JobStar - The premier California job search guide - start here to research careers, research employers, find salary information, find guides to resumes, and access job listings.
California Occupational Guides - "a series of about 300 information sheets covering individual occupations or groups of related occupations. They provide statewide information about job duties, working conditions, employment outlook, wages, benefits, entrance requirements, and training."
Annual reports from the SEC - Search the Edgar database to find information on publicly traded companies.
10k Wizard - Quick interface to finding information provided to the SEC on publicly traded companies.
Bay Area Jobs - "a central repository or 'meta-list' of links to individual employment sites within the greater San Francisco region."
Internshipprograms.com - browse this site's database to research and apply to internship programs.

Assist - "Your official source for California articulation and student transfer information."
California College Guide - information from The California Postsecondary Education Commission.
College Net - guide to graduate and undergraduate programs, financial aid, etc. You can actually apply to some colleges (those accepting online applications) through this site.
CollegeSource Online - FREE access to college catalogs from all over the U.S., and from some abroad as well.
FAFSA - U.S. Department of Education site devoted to the "Free Application for Federal Student Aid."
FastWeb Scholarship Search - provides free web-based scholarship search.
FinAid: The Financial Aid Information Page - Extensive links, if not pretty to look at, "this page provides a free, comprehensive, independent, and objective guide to student financial aid."
IPEDS College Opportunities On-Line - find information about specific schools, or search for colleges by location, program or degree offerings. This site is provided by the U.S. Department of Education.
Peterson's - includes full-text search of over 1,000 in-depth descriptions of two- and four-year colleges.
The Princeton Review - includes school rankings, financial aid information, etc.
America's Best Colleges from US News Online.
U.S. Universities & Community Colleges - links to U.S. college and university home pages.

ABAG Online - Association of Bay Area Governments site features links to earthquake and environmental information, regional planning information, and basic information about the San Francisco Bay Area.
Alameda County - official page for the County government, agencies, and departments.
Bay Area Census 2000 Data by Population, Race, Sex, Age & Housing, provided by the Association of Bay Area Governments.
California Ballot Propositions (1911-present) - search by proposition number or keyword to get the full text of ballot propositions.
California Legislation - track Senate and Assembly Bills, or access full-text of California laws.
California Code of Regulations - searchable and browsable.
CIA World Fact Book - prepared by the Central Intelligence Agency for the use of US Government officials, the Fact Book provides profiles of countries of the world.
City of Fremont - Official web site for the city government.
Core Documents of U.S. Democracy - Provided by the Government Printing Office, this site includes full-text of the Constitution, Declaration of Independence, Bill of Rights, the Budget, Census information, Federal Laws and Regulations, and more.
Counting California - provides a single interface to economic and social science information from various California, federal and local agencies.
Country Studies/Area Handbooks - Each online handbook, provided by the Library of Congress, deals with a particular foreign country, describing and analyzing its political, economic, social, and national security. The site presently contains studies of 91 countries.
Frequently Used Sites Related to U.S. Federal Government Information - links to government information categorized by level of government and by subject.
FindLaw - Huge comprehensive site with links to cases, codes, legal guides, etc.
Jurist - this "portal" site is a "gateway to authoritative legal instruction, information and scholarship online."
Legal Information Institute - a clean and comprehensive site including extensive legal resources.
Lexnotes - a directory including legal "research sources, bibliographies, pathfinders, articles, reviews, papers, and legal news."
List of Federal Agencies on the Internet - an unannotated list of links to agencies within the Federal Government.
Oyez U.S. Supreme Court Multimedia - includes information about and digital recordings of major constitutional cases decided by the Supreme Court.
Supreme Court decisions - contains all opinions of the Court issued since May of 1990, as well as some of the most important historical decisions of the Court and general information about the court system
Statistical Abstract - "As the National Data Book it contains a collection of statistics on social and economic conditions in the United States. Selected international data are also included."
Thomas - use this service from the Library of Congress to track Federal Legislation and follow the activities of Congress.
Virtual Law Library - A good starting place, this site contains extensive links to legal information of all kinds.

Library web sites often provide, in addition to information about their collections and services, useful reference information of all kinds. Tip: if you have a library card from a public library system, you may be able to log in over the web to search the general or specialized periodical databases these libraries license.

CALIFORNIA LIBRARIES CATALOG - Single search of all California public libraries (and many other participating libraries throughout the state).

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The Argus - Fremont's local paper.
Electronic Journal Miner - a keyword, subject and title searchable tool for finding and accessing electronic journals.
Looksmart's FindArticles.com - This free searchable archive "contains articles dating back to 1998 from more than 300 magazines and journals."
San Francisco Chronicle and Examiner - Covers news and information for the San Francisco Bay Area
Mercury News - The San Jose Mercury News serves the heart of the Silicon Valley with complete coverage of technology, business, sports and local news.
New California Media - This site provides a weekly digest of news from the ethnic press.
New York Times - National newspaper of record.
Newslink.org - Links to thousands of newspapers, magazines and other media links.
ThePaperboy.com - online newspaper directory.
Yahoo! News

All the Worlds Maps - links to country and major city maps worldwide. Other directory information, such as telephone codes and embassy searches is also available.
AmeriStat - maintained by the Population Reference Bureau to provide "instant summaries in graphics and text of the demographic characteristics of the U.S. population."
Altapedia Online - contains "full color physical and political maps as well as key facts and statistics on countries of the world."
Bartlett's familiar quotations - online version of 1901 edition of Familiar Quotations, 9th ed.
Biography Find - searchable database includes brief entries reproduced from the Cambridge Biographical Encyclopedia on 20,000 personalities.
Bloomsbury.com Research centre - provides free searchable access to this publishers reference books. Includes works on literature, art, language, mythology and human thought.
Britannica.com - The complete, updated Encyclopedia Britannica, free online. Also includes "Books in Print," some magazine articles, and Britannica's Internet Guide to high quality sites.
Encarta Reference - this site from Microsoft includes searchable Encyclopedia, Dictionary and Atlas.
Glossarist - "a searchable directory of glossaries and topical dictionaries."
Great Books Online - reference books in this free online full-text collection include the Columbia Encyclopedia, Gray's Anatomy, the King James Bible, Bulfinches Mythology, and many others. The site also includes the full-text of a large number of classic literary works.
Infoplease.com - online dictionary, encyclopedia and almanacs.
Lives, The Biography Resource - this guide to biographies on the web includes links to "thousands of biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, diaries, letters, narratives, oral histories and more." Includes only links to information about people no longer living.
Measure 4 Measure - "A collection of sites that estimate, calculate, evaluate and translate."
Merriam-Webster Dictionary - includes dictionary and thesaurus tools.
Onelook - combined search of a large number of general and specialized dictionaries.
Public Record Locator - a large searchable collection of free (and for fee) public records on the internet
Quoteland.com - "Find quotations on anything; identify quotations by anyone."
Roget's Internet Thesaurus from Thesaurus.com.
TimePix - search (with free registration) and view online the hundreds of thousands of modern and historical photographs from the Time Inc. collection.
Virtual Reference Desk - A little overwhelming, this site has links to every conceivable type of reference material, including more sites like itself. Partial list of categories: Acronyms - Atomic Clock - Calculator - Calendar - Classifieds - Comics - Crosswords - Daily Almanac - Bartlett's Quotations - Biography - Census - Document Center - OneLook Dicts. - Maps - PeopleSearch - Ready Ref. - Roget's Thesaurus - Statistics - Stock Quotes - Symbols - Travel - Unit Converter - World Fact Book - Yellow Pages - Reference Shelves on the Internet - Net TrafficReport/Technology News - USA & World Newspapers
Virtual Reference Shelf - Selected Web Resources from the Library of Congress.
WordReference.com - provides a number or free translation dictionaries, and includes a browser tool which allows you to translate words encountered on web sites.

Search Tools Chart - summary comparison of features and search syntax for selected search tools, including some listed below.
Recommended Search Sites
Search Engines:
Ask.com
Google
Yahoo

Metasearch engines: Search multiple engines simultaneously
Ixquick
Clusty
Searching the "Invisible Web"
The Invisible-Web.net - including a browsable collection of databases on various topics, this site is a companion to the book by Chris Sherman and Gary Price.
direct search - a compilation of links to the "search interfaces of resources that contain data not easily or entirely searchable/accessible from general search tools."
Directory sites
Librarians' Internet Index - a very well selected and annotated directory.
INFOMINE - directory of scholarly resources maintained at UC Riverside.
WWW Virtual Library - "oldest catalog of the web, started by Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the web itself. Unlike commercial catalogs, it is run by a loose confederation of volunteers, who compile pages of key links for particular areas in which they are expert; even though it isn't the biggest index of the web, the VL pages are widely recognized as being amongst the highest-quality guides to particular sections of the web."

Internet & Information Literacy Tutorials
Internet for Research - online tutorial from the Ohlone College Library
Finding Information on the Internet: A Tutorial - excellent, detailed guide from UCB's Teaching Library
Learnthenet.com en Español Spanish language Internet tutorial
TILT (Texas Information Literacy Tutorial) - Seeks to prepare users to "explore and research in the online world."

A Guide for Writing Research Papers based on Modern Language Association (MLA) Documentation - guide prepared by Capital Community-Technical College Hartford, Connecticut.
A+ Research & Writing for High School & College Students. This "online book" is includes a "Step by Step" guide to researching and writing a paper, a section on finding information, and links to additional resources for research and writing.
Complete Topic Index from Debatabase - useful if you are looking for a paper topic.
Hot Paper Topics - more help for coming up with and researching your paper idea, this site provides a compilation of links to sites covering various "hot" paper topics such as affirmative action, "English only," gun control, welfare reform, etc.
Links to the News - from the Poynter Institute for Media Studies, links to "valuable Web resources on current and previous news topics."
Elements of Style - online version of Strunk's popular style guide
Public Agenda Online - Guides on many social issues offer a "nonpartisan briefing on policy and polling -- including 'red flags' where poll results may be misleading; a digest of news, legislation, and studies; research sources -- and much more."
Dr. Grammar - answers to frequently asked grammar questions provided by an English professor at the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls, Iowa.

Artcyclopedia - "Our mission is to become the definitive and most effective guide to museum-quality fine art on the Internet."
AskART.com - Free searchable directory of about 30,000 American artists. Entries include examples of works, information on museum holdings and auctions, brief biographies, and citations to books and periodicals.
Digital Archive of Art - Online images from Boston College
Masters of Photography - In addition to photographs, this site contains articles and links to further resources.
American Museum of Photography - a privately held collection of images from the first 75 years of photography - includes "Masterworks of Photography" exhibit.
Glass Museum - Online images and articles, including the "Glass Encyclopedia."

The Deaf Resource Library - "an online collection of reference material and links intended to educate and inform people about Deaf cultures in Japan and the United States; as well as deaf and hard of hearing related topics."
Deafness/Hard of Hearing Guide from About.com - "This site will focus on useful information and interaction opportunities for the deaf/hard of hearing community, and their hearing families and friends." Includes links to online ASL dictionaries.
ASL Browser - "Michigan State University's ASL Browser web site, an online American Sign Language (ASL) browser where you can look up video of thousands of ASL signs and learn interesting things about them."
San Francisco Public Library Deaf Services Center - extensive resources including "books, magazines and videos about American Sign Language, Deaf culture, interpreting, parenting, hearing loss, deafness and other related subjects."
Sound and Fury - based in part on a PBS documentary, this site includes sections on deaf culture and the debate over cochlear implants.

Bio Links Online Database - a part of the Biozone site, this is a subject-specific database of annotated links to sites on a variety of topics in biology.
Biology Browser - provided by Biosis, this site includes free access to reerence materials published by Biosis, as well as links to outside resources.

Business.com - This specialized directory and search engine, intended for business professionals, includes more than 400,000 listings within 25,000 industry, product and service subcategories. The search engine is "designed to help its users find the companies, products, services, and information they need to make the right business decisions."
The 200 Best Small Companies in America - by Forbes.
Researching Companies Online - This tutorial describes and links to numerous resources for company research.
RFE - browse or search this collection of Internet resources in Economics, or use the related Economics Search Engine.

Citeseer - A highly sophisticated search tool and digital library of scientific documents emphasizing computer science.
New User Tutorial - a site "designed to help people who have never used a computer before...concentrate[s] on using the mouse and a few other basic skills."
TechTutorials - a directory with links to over 1600 free computer tutorials and whitepapers.
whatis.com - a "knowledge exploration tool about information technology, especially about the Internet and computers. It contains over 2,000 individual encyclopedic definition/topics and a number of quick-reference pages. The topics contain about 12,000 hyperlinked cross-references between definition-topics and to other sites for further information."

Earlychildhood.com - this site provides articles, discussion and links to resources for parents and early childhood educators.
ECRP: Early Childhood Research & Practice - "a bilingual [Spanish and English] Internet journal on the development, care, and education of young children."
The Educator's Reference Desk - resource guides, lesson plans and other information including annotated links to high quality sites related to early childhood education.
ERIC - Education Resources Information Center - home of the ERIC database, "the world’s premier database of journal and non-journal education literature."
Idea box - includes ideas and resources for early childhood education activities.

Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE) - "a geoscience community resource that supports teaching and learning about the Earth system."
EarthTrends - from the World Resources Institute, this portal site includes a searchable database and other resources on "environmental, social and economic trends that shape our world."

Activities for ESL Students - "There are over 1,000 quizzes, exercises and puzzles on the a4esl.org website to help you study English as a Second Language."
English Language Centre Study Zone - includes lessons and exercises covering grammar, reading and vocabulary.
ESL Cafe Web Guide - a specialized web directory for ESL-related sites.
ESL Independent Study Lab - An annotated directory of over 200 web sites for the ESL student.
English as a Second Language - a "starting point for ESL learners who want to learn English through the World Wide Web."
Interesting Things for ESL Students - "Word games, puzzles, quizzes, exercises, slang, proverbs and much more."
Tower of English - a directory, browsable by subject, of Internet sites where ESL students can practice real English. Includes practice exercises related to each site.

AFRO-American Almanac - this resource provides a "historical perspective of a nation, its people, and its cultural evolution."
Amdocs: Documents for the Study of American History - a large directory of primary sources, browsable by time period, and provided by the University of Kansas.
American Memory Project - From the Library of Congress, these are "digitized documents, photographs, recorded sound, moving pictures and text...the program provides a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States."
American Presidents: Life Portraits - brief summaries of administrations, life facts, public service for each American President.
California History Online - This site provided by the California Historical Society includes an annotated historical timeline and brief chapters chronicling California history.
The Charters of Freedom Exhibit - scanned images of The Declaration of Independence, The Constitution and The Bill of Rights may be viewed and studied in detail at this site.
Encyclopaedia of British History - This comprehensive encyclopedia is "an attempt to show the history of Britain through the eyes of people from all levels of society. Each entry includes narrative, illustrations, primary sources and bibliography."
Famous American Trials - Provided by a professor at University of Missouri-Kansas City Law School, this site provides a wealth of information about some well-know trials.
Great American Speeches - Speech archive from PBS includes text and audio clips for 80 years of American political speeches.
History and Politics Out Loud - "a searchable archive of politically significant audio."
The Internet History Sourcebooks - "collections of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly (without advertising or excessive layout) for educational use."
Middle East and Jewish Studies Internet Resources - a virtual library compiled by Columbia University.
Speech archive from the History Channel - this vast collection of speeches in RealAudio format is drawn from the most famous broadcasts and recordings of the twentieth century.

Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc. (IRE) - provides "educational services to reporters, editors and others interested in investigative journalism."

Foreign Languages for Travelers - A quick reference site that includes translations and audio clips of common words and phrases.
Learning Chinese Online - links to online resources for those learning Chinese.
Vocabulary Training Exercises In English, German, French and Spanish - test your vocabulary at this interactive site.
Languages - Helpful sites for students of English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish - A list of general resources and language specific resources.
Verbix.com - "Verbix is linguistic software that conjugates verbs in 50+ modern and extinct languages -- French, Spanish, Italian, Latin and many more. It is designed to work as a reference for foreign languages students."
WordReference.com - provides a number or free translation dictionaries, and includes a browser tool which allows you to translate words encountered on web sites.
World Wide Words - a site "devoted to the English language - its history, quirks, curiosities and evolution."
yourDictionary.com - a language portal site, including links to more than 1500 dictionaries representing more than 230 languages.

Concordances of Poets Web Concordances of great poets produced by Rob Watt of the University of Dundee.
Great Books Online - a free, pioneering "e-book" site providing a large number of classic works including 4,765 poems. Along with literature the site also includes the full-text of a large number of reference works.
The IPL Online Literary Criticism Collection - contains links to "2419 critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period."
Literary Movements in American literature - "provides short essays and bibliographies on significant literary movements and ideas."
Literary Resources on the Net - "This set of pages is a collection of links to sites on the Internet dealing especially with English and American literature, excluding most single electronic texts, and is limited to collections of information useful to academics."
Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet - "a complete annotated guide to the scholarly Shakespeare resources available on Internet."
NovelGuide - study guide site provides "an educational supplement for better understanding of classic and contemporary Literature Profiles, Metaphor Analysis, Theme Analyses, and Author Biographies."
Perspectives in American Literature (PAL) - hundreds of pages devoted to American authors, themes and literary movements.
The Poetry Archive - "Our goal is to provide the largest free archive of classical poetry available on the internet with a simple user interface."
SparkNotes - online study guides to works of literature, as well as topics in the social and physical sciences.
Voices From the Gap - a site sponsored by the University of Minnesota focusing on the lives and works of women writers of color in North America.

Science.gov- "a gateway to over 50 million pages of authoritative selected science information provided by U.S. government agencies, including research and development results."
Scirus - a comprehensive science-specific search engine covering 120 million Web pages, as well as 17 million records from sources such as scientific journals.
National Science Digital Library - This "portal" site's mission is to provide "educational resources for science, technology, engineering and mathematics education."
Astronomy Unbound - from the University of Hertfordshire in the U.K., "an electronic book at School and Undergraduate University level for those who may be taking courses and particularly for anyone with a general interest in astronomy."
Classic Chemistry - includes classic chemistry papers, a "History of Chemistry Calendar," a glossary, and links to sites on the history of chemistry.
Dave's Math Tables - "Quick theorems, tables, identities, proofs and graphs for arithmetic, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, calculus, statistics, advanced topics, vectors, complex numbers, constants..."
General Chemistry online - Includes searchable databases, tutorials, quizzes and other resources for introductory chemistry.
Mathworld - "a comprehensive and interactive mathematics encyclopedia intended for students, educators, math enthusiasts, and researchers."
Glossary of Mathematical Mistakes - "list of mathematical mistakes made over and over by advertisers, the media, reporters, politicians, activists, and in general many non-math people." Includes "mistake of the month."
How Many? - A Dictionary of Units of Measurement

DW3 Classical Music Resources from Duke University is "the most comprehensive collection of classical music resources on the Web with links to more than 2,000 non-commercial pages/sites in over a dozen languages."
Essentials of Music - this site focuses on classical music, including overviews of musical eras, composer biographies and a glossary of musical terms.
The Historic American Sheet Music Archive - This project provides access to digital images of 3042 pieces of sheet music, published in the United States between 1850 and 1920.
The Piano Education Page - "a one-stop resource for teachers, students, parents of students, and fans of the piano with over 600 pages of free information, upgraded biweekly."
The Aria Database - "Information, translations, and MIDIs of famous opera arias for singers and music lovers."
Ethnomusicology - From the University of Washington Music Dept., a huge list of resources in world music. Includes breakdown of resources by geographic region.
America's Jazz History Homepage - From the Smithsonian.
ChoralNet - "Home of Choralist, ChoralTalk, ChoralAcademe, and many other Internet resources for the choral music world. ChoralNet is also the official Website of the International Federation for Choral Music."

Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body - full-text and searchable online version of the classic 1918 publication .
Health On the Net Foundation - This Swiss non-profit's "mission is to guide lay persons or non-medical users and medical practitioners to useful and reliable online medical and health information."
Healthweb: Nursing - Large list of links to Internet resources in clinical nursing.
Human Anatomy Online - interactive, animated reference site for anyone interested in human anatomy.
Lippincott's NursingCenter - Includes table of contents and search capabilities for recent issues (about a year back) of AJN, American Journal of Nursing as well as a dozen other nursing periodicals, including MCN, The American Journal of Maternal/Child Nursing. A Continuing Education section contains full-text articles and online tests that may be taken for continuing education credit (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins is an accredited provider of nursing continuing education in California). The "Career Center" includes full contents of the AJN Career Guide.
The Merck Manual of Medical Information--Home Edition - searchable full-text version of this classic reference.
NHLBI Publications for Health Professionals - Full-text reports from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
NURSENET - web page describing the Nursenet listserv - "an open, unmoderated, global electronic conference for discourse about diverse nursing issues in the areas of nursing administration, nursing education, nursing practice, and nursing research." Includes a large listing of other nursing listservs.
Nutrition.gov - a "guide to nutrition and health information on Federal government websites."
Pubmed - "PubMed is the National Library of Medicine's search service that provides access to over 10 million citations in MEDLINE, PreMEDLINE, and other related databases, with links to participating online journals."
The Diversity Rx website - "a comprehensive clearinghouse of information on model programs, policies and legal issues related to cross cultural health, in collaboration with the National Conference of State Legislatures and the Kaiser Family Foundation."
The "Virtual" - Nursing Center - Part of Martindale's Health Science Guide. Includes huge list of links to resources such as Medical Dictionaries, databases, interactive case studies, protocols and procedures, etc.
HIV / AIDS Information on the Internet, provided by AEGIS - "AEGIS is your best starting point for finding information about HIV or AIDS. AEGIS is the largest HIV and AIDS knowledgebase in the world, fully-indexed, cross-referenced, and keyword searchable."

The Association of Religion Data Archives (ARDA) - "allows you to interactively explore the highest quality data on American and international religion using online features for generating national profiles, maps, church membership overviews, denominational heritage trees, tables, charts, and other summary reports."
Encyclopedia of Religion and Society - This encyclopedia from the Hartford Institute for Religion Research attempts to present a "summary of the insights gained by the principal social sciences of religion: anthropology, psychology, and sociology."
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Still under development, entries in this "dynamic" encyclopedia are maintained and kept up to date by an expert or group of experts in the field.
Virtual Religion Index - Extensive annotated list of links to web sites on all aspects of religion.

Classics in the History of Psychology - an "effort to make the full texts of a large number of historically significant public domain documents from the scholarly literature of psychology and allied disciplines available on the World Wide Web." Includes roughly 25 books, 200 articles and links to over 200 relevant web documents.
Encyclopedia of Psychology - "intended to facilitate browsing in any area of psychology" the database includes original articles on various topics as well as links to resources.
Psych Web - contains a variety of psychology related resources for students and teachers.

American Women's History: A Research Guide - "provides citations to print and Internet reference sources, as well as to selected large primary source collections."
Women's Studies Database - Comprehensive starting place for women's studies, provided by the University of Maryland.
The Feminist Theory Website - "provides research materials and information for students, activists, and scholars interested in women's conditions and struggles around the world. Three areas: Fields within Feminism, Ethnic and National Feminisms, Individual Feminists."
National Women's Hall of Fame - this site honors American women of achievement.
Voices From the Gap - a site sponsored by the University of Minnesota focusing on the lives and works of women writers of color in North America.
Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1830-1930 - access to primary documents related to women and social movements in the United States between 1830 and 1930.
Women's Human Rights Resources - Comprehensive site containing annotated bibliographies (with links to full-text where available) on a variety of topics related to women's rights issues.