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Subject Directories

Refdesk.com
Extensive subject directory that is particularly strong for access to news and quick fact links.

Librarians Index to the Internet
Searchable and browsable directory arranged by subject. Sites submitted and reviewed by librarians.

dmoz: Open Directory Project
Searchable and browsable directory arranged by subject.

CompletePlanet
Searchable subject directory of links to freely available databases and speciality search engines, whose content is often not indexed by general search engines.

Search Engines

Google
Using Google Advanced Search (.pdf file)

Alta Vista

AlltheWeb

Ask.com

Vivisimo

Dogpile (meta-search engine)

Metacrawler (meta-search engine)

Statistics

World Development Indicators
Population, environmental, and economic statistics from nations around the world.

Fedstats
"The gateway to statistics from over 100 U.S. Federal agencies."

Statistical Resources on the Web
Out of the University of Michigan Documents Center, this website contains links to sites with statistics arranged by subject categories.

Bureau of Justice Statistics
Contains statistics relating to law enforcement, the justice system, corrections, and victims of crime.

Bureau of Labor Statistics
Extensive statistics on the economy, business, and labor in the United States.

Census Bureau: Economic Programs
Links to economic statistics collected by the U.S. Census Bureau, including the Economic Census and County Business Patterns.

National Center for Education Statistics
"The primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education in the United States and other nations."

National Center for Health Statistics
A resource for statistics relating to health in the United States.

Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics
"600 tables from over 100 sources on all aspects of criminal justice in the US."

U.S. Census Bureau
Contains extensive statistics on the demographics of the United States. Statistics: http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/stats.html

Historical Census Browser
Out of the University of Virginia, the Historical Census browser has data on the population and the economy of the United States down to the county level for the dates 1790 to 1960.

California Statistical Abstract
"Annual compilation of detailed social, economic, and government statistics for California."

Newspapers

New York Times
Access to current articles, searchable archive of past articles from 1851 to present. Note: Articles from 1923-1986 require a fee to view.

Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
Access to current articles, searchable archive with first paragraph of article also available (charge to view full archived articles).

Fontana Herald News
Searchable archive, no charge for access to archived or current articles.

The Press Enterprise
Requires registration to view articles.

Los Angeles Times
Requires registration to view articles.

Orange County Register
Requires registration to view articles.

San Bernardino County Sun
Access to current articles, searchable access to some past, full-text articles.

California Newspapers
Maintained by Refdesk.com, this webpage has links to California newspapers.

Scholarly Articles, Reports, Research

University of California eScholarship Repository
Sponsored by the California Digital Library, this website includes full-text scholarly content written by academics on a wide variety of subjects.

IngentaConnect
Contains citations and abstracts from academic journals on a wide variety of subjects. Articles are not freely available full-text; check our databases behind AGent to see if Chaffey has access to articles.

Google Scholar
This new tool by Google which is still in the test phase, searches "specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research."

PLOS: Biology

Includes access to primary research articles on biology-related topics as well as primers (overviews) on topics of current interest in the field of biology.

last updated 4/2005

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