News and Business Sources
Newspapers & Periodicals
- Key Web Outlets:
- Gateways:
- Major U.S. Newspapers: Linked by Time Zone, by State, NewsVoyager, ABYZ Kidon
- Christian Science Monitor
- Los Angeles Times
- New York Times - registration required
- USA Today
- Washington Post - registration required
- Wall Street Journal - $$
- Note: Annoying requests for personal information have spawned Bugmenot.com & Mailinator.com
- London Newspapers: Guardian Independent Times
- Business Newspapers: Newspaperdrive.com (Worldwide) Bibliomaven (USA)
- College Newspapers: Uwire - articles from 250+ university news sources
- Alternative News: AAN Directory NewPages WholeAgain
- News Archive Access: Search Newspaper Archives U.S. News Archives on the Web
- General Periodical Article Indexes
- FindArticles.com: free, full-text articles from the most recent two years of over 300 periodicals, including popular and scholarly periodicals as well as trade publications.
- Infotrieve.com: approximately 20 million citations and 10 million abstracts from over 30,000 scientific, technical, medical, and other academic journals, no full text.
- Ingenta: for both general and scholarly periodicals, few annotations, no full text. formerly Carl Uncover.
- DOAJ - Directory of Open Access Journals, 50,000 articles in 300 free journals
- HighBeam - covers 32 million documents
- MagPortal
Can limit search to a category: Business, Computers & Electronics, Education & Reference, Entertainment & Leisure, Family & Home, Finance & Investment, Health, Internet, Pets & Animals, Science & Technology, Society, Politics & Culture, Sports & Recreation- NewsDirectory: newspapers, magazines searchable by title, area code,subject
- NewsTrawler: international newspapers, magazines and journals
- Newspaper Links: A Gateway to Your Local Newspaper
- Newspapers: USA and Worldwide (refdesk.com)
- MagPortal.com: free on-line magazines
- PubList.com and MediaFinder -title verify free, rest $$
- American Journalism Review Newspapers
- Foreign Language News and Newspapers - organized at MIT Libraries
- Alternative Press Titles and Informational links
- Multicultural Press Titles and Informational links
- Ability's Lists of Magazines
- U.S. Newspaper Archives on the Web and International News Archives on the Web
- Online Newspapers from Around the World
- MEL:Indexes to Select Newspapers and Periodicals
- Newspapers of the world on the Internet: by geography
- NewsletterAccess: Business, Investments, Health, Advertising, Marketing
- Jake (Jointly Administered Knowledge Environment) Yale Openly Jake-DB
Tells you what databases index a particular journal, and where to find it in full-text (>23,000 titles)- Electronic Journal Miner - descriptive and contact info for 8000 titles
- PubList - ISSN and publisher contact information (free, but must register)
- Genamics Journal Seek: the largest database of freely available journal information available on the internet. The database presently contains more than 8500 titles.
- NewJour: Electronic Journals & NewsLetters: a completely internet list for new journals and newsletters available on the Internet
- All That JAS: Journal Abbreviation Sources
Database Vendors
- Dialog $$ - many specialized databases, periodicals
- Factiva $$ - this list excludes the 500 daily newspapers (also an Older List)
- LexisNexis $$ - legal and business databases and journals
- Wils Online Database Vendors - lists library database products
- Other Vendors - links to find lesser known products
- Professional Searcher's Guide to Searching Bibliography
Statistics
- Fedstats - provides easy access to full range of statistics and other information from over 70 federal agencies including data on labor, economy, justice, census, the IRS and more
- National UK Statistics Database
- CensusData and Census2000 from the U.S. Census Bureau
- Census2000 at ICPSR and CensusTools
- Industry Accounts Data - Produced by the Bureau of Economic Analysis.
- NCES - National Center for Educational Statistics site with statistics, studies, reports, and periodicals.
- Official Statistics on the Web: arranged by country
- Government Information Sharing Project - convenient and accessible formats for recent U.S. economic and demographic data (Oregon State University)
- American Factfinder - extensive free offering from census.gov
- Statistical Abstract of the United States - .pdf files available free from Census.gov
- Ameristat
- Counting California
- Economagic.com
Provides access to a huge number of key economic time series data, with a special emphasis on forecasting data. This site was started in 1996 to help students in an Applied Forecasting class.- Harris Polls
- USA TradeOnline
- Statistics.com - extensive statistics portal
- Statistical Resources on the Web
Hierarchal treatment of links from the University of Michigan- NationMaster.com - Extensive statistics worldwide
Company Information
Databases
- CorporateInformation.com - free signup, over 350,000 company profiles worldwide
- CorpTech.com - 50,000 tech related companies, free access for 48 hours with signup
- D&B Small Business Credit Reports - 5,000,000+ free addresses, $25 for credit report
Also see Zapdata for bargain basement business data from Dun & Bradstreet- Europages - company information for over 500,000 companies in 30 European countries.
- Factiva - detailed data on 45,000 companies at campuses (was Dow Jones Interactive)
- Hoover's Online - $$ for some data on over 50,000 companies, some data FREE
- Kompass - Company & Trade Names (1,000,000+)
- Lycos Yellow Pages - searches entire U.S. for a business name
- WAND Global Trade Directory - 1,000,000 companies from 177 countries (more)
- Yahoo! Finance - data on over 7500 public companies, links to more data at Reuters.com
- EDGAR, Industry Research Desk,
An SEC gateway site for company and industry-wide data.- SEDAR - equivalent to EDGAR for Canada
- Report Gallery
Collection of annual reports from the majority of the Fortune 500 companies- Free Annual Reports - from the Public Register's Annual Report Service (PRARS)
- Wall Street Journal Free Annual Reports Service or try WiLinks
- Company Research - a guide to research using printed sources from CSU Pomona
- Manufacturing Marketplace
Includes a searchable directory of products and services, suppliers, and trade names. In addition, selected articles are available from a dozen highly targeted trade journals.- Industry Research Desk
An 18-step research methodology and a list of industry portals- Industry Data Finder
Identifies sources and provides links to over 30 key industries, ranging from aerospace & defense to toys and textiles.- Business 2.0 and Business.com - popular business portals, extensive hand-picked link lists
- All-in-One search form for additional ticker info
Press Releases
- Ascribe - "The Public Interest Newswire" - Education, Health, Medicine, Science, Public Policy, Agriculture, Art & Humanities, Books & Authors, Business & Economics, Environment, Law, Philanthropy
- Business Wire - "The Global Leader in News Distribution" and in Japan on Factiva as of1988. Also at Yahoo.
- CSRwire - Corporate Social Responsibility Newswire Service
- CCN Matthews.com - a Canadian merged company: CCN Newswire and Matthews Media Directories that supplies financial news or at Yahoo
- EWire-news.com - environmental press releases
- Homeland Security Newswire - a special service of primezone.com
- JCN Network - "Japan's Corporate News Network"
- Market Wire - "provides comprehensive distribution of corporate press releases and media advisories directly to leading newspapers, broadcast outlets, newswires, consumer and trade publications, analyst terminal systems, Web sites and online databases around the globe." First Factiva issue listed as year 2000. Also at Yahoo.
- OfficialWire - The Official News & PR Delivery Service, not on Factiva
- Philanthropy News Network - nonprofits can submit news stories
- PR Newswire - A United Business Media Company est. 1954. Factiva lists first issue as 1985. "PR Newswire serves more than 50% of public companies in the United States, including over 70% of the Fortune 500" The content is provided in over a dozen languages and at Yahoo. The coverage includes Canada through the subsidary CanadaNewswire or at Yahoo. also seems to be archived at FindArticles.com
- PR Web.com - Free Press Release Distribution Since 1997, not on Factiva aka emediawire
- PressBox - UK based service not listed on Factiva
- PrimeZone Media Network - releases searchable after the free registration or at Yahoo
- PRN Wire: Newsroom - "in the news distribution business since 1996"
- Product News Network - affilated with Thomas Directory of Manufacturers
- SpaceWire - a conglomeration of coverage for aerospace and military topics e.g. WarWire
- US Newswire - "the leading news release wire service for public interest news sources, providing unparalleled distribution of news to print, broadcast and online media worldwide since 1986." (The digital Factiva coverage is shown as 1990)
- NewsIsFree - $ is a service with source feeds from 100+ press release sources
- Online-PR - link list for a much broader range of public relations opportunities
- (Note: Most "press release" companies send out emails, faxes, etc. The ones listed above are among the few that maintain searchable websites with a limited archive. Use a service like Factiva for global historical coverage. It also includes White House, State Department, U.S. Government, Voice of America and Government News Network (U.K.) press releases.)
Associations and Organizations
- Associations on the Net
Maintained by the Internet Public Library, this resource is a guide to Web sites of prominent organizations and associations.- ASAE Gateway to Associations
Maintained by the American Society of Association Executives, this database provides access to Web sites of more than 6,500 associations- Scholarly Societies Project: "The Scholarly Societies Project offers free Internet access to directory information (including links to Web sites) for a selection of scholarly societies across the world.
- Environmental Organization WebDirectory & National Environmental Directory
Occupations
- America's Career InfoNet
Wages and employment trends, occupational requirements, state by state labor market conditions, and employer contacts- Career Guide to Industries
Information on available careers by industry, including the nature of the industry, working conditions, employment, occupations in the industry, training and advancement, earnings and benefits, employment outlook, and lists of organizations that can provide additional information- Monster.com , Monster Career Advice, CareerBuilder, Yahoo, Occupational Outlook Handbook
Describes what workers do on the job, working conditions, the training and education needed, earnings, and expected job prospects in a wide range of occupations.- Salary.com and SalaryExpert.com
- Your Job is Going to India.com
Consumer Health Information
- Merck Manual
- Nutrition Navigator
- MEDLINEplus
Service of the National Library of Medicine and the National Institute of Health.- Healthfinder
From the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services- Familydoctor.org
From the American Academy of Family Physicians- HighWire Search
Indexes over a million medical articles, many available free full-text- NetWellness - Consumer Health Information
- Alternative Medicine
Portal for sources of information on unconventional, unorthodox, unproven, or alternative therapiesCountry Information
- Background Notes
From the Bureau of Public Affairs, U.S. Department of State. Provides the latest demographic information on countries. Includes maps.- Country Background Notes
- Country Commercial Guides
Prepared annually by U.S. Embassy staff. Information on the business and economic situation of foreign countries and the political climate as it affects U.S. business.- Country Profiles from BBC News
History, politics and economic background of countries. Also includes audio and video clips from the BBC archives.- Country Studies from the Library of Congress
- Economist Country Briefings
News, country profiles, forecasts and statistics- Embassy.org
Embassies in Washington often include economic data links on their sites- FirstGov - U.S. Government's Official Web Portal
- Foreign Government Resources - heirarchy of links from umich.edu
- Geography IQ
Online world atlas with geographic, economic, political, historical and cultural information. Includes maps, flags, currency conversion and climate and time zone information.- U.S. Government Manual -
An out-of-date directory of all branches, executive agencies, departments or the U.S. Government. Contains contact information in the form of names, telephone numbers and website addresses. Also see U.S. Blue Pages- NationMaster.com - Extensive statistics worldwide
- Travel & Tourism Guides - by country from Asia Voyager
- The CIA World FactBook
Country reports include information about geography, people, economy, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues.- Also see Travel section
Currency
- OANDA currency converter
FXConverter (Foreign Exchange Currency Converter) is a multi-lingual Currency Converter with up-to-date exchange rates provided from leading market data contributors and is filtered for validity. Contains exchange rates for any of the 164 currencies.- Universal currency converter
Universal Currency Converter ®, allows you to perform interactive foreign exchange rate calculations on the Internet, using live, up-to-the-minute currency rates.- FRED - (Federal Reserve Economic Data) Exchange Rates & Balance of Payments
From the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. FRED® provides historical U.S. economic and financial data, including daily U.S. interest rates, monetary and business indicators, exchange rates, and balance of payments.Science and medical dictionaries
- Biotech Life Science Dictionary
- Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology
- McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms
- Multilingual Glossary of technical and popular medical terms in nine European Languages
- On-line Medical Dictionary and other Medical dictionaries and glossaries
- Medi-Lexicon - Dictionary of medical, pharmaceutical, biomedial, and healthcare abbreviations and acronyms.
- FOLDOC - computing dictionary that includes many acronyms fully defined
- Webopedia - yet another source for technical and computer jargon also Whatis
- A Web of Specialized On-line Dictionaries
- Index to organism names - type in the latin species name for basic info
- Legal Encyclopedia
Science Sources
- Chemcyclopedia
Comprehensive online source of information about vendors, products, and services for the chemical and allied industries.- Thermodex Search Page
From University of Texas - thermodynamic handbooks, chemical compounds and properties, compilation Bielstein etc. online databases and standard handbook,- Encyclopedia Astronautica
Historical and current information on spaceflight- Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Comprehensive reference on astronomy and astrophysics- Encyclopedia of Information Technology
More than 20,000 IT terms and definitions- Encyclopedia of Plants (BotanyWorld.com)
Provides information regarding the general description of the plants, the various methods of cultivation, such as indoor or outdoor planting, soil and temperature requirements, pruning, and other important details, the means of propagation (seeds, cuttings, division, etc.), and the different varieties and hybrids.- How Stuff Works
- MEDLINEplus A.D.A.M. Health Illustrated Encyclopedia
Includes over 4,000 articles about diseases, tests, symptoms, injuries, and surgeries- The MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Sciences
- PC Webopaedia
Online dictionary and encyclopedia for computer and Internet technology.
Gazetteers
A gazetteer is a geographical dictionary which lists place names alphabetically and provides information about location, size, and, occasionally, principal features.
- Alexandria Digital Library Gazetteer: International
- U.S. Gazetteer: 2000 and 1990
U.S. Census Bureau utility
Inventions, Patents & Copyright
Inventions and Patents
- U. S. Patent and Trademark Office
Search for and file patents and trademarks- USPTO Web Patent Databases
Full-text and image databases- Canadian Patents Database
- European Patent Office
List of links to patent information on the Internet- World Patents Database
- Surfip.gov.sg
Search European Patent Office, UK Patent Office, World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), and USPTO simulataneously (and more)- Patents,Inventions, and Technology Transfer Links to many patent databases.
- MicroPatent
- PatentAlert
- Patent Searching Tutorials
Copyright
- Copyright Management Center
Indiana University Information site- Copyright Matters
From the University of California Office of Technology Transfer- United States Copyright Office
- US Copyright Database
- US Catalog of Copyright Entries (earlier renewals)
Maps/GIS
- California Digital Conservation Atlas
- World Maps
- Mapquest & Maps On Us
- Multimap - Europe and UK
- National Atlas of the United States
- The Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection
An electronic map collection from the University of Texas libraries.- USGSMapFinder
- TerraServer - view USGS maps and aerial photos of the U.S.A.
- Zip Code Maps
- U.S, Census Gazatteer
- County/Town Finder
- ePodunk
- Genealogical Maps
- Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) - lists all features, creeks, trails, mountains, lakes, etc
- Lots more GIS Resources
Telephone Directories
- Area Decoder: Area code look-up service and AreaCode-Info.Com
- Infospace Reverse Lookup and Which Phone Book?
- Telephone Directories: links to many different sources of phone directories
- Switchboard.com & SmartPages.com
- Who Where? (from Lycos) and yellow.com (for people and businesses)
- Yahoo! People Search (white pages) and Yahoo! Yellow Pages
- Internet 800 Directory - lookup by product, service or company
- International White & Yellow Pages and Telephone Directories on the Web
- International Country and City Calling Codes
- Multiple Reverse Lookups including area codes, SIC and more
- World Biographical Index
Short biographical entries for eminent individuals who lived in North and South America, Western and Central Europe, Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and Oceania- BehindTheName - hand listings for meanings and spellings of names
Traffic, Cars and Transportation
- California Department of Transportation (CalTrans)
- CHP Traffic Incident Information Page
- Edmunds' Automobile Buyer's Guides
- Kelley Blue Book: New car prices & used car values
- Southern California Metrolink & I Hate Driving.com & SC Transit Router
- Metrolink Orange County Schedules & OCTA Bus Routes
- Bay Area Transit Information
- Amtrak: Routes & Services -West Coast map and sample fares 800.USA-RAIL
- US Towns and Cities Served By Amtrak - note half the cites only by bus shuttle!!
- TrainWeb and RailServe
- Greyhound Lines, Inc. - 800-231-2222
- Green Tortoise - the West Coast alternative
Translators
- Altavista Translation Service
Key in a URL or text, and AltaVista will translate that page from, and into, English with Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese and more- AllWords.com
Systran
Translates words and phrases from, and into, English with Spanish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Chinese, and Dutch, Portuguese, Russian, and Korean. Also offers translation for web pages.- FreeTranslation
Translates words and phrases from and into English with Spanish, French, Dutch, Italian, German, and Portuguese. Also translates Norwegian and Chinese into English.- Worldlingo.com
Allows entire websites to link to translations of itself! $- YourDictionary.com
Links to dictionaries for languages throughout the world (Artificial, African, Altaic, etc.). Also includes links to thesauri, grammars, word identifiers, and much more.- Language Dictionaries and Translators
A language dictionary and translator with pointers to searchable and browsable dictionaries- Travlang's Traveling Dictionaries
- iTools - Swiss army knife of websites including translation
- Self Study Quizes for ESL students
Travel
- California: Travel Topics
From the Librarian's Index to the Internet- Center for Disease Control (CDC): traveler's health site
- Fodors
- Frommers
- Lonely Planet
- Travel on the web: sites to help you plan your vacation
From the April 2002 College & Research Libraries News - an essay with links- U.S. National Parks: Accommodations, Lodging, and Information
- Country Information and other Travel lookups: all in one handy form
- U.S. State Department Travel Warnings & Consular Information Services
Weather
- National Weather Service Forecast Office
Forecasts for Los Angeles/Oxnard area- Intellicast
- Western Regional Climate Center
Information for the Western United States, including historical climate information.- The Weather Channel
Weather information searchable by city or zip code- WeatherNet
From the University of Michigan. Major source of weather information. Provides access to thousands of forecasts, images, and the Net's largest collection of weather links.- Weather Underground
Weights, measures and scientific constants
Weights and measures
- Convert It!
- OnlineConversion
- Measuring Units Conversion Tables
- Costas Javascript Unit Converter - even works offline if page is saved to hard drive
Scientific constants, properties and data
- MEDLINEplus Drug Information
Information on thousands of prescription and over-the-counter medications through two drug resources -- MedMaster™, a product of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP), and the USP DI® Advice for the Patient®.a product of the United States Pharmacopeia (USP).- Druginfonet Database - full text of official package inserts
- Drug Info Resource Center - includes text and audio versions of listings
- RXList- The Internet Drug Index - same info as PDR; & Nurse's PDR - concise
- 109 - A Visual Interpretation of the Table of Elements
- Physical constants from the National Institute of Standards & Technology
- GNU units.dat - a more extensive list of constants by Adrian Mariano
- Recent Earthquakes in California and Nevada
- US Naval Observatory, Astronomical Applications
- Web elements
Periodic table of the elements and their properties
Zip, Postal and Search Codes
- Area Code and Zip Code Look-ups
Contains various look-up tools for zip codes, including zip codes within a county, within a radius of another zip code, and more.- Zip Code by City, County, Census Tract, Time Zone
Links to many Zip code searchable databases from all-in-one forms pages- Cedar National Address Server
- Zip code look-up from USPS
- PostalCodeWorld - links to postal code servers worldwide, also Int'l Mail address formats
- NAICS Codes - full list and NAICS / SIC Codes Lookup and Conversion Table
- SIC Codes - full list and Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) System Search
- IPTC Subject Codes - (from International Press Telecommunications Council)
- ISO 3166 geographic codes list
- UNSPSC - United Nations Standard Products and Services Code
- SITC Codes - Standard International Trade Classification
- HTS - Harmonized Tariff System codes buried in a set of .pdf documents
Acronyms & Abbreviations
- Acronym Finder - largest single on-line source
- Abbreviation Station - Industrial Abbreviations & Acronyms
- Abbreviation Station - Business Abbreviations & Acronyms Index
- Acronyms and Abbreviations Commonly Used in International Business Transactions
- Agriculture Acronyms
- AICPA Accounting Acronyms and Abbreviations
- APA Planning Acronyms
- Aviation Industry Acronyms
- Business Acronyms and Jargons
- Cable Industry Acronyms
- Colloquial American Business Jargon Defined
- Commercial Banking Glossary
- DataHiding Glossary, Abbreviations and Acronyms
- DOT Transportation Acronyms and for Texas DOT Traffic Terms
- EPA Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations
- FDA-Related Acronyms and Abbreviations
- FEMA Preparedness Acronyms, Abbreviations and Terms
- Giannini Foundation Library Business Acronyms
- Glossary and Acronyms - International Business - also here as one huge page
- Glossary of U.S. Census Terms
- Glossary of Workforce Investment System Acronyms
- International Corporate Acronyms e.g. GmbH
- Internet Marketing Acronyms
- Legal Abbreviations (as used in citations)
- Legal Latin phrases (.pdf)
- Mangement Master List of Acronyms
- Medical/Nursing Acronyms & Abbreviations
- Operations Management and Quality Management Acronym List
- OSHA acronyms
- Plastics Abbreviations and Acronyms
- Semiconductor Industry Official Acronyms, Abbreviations, and Definitions
- Small Business Banking Glossary
- WirelessDictionary.com