| January 14-20 2006 |
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"Benjamin Franklin: In His Own Words, indicates the depth and breadth of
Benjamin Franklin's public, professional, and scientific accomplishments
through important documents, letters, books, broadsides, and cartoons.
Marking the tercentenary of Franklin's birth, this exhibition, concentrates
on his achievements as a printer and writer, an inventor and scientist,
and, particularly, as a politician and statesman." |
| January 21-30 2006 |
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"Making of America (MoA) is a digital library of primary sources in American
social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection
is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American
history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. The collection
currently contains approximately 10,000 books and 50,000 journal articles
with 19th century imprints. For more details about the project, see About
MoA. Making of America is made possible by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation." |
| January 31-Feb 7 2006 |
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"Answers.com offers free access to millions of topics from the world's leading publishers." |
| February 7-13 2006 |
| Published by the CIA, this site contains useful information about all
of the countries of the world. |
| February 14-20 2006 |
| You can do many things with the data here, such as: Examine state and county topics for individual census years.
* examine multiple topics within a census year
* produce tables of data by state or county
* sort data by selected categories
* create ratios between any two data categories
Examine state and county topics over time.
* examine a topic across multiple census years
* produce tables of data by state or county
Generate maps of selected data |
| February 21-28 2006 |
| This is a great site maintained by Michigan State University, and is a
great resource for global business information. |
| March 1-15 2006 |
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"AmphibiaWeb, a site inspired by global amphibian declines, is an online system that allows free access to information on amphibian biology and conservation." |
| March 16-31 2006 |
| FAIR, the national media watch group, has been offering well-documented
criticism of media bias and censorship since 1986. |
| April 1-7 2006 |
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The online education, degrees, and distance learning guide. It is divided
into early childhood, K12, college and special education. There is also
a section on distance education and resources for teachers. |
| April 8-14 2006 |
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"The directory and search engine of insect-related resources on the Internet" |
| April 14-21 2006 |
| "The American Presidents web site, created for the television series, contains a complete video archive of all American Presidents: Life Portraits programming, plus these additional resources:
• Biographical facts
• Key events of each presidency
• Presidential places
• Reference material" |
| April 22-30 2006 |
| "What do you get if you cross a search engine with an encyclopedia? Factbites - a new way to
search the web. Other search engines spew out meaningless site-names and mangled phrases.
Factbites offers you real, meaningful sentences that are right on topic." |
| May 1-15 2006 |
| "ALM's Law.com is the Web's leading legal news and information network. Law.com connects legal
professionals to more than 20 award-winning national and regional legal publications online,
including The American Lawyer, The National Law Journal, New York Law Journal and Legal Times,
and delivers top legal news electronically to a growing national and global audience of
subscribers each day on The Newswire." |
| May 15-30 2006 |
| "The GrayLIT Network makes the gray literature of U.S. Federal Agencies easily accessible over the
Internet. It taps into the search engines of distributed gray literature collections, enabling the
user to find information without first having to know the sponsoring agency.
The GrayLIT Network is the world's most comprehensive portal to Federal gray literature. By offering a mode of communication for this hard-to-find class of literature,
the GrayLIT Network enables convenient access by the American public to government information." |
| June 1- July 23 2006 |
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"The PhysLink.com is a comprehensive physics and astronomy online education, research and reference web site.
In addition to providing high-quality content, PhysLink.com is a meeting place for professionals, students and other curious minds." |
| July 24-July 31 2006 |
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At this site you can compare countries by population, health, economy, technology, and environment. |
| August 1-9 2006 |
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"The EnviroLink Network is a non-profit organization which has been providing access to thousands of online environmental resources since 1991." |
| August 10-20 2006 |
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This is an online game that puts you running for the highest office of the land...that of President of the United
States. You will need to install the Adobe Flash and Shockwave plugins (free). |
| August 21-Sept 1 2006 |
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This is Worldcat's new web interface. Worldcat previously was a database
within FirstSearch, and now it has its own web address. You can search over
1 billion items held by over 10,000 libraries worldwide. |
| Sept 2-13 2006 |
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This the online version of the CQ Researcher, a weekly service that contains reports on topics of national interest. |
| Sept 14-24 2006 |
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This National Archives site contains information and images on the Declaration
of Independence, the Constitution of the United States, and the Bill of
Rights. |
| Sept 25-Oct 1 2006 |
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"NYPL Digital Gallery provides access to over 550,000 images digitized from primary sources and
printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts,
historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera,
and more." |
| Oct 2-9 2006 |
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"The National Weather Service (NWS) provides weather, hydrologic, and climate forecasts and
warnings for the United States, its territories, adjacent waters and ocean areas, for the protection
of life and property and the enhancement of the national economy. NWS data and products form a
national information database and infrastructure which can be used by other governmental agencies,
the private sector, the public, and the global community. " |
| Oct 10-15 2006 |
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"The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), located within the U.S. Department of Education and the Institute of Education Sciences, is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education." |
| October 16-22 2006 |
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"The National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS), created in 1972,
is a federally funded resource offering justice and substance abuse information"
This site contains full text publications from NCJRS sponsering agencies,
other valuable online resources, a list of conferences, workshops, seminars.
The Abstracts Database, which contains summaries of more than 190,000 criminal
justice publications. The NCJRS Web site provides limited information on
grants and funding. |
| October 23-29 2006 |
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This online library contains: technical, research and policy documents, links to government and
other significant websites and documents, books, technical reports, conference proceedings, journal articles
and on-going research in the field of transportation, current or recently completed transportation
research projects, intermodal transportation data sets, sources of Transportation Information - topical bibliographies,
transportation definitions and acronyms, and transportation directories - libraries, associations, and state departments.
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| October 30-Nov 7 2006 |
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This site was put up for the November 2006 elections by the AARP. The
link now takes you to an issues and elections page. |
| Nov 8- 19, 2006 |
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This site is truly the access point to government information for the
population of the U.S. At this site you can find out gas cheapest prices,
contact elected officials, apply for government jobs, and access all kids
of government information. |
| Nov 20- Dec 3, 2006 |
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"Science.gov is a gateway to over 50 million pages of authoritative selected
science information provided by U.S. government agencies, including research
and development results." |
| Dec 4, 2006- Jan 3, 2007 |
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This is a searchable database of "free, full text, quality controlled
scientific and scholarly journals." This database covers many subjects and
languages. "There are now 2720 journals in the directory. Currently 816
journals are searchable at article level. As of today 134851 articles are
included in the DOAJ service." |
