Roxbury Community College

CIA World Fact Book
Color Landform Atlas of the United States
Contries of the World
Country Studies (Library of Congress)
Geograhpy IQ
Maps of the Americas
MapQuest
National Atlas of the United States of America
USGS Mapping Information

Awards

Nobel Foundation
Nobel Prize Internet Archive
Pulitzer Prizes

Biographies

Biography.com

Biography Resouce Center (Off-campus access requires log in with valid library barcode number)

Distinguished Women of Past and Present

Internet Public Library- Biographies

Classification Systems

Library of Congress

http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/lcco/lcco.html

http://www.tlcdelivers.com/tlc/crs/lcso0001.htm

Dewey Decimal

http://www.oclc.org/dewey/about/hundreds.htm

Colleges & Universities

CollegeBoard
CollegeNET
CollegeSource
Community College Web
Web U.S. Higher Education

Computer Related Resources

Tech Encyclopedia - More than 20,000 definitions of computer terms and concepts.
Webopedia.com - a dictionary of over 4,000 computer- and Internet-related terms, with links to related articles and resources.
Whatis.com - Hyper-linked definitions of thousands of Internet and computer related terms.

Currency Converters and Calculators

Calculator.com
Conversion Factors
Historical Daily Currency Exchange Rate
Martindales Calculators On-Line Center
Universal Currency Converter

Dictionaries and Thesauri

American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
Merriam-Webster Online
Roget's Thesauri

E-Books (Electronic/Online Books)

Eldritch Press
Project Gutenberg

Encyclopedias

Assorted Encyclopedias on the Web
Xrefer - Provides online equivalents to high quality dictionaries and encyclopedias

Environmental Studies

National Environmental Directory - lists more than 13,000 organizations

Federal Government Documents

FirstGov - FirstGov T is the U.S. government's official web portal
Federal Tax Forms
United States Code (Code of Federal Regulations)
United States Government Manual
Federal Documents on the Web - compiled by the Government Documents Department at UMass, DuBois Library

Foreign Language Dictionaries

Your Dictionary.com

General

U.S. Copyright Law
USA Pariot Act

Images/ Media Clips

ditto.com - a visual search engine
Barry's Clip Art
Open Vault- Media clips from WGBH archives

Invisible Web

Invisible Web

Literature

FreeBooknotes.com - study guides for over 250 books
Bibliomania - texts, biographies, thesauri, literary analyses

Massachusetts State Information

Massachusetts Recovery and Reinvestment Plan
Massachusetts State Web Site
Massachusetts State Tax Forms and Publications
MassStats - Division of Employment and Training Web-based labor market system that gives a wide variety of economic data for the state of Massachusetts and its local areas.

Medical and Health Resources

Merck Manual of Medicine, Home Edition
Columbia Complete Home Medical Guide
Travelers' Health - site maintained by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Lists recommended vaccinations, checklists, and medical emergencies
Quackwatch
RXList - commercial site providing drug information
Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

People Finders and Telephone Books

U.S. Yellow Pages
Telephone Directories on the Web
Toll Free Directory

Plagiarism

QuickStudy: why cite sources
Plagiarism.org
Plagiarism Detection
Plagiarism Stoppers

Professional Development - Faculty

The Technology Source - An online journal which provides "thoughtful, illuminating articles that will assist educators as they face the challenge of integrating information technology tools into teaching and into managing educational organizations."

Quotations

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.
Simpson's Contemporary Quotations

Statistics

U.S. Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics
National Center for Education Statistics
Statistical Abstract of the United States
Census Bureau

Style Guides

APA Style Tutorial
Laguardia Community College Library - Documentation Style for Works Cited
Duke Library Guide to Assembling a List of Works Cited
SourceAid- Citation Builder - Helps you build bibliographies, footnotes and more.

Zip Codes & Country Codes

U. S. Zip Code Lookup (U. S. Postal Service)