Acronyms & Abbreviations
Africa
Almanacs
Art & Architecture
Biographies
Books & Publishing
- Lake Forest
College bookstore
- Choice Reviews Online Reviews of academic books — Lake Forest College Only
- Abebooks.com
Rare, new, used, and textbooks
- Alibris.com
Rare and hard-to-find books
- Amazon.com
New and used books, synopses, reviews
- Barnes & Noble
New, used, textbooks, synopses, reviews
- Book
Review-a-Day Reviews from Powells.com, The Atlantic,
Esquire, New Republic, Salon.com
- BookFinder.com new, used, rare, out of print, and international books
- The
New York Times: Books Reviews
- Powells.com
New and used books, synopses, reviews
- Publist
Directory of publications and publishers
Business, Economics & Investment
- Hoover's
Online Directory and investment information for
private and public companies; Hoover's
Premium available to Lake Forest College afilliates only
- Edgar
SEC company filings
- Bank Rate
Monitor Rates and news for credit cards, auto
loans, savings, etc.
- Reuters
Investor Reports on publicly traded companies,
including stocks, financial statements, and performance
- Yahoo!
Finance Has symbol lookup, as well as quotes,
charts, news, discussion about stocks, funds, and indices.
- Thomas
Register of American Manufacturers
- Economic Research: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Includes several online economic research tools located on the lefthand side of the main page
- FRASER: Federal Reserve
Archival System for Economic Research historical
U.S. economic statistics and publications
- Financial
Times U.S. version of a British financial publication,
includes world-wide stock indices
- Excite Money & Investing
Stocks and markets--statistics
and research, search individual company financial information
- International Monetary Fund
Information on 184 member countries
- Rating Country Experience
Analysis of the risks involved in trading in over
140 countries
- globalEDGE
Resource Desk Directories of foreign businesses
- Business Plan Archive Collection of business plans and other documents, frequently from dot-com companies
- Groningen Growth & Development Centre International economic data
- Market Research Portal Includes a useful glossary
Calendars & Dates & Time
Census
Chicago
Classical Studies
Colleges & Universities
Consumer Information
Copyright
Country Information
Dictionaries & Thesauri
Digital Books
- Amazon utilize the Search Inside!™ feature to read select portions of books
- Botanicus 18th and 19th century botanical literature from the Missouri Botanical Garden Library
- The British Library utilizes Turning the Pages software (may require Adobe Shockwave plugin); examine details of manuscripts, also access translated text transcriptions or summaries
- eScholarship Editions Over 500 books from academic presses on a range of topics, including art, science, history, music, religion, and fiction
- Google Books from the Advanced Book Search screen, select "Full view only" to retrieve whole books online
- NetLibrary books have Table of Contents links in the left frame; book availability dependent upon subscription of institution
- The Online Books Page links over 30,000 free online books and serials, selected for scholarly content, browseable by Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Open Content Alliance (a program of the Internet Archive) includes Project Gutenberg, Open Source Books, Government Documents, etc., all searchable by keywords or browsable by subject keywords
- Open Library goal is to have "one web page for every book ever published;" searchable records of over 13,439,320 books including over 234,857 with full-text
- Project Gutenberg searchable text files of over 100,000 copyright-free books
- Project Gutenberg Australia over 1,600 books in the public domain in Australia
- The Universal Digital Library goal is to digitize all books; over one million searchable, digitized books; international
- UVa Library Digital Collections: Texts Search over 11,000 texts from the University of Virginia library collection. Some are only visible to UVa users. Some are only listed on the Subjects page, such as Apache, Japanese, and Chinese texts.
- Virtual Reference Library Lake Forest College affiliates only
Elections
- IFES Election Guide (International Foundation for Electoral Systems) describes electoral system of the country and gives past and current results. Search by year or country.
Energy
Encyclopedias
English
Environment
- Chicago Wilderness
Magazine searchable, full-text articles, free
online
- Earth
First! Journal "the radical environmental
journal"
- EcoEarth.Info
Environment Portal & Search Engine
- EcoTox
database a "tool for examining impacts of
chemicals on the environment. Peer-reviewed literature is the
primary source of information encoded in the database"
also "independently compiled data files provided by various
United States and International government agencies."
- Encyclopedia of Earth
- Envirolink
- Environmental
Sites on the Internet
- Forest Conservation Portal
-- Rainforest, Forest and Biodiversity Conservation News
& Information; searchable, non-profit conservation
website
- Friends
of the Earth an international network of environmentalists
- Greenpeace
International
- League of Conservation
Voters
- MSDS (Material Safety Data Sheet) Hazard Communication Library
- National Center for Appropriate
Technology, "local solutions for a sustainable
future"
- Pew Center
on Global Climate Change
- Political
Advocacy Groups: Environment, a directory of United States
lobbyists; maintained by CSU-Chico faculty member
- Sierra
Club enter search terms, e.g. "rainforest"
or "global warming"
- TRI (Toxics Release Inventory) a database that contains detailed information on nearly 650 chemicals and chemical categories that over 23,000 industrial and other facilities manage through disposal or other releases, recycling, energy recovery, or treatment
- Voice of Agriculture
- VOA - American Farm Bureau
- World
Rainforest Information Portal - Amazon, South America, Asia,
Africa
- World Resources
Institute funded in part by corporations
- World
Watch Institute "independent, non-profit organization
researching links between the world economy and its environmental
support systems"
Exchange Rates & Currency
Genealogy
Government Information
Grants/Financial Aid
History
Holidays & Festivals
Illinois & States
Jobs
Lake Forest College
Legal Resources
Libraries
Maps & Atlases
- Lake County Interactive Mapping Application Zoom in to land parcel view to produce a labeled map showing tax assessment, date last sold, or date of construction, or search by address or PIN (property index number).
- Digital Sanborn Maps
City maps, 1867-1970, 50 ft. per inch, access to Illinois
maps only, Lake Forest College affiliates only
- Lake Forest College campus map printable PDF
- Geographic Names Information
System (GNIS) Identify official titles of locations
by searching keyword and by fields of landmark type (e.g., summit,
range, airport, island, hospital).
- Historical
Maps Online "...images of maps charting the last
400 years of historical development in Illinois and the Northwest
Territory...." search
by title, the date-issued, etc.
- Map Collections: American Memory Includes historical maps
- National
Geographic Map Machine Includes physical, cultural,
statistical, historical and street maps
- Rand
McNally Maps, directions, traffic
- Mapquest
Driving directions, travel distances & more
- Google Maps
- University
of Texas Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection Includes
links
to city and other maps worldwide
- U.S.
Census Maps Search for maps of U.S. cities by
name or zip code
Medicine & Health
Movies & Television
Museums & Art Galleries
Music
News
Local
Chicago Area
National & World
Patents & Trademarks
Philosophy
Pre-Law
Public Opinion Polls
Publishing & Books
Quotations
Reference assistance
Religion and Religious Texts
Science and Technology
Speeches
Sports
Statistics
- Energy
Information Administration (EIA): Official Energy Statistics
from the U.S. Government Petroleulm Data, Reports,
Analysis, Surveys
- Liber 8: An Economic
Information Portal for Librarians and Students international,
national,
and regional
economic statistics
- State
Health Facts Online from Kaiser Permanente
- Global Health Facts
from Kaiser Permanente
- Statistical Abstract of the U.S. Census Bureau
- National
Climatic Data Center Online (call 847-735-5074 for username
and password)
- National
Geophysical Data Center of the NOAA Satellite
and Information Service. Data on tsunamis, solar flares,
ocean drilling, etc.
- OFFSTATS:
Official Statistics on the Web from the University
of Auckland, includes health, economics, labor, etc.
- Weatherbase global
averages and records
Tax Forms
Telephone & Email Directories
Terrorism
- Combating Terrorism Technology Support Office (CTTSO) operates under the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict (SO/LIC); "fields rapid combating terrorism solutions;" utilizes resources from Israel, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Singapore
- Federal
Bureau of Investigation Counterterrorism
- Homeland
Security Institute
- Institute for Counter-Terrorism
- National
Academies free online books on terrorism
published by the National Academies Press
- National Commision
on Terrorist Attacks (the 9-11 Commision) - includes
the Report,
staff statements, press releases, hearings. Note: website frozen on September 20, 2004
- National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) links to Worldwide Incidents Tracking System, FBI's Most Wanted Terrorists list, and annual reports on terrorism incidents
- Patriot
Act PDF of the 132-page document, provided
by findlaw.com
- Patriot
Act Page in depth analysis of the Patriot Act from the Electronic Privacy Information
Center (EPIC)
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- RAND:
Terrorism Research a nonprofit research organization
- Response
to Terrorism U.S. Department of State; under Key Documents has links to The National Strategy for Combating Terrorism 2006 (PDF), Country Reports on Terrorism, and Designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations
- Council on
Foreign Relations "an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher"
- Terrorism
Research Center information from "warfare specialists drawn from industry, government, and academia in the United States, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Argentina, India, the Middle East, France, and Australia."
- TSWG (Technical Support Working Group) TSWG operates as a program element under the Combating Terrorism Technology Support Office (CTTSO)
- UN
Action to Counter Terrorism includes the UN Counter-Terrorism Online Handbook, UN Counter Terrorism Task Forces, press releases
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Theater/Performing Arts
Travel
Weather
Weights & Measurements
- WWW
Unit Converter easy to use
- Credo Reference Conversions
- Weights
and Measures Resources
- Online
Conversion.com to convert terrajoules, under All Conversion
Pages and Categories, scroll to Energy
- AllConversions.com
- length, mass, power, pressure, speed, volume, energy, bytes,
force, density, area, temperature, metric, imperial
- Roman Numeral Date conversion from Cornell
- Wind Chill Calculator
Writing Guides & Style Manuals
Zip Codes
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