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1. Intute: Advanced Search
   “... a free online service providing you with access to the very best Web resources for education and research.... Subject specialists select and evaluate the websites in our database and write high quality descriptions of the resources. The database cont
   02-21-2008 : african, agricultural, american, anthropology, archaeology, architecture, archives, arts, asia, astronomy, australasian, australia, beauty, biomedical ethics, bioresearch, business, catering, celtic, chemistry, chinese, classics, communications, comparative literature, computing, conservation, culture, design, earth sciences, eastern european, ecology, economics, engineering, english studies, environment, european, fashion, food, forestry, french, geography, german, government, health, hispanic, history, history and philosophy of science, history of medicine, hospitality, humanities, italia, japanese, latin american, law, leisure, libraries, life sciences, linguistics, management, manuscript studies, mathematics, media, medicine, middle eastern, midwifery, modern languages, museums, music, natural history, nursing, performing arts, philosophy, physics, politics, portuguese, psychology, religions, research methods, research tools, russian, scandinavian, science, science engineering, slavonic, social sciences, social welfare, sociology, south asian, sports, statistics, technology, theology, tourism, travel, vetinerary, visual arts, women
2. FactCheckEd.org: Annenberg Classroom Fact Check by the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania
   Classroom materials focused on helping students learn how to research and examine claims encountered in media and advertising. Has lesson plans, websites recommended for research, answers to common questions about government and politics, a dictionary, an
   02-21-2008 : advertising, bibliographic instruction, information literacy, marketing, mass media, media, politics, spin, truth in advertising, united states, wonks
3. Librarians’ Internet Index: Statistics
   A well-organized starting point for reliable, librarian-selected Internet resources.
   02-14-2008 : adoption, aeronautics, agriculture, almanacs, automobiles: statistics, bankruptcy, cancer, censuses, children, computers, crime, demographic surveys, design statistics, dictionaries, disabled, economic conditions, economics, education, geography, health, internet design and management, labor, library libraries, mathematics, media, military statistics, population trends, power resources, quality of life, ratings of cities and towns, religion, sampling, school districts, statistics, television, transportation, u.s. states, united states, violence, youth
4. Governments on the Internet
   Links to mainly official sites for legislative, executive, and judicial branches of governments of the world. Includes political parties and organizations, as well as special topics such as media, currency, elections, statistics, etc. More than 17,000 entries from more than 220 countries and territories.
   01-16-2007 : area and cultural studies, central banks, city councils, currency, elections, embassies, executive, foreign, international governments, judicial branches, law courts, legislative, media, ministries, multi-governmental institutions, offices, parliaments, political parties, political studies, politics, public broadcasting corporations, statistics
5. LibrarySpot: People
   Has biographies, statistics, media, and ways to find people: through directories or by profession.
   01-16-2007 : biographies, finding people, media, people, statistics
6. Guinness World Records
   Has world records for 8 categories: human body, amazing feats, natural world, science and technology, arts and media, modern society, travel and transport, and sports and games.. (Copyright 2006 by Librarians' Internet Index)
   01-16-2007 : amazing feats, arts, games, guinness world records, human body, media, modern society, natural world, science, sports, technology, transportation, travel
7. Martindale's The Reference Desk
   Reference materials for many areas of academic and personal use. Includes a 'virtual medical center.'. (Copyright 2006 by Librarians' Internet Index)
   01-16-2007 : aircraft, arts, astronomy, biology, bioscience, biotech, calculators, cards, chemistry, contruction, cooking, country studies, cyberinfrastructure, education, engineering, entertainment, fashion, food, geoscience, international organizations, international studies, internet, lanugages, materials science, mathematics, media, physics, recipes, remodeling, science, travel, world maps, yachts
8. OneWorld South Asia: Volunteering Guide
   Covers Millennium Development Goals, mainstreaming, national, international, online, media, and corporate volunteering.
   01-12-2007 : corporate, international, mainstreaming, mdgs millennium development goals, media, national, online, study guides, sustainable development, volunteering
9. The Electronic Journal of Communication (La Revue Electronique de Communication)
   The 'Tables of Contents' link connects to a list of many journals related to communications.
   01-12-2007 : communications, media, teaching
10. WWW Virtual Library: International Affairs Resources
    A Virtual Library site of more than 2400 links from 'Getting Started' to many specific topics. Has business and economics, human rights, international development, and public health. Also features links to maps, media sources, and organizations. (Copyright 2006 by Librarians' Internet Index)
    01-12-2007 : area and cultural studies, business, conflict resolution, conflict studies, country studies, economics, environment, foreign language resources, global environment, health, human rights, international affairs, international affairs resources, international business, international development, international relations, international security, law, media, organizations, peace studies, study and work abroad, world politics: directories, world religions
11. Congressional Directory
    Browse or search the official directory of the U.S. Congress, including short biographies.
    01-10-2007 : biographies, congressmen, congresswomen, court officials, d.c. government officials, directories, federal departments and agencies, foreign diplomats, government, governors, media, members of the press, military establishments, politics, radio, senators, u.s. congressional directory
12. Sustainable Development
    This part of the globalissues.org web site looks at various aspects of development, sustainable development and how this relates to other issues such as poverty, inequality, and the environment.
    12-07-2006 : aids/hiv, arms control, arms trade, biodiversity, chechnya, children, climate change, conflicts, conservation, consumerism, consumption, corporations, disease, east timor, energy security, environment, extinctions, foreign aid, foreign policy, genetic engineering of food, geopolitics, global issues, global warming, globalization, health, human rights, indigenous people, inequality, international criminal court, justice, kosovo, media, middle east, military expansion, military expenditure, nato, natural disasters, population, poverty, racism, structural adjustment, sustainable development, third world debt, trade, war on terrorism, water, women's studies
13. Health News Review
    Reviews the quality of health articles published in magazines and newspapers and health stories on television news. Journalists and health professionals rate stories for accuracy, balance, honesty, and completeness. Includes explanations of concepts such as absolute versus relative risk.. (Copyright 2006 by Librarians' Internet Index)
    11-11-2006 : health, health: news, journalism, mass media, media, medical, patient education
14. Missions-Media Website
    Offers missionaries the opportunity to share their ministry by video and pictures with supporters and churches. Visitors to site may view any video at any time. The company is prepared to receive any kind of media to be edited and delivered online.
    11-10-2006 : fundraising, media, missions, prayer team, support team
15. Conservative Reference Desk
    Includes links to conservative websites on marriage, family, media, education, religious liberty, and the culture wars in general. It also includes extensive links to news sources, statistical sources, public opinion polls,and other resources including a list of prominent left-wing websites.. (Copyright 2006 by Librarians' Internet Index)
    11-09-2006 : academia, blogs, books, christian apologetics, commentaries, conservative commentators, creation, culture wars, disaster, education, evolution, government, homosexuality, human rights, law, law and liberty, left-wing, legal societies, libraries, library, marriage and family, media, media reviews for parents, medicine, news: international, persecution, philanthropy, politics, prominent left-wing websites, public opinion polls, public policy, religion weather, religious liberty, religious liberty freedom, right to life issues, science, search engines: blogs, statistical sources, statistics, terrorism, the left, united states history: primary documents, web sites, websites
16. Best of the Web
    An extensive list selected by librarians.
    11-09-2006 : abbreviations, acronyms, address directories, adult literacy, aids, almanacs, anagrams, anthropology, apparel, archaeology, area studies, art. architecture, arts administration, astronomy, audio books, authors, avian influenza, awards, bankruptcies, best of the web, biographies, biology, bird flu, bisexual studies, book arts, book trade, books, books and 'zines, booksellers, botany, bronx on the web, building, buildings, buses, business, calculators, calendars, careers, celebrations, chemistry, children, children's resources, citation guides, climatology, communication, community, community information, company information, computers, construction, consumer, converters, copyright, cosmetics, cost of living, country information, culinary history, current events, dance, dictionaries, disability information, disability resources, disaster preparedness, domestic violence, earth science, economic statistics, education, eldercare, elections, email, emergency preparedness, employment, encyclopedias, engineering, environmental science, ethnic groups, evaluating information, exercise, fashion, federal government, film, finance, financial, fine arts, folklore, food, food science, foreign governments, fragrances, fun and interesting sites, games, gay, genealogy, geography, geology, government, government agencies, government: documents, government: state and local, grammar, hardware, health, health care providers and facilities, health info in languages, healthy eating, historical documents, history, history of medicine, hiv, holidays, homelessness, homework help, housing, humanities, immigrants, immigration, industry information, insurance, internet, job training, journal articles, law, law dictionaries, law libraries, law societies, lawyer and law firm directories, lawyer referral, legal abbreviations, legal aid services, legal forms, legal information, legal issues, legal search tools, lesbian, libraries, linguistics, literature, macintosh computers, magazine articles, manhattan on the web, manuscripts, maps, market research, mathematics, measurements, media, medical dictionaries, medical research and trials, medicine, medicine: alternative, medicines: prescription and nonprescription, men, mental health and behavior, movies, music, mysticism, mythology, names, native north american resources, new york, new york city, news, occult, operating systems, parapsychology, parent resources, patents, people, performing arts, pet health, philosophy, photography, physical fitness, physics, political science, prescription and nonprescription medicines, primary documents public records, prizes, programming languages, psychology, publishers, quotations, radio, reading, recorded sound, religions, resources for older adults, resources for young adults, science, search the internet, self-help, senior citizens, seniors' organizations, small business, social sciences, social services, sociology, software, space science, sports, staten island on the web, statistical sources, statistics, subways, teaching resources, technology, teen life, teenagers, telephone directories, television, textiles, theatre, theology, time, trademarks, training, trains, transgender studies, translation, transportation, travel, united nations, viruses, volunteering, voter information, weather, web design, websites for writers, women's studies, world wide web, writers' resources, zoology
17. Press Freedom Survey
    'Freedom House's annual press freedom survey has tracked trends in media freedom worldwide since 1980.' Has numerical rankings and rates each country's media. Includes legal, political, and economic factors affecting media freedom in each country.. (Copyright 2006 by Librarians' Internet Index)
    11-09-2006 : freedom of the press, government and the press, media
18. The Face of the Prophet: Cartoon and Chasm
    This February 2006 public radio show features an interview with Dr. Vincent Cornell about the unrest that followed the publication in Danish newspapers of editorial cartoons critical of the Prophet Muhammad.. (Copyright 2006 by Librarians' Internet Index)
    11-09-2006 : cartoons: political, denmark, editorial cartoons, islam, islamic studies, media, muhammad: prophet (d. 632): caricatures and cartoons, muslims: attitudes, politics, riots, satire: political
19. Folkstreams.net
    Find rare films by independent filmmakers on diverse topics such as music, outsider art, folk crafts, folk dance, religious experience, storytelling, and more. The site also includes transcripts, essays, and background information for many of the films. (Copyright 2006 by Librarians' Internet Index)
    11-09-2006 : basketmaking, blues, documentaries, documentary films, film: genres and themes, folk art, folklore: united states, gospel, klezmer, media, playground songs, quilting, roots, united states: religious life and customs
20. Codes of Ethics Online
    Over 850 codes of ethics of professional organizations, corporations, governments, and academic institutions. Indexed by categories. (Copyright 2006 by Librarians' Internet Index)
    11-08-2006 : academic institutions, agriculture, animal breeding, applied ethics, arts, codes of ethics, computing, construction, corporations, education, ethics, finance, fraternal organizations, governments, health care, law, media, professional ethics, professional organizations, religions, science, sports, travel

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