The American Center

Ready Reference

Almanac & Factbook

• The 50 States of the United States
      http://www.50states.com/    
  
• The Almanac of Politics and Government
      http://www.polisci.com/  
  
• Census 2000: State & County QuickFacts
      http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/    
  
• Facts for You
      http://www.factsforyou.gov/    
  
• Information Please Almanac
      http://www.infoplease.com/almanacs.html    
  
• U.S. Blue Pages
      http://209.142.196.56/gsabluepages/default.aspx
  
• The World Factbook
      http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.htm

 

Associations & Organizations

• American Library Association
      http://www.ala.org/
• ASAE's Gateway to Associations
     http://info.asaenet.org/gateway/OnlineAssocSlist.html
•  Association for Information Management
       http://www.aslib.co.uk/
•  Associations on the Net (AON)
     http://www.ipl.org/div/aon/
• Galenet: International, U.S. National, and Regional, State and Local Associations
      http://galenet.gale.com
• Idealist
      http://www.idealist.org
• International Federation for Library Associations and Institutions(IFLA)
      http://www.ifla.org/
• Special Library Association
      http://www.sla.org/
• Visual Resources Association
      http://www.vraweb.org/
  

Biographies

• Biographical Dictionary
     http://www.s9.com/biography/
• Biographical Sources
     http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/hstm/hstm_bio.htm
• Biographies of Pilots
     http://www.xs4all.nl/~blago/planewriting/bios.html
• Biography
     http://www.biography.com/
• Biographies of U.S. Government Officials
      http://bangkok.usembassy.gov/services/irc/rea_biob.htm
• Find-A-Grave
     http://www.findagrave.com
• The List of Popes
     http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12272b.htm
• The Nobel Prize Internet Archive
     http://www.almaz.com/nobel/nobel.html
• Presidents of the United States
     http://www.ipl.org/div/potus/
• Women in Sports
     http://www.makeithappen.com/wis/
• Current U.S. Population

Dictionaries

• allwords.com
      http://www.allwords.com/
• The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
      http://www.bartleby.com/61/
• Clear Ink's SpellWeb
      http://www.spellweb.com/
• The College Slang Page
      http://www.intranet.csupomona.edu/ ~jasanders/slang/
• Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
      http://www.bibliomania.com/2/3/255/frameset.html
• Dictionary of Slang
      http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/
• Directory of Translation Dictionaries
      http://www.lexicool.com
• Encarta World English Dictionary
      http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/dictionary/dictionaryhome.aspx
• Encyberpedia Dictionary and Glossary
      http://www.encyberpedia.com/ glossary.htm#dictionaries
• English Dictionary
      http://dictionary.reference.com/
• LOGOS Dictionary
      http://www.logos.it/new_dictionary/index_en.html
• Merriam-Webster Dictionary
      http://www.m-w.com/netdict.htm
• OneLook Dictionaries
    http://www.onelook.com/
• Specialty Dictionaries
      http://www.yourdictionary.com/specialty.html
• VoyCabulary
      http://www.voycabulary.com/
• A Web of On-line Dictionaries
      http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/ rbeard/diction.html
• Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus (WEDT)
      http://www.wordsmyth.net/
• yourDictionary.com
      http://www.yourdictionary.com/

Encyclopedia

• Britannica.com
  http://www.britannica.com
• Britannica Online
    http://www.eb.com/
• Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th edition
    http://www.bartleby.com/65/
• Encarta
  http://encarta.msn.com/
• Encyberpedia
    http://www.encyberpedia.com/ency.htm
• Encyclopedia.Com
    http://www.encyclopedia.com/
• Encyclopedia of Western Signs and Ideograms
      http://www.SYMBOLS.com/
• Encyclopedia Smithsonian
    http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/start.htm
• Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia Online
    http://auth.grolier.com/cgi-bin/authV2
• The Cambridge History of English and American Literature
    http://www.bartleby.com/cambridge/

Flags

• Federal Flag Code
      http://www.bcpl.net/~etowner/flagcode.html
  
• Flags of All Countries
      http://www.theodora.com/ flags/flags.html
• Flags of the Confederacy
      http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/us-csa.html
• Flag of the United States
      http://www.usflag.org/toc.html
• Historical Flags of the United States
      http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/us-hist.html
• U.S. Flag
      http://www.usflag.org/toc.html

Government Resources

• The Almanac of Politics and Government
      http://www.polisci.com/
• American Law Sources On-line (ALSO)
      http://www.lawsource.com/also/
• Code of Federal Regulations (CFR)
      http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/index.html
• Congressional Pictorial Directory
      http://www.gpo.gov/congress/108_pictorial/index.html
• Federal Gateway
      http://fedgate.org/
• USA.gov 
      http://www.usa.gov/
• Government Information Resources
      http://infomine.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/search?govpub
• Government Information Xchange
      http://www.info.gov/
• Law and Politics Internet Guide
      http://www.lpig.org
• The Political Graveyard
      http://politicalgraveyard.com/
• U.S. Blue Pages
      http://209.142.196.56/gsabluepages/default.aspx
• U.S. Government Printing Office
      http://www.gpoaccess.gov/index.html
• Washingtonpost: The Federal Internet Guide
      http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/govt/fedguide/
      fedguide.htm

 

Maps

• 50States
      http://www.50states.com/us.htm
• Maps and Driving Directions
      http://maps.msn.com/(unhhus55lgj2t1nyqpf2aii5)/home.aspx
• Maps and Driving Directions
      http://maps.yahoo.com/py/maps.py
• MapBlast!
      http://mappoint.msn.com/(1xaivjui4z3rtx45twweysi2)/home.aspx?mapblast=true
• Map Collection
      http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/index.html
• Maps.com
      http://www.maps.com
• MapQuest
      http://www.mapquest.com
• Maps of the United States:
  The Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection
      http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/united_states.html
• Quick Maps of the World
      http://www.theodora.com/maps/abc_world_maps.html
• U.S. Gazetteer
      http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer/
• Zoom Into Maps
      http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/maps/introduction.html
• Military Sources

Periodicals

• American Heritage
      http://www.americanheritage.com/
• American Libraries Online
      http://www.ala.org/alonline
• Asiaweek Online
     http://www.asiaweek.com/asiaweek/
• Atlantic Monthly
      http://www.theatlantic.com/
• Brookings Review
      http://bookstore.brookings.edu/
• The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
      http://www.bullatomsci.org/
• Business Week
      http://www.businessweek.com/
• Byte
      http://www.byte.com/
• Choice
      http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/choice/home.htm
• The Chronicle of Higher Education
      http://chronicle.com/
• Discover Magazine
      http://www.discover.com/
• The Economist
      http://www.economist.com/
• Forbes Online
      http://www.forbes.com/
• Foreign Affairs
      http://www.foreignaffairs.org/
• Foreign Policy
      http://www.foreignpolicy.com/
• Fortune
      http://www.fortune.com/
• Harvard Political Review
      http://www.hpronline.org
• HotWired
      http://hotwired.wired.com/
• Money
      http://www.money.com/money/
• Mother Jones
      http://www.mojones.com/
• Nation
      http://www.thenation.com/
• National Geographic
      http://www.nationalgeographic.com/
• National Review
      http://www.nationalreview.com/
• New Republic
      http://www.tnr.com/
• New York Times Book Review
      http://www.nytimes.com/pages/books/
• PC Magazine
      http://www.zdnet.com/
• People
      http://people.aol.com/people/index.html
• Political Science Quarterly
      http://www.psqonline.org/
• Reason
      http://www.reason.com/
• Scientific American
      http://www.sciam.com/
• Smithsonian Magazine
      http://www.smithsonianmag.si.edu/
• Sports Illustrated
      http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/features/cover/index.html
• Technology Review
      http://www.technologyreview.com/
• Time Magazine
      http://www.time.com/time/
• U.S. News & World Report
      http://www.usnews.com/usnews/home.htm
• United States International Information program's Electronic Journals
      http://www.america.gov/publications/ejournalusa.html
• Wilson Quarterly
      http://wwics.si.edu/OUTREACH/WQ/QUARTERL.HTM
• Wired Magazine
      http://www.wired.com/
• The World and I
      http://www.worldandi.com

Phone Directories

• American Yellow Pages
      http://www.abii.com/cgi-bin/abicgi/abicgi.pl?
      bas_session=   {bas_session}&bas_vendor=0&
      bas_type=AYP&bas_page=1&bas_action=AYP
• The AmeriCom Long Distance Area Decoder
      http://decoder.AmeriCom.com/
• AnyWho Directories
      http://www.anywho.com/
• Area Code Download
      http://www.areacodedownload.com/
• Big Book
      http://www.bigbook.com/
• Internet Address Finder
      http://www.iaf.net/
• Switchboard
      http://www.switchboard.com/
• The Ultimate White Pages
      http://www.theultimates.com/yellow/
• U.S. Business Phone Listings
      http://www.switchboard.com/bin/
      cgidir.dll?MG=&BUS=&MG=
• White Pages
      http://www.infospace.com/info/
      wp/index.htm?ver=08707
• WorldPages
      http://www.worldpages.com/
• Yahoo! People Search
      http://phone.yahoo.com/
• Yellow Pages
      http://in-110.infospace.com/
      _1_4TV7T1804ZDZ8PG
      __info/index_ylw.htm

Quotations

• The Quotations Page
      http://www.quotationspage.com/
• Familiar Quotations
      http://www.bartleby.com/100/

Thesauri

• Acronyms and Abbreviations
      http://www.ucc.ie/cgi-bin/acronym
• Acronyms Finder
      http://www.mtnds.com/af/
• Synonyms Dictionary
      http://vancouver-webpages.com/synonyms.html
• Roget's Thesaurus
      http://thesaurus.reference.com/
  • Roget's Thesaurus (ARTFL Project)
        http://humanities.uchicago.edu/ forms_unrest/ROGET.html
  • Roget's Thesaurus (NIAID)
        gopher://odie.niaid.nih.gov/ 77/.thesaurus/index
• The World Wide Web Acronym and Abbreviation Server
      http://www.ucc.ie/cgi-bin/acronym/index.html
• WWWebster Thesaurus
      http://www.m-w.com/thesaurus.htm
• Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus (WEDT)
      http://www.wordsmyth.net/
  
• U.S. Census Bureau
  

U.S. Law & Legislation

• CapitolHearings.org
  http://www.capitolhearings.org/
• Code of Federal Regulations
  http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/cfr-table-search.html
• Criminal Justice Links
  http://www.jus.state.nc.us/NCJA/cjlinks.htm
• Federal Register
  http://www.archives.gov/federal_register/index.html
• FedLaw
  http://www.legal.gsa.gov
• FindLaw for Legal Professionals
  http://lawcrawler.findlaw.com/
• FindLaw Guide to Legal Resources
  http://www.findlaw.com/index.html
• GPOAccess
  http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/
• GPOGate (University of California)
  http://www.gpo.ucop.edu
• GigaLaw.com
  http://gigalaw.com/
• Guide to Law Online
  http://www.loc.gov/law/guide/index.html
• House of Representatives
  http://www.house.gov
• Internet Library of Law and Court Decisions
  http://www.phillipsnizer.com/internetlib.htm
• Lawyer Express
  http://www.lawyerexpress.com/
• 'Lectric Law Library
  http://www.lectlaw.com/rotu.html
• Legal Information Institute
  http://www.law.cornell.edu/
• LEGI-SLATE's Legislative Highlights
  http://www.statenet.com/
• Meta-Index for U.S. Legal Research
  http://gsulaw.gsu.edu/metaindex
• Senate Web
  http://www.senate.gov
• Supreme Court of the United States
  http://www.supremecourtus.gov
• Thomas - Legislation on the Internet
  http://thomas.loc.gov
• U.S. Code
  http://www.law.cornell.edu/
  http://uscode.house.gov
• U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1873
  http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lawhome.html
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
  http://www.epa.gov/epahome/rules.html
• U.S. House of Representatives Law Library
  http://uscode.house.gov
• U.S. Law Library of Congress
  http://www.loc.gov/law/guide/us.html
• WWW Virtual Law Library
  http://www.law.indiana.edu/v-lib/

U.S. Postal Services

• Area Code and Zip Code Look-ups
     http://www.melissadata.com/keywordsearch/zipcode.htm
• Official Postal Service Abbreviation
      http://www.usps.com/ncsc/lookups/abbrev.html
• US Postal Service
      http://www.usps.gov/
• US Postcode Number
      http://www.usps.gov/ncsc/lookups/lookup_zip+4.html
• ZIP Code Lookup and Address Information
      http://www.usps.com/ncsc

Weather Forecasts

• CNN Weather
      http://www.cnn.com/WEATHER/index.html
• National Weather Service
      http://www.nws.noaa.gov
• Unisys Weather
      http://weather.unisys.com/
• US National Forecast
      http://www.intellicast.com/LocalWeather/World/
• Weather Cams
      http://cirrus.sprl.umich.edu/wxnet/wxcam.html
• Weather Channel
      http://www.weather.com/
• Weather & Climate
      http://www.infoplease.com/weather.html
• Weather Information
      http://www.nectec.or.th/weather.html

Recommended Site

• Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments
  has a list of Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments (useful in finding the important names)
       http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/chiefs/index.html
• Electronic Embassy Website
  provides information on each of the embassies in Washington D.C., with links to Web-based resources where available.
       http://www.embassy.org/
• InternationalAffairs.com
  has links to a wide variety of resources ranging from news wires and newspapers to economic think-tanks to strategic studies institutes to the official web pages of governments and international institutions like the World Bank, OECD, and the United Nations.
       http://www.internationalaffairs.com/