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Information About Foreigh Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) link to password accessOpen Source Center (OSC) formerly known as Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS)

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Information About LexisNexis link to password accessLEXIS-NEXIS

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Biographies
Biographical Dictionary Brief entries for over 28,000 people, searchable.

Biographical Directory to US Congress 1744 - present

Biography.com

National Inventors Hall of Fame

Nobel Prize Comprehensive entries from the Noble Foundation e-Museum.

Secretaries of Energy Listing of the previous Energy Secretaries, with photos of the most recent ones and dates of service

World of Scientific Biography

4000 Years of Women in Science Prehistoric times to the twentieth century

 
Cartography

American Fact Finder Reports and maps from U.S. census

Atlapedia Online Physical & political maps, key facts, statistics on countries

The Atlas of Canada Comprehensive collection of maps and related information about Canada

The Electronic Map Library Maintained by California State-Northridge

Federal Communications Commission's Distance Calculations Calculates the distance and azimuth (referenced to True North) between two sets of coordinates

Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) is the national policy body for sharing geographic data in the US for data look at the "clearinghouse" and "data" links

geocoder.com Estimates a latitude and longitude for a given location, addresses and intersections, in the United States using information provided by the US Census Bureau

GEOnet Names Server (GNS) National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's (NGA), formerly the National Imagery and Mapping Agency's (NIMA), database of foreign geographic names

Geospatial Data Gateway From the US Department of Agriculture

Geospatial One Stop

The GIS Data Depot GIS data for download, includes free and for-fee data

Google Earth

How Far Is It? Finds the latitude and longitude of worldwide cities and then calculates the distance between the two cities

Lat/Long Conversions Graphical and numerical conversion tools for TRS to lat/longitude and vice versa

MapMachine From the National Geographic Society

MapQuest Maps, driving directions, traffic

MSN Maps & Directions Maps, driving directions

National Atlas of the United States Environmental, demographic, socioeconomic, political, and historic maps for the US

National Geographic Map Collection

National Geologic Map Database

National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) Provides Geospatial Intelligence in support of national security

SNL access only Sandia GIS User's Web Site

SNL access only Sandia Techweb Map Links

TerraServer USGS aerial imagery and topographic maps for the U.S.

Topographic Map Symbols On-line guide to symbols on USGS topographic maps

TopoZone Topographic maps for the US

The University of Texas at Austin Perry-Castañeda Library map collection

US Board of Geographic Names (BGN)

US Gazetteer  Used to identify places to view with the Tiger Map Server and obtain census data from the 1990 Census Lookup server

USGS Online Map Lists Complete listing of USGS topographic maps

 
Citation and Writing
Style Guides  
Documentation Styles Online Guides to MLA, CBE, APA, Chicago/Turabian, etc. Maintained by University of Wisconsin

SNL access only Guide to Preparing SAND Reports

National Library of Medicine Recommended Formats for Bibliographic Citations: Internet Formats Supplement (PDF file).

Uncle Sam Brief Guide to Citing Government Publications

 
Instructions to Authors from Selected Publisher and Societies  

AIAA General Information

American Institute of Physics

AIP Style Manual

Physics and Astronomy Classification Scheme (PACS)

Check AIP Manuscript Status

American Chemical Society ACS has no central site for instructions. This link takes you to a list of ACS publications. Look for specific instructions under ‘Info for Authors’ by title

American Physical Society: Information for Authors

Elsevier Author Gateway

IEEE Information for Authors

Materials Research Society Proceedings Manuscript Information

Prentice Hall Author Guidelines

SIAM Author Information

Society of Automotive Engineers: Prepare and Present a Paper

SPIE All Calls for Papers

SPIE Authors and Presenters Information

Springer-Verlag General Instructions for Authors

 
Dictionaries
General

Cambridge International Dictionaries

Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary

The Newbury House Dictionary Online

One Look Dictionaries Seeks definitions in multiple sources simultaneously

Sandia Corporate Business Rules Dictionary

yourDictionary.com Comprehensive listings of web-based dictionaries and thesauri

Acronyms and Abbreviations

Acronym Finder Definitions for acronyms, abbreviations and initialisms.

Acronym Master List for LANL Wait for page to completely download before searching

DOE Web Site Acronyms

Jane's Acronym Finder Acronym and abbreviation dictionary

JAS: Journal Abbreviation Sources Online tools for deciphering journal abbreviations

SNL access only SNL Acronyms, Initialisms, and Abbreviations SNL SAND Report

 
Thesauri  

Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus

Roget’s Thesaurus

Thesaurus.com

 
Foreign Language/Translations  

Babel Fish from AltaVista

Translation Resources

yourDictionary.com Language Dictionaries

 
Quotations  

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations

Dictionary of Scientific Quotations

The Quotations Page

 
Scientific Dictionaries  

Dictionary of Units of Measurement

Glossary of Nuclear Terms Hosted by the World Nuclear Association

 
Encyclopedia and Handbooks

AllRefer.com A center for reference information covering a broad set of topics including earth & environment, health & medicine, people, plants & animals, science & technology, and social science

Country Studies/Area Handbooks Sponsored by the Department of the Army

SNL access only CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics

Infoplease Almanac

SNL access only Jane's Sentinel Security Assessments  Country intelligence on the latest events and trends in political, security and military affairs with a detailed breakdown of global military and political structures on a regional basis

NIST Chemistry WebBook Provides access to the full array of data compiled and distributed by NIST under the Standard Reference Data Program

 
Other Libraries
New Mexico  
CNM Library Services

Los Alamos National Laboratory Research Library

New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology Library

New Mexico State Library

New Mexico State University Library

SNL access onlyNuclear Energy Resource Center

Rio Grande Valley Library System

Sandia National Laboratories Technical Library

University of New Mexico Libraries

 
DOE AND LAB LIBRARIES  
Argonne National Laboratory

Brookhaven National Laboratory Research Library

DOE Headquarters Library

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Los Alamos National Laboratory Research Library

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Hanford Technical Library

Sandia National Laboratories Technical Library

Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Center

 
Phonebooks and Directories
International  

Infobel  International residence and business listings, searchable in several languages with the use of reverse lookup

Telephone Directories on the Web For countries outside the US

 
Sandia and DOE  

DOE Phonebook

Energy Information Administration (EIA) Information Directory Provides the latest information Government and non-Government organizations that provide public energy information such as information centers, technology centers, State energy offices and numerous trade associations with a concise and up-to-date listing of energy contacts and resources

SNL access only National Labs & Other Government Contacts

Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Telephone Directory

SNL access only SNL Blue Pages SNL related government and university links

SNL access only SNL Directory

SNL access only SNL Yellow Pages Index of SNL Services.

 
US  

Area Code Look-Up (Fone Finder)

AT&T Directories  Also includes At&T's AnyWho reverse lookup function

Big Book US Yellow Pages, from Verizon

Blue Pages Guide to US Government

DexOnline.com

InfoSpace Domestic and international listings

Switchboard A national directory of US residential, business and e-mail information

US Postal Service Zip Code Lookup

WhoWhere? A national people finder

 
Statistics

American Fact Finder Reports and maps from US census

Bureau of Labor Statistics

FedStats Gateway to statistics from over 100 US governmental agencies

New Mexico Labor Market Data New Mexico Department of Labor

Science and Technology Pocket Data Book From the National Science Foundation (NSF), includes funding data

statistics.com A portal to information on statistics.

Stat-USA Business and economic information from the US Department of Commerce

Statistical Abstract of the US

United Nations Statistics Division

US Naval Observatory Astronomical Data Includes sunrise/sunset/twilight and moonrise/moonset/phase

 
Travel

Background Notes From US State Department

CDC Travel Information

CIA World Factbook Socioeconomic and transnational information available for over 250 countries

Country Studies/Area Handbooks

DoD Per Diem Information

EmbassyWorld.com  Searchable database of embassies located in the United States and internationally

Federal Per Diem Rates from the US General Services Administration

Stately Knowledge Quick facts regarding the 50 states and the District of Columbia

timeanddate.com Search for domestic and international times as well as create custom calendars

The Universal Currency Converter Perform interactive foreign exchange rate conversion

US State Department Travel Publications

US State Department Travel Warnings

Weather Underground Current conditions, forecasts, maps and warnings worldwide

 
Web Search Engines
General  

About.com Web sites indexed by people not machines

AllTheWeb

AltaVista

Ask.com Natural language search queries

Excite

Gigablast

Google

LookSmart

Scirus  Science-specific Internet search engine

YAHOO!

 
Meta Search Engines
Send searches to multiple search engines at once.  Below is a list of some of the most widely used meta search engines.
 

Clusty Clustering search engine powered by Vivísimo

Dogpile Displays results according to which search engine they were retrieved

iBoogie Puts documents with similar content or with related topics into the same cluster (group)

IxQuick Retrieves results that are the Top 10 most requested with a customizable search interface

MetaCrawler

WebCrawler  Searches conventional search engines (Google, Ask Jeeves) but also searches pay-for-placement sources such as Overture, FindWhat, and Sprinks

 
Search Engine Directories  

All-In-One Search Pages  Generates a list of search engines from which to choose to perform the search

YAHOO! Search Engines and Directories Listing

 
Web Gateways and Reference Portals

Colleges & Universities Links to over 10,000 colleges and universities from Yahoo!

Dialog and DataStar Database Catalog 2008 Contains concise desciptions for more than 1,200 databases available on the Dialog and DataStar services

FindArticles  Archive of published articles dating back to 1998 from more than 300 resources, covering subjects such as business, health, and society  Free access

How to Choose a Search Engine or Directory

Internet Public Library

Libweb Links to over 6,000 libraries

Librarians Index to the Internet Searchable index of evaluated Internet sites.

The Online Books Page  A web site from the University of Pennsylvania, which "facilitates access to books that are freely readable over the Internet"

Purportal Verify hoaxes, urban legends and virus alerts

RedLightGreen Locate books and reference materials in your areas of interest

Refdesk.com

Roberts’ Rules of Order

Taxonomy Warehouse A comprehensibve directory of known taxonomies, thesauri, ontologies, classification schemes, and other authority files

WWW Library Directory Links to over 8,800 libraries

WWW Virtual Library: General Reference

 
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last updated on June 15, 2009