Research Links

data sources for nonfiction writers and reporters

Dictionaries

DOD Dictionary of Military Terms
http://www.dtic.mil/doctrine/jel/doddict/

The US Department of Defense Defense Technical Information Center provides this handy dictionary.

Glossary of Internet Terms
http://www.delphi.com/navnet/faq/glossary.html

List of Internet terms with definitions.

Search It! Dictionaries Page
http://www.intrstar.net/~qconsult/dict.html

Links to various kinds of online dictionaries, including rhyming dictionaries.

A Web of Online Dictionaries
http://www.bucknell.edu/~rbeard/diction.html

Links to more than 400 dictionaries of over 130 different languages.

Encyclopedic

The Britannica Internet Guide
http://www.ebig.com/

This is a list of links, with a brief explanation of each link, on a wide variety of topics. Topics are arranged, in true Britannica fashion, in alphabetical order.

Corporate Investigative Services
http://www.bhm.tis.net/~pvteye/search.html

Provides links to over 250 searchable databases, including online dictionaries.

Go2
http://www.goto.com/

A search engine that tends to give only a few places for each search, but they tend to be good.

Information Please
http://www.infoplease.com/

Melds an enormous amount of information in an entertaining, searchable database of facts, figures and trivia.

The Information Resource
http://www.info-resource.com/

This site is basically just a very long list of links, with no explanation of those links, to web sites where you can get data on a wide variety of subjects.

James R's Bookmarks
http://www2.cybernex.net/~jamesr/

A list of many links related to Jews, Internet directories, radiology, kids, and other things.

The Mining Company
http://home.miningco.com/

An easy to use, well organized guide to links on many topics. It includes a tutorial on how to use the site.

Needle in a CyberStack - the InfoFinder
http://home.revealed.net/albee/

Links on almost everything, including Curriculum, News, Research, Business and Career Tools, etc

PC Webopaedia
http://www.pcwebopaedia.com/index.html

Online encyclopedia and search engine dedicated to computer technology.

Project Gutenberg
http://www.promo.net/pg/

A project older than the Web, to make classic books electronically accessible.

RES-Links
http://www.cam.org/~intsci/index.html

Many links in many areas.

Truly Awesome
http://www.cais.com/makulow/awesome.html

A thoughtful and rather complete list of reference sites, sub-divided into "Awesome" and "Truly Awesome."

Windweaver Search Pages
http://www.windweaver.com/searchpage.htm

Links to top search engines, directories and libraries.

Your Pipeline to Encyclopedias and References
http://www.thepagesite.com/encycl_p.htm

Full Internet encyclopedia & research index.

Events

Bon Temps: Search for Events
http://highsierra.com/cgi-win/calendar/calsrch.exe/bontemps/

Digital Datebook
http://www.digitaldiscounts.com/datebook.html

EventCal
http://www.eventcal.com/

EventsLINK
http://www.events2000.com/itshappening/index.html

EventSeeker
http://w3.eventseeker.com/

Government

The Government by Sterby
http://www.erols.com/irasterb/gov.htm#wh

Lots of information on the US government.

Search Supreme Court Decisions, 1937 - 1975
http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/supcrt/

A finding aid to the "official" version in the United States Reports.

Libaries

Libraries ON THE WEB
http://www.schoolnet.ca/site/educ/library/index-e.html#libraries

Contains links to libraries and other research sites on the web.

Library Spot
http://www.libraryspot.com/

Links to on-line libraries, reference desks and reading rooms.

Marketing

Inkspot Writer Guidelines Library
http://www.inkspot.com/cgi-bin/guidelines/guide.cgi

This database contains market info for paying magazines/zines and book publishers.

Painted Rock Writers and Readers Colony
http://www.paintedrock.com/

Free Services and Info, Public Message Boards, Author chats, workshops, Writing Classes.

The Writer's Edge
http://www.writersedge1.com/

Contests, columns on writing, links to information on writing, and other great stuff.

Richard N. Cote Professional Writing Supersite
http://www.bookdoctor.com/supersite.html

A long list of links to useful writing tools.

Pure Fiction
http://www.purefiction.com/

Book reviews and previews, a wealth of writing advice, an online bookshop, a writers' showcase, Internet links.

Medical (conventional and alternative)

The Alternative Medical Homepage
http://www.pitt.edu/~cbw/internet.html#herbal

Employing plant and plant products from folk medicine traditions for pharmacological use.

HealthWeb
http://healthweb.org/

Provides links and quality information aimed at assisting health care professionals as well as consumers in meeting their health information needs.

Jean Fremont's Food and Nutrition on the Web
http://www.sfu.ca/~jfremont/

Lots of links to dieticians and other places on nutrition and food preparation.

Medical Matrix
http://www.medmatrix.org/index.asp

Links to specific medical information, selected by a panel of physicians.

Miscellaneous

The Alta Vista Translation Service
http://babelfish.altavista.digital.com/cgi-bin/translate

It will automatically translate any word or phrase you type in. You can pull down a menu to choose which language you want to translate. The best thing about it, if you type in a URL, it will translate an entire web page for you -- as long as the web page isn't too lengthy.

The Better Business Bureau
http://www.bbb.com/alerts/index.html

The BBB has indexed all its business scam alerts for the past year, including many Internet-related frauds and schemes.

Consumer Reports on-line
http://www.consumerreports.org/

Reports on cars, appliances, etc.

Encyclopedia Mythica
http://www.pantheon.org/mythica/

An online encyclopedia of mythology, folklore, and legend.

The Free Site
http://www.thefreesite.com/

Lists lots of freebies available on the web, organized by category

Independent Inventor Industry Who's Who
http://www.rjriley.com/inventors/

Extensive web pages about inventors, including many links to sites that list both black and women inventors.

The International Salary Calculator
http://www.homefair.com/homefair/cmr/salcalc.html

Compares the cost of living in hundreds of U.S. and international cities.

KEDCO Studios Incorporated
http://home.earthlink.net/~kedco_ap/

A book store that contains a number of downloadable free books, poetry and artists contest areas, and newsletters for self publishers and small time publishers.

Media Tech: Site Map
http://members.tripod.com/~mick_cunningham/sitemap.htm

Index to the lectures or cog notes on media technologies

National Expertise Index
http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/sc_innov/cite/engdoc/search.html

Listing of individual researchers and research teams at Canadian university and public institutions across Canada.

The Realm of Sequoia
http://members.tripod.com/~sequoiafalls/

Photographs of mountains, waterfalls, lakes, islands, forests and wilderness.

Resources for Journalists
http://home.att.net/~bdedman/index.html

E-mail alert services.

Scholarly Societies Project
http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/society/webpages.html

Links to webpages and gophers of hundreds of scholarly societies.

SciCentral
http://www.scicentral.com/

Maintained by professional scientists to identify and centralize links to scientific resources online.

U.S. Post Office ZIP Code Look Up and Address Information
http://www.usps.gov/ncsc/

Enables you to find ZIP codes for towns; or, conversely, towns for ZIP codes.

A Web of Online Grammars
http://www.bucknell.edu/~rbeard/grammars.html

Links with on-line grammars of as many languages as can be found on the Web

News, etc.

Ecola Newstand
http://www.ecola.com/

Links to hundreds of newspapers, magazines, and computer publications.

The electoral web sites
http://www.agora.stm.it/elections/election.htm

A data base on elections around the world.

GOGGA
http://www.gogga.ru.ac.za/

Search engine for the South African press.

The Largest Newspaper Index on the Web
http://www.concentric.net/~stevewt/

Links to over 3,000 newspapers from more than 80 countries.

News Alert
http://www.newsalert.com/

Real-time, interactive financial and general news.

News Index
http://www.newsindex.com/

The original News Only Search Engine. Find breaking news stories and topics of interest from our continuously updating database of articles from over 250 newspapers and news sources from around the world.

News Resource
http://newo.com/news/

Links to newspapers and radio stations around the world.

NewsBot
http://www.wired.com/newbot/

The HotBot Guide To News Online.

Newspaper Archives on the Web
http://sunsite.unc.edu/slanews/internet/archives.html

Links to newspapers, organized by states.

Newsworks
http://www.newsworks.com/

Links to more than 125 newspapers, organizing the links by news topics, rather than by individual newspapers.

Washington Post International
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/front.htm#search

Good for finding deep information about every country in the world.

Copyright © 1997, Sondra Ball, all rights reserved.
Last revised: 8 June 1998

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