• Biography


• Citing Resources


• Class Syllabi and Assignments


• Copyright Information


• Current Events


• Dictionaries


• Discussion Lists


• Dissertations


• Genealogy


• Grants


• Health


• Higher Education


• Legal Information (Law / Court Cases)


• Librarians' Resources


• Maps


• Multicultural Resources


• Papers and Proceedings


• Phone Directories


• Plagiarism


• Readers' Advisory


• Ready Reference


• Scholarly Resources


• Serials Lists


• Statistics


• Television


• Tests


• Travel Information


• Weather


• Web Page Design


• Zip Code Directory

Who's Alive and Who's Dead
Provides information on selected famous (mainly American) people about their status (living or dead), including birth (and where appropriate, death) dates and ages. Searching is available by category and by individual name.

Citing Resources

APA Style: APAStyle.org
This frequently-asked-questions page is not intended to replace the Publications Manual (not available online but available on reserve at Hackney Library's circulation desk), which contains in-depth style guidelines published by the American Psychological Association (APA). But it does offer answers to some common questions regarding use of the APA style. For guidelines on how to cite an NCLIVE article in APA style, see our Citing NCLIVE Articles page.

Frequently Asked Questions About MLA Style
Although MLA does not publish its complete documentation guidelines on the web, this frequently-asked-questions page helps out with specific questions regarding MLA style. (The complete MLA Handbook is available on reserve at Hackney Library's circulation desk.) For guidelines on how to cite an NCLIVE article in MLA style, see our Citing NCLIVE Articles page.

Citation Tips and Tools
Provides links to tips for citing NCLIVE electronic articles and e-books, as well as to online citation builders for creating citations for all kinds of resources, plus other online citation helps.

Citing Sources, Assembling a List of Works Cited in Your Paper
This resource from Duke Libraries provides a quick comparison of works-cited formats for APA, Chicago, MLA and Turabian styles for a number of different types of resources, both print and online. Please note that for citing articles obtained from NCLIVE, you should follow the format outlined on our Citing NCLIVE Articles page.

Class Syllabi and Assignments

The World Lecture Hall
Provides links to faculty-produced pages worldwide who are using the web to deliver course materials in any language. Some links are to courses provided entirely online, others to courses for students in residence.

Copyright Information

Resources and Tutorials (Copyright Use)
Hosted by the Office of the Provost of North Carolina State University, this site contains primary copyright resources and recommended copyright web sites.

The TEACH Act Toolkit
This site provides a wealth of information about the new TEACH Act (Technology, Education, and Copyright Harmonization Act), which governs how to comply with copyright restrictions regarding the transmissions of performances and display of copyrighted materials, especially in online distance courses. It was developed by the Scholarly Communication Center (SCC) of the North Carolina State University Libraries but is now hosted on the web page for the NC State Office of the Provost.

When Works Pass Into the Public Domain
Provides information about the duration of copyright protection based on works' creation/publication date.

Current Events

News and Newspapers Online: Provides an extensive list of newspaper web sites from around the world that include current daily headlines and stories.

Pandia Newsfinder
Provides access to headlines, summaries, and links to the current day's news from such sites as the BBC, the Washington Post, CNN, MSNBC, and more.

News and Newspapers Online: Provides an extensive list of newspaper web sites from around the world that include current daily headlines and stories.

Dictionaries

Online Etymology Dictionary
Although put together by amateur Douglas Harper, this site, divided up in alphabetically- arranged sections, provides etymologies for thousands of words. While it is not a substitute for the multivolume Oxford English Dictionary (OED) or other high-quality published etymological dictionaries, it is a good supplement.

Discussion Lists

Topica (formerly Liszt)
A list of e-Mail discussion groups organized by topic.

Tile.Net/Lists
Internet discussion and information lists searchable by name, description, and domain.

Dissertations

Dissertations OCLC FirstSearch

Genealogy

HeritageQuest Online ProQuest

Grants

The Foundation Center
Provides links to a variety of tools to help with planning and writing funding proposals, finding sources of funding research, and more.

GrantsNet
This searchable, continuously updated database of funding opportunities in biomedical research and science education provides information on the latest trends in research and education funding, tips on how to write successful grant applications, links to grant-related articles, and more.

Non-Profit Guides: Grant-Writing Tools for Non-Profit Organizations
Useful (and free) grant-writing tips, sample letters, proposals, and links are available on this site to assist established US-based non-profits through the grant-writing process.

Index to Sample [Grant] Proposals (SchoolGrants)
Links to successful grant proposals for use as guidelines are available as well as other grant-writing tips (although some are geared specifically to education-related topics).

ScienceWise
Provides the capability for scientists and engineers to search an extensive database of $50 billion in research funding from government, non-profit, corporate, and international sources.

SERA Learning: Funding
In addition to general tips and information on funding agencies and opportunities, the templates for sample letters of inquiry, proposal cover letters, proposals, and budgets (provided by clicking on the "templates" link) are especially helpful.

SSRC: The Art of Writing Proposals
Provides suggestions on proposal writing to applicants seeking research funding from the Social Science for Research Council (SSRC). Many of these suggestions are applicable to any grant proposal, regardless of the funding body.

Health

AllRefer.com:health
Offers information about more than 1,600 medical conditions and many symptoms, treatments, tests, alternative therapies, diets, injuries, and poisons, plus a medical encyclopedia covering over 4,000 topics. The site also summarizes interesting research and health care stories in the news.

MedHist
This British site is a gateway to evaluated, high quality Internet resources and websites relating to the history of medicine and allied sciences, covering all aspects of the history of health and development of medical knowledge.

statehealthfacts.org
Provided free by the Kaiser Family Foundation, this web site provides current state-level data on demographics, health, health policy, financing, health coverage, access and state legislation. Its sources include not only U.S. Census data, but full-text access to some 40 Kaiser Foundation reports on health care and policy as well. In addition to profiles of the 50 U.S. states and comparisons among them, it also provides comparisons of states to U.S. national figures. Topics covered include immunizations, teen births, abortion rates, mammogram rates, insurance for contraceptives, cigarette smoking and tobacco settlement funds, nurses per population, prescription drugs, and more.

Higher Education

Campus-ADR.org (Campus Conflict Resolution)
Created by the Conflict Resolution Resource Center at Wayne State University (MI), this site is a clearinghouse for conflict resolution resources specifically designed for use in a higher-education setting. Resources include links to articles, search engines, online databases, and more relating to conflict management. Access to some pages requires free registration.

CollegeNET
One-stop shopping for online college admissions applications, information on colleges, financial aid, etc.

Financial Aid Information: fastWEB
Find college financial aid and scholarship information and application forms for over 500 colleges at this site.

Peterson's (Thomson Learning)
Provides information on scholarships; on undergraduate and graduate programs, both public and private; on career guidance, and more.

Legal Information (Law / Court Cases)

FindLaw
Provides links to legal news, code and case law, and web sites containing law-related information.

General Statutes for North Carolina
This is an online version of the general statutes, or laws, for North Carolina. It does not include annotations.

Guide to Law Online
Produced by the Law Library of Congress and the Global Legal Information Network (GLIN), this site provides links to reliable free, publicly-accessible legal and governmental information covering both the U.S. and foreign countries.

LII: Legal Information Institute
Provides overviews of federal and state law on currently popular topics of interest, includes texts of relevant portions of the U.S. Constitution, U.S. Code, links to key web sites, and more.

NC Supreme Court and NC Court of Appeals recent slip opinions
Includes Supreme Court opinions back to 1997, and Court of Appeals opinions back to 1996.

Supreme Court Decisions
Search or browse U.S. Supreme Court Opinions back to 1893.

THOMAS: Legislative Information on the Internet
This site, maintained by the Library of Congress, also provides access to databases of bills, laws, the Congressional Record, etc. It has a nice, easy-to-use interface. Just keep in mind that it is not the "official site".

Zimmerman's Research Guide
This online encyclopedia for legal researchers, developed and maintained by a research analyst at a Baltimore law firm, provides links to several hundred sites (and also mentions helpful print resources) covering areas of law, organizations, companies, states, and countries. It is posted on the Lexis-Nexis InfoPro site.

Librarians' Resources

Resources for College Libraries (RCLweb)
The long awaited successor to the 1988 edition of Books for College Libraries, this resource provides academic librarians valuable tools for collection development, reference, and bibliographic instruction. It is jointly published by Choice and Bowker.

Multicultural Resources

Black History Gale Cengage Learning
Thomson Gale has assembled a free collection of information and resources concerning Black History Month. Links to classroom activities, biographies of famous or influential African-Americans, other web pages concerning Black History, the synopses of selected literary works by African-Americans, a quiz, and a timeline of events in African-American history are all found in the sidebar under "Black History" on the lower left of each page.

Hispanic Heritage Gale Cengage Learning
Thomson Gale has assembled a free collection of information and resources concerning topics related to Hispanic heritage. Links to classroom activities, biographies of famous or influential Hispanics, other web pages concerning Hispanics, resources on popular Hispanic music genres, a quiz, and a timeline of events in Hispanic-American history are all found in the sidebar under "Hispanic Heritage" on the lower left of each page.

Women's History Gale Cengage Learning
Gale Cengage Learning has assembled a free collection of information and resources concerning Women's History Month (March). Links to classroom activities, biographies of famous or influential women throughout history, other web pages concerning women's history, a quiz, a timeline of events in women's history, and a section on Women's Rights On Trial (featuring 12 landmark precedent-setting cases involving women from the book by the same name) are all found in the sidebar under "Women's History" on the lower left of each page.

Papers and Proceedings

PapersFirst (1993-) OCLC FirstSearch

Proceedings (1993-) OCLC FirstSearch

Phone Directories

AnyWho
Provides personal and business listings by name and category, as well as reverse look-up by phone number.

Switchboard.com
Search for a personal or business address and phone number by name or do a reverse look-up by phone number. Also includes maps, directions, and city guides.

Plagiarism

Plagiarism
This site (by Sharon Stoerger of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) provides everything you ever wanted to know about plagiarism, including links to full-text articles, case studies, plagiarism prevention and detection tools for instructors, guidelines for students in how to avoid plagiarism, and more.

Readers' Advisory

Nancy Pearl's Nonfiction Recommendations
This site, created by the Northbrook (IL) Public Library, provides subject indexing to Seattle librarian Nancy Pearl's recommended nonfiction from the pages of her two books, Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment and Reason, (Sasquatch Books, 2003) and More Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment and Reason (Sasquatch Books, 2005). To see recommended nonfiction books organized by topics ranging from animals and insects, to food, cooking and home, to World War II, click on the category links.

NoveList K-8 Plus (Current) EBSCOHost

NoveList Plus (Current) EBSCOHost

Read North Carolina Novels
This site, maintained by the North Carolina Collection at UNC-Chapel Hill, is a reader's advisory site featuring recent works of fiction set in North Carolina. The titles are drawn from the North Carolina Collection's extensive collection of North Caorlina literature. Users may browse by author or view lists of novels by the region or county in which they are set. New novels will be added as they become available, and a section on classic North Carolina novels is also planned.

What's Next
A local Michigan library's reader's advisory aid that enables you to determine the order of adult fiction books in a series. Searchable by author name, book title, or series title.

Ready Reference

Bartleby.com: Great Books Online
Not only does this site feature the full-text of classics of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and reference free of charge, but they're searchable by author, title, subject, and keyword.

Infoplease
This site offers standard online reference tools, such as a searchable almanac, atlas, encyclopedia, dictionary, thesaurus, and white pages. Its feature sections include world and news, history and government, sports, arts and entertainment, business, society and culture, health and science, references for children, and searchable biographies. It also provides topical stories, a daily almanac, time lines, quizzes, and more.

KnowPlay?
Uncluttered by advertising, this site provides access to dictionaries, encyclopedias, thesauri, atlases, etc. on its reference page. (Other pages provide a broader range of services.)

Oxford Reference Online: Premium Collection Oxford University Press
The Premium Collection offers over 175 fully-indexed, cross-searchable dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press, including detailed information across a broad subject range from titles in the world-renowned Oxford Companions and Oxford Dictionaries series, plus the Visual English Dictionary, the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations and new heavily illustrated natural history titles such as the Encyclopedia of Mammals. The titles also include full-color maps and illustrations, timelines, weblinks, and bibliographies. (Note: Barton log in is required to access this resource from off campus.)

Reference USA--Business, Residential, Healthcare, & TechUSA RefUSA

Virtual Reference Shelf
Compiled by the Library of Congress, the links on this site come from the Internet Public Library Reference Service, Librarian's Index to the Internet, and Refdesk, and are grouped by broad subjects areas.

Scholarly Resources

INFOMINE: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections
This virtual library links to useful Internet resources relevant to the academic community, including databases, electronic journals, electronic books, bulletin boards, mailing lists, online library catalogs, articles, directories of researchers, and many other types of information. Put together by a number of university librarians across the country and hosted by University of California at Riverside, this site is easily navigable either by using its "search" feature or by browsing through links grouped under broad subject headings. Most resources are free, and all listings provide an abstract, indication of intended audience, and a recommendation.

Serials Lists

Serials Directory (Current) EBSCOHost

Statistics

North Carolina Statistics:

County Salaries in North Carolina
Information on salaries and benefits for county government positions from 2001 through the current year is provided by the MAPS group of the School of Government at UNC-Chapel Hill. The data appears in descending order by year, beginning with the most current year.

LINC (Log Into North Carolina)
This NC State Data Center database provides North Carolina demographic and statistical data ranging from the latest census data to projected county populations and more, available in customized and pre-formatted reports.

North Carolina Census Data: 1960-1980
This digital project from the State Library of North Carolina and the North Carolina State Data Center makes North Carolina census data from the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s full-text searchable online for the first time. The collection, housed in file folders at the State Data Center since it was created from federal census data decades ago, contains invaluable county- and state-level demographics information (including labor, population, housing, and economic conditions) and enumeration district maps from 80 of North Carolina's 100 counties. The majority of the data dates from the 1980 Census, however, the maps, as well as counts of population and housing data are available from the 1960 Census, and "Selected Characteristics" for 99 of 100 counties are available from the 1970 Census.

North Carolina Statistics
A list of sites, organized by subject, that provide statistical information about North Carolina.

United States Statistics:

American FactFinder
This site is the major access point to the U.S. Census Bureau's 2000 data, statistics from the 1990 decennial census, 2004 population estimates, and more. The "Fact Sheet" link retrieves data by geographic area; the three main topical categories are "People," "Housing," and "Business and Government." The "Maps and Geography" section enables creation of maps showing census geography, cities, congressional districts, etc.

FedStats
Provides access to official statistics published by over 70 Federal agencies. Searchable by topic, by subject area, and by agency.

Historical Statistics of the United States (HSUS Millennial Edition) Cambridge University Press
Organized in five major areas--population, work and welfare, economic structure and performance, economic sectors, and governance and international relations--this newly revised electronic version of a standard print resource provides historical statistics on the United States and essays about them. Topics ranging from migration and health to crime and the Confederate States of America are each placed in historical context by a recognized expert in the field. The fully searchable and downloadable electronic edition will permit users to graph individual tables and create customized tables and spreadsheets reflecting their own particular areas of interest. (Note: Barton network log-in required for off-campus access)

Population Reference Bureau
This site provides facts, figures, and analysis of key overall demographic trends affecting U.S. population (it includes national data only, not state or local). Most data is taken from the U.S. Census Bureau, and links to more detailed Census data are included. (Formerly called "AmeriStat.")

State & County QuickFacts
Provides comparative census data for each U.S. state and county/parish concerning people, business, and geography. Links to more detailed census information are available.

Statistics (Louisiana State University Libraries)
Provides access to links to statistics organized by topic, such as business, crime, education, population, health, etc.

International Statistics:

United Nations Common Database
Produced by the United Nations Statistical Division, this site provides extensive economic and social indicators and statistics for countries around the world, including data on education, finance, environment, health, labor, population, etc. Formerly fee-based, access is now free.

United Nations Statistics Division--Social Indicators
Provides links to international statistics of social indicators such as population, literacy, education, child-bearing, water supply, housing, employment, etc.

Eurostat
Includes daily updated statistical information on countries in the European Union (EU) and the "euro-zone."

NationMaster.com
This site includes over 5,700 statistics on countries around the world, which have been culled from reliable sources such as the CIA World Factbook, UN, World Health Organization, World Bank, UNCESCO, and more. The two primary ways to search the site are via the "Statistics" or "Countries A to Z" links at the top of the page. Statistics are grouped into some 30 major categories, including agriculture, economy, education, health, labor, lifestyle, military, religion, and sports. Country information includes overviews for each country, with information on government, economy, religion, flags, etc. The site also includes some 7,000 historical and current maps of the world that can either be printed or imported into documents.

Statistical Sites on the World Wide Web
Compiled by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, this site includes links to U.S. federal and international statistical agencies.

VIBES (Virtual International Business & Economic Sources)
Provides over 1,600 links to international statistical (and other business and economic) information in English on the web.

Television

UNC-TV What's On
Provides a schedule of public programming on PBS via UNC-TV that is searchable by day, by month, and by program.

Tests

ETS Test Collection--Test Link
The Test Link database provides descriptions of the ETS Test Collection, which is a library of more than 25,000 tests and other measurement devices that makes information on standardized tests and research instruments available to researchers, graduate students, and teachers. Collected from the early 1900s to the present, the Test Collection at ETS is the largest such compilation in the world. A link to search the database appears at the bottom of the page accessed by the "Find a Test" tab. Many of the tests may be purchased online.

LearningExpress Library LearningExpress

Study Guide Zone
This free site gives an overview of what to expect on a variety of licensing and other standardized tests, including the GRE, GMAT, NCLEX-RN and -PN, PRAXIS, and more. In addition, the site provides links to sample questions and answers for each of the tests. Although one link for Practice Questions for each of the tests takes you to a commercial site for a fee-based prep course, the other links provide free information and sample questions and answers.

Expedia.com
MSN's full-service travel site, providing reservations and information on flights, hotels, cars, cruises, and more.

MapQuest
Provides maps, driving directions, road-trip planners, yellow pages, and other travel-related links.

Maps On Us
Offers maps, route planners, and yellow pages information.

Travelocity
Provides secure online reservations for air and car travel, hotels, and vacations, plus destination and other travel information.

Weather

UM Weather
Sponsored the University of Michigan--Ann Arbor's Weather Underground, provides thousands of forecasts, images, and weather links.

Web Page Design

HTML Code Tutorial
Provides links to specific tutorials on the use of HTML (HyperText Mark-up Language) to create web pages, as well as a help forum section for tips from other webmasters.

HTML Primer
Provides step-by-step instruction on how to create web pages using HTML (HyperText Mark-up Language)

HTML Tutorial
Provides a tutorial in the creation of web pages using basic HTML (HyperText Mark-up Language).

NYPL Online Style Guide
Although this style guide is aimed at guiding New York Public Library's branches on preparing their own web pages, it contains much helpful information for anyone designing web pages.

Tim Berners-Lee's Style Guide for Online Hypertext
Despite its disclaimer that it has not been updated to include recent HTML developments, this classic HTML style guide still offers useful information on the conventions of basic web page design.

Webmonkey: The Web Developer's Resource
Wired magazine launched this site in 1996; it contains Web development tutorials, articles, and advice for all levels of web developers, as well as a blog. The site is divided into two primary parts: the How-To Library, which includes free online tutorials from HTML basics to XML, design, multimedia, e-business, programming, databases, among other things; and Quick Reference, including guides to style sheets, color codes, special characters, and more.

The XML Tool
This Web site, produced by Center for Technology in Government, offers a library of resources to assist in managing a Web site using XML (Extensible Markup Language). The site is divided into the following sections: Getting Started, Environment, Code Samples, Tools, Tips, Guides and Reports, and Inside this Site (which shows how XML, XSL, and coding scripts work to produce the site itself).

Yale C/AIM Web Style Guide
Offers practical instruction on how to set up and maintain a web page, including information on interface, site, and page design; web graphics; web animation; and web multimedia.

Zip Code Lookup

Zip+4 Code Lookup
This zip code directory, provided by the U.S. Postal Service, allows you to type in an address within the 50 U.S. states and get its zip code plus the 4-digit extension. Scroll to the bottom of the page to find a link to look up the location of a particular zip code.