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Books and Periodicals,
Publishers, Presses, Aggregated Collections of Reference Books, eBooks
See also--
Journals: Full-Text
Literature |
- Advanced
Book Exchange, Inc. , abebooks.com
- AddALL Book Search and
Price Comparison
- AcqWeb's
University Presses
- Alibris
- Ars Libri ltd.
- Bibliofind, books
out of print
- Book Review Sources on the
Web, Boston University
- Books in Print
BU
- BookFinder.com
- Chambal.com, new
and used book price comparisons
- Digital
Library Projects, including international
- History
e-Book Project BU
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Internet Public Library (ipl2) Full-text Books, search
by subject: "full-text"
- Lost Titles, Forgotten Rhymes: How to Find a Novel, Short Story or Poem without Knowing Its Title or Author, Library of Congress
- Online
Books Page
- Oxford Reference Online BU
- Oxford
Scholarship Online (Philosophy and Religion) BU
- Oxford Text Archive (free and restricted titles)
- Publishers'
Catalogues
- PubList: The Internet
Directory of Publications, journals, magazines, newsletters
- Stop!You're
Killing Me!, indexes mysteries by author, character,
location, occupation, etc.
- Ulrich's Periodicals
Directory BU
- University
of California Press full-text books by subject, free
titles listed as "public"
- Who
Owns What, Columbia Journalism Review
- WorldCat, books, etc., in other libraries BU
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| Boston and Massachusetts
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- Boston and Its Neighborhoods:
A Research Guide, Boston University Libraries
- Boston.Com, Boston
Globe's information site: kw=recentsales
- Boston Online,
Boston Links and Wicked Good Guides
- Boston
Redevelopment Authority Research Publications,
City
of Boston, government information, including demographics
- Commonwealth
of Massachusetts, non-government page of links to state
facts
- Good Jobs First: Massachusetts
- Mass Moment,
Mass. Foundation for the Humanities
- Massachusetts
Citizen Information Service and Alphabetical
Index, Secretary of State
- Metropolitan Area Planning
Council (MAPC), community and regional data, Boston
to just beyond interstate I-495
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| Calendars
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| Careers, Jobs,
Resumes |
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| Citation Guides
(How to do your bibliography)
(How to find out if you've been cited!) |
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| Company Information
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- Business Guides and Tutorials, Boston University School of Management Library
- CorpWatch, a corporate watchdog
- EDGAR, 10K
and other SEC filings
- Good Jobs First: Massachusetts
- GuideStar Nonprofit
Organizations
- Hoover's Online Company
Profiles
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InterAction, relief, refugee, and development organizations
- International Business, by country and region, Boston University School of Management Library
- Researching
Companies Online, a tutorial
- THOMAS
REGISTER, companies and their products; registration
required
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| Consumer Information
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- Aviation Consumer
Protection and Enforcement, U.S. DOT
- Best
Places to Live in America
- Better Business Bureau,
for Boston see Eastern
Massachusetts
- CarInfo
- Charity Navigator, find a charity you can trust
- Consumer.gov, federal
information by category
- Edmund's New [and Used]
Car Prices and Reviews
- gethuman.com "phone numbers, shortcuts, reviews, tips, and more for companies worldwide"
- HealthyToys.org product search
- Internet Crime Complaint Center
- Inventor
of the Week Archive, M.I.T.
- Kelly Bluebook
for Automobiles
- PlaneCrashInfo.Com
- RepairClinic.com
- Seafood
WATCH, Monterey Bay Aquarium
- State
of the Air 2010, American Lung Association
- Stop Junk Mail (ProQuo)
- 2005
Progress Report: An Update to the 2001 Report Card for America's
Infrastructure and Action Plan for the 110th Congress (updated 2008), American Society of Civil Engineers
- USA CityLink, travel,
tourism, relocation
- Web Gripe Sites
- Whois.net, domain name lookup, provides registrant, administrative contact, technical contact
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Copyright
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- Artists Rights Society
(40,000 international artists represented)
- BU Library Staff Discussion, on the presentation, "May I Digitize this Photo?" by Mary Minow, Digital Library Conference, Holy Cross, December 25, 2007
- Copyright (Boston
University)
- Copyright and Art Issues, Christine Sundt, University of Oregon
- Copyright and Fair
Use, Stanford University
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Copyright and Image Management (Office of General Counsel,UTexas)
- Copyright Term and the Public Domain, Cornell, Jan. 2011
- Digital Copyright Slider, American Library Association
- DIRC: Digital Image Rights Computator, VRA:Visual Resources Association (interactive query pages)
- Fair Use Checklist, Cornell University
- Public Domain and Creative Commons: A Guide to Works You Can Use Freely, University of Montana, Mansfield Library
- SHERPA/RoMEO, "summary of permissions that are normally given as part of each publisher's copyright transfer agreement" preprints and postprints
- US Copyright Office,
Library of Congress
- Visual Literacy: Copyright, University of California Irvine Libraries
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Countries
See also--
Gazetteers
International Organizations
Statistics
Travel
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- Archives and Primary
Resources for African History: Web resources and research
strategies focusing on South Africa, environmental history,
and life histories of women
- Afghan Network,
Toronto
- CIA
World Factbook
- Country
Studies/Area Handbooks, Library of Congress
- Declassified
Documents Reference Center , declassified post-World
War II information BU
- Economist Intelligence Unit
(EIU), selected business-related publications BU
- Elections
and Electoral Systems Around the World
- Embassies and Consulates
of the World
- Freedom House,
tracks democracy: Country
Ratings
- Governments on
the WWW, international
- Historical
Country Names, One World--Nations Online
- NationMaster.com,
statistics, maps, comparisons, etc.
- Nations
of the World, includes national constitutions in English.
Law Library of Congress
- Terrorism, Susan Wishinsky,
Boston University
- 2010 Country Reports on Human Rights, U.S. State Dept
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Dictionaries
and Thesauri
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Education (including Dissertations)
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Foundations, Grants
Statistics
Universities
and Colleges |
- AAAS
Evolution Resources (American Association for the
Advancement of Science) "Dialogue on Science,
Ethics, and Religion"
- ERIC, 1966--,
citations to education documents and journal articles
- Harvard
Graduate School of Education, Web Sites for Educators
- Video Lectures: AcademicEarth.org, TED.com, YouTube-EDU
- Dissertations Online:
Dissertation Abstracts (ProQuest Diss and Theses)
American BU
- DissOnline, German, some "kostenfrei"
- Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations international
TeL: Serveur des Theses Multidisciplinaire, French
Tesionline, Italian
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| Elections (US)
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- American Theocracy
- Black Box Voting,
ballot-tampering in the 21st century
- Center
for Public Integrity
- Center for Voting and
Democracy, voting systems
- Electionline.org,
Election Reform Information Project, PEW
- Office of Campaign
and Political Finance Commonwealth of Massachusetts
- Open
Secrets, campaign finance disclosure
- Project Vote Smart
- SourceWatch,
directory of public
relations firms , think
tanks , industry-funded
organizations
- Verifiedvoting.org,
advocates voter-verified paper ballots
- Voting
and Registration, US Census Bureau
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| Encyclopedias
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| Foundations,
Grants, Scholarships |
- Associated Grantmakers
of Massachusetts
- Boston Foundation
- COS Funding Opportunities,
see Instructions
BU
- FinAid, scholarships,
financial aid
- Foundation Center
- Glossary of [grant-related] Terms (Marywood University)
- Grant writing on the Web: Resources for Finding and Securing Funding, College Research Libraries News, Oct. 2010,472-5.BU
- Grants.Gov, FIND/APPLY for federal government grants (non personal)
- National
Endowment for the Humanities Grants and Applications
- Foundations On-line:
A Directory of Charitable Grantmakers, corporate, private,
community
- National
Science Foundation Funding
- Search
Engine for Proposal Writing, Government Contracting, Grants,
Small and Disadvantaged Business, International Bids and
Tenders, and International Development
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Gazetteers
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Maps |
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Government
Information
US Federal and State
See also--
Countries
International
Organizations
Legal Information
Statistics |
Federal
- A-Z
Guide to Political Interference in Science, Union of
Concerned Scientists
- Blue Pages: Your
Online Guide to the US Government, interest area list;
phone #s, TTY, agency sites
- Budget
of the United States Government Fiscal Year 2011
- RollCall:Congress.org
- Congressional
Quarterly (CQ) Researcher and CQ Weekly BU
- Congressional
Universe BU
- Federal,
Northeastern University
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Federal Government Resources on the Web, University
of Michigan Documents Center
- Federal Digital System: America's Authentic Government Information, US GPO
- Federal Register, updated
every business day
- FedForms, forms
needed for the top 500 Government services used by the public
- FirstGov.gov, single-point
access to all US gov info on the Web
- Founders'
Constitution, online version of book
- Google: U.S. Government Search: keyword search--federal, state, local sites
- Government Documents,
Boston University
- Grants.Gov, FIND/APPLY for federal government grants (non personal)
- HUD Archives
- Legislation
Related to the Attack of September 11, 2001, Thomas,
Library of Congress, last update October 2002
- OpenCRS (Congressional
Research Reports for the People)
- Presidential
Pardons, Law School, University of Pittsburgh
- $$Tax Forms$$-- Federal
- THOMAS (Library of Congress)--Congressional legislation
- TRAC Sitemap, Syracuse University (independent impartial information on FBI, DHA, DEA, Terrorism, IRS, etc.
- Uncle
Sam Migrating Government Publications, from print to
electronic, by SuDoc and Title
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United States Government Manual, manuals from
1995/1996--
State
- Massachusetts Budget and tracking tool
- 50states.com, basic
facts and government links
- Commonwealth
of Massachusetts
- Massachusetts
General Court Search Bills
- MISER (Massachusetts
Institute for Social and Economic Research), UMass Amherst
- Pew Center on the States: Trends to Watch
(comparisons of the 50 states)
- Search Systems:
Largest Free Public Records Database Collection, state
and national
- State
and Local Government, Library of Congress
- Full-text
State Statutes and Legislation
- StateMaster.com,
statistics, maps, comparisons, etc.
- stateline.org,
comparison charts for healthcare, landuse, etc.
- StateSearch, National
Association of State Information Resource Executives
- $$Tax Forms$$--
Massachusetts and Other
States
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| Images/Film
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AP Images , Associated Press Photos, Text, Audio,
Graphics BU
- ACRL/IRIG Visual Literacy Standards (blog)
- Artcyclopedia,
7,500 artists and their works
- ARTstor BU
- Digital Images Collections Guide
(American Library Association: ALAConnect)
- Finding Images on the
Web, Boston University
- Grove Dictionary of
Art BU
- How Stuff Works
- ImagesMD medical images BU
- Looking for Art by Subject on the Web, Boston University
- Manual of Traffic Signs, Alphabetical Index of Signs
- Moving Image Collections, Georgia Tech
- Periodic Table of Comic Books, University of Kentucky
- Propaganda Postcards of the Great War (WWI)
- Symbols.com
Film
- Ancient History in the Movies
- Art Historians' Guide to the Movies
- Boston in the Movies
- Business Ethics in the Movies
- IMD: Internet Movie
Database
- Librarians
in the Movies
- Lists
of Things Found in the Movies
- Math
in the Movies
- Medieval
History in the Movies
- Modern
History in the Movies
- MRQE, over 25,000 movie
reviews
- Scientists
and Medical Doctors in the Movies
- Tudors in the
Movies and on Television
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| Journal Indexes
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Journals: Full-Text Online
(Open Access and BU Subscription)
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- ABI
Inform Global, business BU
- Alphabetical List of Open Access Journals in Ancient Studies. From AWOL: The Ancient World Online. Forum for Classics, Libraries, and Scholarly Communication
- Cefael: Online Collections of the French School at Athens
- DigiZeitschriften, full list, Open Access only, and Links to other journal archives
- DOAJ: Directory of Open
Access Journals
- Electronic Journal subscriptions , current A-Z title list and A-Z provider list BU
- Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek, single list of free and pay for view journals
- FindArticles.com,
1984+ selected academic, industrial, and general publications
- Free
Medical Journals, through PubMed
- FreeMedicalJournals.com
- JSTOR BU
- Open J-Gate (About)
- Persee: portail de revues scientifiques en sciences humaines et sociales. Universite Lumiere Lyon 2
- Project Muse
BU
- Redalyc (
Red de Revistas Científicas de América Latina y El Caribe, España y Portugal) Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Mexico. Lists:A-Z, country, and subject.
- SciELO (Scientific Electronic Library Online). Brazil.
- ScienceDirect,
click on Search BU
- SEALS (Swiss Electronic Academic Library Service)
- SpringerLink,
science BU
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Legal Information
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Government Information
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Literature online
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Books
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- ARTFL,
French language texts, University of Chicago BU
- Bartleby.com, "Great
Books Online"
- Bibliomania
- Children's
Literature
- Complete
Works of Shakespeare
- Favorite Poem Project,
Robert Pinsky, former Poet Laureate of the U.S.
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Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples
- Internet
Classics Archive, Greek, Roman, Chinese, and Persian
- Internet Public
Library (ipl2) Books Collection
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Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism
BU
- LION: Literature
Collections Online or
Find authors, works,
Browse authors and works, Search texts, secondary sources,
Chadwyck Healy BU
- Literary
Resources on the Web
- Literary Traveler,
places where authors lived and traveled
- Middle English
Compendium BU
- Women
Writers Online (Brown University) BU
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Maps
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| Music |
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| News and Media
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- Abyz News Links,
international
- American Journalism Review,
includes campus papers
- Boston Globe
(today's and yesterday's)
- Ethnic NewsWatch
BU
- FAIR, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting
- LexisNexis
BU
- Newspapers, at BU and
on the Web, Susan Wishinsky, Boston University
- PR Watch, Center for Media and Democracy
- SourceWatch,
directory of public
relations firms , think
tanks , industry-funded
organizations
- World News Connection
(WNC), Foreign Broadcast Information Service BU
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| Opinion Polls
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| Patents
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| Privacy |
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| Prizes
and Awards |
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Quotations
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Literature
Speeches |
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| Statistics
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United States
- Bureau of Labor Statistics
- Profile
of the Working Poor, 2008
- Campus
Security Statistics, US Dept Education, Office of Post-Secondary
Education
- Current Index to
Statistics, journal articles and books BU
- Fedstats
- Historical
(1790-1970) Census Data Browser
- National
Center for Health Statistics
- National
Center for Education Statistics
- National Vital Statistics System, formerly Monthly Vital Statistics Reports. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Stateline.org Site Map ,
50 states' public policies and statistics compared
- PEWInternet Trend Data
-
Statistical Abstracts of the United States (1879-2011)
- National
Vital Statistics System ,
f ormerly "Monthly Vital Statistics Reports"
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Statistical Resources, Tim Lewontin, Boston University
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Statistical Resources on the Web, Explore GovDocs [by subtopic], University of Michigan,
Documents Center
- Statistical
Universe BU
- U.S. Bureau of the Census
- American
Fact Finder
- First
2010 Census Results
- Measuring
America: The Decennial Censuses from 1790 to 2000,
includes questionnaires and instructions
- State and
County Quick Facts
- Quarterly
Summary of State Government Tax Collections, see also
Federal,
State, and Local Governments
- Theme Maps
International
- China Data Center BU
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Infonation, UN member states (may require several tries)
- International
Data Base (IDB), US Census
- Statistical Sites on the World Wide Web [foreign and domestic], US Dept of Labor
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OFFSTATS, international social and economic data by
country and topic, University of Auckland
- 2010 World Population
Data Sheet, birth/death, fertility, HIV/AIDS, GNP, etc.
- UNESCO
Institute for Statistics, Education, Science and Technology,
Culture and Communication
- UNICEF
Statistical Data
- United Nations
Statistics Division, part free, part subscription
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| Think Tanks
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| Timelines
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| Transportation
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Travel and Study Abroad
See also--
Consumer Information
Converters (Currency)
Dictionaries
Maps
Transportation
Weather
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| Universities
& Colleges |
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| Weather
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| Web Development
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- Academic and Scholalr Search Engines and Sources, Marcus Zillman, Virtual Private Library
- Basic HTML and Web Publishing, Networked Information
Services, IT, BU
- BreaktheChain.org,
e-mail chain letters
- FreeWebspace.net,
free Web hosting guide
- H-Net Discussion Networks
- Internet Crime Complaint Center
- Link Popularity Check Tool
- NetFactual.com,
domain facts, glossary, etc.
- Promoting
Your Site, "HowStuffWorks" lists of submit-a-site pages
and sites
- Search Engine
Watch
- Slamming
Spamming, University of Illinois at Chicago Academic
Computing and Communications Center
- waybackmachine (Internet Archive)
- Web Developer's
Virtual Library
- whatis.com, Internet
and computer encyclopedia
- whois.net,
information on domain names, IP Addresses, domain hosts and networks--who owns a domain name new
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