ALMANACS Internet Public Library Almanac Old Farmer's Almanac Information Please Almanac

BIOGRAPHY Biography Dictionary Biography Channel's Search Page commerical site with links to tv schedules. Over 25,000 entries by name, keyword, subject category (scientist). Brief entries, can be a starting point with birth/death dates for longer reports. Biography-center (some links require signin) advertisements People from InfoPlease additional subject biographies will be add on the homework page under pathfinders-subjects (4/10/02)

CITATIONS APA Style Reference Formats provided by the American Psychological Association, MLA Citations & Formatting from The Writing Lab & The OWL at Purdue University How to Cite Electronic Information for Papers: InfoTRAC Searchbank citing Bibliography Styles from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Writers' Workshop - summarizes and illustrates the APA and MLA styles Using APA Style to Cite and Document Sources from Harnak and Kleppinger's Online (Bedford/St. Martin's Press,2000). The authors have made sections of their book available. Web Extension to American Psychological Association Style Citation Styles Online! from the Bedford St. Martins college publishing

CONSUMER INFORMATION FirstGov for Consumers Federal Trade Commission, Protecting America's Consumers US Government's Consumer's Almanac EConsumer.gov multilingual public/government site (international), information and ways to file compliants online Federal Citizen Information Center

ENCYCLOPEDIA Electric Library's Encyclopedia.com West Virginia Encyclopedia West Virginia Hunanities Council

JOBS/CAREERS America's Career InfoNet from the US Dept. of Labor CareerOneStop, includes links on job search aids, occupational information, writing job descriptions, job banks. Updated daily. Print in landscape orientation. Career Resource Center CareerHighway.com True Careers

HISTORY, GEOGRAPHY & GENEALOGY Important Documents in American History can be found fulltext by searching Ebscohost with the journal title "Essential Documents in American History", remember to enter an additional word/term in the search box. The periodical includes speechs, treaties, declarations, court decisions, etc. Country Studies from Library of Congress, gives profile of the nation, people, economy, etc and their history. WV History Database Cyndi's List RootsWeb

LAW & LEGISLATION Supreme Court of the United States, Decisions and searchable database of rulings and laws, OYEZ - U.S. Supreme Court Multimedia (audio arguments) West Virginia Code and WV Constitution U.S. Congressional Bills, the Federal Register, Public & Private Laws, Code of Federal Regulations State Constitutions, Statutes and Related Legislative (Cornell University) WashLaw School of Law - State Law subjects Brown v. Board of Education Constitutions of the countries of the world from: International Constitutional Law and National Constitutions maintained by Jon Roland of the Constitution Society additional links from the "Homework Page" under Criminal Justice

LITERATURE Literary Criticism Collection (Internet Public Library) Search by author, title or literary period.

MAPS American Memory Map Search from Library of Congress Univ. of Texas bing maps Yahoo's

PERIODICALS-ONLINE library.cnpapers.com index to the Charleston Gazette, Charleston Daily Mail and Sunday Gazette-Mail. (browsing free for citations, downloading $1.95/article on their site). The library should have the newspapers in paper or microfilm, link to their titles above for years and format available. Newspapers Online Local WV papers and stations West Virginia News College Times a site created for college students/faculty by the New York Times New York Times on the Web only the two week archive is free

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY NSDL: The National Science Digital Library online library for education and research in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (some link results may be public, organizations, government or restricted to subscribers.) PowerLinks-Science & Technology (index)

STATISTICS Statistical Abstract of the United States Online (warning Acrobat files will require downloading) American FactFinder from the U.S. Census Bureau West Virginia's population from the Statistical Abstract US Census Bureau with Demographic and Economic Data on World Nations World Factbook

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