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"Google News gathers stories from more than 4,500 news sources in English worldwide, and automatically arranges them to present the most relevant news first." Searchable archives up to 30 days old. Great for comparative study of current news perspectives. |
| NewspaperARCHIVE.com | NewspaperARCHIVE.com charges a fee for access. Although many newspapers are represented but not necessarily the most important ones. Browse Available Papers before signing up. |
| American Journalism Review's (AJR) Newspaper Links | A master index of newspapers organized by the U.S., The Americas, Other continents, Campus papers, and broken down by full service and partial service. Searchable by newspaper name or location. |
| AJR's Magazine Links | Master index of magazines organized by: Popular magazines, news/opinion, business/professional, computing, entertainment, lifestyle/people/activities, magazine publishers. Searchabke by magazine name or location. |
| AJR's Radio/TV Links | Broadcast networks, both national and international and U.S. radio and TV stations. Searchable by call letters or city. See also: PublicRadioFan.com which features program listings for public radio stations around the world. |
| European Union - News Sources | News Sources for the 15 European union member states organized by country. |
| Global Reporting Network | "A program of the center for War, Peace, and the News Media at New York University's Department of Journalism and Mass Communication." Areas covered: Balkan Conflicts East Asian Security EU Integration & Enlargement Middle East NATO Expansion Nuclear Weapons & Proliferation South Asian Security U.S. Defense Policy |
| Arts and Letters Daily | "Philosophy, aesthetics, literature, language, trends, breakthroughts, ideas, criticism, culture, history, music, art, disputes, gossip." A Compendium of articles published in newspapers and magazines, summarized and linked to original articles. |
| Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe | Lexis-Nexis Lite, but still a mighty tool to have on your desktop. "Search the full text of today's news or search back more than 20 years - Retrieve full text company news & financial information - Search full text federal, state & international legal materials - Find full text & abstracted medical & health information - Search general reference sources" |
| Humanities
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| All-In-One Biblical Resources Search | This specialized search page by Dr. Mark Goodacre of the University of Birmingham allows you to search over 25 online Bible and religious studies resources. Four categories: Bible Versions & Translations, Biblical Resources Sites, email Discussion List Archives, and Ancient World (Various). |
| Front List Books | "An online bookshop featuring the best new books for the scholarly avant-garde and other theoretically-minded readers." All books are described, some are reviewed by readers and site is searchable. Humanities mostly, and social science. |
| Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy | Articles in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy are currently from three sources (1) adaptations from public domain sources, (2) adaptations of material written by the editor [James Fieser] for classroom purposes, and (3) original contributions by professional philosophers around the internet. |
| Past Masters on campus < /br> (UI off campus access) | Works of such philosophers as Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Hobbes, Mill, Bentham, Machiavelli, Rousseau, Descartes, Leibniz, Spinoza, Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, Wittgenstein, Peirce, Kierkegaard, A. Smith; mostly in English. |
| Internet Sacred Text Archive | An archive of scared and philosophical texts from the Ancient Near East to Zoroastrianism. At first glance it appears to be commercial, but check out the topics on the left side of the page to get to the considerable amount of substance, including translations of the Shinto texts, the Kalevala, the Upanishads, and the Rig Veda |
| Perseus Project | Online resources for studying the ancient world. "The library's materials include ancient texts and translations, philological tools, maps, extensively illustrated art catalogs, and secondary essays on topics like vase painting." The CD-ROM can be used in the U. Iowa Library's Information Arcade. |
| Silva Rhetoricae:< /br> The Forest of Rhetoric | This hyperlinked glossary of classical and renaissance rhetoric is cross-referenced to show relationships and groupings of rhetorical terms and figures of speech. Produced by Dr. Gideon Burton of Brigham Young University. |
| Stanford Encyclopedia< /br> of Philosophy | The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is a dynamic encyclopedia published by the center for the Study of Language and Information (John Perry, Director) at Stanford University. A distinguished editorial board headed by Edward N. Zalta and Eric Hammer and their selected authors have the ability to continuously update the entries.< /br> |
| Public
Policy Resources |
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| Commission on Presidential Debates | A comprehensive searchable archive on the presidential debates with official transcripts and photos of the '96 debates. Also, a presential debate history with transcripts from past debates. |
| Economic Policy Institute | The Economic Policy Institute is a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank that seeks to broaden the public debate about strategies to achieve a prosperous and fair economy.... many reports available online. |
| Electronic Policy Network | A network of progressive policy and research institutions with over 60 member organizations. Information organized by member and by topic in nine issue areas: Education, Economic Policy, Welfare & Families, Health Policy, Politics & Civic Life, Urban Policy, The Environment, Foreign Policy, and Media |
| FirstGov | "This monumental breakthrough in one-stop shopping for government services will help Americans across the country and around the world find the information and resources they need at a click of a mouse quickly and easily." --President Bill Clinton |
| Rand Institute | "Hot Topics" contains papers and reports on public policy issues. Major Reasearh areas contain selected documents in: Army Research, Criminal Justice, Health Program, Institute for Civil Justice, Institute on Education and Training, Labor and Population, National Security, Project Air Force, Rand Europe, Rand Statistics Group and Science and Technology. |
| The Urban Institute< /br> | "The Urban Institute is a nonprofit nonpartisan policy research and educational organization established to examine the social, economic, and governance problems facing the nation." |
| Dictionaries,
Encyclopedias, Thesaurï |
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| Acronym Finder | A searchable database containing over 60,000 acronyms /abbreviations and their meanings. |
| Bartleby.Com | Most comprehensive reference site on the web, combining the best classic reference works with the best modern reference works. Search one or all together. References include: American Heritage Dictionary, Roget's Thesaurus II, Gray's Anatomy, Bartlett's & Simpson's Contempory Quotations, Cambridge History of English and American Literature, and many more. |
| Your Dictionary< /br> ( A Web of Online Dictionaries) | English, other languages, a long list of specialized dictionaries, thesauri and other vocabulary aids, language identifiers and guessers. |
| Oxford English Dictionary | The entire OED is now online where it can be updated as needed. University of Iowa people can gain access by entering their University ID number. |
| OneLook Dictionary Search | Not only does this site search many dictionaries at once but it accepts wildcard searches: bulebird, blue*, *bird, bl????rd, bl*:snow and it has a reverse dictionary so you can "describe a concept and get back a list of words." |
| In Other Words: A Lexicon of the Humanities | This site covers Literary Criticism, Rhetoric, Linguistics, and Identity Politics in three ways: a glossary, a collection of quotes that illustrate the terms, and a bibliography of works cited. |
| Language Dictionaries and Translators | A global dictionary to search in 275 dictionaries. Translate from 69 source languages into 73 target languages. |
| Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: A Glossary of Hardboiled Slang | "This is the language spoken by Philip Marlowe, Sam Spade, Mike Hammer and the Continental Op." Compiled by William Denton, originally published as a pamphlet by Miskatonic University Press, 1993. You dumb mug, get your mitts off the marbles before I stuff that mud-pipe down your mush - and tell your moll to hand over the mazuma." |
| Encyclopedia of Law & Economics | "The Encyclopedia of Law & Economics attempts to provide a survey of the whole law & economics literature… . Each entry contains two elements: a review of the literature, written by an authority in the field, followed a quasi complete bibliography… ." |
| Encyberpedia | Once you get past the graphics you will find this is actually a useful site. Virtually every encyclopedia type of reference available on the World Wide Web has a link here. |
| xrefer | "xrefer includes general encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri and books of quotations. But we also aggregate and integrate a range of subject specific titles that provide quality in-depth information on everything from literature to psychology, art to medicine and music to finance. Our content partners for the first release are Bloomsbury, Macmillan, Oxford University Press, and Penguin. … Cross-referencing … links which lead seamlessly from a topic in one source to related topics in other works." |
| Statistics
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| EconData.net | "EconData.Net is designed to help practitioners, researchers, students, and other data users quickly gain access to relevant state and substate socioeconomic data. The site aims to be a convenient, comprehensive first stop for anyone searching among the vast, disparate array of public and private data sources on the Web. EconData.Net is sponsored by the Economic Development Administration as a service to regional data users, and is jointly operated by Impresa, Inc. and Andrew Reamer & Associates, independent economic development consulting firms." |
| Fedstats | Publicly available statistics from over 70 Federal agencies. Now, Internet users can find the information they need, without having to know in advance which agency, or agencies, produce the data. |
| Social Statistics Briefing Room (SSBR) | Easy access to current Federal social statistics maintained by the relevant Federal agencies. "All the estimates for the indicators presented in the Federal Statistics Briefing Rooms are the most currently available values." |
| Statistical Resources on the Web | Agriculture, Business and Industry, Comprehensive Subjects, Consumers Cost-of-Living, Demographics, Economics, Education, Energy, Environment, Finance, Foreign Government Data Sources, Foreign/International Economics, Foreign Trade, Government Finances, Health, Housing, Labor, Military, Politics, Science, Sociology, Tourism, |Transportation, Weather. |
| The Data and Program Library Service (DPLS) | Access to social science data files, the complete catalog of DPLS dataset holdings, Online bibliographies, user guides and newsletters, Stat Package FAQs and other aids for analyzing data, and links to relevant web sites. |
| Data on the Net | Search or browse the U. C. San Diego's "collection of 779 Internet sites of numeric Social Science statistical data, data catalogs, data libraries, social science gateways, addresses and more." |
| The Gallup Organization | Public opinion data from the famous Gallup Polls on public affairs and business. |
| PollingReport.com | Publishes the results of the latest surveys by Gallup, Harris, Yankelovich, and Princeton Survey Research Associates, etc. on politics, business, and society. |
| Miscellaneous |
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| Ad Critic - All Ads, All the Time | An ambitious collection of television commercials in QuickTime format that aspires to have "practically any ad you have seen on TV." The QuickTime viewer is free and available for Windows and Macintosh from www.apple.com. |
| Biblio.com | A free booksearch engine for new, used, rare, and out-of-print books. Searchs are made on multiple cooperating online booksellers. Results compare prices and link to items at each bookstore offering that book. |
| Bibliofind | Another good place to search for an out-of-print book. Now combined with Amazon.com. |
| Books in Print (Bowker's Global …) | Requires U. Iowa ID. Includes Books, Audiocassettes, Video Tapes and the "Forthcoming Book Room" of publications scheduled in the next 6 months. |
| New York Times< /br> "CyberTimes Navigator" | You will have to register to view the NYTimes pages, but you gain access to the full text of their articles as well as this excellent starting point for web-based information. Categories: Net Search, Journalism, Reference, Directories, Publications, Politics, New York Region, Commerce, Entertainment, Sports, Miscellany. |
| Karla's Guide to Citation Style Guides | APA, MLA and other style guide supplements to help writers cite texts, including those found on the Internet, and obtained via e-mail. |
| Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection | From the University of Texas at Austin, electronic maps and cartographic references. |
| National Geographic Map Machine | Map Machine features political, physical maps and a Virtual Earth, an animation showing three rotating globes representing physical, political, and remote sensing views of the earth. Links to other map resources. |
| Social Research Update | "Social Research Update will be published every three months or so. … Each issue will cover one topic in sufficient depth to indicate the main directions of recent developments and provide a bibliography for further reading." Produced by the Department of Sociology at the University of Surrey. |
| Search
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This search engine tends to bring back high quality results. "If Google isn't your primary search engine, you are searching with one eye closed."
--Kevin Kelly
Google ranks the Web pages in its index with a technology that evaluates how many other Web sites link to the page and in turn how "important" the linking pages are by their ranking. Still confused? Read about the Google system at http://www.google.com/about.html Specialized Google Searches: News • Images • Google Scholar (Scholarly Articles) • Maps • Universities • Print (full text of books) |
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| < /br> AltaVista still has some unique advantages. It can translate Web pages, search for particular kinds of media, search for links to a Web page, and so on. Read their Help pages to get the most out of AltaVista. |
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| Internet Movie Database | Almost anything you'd want to know about a movie or TV program, the people who make them, characters and brief plot summaries. |
| The Invisible Web Directory | This is a good place to find specialized search engines. |
| Voice of American Pronunciation Guide | Listen to the correct pronounciation of the people and places in the news. |
| Tips on Using Popular Search Engines | These tips won't wear out -- they're from the Search Engine Watch site that devotes itself to keeping up with the continuously changing realm of search engines. |
| The Spider's Apprentice: How To Use Web Search Engines | How to get the most from search engines like Alta Vista, Infoseek, Excite, Webcrawler, Lycos, HotBot, Open Text and the Yahoo< /br> Directory. |