Academic Live Research – Beta ( NEW!) – search peer reviewed scientific journal articles from range of portals (fee and free content available)

http://academic.live.com/

NationMaster – compare graphical data on nations from reliable government and institutional sources

http://www.nationmaster.com/index.php

Ask the Brain – the world’s first computer generated encyclopedia

http://www.askthebrain.com

News Directory – links to thousands of newspapers and magazines, and hundreds of TV stations

http://www.newsdirectory.com/

BBC–OUCH (NEW!) – UK blog on disability news and views

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/ouch/

Newspaper Circulation – Top 200 Newspapers by Largest Reported Circulation http://www.accessabc.com/reader/top150.htm

Better: Whois – Search across domain registrars

http://www.betterwhois.com/

Portal to News Search Engines, Search Applications and Tools, From Around the World

http://www.nieuwsbronnen.com/newssearchportal/

Blink TV – Search and view over 1M hours of videos and TV from sources around the world

http://www.blinkx.tv/

New York Times Article Archive, 1851 to Present http://www.nytimes.com/ref/membercenter/nytarchive.html

BookListOnline ( NEW!) – From ALA, free and fee based reviews

http://www.booklistonline.com/

NOAA’s National Weather Service – News, Observations, Forecast Models, Safety and Educational Info.

http://www.nws.noaa.gov/

CenSearchIP ( NEW!) – compare 4 major search engines results from US, UK, France and Germany in contrast to results from China http://homer.informatics.indiana.edu/censearchip/

NUVVO – free, e-learning web service

http://nuvvo.com/

Craigslist – Local community classified and forums

http://www.craigslist.org/

Online Conversion Tools for Adobe PDF documents

http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/access_onlinetools.html

CyberJournalist.net – news and commentary about online journalism

http://www.cyberjournalist.net

Pandora – Helps you discover music online

http://www.pandora.com/

Online Searchable Death Indexes – by state and county

http://www.deathindexes.com/

Pimp My Snack – Wild, wacky snack preparations presented online

http://www.pimpmysnack.com/

DOT Library

DOT Library Search – OPAC contains more than 80,000 records

Podzinger – Search for content in audio and video on the web

http://www.podzinger.com

Downloads – Free and fee based software, music, games and videos, and reviews too.

http://www.download.com

Pultizer Prize Winners, 2006

http://www.pulitzer.org/2006/2006.html

EU Foreign and Commonwealth Office Home ( NEW!) “The purpose of the FCO is to work for the United Kingdom’s interests in a safe, just and prosperous world.”

http://www.fco.gov.uk/

State & County Quick Facts

http://quickfacts.census.gov/cgi-bin/qfd/lookup?state=13000

EURES – The European Job Mobility Portal…for job seekers and employers

http://europa.eu.int/eures/

Research Papers in Economics from around the world

http://repec.org/

Exalead – Desktop, Web and Enterprise Search

http://www.exalead.com

ScrubtheWeb Search Engine

http://www.scrubtheweb.com/

Factbites – Small search engine that provides relevant references from within the text of search results

http://www.factbites.com/

SEDI – System for Electronic Disclosure by Insiders (directors, senior officers and significant shareholders)

https://www.sedi.ca/

Federal Reserve Routing Search http://www.fededirectory.frb.org/search.cfm

SenderBase – Global email traffic monitoring network

http://www.senderbase.org/

Findforms – thousands of free legal forms

http://www.findforms.com/

SSRN – Social Science Research Network

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/displayabstractsearch.cfm

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.

http://www.subwaynavigator.com/

Free Dictionary – Topics include Medical, Legal, Financial, Computers, Literature

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/

Thomasnet – Comprehensive resource for industrial info, drawings, products, services

http://www.thomasnet.com/

Free Full-Text Journals – content from over 7,000 scholarly journals

http://www.freefulltext.com/

TinyURL- Quickly makes a URL of any length into a short format that is easier to share, post and use

http://tinyurl.com/

Free Lunch – Economic, Financial and Demographic Data

http://www.economy.com/freelunch/

ToxNet ( NEW!) Genetic Toxicology Data Bank

http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/sis/htmlgen?GENETOX

GasBuddy – Find Cheap Gas Prices By Zip Code/City/State

http://www.gasbuddy.com/

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.

http://www.gethuman.com/

TV Guide Community Blogs – Reviews and discussion ( NEW!)

http://community.tvguide.com/

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

http://twingine.com/

Google Calendar – share your schedule of events online ( NEW!) http://www.google.com/googlecalendar/tour.html

WayBackMachine – locate and read archived versions of websites

http://www.archive.org/

Google Scholar – Search for multi-disciplinary scholarly literature from global sources

http://scholar.google.com/

WhoOwnsWhat – Guide to Companies Owned by major media organizations

http://www.cjr.org/tools/owners/

HealthNews Review – evaluates the accuracy of news on health related issues ( NEW!)

http://www.healthnewsreview.org

Wi-Fi HotSpot – directory of public hot spots for locating WiFi access

http://www.wi-fihotspotlist.com/

HighWire Press, from Stanford University – free, full-text database of over 1 million articles from over 900 journals.

http://highwire.stanford.edu/

Yahoo FareChase ( NEW!) – travel search engine to locate best prices on airfares and hotels

http://farechase.yahoo.com/

Katrina Legal Aid

http://www.katrinalegalaid.org

Yahoo Finance – quotes, charts, portfolios, financial news, mutual funds, press releases, SEC filings

http://biz.yahoo.com/top.html

Libx – Foxfire extension that offers direct access to your library’s resources

http://libx.org/

You Tube – Watch and share original videos on the web

http://www.youtube.com/

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

http://www.zabasearch.com/

National Library of Australia – Search the combined catalogs of Australian libraries

http://librariesaustralia.nla.gov.au/apps/kss

Zillow – Online real estate service providing satellite images of properties, comparables, maps, and other data points

http://www.zillow.com/

National Archives – Access to Archival Database – Includes Electronic Military Database (Civil War – Cold War), Genealogy databases, Indexes to photos, Government spending data

http://www.archives.gov/aad

ZipInfo – free zip code lookup

http://zipinfo.com/

National Contact Center – Federal Telephone directories, directories for Congress, agencies, commissions

http://www.info.gov/phone.htm

ZoomInfo – Search for people, company, industry data

http://www.zoominfo.com/