Barbara Fullerton is Manager of Librarian Relations , 10-K Wizard, and Sabrina I. Pacifici is Founder, Editor, Publisher of LLRX.com (established in 1996), the free, independent webzine focused on providing professionals with reliable, comprehensive and current resources, guides and reviews of web services on law and technology. She is also author of the blog on law and technology news, beSpacific (launched in 2002).
Academic Live Research – Beta ( |
NationMaster – compare graphical data on nations from reliable government and institutional sources |
Ask the Brain – the world’s first computer generated encyclopedia |
News Directory – links to thousands of newspapers and magazines, and hundreds of TV stations |
BBC–OUCH (NEW!) – UK blog on disability news and views |
Newspaper Circulation – Top 200 Newspapers by Largest Reported Circulation http://www.accessabc.com/reader/top150.htm |
Better: Whois – Search across domain registrars |
Portal to News Search Engines, Search Applications and Tools, From Around the World |
Blink TV – Search and view over 1M hours of videos and TV from sources around the world |
New York Times Article Archive, 1851 to Present http://www.nytimes.com/ref/membercenter/nytarchive.html |
BookListOnline ( |
NOAA’s National Weather Service – News, Observations, Forecast Models, Safety and Educational Info. |
CenSearchIP ( |
NUVVO – free, e-learning web service |
Craigslist – Local community classified and forums |
Online Conversion Tools for Adobe PDF documents http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/access_onlinetools.html |
CyberJournalist.net – news and commentary about online journalism |
Pandora – Helps you discover music online |
Online Searchable Death Indexes – by state and county |
Pimp My Snack – Wild, wacky snack preparations presented online |
DOT Library Search – OPAC contains more than 80,000 records |
Podzinger – Search for content in audio and video on the web |
Downloads – Free and fee based software, music, games and videos, and reviews too. |
Pultizer Prize Winners, 2006 |
EU Foreign and Commonwealth Office Home ( |
State & County Quick Facts |
EURES – The European Job Mobility Portal…for job seekers and employers |
Research Papers in Economics from around the world |
Exalead – Desktop, Web and Enterprise Search |
ScrubtheWeb Search Engine |
Factbites – Small search engine that provides relevant references from within the text of search results |
SEDI – System for Electronic Disclosure by Insiders (directors, senior officers and significant shareholders) |
Federal Reserve Routing Search http://www.fededirectory.frb.org/search.cfm |
SenderBase – Global email traffic monitoring network |
Findforms – thousands of free legal forms |
SSRN – Social Science Research Network |
FirstGov – Portal to Federal Government Info and Resources http://www.firstgov.gov/Citizen/Facts.shtml |
Subway Navigator – Maps and directions to locations to and from subways in cities around the world in throughout the U.S. |
Free Dictionary – Topics include Medical, Legal, Financial, Computers, Literature |
Thomasnet – Comprehensive resource for industrial info, drawings, products, services |
Free Full-Text Journals – content from over 7,000 scholarly journals |
TinyURL- Quickly makes a URL of any length into a short format that is easier to share, post and use |
Free Lunch – Economic, Financial and Demographic Data |
ToxNet ( |
GasBuddy – Find Cheap Gas Prices By Zip Code/City/State |
British Library Treasures – William Shakespeare in Quarto http://www.bl.uk/treasures/shakespeare/homepage.html |
GetHuman – Database of phone numbers to connect with real people, for customer service, from a range of consumer companies. |
TV Guide Community Blogs – Reviews and discussion ( |
globalEDGE Country Insights – business resources on 197 countries http://globaledge.msu.edu/ibrd/ibrd.asp |
Twingine – view side by side search results for Yahoo and Google |
Google Calendar – share your schedule of events online ( |
WayBackMachine – locate and read archived versions of websites |
Google Scholar – Search for multi-disciplinary scholarly literature from global sources |
WhoOwnsWhat – Guide to Companies Owned by major media organizations |
HealthNews Review – evaluates the accuracy of news on health related issues ( |
Wi-Fi HotSpot – directory of public hot spots for locating WiFi access |
HighWire Press, from Stanford University – free, full-text database of over 1 million articles from over 900 journals. |
Yahoo FareChase ( |
Katrina Legal Aid |
Yahoo Finance – quotes, charts, portfolios, financial news, mutual funds, press releases, SEC filings |
Libx – Foxfire extension that offers direct access to your library’s resources |
You Tube – Watch and share original videos on the web |
Melissa Data – free lookups portal for zip codes, addresses, maps, people finders, statistics, demographics http://www.melissadata.com/Lookups/index.htm |
ZabaSearch – People search and public information search |
National Library of Australia – Search the combined catalogs of Australian libraries |
Zillow – Online real estate service providing satellite images of properties, comparables, maps, and other data points |
National Archives – Access to Archival Database – Includes Electronic Military Database (Civil War – Cold War), Genealogy databases, Indexes to photos, Government spending data |
ZipInfo – free zip code lookup |
National Contact Center – Federal Telephone directories, directories for Congress, agencies, commissions |
ZoomInfo – Search for people, company, industry data |