What follows is just a small sampling of what is available out on the net, but we hope it is a helpful one. If YOU see another source "out there" that you think would be useful enough to include here, please e-mail the name, address and a short description to LibWeb@umassd.edu.
The resources are arranged by the following headings:
Education & Financial Aid
Government & Politics
Law
Miscellaneous
Name, Address & Telephone
News
Organizations
People
Places and Travel
Publishing & Books
Statistics
Time & Date
University of Massachusetts
Weather
Words
Education & Financial Aid
American Universities from the University of Florida College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
College and Universities Home Pages - geographical listing of over 3000 entries from more than 80 countries
CollegeNET - searchable listings of schools, financial aid information, and more
Financial Aid Search Through the Web(fastWEB) - search 180,000 private sector scholarships, fellowships, grants, and loans
Greek Pages - fraternities and sororities nationwide
U.S Universities - home pages of U.S. universities searchable by state name
Government & Politics
Boston and Massachusetts Government
Congressional e-mail directory
CONGRESS.ORG - Congressional Information
The Constitution of the United States of America
Constituicao da Republica Portuguesa
The Electronic Embassy - links to staffs and resources of the Washington D.C. embassy community
The Embassy Page - Embassies, consulates and other links around the world from Globescope Internet Services
Full-text State Statutes and Legislation on the Internet
General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts - The Massachusetts Legislature
Government Information Xchange - Search for federal, state, and local government
Inaugural addresses of the presidents of the United States - from www.bartleby.com
Massachusetts - A Piper Resources guide to government sponsored Internet sites at www.statelocalgov.net
Massachusetts Department of Public Health
Massachusetts Representative - Barney Frank - 4th District
Massachusetts Representative - Michael E. Capuano - 8th District
Massachusetts Representative - William Delahunt - 10th District
Massachusetts Representative - Stephen F. Lynch - 9th District
Massachusetts Representative - Edward J. Markey - 7th District
Massachusetts Representative - Martin T. Meehan - 5th District
Massachusetts Representative - Jim McGovern - 3rd District
Massachusetts Representative - Richard E. Neal - 2nd District
Massachusetts Representative - John W. Olver - 1st District
Massachusetts Representative - John Tierney - 6th District
Massachusetts Senator - Edward M. Kennedy
Massachusetts Senator - John Kerry
Rhode Island - A Piper Resources guide to government sponsored Internet sites
Rhode Island Secretary of State's Public Information Kiosk
R.I. Representative - Patrick J. Kennedy
R.I. Representative - James R. Langevin
SRPEDD - Southeastern Regional Planning and Economic Development District - 27 S.E.Mass Cities & Towns
State and Local Governments - A Library of Congress Internet Resource Page
State and Local Government on the Net - A Piper Resources guide to government sponsored Internet sites
UMass Dartmouth Library's Access to Goverment Documents
The United States Copyright Office - The Library of Congress
U.S. Government Manual, the Federal Register and more - from the Office of the Federal Register
Uncle Sam MIGRATING GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS - tracks printed government publications that are migrating to the Internet by identifying URLs and linking them directly to the electronic documents
Law
Copyright and Fair Use - a service of Standford University Libraries
Copyright Law Materials - from the Legal Research Institute at Cornell
Internet Publications of the Legal Information Institute - a research activity of the Cornell Law School
Law and Politics Internet Guide
Patent Law Materials - from the Legal Research Institute at Cornell
Thomas; Legislative Information on the Internet - a service of the Library of Congress
The United States Code - generated from the Government Printing Office's CD-ROM version via Cornell
W3 Lawyer - a well organized site with links to numerous legal sources
Miscellaneous
Agricultural Research Service - Newsletters & Publications
Chambers of Commerce Directory
Common Equivalent Weights and Measures
The Culturefinder - "the online address for the performing arts"
Consumer Product Safety Commission
Conversion Factors (U.S. to International) - from the Washington State Dept. of Transportation
Edmund's Automobile Buyer's Guides
The Official Kelley Blue Book Car Guide - new & used cars
The Encyclopedia Mythica - an encyclopedia on mythology, folklore, legends, and more...
MLIN Massachusetts Library and Information Network
MBL/WHOI library - Woods Hole, Massachusetts
The National Budget Simulation
NIST Chemistry WebBook from the National Institute of Standards andTechnology
Dictionary of Occupational Titles Index
Occupational Outlook Handbook - from the Bureau of Labor Statistics
Periodic Table - from Los Alamos National Laboratory
Physical Reference Data - from the National Institute of Standards and Technology
Product Review NET - Consumer Product Reviews
Robert F. Kennedy Assassination Archives
RxList - The Internet Drug Index
Tax information - Federal & Massachusetts
Tax Forms - Available Online.
Virtual Facts on File - large collection of Internet reference sources
Name, Address, Telephone & Zip Codes
Area Code Listing, by Number; by AT&T Toll-Free Internet Directory
BigBook Yellow Pages of over 16 million U.S. businesses
Verizon SuperPages.com - search for U.S. businesses and view the locations on a map
InfoSpace: The Ultimate Directory - search through yellow pages, business directories, city information, government information, service directories, and info about people
International Telephone Directory
National Address Server - create formated mailing addresses with zip codes
ZIP Code +4 Lookup and Address Information - from the U.S. Postal Service
News
AJR Newslink - American Jouranlism Reviews links to new from around the world
The Christian Science MonitorElectronic Edition
Electronic Telegraph - News from Great Britain
MSNBC - a daily news magazine NBC and Microsoft
Omnivore - Entry into myriad sources of news on the Web
PPPP.net - links to news sources from around the world
The Standard Times - New Bedford, MA
U.S. News Online - from U.S. News & World Report
washingtonpost.com - From The Washington Post
Yahoo! - Yahoo! news section
Organizations
The Foundation Center - information for "grantseekers and grantmakers"
Scholarly Societies Project - information on scholarly societies around the world from the Univesity of Waterloo
People
Biography - Over 15,000 biographies and more (A & E Television & Biography Magazine)
NameBase from PIR (Public Information Research) - information on people and books in business & politics; national & international
Notable Citizens of Planet Earth - a dictionary of over 18,000 people from ancient times to the present
Places and Travel
Boston & New York Insider Tips - San Francisco & Hawaii too
Boston Transportation - cars, trains, buses & planes
Cape Verde Related Resources - from the UMD Library
Country Studies - Area Handbook Program from the Library of Congress
The 50 States of the United States - capital cities and information links
Fodor's - an online information & travel service
Foreign Languages for Travelers - lessons & sound files in 30+
A Geographic Nameserver database - USGS National Mapping Information
How Far Is It? - distances between places calculated
Lonely Planet; down to earth travel information - from Lonely Planet Publications
Nantucket Island Information Center
Massachusetts Electronic Atlas - from the Harvard Map Colleciton
New Bedford, Masschusetts - official home page
Portuguese Related Resources - from the UMD Library
Republic of Cape Verde Home Page - UNOFFICIAL
Taunton, Masschusetts - official home page
Travel Warnings & Consular Information Sheets
The Universal Currency Converter
The Virtual Tourist II - map-based access to country information worldwide
Yahoo! Maps from Yahoo - enter street address, intersection or city, State
Publishing & Books
Alex - Books on the Net via a gopher search by Author, Title, Date, Language & Host
Banned Books Online - from Carnegie Mellon University
Booklist - Book reviews online from digital counterpart of Booklist magazine (American Library Association)
BookWire - Book information and related links
The Children's Literature Web Guide - from the University of Calgary Library
The Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia
MPA Music Publishers' Association Agency Sales Agency List - directory of music publishers and publisher's imprints
The On-Line Books Page - index of thousands of online books and documents
Project Gutenberg - Public domain texts from all over the world
Publishers Catalogs' Home Page
Reference Reviews Europe / IFB Abstracts - Reference reviews and bibliographies from the german review journal Informationsmittel fur Bibliotheken
Statistics
Historical, Social, Economic, and Demographic Data for the U.S. Decennial Census - from the ICPSR
The Statistical Abstract of the United States
Time & Date
Calendar - calenders past present and future
A Daily Almanac - by Craig J. Copi
Date and Time Gateway - for cities worldwide
U.S. Naval Observatory Master Clock
University of Masschusetts
UMass Worcester Medical Center
Weather
National Weather Service - Interactive Weather Information Network
WeatherNet - from The University of Michigan
Words
American English Dictionary - a searchable gopher index
ARTFL Project: ROGET'S Thesaurus Search Form
Bartelby.com featuring Bartlett's Book of Familiar Quotations - Passages, Phrases and Proverbs Traced to their Sources
Dictionaries - dictionaries of differenct types and languages
Internet Anagram Server or I, Rearrangement Servant
Know Play? - Reference - Dictionary, Thesaurus, Encyclopedia, World Atlas, Fine Artist Search, Quotations, Rhyming Dictionary, CIA World Factbook, Acronym Finder
Latin Grammar Aid and Wordlist from the University of Notre Dame Archives
Merriam-Webster Online - the dictionary and more
Net Lingo - "A Dictionary of Internet Language"
OneLook Dictionaries - the Faster Finder - search multiple dictionaries at once
A Web of On-line Dictionaries - by R.Beard, Bucknell University
Whatis.com - an internet dictionary
The World Wide Web Acronym and Abbreviation Server
A sampling of Internet resources for Reference
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