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Abbreviations. See also Acronyms.
Abbreviations: Journal Abbreviation Sources. http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/JAS.htm. A listing of web sites, each one that spells out abbreviations to all sorts of journals and magazines used by many indexes and institutions. In Directories.
Abbreviations: World Wide Web Acronym and Abbreviation Server. http://www.ucc.ie/info/net/acronyms/index.html. In Dictionaries.
Acronyms. See also Abbreviations.
Acronyms: Abbreviations and Acronyms in the U.S. Government. http://www.ulib.iupui.edu/subjectareas/gov/docs_abbrev.html. In Dictionaries.
Acronyms: Journal Abbreviation Sources. http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/JAS.htm. A listing of web sites, each one that spells out abbreviations to all sorts of journals and magazines used by many indexes and institutions. In Dictionaries.
Acronyms: World Wide Web Acronym and Abbreviation Server. http://www.ucc.ie/info/net/acronyms/index.html. In Dictionaries.
Acronyms: Journal Abbreviation Sources. http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/JAS.htm. A listing of web sites, each one that spells out abbreviations to all sorts of journals and magazines used by many indexes and institutions. In Dictionaries.
ACT (American College Testing). SeeTests.
Addresses: Internet Address Finder. http://www.iaf.net/. In Directories.
Addresses: National Address Server. http://www.cedar.buffalo.edu/adserv.html. In Directories.
Addresses: Reverse Directory Lookup. http://www.wholeagain.com/ReversePhoneLookup.html. In Directories.
Addresses: Switchboard. http://www.switchboard.com/. Find an address for a person or business and then create a map for that location (including directions from another address). InDirectories.
Addresses: Zip-Code Look-Up and Address Information. http://www.usps.gov/ncsc/lookups/lookups.htm. In Directories.
African American Biography: African Studies – African Diaspora Biography. http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/africa/cuvl/afroambiog.html. Links to quality biography collections on prominent African Americans, courtesy of Columbia University Libraries. In Biographies.
African American Scientists: Faces of Science: African Americans in the Sciences. http://www.princeton.edu/~mcbrown/display/faces.html. In Biographies.
African American Studies - African Diaspora Biography. http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/africa/cuvl/afroambiog.html. In Biographies.
African Writers: The Voices of Change. http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/cm/africana/writers.htm. "Presents a collection of resources concerning 20th century African literature and African writers, compiled by Dan Reboussin of the George A. Smathers Libraries at the University of Florida. Offers short biographical sketches of many African writers and lists their works. Provides a directory of related Web sites" (OCLC). In Biographies.
Afro American Almanac.http://www.toptags.com/aama/. In Handbooks.
Aged, Statistics: Statistical Information on Older Persons. http://www.aoa.gov/prof/Statistics/statistics.asp. In Statistics.
AHAT (Allied Health Aptitude Test). See Tests.
AIDS, Statistics: Twenty Years of AIDS (Summary). Articles Reported from Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report--6/01/01. Summary/Press Release: http://www.cdc.gov/od/oc/media/pressrel/r010601.htm. Documents, Statistics, Articles: http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/PDF/wk/mm5021.pdf. In Statistics.
AIDS: AEGIS. http://www.aegis.com/. In Health.
AIDS: Avert: AIDS Education and Research Trust. http://www.avert.org/. In Health.
AIDS: HIV InfoWeb. http://www.infoweb.org/. In Health.
AIDS: HIV InSite. http://hivinsite.ucsf.edu/guide/. In Health.
AIDS: HIVPositive.com. http://www.hivpositive.com/. In Health.
Airline Toll-Free Numbers
and Websites. http://www.geocities.com/Thavery2000/.
In Directories.
Alameda County. See
Calif.
Allergies: All Allergy. http://allallergy.net/. In Health.
Allied Health Aptitude Test (AHAT). See Tests.
Almanacs: Afro American Almanac. http://www.toptags.com/aama/. In Handbooks.
Almanacs: Fast Facts. http://www.freepint.com/gary/handbook.htm. Courtesy of librarian Gary Price, this web site links to many statistical reports, almanacs and other fact books from various government agencies. In Handbooks.
Almanacs: Information Please. http://www.infoplease.com/almanacs.html. Infoplease.com also leads to general reference sources such as a dictionary and encyclopedia. In Handbooks.
Alzheimer's Association.http://www.alz.org/. In Health.
Alzheimer's Disease Education
and Referral. http://www.alzheimers.org/.
In Health.
American Association of
Retired People (AARP). See Health.
American Heart Association.
See Health.
American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language. http://www.bartleby.com/61/. In Dictionaries.
American Psychological Association Manual of Style. See Citing.
Amnesty International Report 2001. http://web.amnesty.org/web/ar2001.nsf/home/home?OpenDocument. In Statistics.
Animal pictures. See Pictures; Nature.
Animation. See Art.
Antivirus, Computer. See
Computer.
APA Manual of Style. See Citing.
Architecture – Pictures.
See Pictures,
Architecture.
Armed Services Vocational
Aptitude Battery (ASVAB). See Tests.
Area Codes. See
Telephones.
Area Handbooks. See
Country
Studies.
Art. See also Pictures.
Art: WORLD WIDE ART RESOURCES. http://wwar.com. WWAR is an index of art resources on the web, searchable by artists’ names, museum names, exhibition titles or subject. In Images.
Art: ANIMATION FACTORY. http://www.animfactory.net. Over 30,000 animations and web designs for use on web pages, email and presentations are organized under 36 categories. Free for personal use. In Images.
Art: ASKART.COM. www.askart.com. This is an amazing website. Just enter artist’s name and you get a biography, image gallery, books and periodical articles on the artist, museums and current exhibitions and even auction records. Wow! In Images.
Art: CARICATURE ZONE. www.magixl.com. 800 caricatures of rock stars, movie stars, sports stars, and others, free for use on personal web pages. In Images.
Art: CARTOONS. http://www.cartoonbank.com. Largest searchable cartoon database on the web. A source for copyrighted New Yorker Magazine cartoons. In Images.
Art: FINE ARTS MUSEUMS OF SAN FRANCISCO'S THINKER IMAGE DATABASE. http://www.thinker.org/fam/about/imagebase/subpage.asp?subpagekey=420. This imagebase indexes more than 15,000 artists represented in more than 60,000 works. In Images.
Art: FREE ANIMATED GIF LIBRARY. www.animfactory.com. Over 30,000 original animations and designs for use on web pages, in email and presentations. In Images.
Art: GETTY ARTSEdNET. http://www.getty.edu/artsednet/images/index.html. The J. Paul Getty Art Education Web Site (Getty ArtsEdNet) offers access to art images by artist, title, date or by gallery or exhibition. In Images.
Art: HISTORY OF ART – WWW VIRTUAL LIBRARY. http://www.chart.ac.uk/vlib/images.html. This site from the Computers and History of Art (CHArt) has a special focus on the academic study of Art History. It offers a collection of links relating to art history and computer application in Art History. A very useful directory of reference sites, research tools, libraries is also available here. In Images.
Art: IMAGEBASE. http://www.thinker.org/fam/about/imagebase/subpage.asp?subpagekey=420. ImageBase is a well-indexed, searchable image and text database of 75,000 objects from the collections of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. In Images.
Art: METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART. www.metmuseum.org/collections/index.asp. Two million works of art from all parts of the compass, ancient through modern times. In Images.
Art: SMITHSONIAN ONLINE COLLECTIONS. http://digilib.si.edu/main.asp. Search by artist name through online archives containing thousands of artists. Click on "Search," then on": "Artist/Maker." In Images.
Art: SWEDISH UNIVERSITY NETWORK. http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/pictures/art. The SUNET Archive is an online archive of hundreds of famous paintings, mostly Western. There is one directory per artist, listed by the artist’s FIRST name. There are a few images in each directory, but this is in no way a comprehensive collection of paintings. In Images.
Art: WORLD ART TREASURES. http://www.bergerfoundation.ch/. A treasure trove of 100,000 slides belonging to the Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation, devoted to art, and including the main civilizations, such as Egypt, China, Japan, India, Europe. In Images.
ARTCYCLOPEDIA. http://www.artcyclopedia.com. Artcyclopedia is a great starting point for finding museum-quality art on the Web. Search by artist and you get a list of links to museums with digital images of that artist. Monthly features highlight artists, museums, and more. Copyright Protected. In Images.
Artists: National Gallery of Art: List of Artists. http://www.nga.gov/collection/an.htm. In Biographies.
Association of Bay Area Governments. See Government – ABAG.
Associations. See Organizations.
Astronomers: History of Women in Astronomy. http://users.erols.com/njastro/barry/bar-page/womenast.htm. "Offers information on women in astronomy, provided by Barry Malpas. Includes a list of short biographies, books authored by women, and biographies about women astronomers. Provides links to other Web sites about women in astronomy." (OCLC). In Biographies.
ASVAB (Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery). See Tests.
Atlases. See Maps.
Authors & Poets: Great Writers and Poets. http://www.xs4all.nl/~pwessel/writers.html. In Biographies.
Authors & Poets: Twentieth Century Authors and Poets. http://www.ala.org/acrl/resdec99.html. "Presents a collection of Internet resources containing biographical and bibliographic information on 20th century authors, compiled by Michelle Mach and Cynthia D. Shirkey. The collection is from the December 1999 issue of "College and Research Libraries News," a publication of the Association of College and Research Libraries, division of the American Library Association." (OCLC). In Biographies.
Automobiles: Motor Vehicles: California Department Motor of Vehicles. http://www.dmv.ca.gov/. In Calif.
Automobiles: Kelly Blue Book. http://www.kbb.com/. In Handbooks.
Award Winners. http://biography.about.com/arts/biography/cs/awardwinners/index.htm.
In Handbooks.
Bay Area: ABAG (Association of Bay Area Governments). http://www.abag.ca.gov/home2.html. In Calif.
Bay Area: Bay Area Census. http://census.abag.ca.gov/. In Calif.
Bay Area: East Bay Online. http://www.sftoday.com/eastbay2.htm. "An online guide to Web sites that focus on the Contra Costa and Alameda County area of California, including San Francisco. Contains links to sites for local city and county government, congressional offices and politicians, places of interest, sites for children and young adults, transportation, schools and universities, the arts, events and festivals, libraries and bookstores, media resources, non-profit organizations, Haight-Ashbury, entertainment, jobs, housing, dining, sports, travel and gay resources. In Calif.
Bibliography: citing web resources. See Citing.
Bills, California. See Law, California. Government.
Bills, Congressional. See Law. Government.
Biographical Dictionary.http://www.s9.com/biography/. In Biographies.
Biography. http://www.biography.com/. Web pages of biographies based on the television show, Biography and the Biography Cable Channel, courtesy of the A & E Broadcasting network. In Biographies.
Biography/Who's Who Directories Click on the link to go to the listing. http://www.chabotcollege.edu/Library/onlineref/Biography.html#who. In Directories.
Biography: Finding People Worldwide on the Internet. http://websearch.about.com/internet/websearch/library/weekly/ aa062299.htm?rnk=r1&terms=finding+people. A wonderful research guide to finding people that are hard to find on the Internet. In Directories.
Biography: Lives, the Biography Resource. http://www.amillionlives.com/. In Biographies.
Biography: Michigan Electronic Library. http://mel.lib.mi.us/reference/REF-biog.html. An excellent directory to many biography sites available on the World Wide Web. Note: As of April, 2001, contains some dead links. In Biographies.
Biography: World Biographical
Index (English Edition). http://www.biblio.tu-bs.de/acwww25u/wbi_en/.
In Biographies.
Black Colleges. See
Colleges.
Books in Print. http://www.booksinprint.com/bip/. Available only on campus. In Directories.
Buildings – Pictures. See Pictures, Architecture.
Business Journal Group of Northern California. http://www.busjrnl.com/. In Calif.
Business Journal of San Jose. http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/. In Calif.
Business, Statistics: Minority-Owned Firms. http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/2001/cb01-115.html. In Statistics.
Business: Companies Online. http://www.companiesonline.com/. In Directories.
Business: Hoover's Online. http://www.hoovers.com/. Contains general free information on the biggest companies of the nation, including main address and phone number, list of key people, financial information from the past year, and sometimes a listing of some of the company's biggest competitors. Also includes links to articles about the company. More detailed profiles are available only by a paid subscription. In Directories.
Business: San Francisco Business Times. http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/index.html. In Calif.
Business: Silicon Valley Daily. http://www.svdaily.com/. In Calif.
Business: Silicon Valley.com. http://www.siliconvalley.com/. In Calif.
Business: SiliconValley.Com: Companies Database. http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/companies/db/index.shtml. Profiles of the 150 largest publicly traded Silicon Valley companies. Search by company name, industry, amount of revenue, product or ticker symbol. From San Jose Mercury News. In Directories.
Business: Standard and Poor's Insurer Profiles. http://www.insure.com/ratings/reports/index.cfm. In Directories.
Business: Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe Business Directories & Reference. http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe/form/academic/business.html. On-Campus Only. Enter your search terms then select a source from the pull down menu below. In Directories.
Business: Lexis-Nexis
Academic Universe Company Financial Information.
http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe/form/academic/business.html.
On-Campus Only. Enter your search terms then select a source from
the pull down menu below. In Directories.
Business: Thomas Register
of American Manufacturers. www.thomasregister.com.
Requires free registration. In Directories.
Calendar Zone. http://www.calendarzone.com/. A directory of calendars! Choose the category you want, then browse the multitude of sites on all sorts of calendars. In Dates.
Calendar. http://www.earth.com/calendar/. For a quick look up to see what day of the week a past or future date falls on. Searchable by entering the month (which you enter numerically) followed by a slash, followed by the full digital year (i.e. 1996, not 96). Also searchable just by the year. Example: 7/1969 to find the day of the week of the first moon landing. In Dates.
California Basic Educational Skills Test (CBEST). See Tests.
California Capitol Hill Bulletin. http://www.calinst.org/Bull.htm. From the California Institute for Federal Policy Research. Published every Thursday evening the California Congress is in session. The link above leads to an archive, dating back to 1997. Scroll down to the bottom of the page for a search engine for all of its archives. In Government.
California Census Data: Census 2000 Data for the State of California. http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/06000.html In Statistics.
California Government
Information. http://www.chabotcollege.edu/Library/govt.html#california.
In Calif.
California Judicial Branch.
See Courts.
California Law. See Law, California.
California Organizations.http://www.calif.com/ca/index.html. In Calif.
California. See also Government.
California: Capitol Alert (Sacramento Bee). http://www.capitolalert.com/. Focuses on state government and state officials. Includes link to Sacramento Bee's Campaign 2000 news. In Government.
California: History and Culture of California. http://old.ca.gov/s/history/. Contains links to web-sites related to California's history, including the histories of its diverse peoples, and links to museums and historical organizations and societies. Click on History of California to get links to other California history sites and historical sites specific to particular regions. In Calif.
California: Travel and Tourism. http://gocalif.ca.gov/state/tourism/tour_homepage.jsp?PrimaryCat=Tourism+Home. The State of California's official travel site, sponsored by the Trade and Commerce Agency, Division of Tourism. In Calif.
Campaign Finance. See Elections.
Cancer Care. http://www.cancercareinc.org/. In Health.
Cancer Fatigue.org. http://www.cancerfatigue.org/. In Health.
Cancer News on the Internet. http://www.cancernews.com/. In Health.
Cancer: American Cancer Society. http://www.cancer.org/. In Health.
Cancer: Breast Cancer Decision Guide. http://www.bcdg.org/. In Health.
Cancer: CancerNet. http://cancernet.nci.nih.gov/index.html. In Health.
Cancer: National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship. http://www.cansearch.org/. In Health.
Cancer: Oncolink. http://oncolink.upenn.edu/. In Health.
Career and Employment
Planning. http://www.co.san-bernardino.ca.us/library/careers.htm#career.
Many links to all sorts of sites. In Employment.
Career Center, Chabot
College. See Careers:
Chabot College's Career Center.
Career Development Manual. http://www.cdm.uwaterloo.ca/index.asp. From the University of Waterloo, provides detailed steps to planning a career. In Employment.
Career Lab--Likes and Dislikes. http://www.careerlab.com/art_likes.htm. In Employment.
Career Search. http://cbweb9p.collegeboard.org/career/bin/career.pl. In Employment.
Careers: Job Hunters Bible. http://www.jobhuntersbible.com/. In Employment.
Careers: Job Star Career Guides Index. http://jobstar.org/tools/career/index.htm. In Employment.
Careers: Occupational Outlook Handbook. http://www.bls.gov/oco/. In Employment.
Careers: Chabot College's
Career Center. http://www.chabotcollege.edu/studentservice/cccareer.html.
In Employment.
Careers. See also
Job
Listings.
Caricature. See Art.
Cartoons. See Art.
CBEST (California Basic Educational Skills Test). See Tests.
Census. http://census.abag.ca.gov/. In Calif.
Census 2000 Data for the State of California. http:/www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/2001/tables/redist_ca.html. In Statistics.
Census. See also Statistics; Government; California.
Chabot College's Library
Research Guides. http://www.chabotcollege.edu/Library/handouts/.
In Internet
Guides.
Chemistry: Periodic Table
of the Elements. See Handbooks.
Chicago Manual of Style. See Citing.
Child Care: California
Child Care Resource & Referral Network. http://www.rrnetwork.org/. "Features
the California Child Care Resource and Referral Network, which
coordinates services that assist local child care resource and
referral agencies in providing child care information and services
to parents, child care providers, and policy makers. Provides access
to news briefs and highlights upcoming events." (OCLC). In Calif.
CIA World Factbook. See
Countries.
Citations. See Citing.
Cities. See Government; Statistics.
Citing Internet Addresses.http://connectedteacher.classroom.com/newsletter/citeintres.asp. In Works Cited.
Citing Web Sites.http://www.chabotcollege.edu/Library/onlineref/citation.html#online. In Internet Guides.
Citing: APA Style Resources. http://www.psychwww.com/resource/apacrib.htm. In Works Cited.
Citing: Chabot Library's MLA Works Cited Handout: Internet Resources.http://www.chabotcollege.edu/Library/onlineref/cited.html#internet. In Works Cited.
Citing: UTEL MLA Style Bibliography Builder. http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/language/bib.html. Contains a form which you fill out information about your source and it gives you the proper MLA citation. In Works Cited.
Citing: Chabot Library's MLA Citation Handout.http://www.chabotcollege.edu/Library/onlineref/cited.html. In Works Cited.
Citing: Chabot Library's MLA Works Cited Handout: Citing Articles from A Database Off the Internet.http://www.chabotcollege.edu/Library/onlineref/cited.html#database. In Works Cited.
Citing: Chicago Manual of Style FAQ. http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/cmosfaq.html. Answers commonly asked questions on citing practices according to CMS. In Works Cited.
Citing: Citation Styles for Electronic Media. http://lamp.infosys.deakin.edu.au/citation.html. In Works Cited.
Citing: Columbia Guide to Online Style. http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/cgos/idx_basic.html. In Works Cited.
Citing: Electric Reference Formats Recommended by the APA. http://www.apastyle.org/elecref.html. In Works Cited.
Citing: Electric Reference Formats Recommended by the APA. http://www.apastyle.org/elecref.html. In Works Cited.
Citing: Online!: A Reference Guide to Using Internet Resources. http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/index.html. In Works Cited.
Citing: Research and Documentation Online--APA Style: The Social Sciences. http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/hacker/resdoc/social_sciences/documenting.htm. In Works Cited.
Citing: Research and Documentation Online--Chicago Style: History. http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/hacker/resdoc/history/footnotes.htm. In Works Cited.
Citing: Research and Documentation Online--MLA Style: English and other Humanities. http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/hacker/resdoc/humanities/english.htm. From a multi-style manual publication on how to cite various different types of resources. In Works Cited.
Citing: Turabian's Manual
for Writers of Term Papers . . . http://www.isr.bucknell.edu/research/turabian.pdf.
Covers practices employed by the Chicago Manual of Style. You need
Adobe Acrobat to get to this site. In Works
Cited.
Civil Rights Codes. See
Legal.
Clip Art. See Pictures.
CMS: Chicago Manual of Style. See Citing.
Codes, Legal. See Law
Codes.
Coses, School. See
Handbooks.
Colds and Flu. http://www.vhihealthe.com/topic/coldflu. In Health.
Colds: Influenza Prevention and Control. http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/diseases/flu/fluvirus.htm.In Health.
Colds: Better Home and Gardens Guide to Colds, Flu, and Allergies. http://www.bhglive.com/health/coldflu.html. In Health.
Colds: Medline Plus: Influenza. http://medlineplus.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/influenza.html. In Health.
College and Education-Related Directories. http://www.chabotcollege.edu/Library/directories.html#education. In College Guides.
College Net. http://www.collegenet.com/. In College Guides.
College Source Online. http://www.collegesource.org/home.asp. Full Text of catalogs will be available soon on campus! For now, look at Fact Sheets! In College Guides and Directories.
College: Black Issues in Higher Education. http://www.blackIssues.com/120700/. In News.
Colleges: Back2College. http://www.back2college.com/. Resources for returning students. In College Guides.
Colleges: Bay Area College and Universities. http://www.abag.ca.gov/abag/local_gov/univ.html. In Calif.
Colleges: Black American Colleges and Universities. http://www.petersons.com/blackcolleges/index.html. In College Guides.
Colleges: California College Guide. www.cacollegeguide.com. In Calif. and College Guides.
Colleges: California Community Colleges: A Guide to Prospective Students. http://www.calsacc.org/reports/guide.html. In Calif.
Colleges: Campus Tours. http://www.campustours.com/. Virtual campus tours. In College Guides.
Colleges: College and University Rankings (General and Undergraduate). http://www.library.uiuc.edu/edx/rankgen.htm. In College Guides.
Colleges: Ecola's College Locator. http://www.ecola.com/college/. In Directories.
Colleges: Peterson's College Guide. http://www.petersons.com/. Based on Peterson's Guides, Inc., provides descriptions of colleges, graduate programs, adult/distance learning programs, study abroad, test preparation, and financial aid. In College Guides.
Colleges: Peterson's College Quest. http://www.collegequest.com. In College Guides.
Colleges: Peterson's. http://www.petersons.com. In Directories.
Colleges: Web U.S. Higher Education. http://www.utexas.edu/world/univ/. In Directories.
Companies. See Business.
Composers. See Biographies.
Computer Industry Almanac. http://www.c-i-a.com/. In Handbooks.
Computer Manuals. http://www.chabotcollege.edu/Library/onlineref/computerref.html. In Handbooks.
Computers: Consumer Reports Online: What to Do With a Problem Computer. http://www.consumerreports.org/main/detail.jsp?CONTENT%3C%3Ecnt_id=84767&FOL. In Computer.
Computers: Free Online Dictionary of Computing. http://wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/index.html. In Computer.
Computers: Help-Site Computer Manuals. http://help-site.com/. In Computer.
Computers: Informit.com--Free Library. http://www.informit.com/itlibrary/. Contains electronic texts on how to use several different computer programs including Linux, Photoshop, Java, C++, Excel, Word, Quicken, and more. Requires you to register for a free membership to access the books. In Computer.
Computers: PC Webopedia. http://www.pcwebopedia.com/. For thorough, nontechnical definitions to computer terms, followed by links to web pages related to the subject of the terminology you are seeking. In Computer.
Computers: PC Webopedia. http://www.pcwebopedia.com/. For thorough, nontechnical definitions to computer terms, followed by links to web pages related to the subject of the terminology you are seeking. In Dictionaries.
Computers: Silicon Valley.Com: Companies Database. http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/special_packages/silicon_valley_150/. Profiles of the 150 largest publicly traded Silicon Valley companies. Search by company name, industry, amount of revenue, product or ticker symbol. From San Jose Mercury News. In Calif.
Computers: Symantec Antivirus Research Center. http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/. In Virus.
Computers: Urban
Legends Reference Pages. http://www.snopes2.com/. Search
Engine: http://www.snopes.com/info/search.
With so many emails being forwarded from your friends, you may
not be sure sometimes whether the story you are reading is true or
simply made up. The San Fernando Valley Folklore Society makes a point
to research all these email stories to verify the facts or stories
to these often emailed tales. Whenever you get a far out story forwarded
to you from a friend, check this web page first to see if it is true.
There are many ways you can browse or search for your topic by selecting
the options on the left frame of the page.
In Virus.
Computers: VMyths.com. http://vmyths.com/hoax.cfm. In Virus.
Congress, United States. See also Government; Law.
Congress: Biographical
Directory of the United States Congress: 1774 to the Present.
http://bioguide.congress.gov/biosearch/biosearch.asp.
In Biographies.
Congress, Hispanic-Americans.
See Biographies.
Congressional Districts.
See Government.
Congressional Hearings
on the Web. http://www.lib.umich.edu/libhome/Documents.center/hearings.html.
In Legal.
Congressional Record. See Law.
Congressional Votes. See Law.
Constitutions. See Government,
Constitutions; Legal;
Geography.
Contra Costa County. See
Calif.
Controversial topics. See Pro/con.
Copyright and Fair Use. http://fairuse.stanford.edu/. In Copyrights.
Copyright: Crash Course in Copyright. http://www.utsystem.edu/ogc/intellectualproperty/cprtindx.htm. In Copyrights.
Copyright: Delphion Intellectual Property Network. http://www.delphion.com/. In Copyrights.
Copyright: Search Copyright Office Records. http://www.loc.gov/copyright/search/. In Copyrights.
Copyright: U.S. Trademark Electronic Search System. http://tess.uspto.gov/bin/gate.exe?f=tess&state=hpqacd.1.1. In Copyrights.
Copyright: When Works Pass into Public Domain. http://www.unc.edu/~unclng/public-d.htm. In Copyrights.
Counties. See Government; Statistics.
Countries: CIA World Factbook.http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html. In Geography.
Country Studies: Area Handbook Series. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html. In Geography.
Countrywatch.com. Available on campus only. In Geography.
Courts and Court Cases. See Law.
Courts: California Courts: The Judicial Branch of California. http://www.courtinfo.ca.gov/. In Government.
Crime, Statistics:
Crime Index Trends, 2000 Preliminary Figures. http://www.fbi.gov/pressrel/pressrel01/ucrprelim2000.htm.
In Statistics.
Crime, Statistics: Probation and Parole in the United States, 2000. http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/ppus00.htm. In Statistics.
Crime, Statistics: Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics Online. http://www.albany.edu/sourcebook/index.html. In Statistics.
Crime, Statistics: The Growth of Youth Gang Problems in the United States: 1970-1998. http://www.ncjrs.org/html/ojjdp/ojjdprpt_yth_gng_prob_2001/index.html. In Statistics.
Critical evaluation of web sites. See Evaluating Web Resources.
Current topics. See Pro/con.
Deaf Today. http://www.deaftoday.com/. In News.
Demographics. See Statistics.
Department of Motor Vehicles,
California. See Calif.
Dictionaries and Glossaries.http://mel.lib.mi.us/health/health-dictionaries.html. From the Michigan Electronic Library. In Health.
Dictionaries, Foreign: Alta Vista Translator. http://babelfish.altavista.com/translate.dyn. In Dictionaries.
Dictionaries, Foreign: Foreign Language for Travellers. http://www.travlang.com/languages/. In Dictionaries.
Dictionaries, Foreign: French-English Dictionary/(English-French). http://humanities.uchicago.edu/forms_unrest/FR-ENG.html. In Dictionaries.
Dictionaries, Foreign: German-English Dictionary/(English-German). http://dict.leo.org/. In Dictionaries.
Dictionaries, Foreign: Rustran: Russian-English Dictionary/(English-Russian). http://www.rustran.com/. In Dictionaries.
Dictionaries, Subject: Animated American Sign Language Dictionary. http://www.bconnex.net/~randys/. In Dictionaries.
Dictionaries, Subject: Dictionary of Management and Technology. http://www.euro.net/innovation/Finance_Base/Fin_encyc.html. In Dictionaries.
Dictionaries, Subject: Epicurious Food Dictionary. http://www.epicurious.com/run/fooddictionary/home. In Dictionaries.
Dictionaries, Subject: Glossary of Literary Terms and A Handbook of Rhetorical Devices. http://www.virtualsalt.com/litterms.htm. In Dictionaries.
Dictionaries, Subject: Law Dictionary. http://www.duhaime.org/diction.htm. "Plain language" definitions to legal terminology written by Canadian lawyer, Lloyd Duhaime. In Dictionaries.
Dictionaries, Subject: Middle English Compendium. http://www.hti.umich.edu/mec/. In Dictionaries.
Dictionaries, Subject: Netlingo: Internet Language Dictionary. http://www.netlingo.com/. In Dictionaries.
Dictionaries: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language. http://www.bartleby.com/61/. In Dictionaries.
Dictionaries: Meriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary. http://www.m-w.com/netdict.htm. In Dictionaries.
Dictionaries: Onelook Dictionaries. http://www.onelook.com/. In Dictionaries.
Dictionaries: yourDictionary.com. http://www.yourdictionary.com/. In Dictionaries.
Directories. See Search Engines; Directories.
Disabled: Access Northern California. http://www.accessnca.com/home/. This non-profit organization investigates businesses and public facilities and reports how handicapped-accessible they are, covering the entire Northern California region. In Calif.
Discoverers Web: Alphabetical List. http://www.win.tue.nl/~engels/discovery/alpha.html. In Biographies.
Disease. See also Aids; Allergies; Alzheimer’s; Cancer; Colds; Heart; Polio.
Diseases: Division of Sexually Transmitted Diseases Facts & Information. http://www.cdc.gov/nchstp/dstd/disease_info.htm. In Health.
Diseases: Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy. http://www.merck.com/pubs/mmanual/sections.htm. 1999 edition of the most authoritative manual on the diagnosis and treatment of diseases. In Health.
Diseases: All The Virology on the WWW. http://www.tulane.edu/~dmsander/garryfavweb.html. In Health.
Diseases: Clinical Trials. gov. http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct/gui. In Health.
Diseases: Division of Sexually Transmitted Diseases Facts & Information. http://www.cdc.gov/nchstp/dstd/disease_info.htm. In Health.
Diseases: Medical Encyclopedia: Disease Reference. http://medlineplus.adam.com/. In Health.
Distance: How Far Is It?http://www.indo.com/distance/. In
Geography.
District Maps. See
Government.
Districts, Congressional.
See Government.
Districts, California.
See Government.
DMV, California. See Calif.
Doctors: Family Doctor. http://www.familydoctor.org/. In Health.
Doctors: Physician Directories. http://mel.lib.mi.us/health/health-physdirect.html. From the Michigan Electronic Library. In Health.
Drawings. See Art.
Drugs: Center for Drug Evaluation and Research: Drug Information. http://www.fda.gov/cder/drug/default.htm. In Health.
Drugs: Consumer Drug
Information. http://www.fda.gov/cder/consumerinfo/default.htm.
In Health.
Drugs: Food and
Drug Administration. See Nutrition.
Drugs: Medline Plus: Drug Information. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginformation.html. In Health.
Drugs: RxList: The
Internet Drug Index. http://www.rxlist.com/.
In Health.
East Bay. See Calif.
Eclipses: Heavenly Details. http://www.almanac.com/cgi-bin/heaven.pl?mooninput=current. From the Old Farmer's Almanac, records lunar and solar eclipses throughout the end of the current year and previous years back to 1996. Also records phases of the moon. In Dates.
Ecology. http://www.nrdc.org/greengate/. In Calif.
Editorials. See News; Pro/con.
Education. See Colleges; Schools; Statistics.
Elderly. See Aged.
Elections (in Spanish): Voting. http://www.ss.ca.gov/elections/spanish.pdf. In Government.
Elections, Statistics: Statistics of the Presidential and Congressional Election of November 7, 2000. http://clerk.house.gov/members/election_information/2000/2000Stat.htm. In Statistics.
Elections: California's Directory of Lobbyists, Lobbying Firms, and Lobbyist Employers. http://CAL-ACCESS.ss.ca.gov/Lobbying/. From the Secretary of State's office, this database allows you to browse alphabetically or to search by words (either by beginning of person's/firm's name or word(s) contained within). Results provide a relationship between employers who are clients to particular lobbying firms and who are the lobbying firm's lobbyists. Main focus is on California government. In Government.
Elections: Access America for Students. http://students.gov/index2.html. In Government.
Elections: AP Elections. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=index&cid=548. In Government.
Elections: CAL-Access.http://cal-access.ss.ca.gov/. From the California Secretary of State's office, this database leads to all campaign finance contributions required by law that is reported to the State of California (based on the Online Disclosure Act of 1997). Look to the menu on the left to look up information on filers, contributions and expenditures made, and lobbyists. In Government.
Elections: California Ballot Propositions Database. http://holmes.uchastings.edu/. Get full text information on propositions placed on the California ballot from 1911 to the present. In addition to the text of the propositions, themselves, many records also include accompanying voter pamphlet materials, and related legal and legislative history. Courtesy of the UC Hastings' Law Library. In Government.
Elections: California District Maps and Summaries. http://swdb.berkeley.edu/info/info.html. From UC Berkeley's Institute of Governmental Studies, provides current maps of districts in the California State Assembly and Senate Districts as well as U.S. Congressional Districts for the state of California. Scroll down until you reach "California District Maps" to view maps. Scroll further down for summaries on the districts under "California Journal Links". In Government.
Elections: California Interest Groups on the Web. http://www.calvoter.org/interestgroups.html. For information on special/community interests on California. In Government.
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