina
Encyclopedias	Statistics
Libraries on the Web	Weather
Mass Media

Research Tools

Resources by Subject

General Reference

Biographies

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• Distinguished Women of Past and Present 
• Biographies.com

Dictionaries 

Encyclopedias

• Encarta Encyclopedia (free online encyclopedia)
  
  
• World Book Encyclopedia (access this via NCLive using OCLC FirstSearch)
  
  
• Wikipedia

Libraries on the Web

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• HINT: You can use NCLive to find more N.C. newspapers. 

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Statistics

• Statistical Abstract of the United States  (requently requested statistics)
• CIA World Factbook (facts about every country in the world)
• County and City Data Books 
• Superintendent of Documents Home Page (free on-line use of many Federal databases)
• THOMAS -- U.S. Congress on the Internet 
• White House 

Weather

• AccuWeather.com
• CNN
• The Weather Channel
• WRAL Weather Center 

Research Tools

How To Search

• Finding Information on the Internet
• Sink or Swim: Internet Search Tools & Techniques

Evaluating Web Sites
These links will help you decide whether a web site is reliable or accurate and whether you should use it in your research.

• Evaluating World Wide Web Information
• The Good, the Bad & the Ugly

Search Engines & Directories
Remember that the web consists of well over a billion pages and no single search engine indexes all of those pages. Almost half of all pages are indexed by only one search engine. You will, therefore, likely profit from performing your search on more than one engine.

• Google
• Ask.com
• All the Web
• AltaVista
• Dogpile
• Excite 
• Hotbot 
• Ixquick
• Lycos 
• Teoma
• Yahoo!

Web Site Directories & Reviews
For detailed reviews, ratings, and statistics of search engine effectiveness.

• Search Engine Watch
• Search Engine Showdown
• The Virtual Library

Research Reference

• The Internet Public Library - Reference Center
• Librarians' Index to the Internet
• How to Find What You Want On the World Wide Web
• FIND NC (Access web sources, electronic database indexes, and printed materials produced by North Carolina state agencies)
• GovEngine.com (Premier federal, state & local government site on the web)
• State of North Carolina (Gateway to North Carolina state agencies)
• U.S. Census Bureau
• A Research Guide for Students
• Citation Styles Online
• Guide to Library Research
• How to Prepare an Annotated Bibliography
• The World Wide Web Acronym and Abbreviation Server
• Using Modern Language Association (MLA) Format
• Writing a Research Paper
  
  
  

Resources by Subject

Art Resources

• Art Journals Online
• Artcyclopedia - the guide to museum-quality art on the Internet
• ArtSource - a gathering point for networked resources on art and architecture
• WebMuseum
• Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
• Museum of Modern Art (New York)
• National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.)

Business/Economics

• BizLink 
• Business Seek  - search companies by name, country, activity, etc.
• Business Week
• CNN Business News
• Thomas Regional Directory - searchable database of more than 480,000 manufacturers, distributors and service companies organized under 4,500 product and service categories
• Virtual International Business and Economic Sources
  Cybereconomics - electronic course in micro and macroeconomics.
• Essential Principles of Economics - a hypermedia text
• Internet Resources for Economists - great links to full text classic works in economy, economics texts, data and statistics sources, economics journals, forecasting services, and much more
• Wall Street Journal Classroom Edition - includes an introduction to economic indicators

Careers/Jobs

• Bureau of Labor Statistics
• Career Resource Center - index of career related Web sites
• Catapult on JobWeb - a clearinghouse for career and job resources on the Internet
• Occupational Outlook Handbook
• Riley Guide - employment opportunities and job resources on the Internet
• CareerSite - 5000-7000 jobs listed; search using desired location, career and skills
• JobOption - about 10,000 jobs posted
• North Carolina Job Bank - NC Employment Security Commission
• Top 100 Electronic Recruiters - a single Web site for the best of job hunting sites 

Education

• 2005 College Rankings U.S. News & World Report
• Active Learning on the World Wide Web
• Chronicle of Higher Education - also available at the library in print form
• CollegeXpress - information on private colleges and universities, tips on getting admitted, financial aid, etc.
• CollegeNet - search for college information, scholarships and more
• Education World - search 50,000 education sites by topic and category
• ERIC  Educational Resources Information Center - searchable database on NCLive
• Financial Aid
• Peterson's Education and Career Center
• U.S. Department of Education  - fact sheets for topics from A to Z
• U.S. News Careers Center
• World Lecture Hall

Health

• AIDS HIV Insite
• Alternative Health - alternative health news online
• Cancer Center - University of  Pennsylvania OncoLink
• National Cancer Institute
• Diabetes - National Institutes of Health
• Diabetes  - Joslin Diabetes Education Center
• Eating Disorders
• Healthfinder - search government information by topic
• HealthWeb - created by health science librarians at twelve major research universities
• Internet Health Sources - University of Iowa Hardin Meta Directory of health sites
• Internet Healthcare Directory
• Merck Manual
• Nutrition - University of Arizona nutrition and health page
• Nutrition and Obesity - National Institutes of Health
• PubMed The National Library of Medicine's free Medline search service
• Sickle Cell Anemia - National Institutes of Health
• Women's Health and Wellness

History

Genealogy - This section is under construction.

North Carolina History

• Queen Anne's Revenge
• N.C. Archives and History 
• State of North Carolina Home Page 
• North Carolina Collection at UNC-CH.  Includes some photos. 
• Society of North Carolina Archivists - links to archives and special collections

 Western Civilization 

• Versailles 
• The Plague Today - current information from the CDC on the Plague 

World History 

• HyperHistory - chart of world history
• Web Virtual Library History Index - links to over 2500 sites by subject

U.S. History 

• A Hypertext on American History  - biographies, an outline of U.S. history, full text documents including the Gettysburg Address, Monroe Doctrine, and Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech 
• American Memory Collection - from the Library of Congress; a searchable collection of photos, documents, maps, and more
• Making of America - a digital library of 1600 books and 50,000 articles written in the 19th Century about American social history 
• New Deal Network 

African American History 

• African American History Links to many web sites from the Historical Text Archive. 
• The Black History Museum - interactive exhibits on topics such as slavery, the Black Panther Party, Jackie Robinson, the Tuskegee Airmen and Scottsboro Boys

Women's History 

• Votes for Women - Library of Congress collection of 167 books, pamphlets, and other artifacts documenting the American women's suffrage campaign 
• Distinguished Women of Past and Present
• The National Women's History Project 

King Tut 

• Tutankhamun
• King Tut-Ankh-Amun

Literature

• Literary Resources on the Net
• The OnLine Books Page
• English Server Fiction Collection
• Author Webliography
• Online Literary Criticism Collection 
• A Celebration of Women Writers
• Poetry
• Complete Works of William Shakespeare
• Michael Best's Sites
• Luminarium
• Early Modern Literary Studies
• The University of Michigan mythology site
• The Encyclopedia Mythica

Psychology

Recommended for Psychology 201

• JoinTogether
• The Internet Drug List
• Health Answers
• Neuroguide
• World Health Organization

General Psychology

• American Psychiatric Association  - topics from AIDS to teen suicide
• Electronic Journals and Periodicals in Psychology
• Internet Mental Health  - Go to Disorders, click on a disorder, search for booklets and magazine articles
• Psych Central 
• Psych-Web  
• Self-Help and Psychology Magazine  

Electronic Journals

• Electronic Journals and Periodicals in Psychology and Related Fields

Child Psychology

• National Child Care Information Center

Eating Disorders

• Eating Disorders 

Religion

General Religion

• Religious Resources on the Net
• Psychology of Religion
• Psychology of Religion Home Site
• Spirit and Idea
• Interfaith Calendar

Christianity

• The Ecole Initiative - Internet encyclopedia of early church history and documents
• Crosssearch - links to Evangelical Christian sites on the Net.
• Catholic Encyclopedia
• From Jesus to Christ
• The Four Gospels
• Jesus' Many Faces
• The Jesus Seminar
• Portrait of Jesus
• Bible Gateway  - search the Bible in seven languages and multiple Bible versions.
• World Wide Study Bible
• Christianity Today
• Christian History magazine
• Christianity Online

Judaism

• The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs - articles about archeology, the second temple, Jewish statehood, and more
• Jewishnet
• Shamash: Judaism & Jewish Resources
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• "And I Still See Their Faces" - online gallery of the Holocaust from the Simon Wiesenthal Center
• Differences between Judaism and Christianity
• Jewish Life-Cycle Events
• Movements of Judaism

Hinduism

• HinduNet
• Hinduism
• The Hindu

Buddhism

• BuddhaNet
• Tricycle: The Buddhist Review
• Introduction to Buddhist Teachings
• Access to Insight - readings and instruction in Theravada Buddhism.
• How to Sit (Zazen) - simple guide to sitting meditation.

Islam

• Discover Islam
• al-Islam
• What is Islam?
• The Koran (Qur'an)
• Islamic Studies
• Dr. Muzammil H. Siddiqui's Answers
• Al-Islam 
• The Nation of Islam - Louis Farrakhan's organization; NOT mainstream Islam

Science

Astronomy

• Astronomy Information Systems
• History of Astronomy  - biographies of astronomers, links to events in the history of Astronomy and Space Science, libraries & institutions, museums, and more
• NASA Homepage
• Space Telescope Science Institute  
• Students for the Exploration and Development of Space - for articles, see the Ascending Node Newsletter under Publications
• Astronomy Picture of the Day

Biology & Human Biology

• DNA Unraveled
• Hereditary Disease Foundation Home Page
• InteliHealth - John Hopkins health information
• National Cancer Institute

Botany

• American Botanical Council - a non-profit organization to educate the public about beneficial herbs and plants
• American Society of Plant Physiologists - contains index to articles about plant genetics
• Missouri Botanical Garden
• National Center for Biotechnology Information - builds and maintains GenBank, the NIH genetic sequence database
• Nature Explorer Article
• Plant of the Month
• Tree of Life Home Page
• UCMP Museum of Paleontology - information and pictures of fossil remains
• World Wide Web Journal of Biology

Chemistry

This section is under construction

Environment

• WIND and SEA - The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrations page
• El Nino Theme Page - NOAA's site with essays, charts and graphs of El Nino information
• EPA Office of Air and Radiation - Environmental Protection Agency
• EcoNet - to select a topic, scroll down to the box on the left, click on an issue and press the button

General Science

• The National Science Foundation
• ScienceDaily Magazine
• ABCNEWS Sci/Tech

Global Warming

• The EPA Global Warming Site

Social Issues

• AIDS  HIV Insite
• Abortion : Pro-Choice - National Abortion Rights Action League 
• Abortion : Pro-Choice - The National Abortion Federation
• Abortion : Pro-Life  - National Right to Life Committee 
• Alcohol and Drug Abuse
• Assisted Suicide - UNY at Buffalo, Center for Clinical Ethics & Humanities in Health Care 
• Birth Control
• Legal Issues - ACLU 
• Death Penalty 
• Hate Groups
• Gender & Sexuality Issues

Family Issues 

• Family Sociology Resources  - links to web pages about child abuse, domestic violence, the family, parenting etc., from the Dept. of Sociology, University of Colorado at Boulder

General Sociology and Social Issues

• A Sociological Tour Through Cyberspace - links to sociology related pages from the Department of Sociology & Anthropology at Trinity University
• Cyberstacks - links to web pages dealing with social problems, welfare, the family, and social history
• Resources for Social Researchers  - links to sociology publications and cultural information 
• Sociology Internet Resources - Western Connecticut State Univ., Dept. of Social Sciences 

Related

• Writing a Research Paper

Sports

Baseball & Softball

• @Bat - Major League Baseball
• CBS Sportsline - College Baseball
• Major League  - Official Encyclopedia of Major League Baseball
• USA Today - College Baseball
• Women's Professional Fastpitch

Basketball

• ABA - American Basketball Association
• NBA - National Basketball Association
• NCAA - College Basketball
• WNBA  - Women's National Basketball Association

Football

• ESPN - College Football
• NFL  - National Football League

Golf

• GolfWeb
• LPGA - Ladies Professional Golf Association

Soccer

• ESPN  - soccer news
• Soccer Poll  - Division 1, National Junior College Association

General Sports

• CNN/SI - CNN and Sports Illustrated
• Sportzone