(Posted July 1, 1999; Archived July 15, 1999)
Offices2share.com http://www.offices2share.com/
This site is for attorneys who are seeking professional office space or have extra office space to share and are not looking for traditional leases. Searching the listings is free. Placing a listing is free until July 15, 1999. The site claims to be updated constantly.
(Posted June 15, 1999; Archived July 1, 1999)
American Legal Ethics Library http://www.law.cornell.edu/ethics/
This site provides codes and rules for the professional conduct of lawyers. There are narratives that provide commentary on the law that governs lawyers. The narratives are written by law firms and individuals in eleven state jurisdictions. There is full-text searching on the site and links to legal ethics materials elsewhere on the Internet. The site is hosted by the Cornell Law School Legal Information Institute.
(Posted June 1, 1999; Archived June 15, 1999)
Caere Guide to Scanners http://www.caere.com/scanners/
This section of the Caere Website provides Tips for First-Time Scanner Buyers, Books, Articles and Other Resources, Scanner Features and Specifications, Scanner and Software Companies, Glossary of Scanning Terms, and Cool Things You Can Do with a Scanner.
(Posted May 17, 1999; Archived June 1, 1999)
AbsoluteTrivia.com http://www.absolutetrivia.com/
AbsoluteTrivia.com claims to be a search engine covering 5,000+ facts that is updated on a daily basis. The user can search by a word of their choice or browse any of the twenty trivia categories listed. There is a daily Trivia Tidbit, a listing of what special day the current date may be and a short list of famous persons born on the current date. You can also select to view additional categories of Random Trivia, Random Quotation or Today in History. You can take a Trivia Test, participate in the online Trivia Talk Forum, visit the Trivia Shop or subscribe to the Absolute Trivia Weekly Top Ten which will be delivered to your e-mail address.
(Posted May 1, 1999; Archived May 17, 1999)
ALiNUS http://libaxp.hartford.edu/llr/alinusin.htm
ALiNUS, hosted by the University of Hartford Libraries and Learning Resources, is an Internet gateway to 300+ online academic library newsletters in the U.S. The mission of ALiNUS is to “encourage communication among academic librarians.” The list of newsletters can be browsed or searched by title or institution. The newsletters can be a useful comparison for any librarian publishing or desiring to publish a library newsletter.
(Posted April 19, 1999; Archived April 30, 1999)
American FactFinder http://factfinder.census.gov/
American FactFinder “is a new data access and dissemination system” that allows the user to find and retrieve information for the largest data sets at the U.S. Census Bureau. The site is arranged in five sections: Facts about My Community; Population and Housing Facts; Census Bureau Products; Maps; Industry and Business Facts; and Search FactFinder. The user can access data by Quick items, Detailed tables, or Build a query. A full explanation of these methods of access is contained on the “About American FactFinder” page. In mid-1999, the user will be able to customize tabulations from microdata files.
(Posted April 1, 1999; Archived April 19, 1999)
Alphabet Soup http://members.aol.com/nigthomas/alphabet.html
This site has an alphabetical index of 900 acronyms and abbreviations used in Internet chat rooms, e-mail, and newsgroups with their explanations.
(Posted March 15, 1999; Archived April 1, 1999)
Burwell World Directory of Information Brokers http://www.andornot.com/ibdb/quick.html
This site includes nearly 1,000 listings of information retrieval experts in thirty-eight countries in its database. Listings include company name, address, contact, telephone and fax numbers, e-mail address, website url, subjects covered, services, company description, databases searched, hours of operation, fees, memberships, and publications, language expertise, country experience, foreign database experience, and telephone experience.
(Posted March 1, 1999; Archived March 15, 1999)
Canadian Internet Legal Resource Page (CILRP) http://aix1.uottawa.ca/~geist/cilrp.html
This site includes links to case law, general Canadian Internet resources, government Internet related agencies, and legislation. There is also a topical index of Internet resources.
(Posted February 15, 1999; Archived March 1, 1999)
pharmapages http://www.pjbpubs.co.uk/ppages/index.html
Pharmapages is provided by the publisher of Scrip World Pharmaceutical News. This site covers internet and technology issues in the pharmaceutical industry. There are articles by industry professionals that cover regulatory affairs, research and development and technology developments relevant to the industry under the NetFocus section. There are relevant newsgroup postings, listings of new pharmaceutical websites, virus news, conference listings, and a glossary of terms used in each edition.