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Reference
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Dictionary
Link
Offers the Babel Fish Translator and Quick Word Definitions.
Scroll down for specific legal, accounting, medical, computing,
business, and Internet dictionaries. Includes Crossword Solvers
links. |
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Internet
Public Library
A current, reliable, extensive collection of online resources.
Includes Subject Collections; Ready Reference; a Reading Room
with a catalog of books, other texts, magazines, and newspapers
freely available over the Internet; and an "Ask a Question"
feature. |
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High
School Hub
A gateway to online resources for high school students. |
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Multnomah
County Library Homework Center
A user-friendly subject index of reliable, quality Web Sites. |
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Quick
Reference
A great all-purpose reference tool from Purdue University. |
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Refdesk.com
Links at the top of the page lead to extensive resources:
Facts Subject Index, Facts Encyclopedia, Newspapers USA/World,
Fast Facts, and Quick Reference. "First Things First"
leads to weather and wire services. |
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Spark
Notes
Online study guides for English, History, Math & Science,
and Test Preparation. |
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Reference
Resources from Joyce Kasman Valenza |
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Arts |
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Artcyclopedia
- Search by artist name, artwork title, or art museum. |
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Art
History Resources - Historical resources cover prehistory
to art of the 20th Century. Other categories cover prints
and photography, non-European art, research resources and
museums and galleries. |
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Grove
Art Online - A
subscription database that offers every aspect of the visual
arts from prehistory to the present day. Includes over 130,000
art images. |
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Humanities
- Art, Celtic, and Rennaissance links from the CHS Classes
webpage. |
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Incredible
Art Department from Princeton Online - Monthly, archived
art lesson plans, art education news, jobhunting and career
information, discussion groups, and more. |
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Books
on the Web |
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Bartleby.com
- Free access to reference, verse, fiction, and nonfiction.
Search by author, subject, or title. Includes the King james
Bible, the oxford Shakespeare, Gray's Anatomy, and Strunk's
Elements of Style. |
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The
Online Books Page - Over 20,000 books avaliable |
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Project
Gutenberg - Free access to over 15,000
books, mainly literary works that are in the public domain
in the United States. |
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Business
& Financial |
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Business
Links on the CHS Classes page |
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Five
Easy Steps to Cash
Learn what you need to file your Oregon tax return. Get answers
to tax questions. |
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Country
Studies |
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Amnesty
International Report
Documents human rights abuses in 150 countries.
Look on the left of the screen for the pull-down menu for
reports on specific countries. |
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BBC
News Country Profiles
History, politics, and economics of countries. Includes audio
and video clips from BBC archives. |
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CIA
World Factbook
Country Profiles, Reference Maps, Flags of the World |
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CountryReports.org
Use with Firefox, not Safari.
Excellent maps and extensive information about countries
and regions.
The Lancer Library subscribes to this resource; you'll need
a password. Find it on the Library Bookmark or ask at the
library. |
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Infonation
A United Nations resource that provides extensive statistics
and allows the user to compare country data.
Country
at a Glance (part of Infonation)
General facts and a focus on environment, health, economy,
and technology |
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Library
of Congress Country Studies
Description and analysis of the historical setting and the
social, economic, political, and national security systems
and institutions of countries throughout the world. |
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Lonely
Planet
http://www.lonelyplanet.com/worldguide/
Independent travel site with country overviews |
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Population
Reference Bureau
Demographic and Health Data |
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Portals
to the World
Links to Electronic Resources from Around the World from The
Library of Congress |
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Organization
for Economic Cooperation and Development country statistics
http://web.hhs.se/personal/suzuki/ |
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Organization
for Economic Cooperation and Development
www.oecd.org
See “by country” tab |
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United
Nations 2006 Human Development Report
http://hdr.undp.org/hdr2006/
Download the PDF file (440 pages) |
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United
Nations Least Developed Countries (LDCs)
http://www.un.org/special-rep/ohrlls/ldc/list.htm |
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U.S.
State Department country information
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/
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World
Bank
http://www.worldbank.org/
See “Data & Research” link |
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World
Health Org. country information
http://www.who.int/countries/en/
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Countries
- HIV/AIDS and Health Links (Thanks to Mr. Yamada) |
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UNAIDS
Country Information
http://www.unaids.org/en/Regions_Countries/Countries/default.asp |
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World
Health Organization Global Health Atlas
http://www.who.int/globalatlas/predefinedReports/EFS2004/index.asp |
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Global
Health Reporting
http://www.globalhealthreporting.org/countries.asp |
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United
States Center for Disease Control Global AIDS Program
http://www.cdc.gov/nchstp/od/gap/countries/default.htm |
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World
Bank Regional HIV/AIDS Activities
http://www.worldbank.org/html/extdr/thematic.htm
Go to the “AIDS” link and from there select the
“Regions & Countries” link on the left. |
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Digital
Libraries |
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Academic
Info: Digital Libraries from the University of Phoenix
An extensive list of links to Subject Specific Digital Libraries
and to Electronic Libraries & Digital Archives.
A valuable resource that is worth exploring to find the sites
that are relevant to your area of study. |
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The
Archaeology Channel
Free streaming video and audio programs on a wide array
of topics, including native people of Western Oregon. Teacher
resources and links.
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Calisphere:
a world of primary sources and more
Free access to more than 150,000 images, documents, and other
primary source materials of California's multicultural history.
The University of California collections include the Japanese
American Digital Archives, the Gold Rush, and political movements
of the 1960s and 1970s. |
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Choosing
Invisible Web Databases from NoodleTools
Excellent specialized web resources (digital libraries and
databases) listed according to information need. |
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Google
News Archive Search
Search and explore historical archives. "Show Timeline"
clusters results by year. |
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Economics |
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FreeLunch.com
"Moody's Economy.com FreeLunch.com is the web's best
source of free economic data. Users can quickly and easily
chart and download economic data." |
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Entertainment |
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Internet
Movie Database (IMDb)
Find whatever you want about top movies, DVDs and videos,
and independent films. |
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Environment |
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Eugene
& Oregon |
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Oregon
Resources on the CHS Classes page |
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Oregon
Blue Book
The
official state directory and fact book covering all levels
of government in Oregon, along with many other features. |
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Oregon
and Eugene History
This Churchill High School page includes links to Eugene's
history, Oregon's history, economy and government; Native
Americans (Kalapuya) and African-Americans in Oregon. |
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Oregon/Northwest
Online Resources
A comprehensive list of organized links maintained by librarians
at the University of Oregon. |
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Geography
& Maps |
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Atlas
from about.com
Extensive
world atlas that includes blank outline maps of each country. |
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CIA
World Factbook
Reference Maps |
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CountryReports.org
Excellent maps and extensive information about countries and
regions.
The Lancer Library subscribes to this resource; you'll need
a password. Find it on the Library Bookmark or ask at the
library. |
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Google
Local Maps
Go to a location, find a business (type or name), get directions |
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Map
Machine
National Geographic Society's collection of electronic maps. |
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TerraServer
High resolution USGS aerial imagery and USGS topographic maps,
available by entering a street address. From the main page,
click on "Advance Find," then "Address."
Enter an address and then click on "Aerial Photo."
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US
Gazetteer
Search for places by name or zipcode to view with the Tiger
Map Server. |
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Government |
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Blue
pages
The online guide to U.S. Government listings |
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FirstGov.gov
The U.S. Government's Official Web Portal |
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9/11
Commission's Final Report from Vivisimo
Search the report by keyword and get clustered results or
read the entire report. |
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Health
& Medical |
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DermNet
NZ
Authoritative facts abut the skin from the New Zealand Dermatological
Society Incorporated” |
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Medline
Plus: Skin Conditions
“Trusted Health Information for You” from the
U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes
of Health. |
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Evaluating
Internet Health Information: a Tutorial from the National
Library of Medicine
A 16-minute tutorial that teaches how to evaluate the health
information found on the Web |
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The
Fast Food Nutrition Fact Explorer from fatcalories.com
Complete nutritional information of items from 12 of the
world's most popular fast food restaurant chains.
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Food
Facts Info
Up-to-date nutritional information on fast food. Comprehensive
results. Search by restaurant, food category, or specific
item. |
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Go
Ask Alice
A site committed to your "personal health and happiness,
the well-being of others, and to the planet we share." |
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Health
Information Access
A
joint project of PeaceHealth Medical Group and the Churchill
High School Lancer Library. Includes Peacehealth's Healthwise
Knowledgebase and their Health Information Library.
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Medline
Plus
“Trusted Health Information for You” from the
U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes
of Health. |
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Vivisimo
Bio Meta Cluster
Searches PubMed, Harrison's Online, MerckManual, and TRIP
Database. Clusters results in meanigful categories. |
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Images |
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ClassroomClipart.Com
Easy to use with great images. |
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Public
Domain Image Sources [Wikipedia]
A collection of annotated links. |
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Legal |
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The
OYEZ Project: U.S. Supreme Court Multimedia
"A vast multimedia relational database on the U.S. Supreme
Court. Contains abstracts for all leading constitutional decisions
of the Court, authoritative oral arguments in streamed media
format, a virtual reality tour of the Supreme Court building." |
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Literature |
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A
Celebration of Women Writers
Works by women and resources about women writers. |
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Gale
Literature Resource Center - A subscription database with
biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses. Covers
over 120,000 writers. |
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Spark
Notes
Study guides to literature classics. |
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People
Finder & Census |
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People
Finder
Links to sites that will help you locate someone anywhere
in the world |
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Population
Studies |
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Population
Reference Bureau
Reports
and statistics that relate population to social, economic,
and political issues. |
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US
Census Bureau
Although the entire site is easy to navigate, the Subject
A-Z page is the most useful access point. |
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Quotations |
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Bartlett's
Familiar Quotations
An old favorite in print is now a new one online. |
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Quotations
Page
One of the first and better quotations pages allows the researcher
to look for quotes in 12 eclectic "collections." |
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Rockwisdom
An online reference book of over 12,000 song quotes. |
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Ye
Olde English Sayings
This site uncovers the origin of several phrases we've always
taken for granted. |
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Religion |
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Virtual
Religion Index
This is an annotated index to Web resources. |
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Science |
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Animal
Diversity Web
An online database from the University of Michigan Museum
of Zoology. Sample search: Brazil and mammals. Click
on the name of the animal for "Information," a comprehensive
report that can include information, pictures, specimens,
and sometimes sound. This site invites student contributions,
which are then edited and added to the database. |
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ChemRefer
“ChemRefer is a search engine that is designed to allow
students, academics, chemical and pharmaceutical companies
quick access to chemistry literature which is available on
the internet. There is plenty of such literature around, but
it is all located on different websites. Most such websites
contain a mixture of accessible and restricted literature
and it is frustrating to locate an article, only to find it
restricted to subscribers. ChemRefer only finds literature
that is full text and freely available (from many different
sources).” |
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Constellations
from About.com
A
gateway page to all the constellations. Click on one for its
folklore, star facts, and graphic.
Graphics can also be found at http://www.dibonsmith.com/graphics.htm |
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Constellations
and more from a Michigan Middle School
A webliography with excellent links to constellation resources
and planetariums all over the world. |
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Dome
of the Sky: Astronomy news and a planetarium that features
constellations.
A
List of Constellations leads to diagrams, myths, and facts
about each constellation. |
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The
Science Spot
For constellations, click on the Kid Zone graphic and then
on Stars & Constellations. |
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How
Stuff Works
From Halo 2 to hypersonic planes to lock picking. |
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LabLit.com
- the culture of science in fiction & fact
"LabLit.com is dedicated to real laboratory culture and
to the portrayal and perceptions of that culture – science,
scientists and labs – in fiction, the media and across
popular culture. The site is intended for non-scientists as
well as scientists, and the goal is to inform, entertain and
surprise." |
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National
Biological Information Infrastructure: Your Home for Biological
Information on the Web
Current
Biological Issues, Biological Disciplines, Geographical
Perspectives, Teacher Resources;
Data and Information Resources include reference works,
tools, and images:
Databases of species information, maps and data, images,
tools, journal articles, and more.
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National
Science Digital Library
"The Nation's online library of resources for science,
technology, engineering, and mathematics education and research."
An amazing resource. |
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Science.gov
3.0
The government's science portal - search multiple government
scientific databases. |
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Scirus
Science Search Engine
"Scirus is the most comprehensive science-specific search
engine on the Internet. Driven by the latest search engine
technology, Scirus searches over 200 million science-specific
Web pages." |
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Spanish
Resources |
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An
Internet Hotlist on Spanish Resources
A
great collection of Internet resources from Blue Web'n. |
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LANIC:
Latin American Network Information Center
From the Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies (LLILAS)
at the University of Texas at Austin;
Browse by topic or search by keyword to get links to selected
websites. |
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Speeches |
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Earliest
Voices: A Gallery from the Vincent Voice Library
"A multimedia site presenting some of the most significant
voices captured during the first fifty years of sound recording,
1877-1927." |
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History
and Politics Out Loud
"A diverse collection of audio -- speeches and private
communications -- relating to U.S. history and politics."
Search or browse by date, speaker, or title. |
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Sports |
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Sports
Illustrated Pictures
"Whether you are looking to capture a defining moment
from today‚s headlines or a classic portrait from our
fifty year archive, you will find all those images right here."
Searchable by keyword and sport. |
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Statistics |
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FedStats
FedStats provides easy access to statistics and information
produced by more than 100 U.S. Federal Government agencies. |
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Finding
and Using Data
A wide variety of sources of statistics and how to use them
from NoodleTools. |
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Librarian’s
Index to the Internet:
Type in “statistics” in search box. Note the ability
to cross-filter. |
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Pew
Internet & American Life Project
"A non-profit research center studying the social effects
of the Internet on Americans." |
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US
Census Bureau of Statistical Abstracts
Go to “Information about the Statistical Abstracts”
OR
Choose a range of years. Anything from 1995 onward is in easy-to-access
digital format. |
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WorldBank
The World Bank is a source of financial and technical data
and assistance to countries around the world.
-Paraphrased from the “About Us”
webpage on Worldbank site
<http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTABOUTUS/0,,pagePK:50004410~piPK:36602~th
eSitePK:29708,00.html> |
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WHO
(World Health Organization)
“WHO is the directing and coordinating authority for
health within the United Nations system" It has extensive
data on health-related issues
-Quoted and paraphrased from the “About
WHO” webpage <http://www.who.int/about/en/)> |
