IN SITE #8 (abridged)-New and Useful Web Sites for Information Professionals

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IN SITE
New Internet Site Additions
A Current Awareness Tool
for the Information Professional

Read and Used by Information Professionals around the World

Issue #8, WE HAVE RETURNED
Abridged Version
January 10, 1997

Gary D. Price
editor
libref at aol.com

GREETINGS FROM WASHINGTON D.C.
I look forward to hearing from you and

Remember to visit the IN SITE homepage at:
http://www.mcs.com/~jcr/insite.html

GARY PRICE
libref at aol.com

REMEMBER E-MAIL ME at the address above to be added to the list.

ONE MORE THING
This issue of IN SITE will also share with you some of the many
sites I have collected over the past months while on the job. I think
you
might find a few good ones.
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**CORRECTIONS/CHANGES**
Remember to send them to
John Rivard at jcr at mcs.com

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**TOP OF THE LIST**

Annual Review of Sociology (searchable)
(abstracts of articles for past 12 years)
     http://www.annurev.org/soc/home.htm

Armed Forces Inaugural Homepage
    http://www.dtic.mil/afic
and
Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies
    http://www.senate.gov/inaugural/

Directory of U.S. Representatives- 105th Congress (incl. telephone
directory)
     http://clerkweb.house.gov/members/house.htm?61,20
Ethics Manual for Members, Officers,
Employees of the U.S. House of Rep.
     http://www.house.gov/Ethics/Ethicforward.html
International Data Bank (searchable database of general country data)
     http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idbprint.html
North American International Auto Show
     http://www.dadanet.com/naiashome.html
Smithsonian Institution Research Information System
(direct WWW access to several Smithsonian catalogs)
     http://www.siris.si.edu
Web-Cite (an index to literary/cultural studies
scholarship available full-text online)
     http://www.webcite.com

**TRY OUT**
Advanced Book Exchange
(searchable catalog of out-of print, antiquarian books for sale)
     http://www.abebooks.com/

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**ADVERTISING/PR**

European Advertising Standards Alliance
     http://www.easa-alliance.org
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**AGRICULTURE**

Databases at the National Agriculture Library (most available online)
     http://probe.nalusda.gov:8300
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**ARCHIVES/ARCHIVAL PROJECTS**

National Archives (U.S.)
Microfilm Resources for Research-
A Comprehensive Guide
     gopher://gopher.nara.gov/00/about/publ/micro/compre/comppt1.txt
National Archives of New Zealand
     http://www.archives.dia.govt.nz

Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts
     http://www.hmc.gov.uk
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**ARTS-HUMANITIES/RELATED**

Art Museum Network (large North American museums)
     http://www.amn.org/
The Arts Deadline List
     http://custwww.xensei.com/adl/

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**BUSINESS/INDUSTRY/LABOR/**

Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership: Clearinghouse
on Entrepreneurial Education (new ERIC adjunct clearinghouse)
     http://www.celcee.edu/
Tradeport Country Library
(much of the material from the National
Trade Databank)
     http://tradeport.org/ts/countries
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**CALCULATORS/GADGETS**

Cooking Calculator
     http://www.2way.com/cgi-bin/hts?convcalc.hts
Exam Writer (create exams via the WWW)
     http://www.igb.umontreal.ca/~leon/exam.html
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 **CALENDARS**

Election Notes-International Elections Calendar
(through 1999)
     http://www.klipsan.com/calendar.htm
This Month In U.S. Senate History
     http://www.senate.gov/history/month/month.htm
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*CHEMISTRY**

Chemocyclopedia
     http://pubs.acs.org/chemcy/cen/chemcy.html
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**CONSUMER ISSUES**

European Consumer Guide (2nd. edition)
     http://europa.eu.int/en/comm/spc/cguide/index.html
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**EDUCATION**

Computers in the Social Sciences
     http://www.cssjournal.com/journal/
Current Awareness Digest (articles from numerous education
related journals by category)
     http://www.landmark-project.com/ca/
Education World Search Engine/Directory (exclusively
education related web sites-20,000+ indexed)
     http://www.education-world.com
Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL)
     http://www.toefl.org/tstprpmt.html
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**EMPLOYMENT**

Canada's Job Bank
     http://jb-ge.hrdc-drhc.gc.ca
FedWorld Federal Job Search
     http://www.fedworld.gov/jobs/jobsearch.html

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**ENVIRONMENT**

EPA Test Method Index
     http://www.epa.gov/epahome/index
World Resources (searchable database)
     http://data.wri.org:1996

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**FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS/POLITICAL ORGANIZATIONS/COUNTRY DATA**

Andorra
Government of Andorra
     http://www.andorra.ad/govern/index.html

Belgium
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
     http://www.diplobel.fgov.be

Cyprus
Government of Cyprus 
     http://www.pio.gov.cy

Japan
Diplomatic Bluebook-Japan, 1995
     http://www.nttls.co.jp/infomofa/b_book/1995
National Institute of Reasearch Advancement (Japan)
     http://www.nira.go.jp

United Kingdom
Diplomacy: Basic Facts & Figures, 1995
     http://www.fco.gov.uk/reference/basicfnf/basicfnf.html
House of Commons Debates

http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/cm/cmhansrd.htm

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**GEOGRAPHY**

GEONET-World Locations Database (select access GEONET)
     http://164.214.2.53/gns/html/index.html
National Atlas Information Service-Canada (Construct custom maps)
    http://www-nais.ccm.emr.ca/wnaismap/naismap.html
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**HEALTH/MEDICAL**

Approval of New Drugs in the United States Comparisons with other
Countries (study originally published in Journal of the American
Medical Association)
     http://www.fda.gov/ope/jamadesp.html

Office of AIDS Research at NIH
     http://www.nih.gov/od/oar/oar_home.htm
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**INTERNET RELATED**

Traceroute Servers (via the WWW)
     http://www.boardwatch.com/isp/trace.htm
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 **LIBRARY AND INFORMATION
SCIENCE/ORGANIZATIONS

Bibliography of Resources-Evaluating Internet Resources 
     http://refserver.lib.vt.edu/libinst/critTHINK.HTM
Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship
     http://www.library.ucsb.edu/istl
Library Oriented Lists and Electronic Serials (NEW URL)
     http://info.lib.uh.edu/liblists/liblists.htm
NASIG Job Listings
     http://nasig.ils.unc.edu/public/jobs
Search Insider (journal)
     http://www.leonline.com/searchinsider/
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**MATHEMATICS**

Math Formulas-"Constants & Equations for Calculations"
     http://www.ksc.nasa.gov/facts/faq04.html

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**MUSEUMS**

MuseumNet (U.K. Museums)
     http://www.museums.co.uk
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 **POLITICAL SCIENCE/PEACE ISSUES

1997: Countdown to History
(resources on return of Hong Kong to China,
from South China Morning Post)
     http://www.scmp.com/1997
Castro Speech Database
     gopher://lanic.utexas.edu/11/la/Cuba/Castro
Election Notes (daily update of election related news)
     http://www.klipsan.com/elecnews.htm
International Court of Justice
     http://www.law.cornell.edu/icj/
Peace and Security Guide
     http://cfcsc.dnd.ca
Political Database of the Americas
     http://www.georgetown.edu/LatAmerPolitical/home.html
United Nations Security Council Resolutions (full-text searchable)
     http://www.un.org/Docs/scres/
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**RANKINGS**

Business Week Business School Rankings
     http://www.businessweek.com/tocs/bschools.htm
Forbes 400 Richest (searchable database)
     http://www.forbes.com/Richlist/richquer.htm
Inc. 500
     http://www.inc.com/500
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 **REFERENCE**

Canadian Postal Code Lookup (also available in French)
      http://www.mailposte.ca/english/pclookup/pclookup.html
 Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Govts.
     http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/chiefs/chiefs-toc-view.html
Glossary of Medical Terms (free sub. required, login FIRST then to
misc. section)
     http://www5.medscape.com/Home/Patient/PatientInfo.mhtml
Glossary of Technical Terms (in 9 European languages)
     http://allserv.rug.ac.be/~rvdstich/eugloss/welcome.html
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**STATISTICS**

Cancer Statistics Review, 1973-1993 (Preliminary Edition)
     http://www-seer.ims.nci.nih.gov/Publications/CSR7393/index.html
Selected World Development Indicators-1996 (in Excel format)
     http://www.worldbank.org/html/iecdd/wdi96.exe
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**TECHNOLOGY**

Canadian Radio-Televsion Telecomm. Commission
     http://www.crtc.gc.ca
     http://dticam.dtic.mil/t2/
NIST in Your House (guide to how what is done
at the National Institute of Standards &
Technology impacts everyday life)
     http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/nhouse/index.html

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**TRANSPORTATION/TRAVEL
Electronic Shipping Guide (schedules of over 60 container carriers in
and out of U.S.)
     http://www.shipguide.com
NTSB Accident Abstracts (archival data)
     http://www.rpi.edu/dept/union/raf/public/NTSB_Accident_abstracts
Royal Aeronautical Society
     http://www.raes.org.uk/
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 **U.S GOVERNMENT/STATE GOVERNMENTS**

Electoral College
     http://www.nara.gov/nara/fedreg/ec/
Federal Bureau of Prisons
     http://www.bop.gov
Federal Railroad Admin.
     http://www.fra.dot.gov
U.S. Sentencing Commission
     http://www.ussc.gov
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**OTHERS**

American Studies Cultural Maps (meta site)
     http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MAP/map_hp.html
Best Practices Database (searchable database of
"proven solutions facing the world's cities today")
     http://oboe.symgrp.com/habitat/html/index.html
Beta Books from McGraw-Hill (read full-text
of upcoming computer oriented releases)
     http://www.betabooks.mcgraw-hill.com/
Japanese Gardens Database
      http://dolphin.upenn.edu/~cheetham/jgarden/intro.html
Million Dollar Weather Disasters (exhibit)
      http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/publications/billionz.html

Olympic Studies
     http://blues.uab.es/olympic.studies
Wills of Notable People
     http;//www.courttv.com/library/newsmakers/wills/
World War Two Timeline
     http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/timeline/ww2time.htm

Remember to visit the IN SITE web site at:
http://www.mcs.com/~jcr/insite.html

(c) copyright 1997  Gary D. Price, MLIS

Gary D. Price
libref at aol.com