Business Resources (03/02/07)

Business

 

General Business Resources & Journals:

 

American Business Daily

http://www.americabusinessdaily.com/

 

Barron's Online

http://online.barrons.com/public/main

 

Bizjournals

http://www.bizjournals.com/

 

Bloomberg

http://www.bloomberg.com/index.html?Intro=intro3

 

BusinessWeek SmallBiz.com

http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/index.html

 

CNN Money

http://money.cnn.com/

 

Fast Company Archives

http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/archives.html

 

Money 101 Glossary

http://money.cnn.com/services/glossary/a.html

 

 

Economic & Demographic Info

 

# U. S. Federal Reserve Economic Data

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/

 

# Bank Rate Monitor

http://www.bankrate.com/brm/default.asp

 

# The World Bank

http://worldbank.org/

 

# Business.gov

http://www.business.gov/

 

# Small Business Administration

http://www.sba.gov/

 

# U. S. Census Bureau - Statistical Abstract

http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/

 

# U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission

http://www.sec.gov/investor.shtml

 

Company financial Information

 

10kWizard

http://www.10kwizard.com/

 

Company Annual Reports On-Line (CAROL)

http://www.carolworld.com/

 

 Annual Reports Service

http://www.annualreportservice.com/

 

Securities Exchange Commission - EDGAR

http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml

 

U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission

http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml

 

Yahoo! Finance

http://finance.yahoo.com/

 

Google Finance

http://finance.google.com/finance

 

Business Ethics

 

BELL:  The Business Ethics Links Library

http://libnet.colorado.edu/Bell/

 

Better Business Bureau

http://www.bbb.org/

 

Business Ethics Magazine Online

http://www.business-ethics.com/

 

European Corporate Governance Institute

http://www.ecgi.org/

 

United Nations Global Compact

http://www.unglobalcompact.org/

 

e-businessethics.com

http://e-businessethics.com/

 

Ethics Resource Center

http://www.ethics.org/

 

International Business Ethics Institute

http://www.business-ethics.org/

 

Business News:

 

BBC News

www.bbc.co.uk

 

London Times

www.timesonline.co.uk/global

 

ABC News

http://abcnews.go.com

 

CBS News

www.cbsnews.com

 

MSN NBC News

http://www.msnbc.msn.com

 

CNN News

http://cnn.com

 

Yahoo! News

http://news.yahoo.com/

 

USA Today

www.usatoday.com

 

Accounting

 

CPA Journal

http://www.cpaj.com/

 

Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB)

http://www.fasb.org/

 

Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB)

http://www.gasb.org/

 

Internal Revenue Service (IRS)

http://www.irs.gov/

 

Rutgers Accounting Resources

http://accounting.rutgers.edu/raw/internet/internet1.htm

 

Tax Sites

 http://www.taxsites.com/

 

Uncle Fed's Tax Boards

http://www.unclefed.com/

 

Bankruptcy

 

American Bankruptcy Institute World

http://www.abiworld.org/

 

Bankruptcy Courts http://www.abiworld.org/Content/NavigationMenu/Online_Resources/Courts_and_Opinions/Bankruptcy_Courts/Bankruptcy_Courts.htm

 

Bankruptcy Forms

http://www.uscourts.gov/bkforms/bankruptcy_forms.html

 

Bankruptcy Statistics

http://www.uscourts.gov/bnkrpctystats/statistics.htm

 

WebBRD Big Case Bankruptcy

http://lopucki.law.ucla.edu/index.htm

 

Codes & Standards and Occupations & Wages

 

Constitutions, Statutes, and Codes

http://www.law.cornell.edu/statutes.html

 

U. S. Tariff Information Center

http://www.usitc.gov/tata/index.htm

 

North American Industry Classification System (NAICS)

http://www.census.gov/epcd/www/naics.html

 

Standard Industrial Classification (SIC)

http://www.osha.gov/pls/imis/sicsearch.html

 

Foreign Trade Schedule B Export Codes

http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/schedules/b/index.html

 

Uniform Commercial Codes

http://www.law.cornell.edu/ucc/ucc.table.html

 

National Committee on Pay Equity

http://www.pay-equity.org/

 

Occupational Information Network

http://online.onetcenter.org/

 

:U. S. Dept. of Labor Occupational Handbook

http://www.bls.gov/oco/

 

State Occupational Projections

http://www.projectionscentral.com/projhome.asp

 

U. S. Dept. of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics

http://www.bls.gov/bls/wages.htm

 

 

 

 

Advertising/Marketing

 

AdAge Data Center

http://adage.com/datacenter/

 

Ad Council Historic Campaigns

http://www.adcouncil.org/default.aspx?id=61

 

Ad Council

http://www.adcouncil.org/

 

Ad Access

http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/adaccess/

 

Advertising World

http://advertising.utexas.edu/world/

 

Arbitron

http://www.arbitron.com/home/content.stm

 

Nielsen Media

http://www.nielsenmedia.com/nc/portal/site/Public/

 

American Marketing Association

http://www.marketingpower.com/ 

 

Marketing Terms

http://www.marketingterms.com/

 

Demographics and Housing

http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/stdemog.html

 

U. S. Census

http://www.census.gov/

 

Patents, Tradmarks and Business Start-up Info

 

ASITRI Search

http://mitercam.mit.edu:3980/app/asitri/uspto

 

American National Standards Institute

http://www.ansi.org/

 

Free Patents Online

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/

 

Get the Patent

http://www.getthepatent.com/

 

U. S. Patents

http://patents.cos.com/

 

U. S. Patent and Trademark Office

http://www.uspto.gov/

 

'Lectric Law Library

http://www.lectlaw.com/formb.htm

 

National Association of Secretaries of State

http://www.nass.org/faqs.html

 

Business Plan Info

 

Bplans.com

http://www.bplans.com/sp/businessplans.cfm

 

BRS Center for Business Plans

http://www.businessplans.org/businessplans.html

 

Business Owners' Idea Cafe

http://www.businessownersideacafe.com/

 

Business Plan Archive

http://www.businessplanarchive.org/

 

CCH Business Owners Toolkit

http://www.toolkit.cch.com/tools/tools.asp

 

Business Plans and Profiles Index

http://www.carnegielibrary.org/subject/business/bplansindex.html

Education & Literacy Resources (03/02/07)

Education

 

Back2College.com

http://back2college.com/

 

College Board

http://www.collegeboard.com/splash

 

GraduateSchools.com

http://www.gradschools.com/

 

Braintrack University Index

http://www.braintrack.com/

 

College ToolKit.com

http://www.collegetoolkit.com/

 

Federal Student Aid http://studentaid.ed.gov/PORTALSWebApp/students/english/index.jsp

 

Free Application for Federal Student Aid

http://www.fafsa.ed.gov/

 

 

Graduate Record Examinations

http://www.ets.org/portal/site/ets/menuitem.fab2360b1645a1de9b3a0779f1751509/?vgnextoid=b195e3b5f64f4010VgnVCM10000022f95190RCRD

 

International Student Exchange Program

http://www.isep.org/

 

Princeton Review College Resources

http://www.princetonreview.com/home.asp

 

Perdue's Online Writing Lab

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/index2.html

 

Test of English as a Second Language

http://www.ets.org/portal/site/ets/menuitem.fab2360b1645a1de9b3a0779f1751509/?vgnextoid=69c0197a484f4010VgnVCM10000022f95190RCRD

 

 

Second Life Library 2.0 Information Literacy

 

"To be information literate, a person must be able to recognize when information is needed and have the ability to locate, evaluate, and use effectively the needed information."  1989 ALA Presidential  Committee Report,

<http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/whitepapers/presidential.htm>

 

1998 update of the ALA Presidential Committee Report <http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/whitepapers/progressreport.htm>

 

"Hoax? Scholarly Research? Personal Opinion? You Decide!"

<http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/college/help/hoax/index.htm>

 

"Thinking Critically About World Wide Web Resources"  <http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/college/help/critical/index.htm>

 

"Road to Research"

<http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/library/>

 

"Bruin Success With Less Stress" <http://www.library.ucla.edu/bruinsuccess/>

 

Organizations:

 

ALA. AASL [American Association of School Librarians]. Information Literacy.

<http://www.ala.org/ala/aasl/aaslissues/aaslinfolit/informationliteracy1.htm>

 

ALA. ACRL [Association of College and Research Libraries]. Information Literacy.

<http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlissues/acrlinfolit/informationliteracy.htm>

 

ALA. LIRT [Library Instruction Round Table].

<http://www3.baylor.edu/LIRT/>

 

IFLA [International Federation of Library Associations]. International Information Literacy Resources Directory.

<http://www.uv.mx/usbi_ver/unesco/>

 

LOEX [Library Orientation and Exchange]

<http://www.emich.edu/public/loex/loex.html>

 

Fun Tutorials to Improve Your Information Literacy Skills

 

InfoTrail  University of Southern Colorado

http://library.colostate-pueblo.edu/infotrail/infotrail.html

 

Net.Tutor  Ohio State University Libraries

http://gateway.lib.ohio-state.edu/tutor/

 

Information Literacy Tutorial  Five Colleges of Ohio Consortium

http://www.denison.edu/collaborations/ohio5/infolit/

 

Information Literacy Quiz

http://www.novemberlearning.com/Default.aspx?tabid=159&type=art&site=181&parentid=56

 

University of Texas System Digital Library  Texas Information Literacy Tutorial (TILT)

http://tilt.lib.utsystem.edu/

 

United Negro College Fund

http://www.uncf.org/

Electracy resources (03/02/07)

Electracy

 

Electronic Learning Forum = http://www.nwe.ufl.edu/elf/elf.html

Definition of Electracy = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electracy

Toward Electracy:  A Conversation with Ulmer = http://beehive.temporalimage.com/content_maps/34a.html

From LIteracy to Electracy: Online Textbook Supplement = http://web.nwe.ufl.edu/~gulmer/longman/

Fibreculture Article = http://journal.fibreculture.org/issue2/issue2_gye.html

Imaging EmerAgency:  A Conversation with Ulmer = http://www.cddc.vt.edu/host/weishaus/Interv/ulmer.htm

Video Clips of Ulmer  =  http://institute.emerson.edu/vma/faculty/john_craig_freeman/imaging_place/about/projects/choragraphy/ulmer_tapes/index.html

Ulmer Faculty Page =http://www.nwe.ufl.edu/~gulmer/

Ulmer's Pedagogical Principles & Goals = http://web.nwe.ufl.edu/~gulmer/longman/pedagogy/

Assemblage:  A Blog about Electracy and Writing = http://assemblage-blog.blogspot.com/

Orality, Literacy, Electracy:  Readings = http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/literacy.html

Towards Electracy:  Heuretics in the Classroom by Michael Jarrett = http://www2.yk.psu.edu/~jmj3/eltitle.htm

Electracy:  Creativity Effects by Alex Reid = http://web.cortland.edu/reida/vrrl/electracy.htm

 

Entertainment Resources (03/02/07)

Entertainment Resources

 

Disney Films

http://disney.go.com/disneypictures/index.html

 

Cannes FIlm Festival

http://www.festival-cannes.fr/index.php?langue=6002

 

E! Online

http://www.eonline.com/

 

Entertainment Weekly

http://www.ew.com/ew/

 

Hollywood.com

http://www.hollywood.com/

 

Internet Movie Database

http://www.imdb.com/

 

London Film Festival

http://www.lff.org.uk/

 

LucasFIlm

http://www.lucasfilm.com/

 

Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM.com)

http://www.mgm.com/

 

Paramount Pictures

http://www.paramount.com/

 

Sundance Film Festival

http://festival.sundance.org/2006/

 

Tribeca Film Festival

http://www.tribecafilmfestival.org/

Fine Arts Resources (03/02/07)

Fine Arts

 

American Ballet Theater?s Ballet Dictionary  http://www.abt.org/education/dictionary/index.html

 

Aria Database  http://www.aria-database.com/ariadbse.html

 

Artcyclopedia  

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/

 

Art History Resources on the Web  http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html

 

ArtLex Dictionary of Visual Art  http://www.artlex.com/

 

The Digital Tradition Folk Song Database = http://www.mudcat.org/

 

ClassicalNet  http://www.classical.net/music/composer/

 

Contemporary Art

http://wwar.com

 

Internet Art Resources  http://www.artresources.com

 

Inter-Play  http://www.lib.pdx.edu/systems/interplay/

 

Music in the Public Domain  http://www.pdinfo.com/

 

Musicals101.com  http://www.musicals101.com/alphinde.htm

 

Musuems Around the World    http://icom.museum/vlmp/world.html

 

Playwrights on the Web  http://www.stageplays.com/writers.htm

 

Stage Musical Rights Index  http://www.musicals101.com/alphinde.htm

 

Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum  http://www.chmtl.indiana.edu/tml/start.html

 

Tony Awards Archives  http://www.tonyawards.com/en_US/archive/pastwinners/index.html

 

Union List of Artists Names http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/ulan/

 

Village Voice Obie Awards Database  http://www.stageplays.com/writers.htm

 

General Art Resources
Art and Architecture Thesaurus Online from the Getty Institute
http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/aat/

 

Art Movements Directory
http://www.artmovements.co.uk/home.htm#CHRONOLOGICAL

 

Armory Show
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MUSEUM/Armory/entrance.html

 

Art on the Web by Jeffery Howe, Boston College
http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/Artweb_frames.html

 

The Bridgeman Art Library
http://www.bridgeman.co.uk/

 

Great wall of China

http://www.thebeijingguide.com/great_wall_of_china/index.html

 

The Hunt for Art History
http://www.huntfor.com/arthistory/

Intimate Circles: American Women in the Arts
http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/awia/profess.html

 

McGraw-Hill Companion Art Gallery
http://www.mhhe.com/socscience/art/period.htm

 

Mother of All Art and Art History Links
http://www.art-design.umich.edu/mother/

 

Myths and Legends
http://home.comcast.net/~chris.s/myth.html

 

Voice of the Shuttle: Art History
http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=3404

 

WebMuseum Artist index
http://www.ibiblio.org/louvre/paint/auth/

Writing in Art History from the University at North Carolina Chapel Hill
http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/arthistory.html

 

 

 

Artcyclopedia: Art Museums Worldwide
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/museums.html

 

Art Institute of Chicago
http://www.artic.edu/aic/

 

The Digital Librarian: directory museums
http://www.digital-librarian.com/directories.html#MUSEUMS

 

Heard Museum of Native Cultures and Art
http://www.heard.org/

 

Guggenheim New York
http://www.guggenheim.org/new_york_index.shtml

 

J. Paul Getty Museum
http://www.getty.edu/museum/

 

Kimbell Art Museum
http://www.kimbellart.org/

The Louvre

http://www.louvre.fr/louvrea.htm

 

MoMa Museum of Modern Art
http://www.moma.org/

 

The Metropolitan Museum of Art
http://www.metmuseum.org/

 

National Gallery of Art
http://www.nga.gov/onlinetours/index.shtm

 

National Gallery: London
http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/

 

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
http://www.nelson-atkins.org/

 

Philadelphia Museum of Art
http://www.philamuseum.org/main.asp

 

Phoenix Art Museum
http://www.phxart.org/

 

Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
http://www.smoca.org/

Smithsonian Archives of American Art Exhibits online
http://www.aaa.si.edu/exhibits/exonline.htm

 

The Uffizi Gallery
http://www.uffizi.firenze.it/

 

Virtual Museum and Exhibitions around the world by Jonathan Bowen and VLmp
http://icom.museum/vlmp/

 

Whitney Museum of American Art
http://www.whitney.org/index.php

 

Medieval and Renaissance Art

The Alchemy Website
http://www.levity.com/alchemy/home.html

 

Amiens cathedral

http://www.learn.columbia.edu/Mcahweb/index-frame.html

 

The Digital Librarian: Medieval and Renaissance Studies
http://www.digital-librarian.com/medieval.html

 

Manuscript Illumination
http://www.leavesofgold.org/

 

Medieval site from Alison Stones.

http://www.pitt.edu/~medart/index.html

 

Medieval Women
http://mw.mcmaster.ca/intro.html

 

Giotto
http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/bio/g/giotto/biograph.html

 

Illuminating the Renaissance

http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/flemish/zoom.html

 

PBS The Medicis
http://www.pbs.org/empires/medici/

 

The Renaissance Connection
http://www.renaissanceconnection.org/

 

 

Nineteenth Century Art

Biography on the Impressionists and interactive analysis of works on A&E http://www.biography.com/impressionists/artists_degas.html

 

Christopher Witcombe’s Nineteenth Century Art on the Web
http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks5.html

 

Nineteenth Century Art Worldwide
http://www.19thc-artworldwide.org/

 

 

American Nineteenth Century Art of the West

Alan Petersen Art of the Southwest
www.coconino.edu/apetersen/_art221

Ken Burns: New Perspectives on the West
http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/

Northern Arizona University Colorado Plateau Digital Archives
http://www.nau.edu/library/speccoll/index.html

 

Northern Arizona University Special Collections Exhibits
http://www.nau.edu/library/speccoll/exhibits/

The Illustrating Traveler
http://www.library.yale.edu/beinecke/illus.htm

The David Rumsey Collection
The Tertiary History of the Grand Canyon District by Clarence Dutton
http://www.davidrumsey.com/Rumseylinkpgs/grand.htm 

The Santa Fe Railway and Art
http://www.tfaoi.com/aa/4aa/4aa58.htm

20th Century Digital and Media Art

Computer Art directory of artists
http://www.artpromote.com/computer.shtml

 

The Digital Art Museum
http://www.dam.org/

 

Digital Art source
http://www.digitalartsource.com/index2.shtml

 

The Digital Artist
http://www.thedigitalartist.com/

 

Los Angeles Center for Digital Art

http://www.lacda.com/

 

MOCA Museum of Computer art
http://moca.virtual.museum/

 

Cultural Diversity in North American Art

African Americans in the Visual Arts
http://www.liunet.edu/cwis/cwp/library/aavaahp.htm

 

African American Resources at the Smithsonian
http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/nmah/afroam.htm

 

Art of the Harlem Renaissance

http://www.iniva.org/harlem/index2.html

 

Art Museum of the Americas
http://www.museum.oas.org/index.html

 

Asian-Pacific Island Resources
http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~cmmr/Asian.html

 

Contemporary Arts of Asia
http://www.asiasociety.org/pressroom/rel-paradise_now.html

Diego Rivera Museum of Art
http://www.diegorivera.com/index.php

 

Detroit Institute of Native American Art
http://www.dia.org/collections/aonwc/nativeamericanart/nativeamericanart.html

 

The Digital Librarian; Latin American Resources
http://www.digital-librarian.com/latinamerican.html

 

Index of American Art Resources on the Internet
http://www.nmai.si.edu/

 

The Internet Public Library Pueblo Pottery Exhibit
http://www.ipl.org/div/pottery/

 

Hispanic Art Links
http://www.fsu.edu/~modlang/sp-cai/coursesite/ArtLinks.htm

 

Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (Korean, Chinese and Japanese American Art)
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/%7Euoma/

 

Latin American and Caribbean Art
http://universes-in-universe.de/america/english.htm

 

Los Angeles County Museum of Art
http://www.lacma.org/

 

Museum of Latin American Art
http://www.molaa.org/molaa_at_a_glance.html

 

Navajo Weaving and Sandpainting
http://cscwww.cats.ohiou.edu/museum/host2.htm

 

Native American Artists’ homepage
http://www.artnatam.com/

 

Native American Symbolism
http://www.collectorsguide.com/fa/fa040.shtml

 

Native American Technology and Art
http://www.nativetech.org/

 

Romare Bearden

http://www.metmuseum.org/explore/the_block/guide.html

 

Smithsonian Asian and Pacific Art and Design

http://www.si.edu/art_and_design/asian_and_pacific/

 

Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian
http://www.nmai.si.edu/

 

Studio Museum Harlem
http://www.studiomuseum.org/

 

Surrounded by Beauty: Arts of Native America
http://www.artsmia.org/surrounded%2Dby%2Dbeauty/

 

Traditional Navajo symbols
http://projects.cbe.ab.ca/ict/2learn/jkshpur/2cultures/navtrad.html

 

Image Sources

Amico Art Museum Image Consortium
http://www.amico.org/library.html

 

The Digital Librarian – Art Images
http://www.digital-librarian.com/art.html

 

Fine Arts Museum at San Francisco image search

http://www.thinker.org/

 

Metropolitan Museum of ART
http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_Of_Art/index.asp

 

National Gallery of Art
http://www.nga.gov/search/

 

The Perseus Digital Library
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/

 

Virtual Museum and Exhibitions around the world by Jonathan Bowen and VLmp
http://icom.museum/vlmp/

 

Visual Collections; images of art history and culture

http://www.davidrumsey.com/collections/

 

Visual Resources Association
http://www.vraweb.org/

 

Web Gallery of Art
http://www.wga.hu/index.html

General Reference (03/02/07)

General Reference Resources

 

2006 Statistical Abstract

www.census.gov/compendia/statab/

 

www.libraryspot.com/almanacs.htm

 

Columbia Gazeteer of North America

www.bartleby.com/69/

 

www.encyclopedia.com

 

Info Please

www.infoplease.com

 

King James Holy Bible

www.bartleby.com/108/

 

Metaverse Messenger

www.metaversemessenger.com

 

MSN Encarta Encyclopedia

http://encarta.msn.com

 

Roget's New Thesaurus

www.bartleby.com/62/

 

Second Life Herald

www.secondlifeherald.com

 

Abbreviationz

http://www.stands4.com/

 

Acronym Finder

http://www.acronymfinder.com/

 

Alternative Dictionaries

http://www.notam02.no/~hcholm/altlang/

 

AskOxford.com

http://www.askoxford.com/?view=uk

 

Columbia Encyclopedia

http://www.bartleby.com/65/

 

Encyclopedia Britannica Online

http://www.britannica.com/

 

Fast Facts

http://www.freepint.com/gary/handbook.htm

 

Fifty States

http://www.50states.com/

 

Free Dictionary

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/

 

High Beam Encyclopedia

http://www.encyclopedia.com/

 

Idiomsite

http://www.idiomsite.com/

 

InfoPlease

http://www.infoplease.com/

 

Internet Acronym Server

http://silmaril.ie/cgi-bin/uncgi/acronyms

 

Medline Plus Medical Encyclopedia

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/encyclopedia.html

 

MediLexicon

http://www.pharma-lexicon.com/

 

MSN Encarta

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

 

NetLingo

http://www.netlingo.com/

 

Old Farmer's Almanac

http://www.almanac.com/

 

OneLook Dictionary

http://www.onelook.com/

 

TechWeb Encyclopedia

http://www.techweb.com/encyclopedia/

 

Strange & Unusual Dictionaries

http://www.blueray.com/dictionary/

 

Symbols.com

http://www.symbols.com/

 

TechTerms

http://www.techterms.org/

 

US Dept. of Defence Military Terms

http://www.dtic.mil/doctrine/jel/doddict/

 

Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

 

Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts

http://www.infomotions.com/alex/

 

Bibliomania

http://www.bibliomania.com/

 

Complete Works of Shakespeare

http://www-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/works.html

 

ClassicAuthors.net

http://www.classicauthors.net/

 

Digital Book Index

http://www.digitalbookindex.com/

 

EServer Drama Collection

http://drama.eserver.org/

 

EServer Fiction Collection

http://eserver.org/fiction/

 

Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts

http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/folktexts.html

 

Hyperizons Hypertext Fiction

http://www.duke.edu/~mshumate/hyperfic.html

 

ibiblio digital archive

http://www.ibiblio.org/

 

Internet Classics Archive

http://classics.mit.edu/

 

Online Books Page

http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/

 

Perseus Digital Library

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cache/perscoll_Greco-Roman.html

 

Project Gutenberg

http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page

 

Representative Poetry Online

http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/display/index.cfm

 

Short Stories

http://www.short-stories.co.uk/

 

Sonnet Central

http://www.sonnets.org/

 

Technotopia

http://www.technotopia.com/books/

 

Turning the Pages

http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/ttp/ttpbooks.html

 

World Wide School

http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/catalogs/bysubject-top.html

 

ABC

http://abcnews.go.com/

 

BBC

http://www.bbc.co.uk/

 

BizJournal

http://www.bizjournals.com/

 

Chicago Tribune

http://www.chicagotribune.com/

 

CBS

http://www.cbsnews.com/

 

CNN

http://cnn.com

 

Fox News

http://www.foxnews.com/

 

Los Angeles Times

http://www.latimes.com/

 

London Times

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/global

 

NBC

http://www.nbc.com/News_&_Sports/

 

News.Com

http://news.com

 

New York Times

http://nyt.com

 

Wall Street Journal

http://online.wsj.com/public/us

 

Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com

 

American Secular Holidays

http://www.smart.net/~mmontes/ushols.html

 

Calculation of the Ecclesiastical Calendar

http://www.smart.net/~mmontes/ec-cal.html

 

Calendar of Jewish Holidays

http://bnaibrith.org/programs/jholidays/index.cfm

 

Calendar Zone

http://www.calendarzone.com/

 

Calendars through the Ages

http://webexhibits.org/calendars/

 

Interfeaith Calendar

http://www.interfaithcalendar.org/

 

Multicultural Calendar

http://www.kidlink.org/KIDPROJ/MCC/

 

Online Photoperiod Calculator

http://www.sci.fi/~benefon/sol.html

 

Panchangram Hindu Vedic Calendar

http://www.panchangam.com/

 

Perpetual Calendar

http://www.calendarhome.com/tyc/

 

Virtual Perpetual Calendar

http://www.vpcalendar.net/

 

AskNumbers.com

http://www.asknumbers.com/

 

Calculator.com

http://www.calculator.com/

 

Common Weights and Measures

http://chemistry.berkeley.edu/links/weights/index.html

 

Convert Plus

http://convertplus.com/en

 

Cost-of-Living Calculator

http://www.newsengin.com/neFreeTools.nsf/CPIcalc

 

Dictionary of Units

http://www.ex.ac.uk/cimt/dictunit/dictunit.htm

 

Dictionary of Units of Measurement

http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/

 

Footrule.com

http://www.footrule.com/1/homepage.htm?sr=index

 

Inflation Calculator

http://www.westegg.com/inflation/

 

Inflation Conversion Factors

http://oregonstate.edu/Dept/pol_sci/fac/sahr/sahr.htm

 

Measurement Conversion http://www.convert-me.com/en/

 

Medical Algorithms Project

http://www.medal.org/visitor/login.aspx

 

MegaConverter

http://www.megaconverter.com/Mega2/

 

Metric Conversion Factors

http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/reference/metrics/factors.htm

 

Oanda Currency Conversion

http://www.oanda.com/

 

Original Tipping Page

http://www.tipping.org/TopPage.shtml

 

Periodic Table Toolbox http://library.thinkquest.org/11771/english/hi/chemistry/periodic/?tqskip1=1

 

Relocation Caculator

http://www.homefair.com/homefair/calc/salcalc.html

 

Roman Numeral Date Conversion http://www2.inetdirect.net/~charta/Roman_numerals.html

 

Temperature Conversion

http://chemistry.berkeley.edu/links/temperature.html

 

Time Zone Check

http://www.timezonecheck.com/

 

Time Zone Converter

http://www.timezoneconverter.com/

 

Travel Tools

http://www.tyzo.com/tools/

 

Unit Converter

http://library.thinkquest.org/11771/english/hi/chemistry/convert.shtml?tqskip=1

 

Universal Currency Converter

http://www.xe.com/ucc/

 

USA Today Money Calculator http://www.usatoday.com/money/perfi/calculators/calculator.htm

 

 

 

GLBTQ resources (03/02/07)

GLBTQ Resources

 

The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies

http://web.gc.cuny.edu/clags/index.html

 

Children of Lesbians & Gays Everywhere

http://www.colage.org/

 

Curvemag.com

http://www.curvemag.com/

 

Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender & Queer Culture

http://www.glbtq.com/

 

The Gay Financial Network

http://www.gfn.com/

 

Gay Fiction Anthology Index

http://www.swarthmore.edu/library/ghuber1/index/shortstory.index.html

 

Guardian Unlimited -Gay Rights

http://www.guardian.co.uk/gayrights/

 

Federation of Gay Games

http://www.gaygames.com/en/

 

International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission

http://www.iglhrc.org/site/iglhrc/

 

International Lesbian and Gay Association

http://www.ilga.org/

 

National Gay and Lesbian Task Force

http://www.thetaskforce.org/

 

Out.com

http://www.out.com/

 

Stateline.org http://www.stateline.org/live/ViewPage.action?siteNodeId=136&languageId=1&contentId=15576

 

Google/Wiki resources (03/02/07)

Google

 

Google Books

http://books.google.com/

 

Google Earth

http://earth.google.com/

 

Google Images

http://images.google.com/

 

Google Finance 

http://finance.google.com/finance

 

Froogle

http://froogle.google.com/

 

Google Maps

http://maps.google.com/maps

 

Google Patent Search  http://www.google.com/patents

 

Google Scholar

http://scholar.google.com/

 

Wiki Resources

 

Second Life Business Communicators Wiki 

http://slbusinesscommunicators.pbwiki.com/

 

SIMteach Wiki

http://www.simteach.com/wiki/index.php?title=Second_Life_Education_Wiki

 

Wikipedia

http://www.wikipedia.org/

Health resources (03/02/07)

Consumer Health Resources

 

Ageline Database 

http://www.aarp.org/research/ageline/

 

Allergies and Food Sensitivities http://fnic.nal.usda.gov/nal_display/index.php?info_center=4&tax_level=2&tax_subject=278&topic_id=1379

 

American Academy of Pediatrics 

http://www.aap.org/

 

Botanical.com

http://www.botanical.com/

 

Clinical Trials

 http://clinicaltrials.gov/

 

The Cochrane Collection: Complementary Medicine  http://www.compmed.umm.edu/Cochrane/cam_reviews.html

 

Combined Health Information Database (CHID)

http://198.232.250.114/

 

Dietary Supplements: General Resources for Consumers

http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/pubs/bibs/gen/dietsupp.html

 

ERIC Database (Education Resources Information Center)  http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/Home.portal

 

Evidence Based Alternative Medicine

http://denison.uchsc.edu/education/cam2/

 

Healthfinder

http://www.healthfinder.gov/

 

Healthwatcher

http://www.healthwatcher.net/

 

HealthWeb

http://www.healthweb.org/

 

Herbalgram  

http://www.herbalgram.org/

 

Librarian's Index to the Internet 

http://www.lii.org

 

Library of Congress Online Catalog 

http://catalog.loc.gov/

 

Lifecycle Nutrition  http://fnic.nal.usda.gov/nal_display/index.php?info_center=4&tax_level=1&tax_subject=257

 

Mayo Clinic website 

http://www.mayoclinic.com/

 

MedlinePlus

http://medlineplus.org

 

MedlinePlus Drugs & Supplements http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginformation.html

 

MedlinePlus Health Encyclopedia  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/encyclopedia.html

 

MedlinePlus Health Topics  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/healthtopics.html

 

MedlinePlus Directories (U.S. only)  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/directories.html

 

MedlinePlus Medical Dictionary  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/mplusdictionary.html

 

MedlinePlus Medical News  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/newsbydate.html

 

MedlinePlus Senior Health Topics  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/seniorshealth.html

 

WebMD

 http://www.medscape.com

 

Men's Health  http://search.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/query?FUNCTION=search&PARAMETER=women%27s+health&DISAMBIGUATION=true&SERVER1=server1&SERVER2=server2&START=0&END=25&MAX=500&ASPECT=4

 

National Diabetes Information Clearinghouse 

http://diabetes.niddk.nih.gov/

 

NCCAM: National Center for Complementary & Alternative Medicine = http://nccam.nih.gov/

 

NOAH (a health information portal) 

http://www.noah-health.org/

 

Nutrition Action Newsletter 

http://www.cspinet.org/nah/

 

PubMed

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/

 

QuackWatch

http://www.quackwatch.org/

 

Sexual Health

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/sexualhealthissues.html

 

United States Pharmacopeia 

http://www.usp.org/

 

Women's Health 

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/womenshealthissues.html

Humanities (Literature, History, Philosophy, Genre literature...) (03/02/07)

Humanities

 

Literature

 

Literary Resources on the Web

http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/

 

Academy of American Poets

http://www.poets.org/index.php

 

The Cambridge History of English and American Literature

http://www.bartleby.com/cambridge/

 

Inter-Play - Search Engine

http://www.lib.pdx.edu/systems/interplay/

 

A Glossary of Literary Terms

http://www.virtualsalt.com/litterms.htm

 

Handbook of Rhetorical Devices

http://www.virtualsalt.com/rhetoric.htm

 

Glossary of Poetic Terms

http://www.poeticbyway.com/glossary.html

 

Studies in Bibliography

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/bsuva/sb/

 

Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable

http://www.bartleby.com/81/

 

The Oxford Book of English Verse

http://www.bartleby.com/101/

 

Henry David Thoreau 91817-1862)

Thoreau Blogspot

http://blogthoreau.blogspot.com/

 

Biography

http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/authors/thoreau/

 

Bibliography

http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/thorbib.htm

 

The Thoreau eServer

http://thoreau.eserver.org/

 

The Thoreau Society:

http://www.thoreausociety.org/

 

Thoreau Quotes Online:

http://www.psymon.com/walden/quotes.html

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/h/henry_david_thoreau.html

 

Thoreau Works Online:

Civil Disobedience (1849)

http://thoreau.eserver.org/civil.html

 

Desobediencia Civil (1849) Spanish Translation

http://thoreau.eserver.org/spanishcivil.html

 

Walden (1854)

http://thoreau.eserver.org/walden00.html

 

The Walden Woods Project

http://www.walden.org/

 

 

World History:

 

American Memory Project (Library of Congress) http://memory.loc.gov

 

The Avalon Project at Yale Law School

http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm

 

HyperHistory Online http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html

 

InfoPlease - Year-by=Year 1900 - 2005 http://www.infoplease.com/yearbyyear.html

 

World History Resources http://chnm.gmu.edu/worldhistorysources/indes.html

 

World History Chronology http://www.thenagain.info/webchron

 

World History Compass http://www.worldhistorycompass.com/index.htm

 

Classical & Midieval Studies

 

Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World

http://www.unc.edu/depts/cl_atlas/

 

Bulfinch's Mythology

http://www.diomedes.com/welcome.html

 

Online Medieval and Classical Library

http://omacl.org/

 

Perseus Digiatl Library

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/

 

Vicipaedia Latina

http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pagina_prima

 

Stanford Medieval Studies

http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/medi

eval/medieval.html

 

Medieval and Early Modern Data Bank

http://sccweb.scc-net.rutgers.edu/memdb/Gen

eralPages/TopLevel/home.asp

 

Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies

http://www.the-orb.net/

 

The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies

http://labyrinth.georgetown.edu/

 

Language & Linguistics

 

Center for Applied Linguistics

http://www.cal.org/

 

American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language

http://www.bartleby.com/61/

 

Brewers Dictionary of Phase & Fable

http://www.bartleby.com/81/

 

Cambridge Dictionaries Online

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/

 

Meriam Webster Dictionary Online

http://www.m-w.com/

 

OneLook Dictionary Source

http://www.onelook.com/

 

Online Etymology Dictionary

http://www.etymonline.com/

 

Roget's Thesauri

http://www.bartleby.com/thesauri/

 

Symbols.com

http://www.symbols.com/

 

Your Dictionary

http://www.yourdictionary.com/index.shtml

 

Dictionnaires d'autrefois

http://dictionnaires.atilf.fr/dictionnaires/

 

Ethnologue Languages of the World

http://www.ethnologue.com/

 

LinguistList

http://www.linguistlist.org/

 

Titus Thesaurus Indogermanischer

http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/indexe.htm

 

Philosophy

 

EpistemeLinks

http://www.epistemelinks.com/

 

Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy http://www.iep.utm.edu/

 

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosphy http://plato.stanford.edu/contents.html

 

Voice of the Shuttle Philosophy http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2724

 

 

Mystery

 

Award Annals

http://www.awardannals.com/genre/11/summary/

 

Geography and Mysteries

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~gjdemko/

 

The History of Hard-Boiled Detective Fiction

http://www.case.edu/artsci/engl/marling/hardboiled/Early%20History.HTM

 

Hardboiled Heaven

http://writer89.tripod.com/

 

IMBA:  Independent Myster Booksellers Association

http://mysterybooksellers.com/

 

Let's Talk About the Black Bird - A 75th Anniversary Tribute to Dashiel Hammett

http://www.janmag.com/features/hammettintro.html

 

Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer

http://pages.interlog.com/~roco/hammer.html

 

Murder in the Stacks

http://www.springfieldlibrary.org/stacks/index.html

 

MysteryGuide.com

http://www.mysteryguide.com/

 

MysteryNet.com

http://www.mysterynet.com/hardboiled/

 

Twists, Slugs and Roscoes:  A Glossary of Hardboailed Slang

http://www.miskatonic.org/slang.html

 

Award Annals

http://www.awardannals.com/genre/11/summary/

 

Geography and Mysteries

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~gjdemko/

 

The History of Hard-Boiled Detective Fiction

http://www.case.edu/artsci/engl/marling/hardboiled/Early%20History.HTM

 

Hardboiled Heaven

http://writer89.tripod.com/

 

IMBA:  Independent Myster Booksellers Association

http://mysterybooksellers.com/

 

Let's Talk About the Black Bird - A 75th Anniversary Tribute to Dashiel Hammett

http://www.janmag.com/features/hammettintro.html

 

Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer

http://pages.interlog.com/~roco/hammer.html

 

Murder in the Stacks

http://www.springfieldlibrary.org/stacks/index.html

 

MysteryGuide.com

http://www.mysteryguide.com/

 

MysteryNet.com

http://www.mysterynet.com/hardboiled/

 

Twists, Slugs and Roscoes:  A Glossary of Hardboailed Slang

http://www.miskatonic.org/slang.html

 

Law Resources (03/02/07)

LawSpot

Parvenu Tower, Third Floor

Info Island

SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Info Island/230/23/44/?title=Info Island

 InfoIsland.org -- Second Life Library 2.0

http://infoisland.org/

 SL Library 2.0 Worksite

http://infoisland.org/drupal/

 Last updated: February 21 2007

 New Items

 ***New*** Celebrating Black History Month: The Quest for Legal Equality (poster w/ notecard and links) -- added content and rotating pictures

 Bookshelf 1 (General Law Topics)

Books containing:

The Anglo-American Legal Traditions (notecard)

THE ANGLO-AMERICAN LEGAL TRADITION

Documents from Medieval and Early Modern England from the National Archives in London

Digitized and displayed through The O'Quinn Law Library of the University of Houston Law Center by license of the National Archives.

Sponsored by the University of Houston Law Center and by the University of Houston Department of History.

 http://aalt.law.uh.edu/

UK Statute Database (notecard)

The UK Statute Law Database (SLD) is the official revised edition of the primary legislation of the United Kingdom made available online.

http://www.statutelaw.gov.uk./Home.aspx

 

 

Magna Carta (notecard, link)

For more information about the Magna Carta, visit the British Library website at:

http://www.bl.uk/treasures/magnacarta/magna.html

Military Commissions Act of 2006; live URL to pdf of legislation  (notecard, link)

Text:

http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=109_cong_bills&docid=f:s3930es.txt.pdf

Keith Olbermann on "The Murder of Habeas Corpus"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUzUljH8EHU

 Legislative history of S. 3930 (via Thomas, the legislative database of the Library of Congress):

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/thomas

Voter Registration & Education  (notecard)

"Fifty State Blue Book Guide."

Table with links to "blue books" for most U.S. states. These books are directories to each state's government, with material on topics such as branches of government, departments, and elections. Compiled by Daniel Cornwall, a librarian at the Alaska State Library.

http://web.acsalaska.net/~dcornwall/NLA2005/BlueBookList.html

 GovTrack

GovTrack allows a user to monitor and track legislation, statements and votes by representatives, and bills under a specific subject.

http://www.govtrack.us/

 League of Women Voters

The League of Women Voters, a nonpartisan political organization, has fought since 1920 to improve our systems of government and impact public policies through citizen education and advocacy. The League of Women Voters is strictly nonpartisan; it neither supports nor opposes candidates for office at any level of government. At the same time, the League is wholeheartedly political and works to influence policy through advocacy.  The LWV provides information on candidates and issues at the national level and through its local leagues in every state.

http://www.lwv.org/

 

 Project Vote Smart

Provides info on candidates and elected officials in five basic categories: biographical information, issue positions, voting records, campaign finances and interest group ratings. Collects all available info on nominated, appointed, and elected judges and justices. Analyzes and tracks status of key legislation. Offers ?Voter's Self-Defense Manual,? an 80-page report on your congressional delegation (available online); the ?Reporter's Source Book?; and the Vote Smart Web Yellow Pages, a detailed sitemap and directory of special interests, advocacy groups, think tanks, and experts on all sides of most issues (available online).

http://www.vote-smart.org/index.htm

 Rock the Vote: Political Power for Young People

Information about issues of interest to younger people (among others), such as health insurance, unemployment and  education, and suggested action (txt message your friends). Basic information about registering and voting, including links to confirm whether you are registered and find your polling place.

http://www.rockthevote.com/home.php

 Sunlight Foundation

The goal of this organization is to use the "power of the Internet and new information technology to enable citizens to learn more about what Congress and their elected representatives are doing." The site features blogs, links to news, hints on conducting Congressional research, and the "Congresspedia," "the 'citizen's encyclopedia on Congress' that anyone can edit. Congresspedia is a collaborative project of the Center for Media and Democracy and the Sunlight Foundation."?

http://www.sunlightfoundation.com/

 University of Michigan Document Center: Poltical Science Resources

Collection of links on Election 2006, Iraq War, Terrorist Attack, Biographies, Blogs, Campaign Finances, Cartoons,  Caucuses, Comprehensive Sites,  Congress, Consultants, Cybercitizenry,  Declassified Docs,  ELECTIONS, Federal Government,  Foreign Policy, Impeachment, Lobby Groups, Michigan Government, Minority Politicians,  News Sources, Periodical Indexes, Periodicals, Photographs, Political Advertising, Political Parties/Organizations, President, Primaries, Public Opinion,

Public Policy Issues, State Governments, Statistics, and Think Tanks.

http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/psusp.html

Watchdog Groups  (notecard)

Citizens Against Government Waste

Aims to expose pork barrel spending in Congress and does in its Pig Book, which lists every earmark in Appropriations bills from 1991 to 2005, in its awards for Porker of the Month, and through detailed reports and graphs that expose the fast-growing industry of pork.

http://www.cagw.org/site/PageServer

 Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW)

CREW aims to expose corrupt practices in Washington and files motions and complaints to jump start investigations of these activities while issuing reports on members ethics.

http://www.citizensforethics.org/

 Common Cause

Common Cause is a vehicle to citizens voices heard with chapters throughout the country advocating for an open, honest, and accountable government.

http://www.commoncause.org/site/pp.asp?c=dkLNK1MQIwG&b=186966

 OMB Watch

OMB Watch promotes and advocates for accountability in government and legislation that serves the public interest.

http://www.ombwatch.org/

 Project On Government Oversight

POGO exposes provides oversight of government and its entanglement with special, corporate interests in reports that cover defense, homeland security, government contracting, open government, and energy and natural resources.

http://www.pogo.org/

 Taxpayers for Common Sense

Taxpayers for Common Sense aim to stop government spending while providing reports on pork barrel projects and earmarks in Congress.

http://www.taxpayer.net/

Government Sites on Elections and Ethics (notecard)

Federal Election Commission

The Federal Election Commission maintains databases on political contributions to candidates, 527s, political action committees, and up to date information on federal election law and violations of the law.

http://www.fec.gov/

 Government Accountability Office

The Government Accountability Office provides extensive reports and testimony on a wide-range of issues including disaster preparedness, terrorism, homeland security, and the federal budget imbalance.

http://www.gao.gov/

 House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

The web page for the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform contains extensive reports undertaken by the chair Henry Waxman < (D-CA) on environmental issues, national security, health care, and a variety of other issues.

http://oversight.house.gov/

 House Committee on Standards and Conduct

The House Committee on Standards and Conduct holds the investigative reports of past ethics investigations and links to the House ethics manual and other rules and guidelines lawmakers must follow.

http://www.house.gov/ethics/

 Lobbying Disclosure Forms

The Senate website contains a searchable database of bi-annual lobbyist disclosure forms that can be searched by lobbyist, lobbying firm, client, government entity contacted, and many other useful criteria.

http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/legislative/g_three_sections_with_teasers/lobbyingdisc.htm

 Office of Government Ethics

The Office of Government Ethics provides information on all ethics laws, guidelines, and opinions pertaining to Executive office employees.

http://www.usoge.gov/index.html

 Senate Select Committee on Ethics

The Senate Committee on Ethics lists past admonitions and press releases and contains links to the Senate ethics manual and guidelines for reporting private travel.

http://ethics.senate.gov/

 United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Voting Section Home Page

Information on Federal voting rights statutes and the department's role in enforcing them.

http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/voting/

 United States Department of Justice: United States Election 2004

This publication provides an introductory overview of the American electoral process for people who are not familiar with U.S. election practices and traditions. For "U.S. Elections 2004," we have asked seven experts, mostly political scientists, to explain significant aspects of the upcoming elections to international audiences who may have different ways of electing their government.

http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/election04/

 Money and Ethics in Politics (notecard)

Center for Public Integrity

The Center for Public Integrity website contains information on Iraq and Katrina contracts, a lobbying database, and investigative reports on money in politics.

http://www.publicintegrity.org/default.aspx

 Council on Government Ethics Law

COGEL provides a detailed research library containing links to dozens of ethics laws, statutes, and guidelines throughout the country.

http://www.cogel.org/

 Follow the Money: Institute on Money in State Politics

IMSP provides a researchable database of campaign contributions in state-level campaigns along with in-depth research and reports on important figures in the states, particular lobbies and industries, and analyses of state-level campaign contributions.

http://www.followthemoney.org/

 Open Secrets: Your Guide to the Money in U.S. Elections

Track contributions by industry; check up on the congressional, Senate and presidential candidates; search for contribution info by geographic area; look up individual donors; and search the new lobbyist database for companies, lobbying firms, industry, issue, or agency.

http://www.opensecrets.org/

 Political Money Line

Political Money Line is a subscription service that provides searchable databases of political contributions to candidates and political action committees (PACs), 527s, personal financial disclosures, lobbyists, lobbying firms, and lobbying disclosure forms, congressional travel info, and profiles of industries, donors, and members of Congress. ($$ Subscription required for most of the site $$)

http://www.tray.com/

 Public Campaign

Public Campaign seeks the public financing of elections and elimination of corporate influence peddling in federal, state, and local elections. Public Campaign offers numerous publications on how corporate money influences politicians and how clean election reforms work.

http://www.publicampaign.org/

 Public Citizen

Public Citizens Congress Watch issues reports on a variety of subjects including the influence held by special interest groups through lobbying, the use of stealth PACs disguised as 501(c)3 non-profits, and money in Presidential politics.

http://www.citizen.org/

 Read the Bill

Read the Bill seeks the enactment of the 72-hour sunshine reform that would make every bill available online 72 hours prior to a vote and also tracks news on process reforms in both the House and Senate.

http://www.readthebill.org/

 

Hamdan v Rumsfeld (syllabus of US Supreme Court decision; live URL to pdf of complete text)

This is the syllabus (unofficial summary) of the US Supreme Court's June 2006 decision re Guantanamo Bay prisoner Salim Ahmed Hamdan. For the full text of the opinion, visit http://www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/05pdf/05-184.pdf

100 Hours (110th Congress) (notecard)

 http://www.speaker.gov/legislation?id=0003

 Bookshelf 2 (Law and Virtual Worlds)

Books containing:

Jankowich, Andrew E.  Property and Democracy in Virtual Worlds. 11 Boston University Journal of Science & Technology Law 173 (2005)   (notecard, link)

Jankowich, Andrew E.  Property and Democracy in Virtual Worlds. 11 Boston University Journal of Science & Technology Law 173 (2005) 

http://www.bu.edu/law/scitech/volume11issue2/JankowichArticleWEB.pdf

"Law Review Articles Dealing with Virtual Worlds and Online Gaming (Bibliography). By Cat Galileo

Law Review Articles Dealing with Virtual Worlds and Online Gaming.

Bibliography

By Cat Galileo (Kate Fitz)

Sept. 30, 2006

*work in progress*

N.B.: Many of the sources below were gathered together in Andrew E. Jankowich's "Property and Democracy in Virtual Worlds." 11 Boston University Journal of Science & Technology Law 173 (2005) 

Lawsuits

Becker,  David "Game Exchange Suit Goes to Court," C|Net News.com, Feb. 7, 2002, http://news.com.com/Game+exchange+dispute+goes+to+court/2100-1040_3-832347.html

Lawsuit Fires Up in Case of Vanishing Virtual Weapons, China Daily, Nov. 20, 2003, at http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/en/doc/2003-11/20/content_283202.htm

Law Review (and some other) Articles

Balkin, Jack M. Virtual Liberty: Freedom to Design and Freedom to Play in Virtual Worlds, 90 Va. L. Rev. 2043 (2004) http://www.virginialawreview.org/page.php?s=content&p=archives. (Not currently available on website; available via Lexis, Westlaw, Hein Online)

Balkin, Jack M., Law and Liberty in Virtual Worlds, 49 New York Law School Law Review 63 (2004)  (Institute for Information Law and Policy Symposium) 2004 http://www.nyls.edu/pdfs/v49n1p63-80.pdf

Bartle, Richard A.,  Virtual Worldliness: What the Imaginary Asks of the Real, 49 New York Law School Law Review  19 (2004)  (Institute for Information Law and Policy Symposium) 2004 http://www.nyls.edu/pdfs/v49n1p19-44.pdf

Bilstad, Blake T. Obscenity and Indecency in a Digital Age: The Legal and Political Implications of Cybersmut, Virtual Pornography, and the Communications Decency Act of 1996, 13 Santa Clara Computer and High-Technology Law Journal 321  (1997)  http://www.scu.edu/techlaw/index.html. Text not available on site.

Byassee, William S.  Jurisdiction of Cyberspace: Applying Real World Precedent to the Virtual Community, 30 WAKE FOREST L. REV. 197 (1995) (emphasizing the importance of recognizing differences between on-line and physical interactions, and discussing that autonomous jurisdiction is a utopian solution)  http://law.wfu.edu/lawreview.xml (text not available on line)

Castronova, Edward  Virtual Worlds: A First-Hand Account of Market and Society on the Cyberian Fronteir  38  (CESifo Working Paper Series No. 618, 2001) at http://ssrn.com/abstract_id=294828

Castronova, Edward On Virtual Economies, (CESifo Working Paper Series No. 752, 2002), at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers/cfm?abstract_id=338500

Castronova, Edward The Price of "Man" and "Woman": A Hedonic Pricing Model of Avatar Attributes in a Synthetic World 22 (CESifo Working Paper Series No. 957, 2003), at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers/cfm?abstract_id=415043

Castronova, Edward The Right to Play, 49 NYL Sch. L. Rev. 185 (2003)  http://www.nyls.edu/pdfs/v49n1p185-210.pdf

Castronova, Edward Theory of the Avatar (CESifo Working Paper Series No. 863, 2003), at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers/cfm?abstract_id=385103

Christensen, Kory D., Note, Fighting Software Piracy in Cyberspace: Legal and Technological Solutions,  28 Law and Policy in International Business 435  (1996-1997) http://www.law.georgetown.edu/journals/gjil/index.html (text not available on site) 

Computer and High Tech Law Journal Symposium - Rules & (and) Borders - Regulating Digital Environments - February 11, 2005 - Panel 3 - Ownership in Online Worlds Symposium Review, 21 Santa Clara Computer & High Technology Law Journal 807  (2004-2005) 

Dibbell, Julian, A Rape in Cyberspace: How an Evil Clown, a Haitian Trickster Spirit, Two Wizards, and a Cast of Dozens Turned a Database Into a Society, THE VILLAGE VOICE, Dec. 23, 1993, available at http://www.juliandibbell.com/texts/bungle_

vv.html (last visited Feb. 27, 2004). Julian Dibbells famous 1993 article described a virtual rape by a character named Mr. Bungle committed in LambdaMOO, a MUD (Multi User Dimension), an earlier version of todays virtual worlds. Mr. Bungle was subjected to shunning from the other players and he was eventually eliminated or toaded by one of the games designers or wizards.

Dibbell, Julian, Owned!: Intellectual Property in the Age of Dupers, Gold Farmers, eBayers, and Other Enemies of the Virtual State, available at http://www.nyls.edu/docs/dibbell.pdf (last visited, Feb. 28, 2004).

Dogan, Stacey, L., Liu, Joseph P. Copyright Law and Subject Matter Specificity: The Case of Computer Software, 61 New York University Annual Survey of American Law 203  (2005-2006) http://www.nyu.edu/pubs/annualsurvey/articles/61%20N.Y.U.%20Ann.%20Surv.%20Am.%20L.%20203%20(2005).pdf

Effross, Walter A. Legal Architecture of Virtual Stores: World Wide Web Sites and the Uniform Commercial Code, The Symposium--Internet's Role in the Commercial Marketplace and Personal Rights and Constitutional Issues Related to the Internet, 34 San Diego Law Review 1263  (1997). 'Virtual Stores' on the Web raise a myriad of traditional legal controversies in a new forum: the battle of the forms among purchasers and sellers; jurisdictional concerns and conflict-of-law problems; and the enforceability of contracts. This wide-ranging article analyzes law regarding these issues, with particular emphasis on the U.C.C.   http://www.sandiego.edu/usdlaw/about/publications/journals/lawreview/issues/index.php?vol=34&issue=3 (text not on web site)

  Egan, Patrick T., Note, Virtual Community Standards: Should Obscenity Law Recognize the Contemporary Community Standard of Cyberspace?  30 Suffolk University Law Review 117  (1996-1997)   http://www.law.suffolk.edu/highlights/stuorgs/lawreview/ (text not on web site)

Gleason, David H. & Lawrence Friedman, Toward an Accessible Conception of Cyberspace, 28 Vermont Law Review 299 (2003-2004)  http://www.vermontlawreview.com/default.htm (text not on web site)

Grimmelmann, James, Free as in Gaming, at http://research.yale.edu/lawmeme/modueles.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1290 (Dec 4, 2004)

Grimmelmann, James, Virtual Worlds as Comparative Law, 49 New York Law School Law Review 147 (2004)  (Institute for Information Law and Policy Symposium) 2004 http://www.nyls.edu/pdfs/v49n1p147-184.pdf

Gross, M. Case Note, Sega Enterprises v. Maphia Intellectual Property - Copyright: Infringement: Contributory and Vicarious Liability, 13 Berkeley Technology Law Journal 101  (1998)   http://www.law.berkeley.edu/journals/btlj/articles/vol13/index.htm (text not yet on site)

Hammond, Allen S. Reflections on the Myth of Icarus in the Age of Information,  19 Santa Clara Computer and High Technology Law Journal 407  (2002-2003)   http://www.scu.edu/techlaw/index.html. Text not available on site..

Hunter, Dan Cyberspace as Place, and the Tragedy of the Digital Anticommons, 91 Cal. L. Rev. 439 (2003) http://clr.boalt.org/ (text not available on site)

Jankowich, Andrew E.  Property and Democracy in Virtual Worlds, 11 Boston University Journal of Science & Technology Law 173 (2005)  http://www.bu.edu/law/scitech/volume11issue2/JankowichArticleWEB.pdf

Johnson, David R.,  How Online Games May Change the Law and Legally Significant Institutions, 49 New York Law School Law Review  51 (2004)  (Institute for Information Law and Policy Symposium) 2004 http://www.nyls.edu/pdfs/v49n1p51-62.pdf

Judmaier, Peter, Violence in Virtual Societies 49 New York Law School Law Review (2004) (Institute for Information Law and Policy Symposium) 2004 http://www.nyls.edu/pdfs/Judmaier.pdf (not published in journal; available on web site)

Katsh, Ethan,  Bringing Online Dispute Resolution to Virtual Worlds: Creating Processes Through Code,  49 New York Law School Law Review 271 (2004)  (Institute for Information Law and Policy Symposium) 2004 http://www.nyls.edu/pdfs/v49n1p271-291.pdf

Lastowka F. Gregory & Dan Hunter, The Laws of the Virtual Worlds, 92 Cal. L. Rev. 3 (2004) http://clr.boalt.org/  (text not available on site)

Lastowska, F. Gregory  & Hunter, Dan, Virtual Crimes, 49 New York Law School Law Review 293 (2004) (Institute for Information Law and Policy Symposium) 2004 http://www.nyls.edu/pdfs/v49n1p293-316.pdf

Lemley, Mark A., Place and Cyberspace 91 CALIF. L. REV. 521 (2003)  http://clr.boalt.org/ (text not available on site)

Madison, Michael J. Narratives of Cyberspace Law (or, Learning from Casablanca),  27 Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts 249 (2003-2004)   http://www.lawandarts.org/index.html (text not yet available on site)

Matei, Sorin.   Impact of State-Level Social Capital on the Emergence of Virtual Communities, 48 Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media 23  (2004)    http://www.beaweb.org/jobem/info.html (text not available on site)

Mnookin, Jennifer L.  Virtual(ly) Law: The Emergence of Law in LambdaMOO,

2 J. COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMM. (1996) (describing the rise of community norms in the

virtual space of LamdaMOO), available at http://www.ascusc.org/jcmc/vol2/issue1/

lambda.html (last visited Feb. 27, 2004)

Montpas, Scott M., Comment, Gambling On-line: For a Hundred Dollars, I Bet You Government Regulation Will Not Stop the Newest Form of Gambling, 22 University of Dayton Law Review 163  (1996-1997)     http://law.udayton.edu/LawReview/default.asp  (text not available on site)

Noveck, Beth Simone,  Introduction: The State of Play   49 New York Law School Law Review  185  (2004) (Institute for Information Law and Policy Symposium) 2004 185 (available on the web at  http://www.nyls.edu/pdfs/v49n1p185-210.pdf)

Ogbu, Cecilia., Note, I Put Up a Website About My Favorite Show and All I Got was This Lousy Cease-and-Desist Letter: The Intersection of Fan Sites, Internet Culture, and Copyright Owners, 12 Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal 279 (2002-2003)    http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~idjlaw/ (Issue 12:2, available on site)

Ondrejka, Cory Escaping the Gilded Cage: User Created Content and Building the Metaverse, 49 N.Y.L Sch. L. Rev. 81 (2004) http://www.nyls.edu/pdfs/v49n1p81-101.pdf

Pearce, Celia, Emergent Authorship: The Next Interactive Revolution, 26 COMPUTERS & GRAPHICS 21 (Feb. 2002) (reporting that the parents of an EverQuest player who bought him a high-level character for his birthday tried to hold the developers accountable when he subsequently got it killed). It is not clear from her paper the extent to which lawyers became involved, however, nor whether the anecdote is basically true or merely an urban legend.

Perritt, Jr., Henry H.  President Clinton's National Information Infrastructure Initiative: Community Regained?, 69 CHI.-KENT L. REV. 991 (1994) (Charles Green Lecture) (exploring the role of new computer and communications technologies in undermining traditional communities and facilitating new ones);

Perritt, Jr., Henry H. Dispute Resolution in Electronic Network Communities, 38 VILL. L. REV. 349 (1993)

  Reynolds, Ben, Hands Off MY Avatar: Issues with Claims of Virtual Property and Identity (Sept. 2003), available at http://www.ren-reynolds.com/downloads/HandsOffMYavatar.doc. 

Robbins, Nicholas, Note,  Baby Needs a New Pair of Cybershoes: The Legality of Casino Gambling on the Internet, 2 Boston University Journal of Science & Technology Law 150  (1996) http://www.bu.edu/law/scitech/volume2/2JSTL07.PDF

Sayle, Amber Jene, Notes and Comments, Net Nation and the Digital Revolution: Regulation of Offensive Material for an New Community, 18 Wisconsin International Law Journal 257  (2000)  Abstract: Most governments are just now realizing how little real control they have over the Internet, and how ineffective are the sporadic attempts to regulate its content. Nations have diverse opinions on a number of fundamental concepts such as politics, religion, and so on, and because of this diversity, the intent behind many national laws, which regulate content on the Internet, is ruined. This Article focuses on the problems with the current state of regulation of the Internet, application of current law to the Web, e-mail, and chat rooms. It provides the history and the nature of the Web and presents a detailed description of three widely divergent national regulations of the Web (Germany, the United States, and Japan), regulation of child pornography. The Article analyzes and critiques the current regulation efforts and discusses possible outcomes of the continuation of current policies (specifically, why international regulation will be unsuccessful). This Article concludes with a suggestion, the Net Nation: an international agreement which would allow a guiding, unified. Net law to take precedence in disputes arising from on-line content between citizens from different nations or, in criminal proceedings, between one nation and citizens from a different nation. http://www.law.wisc.edu/students/wilj/ (text not available on site)

Schwarz, Andrew D., Bullis, Robert.  Rivalrous Consumption and the Boundaries of Copyright Law: Intellectual Property Lessons from Online Games, 10 Intellectual Property Law Bulletin 13  (2005-2006)    (text not yet on site)

Spaight, Tracy,  Who Killed Miss Norway? 49 New York Law School Law Review  (2004)  (Institute for Information Law and Policy Symposium) 2004 http://www.nyls.edu/pdfs/Spaight.pdf (first printed in Salon, April 14, 2003 http://dir.salon.com/story/tech/feature/2003/04/14/who_killed_miss_norway/index.html not published in journal; available on web site)

Stephens, Molly Note, Sales of In-Game Assets: An Illustration of the Continuing Failure of Intellectual Property Law to Protect Digital-Content Creators, 80 Tex. L. Rev. 1513 (2002)  Abstract:: Massively multi-player, online games have become more than just entertainment for players who have sold their characters and in-game assets to other players for thousands of dollars.  These asset sales do not have the approval of the game developers, however, and some developers have attempted to ban asset sales by asserting copyright infringement.  This Note analyzes the validity of the developers infringement assertions and explores potential intellectual property theories that protect players who sell their assets. http://www.utexas.edu/law/journals/tlr/abstracts/Volume%2080/Stephens.htm (text not available on site)

Stevens, Jacqueline, Legal Aesthetics of the Family and the Nation: AgoraXchange and Notes Toward Re-Imaging the Future, 49 New York Law School Law Review 317 (2004) (Institute for Information Law and Policy Symposium) 2004 http://www.nyls.edu/pdfs/v49n1p317-352.pdf

Terdiman, Daniel  "Virtual Trade Tough Nut to Crack," Wired, Dec. 20, 2004, at www.wired.com/news/avantgo/story/0,2278,66074-00.html

Willhite, John M., Note, NTN Communications v. Interactive Network: Denial of Copyright and Trademark Protection for Interactive Games. 16 Loyola of Los Angeles Entertainment Law Journal 789  (1995-1996)   http://elr.lls.edu/index.html (text not available on site)

Yamagami, Donald S., Comment, Prosecuting Cyber-Pedophiles: How Can Intent be Shown in a Virtual World in Light of the Fantasy Defense, 41 Santa Clara Law Review 547  (2000-2001)  http://www.scu.edu/law/lawreview/index.html (text not available on site)

Yen, Alfred Western Frontier or Feudal Society, Metaphors and Perceptions of Cyberspace, 17 Berkeley Tech. L. J. 1207 (2002) http://www.law.berkeley.edu/journals/btlj/articles/vol17/Yen.stripped.pdf

Kinitsky, David Brett. "Software copyright law and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act under the microscope: Blizzard v. Bnetd as lens." Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal 24.1 (Spring 2006): 367-384.

Johnson, David R. "How online games may change the law and legally significant institutions.(Institute for Information Law and Policy Symposium: State of Play)." New York Law School Law Review 49.1 (Wntr 2005): NA. I

  Kane, Sean F. "Virtual wealth management." New Jersey Law Journal (Sept 11, 2006): NA.

"Who's in charge of who I am? Identity and law online.(Institute for Information Law and Policy Symposium: State of Play)." New York Law School Law Review 49.1 (Wntr 2005): NA.

 

Unlawful Internet Gambling Act of 2006 & Second Life: Is SL-ingo Now Illegal? (notecard)

The Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 and Second Life

 On Sept. 30, Congress passed the "Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006" as Title VIII of the "Safe Port Act," HR 4954.  President Bush signed the act on Oct. 13, and it became Public LaLaw No: 109-347.  See THOMAS, the Library of Congress' legislative information site:

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:HR04954:@@@R