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25 QUALITY INTERNET SITES YOU SHOULD KNOW:

compiled MARCH 2008 IRO Stephen Perry
1. GOOGLE UNCLE SAM www.google.com/ig/usgov Especially useful to
locate texts of US Laws and Legislation. Also see USA GOV: www.usa.gov
This site limits to .gov and .mil sites for authoritative information on the U.S.
2. For literary criticism, go to Internet Public Library: http://www.ipl.org
and then go to literary criticism. Notice that this same site also has
authoritative web pages on a variety of topics: Humanities, Science, Medicine,
Health, Social Sciences, Business, Economics, etc.
For more quality, research oriented, Internet Sites on American and English
Literature and Literary Criticism go to: Voice of the Shuttle:
http://vos.ucsb.edu This site, maintained by the University of California, is
simply excellent!
3. For Scientific and Environmental Information from FULL text Scientific
magazines and other resources, go to www.scirus.com/
4. For full text articles in all fields from referred journals,
http://www.openjgate.org/
5. Latest U.S. Government Reports and CRS Reports: http://fpc.state.gov
and then go to the REPORTS column on left hand side. CRS provides
research oriented reports on a variety of topics as professionally researched by
librarians and other experts!
6. For Information on Foreign Governments and International
Organizations, see the University of Michigans Library Information Center
and Documents Center: www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs
7. For Quick Reference Facts (especially useful for Reference patrons and for
BLACK HISTORY MONTH and Womens HISTORY MONTH) go to:
http://www.archives.gov/research/alic/reference/
8. For digitized theses from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
(full text!) go to http://dspace.mit.edu
9. For work with NGOs Civil Society and Development organizations, go to
www.eldis.org
10. Four new search engines: www.ipl.org and www.lii.org (Librarians Index to
the Internet) and INFOMINE (http://infomine.ucr.edu) and Virtual Library:
www.vlib.org
11. OAISTER: for digitized articles in full text format, research studies,
photos/postcards/resources from a variety of research journals, National
Archives, etc: http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu
12. DISTANCE EDUCATION SITE listing free online courses, with student
projects, professors lecture notes, student and professors writing samples, etc:
http://ocw.mit.edu See www.ocwconsortium.org for other universities
participating in free distance education.
13. HOW TO KEEP UP WITH NEW SEARCH TRICKS AND TIPS:
www.resourceshelf.com and www.batesinfo.com/tip.html and
www.marylaine.com/neatnew.html

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14. For Legal information, International Law, Comparative Law, an
introduction to LEGAL SYSTEMS of various countries, etc, go to
www.llrx.com The Web site also has materials on Trade and Cultural
Property Protection Laws.
15. For Company and Biographical research, people research, search
strategies in general, how to evaluate web pages, etc. go to :
www.virtualchase.com
16. For U.S. Foreign POLICY, with Dossiers on the ENVIRONMENT,
MIDDLE EAST, CLIMATE CHANGE, IRAQ, AFGHANISTAN, etc. go to:
www.uspolicy.be (UPDATED EVERY DAY!!!) This serves as a QUICK
GUIDE TO U.S. POLICY.
17. BENs GUIDE TO THE US GOVERNMENT (for those with a limited
reading knowledge of ENGLISH and excellent!) : http://bensguide.gpo.gov
18. For Journalists: www.poynter.org and for FRENCH LANGUAGE
RESOURCES for JOURNALISTS: www.rsf.org
19. BLOG:for keeping up with current trends and new web sites in all areas.
http://knowbodies.blogspot.com
20. Latest U.S. Legislation and LAWS AND BILLS being considered by the
U.S. Congress: http://southafrica.usembassy.gov/wwwhcongress.html
21. Latest THINK TANK REPORTS and NGO REPORTS:
www.docuticker.com
22. The best webliographies in a variety of subject areas:
www.ala.org/acrl/resrces.html
23. BEST INFORMATION ON THE NET: http://library.sau.edu/bestinfo/
24. PINAKES: A NEW VISUAL WAY OF RESEARCHING THE WEB:
http://www.hw.ac.uk/libWWW/irn/pinakes/pinakes2.html
25. Research Development Network: http://rdn.ac.uk
See also their VIRTUAL TRAINING SITE (VTS): http://www.vts.rdn.ac.uk/
highly useful
For other useful sites, see the CAIRO IRC WIKI at:
http://irosteveperry.pbwiki.com/irosteveperry

Updated March 24, 2008