Academic Archives & Sites 

• AskOxford.com  huge database, the Oxford English Dictionary OED
  Oxford English Dictionary Online  60m words of text, 750k terms, past thousand years, illustrated with 2.4m quotations

• RefDesk.com -- quick page, index of indexes, excellent 

• Berkeley-Sun Site LibWeb    3,000+ libraries in 90+ countries, up-dated daily at midnight Pacific Standard time.   Catalogs & Indexes:  including Digital Collections  of various works ready to read &
  Social & Government Data from 1990 Census

• Booklist   American Librarian Association review of books being published each month with 5,000+ reviews each year, claimed to be the leading choice of librarians

• On Degree Database sponsored by www.OnlineBachelorDegreePrograms.com   

• Books Online:   ebookdirectory.com  perhaps the largest collection 
                  on the web of free e-books & links.
  Alex Library  classics & philosophy & links 
  American History  with many links, 
  American Literature  all about American literature
  American Memory by the Library of Congress, original history
               including a "Today in History Page" 
  Argos:  Ancient & Medieval Internet Searches  
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  Ancient Author Pages:  Thomas More (1478-1535) &
  Thomas More Society  ~  Erasmus (1469? - 1536)  ~
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  Modern Author Pages:    Jane Austen  ~ C. Dickens 1  ~ C. Dickens 2 
            Dostoevsky  ~  Willa Cather  ~  Author C. Doyle 
            W. Faulkner  ~  Hawthorne  ~  Longfellow  ~ 
            Melville  ~    E. A. Poe  ~ Complete Shakespeare 
            L. Tolstoy  ~  Twain 1  ~  Twain 2  
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  Bartleby.com  a huge archive with easy/searchable 
                    access to references & works like these:
            American Heritage Dictionary 
            American Heritage Book of English Usage 
            Barlet's Quotations   ~   Simpson's Quotations 
            Boston Cooking School Cook Book by Fanny Farmer
            Cambridge History of English & American Literature
            Columbia Encyclopedia   ~   Complete E. Dickson 
            Gray's Anatomy   ~   Harvard Shelf of Fiction
            Oxford Bk English Poetry   ~   Robert's Rules of Order 
            Roget's Thesaurus  ~  Strunk's Elements of Style 
            B.T. Washington's Up From Slavery 
            Well's Short History of World  ~
            Yale Book American Poetry 
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  Bibliobyts  searchable directory ~  UR10 E-books ~   
  Bibliomania 80 classic novels, 400+ short stories, more 
  BookRadio.com  audio interviews, bk reviews ~   
  Bookwire.com Reading Room  ~  Relic Books  ~ 
  Bubl.com  huge site of links to e-books, perhaps the best first stop 
  Columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/bartlett for quotes 
  Concordance of Great Books ~
  ClassicTexts.com  1,500 works, 500+ authors, a massive
        collection with some pieces that do appear to be
        unique to this group's resources, available on cd too ~
  Classics  440 classics, ready to read, by MIT ~
  CyberRead.com  large & easy archive of popular classics ~
  E-Text.org  primarily e-magazines on the fringe of society  ~
  1stBooks.com  few over 3,000 works on line ~
  Fordham Univ. History Sourcebooks Project a huge listing ~
  Great Books Online  huge archive of classics & more ~ 
  Great Speeches  perhaps the largest online archive of famous
        speeches of persons from the last two centuries, a PBS site ~   
  History at Horus Web Links  perhaps the largest & most comprehensive source of history on the web ~ 
  Internet Public Library  a huge archive ~  
  Irish Literature  including G.B. Shaw, Stoker, Swift & Wilde ~
  Lynch's Literary Resources on the Net   huge set of links ~ 
  Microsoft Ref. Downloads  including  FrontPage 2000, 
              Win. 98,  Win. 2000 , Office 2000 & PhotoDraw 2000 ~
  Oxford Text Archive  download hundreds of works ~
  PinkMonkey.com  hip Cliff's Notes & 2k+ classics & docs
  Project Gutenberg a massive project linked worldwide
         with archives around the world, ready to download ~
  RefDesk.com -- quick page, index of indexes, excellent ~
  Worlds of Late Antiquity  works from, on ancient world ~ 

• Book Archives:  these are super-sized archives still working & sometimes require special protocols to enter--  Alexandria Digital Library ~
  Digital Earth  ~  Digital Library Bibliography  ~  Global Mapping
  Perseus Project  ~  Project Gutenberg  ~  ARL Digital Initiatives 
  Fordham Univ. History Sourcebooks Project  ~

• Brittainica Online  something on everything, with an award winning index to links to just about everything

• CIA Publications  info from CIA on the world (big brother IS watching)

• Christian & Religion:  See Christian/Religion Links ~ Beliefnet.com ~

• Dictionaries:  YourDictionary.com  200+ languages, 50+ specialties ~
  OneLook.Com  2.5m in 256 dictionaries 
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  AskOxford.com  huge database, the Oxford English Dictionary OED
  Oxford English Dictionary Online  60m words of text, 750k terms, past thousand years, illustrated with 2.4m quotations
  AllWords.com  ~  American Heritage Dictionary ~ Law Dictionary ~ HeySmarty.com  ~  Encyclopedia.com ~
  Association for Geographic Information with Glossary ~
  NASA's Astrophysics Dictionary  (wait, wait -- its big)
  GeoMan's Earth Science  ~  Internet Jargon  ~
  Literary Terms Dictionary  ~  Poetic Terms ~  
  Mathematics Dictionary & Resource ~
  Medical/Science Dictionary and More (See Medical Sites below)
  Mental Health Dictionary  ~  Music Dictionary  ~
  Mythology Dictionary  ~  Nelson Political Science Dictionary 
  Political Dictionary  ~  Jane's Military Dictionary ~
  Sailing/Nautical 1 ~ Sailing/Nautical 2 ~ Nautical Law ~
  Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy  ~  Space Science ~
  Science & Technology Dictionary  130k+ entries in 130 fields ~
  RefDesk.com -- quick page, index of indexes, excellent ~
  Theological Dictionary  ~ WorldWideWords.org ~
  Weather Dictionary ~
  Click to go Christian/Religious Links for more 

• Discovery.com  something for every curious person ~

• E-Journals   dedicated to all of the online e-journals, 
  see its Directory of Journals  

• I-Explore    ongoing past explorations & travels around the world

• Image Finder from Berkeley   from newspapers, Smithsonian, state collection, searchable by word

• InfoPlease.com    information almanac of people, culture, etc., & full access to Columbia Encyclopedia

• Find Law.com Supreme Court Opinions ~ See below Omnibus Help Section:  Law 

• History:  Horus Web Links perhaps the largest & most comprehensive, for a taste, check out Israel on the Ancient Directory;  this site is sponsored by the Univ. of Calif. Riverside ~
  Civil War Center a huge resource of the period ~
  HistoryChannel.com  you name it, there is something for everyone
   favorites are:  Modern Marvels  &  Famous Speeches ~
  PBS.org on everything ~ PBS Middle East Timeline excellent ~
  Preservation.com on everything ~ 
  Smithsonian Institution  incredible, of course ~
  This Day in History  which also includes a data base to find out what happened on your birthday or any day~
  UniversityProducts.com  leading archival company ~

• HUMBUL Resource for OnLine Scholarly Works   a United Kingdom site of incredible depth on every possible academic topic, pointing users to online references ranging from linguistics to medieval history, but especially notable is the Encyclopedia of Early Church History;  unfortunately, you have to have special membership to access the larger archives

• Law Dictionary  ~  Law Encyclopedia  from Nolo.com ~

• LegalLanguage.com  huge store of legal resources

• Librarian's Index to the Internet ~

• Library of Congress   this is one reason to be on line, access to the bibliographic data of one of earth's largest archives ~

• LibrarySpot.com   links to major libraries, newspapers, foundations, reference works, etc. for just about anyone ~

• Medical Textbooks for Healthcare Providers by Virtual Hospital   topic list leading to detailed medical descriptions on anatomy, surgery, travel medicine, etc., that then lead you the online textbook on various parts of the major topic;  NOTE:  these are major textbooks for physicians, fascinating, comprehensive, detailed, but not to be used at home for self-diagnosis & Textbooks small listing of some of the major text

• National Academy Press   1,500+ online, by category

• National Geographic.com    Like you would expect, huge, colorful, unlimited

• News & Newspapers:  Concentric.com reputed to be the largest collection of newspapers in the world:  choose a country, like US, then a state, like Texas to find what appears to be all the major papers in Texas;  also including an easy links page to the Top Ten in US. 
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  CNN.com  & CNN Politics ~ Christian Sc Monitor ~ 
  Christian B. Network ~ Life Magazine ~ News.com ~ 
  Time Magazine ~ USA Today ~  
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  Austin Chronicle ~ Dallas Morning News ~
  Houston Chronicle ~ LA Times ~
  San Francisco Chronicle ~ Star Tribune Minn/St. Paul ~
  New York Times ~  Washington Post ~

• New York Times Book Review

• Northwestern University's Online Library Tree    huge tree to what appears to be every major library & serials group

• OneLook.com   instant access to 600+ dictionaries & 6 million+ terms, with the ability to create your on dictionary & links to other sites 

• OmniGlot.com for alphabets 

• PBS.org    Public Broadcasting System archive of news, research, culture, expeditions, nature, the earth;  Building Big  a sub-site for curious that allows virtual building of a bridge or dam, complete with structural and material analyses

• Psychological Help - www.PsyCom.net 

• Photography:  Alinari.com the world's oldest photography archive w/ 3.5m+, only you have to have a subscription or university pass to get into it~
  CityGallery.com ~ Daguerre.org by Daguerreian Society ~
  International Directory of Photography Historians a huge list ~
  Library of Congress Daguerretypes ~ 
  Light Impressions Direct.com for archiving everything ~ 
  Photo Education Around the World ~ PhotographyMuseuem.com ~  Preservation.com  on everything ~ Royal Photography Society ~ StereoView.org home of Nat. Stereoscopic Assn. ~ UniversityProducts.com  leading archival company ~

• Project Gutenberg    an attempt to digitally archive the world's best literature;  you have to go to an ftp site, then select;  then you can download any of the works

• PreciousHeart.net   working bibliographic archive of everything written on crisis, grief, death & divorce;  plus author's books online

• Publishers Catalogues    listings of the publishers of the world

• Questia.com   academic research on line to 50,000+ books, magazines & journals for review and search by word or paragraph, including religious volumes -- and in the next three years after that, hoping to host 250,000 volumes on line, though a subscription is necessary, you can still see the parts of most works

• Religion & Christian:  see Christian/Religious Links  ~  Beliefnet.com 

• Roget's Internet Thesaurus   Yes, on-line

• Smithsonian Institution  incredible ~

• Schøyen Collection  ancient manuscripts from 5-10k B.C. to modern period

• Theater:  Precinemahistory.net  outlines the history of cinema from 900 BC
  FirstLook.com  a huge site devoted to "first look" at everything it seems in the movies, media, multi-media, games, etc.

• Theban Mapping Project  since 1978 seeks completely map Thebes in ancient Egypt, site filled with 2,000+ images and interactive maps

• Translation Language-to-Language Dictionary   plus, download free a language to language translating program

• Wall Street Journal 

• World Library of e-Books Online -- simply, a huge archive

• United Nations Development Program

• Yahoo! Libraries    a great one stop jumping point, listing library collections by topic, like academic, military, dance, prison, philatelic, religion, science, etc. 

Omnibus Help Sites 

• Two Sites of GREAT NOTE  --
  1 > - Guru.com see to believe, 
                            boasting 200k+ gurus on everything
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  2 > - Vanderbilt University Resource Links  you will not believe where this dull opening page of 10 categories will take you:  simply, everywhere important on earth (Vanderbilt has organized US Government links better than the Government itself, & that's only one category);  top of the list to emphasize it
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• Auto/Truck Prices:  NADA Guides  Kelly Blue Books  IntelliChoice.com  Edmonds.com  CarPrices.com  Autosite.com

• Biography.com   boasting 25k bio's, 12k videos of past & present persons

• Card Games at pagat.com  rules of cards games, 100's of the world

• Christian & Religion:  see Christian/Religious Links  ~  Beliefnet.com 

• Computer & Internet Info:  ItKnowledge.com  Intel sponsored & probably the largest internet data base on raw computer knowledge to read on-line or buy
  FreeSkills.com  has several paths to on-line computer training
  Boardwatch Magazine 
  CNET:  Computer Network  internet technology & business
  Hotwired.lycos.com/Webmonkey  for authoring, design, more
  Hacker - Security Info:  HackerWhacker.com  ~  Microsoft Security  
         CERT.org  ~  AntiOnline.com  ~  SecuriTeam.com  ~  
         SecurityPortal.com  ~  SecuritySearch.net  ~  ShieldsUp  ~
         Anti-Trojan.org 
          
  HTML Goodies.Earthwebl.com  &  HTML Colors  
  Librarian's Guide to Internet  by Berkeley University, very broad ~
  NetSurfer Digest  reviews sites & updates
  PC World  reviews of computer hardware, programs, everything
  Virtual Web Library  ~  Web Developing Site
  Web Developer Virtual Library  a web master's school
  Wired Magazine  premier web magazine ~
  World's Best Web Sites  ~  Zdnet  
            a premier download site for programs, utilities & 
            all facets of information on computers, internet & www usage, 
            see also Zdnet's Top 100 Sites

• ConsumerWorld.org    2,000+ links & info, perhaps the most comprehensive index of business/consumer sites & site directories on the web, neatly organized & speedy

• Cost of Living Calculator  

• Dictionary YourDictionary.com  incredible, 200+ languages,
  50+ Specialty Dictionaries, everything on words in what seems like every language, plus articles, thesaurus, synonyms, etc.

• DoItYourself.com  for every kind of repair

• E-Cards & Greetings Sites Free:  All-Yours.net  ~ Amazon.com E-Cards ~
  AwesomeCards.com ~ A1.ecards.com ~ BlueMountain.com ~
  CardCentral ~ Care2.com ~ CGreetings.com ~ DailyZen.com ~
  E-Greetings  ~ Epso 3D & Video E-Cards ~ ExpressIt.com ~
  GeoCities  ~ Just-So.com ~ MessageMates.com ~
  MP3 Music Cards ~ My Post Cards  ~ 1001 E-Cards ~
  PostCardLinks.com  ~ Regards.com ~ Retroactive Tasteful Cards  ~ 
  Wanderer's 50's + 60's Cards ~ Yahoo Cards  ~ Y'all Com Cards ~

• EConsultant.com    Searchable directory of net's 1,000 top sites

• E-mail Finders:   Internet Address Finder  ~  Lycos WhoWhere  ~
  Yahoo People Finder   

• Events:  WhatsGoingOn.com  special events around the world
  Ticketmaster.com  for, well, you know

• Flying:  Landings.com  a premier site on flying, w/ comprehensive airport guide & much more, incredibly rich site
  BeaPilot.com  ~ Flight Training ~ Aviation Internt News ~
  Aircft Shopper ~ Aircft Dealer Ntwk ~ Aircft Dealer ~
  US FAA ~ NASA ~ US Airforce ~ Learjet.com ~ Cessna.com ~ Helicopter Assn ~ National Aeronautics Assn ~
  Nat Air Transportation Assn ~ Nat Assn Flight Instructors ~ 
  Nat Business Aviation Assn ~ Gen Aviation Manuf Assn ~

• Freeskills.com   learn new skills, including computer skills

• Gallup.com  service of Princeton, the leading Polling group in US

• Genealogy:  Ancestry.com  claiming 650m+  ~  USGenWeb.org 
  WorldGenWeb.org  ~  Gneanet.org  ~  Rootsweb.com 
  Genealogy.org  ~  FamilySearch.org (LDS)  ~  ~  

• Guru.com (see to believe, boasting 200k+ gurus on everything)

• Handspeak.com  see & learn sign language symbols w/ movement

• Hotel-Motel Reservations:  See Travel Info below

• Home Making:  MarthaStewart.com  for cooking, crafts, decorating & just about everything to do with the home
  Cooking.com  for that recipe & advice

• How Far Is It?   distance between any two cities, instantly

• Infospace.com    index & directory of directories, with search ability

• Law:  LawOffice.com  ~  Martindale Lawyer Locator  ~  Law Guru 
  Law.com  ~  Nolo.com  ~  AdmiraltyLaw.com  ~  CNN.com/law  ~ 
  Findlaw.com on actual laws & their Legal Forms archives has
    has forms for every legal need & search engine 

• Maps & Earth Images:    Expedia  ~  Exploritorium  ~  MapQuest.com  ~
  Maps On Us  ~  National Geographic Map Machine  ~  
  US Geological Service  ~  TerraServer Images  ~  ZipTo.com  
  National Road Conditions  ~  Lonely Planet.com (like Israel)
  Wolinsky's Map Happy Links  which is one large collection
  Global Mapping  

• Mathematics Dictionary & Resource

• Music:   Music Education Links  ~ 
  Sibelius Academy Music on Net a huge site with links 
            around the world to music sites, 
            see its Sibelius Music Libraries List 
  Yahoo's Music List  ~  Rice Univ. Music 
  Lester Levy's Sheet Music (29k pieces before 1923)  ~  
  Music Library Clearinghouse  ~

• Mind Harbor.com    general index to thousands of business sites, including airlines, media, shipping, TV, news domestic & foreign, car rental, investing, research, etc., all neatly organized with a speedy web site -- quite a resource

• MSN.com  Microsoft Network -- a world class sets of links

• News & Newspapers:  click to go above to Academic Archives

• NPR.org  National Public Radio's site, full of educational & cultural info

• Pets.com  your one stop place, with ask-a-Vet &  Zoo search

• Patents.com  see also IBM's Patent & Search Index 
  European Patent Office  ~

• Patrish's Websites   over 500 favorite sites by category

• Psychological Help - www.PsyCom.net

• Phone #'s:  Bell Big Yellow Pages  Anywho by AT&T  ~  Infospace.com  ~
  Switchboard.com (nationwide listings with addresses)  ~
  555-1212.com (national & international directories & e-mail lists)  ~

• Religion & Christian:  see Christian/Religious Links  ~  Beliefnet.com 

• Search Engines & Web Portals:   Alta Vista  ~  Ask Jeeves  ~  Excite  ~
  Google  ~ MSN ~ Northern Light  ~  Yahoo! ~  HotBot  ~  
  About.com  ~  WebCrawler  ~ SearchMil.com (for military sites)  ~  Yack (for live events on web)  ~ Yahoo! ~ Forumon.com (search 300k+ forums)  ~  Tile.net & Listz (for mailing lists)  ~ Infospace.com
  Guru.com (see to believe, boasting 200k+ gurus on everything)

• Science & Technology Dictionary  130k+ in 130 fields

• ScienceWise.com    perhaps the most comprehensive index of grants for science, research, education, etc., on the web, yet not that easy to navigate

• Skills:  FreeSkills.com  has a huge list of on-line skills ~

• Smithsonian Institution  incredible ~

• StrongNumbers.com  site with links to every "blue-book" on the market
   about price info for nearly everything -- incredible

• Travel Info:    Expedia everything in travel:  boasting explicit descriptions ~  Flight Arrival-Depart ~ TheTrip.com ~ Travel city ~ 
  Frommer's Budget Travel  ~ Fodors.com the leaders ~
  Go-Israel:  Israel Ministry of Tourism ~ CNN.com/Airport 
  MetroScope:    major links in major cities: 
              Atlanta  ~  Chicago  ~  Cincinnati  ~  Dallas 
              Detroit  ~  Jacksonville  ~  Los Angeles  ~ 
              Memphis  ~  Miami  ~  New York  ~  Philadelphia  ~ 
              San Francisco  ~  Seattle  ~
  Hotel-Motel Reservations:  ASA.net  for worldwide ~
              A1-Discount-Hotels.com ~ Motels.com  ~

• UnCover   current awareness & document delivery, search 4,000+ articles instantly by word search for full bibliographic info

• Yahoo! Listings  a premier portal to websites, well organized & categorized, full & comprehensive -- hard to beat as a one stop portal to many of the above sites & many more

• Weather:  Weather.com  ~  WeatherUnderground.com  ~
  WeatherLabs.com  ~  CNN.com/weather 

• Citizen.org    founded by Ralph Nadar as a government watch group, includes
  Congress Watch  ~  Freedom of Information Act Clearinghouse

• Internal Revenue Service & IRS Forms

• Fifty - 50 - State Capitals Index

• IBM's Patent & Search Index  &  Patent.com

• National Criminal Justice Reference Center

• Peace Corps    government volunteer initiative to help around the world

• Piper Listing of State Government & National Organizations

• Social Security Administration of US

• Smithsonian Institution    

• Texas Government - Home Page  ~  Texas Legislature  ~ 

• Texas Department of Insurance  all about insurance in Texas & beyond 

• UNESCO - United Nations Education, Scientific & Cultural Org

• United Nations - Home Page ~ United Nations Office - Geneva

• US ADA -- Americans with Disability Act Enforcement

• US Air Force  ~  US Army  ~  US Marine Corp  ~  US Navy  ~
  US Coast Guard  ~  US Dept. Defense  ~  Joint Chief of Staffs  ~  

• US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)   

• EEOC Equal Employment Opportunity Commission 

• US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) 

• US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)    

• US Government Business Advisor   a premier business site, with links to everywhere in government, business, business education, including Agencies & Gateways (easy, drop down menus on every conceivable agency);  Business Info (easy menus to every aspect of business);  

• US Medicare  official US site   

• US National Observatory (USNO)  ~  USNO Time Service

• US National Aeronautics & Space Space Adminstration (NASA)  

• US Dept. of Agriculture  ~  USDA National Agriculture Library  ~  
  USDA Agriculture Research Service  ~  USDA Nutrient Data Base

• US Census Bureau  ~   US Dept. of Education  ~  US Geological Service  ~
  US Government Printing Office (GPO)  ~  
  US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)  ~
  US Dept. of Health & Human Services  ~  

• US Senate  ~  US House  ~  US Supreme Court  ~  US Dept. Defense  

• US National Records & Archives Administration (NARA)  ~  
  NARA Federal Register  ~  
  NARA  Archives Library Information Center    simple, quick opening page with links to what appears to be everything;  that is, this is a US Government listing of indexes of indexes -- very resourceful

• US Government Information Exchange -- Every Agency & Service

• US Government Agencies Listed by Louisiana State University   easy, quick links to most US agencies

• US Government Agency Search    sponsored by US Department of Commerce

• US White House & White House Guide to US Government

• Vanderbilt University Government Links -- Even the Government does not organize themselves like this 

• Western European Union 

• World Bank Group  ~

• World Health Organization

• World Trade Organization