- InfoPlease
(www.infoplease.com) fast almanac/encyclopedia info.
- Bartleby
(www.bartleby.com) several reference books, online classics.
- My Virtual
Reference Desk (www.refdesk.com)
- List of
Lists (www.specialissues.com/lol/) originally from Gary Price.
- How Stuff Works
(www.howstuffworks.com)
- Cyberjournalist
SuperSearch (www.cyberjournalist.net/supersearch/)
- Searchbug
(www.searchbug.com) lots of useful searches.
- YourDictionary.com
(www.yourdictionary.com/) search hundreds of dictionaries.
- Britannica
(www.britannica.com) search encyclopedia and Web (by subscription, but some info available without. Also: Britannica Concise (all free).
- Merriam-Webster
(www.m-w.com) Search dictionary and thesaurus.
- Wikipedia(en.wikipedia.org): great for reference, links to news and other resources on a topic. Beware of opinionated editing on controversial topics.
- Your local library
may offer access to reference databases from News Library, Proquest, Gale, InfoUSA, and
more, for free with a library card number. Check with your library.
- Bloomsbury Research Centre (www.bloomsburymagazine.com/ARC/Arc_home.asp)
search or browse several reference books published by Bloomsbury Press,
including Quotations, Thesaurus, Dictionary, etc.
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- Find Person
(person.langenberg.com) links to several searches.
- PIPL, a search engine for people, finds address/phone, some public records, stories, social networks.
- Switchboard or AnyWho, has business and residential phone numbers. Yahoo People search, also searches reverse.
- AT&T International Phone Directories links.
- InfoBel World Phone
Directory (www.infobel.be)
Verify email address: this tells you if an address is valid.- Reporter's Edge, a new low-cost people finder (difficult phone numbers, skip-trace, etc. by subscription).
- Whois find owner of a Web domain.
- The Virtual Chase: People Finders
- SSNWatch from Carnegie-Mellon, verify social security number (state where issued and approximate year).
- Social Security Death Index
- Lawyers: West's
Legal Directory (www.lawoffice.com);
Martindale-Hubbell
(lawyers.martindale.com/marhub)
- Doctors: AMA Doctor Finder
(www.ama-assn.org/aps/amahg.htm); Administrators
in Medicine (www.docboard.org) has "DoctorFinder",
licensing data for doctors in several states and
links to searches in states not included in their
list, like Florida; Directory of State Medical Boards.
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- Resourceshelf (www.resourceshelf.com) internet-based information news and new sources weblog from Gary Price and co-editors. Also: Docuticker (www.docuticker.com), for reports, studies.
- The Scout Report
(scout.cs.wisc.edu/scout) Subscribe to this weekly list, and check
Scout Report
Weblog, updated more often.
- Librarian's Internet Index(lii.org/) search the index or read/subscribe to the
weekly New This Week list.
- Metafilter (www.metafilter.com), new links from posters around the world.
- Robot Wisdom (http://robotwisdom2.blogspot.com/) new links from Jorn Barger.
- TheScoop.org (www.thescoop.org)
Derek Willis posts good computer-assisted journalism links.
- Depth Reporting (depthreporting.com/), research links from Mark Schaver at the Louisville Courier Journal.
- Al's Morning
Meeting(http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=2) Poynter site has daily links to info about today's news.
- USA Today Web Guide (blogs.usatoday.com/techspace/around_the_net/index.html)
- TVC Alert (http://www.tvcalert.com) from The Virtual Chase, law and public records links. Weekly update available by email, XML.
- ResearchBuzz (www.researchbuzz.org), from Tara Calishain, especially the weekly email.
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- Geology.com: State maps I like this for its quick reference to state maps by county, highways, cities, rivers, altitude. Also: World maps.
- NASA World Wind, download this 3D interactive world viewer.
- Google Earth, download this map/topographic/satellite image world map.
- Google Maps, online search/map/routes.
- Microsoft Live Search Maps includes 3d and birdseye views.
- Yahoo! Maps an old standby and still quick and easy.
- Mapquest ditto.
- National Geographic Map Machine makes maps however you want them.
- National Geographic Xpeditionsmakes printable maps.
- Map 24: this mapping
service makes it easy to quickly understand an area by panning the
map.
It zooms in and out easily, and features names move as you pan.
- The National Map Viewer
from USGS: you can zoom in down to street
level but all maps show topography as well as other features and you
can customize it in a lot of ways.
- TopoZoneprovides US topographical maps from the Web. You can search by
placename or Lat/Long, and see the map in up to four resolutions, and
get a fullscreen display.
- MSN maps Includes steet level North America and Europe maps, and town-level worldwide maps.
- Expedia can find a topographic map showing location of any city/town worldwide. Not much detail for many countries but zooming in available in U.S., Canada, Mexico, Europe. These are nice maps, too.
- British Ordnance
Survey maps Topographical
maps of Britain and Northern Ireland.
- Whereis Online a street map atlas for Australia. Put in an
address and get a map, also has phone directories.
- The Worldwide map collection from UT's Perry-Castañeda library, has scanned maps from everywhere, old and new.
- UK Streetmapshas detailed maps of London streets, roadmaps for rest of mainland Great Britain.
- Maporama Detailed
Maps from around the world, with mobile and airport/traffic info.
- United Nations Cartographic Section offers lots of maps.
- Map Library, collection at UN's Dag Hammarskjold Library.
- Yahoo! News Globe, find news by geographic location.
- Huge list of map sites from UT's Perry-Castañeda map collection.
- Map Room a blog about maps.
- WorldMapper statistics applied to maps.
- Census Atlas of the U.S. based on 2000 Census, downloadable book.
- National Atlas of the U.S. , has a Map Maker and printable maps.
- The Atlas of Canada.
- Nautical Charts: On-line chart viewer, from NOAA's Office of Coast Survey; electronic U.S. Coast Pilots, free downloads.
- NowCoast, from NOAA, real-time coastal mapping and weather.
Here are some sources for finding places if you don't know where to look on the
map:
- U.S.Gazetteer: This is a U.S. Census product. Start here to search for a town or
place name or ZIP code, and get list of places with that name with coordinates,
links to TIGER map, and to Census profiles.
- If the place you're looking for isn't a town (place) you may
be able to find it in the U.S. Geographic Names Information System. Find any geographic feature in the U.S. (creek,
mountain, church, canal, shopping center, etc....) from the U.S. Geological Survey.
- Geonet Names Server finds geographic features in other countries.
- For places in the U.S. or other countries, use the
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names: look up any geographic name (including rivers,
bays, provinces, etc. in the world here, and get its location. (country,
state/province, county and lat/long.)
- More place name searches, including state and country lists, from library at Arizona State.
- If you just need the coordinates of a city, use
Latitude and Longitude
Lists: This page has lists by country or state.
- Now that you have coordinates of a place, need to find the
distance from this place to another? Use How far is it? From Indo.com. Put in
two place names if you have them (anywhere in the U.S. and most cities of the
world), or a place name and coordinates, or two locations (latitude &
longitude).
- U.S. Geocoder: put in an address, get latitude/longitude.
- You can always get the road distance between two places by
using one of the online mapping service listed above. Just put in
two place names or addresses and a route will be mapped out for you with
distances.
- For Florida, the state maintains an official
State of Florida Highway
Mileage service for mileage between two Florida cities or towns.
- E-Podunk, great information on cities, small towns, and in between.
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