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General Reference

Acronym Finder

This web site contains common acronyms and abbreviations about all subjects, with a focus on computers, technology, telecommunications, and the military.

World Fact Book

Information on the nations of the world, gathered and published by the CIA. Includes an overview of government, geography, people, communication, transportation, military and transnational issues.

Biography.Com

Biography.com is a searchable database of over 20,000 personalities. This site is good for locating brief biographical sketches of prominent people, both historical and contemporary.

USPS Zip Code Directory

"The ZIP Code Look-Up and City/State/ZIP Code Association are free services provided by the USPS to assist the public with their addressing needs."

Encyclopedia.com

This encyclopedia contains more than 14,000 articles from The Concise Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, Third Edition. This is a great place to find background information or a general overview of any given topic.

Encyclopedia Britannica Online

EB Online includes the complete encyclopedia, as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and the Britannica Book of the Year. You can also use EB Online to search an Internet directory that includes more than 130,000 links to Web sites selected, rated, and reviewed by Britannica editors. Note: this link is to the campus database.  From off campus, you may not be able to view all the articles.

Switchboard

This site will help you identify phone numbers, Email and addresses of people and businesses in the US.

Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary & Thesaurus

This is the dictionary of choice. Its features include cross referencing, biographical and geographical names, and names of plants and animals.

AGNIC

The National Agriculture Library's guide to agriculture information on the Internet.

AGRICOLA

AGRICOLA (AGRICultural OnLine Access) is a machine-readable database of bibliographic records created by the National Agricultural Library and its cooperators. The records describe publications and resources encompassing all aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines, including plant and animal sciences, forestry, entomology, soil and water resources, agricultural economics, agricultural engineering, agricultural products, alternative farming practices, and food and nutrition.

AquaNIC

Gateway to the world's aquaculture resources.

Biology Browser

Internet research and sites from the makers of the BIOSIS database, including the Nomenclature Glossary for Zoology, the Zoological Record Thesaurus and article forums.

World Aquaculture Society

The WAS is a nonprofit organization. This site provides access to article citations for periodical literature in the field of aquaculture. This site is best used by a researcher in the field.

Cyndi's List

Cyndi's List is a categorized and cross-referenced index to genealogical resources on the Internet. It's a fantastic starting place for anyone doing genealogical research.

AfriGeneas

This site devoted to African American genealogy, to researching African  Ancestry in   the  Americas in particular and to genealogical research and resources in general.

African American Genealogy Ring

This Web Ring is dedicated to genealogists who are researching African-American Family Histories.

Harlem 1900-1940 (Harlem Renaissance)

"Harlem 1900-1940: An African-American Community, is a history education portfolio that has been produced by the Educational Programs unit of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the New York Public Library."

Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers Project, 1936-1938

This site "contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves. These narratives were collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and assembled and microfilmed in 1941 as the seventeen-volume Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves. This online collection is a joint presentation of the Manuscript and Prints and Photographs Divisions of the Library of Congress and includes more than 200 photographs from the Prints and Photographs Division that are now made available to the public for the first time." Be sure to browse the "Special Presentations" area on the main page. Also, try clicking on "keywords" and searching Kentucky.

The African-American Mosaic: a Library of Congress Resource Guide for the study of Black History and Culture

This guide is the first library-wide resource guide to the Library of Congress African-American collections. This is an excellent source of information for exploring the early years of African Americans experiences in the United States.

Buffalo Soldiers on the Western Frontier

In July, 1866, Congress passed legislation establishing two cavalry and four infantry regiments (later consolidated to two) whose enlisted composition was to be made up of African-Americans. The mounted regiments were the 9th and 10th Cavalries, soon nicknamed Buffalo Soldiers by the Cheyenne and Comanche.

African-American Pamphlets Collection

The collection presents a panoramic and eclectic review of African American history and culture, from the early 19th through the early 20th centuries.

The Black Inventor Museum

"A look at the great and often unrecognized pioneers in the field of invention and innovation."

The New York Public Library Digital Schomburg Images of African Americans

"At this web site you will find various types of visual images on the African American experience that are contained in the Photographs and Prints Division of the Schomburg Center as well as other selected units of the Research Libraries of The New York Public Library."

African-American Women: Online Archival Collections

This collection features scanned pages and texts of the writings of African-American women. Includes the memoirs of Elizabeth Johnson Harris (1867-1942), an 1857 letter from Vilet Lester, a slave on a North Carolina plantation, and several letters from Hannah Valentine and Lethe Jackson, slaves on the estate of David Campbell, a governor of Virginia.

Black Wings

The stories of early African American aviation pioneers, presented by the National Air and Space Museum.

Afro-Americ@: The Black History Museum Interactive Exhibits

From the Afro-American Newspaper, Baltimore, MD, a collection of online exhibits featuring text and graphics from the newspaper.  Exhibits feature the Tuskegee Airmen, Jackie Robinson, the Million Man March, and more.

African Studies Abstracts Online

"African Studies Abstracts Online is the new electronic journal of the African Studies Centre in Leiden. Like its printed predecessor (African Studies Abstracts), African Studies Abstracts Online provides an overview of articles from periodicals and edited works on Africa in the field of the social sciences and the humanities available in the library of the African Studies Centre in Leiden."

Education

Almanac of the Chronicle of Higher Education

You can search here for current higher education statistics. The site contains such things as, SAT and ACT data, and information about financial aid, faculty salaries, revenues and gifts, trends in faculty employment, and more.

AskERIC Virtual Library

"The AskERIC Virtual Library contains selected educational resources, most of which are developed and/or maintained by AskERIC." This site is geared toward helping educators. Browse through the lesson plans or check out the special projects.

Awesome Library

"Awesome Library organizes the Web with 14,000 carefully reviewed resources, including the top 5 percent in education." This site uses a common subject classification to collect websites geared toward different audiences. Be sure to choose your audience in the bar along the top of the page.

The Gateway

"The Gateway provides the key to one-stop access to high quality Internet lesson plans, curriculum units and other education resources. Browse subject and keyword lists, or search The Gateway. Retrieved records will link directly to the Internet resources they describe."

Hoover's Online: The Business Network

Hoover's offers approximately 14,000 company capsules (brief company descriptions and financials) for free.

Civil Rights

Martin Luther King, Jr.

This site contains information on Martin Luther King, Jr., the
civil rights movement, and the creating of the holiday. This is a great place to begin researching Martin Luther King and the civil rights movement.

The Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project

At this site, you will find secondary documents written about Martin Luther King, Jr. Access to primary documents written during Dr. King's life is available here. This is a first-rate site for researching Martin Luther King.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Center

"The Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change is dedicated to carrying forward the legacy and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. through research, education and training in the principles, philosophy and methods of nonviolence."

Voices of the Civil Rights Era

This site contains an archive of speeches by Martin Luther King, Malcolm X and others. To listen to these speeches, you will need an internet plug-in such as RealPlayer.

Health Finder

Health Finder is a free gateway to reliable consumer health and human services information developed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. HealthFinder(r) can lead you to selected online publications, clearinghouses, databases, web sites, and support and self-help groups, as well as the government agencies and not-for-profit organizations that produce reliable information for the public.

InteliHealth

Established in 1996, InteliHealth has become one of the leading health information companies in the world. More than 150 top health care organizations contribute to InteliHealth's online and offline ventures, including the National Institutes of Health, other government agencies, major non-profits, other publishers and news media. This site serves as home to Johns Hopkins health information.

AfroMed

A resource of patient education tools and links for African Americans.

The Black Infant Health Program

Provides information about the Black Infant Health Program (BIH) to reduce the infant mortality rate among African American infants in San Diego County through community leadership, innovative public health education, development, and advocacy of early and consistent prenatal care.

MEDLINEplus African American Health

Health information for and about African Americans from the largest medical library in the world, the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, MD.  Includes news, nutrition, prevention, research, information on diabetes, depression, glaucoma and other conditions, organizations and statistics, and information for children, women, men, seniors, and teenagers.