Internet Resources
Internet Guides
- Finding Information on the Internet - A Tutorial - from UC Berkeley
- Scout Toolkit A guide to the Internet
- Evaluating Internet Resources
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Search Engines
- Search Engine Showdown - A comparative guide to search engines
- Search Engine Watch - A guide to search engines
- Alta Vista - A popular search engine
- Beaucoup! - Links to hundreds of search engines
- search.com - a meta "Deep Web" search engine
- Excite - A popular search engine
- Genie Knows - A meta search engine
- Google a popular search engine that searches by, and prioritizes results by the number of links made to pages
- Google Scholar a google search for peer reviewed articles available on the Internet, which prioritizes results by number of articles citing the sources - a citation index!
- Mamma - A meta search engine
- Scirus - A search engine limited to scientific information
- SU's Search engine interface
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Internet Indexes (Subject Directories)
- Digital Librarian - A librarian's choice of the best of the web
- Google Web Directory
- Infomine - Scholarly Internet Resource Collections
- Librarians' Internet Index
- National Library for the Environment - Links to the Nation's environmental resources
- The Scout Project
- Search Beat
- WWW Virtual Library
- Yahoo
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Citing Internet Resources
- Citing Electronic Resources - the Internet Public Library guide
- Guide for Citing Internet Information - Sarah Byrd Askew Library
- IFLA's Citation Guides for Electronic Documents - Links to guides
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Library Resources
- Central New York Academic Libraries
- Colgate University
- Colgate University Cooley Science Library
- Cornell University's Mann Library
- Hamilton College
- Herkimer County Community College
- Onondaga Community College
- SUNY Morrisville
- SUNY Upstate Medical University Syracuse
- SUNY Institute of Technology Utica Rome
- Syracuse University Syracuse University
- Barclay Law Library
- Other Libraries in Central New York
- Connections to Other Libraries
- New York State Libraries by Region
- New York Public Library
- New York State Library
- Colorado State University Libraries
- Library of Congress National Library of the United States. Includes major exhibits and events, services and publications,and historical collections.
- National Agricultural Library
- National Archives and Records Administration Library
- National Library of Medicine
- U.S. Geological Survey Library
- National Library for the Environment
- National Library Catalogues - Links to the national libraries of countries Worldwide.
- LibWeb Library Information Servers via the World Wide Web
- LibDex - Index to 18,000 Libraries
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General Reference Tools
- Calendars
- Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
- Acronym Dictionaries
- Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
- Webster's
- Encyclopedia Britannica Online
- Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols
- Thesauri
- Roget's Thesaurus
- Bartlett's Book of Familiar Quotations
- The Quotations Page A catalog of quotation resources
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Geographic Data and Information
- CUGIR (Cornell University Geospatial Information Repository)
- New York State GIS Clearinghouse
- GeoMapping a source for maps, GIS information and mapping systems on the Internet
- A Map Collection provided by the University of Texas at Austin
- MapQuest Maps and driving directions for U. S. addresses
- TopoZone -Topographic maps for the entire United States online
- Library of Congress Map Collections:1500-1999
- U.S. Census Bureau's U.S. Gazetteer
- U.S.G.S. EROS Earth Resources Observation and Science
- U.S.G.S. Geographic Names (Gazetteer)
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Local and Regional Community
- Business, Industry, Facts and Figures
- City of Syracuse Home Page
- Syracuse Chamber of Commerce
- Local Connections (Web Sites)
- Syrahoo
- News and Weather
- Current radar from Intellicast
- Syracuse Newspapers (Syracuse Online)
- What to do, Where to go, where to stay and how to get there
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Government Data and Information
- International
- The United Nations
- Federal Web Locator U. S. and multi-national Web site index
- Federal
- The White House Take a tour of the White House and tell the President what's on your mind.
- The U.S. Senate
- The U.S. House of Representatives
- FedWorld
- Additional Federal Departments and Locators
- Census
- USDA Dept. of Agriculture
- EPA Environmental Protection Agency
- Federal Web Locator U. S. and multi-national Web site index
- Forest Service
- Fish and Wildlife Service
- Geological Survey
- GPO Access to New Electronic Titles Updated list of Federal publications available online
- National Archives and Records Administration
- NOAA - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- NSF - National Science Foundation
- Thomas - a searchable index to the Congressional Record
- New York State
- DEC - Department of Environmental Conservation
- New York State government
- New York State Library
- Other States and general (intergovernmental)
- Cooperative Extension and related services
- Other State government Links - Yahoo category
- Gov Spot - An index to all levels of government
- GovSearch - Search all levels of government
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Higher Education
- Syracuse University ESF's closest neighbor
- State University of New York SUNY's home page
- American Universities and Colleges on the Web
- Colleges and Universities Worldwide from Yahoo
- University Microfilms International - search and order dissertations via the Internet
- New York State Education Department
- The Chronicle of Higher Education - Academe This Week
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News
- LocalNews
- National News Sources
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Phone and Email Directories
- Phone
- AmeriCom: Area Code Decoder
- AT&T 800Directory via WWW
- Switchboard - find people and businesses
- Info Space - Provides a cross directory allowing reverse lookup
- Email
- Beaucoup's links to email directories several email directories provided
- Find ME-Mail go from an old email or url to the new one
- MESA an international meta search engine for email
- Topica indexes thousands of email discussion groups
- Switchboard.com email address search
- Whowhere email address search from Lycos
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Scientific and Statistical Data Sources
- A Pictoral Periodic Table with links to many other periodic tables
- Conversions and Weights & Measures
- Measure 4 Measure A collection of interactive sites for calculation, conversion and translation of data
- Measurements Converter
- NASA Thesaurus
- Patent Search
- SciCentral - links to a variety of Web resources arranged by scientific discipline
- Science Reference Tools - links to a variety of Web resources arranged by scientific discipline
- Strategian The Strategic Guide to Quality Information in Biology, Chemistry.... Statistical Data Sources
- FedStats - statistical data from the federal government
- InfoNation - statistical data for member countries of the United Nations
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Travel
- CIA World Fact Book
- Concierge.com
- Country Studies/Area Handbooks from the Library of Congress
- Excite Travel
- Expedia.com
- Fodor's Travel
- Lycos City Guide
- Orbitz
- U.S. State Dept. Travel Advisories
- Travelocity.com
- Yahoo Travel
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Weather
- from intellicast
- real time weather links from Lee Herrington
- The Weather Channel
- The Weather Underground
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Other Virtual References Sites and Selected Links
- The Syracuse University Library Reference Shelf
- WWW Virtual Library and Subject Catalogue of Information Sources on the Internet
- The Internet Public Library Reference Center
- Galaxy Subject Index from EINet
- Library of Congress
- UCSD Reference Shelf from the University of California at San Diego
- refdesk.com
- DeskRef Quick Reference Links from Ramapo Catskill Library System
- High Wire Press Free full text science archives from Stranford University
- Science Reference Tools - links to a variety of Web resources arranged by scientific discipline
- SciCentral - links to a variety of Web resources arranged by scientific discipline
- NatureServe - A search engine/index cataloging conservation information on over 50,000 plants, animals, and "ecological communities" in North America.
- Science Reference Tools - links to a variety of Web resources arranged by scientific discipline