Below are links to useful internet resources by subject:
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Business
General Business Information
- Hoover's Online - Always an excellent source for basic corporate and industry information, this site now also provides a business-oriented perspective on topics such as financial planning, career development, and business travel.
- Thomas Register
- Annual Report Gallery - Access to more than 2,000 annual reports and other corporate information.
- NASDAQ
- Bloomberg - This site offers coverage of U.S. and world financial markets, advice on personal finance, as well as business, travel, and lifestyle tips and articles.
- Marketing Virtual Library
- Office.com - Templates with information on starting, running, and promoting a small business.
- Advertising World Directory
- Family Business Resources - A searchable Website devoted to family businesses and their owners.
Online Business Publications
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Education
College Information
Financial Aid
- FastWeb - Access to a database of more than 400,000 scholarships, grants, and loans is provided.
- FinAid - Search here for information on the financial assistance available to college students today.
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Government
General Information
United States Government
Minnesota Government
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Health and Nursing
General/Consumer Health Sites
- The Mayo Clinic - A site providing links to all typesof health information.
- MedlinePlus - Provides information about diseases, drugs and supplements, general wellness, and directories of medical and health resources.
- PubMed - Provides (primarily) abstract-level access to more than 16,000,000 articles from biomedical journals.
- PDRhealth - A general medical and health care Website created by the publishers of the esteemed Physician's Desk Reference. Also includes a link to MEDLINE, as well as drug information and a medical dictionary.
- Shape Up America! - Look here first for information about physical fitness, sports nutrition, and exercise.
Professional Organizations
Government Health Sites
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Libraries and Booksellers
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Literature
- Great Books Online - An enormous site that provides access to the writings of such celebrated authors as William Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, Mark Twain, T.S. Eliot, Jane Austen, Booker T. Washington, and more. Their Reference Shelf lists the King James Version of the Bible, the Columbia Encyclopedia, and Gray's Anatomy among its offerings.
- Representative Poetry Online - This fully-indexed site contains the texts of over 3,000 poems by more than 500 significant poets. Also contains a helpful glossary of poetic terminology and a historical timeline of poetry.
- Luminarium - A collection of Medieval, Renaissance, and 17th century literature. Each author entry includes a biographical description and a bibliography of related critical essays.
- Literary Resources on the Net - Look here for an electronic version of a specific work of American or British literature.
- Encyclopedia Mythica - An online encyclopedia of mythology, folklore, and legend.
- Folklore, Myth, and Legend - A links page to the folk tales and legends of the world.
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News and Weather
General News
Newspapers
Magazines
Weather
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Online Libraries
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Reference Shelf
- RefDesk - A web site that indexes and reviews web-based resources.
- Infoplease - Includes an almanac, dictionaries, maps, and current events coverage.
- Wikipedia
- Dictionary.com
- Onelook - An index to more than 600 separate dictionaries.
- American Heritage Dictionary /a>
- Merriam-Webster Dictionary
- Roget's Thesaurus
- Thesaurus
- Old Farmer's Almanac
- Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
- CIA World Factbook - Both this site and the next provide excellent profiles of the nations of the world, including demographic, historical, political, economic, and geographical information.
- Country Studies
- Anywho - Use this site to find addresses and phone numbers of individuals and businesses.
- Switchboard - Another address and phone number search site.
- Mapquest
- Internet Movie Database - Everything you ever wanted to know about films, movies, actors, directors, etc.
- Zip Code Lookup
- United States Census - Information from the 2000 United States Census.
- Minnesota Quick Facts
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