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Acronyms
Abbreviations and Acronyms of the U.S. Government
The Acronym Database
Acronym Finder

Associations and Societies
Give.org (BBB Wise Giving Alliance)
Scholarly Societies Project

Business and Company Information
Currencies of the World
Red Herring
Thomas Register of American Manufacturers
XE.com - The Universal Currency Converter

Colleges and Universities
American Universities
GradSchools.com
Peterson's Education Center

Dictionaries and Thesauri
yourDictionary.com
Roget's Thesaurus
Reverse Dictionary

Directories
AnyWho Toll Free Directory Search
Area Codes by Number
Area Codes by State & Country
Infospace
Internet 800 Directory
SuperPages.com (Verizon)
Telephone Directories from around the World
U.S. Postal Service ZIP Code Look-Up

Geography
Library of Congress Country Studies: Area Handbook Series
David Rumsey Map Collection (Historical Maps)
CU Boulder Resources for Geographers
GeographyIQ
MapQuest
National Geographic Maps and Geography
Atlapedia Online
Panoramic Maps Collection 1847-1929 (Library of Congress)
Perry-Castanñeda Library Map Collection (University of Texas)
TIGER Map Server Browser (U.S. Census Bureau)
USGS National Geologic Map Database

Government Information
Federal Register (1994 to present)
FedWorld
USA.gov Gateway to U.S. government information
Consumer information from USA.gov
Government Reference Sources (California State University Northridge)
New York State Government Information Locator Service
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives
The Public Advocate for the City of New York
State and Local Governments (Library of Congress)
Tax Forms - Federal
Tax Forms - New York State
Thomas U.S. Congress on the Internet
U.N. System Sites
Uncle Sam - Migrating Government Publications
The United States Government Manual
U.S. Department of Education
U.S. Government Printing Office
U.S. National Debt Clock

Law
FindLaw - Law, Lawyers and Legal Resources
Guide to Law Online (Law Library of Congress)
Internet Law Library
Legal Information Institute(Cornell Law School)
U.S. Code (Cornell Law School)
World Wide Web Virtual Library: Law

Libraries
Gabriel The Gateway to Europe's National Libraries
Internet Public Library
LibDex Worldwide Index of Library Catalogues
Library of Congress
METRO Metropolitan New York Library Council
The New York Public Library
The New York State Library
Westchester Library System Westchester Public Libraries

Medicine and Health
Healthfinder
Medscape
The Merck Manuals
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
NOAH: New York Online Access to Health
AMA Physician Select (American Medical Association)
RxList Drug Information

News
NewsDirectory

Quotations
Bartlett's Book of Familiar Quotations
The Quotations Page

Sciences
Metric Conversion Factors (Washington State Department of Transportation)
How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Periodic Table of the Elements (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Physical Reference Data (National Institute of Standards and Technology)

Statistics
American FactFinder (U.S. Census Bureau)
Bureau of Justice Statistics (U.S. Department of Justice)
FedStats
The Gallup Organization
United States Historical Census Data (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research)
National Center for Education Statistics
National Center for Health Statistics
State and County Quick Facts (U.S. Census Bureau)
Statistical Abstract of the United States
Statistical Resources on the Web (University of Michigan Documents Center)
US Census Bureau
USA Quick Facts (U.S. Census Bureau)

Weather
National Weather Service
UM Weather (University of Michigan)
weather.com

 

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