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Acronyms & Abbreviations

• Acronym Finder   search by acronym or whole words
• Abbreviations.com
• MediLexicon   Search acronyms and abbreviations for medicine, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, agrochemicals, and health care

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Africa

• Aluka  a digital library of scholarly resources from and about Africa
• AfricaResource  hosts 5 peer-reviewed journals
• Africabib   Searchable bibliography of scholarly research on Africa

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Almanacs

• Infoplease: Encyclopedia, Almanac, Atlas, Biographies, Dictionary, Thesaurus.
• The Old Farmer’s Almanac
• World Almanac (via OCLC FirstSearch)  Lake Forest College only
• Almanacs via LexisNexis  In the blue left menu, click "Sources," then "Browse Sources," then “Reference,” then “Encyclopedias and Almanacs,” then check the boxes for the almanacs you wish to search, and then the red OK - Continue button on the right. — Lake Forest College only

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Art & Architecture

• Getty Art & Architecture Thesaurus Online
• ArtLex: Dictionary of Visual Art
• VADS Visual Arts Data Service, from the University of Creative Arts —over 100,000 images that are free for use in education
• Artcyclopedia “The Guide to Great Art on the Internet”
• Imagebase  from the digital archives of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute —Conditions of Use
• Chicago Imagebase
• Digital Librarian: a librarian’s choice of the best of the Web
• Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture
• Great Buildings  indexed by the building’s date and name
• Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History  illustrated by the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection
• Metropolitan Museum of Art  images of and specifications for thousands of works of art
• OAIster  Digital material can be searched and sorted by Author/Creator, Title, etc.
• Prints and Photographs Reading Room (Library of Congress)  digital collections of images of fine art, architecture, cartoons, and other two-dimensional works — not all are in public domain, copyright restrictions apply
• SmartHistory  free, online, multimedia, art history textbook sponsored by the Kress Foundation
• Voice of the Shuttle: Art (Modern and Contemporary) links to many image-filled sites and other related resources
• Wikimedia Commons

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Biographies

• Biographical Dictionary-S9.com
• Biography.com
• Encyclopedia of World Biography
• Wikipedia

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Books & Publishing

• Lake Forest College bookstore
• CHOICE Reviews Online   Reviews of academic books — Lake Forest College Only
• Abebooks.com   Rare, new, used, and textbooks
• Alibris.com   Rare and hard-to-find books; used textbooks
• Amazon.com   New and used books, synopses, reviews
• Barnes & Noble   New, used, textbooks, synopses, reviews
• Book Review-a-Day   Reviews from Powells.com, The Atlantic, Esquire, New Republic, Salon.com
• BookFinder.com   new, used, rare, out of print, and international books
• Chegg.com  “Cheap textbook rentals”
• The New York Times: Books   Reviews
• Publishing: Electronic  (Open Directory - Business: Publishing and Printing: Publishing: Electronic)
• Powells.com   New and used books, synopses, reviews

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Business, Economics & Investment

• Hoover’s Online   Directory and investment information for private and public companies
  For more data, use LexisNexis: In the left blue menu, click "Companies." Then click "Company Profiles" and select “Hoover’s Company and Industry Reports." Enter the company name in the search box.
• EDGAR (Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval system)   SEC company filings
• Bank Rate Monitor   Rates and news for credit cards, auto loans, savings, etc.
• Bloomberg  Business news, financial data
• Reuters Business News, Finance News, Stock Market News   Includes company profiles
• Yahoo! Finance   Has symbol lookup, as well as quotes, charts, news, discussion about stocks, funds, and indices.
• ThomasNet   formerly Thomas Register of American Manufacturers
• Economic Research:  Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Includes several online economic research tools located on the lefthand side of the main page
• FRASER: Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research   historical U.S. economic statistics and publications
• Financial Times   U.S. version of a British financial publication, includes world-wide stock indices
• International Monetary Fund   Information on 185 member countries
• Country Risk and Economic Indicators (from Coface)   Analysis of the risks involved in trading in over 140 countries
• globalEDGE Resource Desk   (from International Business Center at Michigan State University) Resources on global business activities
• Business Plan Archive Collection of business plans and other documents, frequently from dot-com companies
• Groningen Growth & Development Centre International economic data
• Market Research World  Includes a useful glossary

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Calendars & Dates & Time

• Earth Calendar holidays and celebrations around the world
• [Perpetual] Calendar   Search for any date in history in many countries; from Time And Date.com
• Timeanddate.com
• Arabic Numeral / Roman Numeral Date Conversion Chart  

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Census

• U.S. Census Bureau
• American Factfinder   population, housing, economic, and geographic data
• Statistical Abstract   of the U.S. Census Bureau
• Historical Census Browser (from the University of Virginia Library)
• U.S. Census Guide   for materials at Lake Forest College
• Race/Ethnicity by zipcode —based on 2005-2010 data (requires Flash Player)
• Your Food Environment Atlas   store/restaurant proximity, food prices, food and nutrition assistance programs, and community characteristics

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Chicago

• City of Chicago
• Encyclopedia of Chicago
• Explore Chicago
• Chicago Reader  Current cultural & recreational events
• Chicago City Search
• Chicago Transit Authority Routes & Schedules
• Metra Schedules  Commuter rail for Chicagoland. The North Line, originating at Chicago's Ogilvie Transportation Center, is the only Metra route stopping in Lake Forest adjacent to Market Square.
• MuseumsUSA, Chicago Museum Directory
• Edward H. Bennett Collection: New Light on The Plan of Chicago 1909
• Virtual Burnham Initiative   —transforms a selection of flat images from the 1909 Plan of Chicago (by Daniel H. Burnham and Edward H. Bennett) into 3-D models accessible through this website. Free Google Earth software and Google SketchUp required for viewing.

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Classical Studies

• APIS:  Advanced Papyrological Information System

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Colleges & Universities

• College Source Online   over 50,589 college catalogs and over 42,400,000 course descriptions
• Colleges.com
• Peterson’s
• Princeton Review
• U.S. News & World Report College Rankings

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Consumer Information

• Consumer Reports
• Consumer Reports archives from 1984 - present, via EBSCO, Lake Forest College only.
        Click “Search within this publication.”
• Consumer Protection  "Your everyday guide to help you prevent identity theft, understand credit and be a smart shopper" —from the U.S. government
• Cost of Living Calculator  enter salary, current location, and new location
• CPSC  U. S. Consumer Protection Safety Commision
• Federal Trade Commission  from the U.S. government
• Gas Prices -MSN Autos  gas prices for the 60045 area
• Edmund’s   Automobile consumer page
• Identity Theft   from the Federal Trade Commission
• Kelley Blue Book   new and used car prices
• Product Reviews and Reports - ConsumerSearch.com
• Salary Calculator  search by job title and location
• USA.gov  this link goes directly to the Answers.USA.gov page

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Copyright

• Bound By Law an online comic book on copyright and film, from Duke University’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain
• Copyright & Fair Use  from Stanford University. See also: Measuring Fair Use: The Four Factors
• Copyright & Library Reserves  Donnelley and Lee Library, Lake Forest College copyright guidelines
• Copyright Crash Course  from the University of Texas
• Copyright For The Rest Of Us: A Guide For People Who Aren’t Lawyers  —free ebook by Marcia W. Keyser, Coordinator of Copyright Services and Instruction and Reference Librarian at Drake University
• Copyright Advisory Network  information and discussion
• Copyright Primer from the University of Maryland; requires a Javascript enabled browser and Flash Player
• Copyright Renewal Database  From Stanford. Search books published after 1923 (earlier are in public domain) through 1963 (year before automatically renewed by the 1976 Copyright Renewal Act).
• Guide To Using Copyrighted Media in Your Courses  from Baruch College; requires Flash Player
• U.S. Copyright Office

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Country Information

• Country Studies - Federal Research Division, Library of Congress  updated every 3 months; "historical setting and the social, economic, political, and national security systems and institutions of countries throughout the world"
• Country Profiles : Country Studies - Federal Research Division, Library of Congress  "brief, summarized information on a country’s historical background, geography, society, economy, transportation and telecommunications, government and politics, and national security"
• Background Notes   published by the U.S. State Department; "facts about the land, people, history, government, political conditions, economy, and foreign relations of independent states, some dependencies, and areas of special sovereignty;" see also: previous editions from 1990
• CIA World Factbook   "national-level information on countries, territories, and dependencies;" most updated weekly
• Constitutions of the World  from Findlaw.com
• Country Insights Cultural and economic information from the Centre for Intercultural Learning of the Canadian Foreign Service Institute of Foreign Affairs
• Foreign Information by Country   University of Colorado at Boulder
• Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
• Governments on the Web   Last updated 2002, but many well-organized, current links
• United Nations Multimedia  Press relases, radio and TV news reports, and photos
• World Heritage  from United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

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Dictionaries & Thesauri

• Dictionary.com  has pronunciations, translations, quotes
• Dictionary and Thesaurus - Merriam-Webster Online   dictionary, thesaurus, Spanish-English dictionary, medical dictionary, and consise encyclopedia
• Dictionary of English slang and colloquialisms of the UK
• NetLingo.com A dictionary of Internet-related terms and slang; links to List of Chat Acronyms & Text Message Shorthand and Emoticons
• OneLook   searches across multiple dictionaries, including slang dictionaries. Searches translations.
• Online Etymology Dictionary
• Oxford American College Dictionary  Go to the ESBCO eBooks and click on Dictionary in the blue bar at the top. Lake Forest College only.
• Oxford English Dictionary Online  Includes word origins and history of usage. Lake Forest College only
• Urban Dictionary current slang dictionary
• WordNet   a large lexical database of English from Princeton University
• Your dictionary.com  definitions include quotations; links to dictionaries in many languages

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Digital Books and Collections

Multi-disciplinary collections
• E-Books and E-Reference Books   Lake Forest College affiliates only
• Amazon   Find a book by title, author, keywords, and/or ISBN, then utilize the "Click to LOOK INSIDE!" feature to read select portions of books (useful for creating annotated bibliographies while waiting for your I-Share books to arrive).
• Virtual Books The British Library utilizes Turning the Pages software (may require Adobe Shockwave plugin);  examine details of manuscripts, also access translated text transcriptions or summaries
• Duke [University] Digital Collections  mid nineteenth through tweniteth centuries, U.S., Soviet, and Italian popular culture items; browse all collections
• EBSCO E-Books (formerly NetLibrary) Lake Forest College only
• Google Books   from the Advanced Book Search screen, select “Full view only” to retrieve whole books online
• HathiTrust Digital Library   Content is primarily from academic libraries. Use the Advanced Catalog Search, and under "Limit To:" check the box for "Full view only" to limit search results to full text.
• Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free Books, Movies, Music [and other audio] & Wayback Machine [archived web pages]  —also software —over 3 million items, including the 19th and early 20th century volumes of the College's student newspaper, The Stentor (see links in catalog record) and most volumes of the College's yearbook (see links in catalog record).
• Library and Archival Exhibitions On the Web  "over 3000 links to online exhibitions from libraries, archives, and museums around the world"
• The Online Books Page   links over 40,000 free online books and serials, browseable by Library of Congress Subject Headings; has lists of other digital collections
• Open Content Alliance (a program of the Internet Archive)  includes Project Gutenberg, Open Source Books, Government Documents, etc., all searchable by keywords or browsable by subject keywords, languages, date, etc.
• Open Library   goal is to have “one web page for every book ever published;” searchable records of over 13,439,320 books including over 234,857 with full-text. Includes fiction, various languages.
• Project Gutenberg   searchable text files of over 100,000 copyright-free books
• Project Gutenberg Australia   over 1,600 books in the public domain in Australia
• UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004   1982-2004. Over 500 of over 2,000 books are available to the public; books are from academic presses and cover sciences, humanities and fiction. Includes books not avialable via Google Books.
• Universal Digital Library: Million Book Collection, hosted by Carnegie Mellon University   —over one million searchable, digitized books; international
• UVa Library Digital Collection RepositoryTexts   Search over 11,000 texts from the University of Virginia library collection.

Art
• Smarthistory: a multimedia web-book about art and art history   free, online, multimedia, art history textbook sponsored by the Kress Foundation, produced with the Khan Academy

Biology
• Botanicus   18th and 19th century botanical literature from the Missouri Botanical Garden Library
• Scitable  free science library from Nature Publishing Group; covers mostly genetics and cell biology

Government Documents
• Government Documents (FDsys)  Includes history of bills since 1874; Supreme Court Decisions issued between 1937 and 1975; selected House, Senate, and treaty documents 1995; etc. Search User Manual (4MB PDF)
• National Academies  books on terrorism published by the National Academies Press

Historical Documents
• The King Center Archive  about one million digitized documents by and about Martin Luther King Jr.
• Library of Congress American Memory Project
 

Islamic Texts
• Al-Warraq Thousands of volumes of primary works in Arabic about Islam and Islamic civilization (in Arabic)
• Ottoman Text Archive Project
• Omphaloskepsis – Major works of some Muslim mystics (in translation)
• The Arabian Nights (Alf layla wa layla) and the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (in translation)
• Dar ul-Masnavi – electronic version of the poems of Rumi (in translation)
• Sufi Literature Archive
• Islamic Philosophy Online
• Islamic History Sourcebook
• Islamic Manuscripts (Michigan) – part of the Hathi Trust Digital Library

Literature
• TEAMS Middle English Texts
• Internet Classics Archive   hosted by MIT

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Elections

• Government Information: Elections  Donnelley and Lee Library at Lake Forest
• IFES Election Guide (International Foundation for Electoral Systems)   describes electoral system of the country and gives past and current results. Search by year or country.

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Energy

• Energy Information Administration (EIA): Official Energy Statistics from the U.S. Government   Petroleulm Data, Reports, Analysis, Surveys

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Encyclopedias

• Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia   via EBSCO, Lake Forest College only
• EH.Net: Encyclopedia of Economic and Business History
• Encyclopaedia Britannica  sign up for at least a trial subscription to view full text, or visit the Lake Forest public library or other subscribing libraries
• Encyclopedia Article and More from Merriam-Webster
• Wikipedia, “the free encyclopedia,” is updated constantly by any contributor (often an authority on the topic) who provides neutral-bias references from reputable sources that do not represent original research by the contributor.

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English

• Geoffrey Chaucer
• TEAMS Middle English Texts

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Environment

• Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES)   formerly the Pew Center on Global Climate Change
• Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health   Information and images (about using images)
• Chicago Wilderness Magazine   searchable, full-text articles, free online
• Earth First! Journal   “voice of the radical environmental movement”
• EcoEarth.Info   Environment Portal & Search Engine
• EcoTox database  a “tool for examining impacts of chemicals on the environment.” About EcoTox.
• Encyclopedia of Earth
• Envirolink
• Forest Protection Portal — Rainforest, Forest and Biodiversity Conservation News & Information;  searchable, non-profit conservation website
• Friends of the Earth  an international network of environmentalists
• Greenpeace International
• League of Conservation Voters 
• MSDS (Material Safety Data Sheet) Hazard Communication Library
• National Center for Appropriate Technology, “local solutions for a sustainable future”
• Political Advocacy Groups:  A Directory of United States Lobbyists  —select subjects, e.g., Environment (General)
• Rainforest Action Network
• Sierra Club 
• TRI (Toxics Release Inventory)    a database that contains detailed information on nearly 650 chemicals and chemical categories that over 23,000 industrial and other facilities manage through disposal or other releases, recycling, energy recovery, or treatment
• US Environmental Protection Agency
• Voice of Agriculture - VOA - American Farm Bureau 
• World Resources Institute | Global Warming, Climate Change, Ecosystems, Sustainable Markets, Good Governance & the Environment
• World Watch Institute: Vision for a Sustainable World

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Exchange Rates & Currency

• Currencies of the World
• Purchasing Power of US Dollar Calculator   Compare purchasing power of money from 1775 to present
• Travel Exchange Rates   Generate a pocket-sized currency exchange rate list
• What is a dollar worth?  (Right side of page) Consumer Price Index Calculator.  From the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Calculate the change in prices over time from 1913 - present

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Genealogy

• Cindi’s List   Genealogy resource website since 1996, updated regularly
• Ellis Island - Free Port of New York Passenger Records Search
• Family Genealogy and History Internet Education Directory - Wiki
• FamilySearch.org — Free Family History and Genealogy Records
• Lifehacker   Where to find public records online
• Online Searchable Death Indexes & Records
• Rootsweb   Ancestry.com -- commercial website, available at the Lake Forest public library and some other libraries or by subscription

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Government Information

• Catalog of U.S. Government Publications
• Free Government Information (FGI)  includes information gathered by academic librarians, non-profit organizations, government watchdogs, academics and researchers, journalists, the business community
• Government Documents  web pages of Donnelley and Lee Library, Lake Forest College
• Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL)  sponsored by the Naval Postgraduate School Center for Homeland Defense and Security and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s National Preparedness Directorate, FEMA. To access some collections, you may be required to register.
• Political Advocacy Groups:  A Directory of United States Lobbyists
• THOMAS (Library of Congress)  Federal and congressional information, schedules and calendars, treaties, etc.
• USA.gov: The U.S. Government's Official Web Portal

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Grants/Financial Aid

• FAFSA on the Web-Federal Student Aid
• FinAid!   Financial Aid, College Scholarships and Student Loans
• The Foundation Center  Research Grant Programs & Fundraising
• GrantsWeb  provided by the non-profit SRA (Society of Research Administrators) International
• Grants & Scholarships at Lake Forest

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History

• American Memory  from the Library of Congress
• The American Presidency Project  over 97,000 documents from UC Santa Barbara
• American President: A Reference Resource  University of Virginia’s Miller Center of Public Affairs
• ECHO: Exploring & Collecting History Online  A project of the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University —a directory to 5,000+ websites concerning the history of science, technology, and industry
• Encyclopedia of Chicago
• The Founders’ Constitution
• The National Archives  UK government’s official archive
• Featured Exhibits  Digital exhibits of the National Archives
• Timelines - Alternatime  from Cansius College, Buffalo, NY

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Holidays & Festivals

• Earth Calendar   holidays and celebrations around the world
• Federal Holidays   listed for 1997 - 2020, from the Federal Office of Personnel Management
• Holidays Worldwide  from timeanddate.com

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Illinois & States

• 50 States and Capitals
• FedStats: MapStats
• Illinois.gov   the official website for the state of Illinois
• Illinois State and Local  Donnelley and Lee Library, Lake Forest College, Illinois & Local Government Information web page

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Jobs

• Careers and Internships (website of the Lake Forest College Career Advancement Center)
  See also: Online Career Center (to search for jobs and internships)
• Craig’s List
• Monster.com
• Occupational Outlook Handbook  provided by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor
• The Riley Guide: Employment Opportunities and Job Resources on the Internet

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Lake Forest College

• Campus map
• College website
• Daily Crime Log
• Directory   faculty, staff, and students
• Donnelley and Lee Library
• Forester Athletics
• Moodle  portal for individual course information for Lake Forest College students, faculty, and staff
• MyLakeforest  information portal for Lake Forest College students, faculty, and staff
• The Stentor   the student newspaper of Lake Forest College
• Eukaryon   an award-winning undergraduate journal of life science scholarship at Lake Forest College

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Legal Resources

• LII: Legal Information Institute  from Cornell University Law School, includes Legal Encyclopedia
• EISIL - Electronic Information System for International Law
• Findlaw  Lawyer Search
• Find a Lawyer directory from Martindale and LexisNexis
• FindLaw: US Supreme Court Center
• The Founders’ Constitution
• Global Legal Information Network
• Guide to the Law Online   from the Library of Congress
• JuriGlobe   world legal systems; from the University of Ottawa
• Justia   a secondary source on state and federal laws good for non-lawyers
• Laws of Illinois   digitized historic Illinois laws through Western Illinois University
• Lawyers.com "Lawyer, Attorney, Law Firms, Attorneys, Legal Information" from LexisNexis
• The Oyez Project at IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law | A Multimedia Archive of the Supreme Court of the United States
• Pre-Law   resources for students
• The Supreme Court Database

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Libraries

• lib-web-cats: an International Directory of Libraries
• Library WWW Servers
• Other Library Catalogs  Includes local public, Northwestern University, & University of Chicago libraries;
  see also: Using Other Local Libraries

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Maps & Atlases

• David Rumsey Historical Map Collection  digitized maps from the 14th to the 21st centuries; browse or search by subject, location, date
• Digital Sanborn Maps  City maps, 1867-1970, 50 ft. per inch, access to Illinois maps only, Lake Forest College affiliates only
• Explore Chicago  download maps
• Google Earth   download free software
• Google Maps
• Lake County Interactive Mapping Application  Search or zoom in to land parcel view to produce a labeled map showing tax assessment, date last sold, or date of construction, or search by address or PIN (property index number).
• Lake Forest College campus map
• U.S. Board on Geographic Names (BGN)  Domestic or foreign and Antarctica. Search Domestic Names to identify official titles of locations by searching keyword and by fields of landmark type (e.g., summit, range, airport, island, hospital).
• Historical Maps Online (digital collections of the University of Illinois) “…images of maps charting the last 400 years of historical development in Illinois and the Northwest Territory….”   browse by theme.  See also Library Digital Content Collections (Local) and select Historical Maps Online.
• Map Collections:  American Memory  primarily Americana and Cartographic Treasures of the Library of Congress not covered by copyright
• Mapquest  Driving directions, travel distances & more
• MapMaker Interactive: National Geographic Education   Generate physical, cultural, statistical, historical and street maps
• Rand McNally  Maps, directions
• U.S. Census Bureau Map Products  
• University of Texas Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection   Includes links to city and other maps worldwide

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Medicine & Health

• CDC - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention   division of the United States Department of Health & Human Services
• Consumer Health Complete   Lake Forest College only
• Health Source: Consumer Edition   Lake Forest College only
• Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition   Lake Forest College only
• Medline Plus  Directory of health resources created by the National Library of Medicine.
• MediLexicon   Search acronyms and abbreviations for medicine, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, agrochemicals, and health care
• Physician’s Desk Reference
• PubMed Central   full-text articles from scholarly journals
• State Health Facts   from Kaiser Family Foundation
• WHO - World Health Organization   agency of the United Nations
• World Health News articles from NewsBank

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Movies & Television

• AllMovie
• Chicago Reader Movies Section
• EarlyCinema.com
• Encyclopedia of Television (1st edition)
• Hulu   watch television episodes and movies online
• InBaseline - The Industry's TV and Movie Database  posts earlier and more completely than IMDB the actors, producers, etc. involved in a project
• International Film Guide  includes financial information
• Internet Movie Database (IMDB)
• Movie Review Query Engine  "the Internet’s largest database of movie reviews for over 90,000 titles"
• Metacritic.com  movie and television reviews
• Television Without Pity
• TV.com

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Museums & Art Galleries

• MuseumsUSA, Chicago Museum Directory
• Explore Chicago  Under "Type," select "Museums & Zoos," and click the Go button.
• Museum of Online Museums
• Library and Archival Exhibitions On the Web  "over 3000 links to online exhibitions from libraries, archives, and museums around the world"

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Music

• Chicago Reader: Music
• All-Music Guide
• American Roots Music
• HFA Songfile   Information on licensing and permissions for copyrighted songs
• Lyrics Search Engine
• Naxos Music Library   Search and stream classical and other music. —Lake Forest College only
• Operabase  covers over 600 theaters world wide from 1996 to the present

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News

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Patents & Trademarks

• US Patent & Trademark Office
• Google Patent Search (beta)
• Patent Lens patents around the world

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Philosophy

• MindPapers: A Bibliography of the Philosophy of Mind and the Science of Consciousness  part of PhilPapers: online research in philosophy
• The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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Pre-Law

• Association of American Law Schools
• Internet Legal Research Group - Law, Lawyer, Lawyers, Attorney, Attorneys and Legal Resources
• Law School Admission Council (LSAC)
• Legal Resources
• Peterson’s Graduate Financial Aid

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Public Opinion Polls

• Afrobarometer  African opinion poll results
• LexisNexis   Add the key words “poll” or “survey” to your search terms
• The Pew Research Center for the People and the Press
• Pollingreport.com
• Public Opinion Analysis  European Commission public opinion surveys from 1973-present
• Survey Question Bank  Survey designs
• World Values Survey

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Publishing & Books

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Quotations

• Life Quotes Lib
• Quotations Archive
• The Quotations Page

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Reference assistance

• Ask a Lake Forest College Librarian
• Government Information Online

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Religion & Religious Texts

• Bhagavad-Gita  2001 translation by Sanderson Beck.
  See also: Bhagavad Gita from Wikipedia.
• Bible Gateway search the Bible
• Bible Study Tools
• Hadith
• Hebrew Bible in English
• Hindu Sacred Texts
• I-Ching  in English
• Koran  in English
• Lives of the Saints (1894 Benziger Brothers edition)
• Mishneh Torah Maimonides, 1170 - 1180; in English
• Unbound Bible  searchable in various languages and versions
• Virtual Religion Index provides links to various religion-related websites

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Science & Technology

• ArXiv   open access to 465,906 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology and Statistics — from Cornell University
• Dictionary of Science: Web Links   from University of Oxford Press
• Glossary of Internet & Web Jargon from U. C. Berkeley
• How Stuff Works
• Mathematical Constants
• NetLingo.com A dictionary of Internet-related terms
• PubChem   search by compound, substance, bioassay, or structure
• Vadlo.com  search life sciences within five categories: Protocols, Products, Powerpoints, Bioinformatics.
• W3Schools: Learn to Create Websites
• WebElements - Periodic Table of Elements
• WolframAlpha Computational Knowledge Engine  enter equations or natural language questions
• World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
• The XML Toolkit

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Speeches

• American Rhetoric  see specifically: Top 100 Speeches of the 20th Century by Rank
• Presidential Speech Archive—Miller Center  University of Virginia

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Sports

• Lake Forest College Athletics
• Chicago Link to All Sports
• ESPN
• Scholarly Sports Sites: A Subject Directory

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Statistics  See also: Census

• Energy Information Administration (EIA): Official Energy Statistics from the U.S. Government   Petroleulm Data, Reports, Analysis, Surveys
• Foreign Trade   from the U.S. Census Bureau
• Global Health Facts  from the Kaiser Family Foundation
• Liber 8: An Economic Information Portal for Librarians and Students   international, national, and regional economic statistics
• National Climatic Data Center Online (call 847-735-5074 for username and password)
• National Geophysical Data Center   of the NOAA Satellite and Information Service.  Data on tsunamis, solar flares, ocean drilling, etc.
• OFFSTATS: Official Statistics on the Web   from the University of Auckland, includes health, economics, labor, etc.
• Kaiser State Health Facts  
• Statistical Abstract   Note: "The U.S. Census Bureau is terminating the collection of data for the Statistical Compendia program effective October 1, 2011."
• United Nations Statistics Division   data on international trade, national accounts, energy, industry, environment and demographic and social statistics gathered from national and international sources, including:
  • International Trade Statistics Knowledgebase
  • Knowledgebase on Economic Statistics - Methods and Country Practices.
  • National Accounts Main Aggregates Database   Download spreadsheets showing GDP statistics for most nations from 1970 to two years ago. See also in print: LL Ref HC79.15 N373
  • United Nations Statistics Division - Trade Statistics this site and the International Trade Statistics Yearbook (REF HF91 .U473A, volumes from 1980 – 2007) have much overlapping information, but some is only available in print, and some online. Online are tables of International Trade Statistics 1900 – 1960 and the International Trade Statistics Yearbook from 1992 to the most recent available.
  • UNdata   easily selected data covering agriculture, employment, education, energy, environment, health, human development, industry, information and communication technology, population, refugees, trade, and tourism.
• Weatherbase   global averages and records
• WolframAlpha Computational Knowledge Engine   enter equations or natural language questions
• World Bank Open Data   Browse, map, graph, or download data on developing economies by country or topic on over 4,000 indicators.

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Tax Forms

• Tax Forms links to useful federal and state tax forms
• IRS - Forms and Publications
• Illinois Department of Revenue  forms index

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Telephone & Email Directories

• Yahoo People Search   Search by name or phone number
• Yahoo Local  
• WhitePages.com   Includes area code look-up, reverse look-up by street address and reverse look-up by phone number
• Switchboard.com     White pages, yellow pages, maps, area codes, and zip codes
• Freeality Email Addresses and Reverse Lookup   Reverse phonebooks, reverse email, and cell phone lookup tools
• Do Not Call Registry   Sign up through the Federal Trade Commission to stop receiving telemarketing calls
• Infobel   international telephone directories

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Terrorism

• Combating Terrorism Technology Support Office (CTTSO) operates as a program office under the Assistant Secretary of Defense (ASD) for Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict and Interdependent Capabilities (SO/LIC & IC).; CTTSO partners: Israel, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Singapore
• Council on Foreign Relations  ”an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher”
• Country Reports on Terrorism
• Federal Bureau of Investigation  Counterterrorism
• Foreign Terrorist Organizations
• Homeland Security Digital Library  Lake Forest College access
• Homeland Security Studies and Analysis Institute  
• International Institute for Counter-Terrorism
• National Academies Press  free online books on terrorism
• National Commision on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (the 9-11 Commision) - includes the Report, staff statements, press releases, hearings. Note: website frozen on September 20, 2004
• National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC)  links to Worldwide Incidents Tracking System, FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorists list, and annual reports on terrorism incidents
• Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism (of the U.S. Department of State)
• Patriot Act  PDF of the 132-page document, provided by findlaw.com
• Patriot Act Page  in depth analysis of the Patriot Act from the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
• RAND: Terrorism and Homeland Security  a nonprofit research organization
• UN Action to Counter Terrorism  includes the UN Counter-Terrorism Online Handbook

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Theater/Performing Arts

• Current theater in Chicagoland
• American Variety Stage:  Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment, 1870-1920  Library of Congress’s American Memory multimedia collection of popular entertainment materials from 1870-1920
• Performing Arts in America, 1875-1923 New York Public Library ‘s online collection of historical performing arts materials from this time period

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Timelines

• Digital History   "...designed and developed to support the teaching of American History in K-12 schools and colleges and is supported by the Department of History and the College of Education at the University of Houston"
• Time-line: History and Arts   data from Grout's (1980) A History of Western Music (3rd ed.) and Stokstad's (1999) Art History (revised ed.)
• Timelines - Alternatime  from Cansius College, Buffalo, NY
• US History Timeline   maintained by Dr. Quintard Taylor, Jr., Scott and Dorothy Bullitt Professor of American History, University of Washington, Seattle, 1999-

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Travel

General travel resources
• CDC Travel Information   Recommended immunizations, health advisories for travellers
• US State Department Travel Site
• Tourism Offices Worldwide
• Rough Guides
• HomeExchange.com

Air
• Expedia
• Kayak
• Orbitz
• Priceline.com
• Travelocity

Maps & Driving Directions
• Google Maps  greater detail, satellite images option
• Mapquest
• Mapsonus
• ViaMichelin   International driving directions and tourism information
• Rand McNally
• Google Earth   download free software

Rail
• Amtrak
• Chicago Transit Authority Routes & Schedules
• Metra Schedules  Commuter rail for Chicagoland. The North Line, originating at Chicago's Ogilvie Transportation Center, is the only Metra route stopping in Lake Forest adjacent to Market Square.

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Weather

• WeatherLink recorded at Lake Forest College. Note: Wind speed is not currently being recorded.
• Weather Forecast: Lake Forest, IL  from theweathernetwork.com
• Weather Underground for Lake Forest, Illinois
• Lake Forest Weather Forecasts on Yahoo! Weather
• Weatherbase global averages and records
• Weather.com for Lake Forest, Illinois
• Wind Chill Calculator
• National Weather Service Forecast for Lake Forest
• National Climatic Data Center Online (call 847-735-5074 for username and password)

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Weights & Measurements

• WWW Unit Converter  easy to use
• Online Conversion.com to convert terrajoules, under All Conversion Pages and Categories, scroll to Energy
• AllConversions.com - length, mass, power, pressure, speed, volume, energy, bytes, force, density, area, temperature, metric, imperial
• Roman Numeral Conversion  
• Wind Chill Calculator

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Writing Guides & Style Manuals

• Hacker Guide
• Chicago Manual of Style: Q & A
• Lake Forest College citation guides
• Purdue OWL (Online Writing Lab)

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Zip Codes

• USPS - Zip Code Lookup
• Zip Code look-up   from Whitepages.com
• Switchboard