(Posted September 1, 1998; Archived September 15, 1998)
International Court Network http://www.sigov.si/us/courtnet.html
This site provides links to judicial institutions with the function of constitutional review. Twenty-six countries throughout the world are included, from Australia to Zambia.
(Posted August 15, 1998; Archived September 1, 1998)
BioSpace.com http://www.biospace.com
One of the most useful sections of this site is Company Profiles which can be viewed alphabetically, by location, by phone code, or by region. You can also perform a keyword search for a company (called “exhibitors” by the site)or search the directory of public bioscience companies. Company profile information can include ticker symbol, type ownership (public or private), SEC filings, number of employees, text profile, contact person, e-mail address, company address, phone, fax, link to job postings, link to news stories, link to press releases, and collaborations. There is also an investor section.
(Posted August 1, 1998, Archived August 15, 1998)
Airliners.Net http://www.airliners.net/
This site contains over 9000 photographs of aircraft. The types of photographs included are classic airliners, military aircraft, special paint schemes, government aircraft, helicopters, accidents, airport overviews, flight decks, and air to air. You can search the photos by aircraft name, airline, category, and keywords. In addition, there are sections on aircraft statistics and history, an aviation forum, and aviation humor
(Posted July 15, 1998; Archived August 1, 1998)
AccountingNet http://accountingnet.com/index.html
This site has a research library with links to the following resource areas: Tax & Financial Resources, Federal Resources, State Resources, Associations & Societies, International Resources, and Educational Resources. Online searchable GAAP and GAAS Guides are promised later in the summer of 1998. There is also a “Site of the Week” with an description and link to the site. Links are also provided to 100,000 U.S. accounting firms and this directory can be searched. Job postings are also available here.
(Posted July 1, 1998; Archived July 15, 1998)
Contents Pages from Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/tallons/content_search.html
This university law school produced site provides online versions of the tables of contents of 750+ law reviews and scholarly journals related to the law. U.S. as well as foreign titles are included. You can select U.S. or non U.S. contents pages for viewing if you wish. Only journals received in the past three months are listed on the site. The files are updated daily. The contents pages from a journal appear the day following receipt by the Tarlton Law Library. The entire archive can be searched by keyword.
(Posted June 15, 1998; Archived July 1, 1998)
bankinfo.com http://www.bankinfo.com
This site is a source for a wealth of banking information. There are links to financial institutions on the Web, a Year 2000 Watch, links to regulations, a regulatory review, a court watch, a searchable e-mail directory, banking listservs, quick links to other relevant banking sites, statistics at a glance and much more.
(Posted June 1st, 1998; Archived June 15th, 1998)
Fed In Print http://206.79.163.3/library/index.htm
This is database of all Federal Reserve System Economic research. It was developed by the FRB of San Francisco. You can search by keyword in the title, subject and abstract, title word search, author, or publication year. Some documents are offered in full-text format while others must be ordered from the publishing institution in print.
(Posted May 15, 1998; Archived June 1, 1998)
Symbols.com http://www.symbols.com/
Symbols.Com is the online version of Carl G. Liungman’s Thought Signs. It claims to be the world’s largest online encyclopedia of graphic symbols containing more than 2,500 Western signs arranged in 54 groups by their graphic characteristics. There are two indices by which you can search. Use the Graphic index to search for the meaning or history of a sign. To use this index, you must enter the symbol’s characteristics. There is a good help section to assist you with describing the characteristics. Use the Word index to search for a symbol by its meaning. The meanings are arranged alphabetically.
(Posted May 1, 1998; Archived May 15, 1998)
Agency FOIA Sites http://www.citizen.org/public_citizen/litigation/foic/foiasite.html
This site offers links to several U.S. government agency FOIA web pages some agency FOIA reports.
(Posted April 16, 1998; Archived May 1, 1998)
Center for Latin American Capital Markets http://www.netrus.net/users/gmorles/index.html
This site has five sections: Exchanges and quotes which provides links to all the stock exchanges in the region that have a Website; Research which provides access to original research and the site’s complete database of quotes on the major markets and links to other research tools; General Economic Data which provides links to original sources of relevant economic data; Country News which has the site’s weekly newsletter Latin.Net and other local sources of news; and What’s new which is a historical archive of changes to the site.