TECHNICAL JARGON, GLOSSARIES, ENCYCLOPEDIAS
DICTIONARY, ENCYCLOPEDIA, GLOSSARIES  AND THESAURUS
ETHICS AND RELIGIONS
FINANCIAL
GEOGRAPHIC AND TRAVEL
HEALTH LINKS AND GATEWAYS
LIBRARIES AND DATA BASES
GOVERNMENT AND PENNSYLVANIA
SENIOR CITIZENS
SOME SPECIALIZED WEB SEARCH ENGINES
STANDARDS
TELEPHONE, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, RADIO AND WIRELESS
TRAINING AND EDUCATION
WORLD TIME AND TIME ZONES
MISCELLANEOUS

TECHNICAL JARGON, GLOSSARIES, ENCYCLOPEDIAS
Abbreviations and Acronyms
 (In this case, once the full page is loaded the whole glossary  is available, so you can do a Edit/Find in Page from Netscapefor example; this is an excellent source for computer acronyms - thousands of them.)
http://www.acronymfinder.com/
http://www.geocities.com/ikind_babel/babel/babel.html
Acronyma - Large Acronym Collection: http://www.acronyma.com/

Acronyms for Telcom by WIZ-COMmunication Networks:  http://www.wiz-com.com/
(Follow links: "Technology" then "Telcom Glossary")
Acronym Finder:  http://www.acronymfinder.com/

Area Code & Telecommunications Dictionary (PA PUC): http://puc.paonline.com//telecomm/Area_Codes/area_code_dictionary.asp
Behind the Name (meaning of names):  http://www.behindthename.com/
Bitmap Files - All you ever wanted to know about them:  http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/gdi/bitmaps_0zn6.asp
Buzz Wack - Buzzword dictionary:  http://www.buzzwhack.com/
Computer Science Resource Site by William Stallings:  http://www.williamstallings.com/StudentSupport.html#anchor211268
C-SPAN Congressional Glossary:  http://www.cspan.org/guide/congress/glossary/glossary.htm
Convert Files via Web:  http://wheel.compose.cs.cmu.edu:8001/cgi-bin/browse/objweb
Curt Davis' famous Links Pages:  http://www.curtdavis.com/stuff
Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures:   http://www.nist.gov/dads/
Dictionary of Computing:  http://wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/index.html
Dictionary of HTML META Tags:  http://vancouver-webpages.com/META/
Dictionary of High Tech:  http://www.currents.net/resources/dictionary/
ElectronicsTutorials:  http://www.electronics-tutorials.com/
Emoticons:  http://www.chatlist.com/faces.html
File Extension Search (DOS and Windows) for What they Mean: http://www.icdatamaster.com/f.html
File Extensions/File Formats - Wotsit's Format:   http://www.wotsit.org/
File Extensions List:  http://www.ace.net.nz/tech/TechFileFormat.html
File Extensions by PRONOM:  http://www.records.pro.gov.uk/pronom/
Find Tutorials:  http://www.findtutorials.com/
Font Archives:  http://www.sil.org/computing/fonts/
Free Email Address Directory:  http://www.emailaddresses.com/
Glossary of Internet Terms:    http://www.matisse.net/files/glossary.html
Glossary of Telecommunications Terms:  http://www.fcc.gov/Consumers/glossary.pdf
Google Glossary:  http://labs.google.com/glossary
Grammar Rules (English): http://www.gsu.edu/~wwwesl/egw/grlists.htm
Hardware Bible by Winn L. Rosch (includes FAQs on modems, devices, etc.):  http://www.hardwarebible.com/
High Tech Dictionary:  http://www.computeruser.com/resources/dictionary/
How Stuff Works:  http://www.howstuffworks.com/
Integer Sequences - On-Line Encyclopedia of:   http://www.research.att.com/~njas/sequences/
Internet Acronym Server:  http://silmaril.ie/cgi-bin/uncgi/acronyms
Internet comprehensive Introductory Information: http://www.livinginternet.com/
Internet FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) Consortium:  http://www.faqs.org/
Internet, How to use it, How it works, Security Issues, and advanced topics:  http://livinginternet.com/
Internet Language Dictionary - Net_Lingo:  http://www.netlingo.com/inframes.cfm
Internet Protocols (TCP, UDP, PPP, Cellular, etc.):  http://www.protocols.com/
InterScience -Wiley  Scientific and Technical Acronyms, Symbols, and Abbreviations:  http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/stasa/
Listserv Documentation site:   http://www.lsoft.com/info/default.asp?item=manuals
Mathematics - Web Hunt:  http://home.postnet.com/~mjg/ethalt.html
PC Webopedia - online encyclopedia and search engine dedicated to computer technology:
http://www.pcwebopedia.com/, http://www.webopaedia.com/  and  http://webopedia.internet.com/quick_ref/
Search Engine Terminology:  http://www.searchenginedictionary.com/
Tech Encyclopedia:  http://www.techweb.com/encyclopedia/
Tech News:  http://content.techweb.com/
TECHtionary:  http://www.crosstouch.com/techtionary/index_in.html
Terminology Data Base:  http://www.ahost4u.com/zak/data.htm
WhatIs: http://whatis.techtarget.com/
What's It's Format, A Programmer's Resource for File Extensions:http://www.wotsit.org/search.asp
Wikipedia - an open-content encyclopedia in many languages:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

STANDARDS
American National Standards:  http://www.ansi.org/
Better Business Bureau Code of Ethics:  http://www.bbbonline.org/code/code.asp
Copyright Basics:   http://www.pueblo.gsa.gov/cic_text/smbuss/cpyright/circ1.html
Copyright Myths Explained by Brad Templeton: http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html
Copyright Term and the Public Domain by Peter B. Hirtle:  http://www.copyright.cornell.edu/training/Hirtle_Public_Domain.htm
National Copyright Laws Collection (UNESCO):
               http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php@URL_ID=14076&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (automobile test results):  http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/cars/
People for Responsible use of the Internet (PFIR):  http://www.pfir.org/
RFC Index:  http://sunsite.auc.dk/RFC/

DICTIONARY, ENCYCLOPEDIA, GLOSSARIES AND THESAURUS

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: http://www.bartleby.com/61/
Bartleby.com search of many "great books on-line": http://www.bartleby.com/reference/
Best of the Web Dictionaries, Acronyms, Language Dictionaries, Rhyming and more:  http://botw.org/top/Reference/Dictionaries/
Britanical.com - Another On-line Encyclopedia-like source: http://www.eb.com/
Cambridge Dictionaries:  http://dictionary.cambridge.org/
Canadian Encyclopedia On-line:  http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/
CMU Pronouncing (and downloadable) Dictionary:  http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/cmudict
Common Errors in English by Paul Brians:  http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/
Dictionary of First Names:  http://www.behindthename.com/
Dictionary of Measures and Conversions:  http://www.ex.ac.uk/cimt/dictunit/dictunit.htm
DoD dictionary of military and associated terms:  http://www.dtic.mil/doctrine/jel/new_pubs/jp1_02.pdf
Electronic Textbook - Statisics:  http://www.statsoft.com/textbook/stathome.html
Encyclopedia Britinnica (Penn State University is licensed to use this; click on Educational link):  http://search.eb.com/
Encyclopedia.com:  http://www.encyclopedia.com/
Fine Art Encyclopedia and Search Engine:  http://www.artcyclopedia.com/
Foreign Language for Travlers:  http://www.travlang.com/languages/
Free Dictionary(s) :  http://www.thefreedictionary.com/
The Free Dictionaries (Medical, Legal, Financial, etc.) by Farlex: http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (and other research tools): http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/tgn/
Glossarist - Glossaries and Topical Dictionaries:  http://www.glossarist.com/
Glossary of Glossaries:  http://stommel.tamu.edu/~baum/hyperref.html
Index of On-line Dictionaries (multilingual, multipurpose): http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/  and  http://www.yourdictionary.com/
Language Tools a la Virtual Chase Legal Guide:  http://www.virtualchase.com/resources/language.shtml
Latin/English Dictionary:  http://users.erols.com/whitaker/words.htm
Legal Dictionary (Everybody's by NOLO):  http://www.nolo.com/lawcenter/dictionary/wordindex.cfm
Logos Dictionaries, Anangrams, Crosswords, etc.:  http://www.logos.it/search_box/add_en.html
Manuals and Dictionaries (free):  http://www.ebooks4free.net/Manuals.htm
Merriam-Webster Dictionary Thesarus:  http://www.m-w.com/
Microsoft Encarta (Encyclopedia) On-line:  http://encarta.msn.com/
Musical Instrument Encyclopedia (CHICO):   http://www.si.umich.edu/chico/instrument/
Musical Terms and Symbols Glossaries:  http://faculty.ccp.cc.pa.us/FACULTY/acaney/mus103/glossary.html,
      http://www.thealegreen.berks.sch.uk/music/musgloss.html, http://www.nathankramer.com/journal/musicglossary.htm,
      http://www.cincinnatisoftball.com/specials/cso/preparation/glossary.shtml
OneLook Dictionary collection:  http://www.onelook.com/
Oxford English Dictionary:  http://www.oed.com/
Pronunciation of English Words:  http://howjsay.com
Familiar Quotations:   http://www.bartleby.com/100/
Reference Desk (general reference site):  http://www.refdesk.com/
Reverse Dictionary (give a concept and get links of definitions):  http://www.onelook.com/reverse-dictionary.shtml
School Library Journal - Review of Digital Encyclopedias: http://slj.reviewsnews.com/index.asp?layout=articlePrint&articleID=CA254381&publication=slj
Scientific Biographies by Eric Weisstein:  http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/
Shared Bookmarks: http://www.weblens.org/bookmarks.html
Speciality Dictionaries:  http://www.yourdictionary.com/diction5a.html#telecom
Spoken Words  Dictionary:   http://dictionary.msn.com/find/entry.asp
Translate to/from most any language: http://translation.langenberg.com/  and http://babel.altavista.com/babelfish/kb
Units of Measurement - Dictionary of:  http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/
WhatIs: http://whatis.techtarget.com/
Wordnet Lexical Dictionary/Thesarus:  http://vancouver-webpages.com/wordnet/
World Wide Words:  http://www.worldwidewords.org/
Yahoo "Shortcuts":   http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/tips/tips-01.html

ETHICS AND RELIGIONS
American Journal of Bioethics:   http://www.bioethics.net/journal/
Applied Ethics Resources on the Web: http://www.ethics.ubc.ca/resources/
Bioethics Information Resources (NLM and NIH):  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/bioethics.html
Bioethics:  http://www.biol.tsukuba.ac.jp/~macer/   and   http://ethics.bsd.uchicago.edu/resources.html
BioethicsWeb:  http://bioethicsweb.ac.uk/
Biomedical:  http://hsc.virginia.edu/medicine/inter-dis/bio-ethics/
Biotechnology - How far should researchers go:  http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0105/p11s01-stss.htm
Buddhism - Dictionary of Buddhism:  http://www.acmuller.net/ddb/index.html
Business:  http://www.business-ethics.org/
Codes of Ethics Portal:  http://www.iit.edu/departments/csep/PublicWWW/codes/codes.html
Computing:  http://www.eos.ncsu.edu/eos/info/computer_ethics/  and  http://www.acm.org/constitution/code.html
Congressional Addresses - Network - National Catholic Social Justice Lobby:  http://www.networklobby.org/
Consciencious Objection to Military Recruitment:  http://www.mcc.org/us/co/counter/resources.html
Cooperative Digital Resources - CDRI: Digital resources for the study of religion:  http://www.atla.com/digitalresources/
Energy Information Association:  http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/energy_in_brief/
Engineering:  http://ethics.tamu.edu/ethicsessays.htm
Environmental:  http://ethics.acusd.edu/Applied/Environment/
Ethics Cases OnLine:  http://www.journalism.indiana.edu/Ethics/
Ethics Web Portal:  http://commfaculty.fullerton.edu/lester/ethics/ethics_list.html
Ethics Resource Center:  http://www.ethics.org/
Ethics Updates:  http://ethics.acusd.edu/
Feminest:  http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feminism-ethics/
Global Ethics:  http://www.globalethics.org/
Human Gene Ethics via Resource Finder Search Engine:  http://www.rdn.ac.uk/resourcefinder/?query=human+gene*+ethic*
Human Rights Seach Engine:  http://www.hurisearch.org/
Jesuit Center for Spiritual Growth (Werenersville, PA):  http://www.jesuitspiritualcenter.org/
Journalism:  https://www.spj.org/ethics.asp
Just War Theory Resources:  http://ethics.acusd.edu/Applied/Military/Justwar.html
Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal:  http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/kennedy_institute_of_ethics_journal/
Labor and Work:  http://www.pernet.net/~sinclair/higgins/higgins-63.htm
Legal:  http://www.legalethics.com/  and  http://www.law.cornell.edu/ethics/
Medical Ethics Portal:  http://www.mic.ki.se/Diseases/k1.316.html
Moral Issues:  http://www.silk.net/RelEd/morality.htm  and  http://www.eriebenedictines.org/benetvision/tpjoancrisis.htm
Moral Theology Biblical Foundations:  http://icu.catholicity.com/c00300.htm
Moral Theology and Ethics Portal:  http://www.theology.ie/moral.htm  and   http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/theology/moral.html
Moral Theology Introduction:  http://www.nd.edu/Departments/Maritain/etext/emt.htm
News (secular) on Religion:  http://www.religionnews.com/
Nonviolence:  http://www.nonviolence.org/
Philosophy & Public Policy Quarterly - U. of Maryland (click on the picture of the Newsletter):  http://www.puaf.umd.edu/IPPP/
Postmasters - Ethical approaches to Postmastering:  http://www.ja.net/CERT/McGregor/Postmaster.ethics.txt
Prison Incarceration Resources, Statistics, prison costs, etc. : http://www.prisonsucks.com/
Religion and Ethics:  http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/
Religions
   Adherents:  http://www.adherents.com/
    Catholic News Service:   http://www.catholicnews.com/
   Patron Saints Index:  http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/indexsnt.htm
   Mysticism Resources:   http://www.augustana.ab.ca/~janzb/mysticism.htm
   Nielsen's Psychology of Religion:  http://www.psywww.com/psyrelig/
   Religions and Religious Movements:  http://religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/home.html
   Sacred Texts of Many Religions:  http://davidwiley.com/religion.html
Sacred Text Archive:  http://www.sacred-texts.com/index.htm
Schwenkfelder Library and Heritage Center:  http://www.schwenkfelder.com/
Science:  http://www.chem.vt.edu/ethics/ethics.html   and   http://onlineethics.org/
Social Science Information Gateway on Ethics:  http://sosig.esrc.bristol.ac.uk/philosophy/ethics/
Violence Policy Center:  http://www.vpc.org/
Violence Against Women, U.S.Gov. Office on:  http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/vawo/
We can do better than Hate:   http://www.tolerance.org/
Women's Law Center (National):  http://www.nwlc.org/

TELEPHONE,  TELECOMMUNICATIONS, RADIO AND WIRELESS
An Extensive list of On-line Phone Directories (including international): http://www.infobel.com/teldir/teldir.asp?page=/eng
A Bell Tolls - General Phone Services Portal:  http://abtolls.com/
Canadian and U.S.  Area Codes:  http://abtolls.com/information/areacodes.html
Directory Assistance on the Web (free):  http://abtolls.com/information/directoryassistance.html
Directory of Corporate Archives in the U.S. and Canada:  http://www.hunterinformation.com/corporat.htm
Get A Human instead of phone mazes:  http://www.gethuman.com/us/
Long Distance Look up Resources:  http://www.callsense.com/resources/directoryassistance.htm
One Suite.com 2.9 Cents Per Minute:  http://www.onesuite.com/
Nationwide Phone Book, Reverse Lookup, Yellow Pages:  http://wp1.superpages.com/people.phtml
PA Public Utilities Commission - Area Code & Telecommunications Dictionary: http://puc.paonline.com//telecomm/Area_Codes/area_code_dictionary.asp
Phone Directories of all kinds (from ACR, American Computer Resources):  http://www.the-acr.com/codes/resource.htm
Public WiFi wireless Internet access network nodes:  http://www.80211hotspots.com/
Radio - World Wide Stations:  http://www.live-radio.net/
Telemarketing Phone Calls - Unwanted (FCC):  http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/tcpa.html
Telephone Prefix Location List:  http://www.thedirectory.org/pref/
List of ISP Provider Lists:  http://www.internet.com/mediakit/ispdesc.html
Inexpensive Dialup ISPs:   http://www.qwickconnect.net/, http://www.access4less.net/, http://www.550access.com/
State College White and Yellow Page Directory:  http://phonebook.psu.edu/
SuperPages - Nation wide phone directory:  http://www.bigyellow.com/
U.S. Government Telephone and E-mail Directories:  http://www.firstgov.gov/Contact/Directories.shtml
WiFi411 Directory:   http://www.wifi411.com/search/index.php

GEOGRAPHIC AND TRAVEL
About.com Geography:  http://geography.about.com/education/geography/msub76.htm
US. Air Port Links:  http://www.mapquest.com/features/main.adp?page=airportmaps
Airport Directories, Airline Abbreviations, Seating Guides, etc. Reference:
                     http://www.resourceshelf.com/2006/07/18/airport-directories-airline-abbreviations-seating-guides-and-more-travel-reference/
City-Data.com, All About U.S. Cities:  http://www.city-data.com/
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection:  http://www.davidrumsey.com/
EarthMaps (works well):  http://www.earthamaps.com
Excite Maps - mapping, driving directions:  http://www1.excite.com/home/info/maps/maps_overview/
Flight Aware Airline Flight Tracker (University Park, PA): http://flightaware.com/live/airport/KUNV
Geocoder, Compute Latitude/Longitude for a U.S address: http://geocoder.ca/
Geographic distance between any two points - as the crow flies: http://www.infoplease.com/atlas/calculate-distance.html
Geographic Names Information System:   http://mapping.usgs.gov/www/gnis/
Geographical Index of Colleges and Universities: http://www.collegenews.com/schiff.htm
GeoMapping, a Mapping Portal:  http://www.geomapping.com/
Geography Portal, 3D Atlas:  http://www.3datlas.com/
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (and other research tools): http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/tgn/
GIS Basics:   http://gislounge.com/ll/basics.shtml
GIS Pennsylvania Best Practices Information:  http://www.pamagic.org/
GIS Applications (annotated list of):   http://gislounge.com/ll/llindex.shtml
GIS Software, ArcGIS:   http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/index.html
Google Maps:  http://maps.google.com/
Guide to Geographical Resources:  http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/Geography/guide/geoglist.htm
Hazards Map (U.S. floods, fires, etc.):  http://www.hazardmaps.gov/atlas.php
Health Information for International Travel:  http://www.cdc.gov/travel/yb/
Heritage Map Museum:  http://www.carto.com/
Home Town Locator:  http://gazetteer.hometownlocator.com/
Internet International Map Catalog:  http://www.maps.ethz.ch/mapsearch.html
Map Hacking Goodies by O'Reilly Radar:   http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2005/07/where_20_a_coll.html
Map Machine by National Geographic:    http://plasma.nationalgeographic.com/mapmachine/search.html?
Map Making Site: http://www.aquarius.geomar.de/omc/omc_intro.html
Mapping Tools (fundamental algorithms using MATLAB):  http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk/help/toolbox/map/map.shtml
MapQuest - Driving Directions, Travel Guide, etc.:  http://www.mapquest.com/
Map Resources portal   http://www.ndu.edu/library/maps.html
MetaCarta Geosearch for News (gives map with news items): http://geosearch.metacarta.com/
National Geographic Maps:  http://www.nationalgeographic.com/maps/
National Traffic and Road Closure Information:  http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/trafficinfo/
National Wildlife Federation:  http://www.nwf.org/           Great Lakes:  http://www.nwf.org/greatlakes/
Penn DOT Maps:  http://www.dot.state.pa.us/bpr/bprinternet/
Penn State Maps: http://infolion.engr.psu.edu/map/index.html
Pennsylvania Spacial Data Access (PSDA, new arial photo for each county):  http://www.pasda.psu.edu/
Pennsylvania Topographic Maps:  http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us/topogeo/map61/webd4.htm
Satellite photographs of any location in the contiguous United States: http://terraserver.microsoft.com/
State College and Centre Region Custom Maps:  http://www.purplelizard.com/
Travel Library - with Round-the-World-FAQ:  http://www.travel-library.com
Travel Comparisons: http://www.kayak.com/s/index.jsp
US Census Bureau:  http://www.census.gov/
USGS Maps of Flood and High Water Conditions:  http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=1908
World Atlas by Country:  http://www.graphicmaps.com/aatlas/world.htm  and World Atlas:  http://www.worldatlas.com/aatlas/world.htm
World Map Search:  http://www.travel.com.hk/search/maps.htm
Yahoo Maps:   http://maps.yahoo.com/
Yahoo Travel:   http://travel.yahoo.com/
 

LIBRARIES AND DATA BASES
Association for Computing Machinery Penn State Archive Portal:
      http://portal.acm.org/portal.cfm?coll=portal&dl=ACM&CFID=12593340&CFTOKEN=81738313
Census Data:  http://www.lib.umich.edu/libhome/Documents.center/cen2000.html    and  http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/cen2000.html
Local Census Web Site:  http://www.localcensus.com/
U.S. Census:  http://www.census.gov/statab/www/
U.S. Census - We the People:Women and Men of the United States: http://www.census.gov/prod/2005pubs/censr-20.pdf
CD Information Center:  http://cd-info.com/
CD-R Archival Properties: http://www.delkin.com/pdf/user_guides/archivalgold_whitepaper.pdf
Civic Minded:  http://www.civicmind.com/
Concordances of Great Books:  http://www.concordance.com/
Demographics Sources:  http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/stdemog.html
Dewey Decimal Classification:  http://www.oclc.org/dewey/index.htm
Digital Media Copyright Issues by June M.Besek:  http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub112/contents.html
Disaster, Crisis, and emergency management - ACRL Web sites for researchers: http://www.ala.org/acrl/resnov02.html
Library Digitization Projects and Copyright by Mary Minow: http://www.llrx.com/features/digitization.htm
DOE Information Bridge (full text of DOE documents):  http://www.osti.gov/bridge/
Duke Libraries - Guide to Library Research:  http://www.lib.duke.edu/libguide/choosing.htm
Eletronic Book Locator: http://www.ebooklocator.com/
Electronic Journal of Academic and Special Librarianship: http://southernlibrarianship.icaap.org/content/v04n01/Diotalevi_r01.htm
Electronic Sources of Information, Subject Index to:  http://library.usask.ca/~dworacze/SUBJIN_A.HTM
Family Law:  http://www.abanet.org/family/familylaw/tables.html
Gateway to Library Catalogs:  http://www.loc.gov/z3950/
Geological and Geomagnetic Data, Computations, Information, and Tutorials
   The National Geophysical Data Center - All kinds of surveying data on-line:  http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/seg/potfld/geomag.shtml
   The Global Positioning Systems (GPS) Resource Library:  http://www.gpsy.com/gpsinfo/
   Navatech's GPS Related Internet Sites:  http://www.navtechgps.com/links.asp
History Wired - pictorial and prose on-line history book: http://historywired.si.edu/text.cfm
International Agreements Database (agreements between the USA and other world countries):  http://www.osti.gov/international-agreements/iahome.html
Internet Archive - Building an Internet Library:  http://www.archive.org/
Internet Law Library:  http://www.lawguru.com/ilawlib/index.html
Internet Public Library:  http://www.ipl.org/
Internet Resources - American Library Association College and Research Libraries:  http://www.ala.org/acrl/resrces.html
Invisible Web (portal):  http://www.invisible-web.net/
Law Guide by state/territory:  http://www.loc.gov/law/guide/usstates.html
Librarians Index to the Internet:  http://lii.org/search/file/searchtools
Library of Congress:  http://www.loc.gov/
The Library Spot - links to lots of libraries, Acronyms, dictionaries, etc.:   http://www.libraryspot.com/
Long term Document Preservation Standards:  http://www.aiim.org/standards.asp?ID=25013
Museum of Museums: http://www.coudal.com/moom.php
Magazines - Gary Price's List of Lists of Magazines:  http://www.specialissues.com/lol/dispLOLMagazines.cfm
Magazines, News Journals, etc.  with Access on the Web: http://www.infotoday.com/fso/protected/freetitles.htm
Magzine Portal - points to on-line magazines:  http://magportal.com/
Mailing Lists - Finding them:  http://www.livinginternet.com/?l/lu_find.htm
Music - Anne Harlow's wonderful music resources pages:  http://astro.temple.edu/~aharlow/
National Academy Press - over 1500 books on-line:  http://www.nap.edu/
Negotiating Licences for Electronic Products - Tips By Paul Pedley: http://www.freepint.com/issues/180903.htm#tips
Newsletter Access - search or browse  for newsletters: http://www.newsletteraccess.com/database/search.html
News Library - searchs many newspaper archives: http://www.newslibrary.com/region_pgs/lneast_search.htm
Newspaper Archives:  http://www.researchville.com/
Newspaper - Find Newspapers:  http://journalismnet.com/papers/
OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) Fact Book: http://miranda.sourceoecd.org/vl=1046154/cl=20/nw=1/rpsv/factbook/
Open Access Journals On-line, A Directory of:  http://www.doaj.org/
Pennsylvania Data Base Search:  http://www.internets.com/spennsylvania.htm
Pennsylvania Uniform Crime Reporting Data:  http://ucr.psp.state.pa.us
Penn State University  Library Services:  http://www.lias.psu.edu/
Public Records Databases:   http://www.netronline.com/public_records.htm   and http://www.searchsystems.net/and http://www.brbpub.com/pubrecsites.asp
             and: http://www.virtualchase.com/people/  and  http://www.publicrecordsources.com/   and   http://www.virtualchase.com/people/public_records.html
Referemce Resources Portal:   http://www.galegroup.com/index.htm
RefDesk Web Topic Portal:  http://www.refdesk.com/
Rutgers Research & Reference:  http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/
Scientific Bookmarks - LLEK de Bookmarks: http://www.scientific-search-engines.com/
Science Tracer Bullets On-Line:  http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/tracer-bullets/tbs.html
Scout Reports (all scientific disciplines):  http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/report/sr/current/
Sounds Collection:   http://www.findsounds.com/types.html
Source Code Library (variety of computer languages):  http://www.devx.com/free/codelib/
State Agencies Data Bases: http://wikis.ala.org/godort/index.php/State_Agency_Databases
Statistical Abstracts of the U.S. by Census Bureau:  http://www.census.gov/prod/2002pubs/01statab/stat-ab01.html
Technical Reports Library - University of Maryland:  http://www.lib.umd.edu/ENGIN/TechReports/Virtual-TechReports.html
Telecom Virtual Library:  http://www.analysys.com/vlib/
John Udall's Library Lookup:  http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/stories/2002/12/11/librarylookup.html
University of Michigan Documents Center (Government documents, all kinds of on-line documents):  http://www.lib.umich.edu/libhome/Documents.center/
University of Virgina eBooks:  http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/ebooks/ebooklist.html
Virtual Reference Shelf - Selected Web Resources by Library of Congress: http://www.loc.gov/rr/askalib/virtualref.html
Web of Science:  http://www.webofscience.com/
Webary by Morton Grove Public Library:   http://www.webrary.org/ref/weblinksmenu.html
Women - Distinguished Women Past and Present:  http://www.distinguishedwomen.com/
Women, American - Gateway to Library of Congress Resources: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/awhhtml/

Word Play - Fun with Words, Acronyms, Synonyms, etc.:  http://www.wolinskyweb.net/word.htm
World Fact Book 2002: http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/
WorldSkip - Detailed information on every World Nation:  http://www.worldskip.com/

TRAINING AND EDUCATION
Ancient Classical History:  http://ancienthistory.about.com/
Bibliographies - Easy Bib:  http://www.easybib.com/
Center for Networking and Distributed Systems:   http://www.cnds.jhu.edu/
A Citizen's Guide on Using the Freedom of Information Act (text or pdf): http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/003251.html
Computer Hardware Tutorials:  http://www.hardwarecentral.com/hardwarecentral/tutorials/
Education Index - a portal to many educational sites:  http://www.educationindex.com/
Find Tutorials:  http://www.findtutorials.com/
Folk Lore and Stories on-line (thanks to Karen Tiedemann) : http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/folktexts.htmlandhttp://www.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/storfolk.html
   and  http://www.resinets.com/topics/myth.htm
Free On-Line Computer Related Training:   http://www.freeskills.com/
Ulf's Comprehensive History of Information and Computing: http://www.cs.mun.ca/%7Eulf/csh/
History Research On-line:  http://members.aol.com/historyresearch/
Hotlist of K-12 Schools Online:  http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Schools/default.asp
Intel Technology Journal:  http://developer.intel.com/technology/itj/index.htm
Linux - Introduction:  http://www.tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/Intro-Linux.pdf
Math Net:  http://www.Math.Net/
MERLOT - Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching:
       http://www.merlot.org/artifact/BrowseArtifacts.po?catcode=1&browsecat=1&sort=rating
National Institute of General Medical Science:  http://www.nigms.nih.gov/
NIST Handbook of Statistical Methods:  http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/
PSIGate - Physical Sciences Information Gateway:   http://www.psigate.ac.uk/newsite/timelines.html
Physics - Elements of Physics, excellent tutorial and study guide: http://almanac.ods.org/physics/
Punctuation Made Simple:  http://chuma.cas.usf.edu/~olson/pms/
Research Mattes - Harvard University:  http://www.researchmatters.harvard.edu
Social Science Information Gateway:  http://sosig.esrc.bristol.ac.uk/
Technology Education Association of Pennsylvania (TEAP):  http://www.teap-online.org/teapindex.html
U.S. Government - how it works, text of historical documents, etc. for all ages:  http://bensguide.gpo.gov/index.html
Web Writing Tools, language tutorials, and more:  http://www.prana3.com/tools/

WORLD TIME AND TIME ZONES
Calendars for any Year:   http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/?year=2006&country=1
Clocks and Time FAQ and other goodies:  http://www.boulder.nist.gov/timefreq/
Clockworks- From Sundials to the Atomic Second:  http://www.britannica.com/clockworks/startpage.html
Day Lignt Saving Time:  http://www.webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/b.html
Julian Day Numbers: http://www.magnet.ch/serendipity/hermetic/cal_stud/jdn.htm
Julian Date Converter:  http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/JulianDate.html
Local Times Around the World:  http://times.clari.net.au/
NIST Computer Clock Setting, Time Code Formats, etc.:  http://www.bldrdoc.gov/timefreq/service/its.htm
Pocket Counter Software (free):   http://www.vtoy.fi/~malo/pocket.html
Roman Numeral and Date Conversions:  http://www.guernsey.net/~sgibbs/roman.html
Time Exhibits:  http://www.time.gov/exhibits.html
TimeAndDate.Com:  http://www.timeanddate.com/
Time is the Simplest Thing - Timing under Windows:  http://www.flounder.com/time.htm
U.S. Naval Observatory: http://aa.usno.navy.mil/AA/data/
Walk through Time: http://physics.nist.gov/GenInt/Time/time.html
What is Internet Time:  http://www.currents.net/resources/internet_time/index.html
World Time Zones:  http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/tzones.html, http://www.worldtimeserver.com/, http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/    and
http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/what.html (including Naval Observator time spoken by voice)

FINANCIAL
Financial Planning and Tutorials
  http://whyslopes.com/etc/ThreeSkillsForAlgebra/ch14.html
  http://www.nasaa.org/  North America Securities Administration Association (also tracks securities fraud)
  http://www.rightonthemoney.org/   Right on the Money
Annual Percent Yield versus Compound Interest:  http://www.u.arizona.edu/~avr/interest.phtml
Business Database Dictionary:  http://www.economist.com/businessDatabase/Dictionary.cfm
Business Forms (free from Office Depot):   http://www.officedepot.com/BusinessTools/forms/default.asp
Business Web Guide - A Guide to the Better Business Links: http://www.business2.com/webguide/
Business Week Online (including the Business Week 50):  http://www.businessweek.com/bw50/
Calculators of Various Kinds
   1st Source Bank Financial Calculators:  http://www.1stsource.com/calculators.cfm
   ABC's of Figuring Interest:  http://www.chicagofed.org/publications/abcsinterest/abcsinterest.cfm
    Bankrate.com interest calculators: http://www.bankrate.com/brm/calc/math_smm.asp
   Financial Calculators:   http://www.dcu.org/onlineserv/calculators.html
   General Miscellaneous Calculators:  http://www.1728.com/indexfin.htm, http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/stcomp.html#calculators
   Compound Interest Calculator:  http://www.1728.com/compint.htm
   Loan Calculator (Compound Interest) Plus, a Windows Application (free):   http://www.pine-grove.com/pi03000.htm
CD Rate Watch:  http://www.bauerfinancial.com/cdratewatch.asp
Currency Converter - 164:  http://www.oanda.com/convert/classic
CNET Investment Information:  http://investor.cnet.com/
Dot CON's:   http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/edcams/dotcon/
Equitable:  http://www.equitable.com/
Encyclopedia of Finance:  http://www.ameritrade.com/education/html/encyclopedia/
Euro - Microsoft Euro Currency Center:  http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/itsolutions/techsol/euro/default.asp
FDIC - Quick Links for Consumers:   http://www.fdic.gov/quicklinks/consumers.html
Federal, State, and Local Governments, 2001 Consolidated Federal Tax Payers Dollars Report:  http://www.census.gov/govs/www/cffr01.html
Fraud Bureau: http://www.fraudbureau.com/toplink/aboutus.html
Full Disclosure.com (CCBN):   http://www.fulldisclosure.com/highlight.asp?client=cb
Identity Theft:
    Fact Sheet from Privacy Rights Clearing House: http://www.privacyrights.org/fs/fs17a.htm
    Federal Trade Commission Recommendations to Reduce Risk: http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/credit/idtheft.htm
    U.S. Government Web Site:  http://www.consumer.gov/idtheft/
    Privacy Rights Clearinghouse Resources: http://www.privacyrights.org/identity.htm
    Money Central:  http://moneycentral.msn.com/articles/banking/credit/1342.asp
Investor Education by the American Association of Individual Investors: http://www.AAII.com/
Investing Tutorials and Information:  http://investing.wsj.com/  and  http://university.smartmoney.com/Departments/Investing101/
Inflation Calculator (based on the Consumer Price Index):http://www.westegg.com/inflation/
IRS Forms and Instructions (choose Tax Professionals link for .PDF forms):  http://www.irs.gov/
Nasdaq Glossary of Financial Terms:  http://www.nasdaq.com/reference/glossary.stm
Pennsylvania Employees' Retirement System: http://www.sers.state.pa.us/
Retirement Planning:  http://retireplan.about.com/money/retireplan/.  Also see TIAA-CREF below.
Securities Mosaic:   http://www.securitiesmosaic.com/
TIAA - CREF:  http://www.tiaa-cref.org/
U.S Savings Bonds:  http://www.savingsbonds.gov/
U.S. Treasury Department:  http://www.ustreas.gov/
Valic: http://www.valic.com/
Vanguard Investor Education:  http://www.vanguard.com/educ/inveduc.html
Virtual Chase Company Guide (including CPA directory): http://www.virtualchase.com/coinfo/corporate_executives.htm
Wall Street Super Searchers:  http://www.infotoday.com/supersearchers/superwall.htm

GOVERNMENT AND PENNSYLVANIA
100 Documents of American History:  http://www.ourdocuments.gov/content.php?flash=old&page=milestone
Archives - Pennsylvania State Archives Records Information Access System (ARIAS):  http://www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us/
Best of the Commonwealth Web Pages:  http://www.dep.state.pa.us/dep/deputate/minres/dms/webbest.htm
Bicycling Trails of Pennsylvania:  http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us/rails/index.html
Centre County on the Web:  http://www.townandgown.com/html/webdirect.html
Centre County Government:  http://www.co.centre.pa.us/default.asp
Commonwealth (PA) Phone Directory:  http://www.dgs.state.pa.us/dgs/cwp/view.asp?a=3&Q=116266&dgsNav=|
The Congressional Record:  http://thomas.loc.gov/home/cr_help.htm
       Electronic Real Time Version: http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/aces/fr-cont.html
Congressional Directory of Documents, Legislation, etc.:  http://www.access.gpo.gov/congress/
Conservation and Natural Resources:  http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us/
PA County Profiles:  http://www.pasitesearch.com/selectsites/misc/profiles.shtml
County Records Information Links:  http://sites.state.pa.us/govlocal.html
District Court 49-101 - State College: http://districtcourt49101.com
Department of Environmental Protection:  http://www.dep.state.pa.us/
Department of Health:  http://www.health.state.pa.us/
Department of Revenue (Tax Forms for Professionals):  http://www.revenue.state.pa.us
Electronic Textbook, "This Nation":  http://www.thisnation.com/
EPA Internet Site:  http://www.epa.gov/epahome/search.html
EPA's Pocket Guide to Protecting Your Drinking Water:  http://www.epa.gov/ogwdw000/protect/swpocket.html
Environmental Help Site:  http://www.pa-envirohelp.org/
Essential Community Services (directions for 211 service): http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/211.html
FirstGov U.S. Governmemt portal:   http://www.firstgov.gov/
Federal Government Statistics (FedStats):  http://www.fedstats.gov/
Federal Web Locator:   http://www.infoctr.edu/fwl/
 FOIA Request (via advocay group):  http://www.foiarequest.org/
Fish and Boat Outdoor Shop - Pennsylvania Commission of: https://www.theoutdoorshop.state.pa.us/FBG/
Government Documents,  Alphabetical list of archive materials: http://www.umsl.edu/services/govdocs/alpha_list.html
Grant Information related to Law, Justice, and Legal Services: http://www.grants.gov/law.html
Historical Society of Pennsylvania:  http://www.hsp.org/index.html
Historic Maps (of Pennsylvania and other places):  http://www.mapsofpa.com/  and http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdquery.html
House of Representatives:  http://www.house.gov    Senate:  http://www.senate.gov
Internal Revenue Service- IRS Forms and Instructions (choose Tax Professionals link for .PDF forms):  http://www.irs.gov/
Legislative (State and Federal Senate and House of Representatives) Directory:  http://www.legis.state.pa.us/
Legislative Web Pages (for all States):  http://www.governing.com/govlinks/glurleg.htm
PA Bureau of Land Recycling and Waste Management:  http://www.dep.state.pa.us/dep/deputate/airwaste/wm/default.htm
PA Organizations and Bureaus - Department of State:  http://www.dos.state.pa.us/
PA PowerPort - Free email access links and information:  http://www.state.pa.us/papower/cwp/view.asp?a=3&q=427822
PA PowerPort - Site Map:  http://sites.state.pa.us/PAsitemap/
Penn DOT forms:  http://www.dot4.state.pa.us/forms/index.shtml
Pennsylvania Blue Pages (locator for people in government): http://www.state.pa.us/papower/BluePages/BlueSearch.asp
Pennsylvania Data Base Search:  http://www.internets.com/spennsylvania.htm
Pennsylvania State Data Center:  http://pasdc.hbg.psu.edu/pasdc/
Pennsylvania State Government:  http://www.alllaw.com/state_resources/pennsylvania/government/
Political State Report and Archives:  http://www.polstate.com/archives/cat_pennsylvania.html
Public Utilities Commission:  http://puc.paonline.com/default.htm
Recycling Computers in Pennsylvania:
    PEP Computer Recycling:  http://www.dep.state.pa.us/dep/deputate/airwaste/wm/recycle/Recycle.htm
  Scrounge Computer Recycling:  http://www.psu.edu/spacegrant/scrounge.html
Recycling Batteries:  http://www.rbrc.com/consumer/faq.html
Recycling (Cell) Phones:  http://www.wirelessfoundation.org/12give/
State and Local Government on the Net:  http://www.statelocalgov.net/pa.htm
State and Local Government Web Sites:  http://www.statelocalgov.net/index.cfm
Topographic Maps of Pennsylvania:   http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us/topogeo/map61/webd4.htm
U.S. Goverment Portal:  http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/cat_egovernment.html
U.S. Government Telephone and E-mail Directories:   http://www.firstgov.gov/Contact/Directories.shtml
US Government Information Pages:    http://usinfo.state.gov/usinfo/site_index.html
USA Jobs:  http://www.usajobs.opm.gov/
U.S. Government Manual:  http://www.gpoaccess.gov/gmanual/index.html
Vital Records:  http://webserver.health.state.pa.us/health/cwp/view.asp?a=168&Q=229939&tx=1
      also see:  Where to Write for Vital Records:  http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/howto/w2w/w2welcom.htm

SENIOR CITIZENS
Access America for Seniors:  http://www.seniors.gov/computers.html
Benefits Checkup Organization:  http://www.benefitscheckup.org/
Centre County, Pennsylvania Government:  http://centreconnect.org/webpages/
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania - State Government:   http://www.state.pa.us/
ElderWeb:  http://www.elderweb.com/
Family Caregiver Alliance (FCA):  http://www.caregiver.org/factsheet.html
Federal Consumer Information Center:  http://www.pueblo.gsa.gov/
First Government for Seniors:  http://www.seniors.gov/
Food and Drug Interaction Chart:  http://www.nclnet.org
Geriatric Care Management:  http://www.elderlifeplanning.com/residents/sterlingcare.htm
Go60.com - Helping Seniors Improve with Age:  http://www.go60.com/
Guide for People Who Care: http://www.aoa.gov/wecare/
HUD (see Senior Citizen Links):   http://www.hud.gov/
Librarians' Index to the Internet - Seniors:  http://www.lii.org/search/file/seniors
Loving Care.com:  http://www.lovingcare.net/index.htm
Choosing a Medicare HMO - A guide for Older Pennsylvanians: http://www.phc4.org/reports/medhmo/default.htm
Medicare:  http://www.ssa.gov/pubs/10043.html
Medicare - Comparison of HMO's, and more:  http://www.medicare.gov/
Medicare - Nursing Homes: http://www.medicare.gov/Nursing/Overview.asp
Medicare Rights: http://www.medicarerights.org/Index.html
National Administration on Aging:  http://www.aoa.dhhs.gov/default.htm
National Aging Information Center (Long Term Care):  http://www.aoa.dhhs.gov/NAIC/Notes/longtermstates.html
National Aging Information Center:  http://www.aoa.gov/wecare/http://www.aoa.gov/NAIC/Notes/olderadults.html  and  http://www.aoa.dhhs.gov/naic/default.htm
National Association of Professional Geriatric Care Managers: http://www.caremanager.org/
Nursing Homes by NAIC:   http://www.aoa.gov/NAIC/Notes/nursinghomes.html
Pennsylvania Department of Aging:  http://www.longtermcare.state.pa.us/  and  http://www.panpha.org/
Pennsylvania Department of Aging Resources:  http://caregiverpa.psu.edu/careinfo/careinfo.htm
ReadPlease Text to Voice program (install the free version): http://readplease.com/
Senior.com, ecommunity for seniors:  http://www.senior.com/
Senior Women's Web (lots of good information):  http://www.seniorwomen.com/
SERS - Pennsylvania State Employes' Retirement System:  http://www.sers.state.pa.us/
Social Security:  http://www.ssa.gov/
Windows 95 for Seniors by Tess Goodman: http://home.kscable.com/tmg/

HEALTH LINKS AND GATEWAYS
Addictions:  http://www.well.com/user/woa/
Allergy Fortcasts for Entire U.S. Including Your Neighborhood: http://www.pollen.com/Pollen.com.asp
AllRefer Reference and Medical/Health Channels:  http://www.allrefer.com/
Alzheimers:  http://www.alz.org/
American Academy of Alergies, Asthma, and Immunology :  http://www.aaaai.org/
American College of Allergy Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI): http://www.allergy.mcg.edu/
American Red Cross Health and Safety Services:  http://www.redcross.org/SERVICES/HSS/LIFELINE/
Anti-Aging Drugs and Supplements - Potential dangers:  http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?gao-01-1129
Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America:  http://www.aafa.org/
Asthma Management:  http://www.nhlbisupport.com/asthma/index.html
American Medical Association:  http://www.ama-assn.org/
American Pharmacists Association:  http://www.pharmacyandyou.org/
Back Pain:  http://www.spine-health.com/
Body Mass Index Calculator:  http://www.nhlbisupport.com/bmi/bmicalc.htm
Cancer Help:  http://cancerhelp.8m.com/
Cancer Links U. of Pgh.: http://www.upci.upmc.edu/
Center for Disease Control and Prevention:  http://www.cdc.gov/
Chemotherapy and You - National Cancer Institute:  http://www.cancernet.nci.nih.gov/peb/chemo_you/
Choosing a Doctor or Health Care Service:   http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/choosingadoctororhealthcareservice.html
Clinical Trials Search: http://clinicaltrials.gov/  and  http://www.acurian.com/
Disability Resources:  http://www.netreach.net/~abrejcha/websites.htm
Dorland Health Care Information and Directories, On-Line Research Reports, Data Bases and Mailing Lists:  http://www.dorlandhealth.com/
Dr. Koop:  http://www.drkoop.com
Drug Facts: http://www.drugfacts.com/
Drug Knowledge Center:  http://www.acurian.com/diseases/drugs/
DrugWatch - Controversial Drug List: http://drugintel.com/drugs/
Elsevier Health Science Information Site:  http://www.us.elsevierhealth.com/
Infolink Drugs:  http://www.druginfonet.com/phrminfo.htm
RXList Drugs:   http://www.rxlist.com/
Emedicine's On-line Medical Books:  http://www.emedicine.com/cgi-shl/foxweb.exe/onlinebooks@d:/em/ga
FDA Easy to Read Publications:  http://www.fda.gov/opacom/lowlit/7lowlit.html
Food and Drug Adminstration Consumer Magazine:  http://www.fda.gov/fdac/
Frequently Asked Questions About Womens' Health:  http://www.4woman.gov/faq/
HealthAnswers:  http://www.healthanswers.com/
Health A to Z:  http://www.healthatoz.com
Healthfinder:  http://www.healthfinder.gov
Health Grades :  http://www.healthgrades.com/default.cfm
Health Information On the Internet:  http://bmaxwell.home.mindspring.com/htoc.html
Health Insurance Association of American (HIAA) Consumer Guides: http://www.hiaa.org/consumer/
Hear-It - Information on Hearing Loss:  http://www.hear-it.org/
Hearing Aids by the National Institute on Deafness (NIDCD): http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/hearing/hearingaid.asp
Heart Center On-line:   http://www.heartcenteronline.com/index2.cfm
HIPAA - Administrative simplification:  http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2002pres/hipaa.html
HIPAA - Affect on Research: http://privacyruleandresearch.nih.gov/pr_02.asp
Hospital Directory:  http://www.doctordirectory.com/hospitals/Directory/Default.asp?
Hot Health Topics Library:  http://www.sa.psu.edu/uhs/hottopics.htm
Intelihealth:  http://www.intelihealth.com/
John Hopkins Intelihealth:  http://www.intelihealth.com
Mayo Clinic:  http://www.mayohealth.org   and  http://www.mayo.edu/
Medical Research for Non-Medical Librarians:  http://denison.uchsc.edu/outreach/medbib3.htm
Medicare:  http://www.ssa.gov/pubs/10043.html  and  http://www.medicarerights.org/Index.html
Medications Online (by category):   http://www.medications-online.com/main.htm
Medline Plus (including Medical Encyclopedia and Disease Reference: http://medlineplus.gov/
Medline Plus Drug Information:  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginformation.html
Medline Plus, Health Information Site:  http://medlineplus.gov/
Medscape - WebMD latest news in various medical specialities: http://www.medscape.com/pages/homepages/index-homepages
Mental Health Portal:  http://mentalhelpnet.com/
Merck Manual:  http://www.merck.com/pubs/mmanual/   and Home Edition:  http://www.merckhomeedition.com/
Meta Search Engine for Medical Queries:   http://www.queryserver.com/health.htm
National Center for Disease Control and Prevention:  http://www.cdc.gov/
National Center for Infectious Diseases - Travel's Health: http://www.cdc.gov/travel/
National Family Caregivers Association:  http://www.nfcacares.org
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Healh Information Netowrk (NHLBI):   http://hin.nhlbi.nih.gov/joinhin/index.asp
National Library of Medicine:  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/
National Womens' Health Resource Center:  http://www.healthywomen.org/
NHS Direct Online (Medical Information Gateway):  http://www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk/
NPC - Noise Pollution Clearinghouse:  http://www.nonoise.org/
PDR Net - a portal to medical information for professionals and patients:  http://www.pdr.net/access_policy.jsp
Pennsylvania Healthcare Cost Containment Council:  http://www.phc4.org/
Poison Center:  http://www.1-800-222-1222.info/
Pollen Counts and related Information:  http://www.pollen.com/
Prostate Health Directory:  http://www.prostatehealthdirectory.com/
PsychCentral - Mental Health etc.:  http://www.psychcentral.com/
Stretching and Flexability:  http://www.enteract.com/~bradapp/docs/rec/stretching/stretching_toc.html
ToxTown - Portal to Various Toxic Chemicals in Daily Living: http://toxtown.nlm.nih.gov/
Web MD:   http://www.webmd.com/
4Women - Health Issues especially for women:  http://www.4women.gov/
World Clinic - Getting Medical Help Abroad:  http://www.worldclinic.com/

MISCELLANEOUS
60 Sites in 60 Minutes:  http://www.llrx.com/extras/vall.htm
AllPages.com:  http://www.allpages.com/
AllRefer Reference and Medical/Health Channels:  http://www.allrefer.com/
Amazing Bargins - a portal site:  http://www.amazing-bargains.com/
Apples - U.S., All about them, which are good for what, etc.: http://www.usapple.org/
Appliance Repair Clinic:  http://repairclinic.net/
Best of Buslib-L:  http://www.montague.com/review/buslibbest.html
Bioethics:  http://bioethics.net/
Children's Music Site:  http://www.bestchildrensmusic.com/
Classical Music Portal (Andante):   http://www.andante.com/reference/
Classical Music Radio Stations Webcast:  http://classicalwebcast.com/
CompuMentor - Discounted Software for Educational Institutions, consulting help, etc.:  http://www.compumentor.org/
Criminal History Record Check (Pennsylvania):  https://epatch.state.pa.us/Home.jsp
eBay Selling - Software and Management Techniques:   http://www.ecommerce-guide.com/essentials/ebay/article.php/3596156
Fax, Voicemail, Pager Services:  http://www.emailaddresses.com/email_2fax.htm
Faxing Service - Free Web based Faxing:  http://www.tpc.int/
Free Email sources:  http://www.emailaddresses.com/ar/
Freedom of Information Act - Obtaining Information:  http://www.foiadvocates.com/
Freedom of Information Law Resources:  http://www.virtualchase.com/resources/foia_law.html
Government for Kids:  http://www.kids.gov/k_gov.htm
Government Information Links:   http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/cwpoli.htm
HappyValley.com - information on Centre County entertainment, travel, etc.: http://www.happyvalley.com/
Investigative Resources:   http://www.virtualgumshoe.com
The Pennsylvania Estate and Trust Cybrary: http://www.evans-legal.com/dan/welcome.html
Legislative History Process:  http://www.lib.umich.edu/libhome/Documents.center/legchart.html
Mathmatics Notes and sample exams for students:  http://www.mathematicshelpcentral.com/
Money Magazine's Best Places to Live:  http://www.money.com/money/depts/real_estate/bplive/
Museum of Hoaxes:  http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/
Museum of Impossible Devices and Optical Illusions:  http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/museum/unwork.htm
Museum of Museums:    http://www.coudal.com/moom.php
Music - Classical and Opera - used in Movies:  http://www.bohemianopera.com/classicmovhome.htm
National Archives and Records Administration (on line documents etc.):  http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/
On-line File File Conversion Service:  http://www.acii.com/online.htm?o=IconvCom
Oxymoron List:  http://www.oxymoronlist.com/
Peace - U.S. Institute for Peace Library:  http://www.usip.org/oc/oc.html
Petition your Government - on-line:  http://www.petitiononline.com/
Proposal Writing Short Course:   http://fdncenter.org/learn/shortcourse/prop1.html
Penn State University AIS General Information Page:  http://ais.psu.edu/AIS/resources.html
Popular Mechanics Cover Gallery:   http://popularmechanics.com/albums/index.phtml
QuickBase web and toll free numbers for many high-use sites: https://www.quickbase.com/db/bam6rdiey?a=q&qid=5
Radio Locator -  most comprehensive radio station search engine on the internet:  http://www.radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/home
Recycling Computers - http://www.pcsforschools.org/, http://www.microweb.com/pepsite/Recycle/recycle_index.html, http://www.strut.org/
 and http://www.crc.org/
Scanned Documents Technology on the Web:  http://djvu.research.att.com/home.html
Scientific American Magzine:  http://www.sciam.com/
Shared Bookmarks: http://www.weblens.org/bookmarks.html
Smithsonian Institution History Wired:  http://historywired.si.edu/index.html
Tips on Energy Saving:  http://www.eren.doe.gov/consumerinfo/energy_savers/
Trademark List:  http://www.inta.org/tmcklst1.htm
U.S. Colleges and Universities by State:  http://www.50states.com/college/
Will Preparation (online):  http://www.partingwishes.com/

SOME SPECIALIZED WEB SEARCH ENGINES

Some General Search Engines:
 Google:  http://www.google.com/      especially the Advanced Search
 Vivissimo:  http://www.vivissimo.com/            Fast Search:  http://www.alltheweb.com/
 CyberJournalist SuperSearch: http://www.cyberjournalist.net/supersearch/
Airports of the World On-line:  http://www.azworldairports.com/airports/index.htm
All Things Photo:  http://www.allthingsphoto.com/search/index.php
Baby Names (by Think Baby Names): http://www.babyhold.com/ and  http://www.thinkbabynames.com/
BoardReader - Forum and Message Board search engine: http://www.boardreader.com/default.asp
Bookface - Review text of books on-line:  http://www.bookface.com/
Catalog Search:   http://catalogs.google.com/
CIA Document Search:  http://www.foia.cia.gov/search.asp
Congress - Write to your elected officials:  http://www.gpoaccess.gov/cdirectory/ and  http://capwiz.com/c-span/officials/congress/
Consumer Action Handbook:  http://www.pueblo.gsa.gov/crh/respref.htm
Copyright Search for documents after 1978:  http://www.loc.gov/copyright/search/
Death Indexes for the USA:  http://home.att.net/~wee-monster/deathrecords.html
Education World's Research Center - general links to dictionaries, translators, encyclopedias, search engines, calculators, libraries, etc.
http://www.education-world.com/research/
Engineering Site including search engine:  http://www.globalspec.com/News/WhatsNew
EEVL: The Internet Guide to Engineering, Mathematics, and Computing: http://www.eevl.ac.uk/
Electronic Bill Room - what PA Bill is being considered or passed: http://www.legis.state.pa.us/WU01/LI/BI/billroom.htm
Family Vital Statistics Search Engine:    www.familysearch.org
Field Guides of Field Guides:  http://www.library.uiuc.edu/bix/fieldguides/main.htm
First Goverment Search:  http://firstgov.gov/
Flowers and Flower Growing Resources - Susan's Gardening Web Pages: http://www.personal.psu.edu/staff/s/k/skd3
USDA Forest Service Research Publications Search - Treesearch: http://www.treesearch.fs.fed.us/
GISearch - Comprehensive Military Personnel Search:  http://www.gisearch.com/
Google:  http://www.google.com/  ,  Catalog search:   http://catalogs.google.com/ ,  Google Toolbar:  http://toolbar.google.com/
Government Search Engine:   http://www.ombwatch.org/article/articleview/213/1/1/
GPO Multi-Database Search:  http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/multidb.html
Who Owns a Small Business:  http://www.virtualchase.com/articles/finding_company_owner.html
Index of Museums:  http://index.museum/
Investigative Data Base Searches (access to much of the data of our culture):  http://www.usatrace.com/secretsite2.html
IRS Tax Information and Search:  http://www.taxlinks.com/
LawCrawler - FindLaw Search Engine devoted to only law/legal sites:http://lawcrawler.findlaw.com/
Law and Policy Institutions Guide:   http://www.lpig.org/
Legal Forms, nearly 70,000 U.S. Federal and State Court forms; free: http://www.uscourtforms.com/
Legal Information Clearing House for Campuses:  http://counsel.cua.edu/
Legal Research Guide on the First Amendment:  http://www.virtualchase.com/resources/first_amendment.html
Legal Resources (State Constitutions, Codes, etc.) by Brian Peterson: http://legalweblog.blogspot.com/2003_10_12_legalweblog_archive.html
Legal - Choose Law site: http://www.chooselaw.com/
Librarians' Index to the Internet:  http://www.lii.org/search/
Librarian's Resource Center: http://www.sla.org/chapter/ctor/toolbox/resource/index.html
Manuals of all kinds on-line (including appliances):  http://www.livemanuals.com/site/aboutus.cfm
Medical Links Search Engine:  http://home.ncia.com/~slarsson/medlinks.html
MetaCarta Geosearch for News (gives map with news items): http://geosearch.metacarta.com/
Music - Classical and Opera - used in Movies:  http://www.bohemianopera.com/classicmovhome.htm
Music (MP3 files):  http://mp3search.lycos.com/ and http://www.mp3.com/
News Library - searchs many newspaper archives: http://www.newslibrary.com/region_pgs/lneast_search.htm
Nonprofit Organizatons Search Engine - GuideStar:  http://www.guidestar.org/
Offender (Jail) Search (Federal and State Prison Systems): http://www.offender.us/
Penn State Listserve and interest groups (over 2000 of them): http://www.lsoft.com/scripts/wl.exe?SS1=LISTS.PSU.EDU
Pennsylvania Data Base Search:  http://www.internets.com/spennsylvania.htm
Pianopedia  - Information on over 800 Composers:  http://www.pianopedia.com/
Public Records Search:  http://www.searchsystems.net/, http://www.pac-info.com/  and   http://www.netronline.com/public_records.htm
Qualative Text,document, and other media analysis:  http://www.ualberta.ca/~jrnorris/qda.html
Religious Studies General Portal:  http://www.fontbonne.edu/libserv/fgic/contents.htm
Reporters' Desktop: http://www.reporter.org/desktop/
Research Paper Index:  http://www.researchindex.com/
Resource Finder:   http://www.rdn.ac.uk/resourcefinder/
Review Finder:  http://www.reviewfinder.com/
Scholars' Guide to WWW: http://members.aol.com/Dann01/webguide.html/
Schools, Colleges, Libraries Search Engine (via National Center for Educational Statistics):  http://nces.ed.gov/globallocator/
Science News Search Engine:  http://newstrove.com/science.html
Search.edu - specialized to searching ???.edu (educational institutions):http://www.searchedu.com/cgi-bin/search.dll
SearchEdu.com - Many categorical references; also searches university sites: http://www.searchedu.com/and http://www.academicresources.net/
SearchBooks.com - Searches for on-line books:  http://www.searchebooks.com/
Search Engines 2 - 12,500 Search Engine Directory:   http://www.search-engines-2.com/
SearchGov.com - Searches for Government Information:  http://www.searchgov.com/
SearchMil.com - Searches for Military Information:  http://www.searchmil.com/
Search Engine Blogs and Sites (Pandia):  http://www.pandia.com/searchworld/detective.html
Search Engine Guide:  http://www.searchengineguide.com/
Search Engine Watch:  http://www.searchenginewatch.com/firsttime.html
Searches via Many Search Engines(my personal favorites for general searches): http://www.google.com/  is the overall best. Other are:
http://www.metacrawler.com/, http://www.alltheweb.com/
Science and Technology Resources:  http://www.scitechresources.gov/
Sounds on the Web:  http://www.findsounds.com/types.html
Specialized Search Engines(List of):  http://www.infinisource.com/special-search-engines.html  and http://www.leidenuniv.nl/ub/biv/specials.htm
University Index - Braintrack search:  http://www.braintrack.com/
U.S. Department of Commerce Search Engine:  http://www.ntis.gov/
Virtual Chase Resources - Finding Facts:  http://www.virtualchase.com/resources/facts.shtml
Virtual Chase - Searching Health Data Bases:  http://virtualchase.com/search_engines/health_databases.html
Virtual Chase - How to for Searches:  http://www.virtualchase.com/howto/index.html
Virtual Chase - Searching Scientific Data Bases:  http://virtualchase.com/search_engines/science_databases.html
Vital Statistics - National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS): http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/howto/w2w/alphabet.htm
Weather Forecast Advisor (accuracy of various weather offerings): http://www.forecastadvisor.com/
Weather Data through Penn State Hourly Mesonet:   http://pasc.met.psu.edu/PA_Climatologist/index.php
Weather - U.S. (Underground):   http://www.wunderground.com/     Accuweather: http://www1.accuweather.com/
    Emergency Weather Advisories (by email): http://www.emergencye.com/
WebSearch:  http://websearch.about.com/
Global U.S. Postal Service (International rates, restrictions, etc.): http://www.uspsglobal.com/
Several Zip Code Data Bases and more:  http://www.melissadata.com/Lookups/index.htm
Zip + 4 Look Up, Postal Abbreviations, etc.  via USPS: http://www.usps.gov/ncsc/   and  http://www.usps.gov/ncsc/lookups/usps_abbreviations.htm
Zip Find Central:  http://zipfind.net/
    USPS Postage Computation: http://www.usps.com/tools/calculatepostage/
 

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Thanks to Michael Contino, Penn StateTelecommunications and Networking Services  for his contributions, particularly in the Geographic Mapping arena.