Web sites are chosen for relevance to the curriculum and for quick access to selected commonly-used resources. The list aims to be useful, but not comprehensive. Currency, authority, permanence, etc. are selection factors.
Academic Info - (includes over 25,000 hand-picked educational resourses and subject guides)
American Accounting Association - (includes links to other accounting associations, relevant journals, the standards groups, such as the Financial Accounting Standards Board) and Web resource links for students)
Art History With Michelli - (materials related to an academic art history course with extensive art history links arranged by time period; click on the Art History Browser)
The-artists.org - (biographies and photos and associated web sites for major contemporary and 20th century visual artists; also explanation of styles and listing of major proponents)
Bureau of Labor Statistics - (employment and occupation trends , prices, economy, production and export/import, etc., including the Occupational Outlook Handbook, Consumer Price Index, U.S. Economy, and U.S. Industry at a Glance)
Applied Ethics Resources on WWW - (ethics in all areas: business, professional, public sector and government, computer, animal welfare, healthcare, environmental)
CorporateInformation.com - (research a company or an industry in the U.S. or world; company profiles, reports, earnings and price analyses)
Country Briefings - (news, profiles, forecasts, statistics from the Economist)
Country Commercial Guides - (U.S. embassies and agencies profile economic, political, and market analysis of the countries of the world 1996 to present)
InfoUSA Lookup for U.S. and Canada - (find people and business telephone look-up with reverse look-ups for both categories; excellent for creating B2B and B2C lists of company info (info is categorized by geography, SIC code, category, business size, financial rating))
NAICS (North American Industry Classification System) (categorization of industry, business, and services by numerical codes; replaced the SIC (U.S. Standard Industrial Classification) codes. Includes correspondence tables between old and new systems.))
QwestDex - (company lookup, white and yellow phone directories, city info)
Searching for Company Information - (New York Public Library guide with the basic questions: U.S. or foreign-owned? private or public? type of business? Why am I not finding my company?)
U.S. Corporate, Industrial, and Economic Information - (comprehensive links from UNC Charlotte Library; includes business news sources, company information, e-commerce, legal resources, business portals, stocks/bond/mutual funds)
U.S. Dept. of Commerce - (business, international trade, industry reports, state of the economy, key economic indicators, industry development, electronic commerce, laws and regulations, science and technology)
Web100 - (largest companies on the Web; top U.S. and global 100; Fortune 500; companies by industry and ranking; stock quotes; news wires)
Communications
American Rhetoric - 5000+ audio/streaming video speeches, including top 100 speeches and Christian rhetoric
Best Information on the Net: Education - (Comprehensive site - covers early childhood education, education law, church and state, education jump-off sites, lesson plan sites, research, testing, reform, school safety, technology, children's literature and reading, and other topics chosen by St. Ambrose U. librarians. At entry page choose "Resources by Major".)
EdPsych Junction: Tools and Resources for Educational and School Psychology - (includes centers for evaluation and mental measurement, test publishers, professional organizations and government sites, psychology and mental health resources. Newest information now updated at Dept. of Educational Psychology, Miami U.)
Education Virtual Library - (comprehensive site, with division by grade level. Includes links to distance ed. This is one of the WWW Virtual Libraries.)
Education World - (comprehensive search site with over 500,000 Web sites)
Gateway to Educational Materials (GEM) - (search for lesson plans and other educational units/resources on the Internet by subject, keyword, and grade level)
InetLibrary - (quality web sites for education and teachers, webquests, categorization by subject and grade level) (a paid subscription, passwords required)
Peterson's Education Center - (colleges, universities, graduate programs, study abroad, distance learning, test prep, financing, summer jobs)
Phil's Place - Education and Technology - (comprehensive site with education jobs, teacher certification requirements by state, math education, music education, etc.)
School Psychology Resources Online - ("conditions, disorders, disabilities, other information" such as assessment/evaluation, behavior management, etc.)
Agency Index - (agency Web site, publications, opinions; also U.S. Government Telephone/e-mail Directory (Lycos) and 411 for Government Search Carroll's Government Directories. Includes state level.)
Elections 2000 - (University of MI Documents Center. Elections and campaigns info, guides to government and its 3 branches, foundations of government, electoral college laws and procedures, historical electoral college votes, candidates, lobby groups, Presidents' portraits/web sites/elections, controversial and current issues, such as abortion, SS, health, global warming, education, environment, gun control, death penalty, patients' rights)
Fedstats - (100+ government agencies and their statistics. Includes health, education, crime, employment, etc.)
FIRSTGOV.gov - (government Web sites; browse by topic; access by government branch)
GPO Access - (information on the 3 branches of the federal government and databases such as the U.S. Code (1994 edition), Code of Federal Regulations, Federal Register, Congressional Record, other databases, such as Economic Report of the President, Supreme Court Decisions 1937-1975, etc.)
National Agriculture Library - (includes publications on food and nutrition, global change, and databases, such as AGRICOLA; also offers the Food Safety Research Information Source Web site)
U.S. Census Bureau - (comprehensive site for statistics - U.S. Census 2000; Economic Census, health statistics 1995-2000; business, geography, news, population, special topics; American Fact Finder; state quick facts)
Center for Substance Abuse Research - (federal drug data resources - prevalence of use, consequences, treatment, prevention, law enforcement, source and volume of illegal drugs)
DrugInfoNet - (official and patient drug package insert information; same info as in the Physicians' Desk Reference, although the number of drugs included may be fewer)
Mental Help Net - (comprehensive site. Includes disorders and treatments and professional resources in social psychology, school psychology, neurosciences and many other areas. Extensive listings of rated, annotated Web resources. Includes interface to search MEDLINE, AIDSDRUGS, AIDSLINE, AIDSTRIALS, BIOETHICSLINE, CANCERLIT, HealthSTAR, and PsychJournalSearch.)
National Institutes of Health - (health information web resources in a broad variety of health areas, including AIDS, diet, women's health, behavior, and bioethics. Includes the Healthfinder search engine and MEDLINEplus. This search engine includes a medical dictionary index, an extensive list of relevant online libraries, databases, and other)
National Institute on Drug Abuse - (reports, statistics and info on drugs, including marijuana, cocaine, ecstasy, and multiple others)
People's Pharmacy - (health encyclopedias, library, with info on drugs, health conditions, health hot topics, health and life issues, food, recipes, exercise and fitness, nutrition, weight, dieting, healthy life styles, vitamins and supplements)
Core Documents of U.S. Democracy - (cornerstone, congressional, presidential, judicial (Supreme Court decisions 1937-1975 and 1992 to present), regulatory, economic, demographic, and governmental)
Social Studies School Service - (comprehensive overview of an array of topics. For example for Holocaust web sites, at the bottom of the page click on Holocaust. For a comprehensive listing of sites, at the top of the page, select search, use "Holocaust" as a keyword, and choose related Web sites.)
U.S. Constitution Online - (founding fathers and background; also state data, info on members of Congress, complete historical info on Presidents, Electoral Votes, Electoral College, Election of 2000)
Learn Spanish - (select curriculum and practice pronunciation, grammar, verb drills, etc. Good for idioms, useful links, and access to newspapers, radio stations, travel and online help (more than 40 Learn Spanish tutorials and resources)
Grammar and Language Courses - (rules of language and online learning for the languages of the world; see in particular English, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Spanish grammars, etc.)
Research Links - (Westminster Law Library, University of Denver; includes comprehensive legal sites, law reviews and publications. Select Internet Research Links.)
IPL Online Literary Criticism Collection - (comprehensive with American and British literary criticism by time period; also other countries' literature, as well as Classical Greek and Latin literature)
AAR Syllabi Project: Teaching Resources on the Internet - (Syllabi and teaching resources for religious studies and the humanities; meta-indices of religious studies resources on the Internet; electronic texts; committees and organizations)
Ethics Updates - (comprehensive site, including ethical theory, applied ethics, classic works in moral philosophy, and other resources for ethics professors and students)
Virtual Religion Index - (mega-site with ancient Near Eastern studies, comparative religion, biblical studies, Christian tradition, churches, ethics, philosophy, theology)
Intute: Social Sciences - (comprehensive gateway to social sciences, including education and business)
Media Literacy Online Project - ("nature of the mass media, techniques used by them, and the impact of these techniques". Extensive site exploring culture, technology, advertising, film, TV, music, media, mass communication, education, children, ethnicity, and gender issues, including relevant free online journals.)
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