Professor Natt's Pile of Web Resources

Checking Web Domain Names
These search tools help you find the name and contact number of the organization that built or owns the site to help tell if a site is credible. Before quoting information from a Web site, you should contact the source to check whether the information has been updated. You might have to check the address on several of these sites before you find it.

• Network Solutions -- www.networksolutions.com/cgi-bin/whois/whois
  or www.whois.net/
  This company has the contract to manage
  .com, .net, .edu and .org names. Use its search engine
  to check the site's source.

• www.register.com
  Similar to Network Solutions.

• www.iana.net/

Search tips:

• Online search tips -- Basics rules for finding information quickly on the Internet

Search engines:

Places to start:

• Search engine info, evaluation -- http://www.searchenginewatch.com/  

• Reporter's Desktop -- http://www.reporter.org/desktop/

• JournalismNet's Finding Web Pages -- http://www.journalismnet.com/search/

• UC Berkeley Library -- http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/Help/search.html

Most popular search engines:

·        Google -- http://google.com/  Gives terrific results by analyzing a page's popularity. It also offers a government search -- http://google.com/unclesam. Don't forget Google images, google news, google books and scholar google.
·       Alta Vista -- http://www.altavista.com Efficient free-text searching of the Web
·        Yahoo -- www.yahoo.com Subject guide and free-text searching of the World Wide Web
·       Excite's -- www.excite.com Concept searching is highly effective 
·       Hotbot -- www.hotbot.com (uses Ask Jeeves and Google)
·        Search.com -- http://search.cnet.com has the Go -- http://go.com engine as well as more obscure topic-oriented choices
·        Ask Jeeves -- www.askjeeves.com searching with a human touch
·       Dogpile and Metacrawler offer simultaneous searches of multiple Web search engines

Other search engines:                               

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·        Mamma
·  Looksmart searches a selection of sites chosen by humans
·        About.com, formerly the Mining Co., has humans who assemble mini-sites on a wide variety of topics.
·        Searchmil.com searches for information in military (.mil) computers
·        Reference.com searches and archives mailing lists, web forums and Usenet groups.
·        Google groups, (formerly Dejanews) lets you search for Usenet postings or posters
·        CNet combines computer news, reviews, software and services. Also see their news.com
 

 

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Federal government/Politics sites

• Thomas -- Legislative information operated by Library of Congress -- www.thomas.loc.gov

• www.firstgov.gov -- official U.S. government search site

• Government Printing Office -- www.gpo.gov

• Congressional Quarterly – http://www.cq.com/home/home.jsp
  Breaking Washington news and scheduling updates.

• www.vote-smart.org
  Easy way to track a Congressman's voting record.

• Directory of federal gov. agencies -- http://www.lib.lsu.edu/gov/fedgov.html 

• Library of Congress – www.loc.gov
  The library's catalogs, full-text access to bills under
  consideration in both the House and Senate.

• Census Bureau -- www.census.gov
  This news section is a quick reference guide to the census -- http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/index.html Also news releases available at www.census.gov/pubinfo/www/news.html on latest demographic, economic and cultural changes and trends

• Fedstats –www.fedstats.gov -- collects and organizes statistics from 70 agencies

• Ferret -- http://ferret.bls.census.gov/cgi-bin/ferret
  For recent population and income data

• www.govspot.com
  Government information portal: world, state, federal,
  social services military and justice

• Fedworld -- www.fedworld.gov
  A guide to thousands of federal government agencies and databases

• Government Info. Exchange – http://info.gov/
  Federal phone directories, Web locator, resources

• Family Taxpayers Network -- http://www.thechampion.org/
  Look up teacher salaries at public schools. Helpful research tool.

• Executive Branch -- www.whitehouse.gov

• www.house.gov --U.S. House of Representatives info. and directory

• www.senate.gov --US Senate info. And directory

• www.congress.org 

• Public Agenda -- www.publicagenda.org
  Inside source for public opinion and
  policy analysis on dozens of social issues

• CIA World Factbook – http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/
  Information about every country in the world

• Bureau of Labor Statistics -- www.bls.gov/
  Employment, wages, unemployment broken down by region

• Economagic -- www.economagic.com 

• Federal Election Commission information -- www.tray.com 

• Bureau of Transportation Statistics – www.bts.gov

• Commission on Civil Rights  -- www.usccr.gov

• Department of Agriculture -- www.usda.gov

• Department of Education – www.ed.gov

• Federal Communications Commission  -- www.fcc.gov

• General Accounting Office  

• Social Security Administration 

• Securities & Exchange Commission -- www.sec.gov

• Federal Government Agencies -- A clean, easy-to-use listing

• Federal Web Locator – www.infoctr.edu/fwl/  Allows searching

• National Archives and Records Administration – www.nara.gov Catalogs records held by Government agencies

• DefenseLink – News and live briefings from the U.S. Department of Defense -- www.defenselink.mil/news/

• GPO Access databases -- http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/ 

• Vital statistics -- http://www.cdc.gov/nchswww/fastats

• Federal Aviation Administration – http://nasdac.faa.gov/ Databases of airline safety reports

• Internal Revenue Service stats -- http://www.irs.ustreas.gov/prod/tax_stats/index.html 

• Who's Who in Federal Government --  http://exlibris.memphis.edu/resource/unclesam/whos.html -- Site provides lists of: Cabinet members, Congressional leadership, Congressional committee chairs, and Administrators of selected federal agencies. There are also links to biographical information about each listed official.

• Congressional Research Service briefing papers -- www.house.gov/shays/CRS/CRSProducts.htm and www.house.gov/markgreen/crs.htm 
  
  Politics

• www.vote-smart.org -- officials' and candidates' views, bios; legislation status; state information; ballot measures

• Congressional vote database from Washington post: http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/
• ww.pollingreport.com -- Keeps track of latest polls

• Gallup polls 

• Roper polls -- http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/ 

• Institute for Research in Social Science public poll database -- http://www.irss.unc.edu/data_archive/pollsearch.html 

• Political Moneyline -- http://www.fecinfo.com/

• www.opensecrets.org
  A fantastic site for researching campaign financing statistics.

• Campaign Finance Information Center -- http://www.campaignfinance.org Includes campaign finance research and a clearinghouse of key FOIA sites. Operated by Investigative Reporters and Editors

• Pew Center Studies -- http://people-press.org/reports/ Pew studies on political topics

• Green papers -- List of upcoming elections, officeholders, etc. in each state and national -- www.thegreenpapers.com 

• http://www.publicrecordfinder.com
• Archive of presidential campaign commercials -- http://livingroomcandidate.movingimage.us/index.php

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State Government                 

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• http://www.stateline.org

• http://www.statelocal.gov
  Clearinghouse of state and local government sites.

• http://www.piperinfo.com/state/states.html
  Clearinghouse of state and local government sites.

• Statesearch -- https://www.nascio.org/stateSearch/ State-level information on a variety of topics

• Indiana information -- www.state.in.us./gov 

• Ind. Governor -- www.ai.org/gov/ 

• Indiana statistics -- www.stats.indiana.edu 

• www.rcfp.org -- Home of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. Samples of state laws and letters requesting information

• Links to state legislatures -- http://www.ncsl.org/login.htm?returnpage=http://www.ncsl.org/public/sitesleg.htm 

• West Lafayette government -- http://www.city.west-lafayette.in.us/ 

• Census link to state data -- http://www.census.gov/sdc/www/ 

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Crime stats/Military

• FBI

• Bureau of Justice Statistics -- http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/dtd.htm 

• College and University Crime Statistics Links – http://www.campussafety.org/crimestats/

• National Criminal Justice Reference Service – http://ncjrs.org/

• Center to Prevent Handgun Violence – www.handguncontrol.org

• National Rifle Association

• Criminal justice links – www.fsu.edu/~crimdo/feds.html. Assembled by Cecil Greek at Florida State University

• APBNews.com  -- http://www.apbonline.com/scanner/index_blank.html Crime news and information, including police scanners from major cities.

• Police Officer's Internet Directory -- www.officer.com -- Nearly everything on the Web that's related to law enforcement

• Stars and Stripes -- http://www.estripes.com/ 

• http://www.sgtmoms.com/ -- Site for military families

• www.military.com 

• www.militarycity.com -- gateway to military news publications

• Department of Defense's Defenselink -- http://www.defenselink.mil/news/ -- Dept. of Defense news and briefings

• Defenselink Factfile -- http://www.defenselink.mil/sites/f.html#facts 

• DOD Dictionary -- military terms

• Homicide trends in U.S. -- http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/homicide/homtrnd.htm 

• Crime state links -- http://www.crime.org/links.html 

• Jane's glossary -- http://www.janes.com/defence/glossary/ 

• NATO -- www.nato.int 

• Iraq casualty databases -- AP's http://datacenter.ap.org/car/casualtyquery/ and http://icasualties.org and Department of Defense spreadsheets at http://web1.whs.osd.mil/mmid/casualty/castop.htm and http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2003/iraq/forces/casualties/2005.08.html
  
  

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  General resource tools

  • Purdue library -- considered one of the best -- http://thorplus.lib.purdue.edu/reference/index.html 

  • www.deadlineonline.com
    A must-bookmark for any journalist.
    A clearinghouse of sourcing links from the Schlein News Bureau.
    Broken down by people, sources, documents and background.

  • Gannett's Web Resources by category -- http://www.gannett.com/go/newswatch/nwwebtips/courtslaw.html 

  • AskEric -- http://ericir.syr.edu

  • ERIC -- http://www.eric.ed.gov/ 

  • www.powerreporting.com -- Links for various beat reporters

  • The Journalist’s Toolbox --  http://www.americanpressinstitute.org/toolbox/

  • Internet public library --- http://www.ipl.org/

  • Lexis-Nexis -- access through Purdue library Web site

  • Niche search engines index – www.leidenuniv.nl/ub/biv/specials.htm

  • Journalist's Express -- http://www.journalistexpress.com/

  • PR Newswire -- http://www.prnewswire.com/news/

  • A Journalist’s Guide to the Internet -- http://reporter.umd.edu/

  • Journalist’s Tools -- http://www.refdesk.com/jourtool.html

  • NewsPlace for News and Sources -- http://www.niu.edu/newsplace/

  • United Nations  

  • The European Journalism page -- http://www.demon.co.uk/eurojournalism/politic.html

  • Newsahead Upcoming news events around the globe

  • Virtual Gumshoe – www.virtualgumshoe.com Has a variety of useful investigative links

  • Landings Comprehensive aviation site offers databases of plane registrations, service difficulty reports, pilot certifications. Also, NTSB at http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/query.asp or http://www.airliners.net

  • Top 200 Government contractors – www.govexec.com/top200/ from Government Executive

  • Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press -- www.rcfp.org Has links and information, including a fill-in-the-blanks Freedom of Information request and state-by-state guide to open meetings laws.

  • The Freedom Forum -- Journalism, journalism education and first amendment issues

  • Telecommunications information resources: -- http://192.54.138.54/ric/richs/telecom.htm Social, economic, political

  • The Smoking Gun presents (undigested) documents obtained from court files and through freedom of information requests -- http://www.thesmokinggun.com/

  • Journalism Net -- www.journalismnet.com

  • www.ryerson.ca/~journal/megasources.html

  • http://metalab.unc.edu/team/research/index.html

  • Useful sights on the Web-- http://metalab.unc.edu/team/research/useful/useful.html

  • UNESCO -- United Nations educational, cultural and scientific organization www.unesco.org/webworld/

  • Investigate reporters and editors – resources, tips on covering stories, story examples, databases – http://www.ire.org/

  • Reporter.org -- references from the IRE

  • Newsplace for News and Sources -- http://www.niu.edu/newsplace/  

  • Dates archive -- http://www.dailyglobe.com/day2day.html

  • Usenet Search -- http://www.google.com/grphp?hl=en -- search more than 15,000 Web forums and Usenet groups

  • Listserves -- www.liszt.com 

  • Infoplease -- www.infoplease.com -- days in history, birthdays, almanac, etc. all in one

  • Speech and transcript center -- http://gwis2.circ.gwu.edu/~gprice/speech.htm 

  • Xrefer -- search 50 reference titles at http://www.xrefer.com 

  • FOIA -- http://www.rcfp.org/foi.html and http://www.spj.org/foia/ 

  • Vital records -- http://www.pueblo.gsa.gov/cic_text/misc/vital-records/w2welcom.htm or www.vitalrec.com 

  • Assignment editor -- http://www.assignmenteditor.com/index.cfm 

  • Math for journalists -- http://www.robertniles.com/stats/ 

  • Find the time anywhere -- http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/what.html 

  • Weights and measures conversion -- http://www.refdesk.com/factmeas.html

  • Population reference bureau -- http://www.worldpop.org/datafinder.htm or U.S. and world population -- www.npg.org 

  • Mapblast -- http://www.mapblast.com/myblast/index.mb 

  • Currency converter -- http://www.xe.com/ucc/ 

  • Conversions -- http://www.onlineconversion.com/

  • Resourceshelf -- http://resourceshelf.freepint.com/ 

  • JSTOR -- http://www.jstor.org/ -- scholarly journal archive

  • Social Security Death index -- www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/vital/ssdi/main.htm 

  • Safety -- Highway Safety at www-fars.nhtsa.dot.gov ;  Railroad safety at safetydata.fra.dot.gov/OfficeofSafety 

  • Statistical Resources on the Web -- http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/stdemog.html 

  • Search system -- http://www.searchsystems.net/ -- public record locator

  • Mobile phone numbers -- http://www.mobilephoneno.com

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  Reference works

  • CIA world factbook -- http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html 

  • National Geographic's MapMachine -- http://plasma.nationalgeographic.com/mapmachine/

  • Onelook dictionaries -- http://www.onelook.com/ 

  • Journal storage -- http://www.jstor.org/
  
  
  • Full text Bible -- http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible

  • www.refdesk.com
    A blizzard of topics, from zip quotes and stock quotes to sports.

  • Daily Almanac -- http://www.infoplease.com/cgi-bin/daily/

  • Encyclopedia Brittanica – www.eb.com:180/

  • Elements of Style – www.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/strunk/

  • www.itools.com -- Language and library aids, research materials

  • www.eb.com -- encyclopedia

  • www.m-w.com --dictionary

  • http://www.yourdictionary.com/ -- dictionary

  • www.ala-net.com/encyc.html -- encyclopedia

  • http://www.worldatlas.com/aatlas/world.htm -- atlas

  • maps in the news – http://map.lib.umn.edu/news.phtml

  • maps -- www.mapquest.com

  • Bartlett's Familiar Quotations  -- www.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/bartlett/
    Find out who said it.

  • Notable Citizens of Planet Earth – www.s9.com/biography/search.html
    Bios, name spellings of 18,000 famous people.

  • The Writer's Guru 
    www.geocities.com/Athens/1980/guru.html
    Reporters can post queries about research, grammar, spelling, etc.

  • Speech and transcript center -- gwis2.circ.gwu.edu/%7Egprice/speech.htm  

  • Strunk and White online -- www.bartleby.com/141/ 

  • Biographies -- www.biography.com 

  • www.newsengin.com or www.nilesonline.com/stats/ -- cost of living calculator and help with Math problems

  • Band-aid AP stylebook -- http://web.missouri.edu/~jschool/missourian/style.htm  

  • First Amendment handbook -- http://www.rcfp.org/handbook/viewpage.cgi 

  • Complete works of Shakespeare -- http://tech-two.mit.edu/Shakespeare/works.html 

  • World Skip -- http://www.worldskip.com/ -- very comprehensive clearinghouse of information on every country in the world. This site gives you information, resources, products and services from any nation on this planet

  • Acronym finder -- http://www.acronymfinder.com// 

  • Airport code finder -- http://www.ufreight.com/faq/airport_code/airport_code.html 

  • How far is it -- http://www.indo.com/distance/ 

  • Zip code finder -- http://www.usps.gov/ 

  • History net -- answer historical questions -- http://www.thehistorynet.com/ 

  • This day in history -- www.historychannel.com/thisday/ 

  • This day in rock and roll history -- www.arrowfm.com/cgi/history.pl 

  • The Encyclopedia of Television -- http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/index.html

  • Planned events -- Calendar Demo -- http://highsierra.com/cgi-win/calendar/calsrch.exe/bontemps/; Eventseeker -- http://www.help4web.net/search/NewsMedia/EventSeeker.html Upcoming international news -- www.newsahead.com/; and Digital datebook -- http://www.digitaldiscounts.com/datebook.html 

  • Need to see dead people? -- The National Obituaries Archive and Dead People Server

  • State USA from the Dept. of Commerce -- http://www.stat-usa.gov/stat-usa.html 

  • Alan Guttmacher Institute -- sexual disease/abortion data -- www.guttmacher.org/index.html 

  • Easy bibliographies -- www.easybib.com 

  • History News Service -- http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~hns/ -- putting reporters and editors in contact with historians, and by trying to improve links between the journalism and historical professions

  • www.s9.com -- the Internet's biographical directory

  • Assignment Editor -- http://www.assignmenteditor.com
  • Famous Wills online -- http://www.documentsonline.pro.gov.uk/
  • Map Machine -- http://plasma.nationalgeographic.com/mapmachine/

   

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  Finding Sources

  • IRE's Beat Source Guide -- http://www.ire.org/resourcecenter/initial-search-beat.html

  • Expert Central --Similar to Profnet; search a free database of more than 4,000 expert sources.

  • FACSNET –http://www.facsnet.org/sources/cardfile/index.php3 
    Search a free database experts.

  • National Press Club expert database -- npc.press.org/newssources/index.shtml 

  • www.yearbooknews.com
    A searchable site for authorities on particular topics. 14,000 topics covered and more than 1,500 individuals, associations, corporations and public interest groups.

  • Sources and Experts -- http://www.sunsite.unc.edu/slanews/internet/experts.html
    Find sources and background with this directory of directories.
    Developed by a news researcher at the St. Petersburg Times
    for the Special Libraries Association's News Division.

  • Proftnet (experts) – http://www1.profnet.com/profnet_home/index.html

  • Listserves -- www.liszt.com 

  • Google for newsgroups -- http://groups.google.com/

  • http://www.experts.com
  • Sourcnet -- http://www.mediamap.com/experts/index.asp

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  Business

  • Edgar Database – www.sec.gov/edgarhp.html
    Company information from the Security and Exchange Commission.

  • Hoover's Master List Plus Database – www.hoovers.com
    Information on more than 9,000 companies.

  • Better Business Bureau -- http://search.bbb.org/search.html
    Information on more than 9,000 companies.

  • Internet Prospector – http://www.internet-prospector.org/
    Locating corporation records online.

  • Businesswire.com

  • Business Journalism History -- http://www.bizjournalismhistory.org
  • Home Mortgage data from ffiec.gov -- http://www.ffiec.gov/hmdaadwebreport/aggwelcome.aspx

  • Business & Finance references are available from 

  • Business Connections – www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/reference/busconn.html

  • PR newswire

  • Calculators Online -- http://www-sci.lib.uci.edu/HSG/RefCalculators.html -- can calculate anything from exchange rates, quarterback's passing rating, etc.

  • Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Online -- www.online.msdw.com -- Require registration for analysis and stock market quotes.

  • NetCheck Commerce Bureau -- www.netcheck.com -- Like an online Better Business Bureau.

  • Thomas Register of American Manufacturers -- www.thomasregister.com -- Reports on industrial products and services offered by U.S. and Canadian companies in thousands of categories.

  • Glossary of stock market terms -- http://www.nasdaq.com/reference/glossary.stm  

  • Consumerworld -- tips, links for consumer reporting -- http://consumerworld.org/pages/news.htm 

  • Text of Geneva Conventions -- http://www.genevaconventions.org

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  Legal Issues

  • Supreme Court -- http://supct.law.cornell.edu:8080/supct/ -- pending cases, decisions

  • On the Docket – http://docket.medill.northwestern.edu/
    Compiled by Medill Professor Jack Doppelt and his students.
    A database of upcoming Supreme Court cases.

  • Federal courts finder -- http://serv5.law.emory.edu/FEDCTS/ 

  • Federal judiciary home page -- http://www.uscourts.gov/

  • Legal Engine -- www.legalengine.com

  • Findlaw -- www.findlaw.com
    Legal publications and state/local bar association information.

  • Lawyer Locator – http://www.martindale.com/xp/Martindale/home.xml, also Findlaw's Lawyer Locator at http://directory.findlaw.com/ 
    Search a free database of legal experts.

  • Search Legal Directory – http://dictionary.lp.findlaw.com/

  • Student Press Law Center – www.splc.org/
    Legal issues facing high school and college students.

  • Publishing Law Center – www.publaw.com/
    Links and articles on intellectual property and legal issues.

  • Criminal Justice Links – www.criminology.fsu.edu/cj.html
    Florida State University School of Criminology and Criminal Justice.

  • American Civil Liberties Union – www.aclu.org
    Material on FOI and Sunshine laws.

  • The Smoking Gun -- http://www.thesmokinggun.com
    Tips for filing FOIAs, "Document of the Week."

  • National Coalition Against Censorship  -- www.ncac.org

  • National Resources Defense Council --- www.nrdc.org
    Environmental issues

  • KnowX – www.knowx.com -- Free and low-cost information about lawsuits, bankruptcies, U.C.C. and other public filings for businesses and individuals

  • National Center for State Courts -- http://www.ncsconline.org/Information/info_court_web_sites.html

  • Legal encyclopedia -- http://www.nolo.com/encyclopedia/index.html 

  • www.courttv.com -- Court TV

  • Cyberlaw -- www.cyberlaw.com  -- List of articles and information about legal issues

  • U.S. Code -- http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/ 

  • Student Press Law Center -- http://www.splc.org/legalresearch.asp?id=15 

  • Open Records and FOI state by state -- http://www.reporterscommittee.org/tapping2001/index.cgi and http://www.nfoic.org/ 

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  Medical/Science/Tech/Agriculture/Health Issues      

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  • Kaiser Family Foundation -- AIDs, health facts -- www.kff.org 

  • Companies and chemical spills -- http://www.rtknet.org/rtkdata.html
  • Mortality data -- http://wonder.cdc.gov/mortICD10J.html

  • UniSci  gives updates on scientific research at U.S. universities

  • Science Journalism Center -- http://science.jour.missouri.edu/

  • www.medword.com/index.html
    Medical transcripts, definitions of prescription
    drugs and drawings of various body parts.

  • Media Resource Service – www.mediaresource.org
    Search a database of reputable sources on science info.
    from the Scientific Research Society.

  • Newswise  -- www.newswise.com
    News releases from medical and science research.

  • Eurekalert – www.eurekalert.org
    Science, medicine and technology news.

  • Community of Science – www.cos.com
    Search a free database of science experts.

  • The Why Files -- science behind the news -- http://whyfiles.org/ 

  • American Association for the Advancement of Science -- http://www.aaas.org/ 

  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention --- www.cdc.gov/nchs/products.htm
    National Center for Health Statistics -- infant mortality,
    AIDS, drug and other mortality stats.

  • World Health Organization – www.who.org

  • National Center for Health Statistics – http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/

  • How stuff works -- http://www.howstuffworks.com/ simple explanations for complex processes

  • www.hotwired.lycos.com -- tech news

  • www.cnet.com -- tech news

  • www.zdnet.com -- tech news

  • www.techweb.com -- tech news

  • Consumer and Patient Health information -- http://caphis.mlanet.org/ 

  • NIH (National Institutes of Health) Health Information Index -- http://www.nih.gov/health/InformationIndex/HealthIndex/Pubincov.htm 

  • USDA state fact sheets -- http://www.ers.usda.gov/statefacts/ 

  • USDA reports database -- http://usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/usda/usda.html 

  • U.S. Department of Agriculture -- http://www.usda.gov 

  • Toxic Release Inventory -- http://d1.rtknet.org/tri/ 

  • www.scorecard.org -- lists pollution sources and quantities in communities

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  Education

  • National Center for Education Statistics – http://nces.ed.gov/

  • Academe Today – www.chronicle.com/
    Chronicle of Higher Education.

  • National Education Assn. -- www.nea.org

  • EdWeek – www.edweek.org -- Great sources for archived stories about education issues

  • Dept. of  Education – www.ed.gov

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  Investigating or backgrounding people
  Note: Most of these sites have an annual or
  one-time search fee. Use sparingly.

  • www.knowx.com
    Comprehensive searches for public records.
    You must register to use the site.

  • www.publicdata.com

  • www.deepdata.com

  • Auto Trak – www.dbt.com/

  • www.dataquick.com
    Real property info. center.

  • CDB Infotek -- http://www.cdb.com/public/
    Public records info. company.

  • Black Book Online – www.crimetime.com/online.html
    Research site used by private investigators.

  • www.flatrateinfo.com
    It has records similar to the other major services
    but it is priced at a flat fee instead of per search.

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  Finding People and Places on the Web                                         Back to top

  • www.555-1212.com (businesses only)

  • skipease.com -- finding people, places and public records

  • www.tollfree.att.net/dir800/

  • www.yahoo.com/search/people/

  • www.iaf.net/ -- Internet address finder

  • www.switchboard.com – switchboard directory

  • www.whowhere.com – email addresses

  • www.hotbot.com/partners/people.asp

  • www.hotbot.com/partners/email.asp

  • www.reverseaddress.com/index2.htm -- locates people by address

  • www.bigyellow.com -- Yellow pages

  • Internet Oracle -- http://www.internetoracle.com/finde.htm -- includes reverse lookups

  • www.freeality.whitepages.com -- have reverse lookup 

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  Weather Sites

  • National Disaster Reference Database -- http://itpwww.gsfc.nasa.ogv/ndrd/ 

  • Weathernet -- http://cirrus.sprl.umich.edu/wxnet/ -- large collection of forecasts and weather links

  • United States Geological Survey, current earthquake information and Earthquake Information Center – http://info.er.usgs.gov/, http://geology.usgs.gov/quakes.html and http://earthquake.usgs.gov/

  • About Earthquakes -- http://www.seismo.unr.edu/htdocs/abouteq.html 

  • National Hurricane Center – www.nhc.noaa.gov/

  • www.accuweather.com -- weather forecast by the house, historical stats and more

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  Fun Sites and Web Design

  • API's list of cool Web sites -- http://www.americanpressinstitute.org/content/3694.cfm

  • Neat New Stuff -- http://marylaine.com/neatnew.html

  • Finding sports cliches -- http://www.sportscliche.com/ 

  • Who's Alive and Who's Dead -- http://www.wa-wd.com/ 

  • Anecdotage -- Anecdotes about famous people

  • Pulitzer Prize winners – www.pulitzer.org/navigation/index.html
    Database and bio info on winners.

  • Nobel Prize winners – http://nobelprizes.com/nobel/nobel.html
    Database and bio info. On winners.

  • Internet Movie Database -- www.imdb.org or Box Office Mojo at http://www.boxofficemojo.com

  • All Music Database – www.allmusic.com/index.html

  • Meteorology – http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/home.rxml
    Understand weather terms with this glossary

  • www.findagrave.com

  • Look up the grave site of  your favorite dead public figure or obituaries.com

  • http://www.phoneSpell.org/phoneSpell.html

  • www.corsinet.com/braincandy 

  • www.politicalgraveyard.com 

  • Dying words -- http://listmaster.iinet.net.au/larc/fogies/011998/msg00565.html 

  • Advertising icons museum -- http://www.toymuseum.com/ 

  • USA Today list of fun Web sites -- http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/cp.htm 

  • Urban legends -- http://www.urbanlegends.com/ or http://www.snopes2.com/ 

  • Hundreds of Webcams spy on tourist attractions around the world: www.webworldcam.com 

  • Today's front pages -- www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/ 

  • Need to decipher Internetspeak -- www.netlingo.com/inframes.cfm 

  • Neat new stuff I found on the Web this week -- http://marylaine.com/neatnew.html 

  • A chronology of U.S. historical documents -- http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/ 

  • http://www.dictionaraoke.org -- Your favorite songs, sung by those voices that pronounce words  on online dictionaries

  • Need help with teen lingo? -- http://www.thesourcefym.com/teenlingo
  • For sleeping on the job -- http://donsbosspage.com/sounds.shtml
  • For cat lovers (or haters) -- http://www.mycathatesyou.com
  • www.wherehaveibeen.com -- tracks your dollars after you spend them
  • Who news -- find famous people fast at www.who2.com
  • API's cool sites link -- http://www.journaliststoolbox.com/newswriting/cool.html
  • Camera watch -- http://privacy.cs.cmu.edu/dataprivacy/projects/camwatch/index.html
  • Google's flight tracker -- http://www.aeroseek.com/webtrax/

  Web Design

  • Adding Multimedia to Web pages -- http://www.unc.edu/courses/jomc050/multimedia/ 

  • Microsoft Clipart Gallery -- http://cgl.microsoft.com/clipgallerylive 

  • Web clip art -- http://webclipart.miningco.com/internet/webclipart/library/weekly/blclpmen.htm 

  • Photoshop tips -- http://www.mccannas.com/pshop/photosh0.htm and Crash Course in Photoshop -- http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/graphics_fonts/tutorials/tutorial1.html and UGA course -- http://www.uga.edu/ucns/dms/webclass/fundamentals.html 

  • Graphic station -- http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/6603/ 

  • Editing images -- http://cis.georgefox.edu/dvotaw/webseminar/session4/image_editing.htm 

  • An HTML primer -- http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/Internet/WWW/HTMLPrimerAll.html and Bare Bones Guide to HTML -- http://www.onlineinstitute.com/cgi/barebone.html 

  • Using Netscape Composer -- http://illinois.online.uillinois.edu/stovall/NetscapePC/index.html 

  • Font Glossary -- http://www.font.net/fontglos.htm 

  • Free graphics -- http://www.int-usa.net/users/nex/freeg.htm 

  • Free stuff including counters -- Free site -- http://www.free.com/homepage.asp 

  • Free counters -- http://www.aaddzz.com/pages/counters  and

  • Free elements -- Mediabuilder -- http://www.mediabuilder.com/ 

  • Web design -- http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/ 

  • Color chart -- http://www.lynda.com/hexh.html 

  • Cheat sheets -- http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/reference/ 

  • HTML basics -- http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/teachingtool/ 

  • JavaScript codes -- http://javascript.internet.com/ 

  • Acme -- www.acme.com 

  • Free HTML lessons and color charts -- http://freespace.virgin.net/r.cawley/lessons.html (color clasher test http://freespace.virgin.net/r.cawley/color4.html )

  • Free scripts -- http://www.scriptarchive.com/ 

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  Searching for News Stories:

  • U.S. news archives on the Web -- http://www.ibiblio.org/slanews/internet/archives.html 

  • www.ixquick.com -- click on news for search for today's news, last week's and last month's, too.

  • Documents in the news -- http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/docnews.html 

  • NewsTracker from Excite – www.nt.excite.com

  • News search from Northern Light – www.northernlight.com.news.html

  • U.S. News Archives on the Web -- http://metalab.unc.edu/slanews/internet/archives.html

  • TotalNews

  • News Index

  • NewsBot

  • AJR/NewsLink -- (several engines at "news sites")

  • Electric Library (news media archives) – www.elibrary.com

  • NewsTrawler (international archives)

  • 4News (4anything)

  • www.7am.com

  • Alpha Complete News Index -- www.select-ware.com/news/ 

  • Web feed collection -- www.moreover.com 

  • Annual surveys on journalism and mass communication -- www.grady.uga.edu/annualsurveys/ 

  • Columbia Journalism Review -- www.cjr.org/ Covers a variety of issues affecting the media.

  • Editor & Publishers Online -- www.mediainfo.com 

  • www.newsdirectory.com/news/press 

  • AP daily news budget -- www.facsnet.org/issues/apd/aptoday.php3 

  • Lexis-Nexis academic universe for past articles -- www.lexis-nexis.com/cis 

  • Magazine articles -- www.findarticles.com 

  • www.uwiretoday.com -- university newspapers 

  • Journalism Net -- http://www.journalismnet.com/ 

  • Today's news -- http://news.google.com/ 

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  • News about the media -- http://www.poynter.org/medianews/
  • Media Studies -- http://www.mediastudies.com
  • Crayon newspaper links -- http://crayon.net/using/links.html 
  • Weird news available at http://www.obscurestore.com

  • International and state press associations links -- http://headlinespot.com/media/associations/ 

  • American Journalism Review -- www.newslink.org Links to every online newspaper site, worldwide, magazines and college.

  • www.copyeditor.com

  • www.newspaperlinks.com
    Links to nearly every online newspaper site.

  • www.mediainfo.com
    Editor & Publisher's online media directory.

  • Electronic Newsstand – www.enews.com/ News from the magazine business.

  • Mediafinder --  www.oxbridge.com
    Basic facts about 100,000 publications.

  • The Inkspot
    Industry news and writing tips.

  • Columbia Journalism Review

  • American Journalism Review

  • Brill's Content

  • Salon

  • Online Journalism Review -- http://ojr.usc.edu/

  • www.mediafinder.com -- free information from a searchable database of newsletters, magazines, journals and catalogues.

  • www.msnbc.com and www.cnn.com 

  • Pew Research Center for Media and the Press -- www.people-press.org -- studies, articles, polls related to media and people

  • Poynter Institute for Media Studies -- www.poynter.org 

  • College newspapers -- http://www.collegenews.com/news.htm 

  • Alternative news, including ezines -- http://www.toad.net/~andrews/oos.html#ezines 

  • Magazines  -- http://www.toad.net/~andrews/mags.html 

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  Media professional groups:

  • ACEJMC  -- Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communication

  • American Press Institute  -- http://www.newspaper.org/

  • American Society of Journalists and Authors  -- http://www.asja.org/

  • American Society of Newspaper Editors

  • Asian American Journalists Association

  • Associated Press Managing Editors

  • Association of American Editorial Cartoonists   -- http://www.detnews.com/AAEC/AAEC.html

  • AEJMC  -- Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication

  • Association for Women in Communication   -- http://www.womcom.org/

  • Broadcast Education Association   -- http://www.beaweb.org/

  • Canadian Association of Journalists  -- http://www.eagle.ca/caj/

  • Center for Investigative Reporting -- http://www.muckraker.org/

  • College Media Advisers   -- http://www.collegemedia.org/

  • Dow Jones Newspaper Fund   -- http://www.dowjones.com/newsfund/college.html

  • The Freedom Forum

  • Independent Media Institute   -- http://www.independentmedia.org/

  • International Federation of Journalists

  • Investigative Reporters and Editors

  • Journalism Education Association  

  • Journalism and Women Symposium -- http://www.jaws.org/

  • Native American Journalists Association

  • National Association of Black Journalists   --http://www.nabj.org/

  • National Association of Broadcasters

  • National Association of Hispanic Journalists

  • National Association of Science Writers

  • National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association

  • National Press Club --http://npc.press.org/

  • National Press Photographers Association --http://metalab.unc.edu/nppa/

  • National Society of Newspaper Columnists   -- http://www.columnists.com/

  • Newspaper Association of America

  • Organization of News Ombudsmen -- http://www.infi.net/ono/

  • Pew Center for Civic Journalism -- http://www.pewcenter.org/index.php3

  • Poynter Institute for Media Studies -- http://www.poynter.org/

  • Radio and Television News Directors Foundation  

  • Religion Newswriters Association -- http://www.rna.org/home.html

  • Reporters sans Frontieres

  • Society of Environmental Journalists

  • Society of Newspaper Design

  • Society of Professional Journalists

  • South Asian Journalists Association

  • World Association of Newspapers   -- http://www.wan-press.org/whats_news/index.html

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