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General Information Sources
Some of the internet resources below require a Tufts I.D. number for off-campus access (authorized users statement).
- Almanac of American Politics
- Farmer's Almanac
- Information Please
- Old Farmer's Almanac
- Facts on File News Services Databases
The full-text collection of four Facts on File publications: Facts on File World News Digest (1940-present), Issues and Controversies on File (1996-present), Today's Science ( 1992-present), World Almanac Reference Database (since 1999) and the World Almanac Encyclopedia
- ArchivesUSA
Information about primary source materials from U.S. manuscript repositories, with detailed indexes of manuscript and other special collections. - Commonwealth of Massachusetts: Massachusetts Archives Links to publications and agencies concerned with Massachusetts history and preservation.
- Google LIFE Photo Archive Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google.
- Library of Congress (LOC) The Library of Congress is the nation’s oldest federal cultural institution and serves as the research arm of Congress. It is also the largest library in the world, with millions of books, recordings, photographs, maps, manuscripts and archival collections.
- NYPL Digital Gallery NYPL Digital Gallery provides access to over 275,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more.
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
- Repositories of Primary Sources Listing of over 4000 websites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs,and other primary sources for the research scholar.
- Internet Public Library: Associations on the Net
- Associations Unlimited Contains information for approximately 444,000 international and U.S. national, regional, state, and local nonprofit membership organizations in all fields.
- Foundation Center: Find Funders
- GuideStar.org (Philanthropic Research Inc.) Provides detailed, searchable information about nonprofit and philanthropic organizations and private foundations.
- Scholarly Societies Project Information about and links to scholarly societies.
- World of Learning Directory of learned institutions and societies, academies, societies, museums, universities and colleges.
- American
Men and Women of Science
Biographical sketch of over 123,000 active scientists. - American
National Biography Online
The American National Biography Online has biographical information on over 17,000 notable Americans from colonial times to the present. - Biography
and Genealogy Master Index
Biography and Genealogy Master Index is a comprehensive index to nearly 12 million biographical sketches in more than 2700 volumes and editions of current and retrospective reference books, covering both contemporary and historical figures throughout the world. - Biography
Resource Center + The Complete Marquis Who's Who
This database combines biographies from Gale Group sources and also includes full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals. Search for people based on one or more personal facts such as birth and death year, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender, or combine criteria to create a highly-targeted custom search. With the Complete Marquis Who's Who(R), find quick reference information on an additional 900,000 people. - CREDO Reference: Biography (Click on Advanced Search, then choose Biographies)
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
An illustrated collection of more than 50,000 specially written biographies of the men and women from around the world who shaped all aspects of Britain's past. - International
Who's Who
The electronic version of a standard reference source in international biography. - Who's Who 2006 and Who Was Who 1897-2005
Books and Publishing Resources
- Alibris.com
- Amazon.com
- Bartleby.com: Great Books Online
- Bibliomania Free online literature with more than 2000 classic texts.
- Digital Book Index An index to the major e-book sites and some smaller, specialized publishers/distributors.
- Global Books in Print
- Library of Congress Services for Researchers
- Project Gutenberg The first and original e-book collection with 16,000 free electronic texts.
- WorldCat An online union catalog of books, web resources and other material held by academic, special and public libraries worldwide.
- Calendar Zone
- Earth Calendar A daybook of holidays and celebrations from around the world.
- Time and Date
- Timeticker
- America's Career InfoNet A comprehensive career site developed by the Department of Labor. It provides access to job banks, employment service providers, and career education. Each career field has a general outlook section, wages and trends, what it takes (education, certification, etc.), a career video and state profiles and employment information.
- Tufts Career Services The Career Planning Center Library includes career information, directories, job guides, resume guides, and regional guides. The library maintains some company reports, alumni contacts, notebooks of internships, and job listings from on-campus recruiters.
- CollegeSource OnlineGlobal Books in PrintIncludes complete college catalogs of most academic institutions in America.
- International Colleges and Universities Searchable database of universities and colleges from around the world.
- New England Board of Higher Education
- Peterson's Education Center
- World
of Learning
Directory of learned institutions and societies, academies, societies, museums, universities and colleges.
- Breezenet's Guide to Rental Cars
- Consumer World
- Consumer Reports Online
- Federal Consumer Information Center
- Kelley Blue Book Consumer information about buying cars.
- National Care Planning Council's "Guide to Long Term Care Planning" The National Care Planning's Council free, noncommercial resource on aging. It was developed as a public service for libraries, area agencies on aging and state aging units and to support the Long Term Care Consumer Awareness Campaign from the Department of Health and Human Services.
- Vehix.com
- Convert It
- Desktop Calculator
- Dictionary of Units of Measurements
- Measure Converter
- Universal Currency Converter
Dictionaries/ Encyclopedias/ Thesauri
- American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
- Britannica Online and Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary
- Columbia Encyclopedia
- CREDO Reference
162 online reference resources from numerous publishers. This reference resource can be searched by individual title, broad subject headings, cross-references, audio and images. Use its "research mapper" to search for terms and topics that are interconnected and displayed in visual form. Examples of titles are: Bloomsbury Guide to Art, Bridgeman Art Library Archive, Columbia Encyclopedia, Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary, Harvard Dictionary of Music, and the Concise Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology and Behavioral Science. The complete list of titles is available on the CREDO Reference site. - Online Dictionaries
- Oxford English Dictionary Online. 1972-
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Oxford Language Dictionaries Online
This is a fully searchable, comprehensive bilingual dictionaries online resource. In addition to dictionaries, OLDO includes unique study materials on topics such as life & culture, grammar & vocabulary, and writing & word games. There is also a Dictionary Skills Resource Packs, a teaching & learning resource for each language that includes lesson plans and worksheets. - Oxford
Reference Online
Provides web access to 100 major Oxford University Press dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other reference works in the humanities, social sciences, foreign languages, science, technology and medicine, the performing arts, and religion. Works can be searched separately or across the entire databases. Includes over 1.5 million entries. - Roget's II: The New Thesaurus
- Symbols.com
- Tisch Library Dictionaries (Online and In Print)
Entertainment (see also News and Current Events):
- Movies
- All-Movie Guide
- Brattle Theatre Cambridge theatre that shows classic, foreign, and independent films.
- International Movie Database Searchable database of over 200,000 + movie and television titles, plus detailed information on actors, actresses, directors , crews, costs, reviews, etc.
- Moviefone See what movies are playing in your town and buy tickets online!
- newenglandfilm.com Online resource for local film and video professionals.
- Tisch Library Research Guides by Subject: Film
- Music
- Theater
- Boston Online: Theater
- Internet Broadway Database
- Playbill online The official website for Broadway shows, with links to local, regional, and international theatre information.
- Official London Theatre Guide
- Television
- Radio
- BBC World Service BBC broadcast schedules, program descriptions, and numerous audio clips are just some of the highlights of this site.
- Boston Online: Radio
- National Public Radio (NPR)
- Radio locator Searchable links to over 10,000 radio station webpages and 2500 web streams.
- The RealGuide Collects and organizes dozens of Web audio and video sites, including real-time broadcasts from international radio stations television news, music, concerts, sports, etc.
Financial Aid/ Grants/ Scholarships
- Fast Web
- Foundation Center
- Grants and Contracts Grant and fellowship information provided in cooperation with Grants and Contracts Administration of the Office of the Associate Provost for Research, Tufts University.
- Grants.gov Federal government website with access to over 900 grant programs.
- Idealist Directory of over 20,000 nonprofit Websites in 150 countries.
- ResearchResearch: Newspaper for the research world
Tufts University subscribes to this web site that provides access to a searchable database of funding opportunities. Correspondents in Washington, Brussels, London, Sydney, Amsterdam and Cape Town, and their editorial teams provide comprehensive listings of funding opportunities across all disciplines. To begin, click on the Institutional start page link. - SRA (Society of Research Administrators International) International Grants Web
Footnotes and Bibliographic Citations
General Periodical/ Magazine Indexes
- ABI Inform Includes the full text of articles in over 500 business and management journals, both trade and scholarly.
- Academic OneFile Academic OneFile has over 8,000 peer-reviewed journals, the majority in full-text, from the world's leading journals and reference sources. Extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects. Full text articles are available in both PDF and HTML. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995. Updated daily.
- Alt-Press Watch Contains full text articles from magazines and journals of the alternative and independent press. Coverage includes a broad range of critical issues confronting contemporary society, including ecology and the environment, grassroots organizing, labor, indigenous peoples, public policy, genetics, and much more.
- General
Reference Center (Magazine Index)
- Issues
and Controversies on File 1996-
Full-text, in-depth essays giving multiple perspectives to issues facing today's society. Search full text, subject index, title, date. Custom searching also available. It also provides access to selected primary source documents, interviews, newspaper editorials and bibliographies. - LexisNexis
Includes articles from major American newspapers and regional papers, statistics, company financial information, country and state profiles, and medical information. Major source for federal case law and statutes, the U.S. Code, law reviews, and state legal research. - Facts on File News Services Databases
The full-text collection of four Facts on File publications: Facts on File World News Digest (1940-present), Issues and Controversies on File (1996-present), Today's Science ( 1992-present), World Almanac Reference Database (since 1999) and the World Almanac Encyclopedia
- Google Maps
- Map Collections: 1500-2003 (Library of Congress)
- Maps.com
- MAPQUEST
- Mass.gov - Find Maps Various type of maps, ortho-photos, and Mass GIS links for Massachusetts.
- National Atlas of the United States This is the website for the official National Atlas of the United States. An interactive map maker, printed and printable maps, multimedia maps and a map layers data warehouse are available.
- Odden's Bookmarks University of Utrecht in The Netherlands web site that indexes over 20,000 links to maps, map collections, gazetteers and vendors.
- United States Geological Survey (USGS): Science Topics: Maps and Atlases
- University of Texas Perry-Castaneda Library: Maps Scanned images of paper maps, with a focus on the Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) reference maps. A good place to search for small-scale reference maps.
Massachusetts and Local Information
- Best of the Web - Boston
- BostonUSA Official visitor website for Boston.
- BostonCentral: The Center for Boston Area Families
- boston.com
- boston.citysearch.com
- Boston Online
- City of Boston
- City of Cambridge
- City of Medford
- City of Somerville
- Commonwealth of Massachusetts
- Harvard Square
- MBTA Home Page Schedules, fares, and other key information pertaining to Boston's public transportation system.
- Your Davis Square
- Academic OneFile Academic OneFile has over 8,000 peer-reviewed journals, the majority in full-text, from the world's leading journals and reference sources. Extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects. Full text articles are available in both PDF and HTML. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995. Updated daily.
- Boston Globe Online
- Boston Herald Online
- The Phoenix.com
- Boston: townonline.com Boston's online community newspaper
- Expanded
Academic ASAP
Articles from more than 1,500 scholarly, trade, and general-interest publications, including national news and commentary. Coverage is from 1980 to current and is updated daily. Some full text is available. - Facts
on File World News Digest 1940-
Provides full-text access to top news stories, live Reuters News feed with two weeks archived, country profiles, maps and much more. Search by full text, title, date ranges, databases, top stories, or special features. Custom searching also available. - General
Reference Center (Magazine Index)
- Google LIFE Photo Archive Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google.
- Issues
and Controversies on File 1996-
Full-text, in-depth essays giving multiple perspectives to issues facing today's society. Search full text, subject index, title, date. Custom searching also available. It also provides access to selected primary source documents, interviews, newspaper editorials and bibliographies. - LexisNexis
Major full-text resource. Includes articles from the major American newspapers in addition to many regional papers. Also includes company financial information, country and state profiles, company news, medical and health topics, and biographical information. Major source for federal case law, the U.S. Code, law reviews, and state legal research. - New
York Times Historical Archive, 1851-three years before current
date
Includes full-text and full-image articles dating back to the first issue of the NYT in 1851; the collection includes digital reproductions of every page from every issue--cover to cover--in downloadable PDF(r) files. - Newsbank InfoWeb to Massachusetts Newsstand
Full-text coverage of major Massachusetts newspapers including the Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Quincy Patriot Ledger and the Worcester Telegram & Gazette, plus selected coverage of other regional sources. Starting dates of access vary. - Facts on File News Services Databases
The full-text collection of four Facts on File publications: Facts on File World News Digest (1940-present), Issues and Controversies on File (1996-present), Today's Science ( 1992-present), World Almanac Reference Database (since 1999) and the World Almanac Encyclopedia - Times
Digital Archive
Researchers can search through the complete digital edition of The Times (London), to retrieve full facsimile images of either a specific article or a complete page. The entire newspaper is captured, with all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos divided into categories to facilitate searching. Data will be added monthly until the entire period of 1785-1985 is available in late 2003. - Today's
Science 1992-
Full-text science news with biographies, overview articles, news flashes, hot topics, images, and links to NSTA standards. Search by full text, title field, date or within a particular index. Custom searching also available. - USA Today
- CNN Interactive
- WBUR Boston's National Public Radio affiliate.
- WGBH: Public Broadcasting from Boston Boston public television and radio.
- dmoz: Open Directory Project This is the largest, human-edited directory of the World Wide Web.
- Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
- Creative Quotations Searchable database of over 10,000 quotations, plus quotation themes, creative proverbs, links to over 100 additional quotation sites, and much more. This is a fun website!
- Quoteland
- Boston Athletic Association Includes information on the Boston Marathon.
- Boston Bruins Boston's NHL team.
- Boston Celtics Boston's NBA team.
- Boston Red Sox Boston's MLB team.
- ESPN.com
- New England Patriots New England's NFL team.
- New England Revolution New England's MLS team.
- American FactfinderAccess to 1990 and 2000 decennial censuses, the American Community Survey, and the 1997 Economic Census.
- FedStats Links to more than 70 U.S. Federal agencies that provide statistics for public use.
- Statistical Abstract
- Statistical Resources on the Web University of Michigan's Documents Center website that provides links to American and International statistical resources from all types of subject areas.
- United Nations Statistics Division
- U.S. Bureau of the Census Home Page
- U.S. Historical Census Data Browser
- World Factbook The CIA's handbook of basic geographical and statistical information on the nations of the world. Includes maps.
Telephone Directories/ Yellow Pages/ E-mail
- AAA
- Amtrak
- Discount Hotels Worldwide
- Expedia.com
- HomeExchange.com International home exchange and home swap service.
- Kayak.com
- Low Fares
- MBTA Home Page Schedules, fares, and other key information pertaining to Boston's public transportation system.
- Fodors Online Travel Service
- The Rough Guide
- Travel Health Online
- Travelocity
- USA CityLink
Virtual Reference Shelf
Selected Web resources compiled by the Library of Congress
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