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Welcome to the Storrs Library Gateway to the Internet. Click
on any of the topics below and you will be brought to Web sites
chosen by Library Staff for their usefulness in answering questions
frequently asked at the Library. This list is not intended to
be a comprehensive directory of all Internet sites on every subject
ART MUSEUMS
The Boston Museum of Fine Arts
The Metropolitan Museum of
Art
Paris Pages Musee
du Louvre
The Smithsonian Institution Home
Page
The
Virtual Library: Museums
Online directory of museums worldwide. Links
to exhibits in libraries. View the Magna Carta from the British
Library, rare maps and other documents and artifacts.
WebMuseum: Bienvenue!
BUSINESS/ FINANCE
Directory
of Companies
Directory
of Manufacturers
Edgar-Online the Source
for Today's SEC Filings
Hoover's Online!
Money and Investing Update -
Wall Street Journal
Money Online
The Motley Fool
New York Stock Exchange Home Page
Thomas' Register
Historical Quotes
Search Engine
Closing stock quotes by date from January 2,
1985 to the present.
CAREERS/ JOBS
MANY OF THESE SITES OFFER ANCILLARY SERVICES
SUCH AS RESUME PREPARATION, JOB FAIRS, EMPLOYER PROFILES.
America's Job Bank
Information from the U.S. Dept. of Labor and
state employment services
Boldface
Jobs
Easy to use access to employment opportunities
CareerMosaic
Listings from employers around the world
CareerPath Home Page
Sunday job listings from major U.S. newspapers
plus smaller regional papers
Careers &
Jobs (tm)
Hundreds of job listings and links to other sites
jobs
FedWorld
Federal Job Announcement Search
Mass Bedrock
Relevant data, guides and service referrals for
those planning or doing business in Massachusetts.
The Riley Guide
CHILDREN
Storrs Library Discovery
Room Picks
American
Library Association Resources for Parents, Kids, & Teens
Child
Safety on the Information Highway
Children's Picture
Book Database
CyberKids Home
CyberKids/Cyberteens
Launchpad
Cyber-Seuss
Exploratorium Home
Page
Family.Com: Contents
K-12 On the Internet
Kids Web
- A World Wide Web Digital Library for Schoolkids
Research Paper
Help
Get help doing your research paper
SafeKids.com
Rules for online safety
Scholastic Place
Sports Illustrated For Kids
SuperKids Educational Software
Review
This Is
Mega-Mathematics!
White House for
Kids
COMPUTERS
Miscellaneous
Ethics
in Computing
HotWired Overview
Internet
Internet
Training
Teach yourself about the Internet, the World
Wide Web, and HTML.
Internet
Training/ Introductory Class
Internet
Training/ Advanced Class
CONSUMER INFORMATION
Agency for Health
Care Policy & Research
Information on health plans, diseases and questions
to ask the doctor
Better Business Bureau
User-friendly site with some full-text publications;
dispute resolution services; complaints registration.
Consumer Information
Center
Consumer Information Catalog online; registry
of local consumer protection agencies
Consumer Product Safety Commission
Publications, press releases, recalls, links
to other agencies
Consumer Project on Technology
Created by Ralph Nader
ConsumerSearch
Finds the best reviews for consumer products,
analyzes their picks and selects the best products. Site is organized
by category.
Consumer World
Links to 5000+ sites; good starting point for
consumer information
Consumers
International
Edmund's Cars, Vans, Trucks
Buyer's Guide
New and used vehicles; lots of other information
in addition to prices
Epinions
Opinions by individuals, not professional reviewers,
rating products and services. Links to auctions and other sites
selling reviewed products.
Experian Expo
Information, some for a fee, on personal financial
topics
Finance Center
Help in making personal finance decisions; access
to the lowest loan rates
National Fraud Information
Center
Focuses on telemarketing and online fraud
EDUCATION
Editing, Formatting, Style
Citing
Electronic and Print Sources
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 10th Edition
The Elements of Style
College; Community College
U.S. Universities
and Community Colleges
ENTERTAINMENT
General Entertainment
Disney
Music and CDs
AMG All Music Guide
Mostly popular music. Search by type of music,
artist, song, labels, albums.
Gilbert and Sullivan
Archive
Movies and Videos
Academy of Motion Pictures
Arts and Sciences
Current Movie
Reviews - New York Times
Entertainment Reviews
For Parents
Parent-directed reviews
The Internet Movie Database
Movie reviews and U.S. movie showtimes.
Movie Review Query Engine
Over 25,000 reviews of American and foreign films. Good search
engine
Movie
Reviews - Chicago Tribune
Movie Reviews -
Classics
Movie Reviews
- Roger Ebert
Movie
Reviews - Washington Post
Movie Reviews - WHYY film
critic, Patrick Stoner
Television
Discovery Channel Online
Radio
Welcome to NPR
FOOD
Food Network
Search by keyword or by individual shows
Epicurious Home Page
Search more than 10,000 recipes and access the
sites of Bon Appetit and Gourmet magazines
Food
ClipArt
More than 300 food-related images to use on flyers
or web pages
Home
Arts
FOREIGN LANGUAGES
Foreign Languages
for Travelers
GENEALOGY
Family
Tree Maker's Genealogy Site
Genealogy "How-To" Guide
Genealogy
U.S. Government Census Department genealogy page
Genealogy Home Page
Family Search
Searchable database of 640 million names maintained by the Church
of Latter Day Saints
GOVERNMENT
Local
Town
of Longmeadow
Important town information, LHS alumni page,
recycling schedule, assessments, and much more.
State
Commonwealth
of Massachusetts
The Fifty States
Nice summary of important facts of the fifty
states.
Counties
Massachusetts
Counties Quick Facts
Federal
CNN/Time AllPolitics
Country Studies
/ Area Handbooks
Environmental Protection Agency
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Food & Drug Agency
Human Rights Campaign
Internal Revenue Service
National Park Service
THOMAS: Legislative Information
on the Internet
U.S. Censushttp://www.census.gov/
U.S. Treasury
Vote Smart Web
Welcome to the White House
International
International
Governments - Directory (Yahoo)
Other
students.gov
A government-wide web portal for students.
HEALTH, MEDICINE
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A note of caution: Search engines are
not able to distinguish between bogus and legitimate health and
medical sites. Therefore, it is very important to evaluate each
Web site for accuracy, reliability and usefulness. Before doing
health- related research on the Web, users might want to visit
the following site: Evaluating
Web Sites |
Search Engines, Directories
CONSUMER HEALTH REFERENCE
CENTER INTERNET RESOURCES
A joint project of the Massachusetts Board of
Library Commissioners and the Treadwell Library, Massachusetts
General Hospital
- General Health Information/Diseases/Disorders
- Health in the News
- Health Fraud
- Hospital Directories
- Physician Directories
- Massachusetts Board of Registration Physician
Profiles
- Support Groups and Health Hotlines
CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL
WONDER on the WEB
Point of access to reports, guidelines and numeric
public health data
Harvard Medical
Web Home Page
Health Directory (Yahoo)
Healthfinder
Gateway consumer health information web site
from the U.S. government
MedicineNet
Search Engine
Clinical
Trials on the Web
Provides patients, family members, healthcare
professionals easy access to information on clinical trials for
many diseases and conditions. Trials are mostly sponsored by
the National Institutes of Health and are being offered at over
47,000 locations nationwide.
MayoClinic.com
Medmatrix
U.S. National Library of Medicine
(NLM)
Diseases and Conditions
Diseases
and Conditions (Yahoo)
Merck Manual Online
Center for Disease Control and
Prevention
Agency for Health Care
Policy & Research
Information on diseases and questions to ask
the doctor.
American
Diabetes Association
American Heart Association
American Psychiatric Association
American Cancer Society
Fitness
Body mass calculator
Medicine and Drugs
U.S. Food & Drug Agency
Access to FDA Consumer, the agency's monthly
magazine
RxList
Information on the top 200 prescripton drugs
United
States Pharmacopeia--Advice for the Patient
A guide to over 9,000 prescription and over-the-counter
medications. Browse by first letter of the generic or brand name.
Doctor's
Guide Global Edition
Click on New Drugs/Indications for up-to-the
minute news about the approval of new drugs or new indications
for previously approved drugs.
HISTORY
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A note of caution: Search engines are not able to distinguish
between bogus and legitimate historical sources. Therefore, it
is very important to evaluate each Web site for accuracy, reliability
and usefulness. Before doing historical research on the Web,
users might want to visit the following site: Evaluating
Web Sites |
General guides
History
Guide
A metasite site containing approximately 1,400
links and indexed to be searched in several ways. Each link is
evaluated.Most useful for Anglo-American history.
American
and British History Resources on the Web
Designed by the staff of the Rutgers University
libraries to provide links to many reliable sources.
Ancient and medieval
The Perseus Project
A digital library of primary texts and translations,
maps and pictures of art objects from the ancient world.
Ancient History Sourcebook
An excellent, well-indexed site designed for
classroom use. Search the Sourcebook for materials, including
primary texts, on ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome and
the Hellenistic world.
Medieval
Sourcebook
Good starting point for finding information on
the Middle Ages. Many links to relevant sites.
The
Oriental Institute
Click on the table of contents to access sites on the Ancient
Near East-Egypt, Mesopotamia, Persia, Anatolia and more.
Modern
Modern
History Sourcebook
The third sourcebook in the series developed
by Fordham University. A gateway to primary texts, maps and other
information about the modern world.
United States
Native American
Native Culture
Primary Sources
National Archives of the
United States
Contains reproducible copies of historical documents
and other resources for teachers and students.
American
and British History Source Materials on the Internet
Use this portal site to access the Library of
Congress American Memory project and many other excellent primary
source archives.
Contemporary History and Current Events
Library
of Congress Country Studies/Area Handbook Program
Studies of approximately 70 countries prepared
by the Federal Research Division. Includes history, geography,
society, government and demographics.
LAW, LAWYERS
Massachusetts Trial
Court Law Libraries on the Web
Internet Legal Resources
Supreme
Court Decisions Search (1937-present)
Legal
Encyclopedia
Massachusetts
General Laws
LIBRARIES
Library
of Congress
Search the catalog, view exhibits, visit the
American Memory Project, download copyright information and forms.
Massachusetts Library
and Information Service
Click here to search all Massachusetts public,
academic and special library catalogs.
Boston Public Library
New York Public Library
Western Massachusetts Regional
Library System
MUSIC
Database of songs
Two million songs to search
Classical
Music Resources
Developed and maintained by Duke University. An educational resource
distinguished for links to nearly 2000 non-commercial sites.
NEWS
Online
Newspapers listed by state
International online
newspapers
Boston Globe:Extra!
The Chicago Tribune
Today's edition; no back issues
Christian Science
Monitor
Broad international coverage; back issues from
1980
CNN Interactive
Mass Live
Acess to the Springfield Union News and Sunday
Republican. Today’s edition news, features and obituaries.
New York Times
NOTE: Password is Storrs
San Francisco
Chronicle and Examiner
Back issues from 1995
USA Today
6 days of back issues for news/sports; 1
year for reviews; updated constantly
Washington
Post
Search back issues up to 2 weeks old
PARENTING
Entertainment
Reviews For Parents
Parent-directed reviews
Family.com
Family Education Network
National Child Care Information
Center
Olen
Pregnancy, Ovulation, and Childbirth Calendar
Parent Soup!
The Parenting Community
Parenting, Parents, Baby - the parenting resource
center on the web.
PHONE BOOKS
- Yellow Pages
- Big Yellow
Search by category or by name and state of business.
Bigbook
GTE Super Pages
- Residential
- Switchboard
Telephone Directories on the
Web
International, annotated directory. Gateway to
available international directories on the Web.
REFERENCE WORKS
Merriam-Webster's
Collegiate Dictionary, 10th Edition
Bartlett, John. 1901. Familiar
Quotations
Biographical
Dictionary
Book awards, honors
and prizes
Nobel, Pulitzer, Mystery and Science Fiction
book awards
Directory
of Special Purpose Encyclopedias on the Internet
APA-
and MLA-Style Citations for On-line/Internet Sources
Foreign Language, specialty
and technical dictionaries
RELIGION
Gateway site
Finding
God in Cyberspace
An excellent starting point for research in religion.
Many links to specific sites.
Specific Religions
Baha’i
Baha'i
Texts and information about the Baha’i fellowships.
Buddhism
Buddhism
Zen
Buddhism
Database of Zen centers in the U.S. and abroad.
Christianity
There are so many Web sites dedicated to
Christian content that it would be difficult to include all of
them here. Below are just a few that have been selected as most
useful by Booklist.
Catholic Online
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod
Has links to other Christian sites
Orthodox Christian
Foundation
Texts and liturgy of the Greek Orthodox Church
Hinduism
Hindu Universe
Website for the Global Hindu Electronic Networks,
a project of the Hindu Students Council.
Islam
Islam
Website developed and maintained by the Department
of Religious Studies at the University of Georgia.
Judaism
Shamash
Created by the Jewish Internet Consortium. Links
to organizations, libraries, museums, schools. FAQs about Judaism.
Sikhism
Fort: Panth Khalsa
REVIEWS AND LITERARY CRITICISM
Amazon.com Books! Earth's
Biggest Bookstore
Random House
New books, reading guides and resources for readers
Book Browser
Reviews, forthcoming titles, reading lists
Book of the Month Club
BookWire - The First Place
to Look for Book Information
Contemporary
Authors
Database of biographical information on contemporary
authors
Enter a valid Storrs Library card number to access database.
Contemporary
Literary Criticism
Enter a valid Storrs Library card number to
access reviews and literary criticism on contemporary authors.
New York Times
Book Reviews
Reviews from Sunday and weekday editions with backfiles to 1980
Mr. William
Shakespeare and the Internet
Complete works online, frequently asked questions, links to other
Shakespeare resources on the web.
Simon & Schuster
Homepage
Bestsellers, new releases, resources for reading groups, educators
and librarians
SCIENCE
Animals
Animal Image
Collection
Good site for animal pictures
Chemistry
ChemCenter Home
Page
Periodic Table
Environment
Rainforest Action Network
Space
The Galaxy Page
(tours of solar system)
NASA Ames Space Science:
Introduction (for high school and college students)
The
Nine Planets
Other
Academic
Press Dictionary of Science and Technology
Full entries for over 130,000 terms, plus audio
capacity. Listen to the pronunciation of medical and scientific
terminology.
How Stuff Works
Explore the science behind every-day things
SEARCH ENGINES
Subject Directories
Librarians Index to the Internet
Sites selected and reviewed by librarians.
Infomine
A list of resources from the Arts through
Zoology selected by librarians at the University of California.
Yahoo!
The most commonly used commercial subject
directory on the Internet.
Basic Search Engines
The remarks associated with selected
search engines are based on evaluations by Library Journal's
Webwatch
About
Alta Vista
Ask Jeeves
Excite Home
61,000 reviewed sites; short reviews
Go.com Search
Google
Hotbot Search
Lycos Internet Directory
Magellan Internet Guide
40,000 rated & reviewed sites; good starting
point
Northern Light
Search
Search Bug
Use for locating information on organizations
WebCrawler Search
META Search Engines
Dogpile
Specialized Search Engines
Guides to Specialized
Search Engines
SENIOR CITIZENS
AARP WebPlace
Elderhostel
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Economics
Economics
- Directory (Yahoo)
Geography
Geography
- Directory (Yahoo)
Regions (Yahoo)
Sociology
Sociology
- Directory (Yahoo)
SPORTS
ESPNET SportsZone
GolfWeb
SportsLine USA
TRAVEL
Disney Theme Park and
Resort Sites
Fodor's on the Web
Customized travel services including currency
converter, advisories & tips
Foreign Languages
for Travelers
Reservations
Shoestring Travel
Budget-saving travel tips
Travelocity
Universal Currency Converter
U.S. and International Cities
Vacation Planning
Includes Find-a-Trip feature
Virtual Tourist
II World Map
WEATHER
Weather
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