Contagion: Historical Views of Diseases and Epidemics
Web site provides access to historical materials (books, serials, pamphlets, manuscripts, and illustrations) pertaining to disease and epidemics worldwide.
Country Studies
Web site provides full-text books on countries around the world (sponsored by Library of Congress).
DailyMed
Web site provides health information providers and the public with a standard, comprehensive, up-to-date, look-up and download resource of medication content and labeling as found in medication package inserts (sponsored by The National Library of Medicine).
Deciphering MedSpeak
Provides easily understood explanations of medical terms and common diseases, including breast cancer, diabetes, heart disease, eye disease, HIV-AIDS, and stroke (sponsored by the Medical Library Association).
Dietary Supplements Labels Database
Web site provides information about ingredients in more than 2000 selected brands of dietary supplements (sponsored by The National Library of Medicine).
Disaster Information
Web site provides health information resources and informatics research related to disasters of natural, accidental, or deliberate origin (sponsored by The National Library of Medicine).
Documents Center
Web site of the U of Michigan Library, Documents Center, that provides federal and international government information.
Drug Information Portal
Web site provides current drug information from the National Library of Medicine® and other key government agencies (sponsored by The National Library of Medicine).
Dwight's Journal of Music and Musicians, vol. 1-38 (1852-1878) and vol. 39-41 (1880-1881)
Provides the full text to this journal, digitized by Google for Harvard University's library. The journal was published from 1852-1881 and provides a unique look at American music (and other fine arts) activities.
Economic Report of the President
Web site of The White House that allows user to download Microsoft Excel files.
Energy Information Administration
Web site of the U.S. Dept. of Energy that provides energy statistics and analysis of interaction of energy with the economy and environment.
Environmental Health and Toxicology
Portal to numerous National Library of Medicine databases and resources in environmental health and toxicology.
Ethics and Health Education: An Annotated Bibliography
Provides a list of sources pertaining to ethics in health education, prepared by the American Association for Health Education Ethics Committee.
Europa Film Treasures
Provides online viewing of early, rare, and artistic motion pictures depicting Europe's cultural heritage, politics, and history.
FastStats A to Z
Web site of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that provides access to statistics on topics of public health importance.
FedStats
Web site of the U.S. Government that provides access to the full range of official statistical information produced by the federal government without having to know in advance which federal agency produces which particular statistic.
Federal Judicial Center
Web site of the U.S. federal courts, providing its research and educational materials.
Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED)
Web site of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, with links to U.S. economic time series, downloadable Microsoft Excel data, and charts of data series.
Financial Services Fact Book
Provides data about financial services on insurance, banking, mortgage, securities, and finance companies (sponsored by the Insurance Information Institute and the Financial Services Roundtable).
FindLaw
Web site of FindLaw.com, which links to federal, international, and state law (sponsored by Thomson).
Free Online Resources for the Study of Christianity
Web site of Yale University Divinity School Library, that provides links to Web gateways, encyclopedias, dictionaries, glossaries, statistics, Biblical studies resources, tools for sermon preparation, denominational resources, ethics resources, online texts, online journals and articles, online images, etc.
Frequently Used Sites Related to U.S. Federal Government Information
Web site of American Library Association, government Documents Round Table and Federal Documents Task Force, that provides links to federal, international, state, and local government (hosted by Vanderbilt U Central Library, Government Information Services).
Freshwater Ecoregions of the World
Web site sponsored by the World Wildlife Fund and The Nature Conservancy. Users can search for a freshwater ecoregion and retrieve maps and information including geographic boundaries, species found in the area, habitats, and climate.
Genetics Home Reference
Web site provides information on the effects of genetic variations on human health (sponsored by the U.S. Nat'l Library of Medicine).
Globalhealthfacts.org
Web site provides data by country on HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and other key health and socio-economic indicators (sponsored by the Kaiser FamilyFoundation).
Google Scholar
Web site links to citations and some full text of scholarly literature (papers, theses, books, abstracts, and articles) (hosted by Google.com).
GovEngine.com
Web site of govengine.com, a Florida non-profit organization, that provides federal, state, and local government information.
Grants.gov
Web site of the federal government that leads to downloadable grant application packages of 26 federal agencies.
Haz-Map®
Links jobs and hazardous tasks with occupational diseases and their symptoms (sponsored by The National Library of Medicine).
Health Data Standards and Privacy
Web site showing the National Library of Medicine's participation in Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) activities.
HighWire Press, Stanford University
Search engine for full-text life science journal articles in almost 400 peer-reviewed journals, sponsored by the Stanford U Libraries.
Household Products Database
Provides health and safety information on household products (sponsored by The National Library of Medicine).
How a Bill Becomes Law
Web site of vote-smart.org that explains how a federal bill becomes law.
How Laws Are Made
Web site of the U.S. Government Printing Office, Superintendent of Documents
IDEAS
Search engine for economics literature, sponsored by the U of of Connecticut.
IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Xplore
Provides limited searching of IEEE publications. Basic keyword searching and browsing of tables of contents are available free of charge.
Images from the History of Medicine
Provides access to portraits, photographs, caricatures, genre scenes, posters, and graphic art illustrating the social and historical aspects of medicine dated from the 15th to 21st century (sponsored by The National Library of Medicine).
Index to Texas Magazines and Documents
Provides citations only (hosted by Victoria College/U of Houston-Victoria Library).
IndMed
Web site provides full-text peer-reviewed Indian biomedical journals in cooperation with the U.S. Nat'l Library of Medicine (sponsored by the Indian MEDLARS Centre of the Govt. of India, National Informatics Centre and the Indian Council of Medical Research).
INFOMINE Scholarly Internet Resource Collections
Web site provides access to scholarly web resources in the Biological, Agricultural & Medical Sciences; Business & Economics; Cultural Diversity; Electronic Journals; Government Information; Maps & GIS; Physical Sciences, Engineering, Computing & Math; Social Sciences & Humanities; and Visual & Performing Arts (sponsored by the Library of the U of Calif.).
International Monetary Fund
Web site for the International Monetary Fund's Data and Statistics, which will lead user to downloadable Microsoft Excel files.
International Trade Centre: Countries
Web site provides trade statistics by country (sponsored by the International Trade Centre, a joint operation of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and the World Trade Organization).
Internet Archive
Provides access to historical collections that exist in digital format (texts, audio, moving images, software, and archived Web pages).
Internet Law Library
Former Web site of the U.S. House of Representatives that provides links to federal, state, and foreign law information (hosted by LawGuru.com).
Intute
Web site provides access to Web resources for education and research evaluated and selected by subject specialists from the United Kingdom Intute Consortium (universities of Manchester, Oxford, Nottingham, Bristol, and Birmingham, and Heriot Watt U and Manchester Metropolitan U) (sponsored by the Resource Discovery Network). Subjects include Bioresearch; Chemistry; Communications, Media and Culture; Computing; Film; French Literature; Geography; Hispanic Studies; History; Mathematics; Music; Opera; Philosophy; Physics; Psychology; Religion and theology; Science, Engineering and Technology; Sociology; Sport and Leisure Practice; Theatre and Drama; and Visual Arts.
Labor Arts
Provides images, music, song lyrics, and other material from various labor archives and libraries, including the Library of Congress (hosted by New York U).
LABORSTA Internet!
Web site produced by the International Labor Organization (a UN agency) enables you to view and extract time series data on unemployment and price indexes for over 200 countries, dating back through 1969.
Legal Information Institute
Provides federal and state government information (sponsored by Cornell U).
Library of Congress American Memory
Provides access to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience. It is a digital record of American history and creativity. These materials, from the collections of the Library of Congress and other institutions, chronicle historical events, people, places, and ideas that continue to shape America, serving the public as a resource for education and lifelong learning.
Library of Congress Experience
Web site provides interactive tools for historical research including primary sources and artifacts.
Lortel Archives: The Internet Off-Broadway Database
Web site provides a list of shows produced Off-Broadway (sponsored by the Lucille Lortel Foundation).
LSU Libraries Federal Agencies Directory
Web site of Louisiana State U Libraries that provides federal agencies information.
Measuring Up: The National Report Card on Higher Education
Web site provides information on higher education (post-secondary) student performance, by subjects, by state, along with comparison to best-performing states (sponsored by the Nat'l Center for Public Policy and Higher Educaion, an independent, nonprofit, nonpartisan organization).
MedlinePlus or MedlinePlus en español
Provides authoritative health information from the National Libraries of Medicine, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other government agencies and health-related organizations. Preformulated MEDLINE searches are included to give easy access to medical journal articles. MedlinePlus also has extensive information about drugs, an illustrated medical encyclopedia, interactive patient tutorials, and latest health news. (English or Spanish)
NASA Earth Observatory
Web site of NASA that provides high-quality geological, environmental, and geographical information at the planetary scale.