Here you'll find links to a wide variety of ready-reference sources. I have most of these bookmarked on my own computer at work.
Basic Statistics - A good primer on statistics for those of us who've forgotten most of this stuff.
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace - Analysis and commentary on international affairs.
Census Bureau - An invaluable source of statistical information about the US.
CIA World Factbook - Country profiles, maps and more from the friendly folks at Langley
Digital Librarian - A wide-ranging directory of digital reference, maintained by librarian Margaret Vail Anderson.
Directory of Open Access Journals - A directory of free, full-text scholarly journals.
Economic Policy Institute - The website of a non-profit, non-partisan ecnonomic think tank.
Environmental Protection Agency - A great source of information on environmental issues.
European Union - Web portal for the EU, with pages in 23 languages.
Florida Dept. of Education - Main page for the Florida DOE.
GPO Access - Access to US Govt. publications, documents from all 3 branches of govt., and more.
Hansard's House of Commons Debates - Searchable, full-text debates, written answers, etc. back to 1988.
Human Rights Watch - Homepage of the world's preimere human rights organisation.
Internet Movie Database - A treasure trove of pop-culture trivia.
Internet Public Library - One of the best free reference resources on the web.
Kartoo - A visual meta-search engine based in Europe.
Librarians' Internet Index - An excellent classified index, partly funded by the California Digital Library.
Library of Congress - Main page of the LOC Library of Congress Classification Outline - Your key to LC classification.
Library of Congress Virtual Reference Shelf - Annotated list of reference sites.
Medecins Sans Frontieres - Homepage of this excellent human rights organisation.
Migration Policy Institute - An independent think tank dedicated to studying worldwide migration.
OECD - Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development site.
Radical Reference - a volunteer social justice collective of library workers providing professional research. United Nations - Web portal of the UN.
Urban Dictionary - Interactive dictionary of contemporary slang.
US Dept. of Education - Main page for the DOE.
Virtual Religion Index - An uneven, but useful collection of religion links, academic and otherwise. |
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