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| Consumer Information | ||
| Annual Credit Report | AnnualCreditReport.com is a centralized service for consumers to request annual credit reports. | |
| FareCompare.com | A resource for finding the cheapest air fare for travel | |
| Consumer.gov | Consumer information from the federal government. | |
| Edmund's Automobile Buyer's Guides | A great collection of free information from the publishers of Edmund's Auto Guides. | |
| Gethuman.com | Tips on how to navigate through telephone menus to reach a real person | |
| Kelley Blue Book | The Kelley Blue Book site includes new and used car prices. | |
| U.S. Department of State | Provides background notes on every nation. Also includes travel advisories and much more. | |
| World FactBook | Basic information about every country in the world. | |
| Library of Congress Country Studies | Guides to the history, politics and social institutions of different countries | |
| InfoNation | View and compare statistical information on the member states of the United Nations | |
| Dictionaries | ||
| Grolier | Grolier Online Dictionaries | |
| OneLook | ||
| Dictionary.com | ||
| Answers.com | ||
| Education | ||
| ERIC: Educational Resources Info Center | National information system designed to provide users with ready access to an extensive body of education-related literature. | |
| Peterson's Education Portal | Information on colleges, financial aid and test | |
| Yahoo College Search | A searchable guide to colleges | |
| CollegeSearch | A searchable database by college, university, city or state, with phone numbers to the admissions offices and links to school websites | |
| Education Stats Site | Provides education statistics | |
| Blue Web'n | Provides resources for teachers | |
| The Big Six | Integrates information search and use skills along with technology tools in a systematic process to find, use, apply, and evaluate information. | |
| Environment | ||
| U. S. Environmental Protection Agency | ||
| Film | ||
| Movie Review Query Engine | Use this specialized search engine to search for movie reviews on many different websites | |
| The Internet Movie Database | The Internet Movie Database is a huge, searchable collection of information about all kinds of movies | |
| Government: Federal | ||
| FirstGov | Your First Click to the United States Government -- A good place to start for searching for any government information | |
| Google U.S. Government Search | A single location for searching across U.S. government information, and for keeping up to date on government news | |
| Government: State | ||
| Mass.gov | The official web site of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, with links to the web sites of all state agencies and departments. | |
| NH Government | The official web site of New Hampshire, with links to the web sites of all state agencies and departments. | |
| Health | ||
| Healthfinder | A gateway to reliable consumer health and human services information web site developed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services | |
| Lab Tests Online | A public resource on clinical lab testing from the laboratory professionals who do the testing | |
| Mass. Board of Registration in Medicine | ||
| WebMD | Searchable medical site | |
| WebMD's Symptom Checker | Use this medical symptom checker to find out if you need medical attention. | |
| Global Health Facts | GlobalHealthFacts.org, a project of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation and companion site to GlobalHealthReporting.org, provides free, up-to-date and easy-to-access data by country on HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and other key health and socio-economic indicators. | |
| ClinicalTrials.gov | ClinicalTrials.gov provides regularly updated information about federally and privately supported clinical research in human volunteers. ClinicalTrials.gov gives you information about a trial's purpose, who may participate, locations, and phone numbers for more details. | |
| Images | ||
| Art Images for College Teaching | A free resource of public domain images of paintings, sculpture, and archetecture from ancient, medieveal, European Renaissance, post-Renaissance and other time periods. | |
| New York Public Library Digital Gallery | provides access to over 550,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more. | |
| Northeast Massachusetts Digital Library | A digital collection of items related to Northeast Massachusetts | |
| Library of Congress Prints & Photographs | Contains catalog records and digital images representing a rich cross-section of still pictures held by the Prints & Photographs Division and other units of the Library. The Library of Congress offers broad public access to these materials as a contribution to education and scholarship. | |
| Jobs | ||
| Massachusetts Job Bank | This job site is a service of the Massachusetts Division of Employment and Training and provides searchable listings for a wide variety of jobs. | |
| Boston Works | The Boston Sunday Globe Help Wanted section. | |
| U. S. Department of Labor | Occupational Outlook Handbook provides job search tips, links to information about the job market in each state, and useful information about hundreds of jobs. | |
| Law | ||
| Massachusetts Trial Court Law Libraries | The best starting place for Massachusetts legal research. Links to Federal law, as well. | |
| Massachusetts Divorce Information | ||
| Nations of the World | Compiled by the Law Library of Congress, includes constitutions and information on the government of the countries, full texts of laws, regulations, and court decisions as well as links to sites providing general information | |
| Legal Information Institute | Cornell University sponsors this comprehensive set of legal resources, which includes searchable access to Supreme Court decisions and links to many other legal resources. | |
| Copyright and Fair Use | A guide to resources on copyright and fair use from the Stanford University Libraries. | |
| Literature and Poetry | ||
| The Complete Works of Shakespeare | A searchable Shakespeare archive | |
| Online Literary Criticism Collection | A collection of biographical and critical information about authors and their works, from the Internet Public Library | |
| The Academy of American Poets | Information on the Academy and its programs as well as collections, exhibits, biographies and sound files of poets reading their own works | |
| Bartleby.com | Great Books Online | |
| Maps | ||
| Google Maps | "What's new is the easy, breezy ability to visualize geographical information, whether for trend spotting or just to make places easier to find." | |
| GCensus.com | Maps based on data from the 2000 U.S. Census. | |
| Map Builder | Tag locations and publish the map on your own site. | |
| News | ||
| The Internet Public Library: Online Newspapers | A collection of links to newspaper web sites around the world | |
| U.S. Newspapers Online | U.S. daily and weekly newspapers | |
| Politics | ||
| Project Vote Smart | A project dedicated to providing objective, comprehensive information about elections, candidates and issues. | |
| Polling Data | ||
| Polling Report | An independent, nonpartisan resource on trends in American public opinion. | |
| Gallop Poll | Gallup shares information from opinion polls, special reports, trends, and social audits. | |
| Reference | ||
| Answers.com | Enter a word, a name, or phrase and get back a definition and some background information from a variety of resources. | |
| NOBLE Web | North of Boston Library Exchange (NOBLE) Internet directory & search tools. | |
| Librarians' Internet Index | Reliable Websites evaluated by librarians. | |
| InfoMine | A large, browsable, searchable directory of websites selected and maintained by librarians for the academic community. | |
| Bartleby.com Reference | A large collection of authoritative reference books, including dictionaries, thesauri, quotations and guides to English usage | |
| Martindale Calculator Center | This is a huge collection of calculators for all types of conversions and calculations, including scientific, mathematical, financial and practical applications. | |
| Geobytes City Distance Tool |
Find the distance between any two places | |
| Bartlett's Quotations | "A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature" | |
| United States Postal Service | Includes "Zip Plus 4" look-ups | |
| Statistics | ||
| Demographic Database | All kinds of demographic statistics by zip codes. | |
| United States Census 2000 Databank | National census data | |
| Massachusetts Data from 2000 Census | State census data | |
| City-Data.com | Data compiled from numerous sources for complete and interesting profiles of all U.S. cities | |
| Statistical Resources on the Web | An extensive index to statistical web sites and individual statistical publications arranged by subject category, from the University of Michigan Documents Center | |
| FedStats | FedStats provides access to statistics of various kinds produced by many different government agencies. | |
| Bureau of Labor Statistics | Access a wide variety of statistics from the United States Department of Labor | |
| Bureau of Justice Statistics | Access a wide variety of statistics from the United States Department of Justice | |
| Transportation | ||
| MVTA Bus Schedule | General Schedule | |
| MVTA Route 51 Schedule | Route 51 Schedule | |
| MVTA Route 1 Schedule | Route 1 Schedule. The Route I bus goes from Buckley Transportation Center in Lawrence, right in front of the Amesbury Building and ends in Haverhill's Washington Square Transit Station. Here you can get the Route 51 bus, which stops at the NECC Haverhill Campus. Center | |
| Weather | ||
| National Weather Service | ||
| Writing | ||
| Houghton Mifflin Online Study Center | How to write a narrative: Student papers with editing comments | |
| The Bedford Research Room | Tools for writing research papers | |
| The University of Victoria Writer's Guide | Covers the basic elements of college writing | |
| Guide to Grammar and Writing | Sponsored by the Capital Community College Foundation | |
| The Nuts and Bolts of College Writing | The writing process: from thinking to editing | |
| Bellevue Community College Writing Lab | Click on Writing Links for college-level writing and ESL resources. | |
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