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Anthropology	Criminal Justice	History/Poli Sci	Music
Art/Architecture	Education	Hospitality/Tourism	Psychology/Sociology
Business	Environment	Literature	Theater
Careers/Job Listings	Government/Law	Math and Science	Women
Computers	Health/Medicine	Media/Communications

ANTHROPOLOGY

=> ArchNet - WWW virtual library for Archaeology
=> Center for World Indigenous Studies
=> Digital Egypt
=> Ethnographic Studies Resources
=> Index of Native American Resources - Has list of Iroquois sites under "Culture"
=> National Archeological Database
=> Native American Document Project - maintained at California State University-San Marcos
=> Net Guide Website of the Six Nations - Includes Iroquois history, treaties
=> Public Anthropology

ART/ARCHITECTURE

=> Artcyclopedia - "a list of every artist represented at hundreds of museum sites, image archives, and other online sources" - Status Line
=> Art History Resources on the Web
=> Art & Architecture Thesaurus Online
=> Architecture Internet Resources (UNLV)
=> Ditto.com - searches the web for pictures
=> Great Buildings Online
=> Museums Around the World
=> World Wide Arts Resources

BUSINESS

=> AnnualReports.com - "Leading provider of online annual reports"
=> Lycos Small Business
=> Hoover's Online - Company profiles
=> U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission - EDGAR Database, filings and company information

=> Investor Words - Investing glossary
=> PR Newswire - United Business Media
=> U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
=> Wall Street Research Net

=> Daily Stocks - Over 200 financial links, company information
=> Morningstar.com
=> Quote.com

CAREERS/JOB LISTINGS

=> Careers and Jobs - Large list of career, job, and resume links
=> Career Resource Center
=> Occupational Outlook Handbook - Web version of the print reference book
=> Riley Guide - Employment Opportunities and Job Resources on the Internet
=> What Can I Do With a Major In ...? - Great site that explores careers by college major
=> FLCC Career Services Homepage - A gateway to many useful resources

=> Careerbuilder - Job ads from major U.S. newspapers, including Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
=> Cool Works - Jobs in National Parks, Cruise Jobs, Camp Jobs, etc.
=> Environmental Careers Organization - Both jobs and internships
=> Federal Jobs
=> HealthCareerWeb - Both jobs and career info in the health fields
=> LifeWorks - Explore health and medical science careers
=> NationJob Network
=> PlusJobs America - "Search a variety of job engines and also post your job and resume"

COMPUTERS

=> CNET: The Computer Network
=> History of the Internet
=> HTML Code Tutorial
=> Online Dictionary of Computers
=> PC Webopaedia - Computer definitions and links to related articles
=> Techweb - Basic definitions, company information, product reviews
=> Web Developer's Virtual Library
=> W3 Schools - Information on Web development

CRIMINAL JUSTICE

=> Amnesty International
=> Federal Bureau of Investigation
=> Federal Bureau of Prisons
=> Justice Information Center
=> The Police Officer's Internet Directory
=> State Laws and Published Ordinances - Firearms

EDUCATION

=> College and University Rankings
=> CollegeSource Online - fulltext collection of nationwide college catalogs - click here for off-campus access
=> Community College Web
=> Embark.com - "Your guide for learning and achieving"
=> Peterson's Undergraduate Study

=> FastWeb: Scholarships, Financial Aid and Colleges
=> The Foundation Center Online

=> Columbia Education Center
=> Gateway to Educational Materials - sponsored by the U.S. Dept. of Education
=> Education Index - annotated guide to education-related sites, sorted by subject and lifestage
=> National Center for Education Statistics - includes Condition of Education, Digest of Education Statistics, and Projections of Education Statistics

ENVIRONMENT

=> American rivers - Sponsored by a nonprofit organization of US river activists
=> Center for Environmental Information, Inc. - Based in Rochester
=> ECONET - "The grandparent of environmental information on the Internet" - Choice
=> Envirolink - "The largest online environmental information resource on the planet"
=> Environment of the Great Lakes Region
=> Environment WebDirectory - "Earth's biggest environment search engine"
=> Environmental News Network
=> Great Lakes United - Water quality watchdog group based at Buffalo State College
=> New York State Department of Conservation - exists to "conserve, improve, and protect New York State's natural resources and environment..."
=> RochesterEnvironment.com - Provides Rochester-area environmental information
=> Union of Concerned Scientists - Working for a Healthy Environment and a Safe World
=> Water Resources of the United States
=> Wind Energy Resource Atlas of the United States

=> Endangered Species Bulletin - maintained by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service
=> National Agricultural Statistics Service - maintained by the United States Department of Agriculture
=> U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

=> All about birds - run by the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology
=> Amphibia Web - goal is to establish a "home page for every species of amphibian in the world"
=> Animal Diversity Web - maintained by the University of Michigan's Museum of Zoology
=> Aquamedia - maintained by the Federation of European Aquaculture Producers (FEAP)
=> AquaNIC - Aquaculture Network Information Center
=> Constructed Wetlands Bibliography
=> DUCKDATA - A bibliographic database of North American waterfowl and their wetland habitats
=> eNature.com: Fieldguides - National Wildlife Federation field guides
=> FIGIS - The FAO Fisheries Global Information System; Includes statistics, maps, glossary and more
=> The Fish Site - A gateway to information on various species of fish
=> FishBase - Developed at the WorldFish Center, in conjunction with the Food Agricuture Organization of the UN and others
=> Flora of North America
=> Integrated Taxonomic Information System - Taxonomy for plants and animals
=> Internet Bird Collection - Sponsored by Handbook of the Birds of the World and IBC
=> North American Mammals - "Searchable database of all living mammals in North America" maintained by the Smithsonian Institution
=> PLANTS Database - "The PLANTS Database provides standardized information about the vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories." - maintained by the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service
=> Tree of Life - Taxonomy for animals
=> USDA Plant Gallery - Includes photos, scientific names, distribution, and bibliographies
=> Waterfowl Management Handbook
=> Weeds Gone Wild - Alien Plant Invaders of Natural Areas

=> National Soil Survey Handbook
=> New York State Standards and Specifications for Erosion Control and Sediment Controls - provides standards and specifications for selection, design and implementation of erosion and sediment control practices
=> NRCS Soils Website - Soils is part of the National Cooperative Soil Survey, an effort of Federal and State agencies, universities, and professional societies to deliver science-based soil information
=> On-line Soil Survey Information - Compiled by D.G. Rossiter for the Soil Science Division of ITC
=> Soil Use (Soil Interpretations)

GOVERNMENT/LAW

=> American Civil Liberties Union
=> Congress.org - The Internet Guide to the U.S. Congress
=> FindLaw - Online legal resources
=> GPO Access - Government Printing Office
=> Legal Information Institute - Run by Cornell Law School
=> New York State's home page
=> Nolo Press Self-Help Law Center
=> Project Vote Smart - includes representative locator by zip code
=> Thomas - Federal legislative information
=> The Whitehouse

=> Copyright and Intellectual Property Policy
=> Stanford Copyright & Fair Use Center

HEALTH

=> American Nurses Association
=> Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - The Nation's Prevention Agency
=> FDA - U.S. Food and Drug Administration
=> Healthfinder
=> Health Touch
=> InteliHealth
=> LifeWorks - Explore health and medical science careers
=> National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
=> National Center for Health Statistics
=> National Library of Medicine (NLM)
=> The New York State Cancer Surveillance Improvement Initiative (CSII) - tables and maps of cancer incidence in New York State
=> Public Health Image Library (PHIL) - Photographs, Illustrations and Multimedia Files from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
=> State Health Facts Online - Includes information on topics such as health coverage, costs, managed care, minority and women's health and HIV/AIDS.
=> Travel Health Online

HISTORY/POLITICAL SCIENCE

=> AMDOCS: Documents for the study of American history
=> American Memory - Library of Congress's Digital Image Historical Collection
=> ANYDAY in History
=> Avalon Project - Primary sources in American History, maintained by Yale University
=> Best of History Web Sites
=> Biography.com - Produced by A&E, searchable database of over 20,000 short entries
=> The Constitution of the United States - U.S. Supreme Court decisions related to the Constitution
=> Gateway to African American History
=> Internet History Sourcebooks Project - run by Fordham University
=> Making of America - books and articles published between 1850 and 1877
=> Middle East Studies Internet Resources - created and maintained by Columbia Universities Libraries
=> National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
=> Political Science Resources - Managed by the University of Michigan Documents Center
=> Terrorism: Questions and Answers - sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations
=> UNESCO World Heritage Centre

HOSPITALITY/TOURISM

=> 50states.com - comprehensive searchable site, includes travel information
=> Internet Hospitality Index
=> Official City Sites - for cities around the world
=> Travel Health Online
=> Universal Currency Converter

=> Maps On Us
=> Mapquest

LITERATURE

=> Academy of American Poets
=> Children's Literature Web guide
=> Classical Myth: the Ancient Sources - deals with the 15 major deities of the Olympian Greek pantheon
=> Classical Mythology - covers Greek and Roman mythology, hosted by Temple University
=> Great Writers and Poets
=> Greek Mythology link
=> International Children's Digital Library - Digitized children's books from around the world
=> Irish Literature, Mythology, Folklore and Drama
=> Literature for Children - Based on the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature
=> Online Literary Criticism Collection - maintained by the Internet Public Library

MATH AND SCIENCE

=> Animal Diversity Web- maintained by the University of Michigan's Museum of Zoology
=> Biotech - life sciences resources and reference tools
=> Genetics Education Center - hosted by the University of Kansas Medical Center
=> Integrated Taxonomic Information System - Taxonomy for plants and animals
=> Tree of Life - Taxonomy for animals

=> Cornell's Digital Earth
=> Cornell University's Math and Science Gateway
=> EurekAlert! - American Association for the Advancement of Science
=> Globalchange.gov
=> NASA homepage

=> PhysLINK - "The ultimate physics resource"

MEDIA/COMMUNICATIONS

=> All Movie Guide
=> DOUGLASS: Archives of American Public Address
=> Internet Movie Database
=> Movie Review Query Engine - "More than 25,000 movies are covered in over 185,000 reviews culled from newspapers, entertainment publications, and newsgroups"
=> Public Information Films - Maintained by the National Archives of the United Kingdom; you can view complete public information films from 1945 -2006

MUSIC

=> All-Music Guide - "Covers over 307,000 recordings ..., with 45,000 biographies and over 107,000 reviews"
=> Ethnomusicology, Folk Music, and World Music
=> Worldwide Internet Music Resources - Maintained by William and Gayle Cook Music Library, Indiana University School of Music

PSYCHOLOGY/SOCIOLOGY

=> Addiction Search - A good place to start research on addictive behaviors and conditions
=> Classics in the History of Psychology - Significant public domain documents from the scholarly literature
=> Ethics Updates - Updates on current literature, both popular and professional, that relates to ethics
=> Gay and Lesbian politics - WWW and Internet resources
=> Minority Links - The latest data on racial and ethnic populations in the United States , from the US Census
=> National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
=> Poverty Related Resources - Compiled and maintained by the Institute for Research on Poverty
=> Research Resources for the Social Sciences

THEATER

=> The History of Costume
=> McCoy's Guide to Theater and Performance Studies - Brief guide to internet references, created and maintained by Ken McCoy, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Communication Studies and Theatre Arts, Stetson University

WOMEN

=> Center for Women & Information Technology
=> National Women's History Project
=> Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000
=> WWWomen - "Premier search directory for women online"

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