AARP (http://www.aarp.org/ )
American Association of Retired People.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2004
About.Com ( http://www.about.com/ )
About.Com.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2000.
AF: Acronym Finder ( http://www.acronymfinder.com/ )
Mountain Data Systems, LLC
Reviewed: Mars Best 2006.
AIDSInfo ( http://aidsinfo.nih.gov/ )
U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2003.
American Journalism Review ( http://ajr.org/ )
AJR and NewsLink Associates.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2001.
All-Music Guide ( http://www.allmusic.com/ )
Matrix Software, Inc.
Reviewed: Mars Best 1999.
All Recipes ( http://allrecipes.com/ )
Allrecipes.com.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2005.
AltaVistas Babel Fish ( http://babelfish.altavista.com/ )
Overture Services, Inc.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2005.
AMA Doctor Finder ( http://www.ama-assn.org/aps/amahg.htm ) formerly AMA Physician Selector
American Medical Association.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2000.
Amazon.com ( http://www.amazon.com/ )
Amazon.com, Inc.
Reviewed: Mars Best 1999.
AMDOCS: Documents for the Study of American History ( http://www.vlib.us/amdocs/ ).
Lynn Nelson and Kendall Simmons.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2002.
The American Civil War Homepage ( ( http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/ )
George H. Hoemann, University of Tennessee .
Reviewed: Mars Best 2004
American Family Immigration History Center ( http://www.ellisisland.org/ ).
The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, Inc.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2002.
American Hospital Directory ( http://www.ahd.com/ ).
American Hospital Directory, Inc.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2007.
American Law Sources On-line (ALSO!) ( http://www.lawsource.com/also ).
LawSource, Inc.
Reviewed Mars Best 2002.
American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library ( http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ammemhome.html )
Library of Congress.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2003
AmericanPresident.org ( http://millercenter.virginia.edu/scripps/amprez.html ).
Center of Public Affairs - University of Virginia .
Reviewed: Mars Best 2005
American Presidents: Life Portraits ( http://www.americanpresidents.org/ ).
National Cable Satellite Corporation.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2003 .
American Rhetoric ( http://www.americanrhetoric.com )
Michael E. Eidenmuller
Reviewed: Mars Best 2006.
American Women's History: A Research Guide
( http://www.mtsu.edu/~kmiddlet/history/women.html )
Ken Middleton, Middle Tennessee State University .
Reviewed: Mars Best 2004
Answers.com ( http://www.answers.com/ ).
GuruNet Corporation.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2005.
AOL Black Voices ( http://www.blackvoices.com/ ) formerly Africana.com
AOL LLC
Reviewed: Mars Best 2001.
Art & Architecture Thesaurus ( http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/aat )
Paul Getty Trust
Reviewed: Mars Best 2006.
Artcyclopedia: the Fine Art Search Engine ( http://www.artcyclopedia.com/ ).
John Malyon, Artcyclopedia, Inc.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2001.
AskART ( http://askart.com/ )
AskART.com.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2003 .
AskOxford.com ( http://www.askoxford.com/ )
Oxford University Press.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2004
AT&T AnyWho ( http://www.anywho.com/index.html ).
AT&T.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2000.
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B
Background Notes ( http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/ ).
United States Department of State.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2005 .
Bankrate ( http://www.bankrate.com/ ).
Intelligent Life Corporation.
Reviewed: Mars Best 1999 .
Bartleby.com ( http://www.bartleby.com/ ).
Steven H. van Leeuwen.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2001 .
Baseball-Almanac: The "Official" Baseball History Site
( http://baseball-almanac.com/ )
Marvin Terry.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2003 .
Baseball-Reference.com ( http://baseballreference.com/ ).
Baseball Think Factory.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2001 .
BBC News ( http://news.bbc.co.uk/ )
BBC News
Reviewed: Mars Best 2006.
Ben's Guide to the U.S. Government for Kids ( http://bensguide.gpo.gov/ ).
Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office
Reviewed: Mars Best 2005 .
Best of History Web Sites ( http://www.besthistorysites.net/ ).
Thomas Daacord, with Sumita Chakraborty.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2003 .
BBB: Better Business Bureau ( http://www.bbb.org/ ).
Council of Better Business Bureaus.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2003 .
The Big Cartoon Database ( http://www.bcdb.com )
Dave Koch, The Big Cartoon Database (bcdb.com)
Reviewed: Mars Best 2006.
Big Charts ( http://www.bigcharts.com/ )
A service of MarketWatch.com , Inc.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2000.
The Bill of Rights Institute ( http://www.billofrightsinstitute.org/ ).
Bill Of Rights Institute
Reviewef Mars Best 2007
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present ( http://bioguide.congress.gov/ ).
United States Congress. Senate Historical Office and the Legislative Resource Center of the House of Representatives.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2003 .
Biography.com ( http://www.biography.com/ ).
A&E Television Networks.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2002.
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System ( http://federalreserve.gov/ )
U.S. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2004
Britannica.com ( http://www.britannica.com/ ).
Britannica.com, Inc.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2000.
Bureau of Labor Statistics ( http://stats.bls.gov/ ).
Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2001 .
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C
Calendars through the Ages ( http://webexhibits.org/calendars/index.html ).
Institute for Dynamic Educational Advancement (IDEA) by WebExhibits.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2002.
Catholic Online Saints & Angels ( http://saints.catholic.org/index.shtml ).
Catholic Online Internet Services.
Reviewed Mars Best 2000.
Centers For Disease Control and Prevention ( http://www.cdc.gov/ ).
U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2002.
CEO Express ( http://www.ceoexpress.com/ ).
CEO Express Company.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2001.
Chinese-English Dictionary ( http://www.xuezhongwen.net or http://www.mdbg.net ).
Dennis Vierkant, MDBG
Reviewed: Mars Best 2007.
CI: Corporate Information ( http://www.corporateinformation.com ).
George Matthew Regnery (Winthrop Corporation)/distributed by Wright Investor's Service.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2000.
CNET.com ( http://www.cnet.com/ ).
CNET, Inc.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2000.
CNN.com ( http://www.cnn.com/ ).
Cable News Network.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2000
College and University Rankings ( http://www.library.uiuc.edu/edx/rankings.htm ).
Education and Social Science Library, University of Illinois .
Reviewed: Mars Best 2002.
Constitution Finder ( http://confinder.richmond.edu/index.php )
University of Richmond
Reviewed: Mars Best 2006.
ConsumerSearch ( http://www.consumersearch.com/ ).
ConsumerSearch, Inc.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2005 .
Country Studies/Area Handbook ( http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html ).
Federal Research Division, Library of Congress.
Reviewed: Mars Best 1999 .
Crash Course in Copyright ( http://www.utsystem.edu/ogc/Intellectualproperty/cprtindx.htm )
University of Texas System , Georgia Harper
Reviewed: Mars Best 2006.
Cyberschoolbus ( http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/ ).
United Nations Statistics Division
Reviewed: Mars Best 2004
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Digital History ( http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/ ).
Professor Steven Mintz, University of Houston .
Reviewed: Mars Best 2005
DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals ( http://www.doaj.org/ ).
Lund University Libraries.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2005
Documenting the American South ( http://docsouth.unc.edu/ )
University Library, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Reviewed: Mars Best 2006.
Doing Business ( http://www.doingbusiness.org ).
World Bank
Reviewewd Mars Best 2007
Download.com ( http://www.download.com/ ).
CNET Networks, Inc.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2005
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E
Earthtrends: the Environmental Information Portal ( http://earthtrends.wri.org/ )
World Resources Institute.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2004
Economist Country Briefings ( http://www.economist.com/countries/ ).
Economist Newspaper, Ltd.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2002.
EDGAR ( http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml ).
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2003 .
Edmunds.com ( http://www.edmunds.com/ ).
Edmunds.com, Inc.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2001.
The Educators Reference Desk ( http://www.eduref.org/ ) formerly AskERIC
Information Institute of Syracuse
Reviewed: Mars Best 2000
E-how ( http://www.ehow.com )
E-how, Inc.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2006.
Elemental Data Index ( http://physics.nist.gov/PhysRefData/Elements/cover.html ).
Physics Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2002. Serves as a complement to the WebElements Periodic Table ( http://www.webelements.com/ )
The Encyclopedia Mythica ( http://www.pantheon.org/ ).
M.F. Lindemans, sponsored by Ultimum-IT.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2001 .
Encyclopedia of Chicago ( http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/ )
The Chicago Historical Society, The Newberry Library and Northwestern University
Reviewed: Mars Best 2006.
Epicurious ( http://eat.epicurious.com/ )
CondéNet.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2004
Eric Weisstein's World of Science: A Wolfram Web Resource
( http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/ )
Eric W. Weisstein. Wolfram Research.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2004
ERsys ( http://www.ersys.com/ )
Synergos Technologies, Inc.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2004
ESPN.com ( http://espn.go.com/ ).
ESPN, Inc.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2000.
Eternal Egypt ( http://www.eternalegypt.org/ )
Egyption Center for Documentation of Cultural and Natural Heritage
Reviewed: Mars Best 2006.
Export.gov ( http://www.export.gov ).
U.S. International Trade Administration
Reviewed: Mars Best 2007
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Fact Monster TM ( http://www.factmonster.com/ ).
Family Education Network Inc.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2003 .
Family Search Internet Genealogy Service ( http://www.familysearch.org/ ).
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2000
Farmers Almanac ( http://www.farmersalmanac.com/ ).
Almanac Publishing Co.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2003 .
Federal Citizen Information Center ( http://www.pueblo.gsa.gov/ ).
U.S. General Services Administration.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2005 .
FedStats ( http://www.fedstats.gov/ ).
Federal Interagency Council on Statistical Policy.
Reviewed: Mars Best 1999
50 States and Capitals ( http://www.50states.com/ ).
Ray Weber; Weber Publications.
Reviewed: Mars Best 1999
Findarticles.com ( http://www.findarticles.com/ ).
Gale Group and LookSmart.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2002.
Findlaw ( http://www.findlaw.com/ ).
FindLaw (Tim Stanley and Stacy Stern).
Reviewed: Mars Best 2000
FirstGov.gov ( http://www.firstgov.gov/ ).
U.S. General Services Administration.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2001.
Now USA.gov (noted March 2008)
Foreign Government Resources on the Web
( http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/foreign.html ).
U.S. General Services Administration.
Reviewed: Mars Best 1999
Foundation Center Online ( http://fdncenter.org/ ).
The Foundation Center .
Reviewed: Mars Best 1999
Free Medical Journals ( http://www.freemedicaljournals.com ).
AmedeoGroup.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2002 .
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G
The Gallup Organization ( http://www.gallup.com/ ).
The Gallup Organization.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2000.
Gate2Home ( http://www.gate2home.com/ ).
Ilan Bar-Magen, Gate2Home.com
Reviewed: Mars Best 2007
Genome.gov ( http://www.genome.gov ).
National Human Genome Research Institute / National Institutes of Health
Reviewed: Mars Nest 2007.
Geographic Names Information System ( http://geonames.usgs.gov/gnishome.html ).
U.S. Geological Survey.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2002.
gethuman ( http://www.gethuman.com / ).
Paul M. English, gethuman Project
Reviewed: Mars Best 2007.
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names Online. ( http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/tgn/ ).
Getty Research Institute, Getty Vocabulary Program.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2003 .
glbtq: An Encyclopedia of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Culture ( http://www.glbtq.com/ ).
Claude J. Summers, General Editor / glbtq, Inc.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2005
globalEDGE ( http://globaledge.msu.edu )
Center for International Business Education and Research, Michigan State University
Reviewed: Mars Best 2006.
Go Ask Alice ( http://www.goaskalice.columbia.edu ).
Columbia University 's Health Education Program.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2000.
Google News ( http://news.google.com/ )
Google.com.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2003.
GPO Access ( http://www.gpoaccess.gov/ ).
U.S. Government Printing Office.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2003 .
Great Buildings Online ( http://www.greatbuildings.com/gbc/buildings.html ).
Artifice, Inc.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2000.
Guide to Philosophy on the Internet ( http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/philinks.htm ).
Peter Suber (Philosophy Department, Earlham College ).
Reviewed: Mars Best 2002.
GuideStar ( http://www.guidestar.org/ ).
Philanthropic Research, Inc.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2002.
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H
Healthfinder ( http://www.healthfinder.gov/ ).
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2000 .
History Channel ( http://history.com ).
A&E Television Networks
Reviewed: Mars Best 2007.
History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course on the Web ( http://historymatters.gmu.edu/ )
American Social History Project.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2004
Hoaxbusters ( http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org/ ).
CIAC (Computer Incident Advisory Capability ), U.S. Dept. of Energy.
Reveiwed: Mars Best 2003.
Household Products Database ( http://householdproducts.nlm.nih.gov/ )
National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Dept. of Health & Human Services
Reviewed: Mars Best 2004
How Products are Made ( http://www.madehow.com/ )
Thomson Gale
Reviewed: Mars Best 2006.
How Stuff Works ( http://www.howstuffworks.com/ ).
BYG Publishing, Inc.
Reviewed: Mars Best 1999.
Human Genome Project Information ( http://www.ornl.gov/hgmis ).
Human Genome Management Information System (HGMIS) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, part of the U.S. Department of Energy.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2001.
HyperHistory Online ( http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html ).
World History Online.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2003 .
TOP
I
In the first person: An index to letters, diaries, oral histories, and other personal narratives ( http://www.inthefirstperson.com )
Alexander Street Press
Reviewed: Mars Best 2006.
Industry Research Desk ( http://www.virtualpet.com/industry )
Polson Enterprises.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2002 .
Informacion en Vivo: Servicios de referencia en español ( http://preguntas.nypl.org/ )
The New York Public Library.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2003 .
Information Please ( http://www.infoplease.com/ ).
Information Please LLC.
Reviewed: Mars Best 1999
Intelihealth ( http://www.intelihealth.com/ ).
Intelihealth, a subsidary of Aetna, Inc.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2001.
The Internet Archive ( http://www.archive.org/ ).
The Internet Archive with Prelinger Archives.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2002.
Internet Broadway Database ( http://www.ibdb.com/ ).
League of American Theaters and Producers, Inc.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2002 .
Internet History Sourcebooks Project ( http://www.fordham.edu/halsall ).
Paul Halsall, Fordham University .
Reviewed: Mars Best 2002.
The Internet Movie Database ( http://www.imdb.com/ ).
The Internet Movie Database Ltd.
Reviewed: Mars Best 1999
Internet Public Library ( http://www.ipl.org/ ).
Internet Public Library
Reviewed: Mars Best 1999
The Internet Scout Report ( http://scout.wisc.edu/ )
University of Wisconsin Madison
Reviewed: Mars Best 1999.
IRS: Forms and Publications . ( http://www.irs.ustreas.gov/formspubs/index.html )
U.S. Internal Revenue Service.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2000.
iTools ( http://www.itools.com/ ).
itools.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2002.
Invention Dimension ( http://web.mit.edu/invent )
Lemelson-MIT Award Program
Reviewed: Mars Best 2007.
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K
Kelley Blue Book ( http://www.kbb.com/ ).
KBB.
Reviewed: Mars Best 1999.
TOP
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Latin American Network Information Center ( http://www.lanic.utexas.edu/ )
Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, University of Texas , Austin .
Reviewed: Mars Best 2003 .
Learn2.com ( http://www.learn2.com/ ).
Learn 2 Corp.
Reviewed: Mars Best 1999 NOTE: No longer free (Noted: March 3, 2003 )
Liber8™ An economic information portal for librarians and students (http://liber8.stlouisfed.org ).
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Reviewed: Mars Best 2007.
Librarians' Index to the Internet ( http://www.lii.org/ ).
Librarians Internet Index.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2001. Renamed Librarians Internet Index. (Noted January 2006)
The Library of Congress ( http://www.loc.gov )
The Library of Congress
Reviewed: Mars Best 2006.
LII: Legal Information Institute ( http://www.law.cornell.edu/ ).
Cornell Law School .
Reviewed: Mars Best 2003 .
Lives, the Biography Resource ( http://amillionlives.com/ ).
Kenneth P. Lanxner.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2001. Content of site has changed. (Noted 2006)
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M
The Making of America Project
( http://moa.umdl.umich.edu/ and http://moa.cit.cornell.edu/moa/index.html ).
University of Michigan , Cornell University .
Reviewed: Mars Best 2003 .
MapQuest ( http://www.mapquest.com/ ).
MapQuest.com, Inc.
Reviewed: Mars Best 1999.
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project ( http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/ ).
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project / Stanford University .
Reviewed: Mars Best 2000.
Math Forum ( http://mathforum.org/ /)
Drexel University .
Reviewed: Mars Best 2004
Martindale's "The Reference Desk" ( http://www.martindalecenter.com/ ).
Jim Martindale.
Reviewed: Mars Best 1999.
MayoClinic.com ( http://www.mayoclinic.com/ ).
Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2002 .
MEDLINEplus ( http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ ).
National Library of Medicine.
Reviewed: Mars Best 1999 .
The Merck Manual Home Edition ( http://www.merckhomeedition.com/ ).
Merck & Company, Inc.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2002.
Measure 4 Measure ( http://www.wolinskyweb.net/measure.htm ).
Judi Wolinsky.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2001.
Merriam-Webster Online ( http://www.m-w.com )
Merriam-Webster, Inc.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2006.
Metacritic ( http://www.metacritic.com/ )
CNET
Reviewed: Mars Best 2006.
Migration Information Source ( http://www.migrationinformation.org/ )
Migration Policy Institute
Reviewed: Mars Best 2007.
Modern Language Association Language Map ( http://www.mla.org/census_main ).
Modern Language Association.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2005.
Monster ( http://www.monster.com/ ).
TMP Worldwide.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2002.
Movie Review Query Engine ( http://www.mrqe.com/ ).
Stewart M. Clamen.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2003
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N
NASA ( http://www.nasa.gov/ ).
U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2003 .
National Archives and Records Administration: Office of the Federal Register ( http://www.gpoaccess.gov/nara/index.html ).
Office of the Federal Register.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2000.
National Atlas ( http://www.nationalatlas.gov/ )
United States Department of the Interior
Reviewed: Mars Best 2006.
National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) ( http://nces.ed.gov/ )
National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education
Reviewed: Mars Best 2003.
National Criminal Justice Reference Service ( http://www.ncjrs.org/index.html ).
U.S. Department of Justice.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2005.
NationalGeographic.com (http://www.nationalgeographic.com/)
National Geographic Society.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2004
National Institute of Mental Health ( http://www.nimh.nih.gov/ )
National Institute of Mental Health
Reviewed: Mars Best 2007.
National Institutes of Health (NIH) ( http://www.nih.gov )
National Institutes of Health (NIH), U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services
Reviewed: Mars Best 2006.
Nationalissues.com ( http://www.nationalissues.com/ ).
Nationalissues.com.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2001 .
National Weather Service ( http://www.nws.noaa.gov/ )
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Reviewed: Mars Best 2006.
NationMaster.com ( http://www.nationmaster.com/ )
NationMaster.com; Luke Metcalfe, Manager / Developer.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2005.
NatureServe Explorer ( http://www.natureserve.org/ ).
NatureServe
Reviewed: Mars Best 2007
Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations Union Catalog
( http://www.ndltd.org/browse.en.html ).
NDLTD, OCLC, VTLS.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2004
Newslink ( http://www.newslink.org/ ) formerly AJR Newslink
AJR and NewsLink Associates.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2001.
New York Times Article Archives 1851-1995 ( http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/nytimes/advancedsearch.html ).
The New York Times Company; hosted by ProQuest Archiver.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2005 .
The New York Times on the Web ( http://www.nytimes.com/ )
The New York Times Company.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2003 .
NIST Chemistry WebBook ( http://webbook.nist.gov/chemistry/ )
P.J. Linstrom and W.G. Mallard, eds. National Institute of Standards and Technology.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2004
Nobel Foundation ( http://www.nobel.se/ ).
The Nobel Foundation.
Reviewed: Mars Best 1999.
Nolo.com - law for all ( http://www.nolo.com/ ).
Nolo Press.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2000 .
NoodleTools: Smart Tools for Smart Research ( http://www.noodletools.com/ ).
Debbie Abilock, Librarian/Curriculum Coordinator, Damon Abilock, NoodleTools Web site design and development.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2001 .
North American Mammals ( http://web4.si.edu/mna/main.cfm ).
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2005 .
NSSN National Resource for Global Standards ( http://www.nssn.org/ ).
American National Standards Institute (ANSI).
Reviewed: Mars Best 2004
Nutrition.gov ( http://www.nutrition.gov/ ).
National Agricultural Library, Food and Nutrition Information Center .
Reviewed: Mars Best 2005
The NYPL Picture Collection Online ( http://digital.nypl.org/mmpco/ )
The New York Public Library.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2004
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Occupational Outlook Handbook ( http://www.bls.gov/oco/ ).
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Reviewed: Mars Best 1999 .
OAIster ( http://www.oaister.org/ ).
University of Michigan Digital Library Production Service (DLPS).
Reviewed: Mars Best 2003 .
Office of Scientific and Technical Information ( http://www.osti.gov/ ) related to the former GrayLit Network
Department of Energy's Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI).
Reviewed: Mars Best 2005.
The Official Academy Awards® Database
( http://www.oscars.org/awardsdatabase/index.html )
Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2005 .
OFFSTATS: Official Statistics on the Web ( http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/subjects/stats/offstats/ ).
Rainer Wolcke, University of Auckland Library.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2005 .
OneLook Dictionaries ( http://www.onelook.com/ ).
Bob Ware, Study Technologies.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2000 .
OnHealth.Com ( http://onhealth.com/ ).
OnHealth Network Company.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2000 .
The Online Books Page ( http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/ ).
John Mark Ockerbloom, University of Pennsylvania .
Reviewed: Mars Best 2003 .
Online! Citation Styles ( http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/citex.html ).
Bedford/St. Martin's.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2001 .
Opensecrets.org ( http://www.opensecrets.org/ ).
The Center for Responsive Politics.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2002.
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P
Papal Encyclicals Online ( http://www.papalencyclicals.net/ )
Papal Encyclicals Online.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2005.
Paralysis.org ( http://www.paralysis.org ).
Christopher and Dana Reeve Occupational Resource Center
Reviewed: Mars Best 2007
Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection ( http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/index.html ).
General Libraries, University of Texas at Austin .
Reviewed: Mars Best 2002.
Perseus Digital Library ( http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/ ).
Perseus Project, Department of the Classics, Tufts University .
Reviewed: Mars Best 2003 .
Peterson's Planner ( http://www.petersons.com )
Thomson Peterson
Reviewed: Mars Best 2006.
Pew Internet & American Life ( http://www.pewinternet.org/ )
Pew Research Center .
Reviewed: Mars Best 2004
Picture History ( http://www.picturehistory.com/ )
Kunhardt Productions.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2004
Plants Database ( http://plants.usda.gov/ )
National Resources Conservation Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2004
Population Reference Bureau ( http://www.prb.org/ ) formerly AmeriStat
Population Reference Bureau and Social Science Data Analysis Network.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2001.
PollingReport.com: Public Opinion Online ( http://www.pollingreport.com/ ).
The Polling Report, Inc.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2001.
POTUS: Presidents of the United States ( http://www.ipl.org/div/potus/ )
Internet Public Library/School of Information University of Michigan
Reviewed: Mars Best 2006.
Project Gutenberg ( www.promo.net/pg/ ).
Michael Hart.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2003.
Project Vote Smart ( http://www.vote-smart.org/ ).
Project Vote Smart.
Reviewed: Mars Best 1999.
PubMed ( http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/ ).
National Library of Medicine.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2005.
The Pulitzer Prizes ( http://www.pulitzer.org/ )
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Reviewed: Mars Best 2006.
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Radio-Locator ( http://www.radio-locator.com/ )
Theodric Technologies LLC
Reviewed: Mars Best 2006.
REALTOR.com ( http://www.realtor.com/ ).
National Association of Realtors.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2005.
Recalls.gov ( http://www.recalls.gov )
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
Reviewed: Mars Best 2006.
Refdesk.com ( http://www.refdesk.com/ ).
Refdesk.com, Inc.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2000.
Research and Documentation Online ( http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/ ).
Bedford/St. Martin's Press
Reviewed: Mars Best 2004.
Resource Discovery Network ( http://www.rdn.ac.uk/ ).
RDNC, coordinated by staff from UKOLN ( University of Bath ) and Kings College London.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2002.
RootsWeb.com ( http://www.rootsweb.com/ ).
MyFamily.com
Reviewed: Mars Best 2002.
RxList: The Internet Drug Index ( http://rxlist.com/ ).
Neil Sandow, Parm D.
Reviewed: Mars Best 1999.
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Shodor.org A national resource for computational science education (http://www.shodor.org ).
Shodor Foundation
Reviewed: Mars Best 2007
SchoolMatters ( http://www.schoolmatters.com )
Standard and Poors, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2006.
Science Daily Magazine ( http://www.sciencedaily.com/ ).
Dan Hogan, Editor.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2004
SCORE: Counselors to America 's Small Business ( http://www.score.org/ ).
SCORE Association.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2005
Search Engine Watch ( searchenginewatch.com ).
Danny Sullivan and Chris Sherman.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2002.
Search jake (jointly administered knowledge environment)
( http://mercury.lib.sfu.ca/~tholbroo/sfujake/search.cgi ).
Todd Holbrook, Simon Fraser University .
Reviewed: Mars Best 2002.
SeatGuru ( http://www.seatguru.com/ ).
SeatGuru.com Inc.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2007
SkyscraperPage ( http://skyscraperpage.com/ )
SkyscraperPage.com
Reviewed: Mars Best 2006.
SmallStep.gov ( http://www.smallstep.gov/index.html ).
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Reviewed: Mars Best 2007
Smithsonian Institution ( http://www.si.edu ).
Smithsonian Institution
Reviewed: Mars Best 2007
Son of Citation Machine ( http://citationmachine.net/ ).
David Warlick & The Landmark Project
Reviewed: Mars Best 2007
Sources: Their Use and Acknowledgement ( http://www.dartmouth.edu/~sources/ ).
Dartmouth College .
Reviewed: Mars Best 2001.
Sparknotes ( http://www.sparknotes.com/ ).
Barnes & Noble Learning Network.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2004
Sperling's BestPlaces ( http://www.bestplaces.net/ ).
Bert Sperling.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2001 .
StartSpot Network ( http://www.startspot.com/ ).
StartSpot MediaWorks, Inc.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2003 .
State and Local Government on the Net: A guide to government sponsored Internet sites ( http://www.statelocalgov.net/index.cfm ).
Piper Resources.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2001 .
Statistical Resources on the Web ( http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/statsnew.html ).
Grace York, University of Michigan Library Documents Center.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2001.
The Straight Dope ( http://www.straightdope.com/ ).
Cecil Adams, The Chicago Reader.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2004
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TechEncyclopedia ( http://www.techweb.com/encyclopedia/ ).
TechWeb Network, CMP Media LLC.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2005 .
Telephone Directories on the Web ( http://www.infobel.com/teldir/ ).
Robert Hoare, creator and Webmaster; a service of Infobel (Brussels).
Reviewed: Mars Best 2001 .
Thomas: Legislative Information on the Internet ( http://thomas.loc.gov/ ).
Library of Congress.
Reviewed: Mars Best 1999 .
ThomasRegister ( http://www.thomasregister.com/ ).
Thomas Publishing Company.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2004
Timeline of Art History ( http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/splash.htm ).
Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2005
Topozone.com ( http://www.topozone.com/ ).
Maps a la Carte, Inc. & US Geological Survey.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2000 .
Travlang ( http://www.travlang.com/ ).
The Travlang Company.
Reviewed: Mars Best 1999 .
Trip Advisor ( http://www.tripadvisor.com ).
Expedia, Inc.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2007
TV.com ( http://www.tv.com/ ).
John Nestoriak, Collaborative Content LLC; CNET Networks.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2005 .
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Unbound Bible ( http://unbound.biola.edu/ ).
Biola University.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2003 .
United Nations Environment Programme ( http://na.unep.net/digital_atlas2/google.php ).
United Nations Environment Programme's Global Resource Information Database (GRID)
Reviewed: Mars Best 2007 .
United States Postal Service ( http://www.usps.com/ ).
United States Postal Service.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2000.
The Universal Currency Converter ( http://www.xe.com/ucc/ ).
XE Corporation.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2002.
University of Michigan Documents Center ( http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/ ).
Grace York, University of Michigan.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2004
Urban Legends Reference Pages ( http://www.snopes.com )
Barbara and David P. Mikkelson
Reviewed: Mars Best 2006.
U.S. Census Bureau ( http://www.census.gov/ ).
United States Department of Commerce.
Reviewed Apr. 2, 2001.
U.S. Copyright Office ( http://www.copyright.gov/ ).
United States Copyright Office.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2004
U.S. Naval Observatory. Astronomical Applications Department: Data Services ( http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data ).
U.S. Naval Observatory Astronomical Applications Department.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2005
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office ( http://www.uspto.gov/ ).
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Reviewed March 2003 .
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The Valley of the Shadow ( http://valley.vcdh.virginia.edu/ ).
Edward L. Ayers.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2004
Virtual Garden Time/Life Plant Encyclopedia ( http://www.vg.com/ ).
Time/Life Inc.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2000 . (NOTE: site content changed. No longer free.)
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Weather.Com ( http://www.weather.com/ ).
Weather Channel Enterprises, Inc.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2000 .
Weather Underground ( http://www.weatherunderground.com/ ).
The Weather Underground, Inc.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2003 .
WebElements Periodic Table ( http://www.webelements.com/ ).
Mark Winter, University of Sheffield Dept. of Chemistry.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2001 .
WebMD Health ( http://www.webmd.com/ )
WebMD, Inc.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2006.
Webopedia ( http://www.pcwebopedia.com/ ).
INT Media Group, Inc.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2002.
Where to find MSDS [Materials Safety Data Sheets] on the Internet
( http://www.ilpi.com/msds/index.html ).
Dr. Rob Toreki, Interactive Learning Paradigms Incorporated
Reviewed: Mars Best 2004
Who's alive and who's dead ( http://www.wa-wd.com/ ).
David Carson
Reviewed: Mars Best 2007
Wikipedia
( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page ).
Nupedia.Com.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2005
Wordsmyth: The Educational Dictionary-Thesaurus ( http://www.wordsmyth.net/ ).
Wordsmyth Collaboratory.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2001 .
WorldCat ( http://worldcat.org ).
Online Computer Library Center, Inc. (OCLC)
Reviewed: Mars Best 2007
WordReference.com ( http://www.wordreference.com ).
WordReference.com, Michael Kellogg
Reviewed: Mars Best 2007
World Factbook ( http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/ ).
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.
Reviewed: Mars Best 1999 .
World-newspapers.com ( http://world-newspapers.com/ ).
Marius Kazokaitis, Vilnius , Lithuania .
Reviewed: Mars Best 2002 .
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