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updated April 2009
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| GMU Libraries | |
| GMU Libraries - Accessing restricted information resources from off-campus computers | |
| GMU Ask a Librarian - a real-time "virtual reference" service for students, faculty, and staff to ask questions and be helped at home, at the office or in a computer lab | |
| GMU Library Catalog | |
| GMU Libraries Disability Services | |
| GMU Library Databases - access to periodical and journal articles, some with full text | |
| GMU Library Electronic Reserves | |
| GMU Library Electronic Resources for English | |
| GMU Libraries Government - Federal, Local, International | |
| GMU Libraries - Research Instructions and Information Guides (PDF - acrobat format) | |
| GMU Net Library - "full-text electronic versions of published books that library users can search, borrow, read, and return over the Internet" | |
| Mylibrary@Mason - a user-customizable Web-page/portal with your own selected databases, search engines, etc. See "new account" or "login" option.Type: http://my.library.gmu.edu into your browser window to log on to your "mylibrary." | |
| Guide to Research at GMU - Virginia Montecino (not an official GMU Lib. publication) | |
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| Fairfax County Public Library - Northern Virginia | |
| FedWorld.gov - Program of US Dept. of Commerce | |
| FirstGov - Official Website for U.S. Federal Government information on the Internet: "business and economy to money and benefits to science and technology, and everything in between!" | |
| GMU and the Commonwealth - informs gmu community and alumni informed about legislative issues affecting the university. Contact representatives w. the click of a mouse. | |
| GovBot - Database of Government Web Sites | |
| Government - Federal, Local, International - GMU University Libraries | |
| Government Resources on the Web - University of Michigan Documents Center (extensive collection) | |
| Legislative Information on the Internet - Thomas - legislation, congressional record, committee information, etc. | |
| Library of Congress Catalog - approx. 12 million records - books, serials, computer files, manuscripts, cartographic materials, music, sound recordings, visual materials - provides references, notes, circulation status | |
| National Archives and Records Administration - research room, federal law texts, online exhibits, digital classroom, grants, archives and presentation resources | |
| Smithsonian Institution Libraries | |
| State and Local Government Gateway | |
| Statistical Information | |
| The U.S. Constitution - National Archives and Records Administration | |
| U.S. Supreme Court - docket, court rules, opinions, public info.... | |
| The White House | |
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| Acronym Finder - Over 162,000 acronyms, abbreviations, initialisms and their definitions, including information technology | |
| Bartleby.com References- contemporary and classic reference works on the Web (literature, mythology, anatomy, English usage ...) | |
| Biographical Dictionary - - more than 28,000 men and women can be searched by birth years and death years, positions, professions, literary and artistic works, achievements, and other keywords. | |
| BioTech's Life Science Dictionary - "most of our 8300+ terms deal with biochemistry, biotechnology, botany, cell biology and genetics" | |
| Dictionary.com (numerous reference resources) | |
| Electronic Encyclopedias - GMU University Libraries Electronic Resources | |
| Famous Quotes & Authors | |
| A Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples | |
| Google Glossary - definitions for words, phrases and acronyms | |
| Legal Encyclopedia | |
| Online Medical Dictionary | |
| PC Webopaedia - Internet.com (computer technology encyclopedia) | |
| Tech Encyclopedia - Techweb - CMP net - the Technology Network | |
| Your Dictionary.com - " features an index of 1300+ dictionaries in more than 230 languages" | |
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| Libweb- Library Servers via WWW. Updated daily at midnight, Pacific Time. Lists over 3000 pages from libraries in over 90 countries - The Library, UC Berkeley and Sun Microsystems, Inc.. | |
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| American Communication Association - materials on communication law and First Amendment issues and an extensive reference resource page for scholars and activists. | |
| American Memory- Historical Collections for the National Digital Library (Library of Congress)- includes a search function | |
| Bartleby Library - Steven H. van Leeuwen | |
| Bookbrowser- a guide for avid readers | |
| Bookspot - portal to award winners, dealer and publisher directories, etc. | |
| Bookwire- Inside the Book Business- reviews, etc. | |
| Chronicle of Higher Education | |
| ClassicReader.com - "read, search, and annotate great works of literature by authors such as Dickens, Tolstoy, Shakespeare, and many others" | |
| David Rumsey Map Collection - over 6,400 maps online, incl. rare 18th and 19th century North and South America cartographic history materials, historic maps of Europe, Asia and Africa, atlases, globes, maritime charts, manuscript maps, and many more... | |
| Electric Library - over 100,000 documents (fiction, non-fiction, maps, dissertations, ...) | |
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| Gutenberg and Beyond: Books, Libraries, and changing Technology: An Exhibit of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Related Items, Georgetown University Library / Special Collections Division | |
| Hypertext Reading Room- Eastgate Systems, Inc. - writing by hypertext writers | |
| Internet Archive - The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) public nonprofit that was founded to build an ‘Internet library,’ with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format. | |
| Internet Public Library - a public service organization and learning/teaching environment at the University of Michigan School of Information | |
| The New York Public Library Digital Library Collection | |
| NUA- advertises as "The world's leading resource for Internet trends and statistics" surveys by categories | |
| ORB: The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies - "a cooperative effort on the part of scholars across the internet to establish an online textbook source for medieval studies" | |
| OVID Web Gateway -scholarly bibliographic and full text resources (Bioethics Line, Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature, Nursing, Biomedical, Mental Health, Sociological Abstracts, Sport Discus | |
| The Online Books Page | |
| The Perseus Digital Library - Tufts University - attempts to bring a wide range of source materials on the humanities to as large an audience as possible. | |
| refdesk.com - facts at a glance, reference resources, dictionaries, encyclopedias, reference tools,.... | |
| Project Gutenberg - information, books and other materials | |
| September 11 Archive - a collaboration between the Library of Congress, the Internet Archive and webArchivist.org | |
| VIVA - The Virtual Library of Virginia | |
| University of Virginia Library | |
| University of Virginia Electronic Text "Library" | |
| Yahoo - Science:Computer Science:Journals | |
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| Bureau of Labor Statistics - U.S. Department of Labor | |
| Energy Information Administration - QuickStats | |
| FedStats - statistics from over 100 U.S. Federal agencies | |
| The Gallop Organization - Gallop Polls | |
| Immigration and Naturalization Service - Statistics | |
| National Center for Education Statistics | |
| National Center for Health Statistics - Center for Disease Control | |
| NUA- advertises as "The world's leading resource for Internet trends and statistics" surveys by categories | |
| Statistical Abstract of the United States | |
| Statistical Resources on the Web - U. of Michigan Documents Center | |
| U.S. Census Bureau Facts Finder | |
| U.S. Census Bureau Statistical Agencies (International) | |
| U.S. Historical Census Data Browser | |
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| Metaphor
Sites - metaphors in science, technology, humanities, plus biblio.
of text-based metaphors |
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| American Poetry at the Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library | |
| British Poetry at the Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library | |
| The Web Page of Carolyn Forche', the poet, and her list of poetry resources | |
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| abebooks.com - rare, used, and out-of-print books | |
| alibris - extensive list of used and out-of-print books | |
| Amazon.com | |
| Barnes & Noble | |
| Bedford/St. Martins | |
| Bibliofind - search engine for used and rare titles | |
| Booksense - shop online at your favorite locally-owned bookstore | |
| Bookbyte - new & used college textbooks | |
| Borders | |
| Harcourt Brace | |
| Harper Collins | |
| Harvard University Press | |
| Houghton-Mifflin College Division | |
| Johns Hopkins University Press | |
| MacMillan | |
| McGraw-Hill Higher Education | |
| MIT Press | |
| National Academy Press (NAP) | |
| NTC/Contemporary Publishing Group | |
| Pearson Higher Education Publishing (Addison Wesley, Allyn Bacon, Longman, Prentice Hall, etc.) | |
| Powell's Books - new and used books | |
| Textbooks.com | |
| VarsityBooks.com | |
| Wiley Publishers | |
| WW Norton | |
| Yale University Press | |
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updated April 2009 |