Advertising:

• Advertising World
  

• The African-American Mosaic: A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture
• African American Odyssey
• Black History Month
• Brown: Before and AfterHall of Black Achievement — From Bridgewater State College
• Hall of Black Achievement — From Bridgewater State College
• Images of African Americans from the 19th Century
• National Underground Railroad Freedom Center

• American Museum of Photography
• Archives of American Art
• Art History Research Centre
• Timeline of Art History
• Virtual Library museums page — a directory of online museums

• Lives, the Biography Resource

• BIOSIS Resources for Biologists
• BioTech Home Page
• Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body
• "Hot" Biology Web Sites— General biology, organizations, online journals, more
• National Wildlife Foundation Field Guides

See also the RBC Internet Subject Guide for Biology.

• About.com — A good gateway site.  Choose the link to "Small Business."
• BizOffice — Resources, many free
• Business Plans — Has sample business and marketing plans.
• Business.com — The Search engine for Business Information
• Business2.com — Links to many aspects of business.  Choose "Web Guide."
• Carol World — Company annual reports online
• Hoovers — Company information and other links.
• The Internet and Company Research
• Marketing Virtual Library — a nice gateway site to a broad range of business topics, including advertising, marketing, customer relationship management and more.
• Report Gallery — Annual reports.
• Rutgers University Libraries: Research Guides: Business
• Small Business Association 

• Career Development Manual: Steps to Career/Life Planning Success
• CareerBuilder
• Career Interest Guide — from USA Jobs (online test of your skills and interests)
• Career Key — Career assessment site.
• O*Net Computerized Interest Profiler (CIP)
• Occupational Outlook Handbook
• Virginia State Employment Application Form
• Virginia VELMA (Virginia's Electronic Labor Market Access)
• What Can I do with a Major in...?

• Campus Tours.com
• College Opportunities Online
• CollegeNET
• Mapping Your Future
• Petersons.com: The Education Supersite
• Wired Scholar

Computing:

• Get Net Wise
• Webopedia

• Consitution Finder Country Briefings from the Economist
• Governments on the WWW
• Library of Congress Country Studies
• Library of Congress Portals to the World
• "The List" at WorldAtlas.com
• United Nations Web Site
• University of Michigan Documents Center Foreign Government Resources on the Web

See also the RBC Internet Subject Guide for Geography.

• 4Literature
• IPL Online Texts Collection
• Online Books Page from the University of Pennsylvania
• Project Gutenberg
• University of Virginia Library Electronic Text Center

• Big Charts — Major market indexes and historical quotes
• Bureau of Economic Analysis
• EconDate.Net — Regional Economic Data
• Economic History Resources — How Much is That?
• FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data) — Historical U.S. economic and financial data.
• U.S. Economy at a Glance — From the Bureau of Labor Statistics

Education:

• AskERIC
• Certification Requirements for the 50 States
• Department of Education
• The Educational Virtual Library
• The Gateway: Educational Resources on the Internet
• GoAbroad.com
• Higher Education Publications
• National Center for Education Statistics
• National Education Association
• NEAToday Online
• Technology and Higher Education Statistics, Surveys, and Reports
• Virginia: Division of Teacher Education and Licensure
• World Lecture Hall

• About.com
• Academic Info: Your Gateway to Quality Educational Resources
• Best Information on the Net (BIOTN)
• BUBL LINK (Bulletin board for Libraries)
• Digital Librarian — Librarian's choice of the best of the Web
• INFOMINE
• Internet Public Library — Directory of reference sites and subject guides
• Librarian's Index to the Internet
• Open Directory Project — Human-edited directory of the Web

• American Family Immigration History Center at Ellis Island
• Ancestry.com
• Cyndi's List
• Family Search Internet Genealogy Service
• Family Tree Maker Online
• Genealogy Home Page
• Genealogy Toolbox
• Genealogy.com
• GenForum
• Interment.net: Cemetery Transcription Library
• National Archives and Records Administration
• National Genealogical Society
• ProGenealogists: Family History Research Group
• RootsWeb.com
• Treasure Maps: the How-to-Genealogy WWW Sites
• USGenWeb Project

Geography:

• Indian Ocean Tsumani Disaster
• "The List" at WorldAtlas.com
• Multimap.com
• U.S. Gazetteer — Map and census data for places and counties

• Candidate & Elected Officials for Your State Biographical Data
• Consumer.gov — Consumer information from the federal government
• Contacting the Congress
• Federal Citizen Information Center — full-text documents in a wide array of subjects
• FedForms
• FedWorld Information Network Home Page
• FirstGov: Your First Click to the U.S.Government
• GPO Access
• House of Representatives
• How to Effectively Locate Federal Government Information on the World Wide Web
• IRS: Forms and Publications
• Legal Information Institute (LII): Supreme Court Collection
• Senate
• Thomas Legislative Information on the Internet
• Uncle Sam — Who's Who in the Federal Government
• University of Michigan Document Center— Federal Government Resources on the Web
• U.S. Blue Pages — Your Online Directory to the U.S. Government
• White House

• Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr.
• FreeVocabulary.com
• Guide to Grammar and Writing

• CAPHIS — Consumer and Patient Health Information Section of the Medial Library Association
  (This is an excellent gateway site to recommended sites in all health areas)
• Diagnostic Tests From the Harvard Medical School Family Health Guide
• Free Medical Journals.com
• Hardin Meta Directory of Internet Health Sources
• Healthfinder
• Journal of the American Medical Association
• Medline Plus
• Medline Plus Medical Encyclopedia
• Merck Manual Home Edition
• National Library of Medicine's Medline Plus
• National Library of Medicine's PubMed
• State Health Facts Online
• WHO: World Health Organization

• American Experience — Programs from the PBS Series
• Best of History Web Sites — Award winning portal, organized by time period. Sites are rated
• Civil War@Smithsonian— weapons, soldiering, more
• History Channel
• The History Net
• Internet History Sourcebooks / Fordham University
• Making of America from Cornell University
• Making of America from University of Michigan
• Picturing the Century— One Hundred Years of Photography from the National Archives
• Salem Witch Trials — Documentary archive and transcription project
• Timelines of History
• Voice of the Shuttle: History Page
• Women Working, 1870-1930 from Harvard University

• Accessible Web Page Design
• Boutell.com
• Evaluating Web Resources
• Finding Information on the Internet: A TUTORIAL
• Learn the Net.com
• W3C: World Wide Web Consortium
• Web Teacher

• Directory of Open Access Journals — links to scholarly full-text journals
• Find Articles — free database of articles dating from 1998, over 300 magazines and journals
• VIVA — RBC students only

Legal:

• FindLaw Constitutional Law Center
• Findlaw Court Forms
• Legal Information Institute (LII): Supreme Court Collection
• LLRX.com
• Thomas Legislative Information on the Internet

• American Memory Web Site
• Country Studies/Area Handbooks
• Portals to the World

• American Writers — An American history series by C-SPAN
• Atlantic Online Classic Reviews — Reviews of literary classics from the Atlantic
• A Brief Chronology of African American Literature
• Internet Public Library: Online Literary Criticism Collection
• A Literary Index: Internet Resources in Literature
• Literary Resources on the Net
• Online Literary Criticism Collection
• Voice of the Shuttle: Electronic Resources for the Humanities

• The Math Forum

• Internet Movie Database

• Jazz: A Film by Ken Burns: Biographies — Lives of 100 Jazz artists
• Music History 102: a Guide to Western Composers and their Music from the Middle Ages to the Present

• Editorials — current editorials made available by Yahoo!
• CNN.com
• New York Times on the Web —  also a good source of photos
• NewsLink — links to news from around the world
• NewsVoyager
• US Newspaper List Links to U.S. newspapers and television stations

• Nursing Sites on the World Wide Web

• BUBL Link:Promotion of Health, Nutrition and Diet
• Fast Food Facts
• Food and Nutrition Information Center — part of the USDA, updated daily
• Food Labels — Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
• The Food Timeline
• International Food Information Council
• Martindale's Health Science Guide
• Nutrition Analysis Tool
• Nutrition.gov
• USDA Nutrient Data Laboratory
• Vegetarian Diets

• Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Philosophers' Magazine on the Net
• Philosophy Pages
• Stanford Encylopedia of Philosophy

See also the RBC Internet Subject Guide for Philosophy.

• About.com
• Academic Info: Your Gateway to Quality Educational Resources
• ACRL Subject Guides
• Best Information on the Net (BIOTN)
• BUBL LINK (Bulletin board for Libraries)
• Digital Librarian — Librarian's choice of the best of the Web
• INFOMINE
• Internet Public Library — Directory of reference sites and subject guides
• Librarian's Index to the Internet
• Open Directory Project — Human-edited directory of the Web

Psychology:

• Psychology on the Web

• Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
• Bartleby.com (Columbia Encyclopedia, American Heritage Dictionary, Roget's II, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, King James Bible, Oxford Shakespeare, Gray's Anatomy, Strunk's Elements of Style, World Factbook)
• Encyclopedia Smithsonian
• Farmer's Almanac
• Information Please: On-Line Dictionary, Internet Encyclopedia, Atlas & Almanac Reference
• Internet Collegiate Reference Collection — a selected list of free reference sites 
• Internet Public Library Ready Reference
• LibrarySpot
• Merriam-Webster Online (Dictionary & Thesaurus)
• Navigator: A Selective Guide to the Internet
• Refdesk.com: The Single Best Source for Facts on the Net
• Speciality Dictionaries
• Startspot — Selective reference sites by topic area
• Virtual Reference Shelf — From the Library of Congress

• Adherents.com A large collection of statistics on religion

See also the RBC Internet Subject Guide for Religion.

• Hot Paper Topics
• Idea Generator
• Research Strategies: Finding Your Way Through the Information Fog

• College Board's Fund Finder
• Colleges, College Scholarships, and Financial Aid Page
• EStudent Loan
• FastWeb
• Federal Government Financial Aid Page
• FinAid — The SmartStudent Guide to Financial Aid  
• Financial Aid Need Estimator
• Mapping Your Future
• Students.gov: Scholarships and Grants
• U.S. Department of Education Online Aplication (FAFSA)

• American Association for the Advancement of Science
• echo: Exploring & Collecting History Online Virtual Center: Science & Technology
• National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
• National Science Foundation (NSF)
• The Scientist, The News Journal for the Life Scientist
• Web Elements Periodic Table

• Dogpile
• Google
• HotBot
• iTools — Access to many search tools, including currency conversion, map tools, etc.
• ixquick — Meta-search engine, offers related searches
• Metacrawler
• Northern Light
• Search Engine Colossus — Links to search engines from 232 countries. Can also choose language
• Search Engine Showdown A guide to search engines
• Search Engine Watch Searching tips and guide to search engines
• SearchAbility

• Complete Works of Shakespeare
• Internet Shakespeare Editions Site
• Mr. Shakespeare and the Internet

• Douglass: Archives of American Public Address
• The History Place:  Great Speeches
• Presidential Speeches
• Women's Speeches from Around the World

• AmeriStat — From the Population Reference Bureau: U.S. population data
• AmeriStat — From the Population Reference Bureau: U.S. population data
• Bureau of Justice Statistics Publications
• Bureau of Labor Statistics
• Census Bureau — American Factfinder — Housing, population, economic and geographic data
• Census Bureau—State and County QuickFacts
• FedStats — Gateway to statistics from over 100 U.S. federal agencies
• Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics
• Statistical Abstract of the United States
• Statistical Resources on the Web — Nicely indexed gateway site from the Univ. of Michigan
• World Population Data Sheet

• Academic Info Terrorism Studies
• America's War Against Terrorism — Comprehensive site from the University of Michigan
• Internet Archive Wayback Machine — Collection of archived documents to preserve history
• The Office of Homeland Security
• September 11 Digital Archive — Stories, e-mail repository, images
• September 11 Web Archive — Search or surf this archive
• Terrorism Library

Violence:

• Guide for Preventing and Responding to School Violence
• National Youth Violence Prevention Resource Center
• Virginia Best Practices in School-Based Violence Protection

• Code of Virginia
• Department of Business Assistance
• Find It Virginia — Full-text database of magazine, newspaper and reference book articles
• Virginia Department of Taxation
• Virginia Employment Commission
• Virginia General Assembly
• Virginia is for Business
• Virginia Statistical Abstract
• Virtual Jamestown
• Virginia.gov
• Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, University of Virginia

Last updated September 19, 2007