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Alabama Virtual Library
Databases with thousands of full-text magazine articles. Ask the librarian for your home login.

Librarians' Index to the Internet
Annotated links to online information with a search feature.

Project Gutenberg
Named after the inventor of moveable type, this collection of 12,000 electronic books is comprised of materials in the public domain.

Internet Movie Database
A comprehensive entertainment information source.

How Stuff Works
Electronics, autos, computer, home, and health information.

Library of Congress
Digitized primary and secondary sources from our nation's depository library.

Bartlett's Quotations
"A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature," compiled by John Bartlett This tenth edition of 1919 contains over 11,000 searchable quotations and was the first new edition of John Bartlett

Evaluating Web Pages
From Cornell University, guidelines for evaluating the value and authority of online information.

Bartleby.com
Great Books Online: Plain-text versions of classic text and reference materials.

Refdesk.com
News, credible online reference sources, search engines, and diversions.

Information Please Online
Information Please Dictionary, Internet Encyclopedia, Atlas, and Almanac

APA format
Information on using the APA format to cite your research sources.

Occupational Outlook Handbook
Up-to-date occupational information from the U.S. Department of Labor.

English

Memoirs

Rick Bragg: Random House Publishing

Rick Bragg: Salon.com

Rick Bragg Quits NYTimes: Washington Post

Henry Louis Gates:Stanford University

Henry Louis Gates: West Virginia Archives and History

Family and Consumer Science

Weddings

The Knot

Modern Bride

The Knot Wedding Budgeter Requires registration.

Social Studies

Concise Encyclopedia of Economics: Economists' Biographies
Information on the lives and theories of economists.

African American Studies
From City College of New York, a good directory of digitized resources from their Black Studies department.

CIA World Fact Book
The latest political, economic and statistical information about countries around the world.

Supreme Court Decisions

Landmark Supreme Court Cases
Selected U.S. Supreme Court Cases, designed for teachers and students.

Oyez
U.S. Supreme Court Multimedia

Historic Supreme Court Decisions
From the Legal Information Institute at Cornell University, selected U.S. Supreme Court Decisions.

Political and Demographic Information

This Nation
American Government and Politics Online

Statistical Abstract of the U.S.
U.S. Census Bureau Statistical Abstract of the United States

Citation Information

APA format
Information on using the APA format to cite your research sources.

MLA format
Using Modern Language Association (MLA) Format. This is the way you will need to cite your sources for most student research papers.

Science

Genetic Disorders

Medline Plus Topics arranged A-Z

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Disorders listed at the left

NGenetic Disorders: Yahoo Directory

Public Lands

Alabama State Parks

National Park Service: National Parks

National Wildlife Service Refuge Locator
Choose the state where the refuge is located. Refuge information will be hyperlinked from the bottom of the state page.

Public Lands Information Center
Western U.S. states.

Endangered Species

World Wildlife Fund Endangered Species
World Wildlife Fund site for high-profile endangered species.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Federal list of endangered species, updated daily.

Red List
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources list of threatened species.

Local history

Alabama Mosaic
Digitized photographic images documenting our state's history.

State Historical Markers
Includes the text of the historical markers for Buckhorn Tavern and the Buckhorn Tavern skirmish.

Health and Wellness


Teen Health and Advice
Lots of good articles and FAQs.

Teen Life
A comprehensive directory of sites of interest to teens.


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