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RESEARCH AND RESOURCES

 

This link is set up to help NT Times reports navigate the net - great tool http://www.nytimes.com/ref/technology/cybertimes-navigator.html?pagewanted=all&position=top

 

xrefer.com ( http://www.xrefer.com ) meta-search of 19 reference titles

 

AccessScience http://www.accessscience.com  an online research tool for scientific reference information

 

Acroynyms http://www.ucc.ie/acronyms/acro.html

 

Almanac of disasters http://disasterium.com/

 

Alternate History List http://www.skatecity.com/ah/

 

Archaeology http://www.he.net/~archaeol/index.html

 

Area Code - enter the city and find the code or the code and find the city http://www.555-1212.com

 

Ask an Expert (- Directory of people who have volunteered their time to answer questions on a variety of topics. http://www.askanexpert.com/ >Profnet database: http://www.profnet.com/ped - - - Facsnet: http://www.FACSNET.org - - - http://www.expert-market.com - - - http://www.yearbooknews.com http://www.experts.com - - - http://www.medialink.com - - - http://www.sources.com http://www.mediasource.com - - - http://www.allexperts.com

 

Astrobiology http://www.reston.com/astro/bio.web.html

 

Automobile Buyer's Guides -- http://www.edmunds.com/

 

Bartleby's at http://www.bartleby.com/index.html  is quickly becoming the repository of many of the most important writing and reference texts printed in the English language

 

The Black Sheep Index-Newspaper Reports of Crime In the UK in Late 1800-1900’s http://www.lightage.demon.co.uk/

 

Calendar (date conversions) http://genealogy.org/~scottlee/calconvert.cgi

 

Chris Sherman, research guru of About.Com, has put together a topic index of articles he's written on    finding information online http://websearch.about.com/library/weekly/topicmenu.htm

 

City/Town information  http://www.citytowninfo.com/

 

Consumer Information -- http://www.consumerworld.org/

 

Demographics http://www.demographics.com/Publications/AD/Index.HTM

 

EurekAlert! scientific press releases http://www.eurekalert.org/

 

Federal Government search engine http://www.senate.gov/reference/resources/pdf/WPAStateGuides.pdf

 

Finding Data On The Internet Journalist's guide. Also check out its sister site (link from main page, Statistics Every Writer Should Know). http://nilesonline.com/data

 

General resources for college-based writers: http://www.kirtland.cc.mi.us/honors/fgwrit.htm

 

Global Information locator http://info.er.usgs.gov/gils/locator.html

 

Health & Medicine -- http://www.healthatoz.com/

 

Information source: www.looksmart.com

 

Information Please Almanac http://www.infopls.com

 

Internal Revenue Service                 http://.irs.ustreas.gov

 

Jane's -- spacecraft, fighting ships, etc. http://www.janes.com/jtext.html

 

Library of Congress  http://www.loc.gov/

      Memory project http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/

 

Location, Location, Location http://www.theriver.com/writers/resources.html#anchor582640 Information on a variety of locations. Great link for developing setting.

 

McGraw-Hill guide to researching http://www.mhhe.com/socscience/english/compde/guide/

 

Medical info www.mwsearch.com

 

Movies   http://www.imdb.com

Filmsite - movies, movie stars, academy awards, etc.  http://www.filmsite.org/

 

http://www.imdb.comNational Archives and Records Administration http://www.nara.gov/

 

OCCUPATIONS

            Archaic http://www.cpcug.org/user/jlacombe/terms.html

Soc  http://www.bls.gov/oes/1999/oes_stru.htm

Occupational http://www.umsl.edu/services/govdocs/ooh9697/0.htm

High risk http://www.ctdol.state.ct.us/wgwkstnd/highrisk.htm

Colonial http://www.rootsweb.com/~rigenweb/occupation.html

            http://www.rootsweb.com/~genepool/jobs.htm

Yesteryear http://www.rootsweb.com/~wiashlan/occupations.html

Old occupations  http://www.rmhh.co.uk/occup/index.html

1900's women  http://www.boondocksnet.com/labor/history/abbott/abbott_ape.html

Scottish 1500-1875http://www.scottishdocuments.com/content/research_waypeopleworked.asp?nomenu=

 

Odd, Interesting, and Unusual References http://www.users.cloud9.net/~kvivian/html/professional_writers__source_link.html

 

PARKNET:The National Park Service Place on th... http://www.nps.gov/

 

Phone numbers http://www.wajens.no/index.shtml identify phone numbers in reverse http://in-115.infospace.com/_1_4PW2UR40PB65YH__info/reverse.htm (The) Ultimate telephone and e-mail finder www.theultimates.com Telephone directories http://www.teldir.com/

 

Placename Survey of the United States http://www.wtsn.binghamton.edu/plansus/ Scotland http://www.st-and.ac.uk/institutes/sassi/spns/spnstop.htm

 

(The) Polling Report – great info for nonfiction articles or story ideas from major polling companies http://www.pollingreport.com/

 

Range Magazine www.range4u.com

 

Reference Desk says its the single most useful net reference site http://www.refdesk.com/

 

Research http://www.reporter.org/desktop/

 

Research site http://www.internet-resources.com/writers/

 

Research-It! Excellent collection of online reference and research tools . http://www.itools.com/research-it/research-it.html

 

Smithsonian www.si.edu

 

SPAWN research resources http://www.spawn.org/research.htm

 

Spy STUFF


http://www.intelligencesearch.com/spy-codes.html
Language of Espionage
http://www.spymuseum.org/educate/loe.asp
Glossary of Spy Terms
http://www.themasterofdisguise.com/glossary.html
Secrets of Short Wave Radio Communication:
http://www.simonmason.karoo.net/page78.html
Domestic Spec Ops Units:
http://www.specialoperations.com/Domestic/default.html

 

State of Texas www.state.tx.us/

 

Time Zone Converter http://www.timezoneconverter.com

 

Translation page Translate any text phrase or webpage into different languages. http://babelfish.altavista.digital.com/cgi-bin/translate http://www.freetranslations.com.

 

UPS Tracking/Drop-Boxes -- http://www.ups.com/

 

Travel And Airlines -- http://www.travelocity.com/

 

U S house www.house.gov/

 

The U.S. Information Agency http://www.usia.gov/usis.html

 

U S senate www.senate.gov/

 

U.S. Vital Records              http://www.vitalrec.com/

 

Virtual reference desk http://www.refdesk.com/

 

West tx demographics www.osppd.lubb.ttuhsc.edu/108demog.html

 

White house Excellent research tool www.whitehouse.gov.WH/welcome.html

 

Zip code lookup and address information: http://www.usps.gov/ncsc

 

Miscellaneous on line resources

http://www.geocities.com/~spanoudi/quote.html (A collection of quotations, both humorous and inspirational)

http://www.laugh-lines.com / (A clean weekly humor website)

http://www.stus.com (A large collection of cartoons and information about cartooning)

http://iws.simplenet.com/humor / (A collection of jokes)

http://www.greetingcard.org/gca/linksPublishers.htm (List of greeting card publishers)