Acronyms & Abbreviations
Africa
- Aluka a digital
library of scholarly resources from and about Africa
- AfricaResource hosts 5 peer-reviewed journals
- Africabib Searchable
bibliography of scholarly research on Africa
Almanacs
- Infoplease: Encyclopedia, Almanac, Atlas, Biographies, Dictionary, Thesaurus.
- The Old
Farmer's Almanac
- World Almanac (via OCLC FirstSearch) Lake Forest College only
- World Almanac (via Lexis-Nexis) Click "Sources," "Reference," "Encyclopedias and Almanacs," "World Almanac and Book of Facts," and then the red continue button on the right. — Lake Forest College only
Art & Architecture
Biographies
Books & Publishing
- Lake Forest
College bookstore
- CHOICE Reviews Online Reviews of academic books — Lake Forest College Only
- Abebooks.com
Rare, new, used, and textbooks
- Alibris.com
Rare and hard-to-find books
- Amazon.com
New and used books, synopses, reviews
- Barnes & Noble
New, used, textbooks, synopses, reviews
- Book
Review-a-Day Reviews from Powells.com, The Atlantic,
Esquire, New Republic, Salon.com
- BookFinder.com new, used, rare, out of print, and international books
- The
New York Times: Books Reviews
- Powells.com
New and used books, synopses, reviews
- Publist
Directory of publications and publishers
Business, Economics & Investment
- Hoover's
Online Directory and investment information for
private and public companies; Hoover's
Premium available to Lake Forest College affilliates only
For more data, use
Lexis-Nexis Business search, then scroll down to "Hoover's Company Records - In-depth Records" on the right
- Edgar (Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval system)
SEC company filings
- Bank Rate
Monitor Rates and news for credit cards, auto
loans, savings, etc.
- Reuters
Business News, Finance News, Stock Market News Includes company profiles
- Yahoo!
Finance Has symbol lookup, as well as quotes,
charts, news, discussion about stocks, funds, and indices.
- Thomas
Register of American Manufacturers
- Economic Research: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Includes several online economic research tools located on the lefthand side of the main page
- FRASER: Federal Reserve
Archival System for Economic Research historical
U.S. economic statistics and publications
- Financial
Times U.S. version of a British financial publication,
includes world-wide stock indices
- Excite Money & Investing
Stocks and markets--statistics
and research, search individual company financial information
- International Monetary Fund
Information on 185 member countries
- Rating Country Experience
Analysis of the risks involved in trading in over
140 countries
- globalEDGE
Resource Desk Directories of foreign businesses
- Business Plan Archive Collection of business plans and other documents, frequently from dot-com companies
- Groningen Growth & Development Centre International economic data
- Market Research World Includes a useful glossary
Calendars & Dates & Time
Census
Chicago
Classical Studies
Colleges & Universities
Consumer Information
Copyright
Country Information
Dictionaries & Thesauri
Digital Books
- Virtual Reference Library
Lake Forest College affiliates only
- Amazon
utilize the Search Inside!™ feature to
read select portions of books
- Botanicus 18th
and 19th century botanical literature from the Missouri Botanical
Garden Library
- The
British Library utilizes Turning the Pages software (may
require Adobe Shockwave plugin); examine details of manuscripts,
also access translated text transcriptions or summaries
- Duke [University] Digital Collections search most of the collections or browse all collections
- eScholarship
Editions Over 500 books from academic presses
on a range of topics, including art, science, history, music,
religion, and fiction
- Google
Books from the Advanced Book Search screen, select
"Full view only" to retrieve whole books online
- National
Academies books on terrorism published by the National
Academies Press
- NetLibrary
books have Table of Contents links in the left frame; book
availability dependent upon subscription of institution
- The
Online Books Page links over 30,000 free online
books and serials, selected for scholarly content, browseable
by Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Open
Content Alliance (a program of the Internet
Archive) includes Project Gutenberg, Open Source
Books, Government Documents, etc., all searchable by keywords
or browsable by subject keywords
- Open Library
goal is to have "one web page for every book ever published;"
searchable records of over 13,439,320 books including over 234,857
with full-text
- Project Gutenberg
searchable text files of over 100,000 copyright-free books
- Project Gutenberg Australia
over 1,600 books in the public domain in Australia
- TEAMS Middle English Texts
- The Universal Digital Library
goal is to digitize all books; over one million searchable,
digitized books; international
- UVa
Library Digital Collection RepositoryTexts Search
over 11,000 texts from the University of Virginia library collection.
Some are only visible to UVa users. Some are only listed on
the Subjects
page, such as Apache,
Japanese,
and Chinese
texts.
Elections
- IFES Election Guide (International Foundation for Electoral Systems) describes electoral system of the country and gives past and current results. Search by year or country.
Energy
Encyclopedias
English
Environment
- Chicago Wilderness
Magazine searchable, full-text articles, free
online
- Earth
First! Journal "voice of the radical environmental
movement"
- EcoEarth.Info
Environment Portal & Search Engine
- EcoTox database
a "tool for examining impacts of chemicals on
the environment." About
EcoTox.
- Encyclopedia of Earth
- Envirolink
- Environmental
Sites on the Internet
- Forest Protection Portal
-- Rainforest, Forest and Biodiversity Conservation News
& Information; searchable, non-profit conservation
website
- Friends
of the Earth an international network of environmentalists
- Greenpeace
International
- League of Conservation
Voters
- MSDS (Material Safety Data Sheet) Hazard Communication Library
- National Center for Appropriate
Technology, "local solutions for a sustainable
future"
- Pew Center
on Global Climate Change
- Political
Advocacy Groups: Environment, A Directory of United States
Lobbyists. created and maintained by Kathi Carlisle Fountain of Washington State University
- Sierra
Club
- TRI (Toxics Release Inventory) a database that contains detailed information on nearly 650 chemicals and chemical categories that over 23,000 industrial and other facilities manage through disposal or other releases, recycling, energy recovery, or treatment
- Voice of Agriculture
- VOA - American Farm Bureau
- Rainforest Action Network
- World Resources
Institute
- World
Watch Institute "independent, non-profit organization
researching links between the world economy and its environmental
support systems"
Exchange Rates & Currency
Genealogy
Government Information
Grants/Financial Aid
History
Holidays & Festivals
Illinois & States
Jobs
Lake Forest College
Legal Resources
Libraries
Maps & Atlases
- Lake County Interactive Mapping Application Zoom in to land parcel view to produce a labeled map showing tax assessment, date last sold, or date of construction, or search by address or PIN (property index number).
- Digital Sanborn Maps
City maps, 1867-1970, 50 ft. per inch, access to Illinois
maps only, Lake Forest College affiliates only
- Lake Forest College campus map printable PDF
- Geographic Names Information
System (GNIS) Identify official titles of locations
by searching keyword and by fields of landmark type (e.g., summit,
range, airport, island, hospital).
- Historical
Maps Online "...images of maps charting the last
400 years of historical development in Illinois and the Northwest
Territory...." search
by title, the date-issued, etc.
- Map Collections: American Memory Includes historical maps
- National
Geographic Map Machine Includes physical, cultural,
statistical, historical and street maps
- Rand
McNally Maps, directions, traffic
- Mapquest
Driving directions, travel distances & more
- Google Maps
- University
of Texas Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection Includes
links
to city and other maps worldwide
- U.S.
Census Maps Search for maps of U.S. cities by
name or zip code
Medicine & Health
Movies & Television
Museums & Art Galleries
Music
News
Local
Chicago Area
National & World
Patents & Trademarks
Philosophy
Pre-Law
Public Opinion Polls
Publishing & Books
Quotations
Reference assistance
Religion & Religious Texts
Science & Technology
- WebElements
- Periodic Table of Elements
- PubChem
search by compound, substance, bioassay, or structure
- Vadlo.com search life sciences within five categories: Protocols, Online Tools, Seminars, Databases and Software.
- Mathematical
Constants
- ArXiv open access
to 465,906 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science,
Quantitative Biology and Statistics — from Cornell University
- How
Stuff Works
- NetLingo.com A
dictionary of Internet-related terms
- Glossary of Internet & Web Jargon from U. C. Berkeley
- WolframAlpha Computational Knowledge Engine enter equations or natural language questions
- The XML Toolkit
Speeches
Sports
Statistics
- Energy
Information Administration (EIA): Official Energy Statistics
from the U.S. Government Petroleulm Data, Reports,
Analysis, Surveys
- Liber 8: An Economic
Information Portal for Librarians and Students international,
national,
and regional
economic statistics
- State
Health Facts Online from Kaiser Permanente
- Global Health Facts
from Kaiser Permanente
- Statistical
Abstract of the U.S. Census Bureau
- National
Climatic Data Center Online (call 847-735-5074 for username
and password)
- National
Geophysical Data Center of the NOAA Satellite
and Information Service. Data on tsunamis, solar flares,
ocean drilling, etc.
- OFFSTATS:
Official Statistics on the Web from the University
of Auckland, includes health, economics, labor, etc.
- UNdata easily selected
data covering agriculture, employment, education, energy, environment,
health, human development, industry, information and communication
technology, population, refugees, trade, and tourism.
- Weatherbase global
averages and records
- WolframAlpha Computational Knowledge Engine enter equations or natural language questions
Tax Forms
Telephone & Email Directories
Terrorism
- Combating Terrorism Technology Support Office (CTTSO) operates under the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict (SO/LIC); "fields rapid combating terrorism solutions;" utilizes resources from Israel, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Singapore
- Council on
Foreign Relations "an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher"
- Country Reports on Terrorism
- Federal
Bureau of Investigation Counterterrorism
- Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs)
- Homeland
Security Institute
- International Institute for Counter-Terrorism
- National
Academies Press free online books on terrorism
- National Commision
on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (the 9-11 Commision) - includes
the Report,
staff statements, press releases, hearings. Note: website frozen on September 20, 2004
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- National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) links to Worldwide Incidents Tracking System, FBI's Most Wanted Terrorists list, and annual reports on terrorism incidents
- Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism (of the U.S. Department of State)
- Patriot
Act PDF of the 132-page document, provided
by findlaw.com
- Patriot
Act Page in depth analysis of the Patriot Act from the Electronic Privacy Information
Center (EPIC)
- RAND:
Terrorism Research a nonprofit research organization
- Terrorism
Research Center information from "warfare specialists drawn from industry, government, and academia in the United States, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Argentina, India, the Middle East, France, and Australia."
- UN
Action to Counter Terrorism includes the UN Counter-Terrorism Online Handbook
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Theater/Performing Arts
Travel
Weather
Weights & Measurements
- WWW
Unit Converter easy to use
- Weights
and Measures Resources
- Online
Conversion.com to convert terrajoules, under All Conversion
Pages and Categories, scroll to Energy
- AllConversions.com
- length, mass, power, pressure, speed, volume, energy, bytes,
force, density, area, temperature, metric, imperial
- Roman Numeral Date conversion from Cornell
- Wind Chill Calculator
- Vadlo.com select "online tools" and enter search terms, for example: weights measures.
Writing Guides & Style Manuals
Zip Codes
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