Text Box: Web Resources

Revised February, 2006

High School Webmaster

 

Palmyra-Macedon
High School Library

American Memory

Memory.loc.gov

Primary sources from the Library of Congress

Avalon Project at the Yale Law School

www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.html

 

Full text for documents in law, history and diplomacy, subdivided by century

Census Bureau (US Census Bureau)

www.census.gov/index.html

Subdivided by People, Business, Geography, Newsroom, and Special Topics (including FedStats, First Gov, and Statistical Abstracts)

Clic-on-Health

http://www.cliconhealth.org/

 

Health resources in this part of New York State

Copyright Implementation

www.groton.k12.ct.us/mts/egtoc.htm

 

Copyright information for general use

Country Studies (Library of Congress)

Lcweb2.loc.gof/frd/cs/cshome.html

 

This series is still under construction.  The US, Canada, and several European countries are unavailable

FindLaw

http://www.findlaw.com/

 

For State laws, look under Tips and Tools

In the First Person

http://www.alexanderstreet6.com/firp/index.html

 

in-depth indexing of more than 2,500 collections of oral history in English from around the world

Information Please Almanac

www.infoplease.com

 

Also incorporates word definitions and longer articles

International newspapers (Internet Public Library)

www.ipl.org

 

Look for Newspapers under Reading Room.

Internet Public Library

www.ipl.org

Websites on virtually all subjects, selected by knowledgeable human beings.  See also the Research Guides and Pathfinders for particular topics.

Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educators

http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/

 

Gateway to resources in many subjects

Librarians’ Index to the Internet

www.lii.org

 

Webliographies of online sites on all subjects selected by the Berkeley Digital Library.

Literary Resources on the Net

Andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit

 

Literary resources selected by a member of the English Department at Rutgers

Map Machine (National Geographic Society)

www.nationalgeographic.org/maps/index.html

 

Create maps and add captions based on political, geographic, geologic, aerial views, etc.

Nesbitt-Johnston Writing Center at Hamilton College

www.hamilton.edu/academics/resource/wc

 

See the Hamilton College Style Sheet and the citation guides under Useful Links

Pinakes: a Subject Launchpad

www.hw.ac.uk/libWWW/irn/pinakes/pinakes.html

 

This is a subject tree created by the staff at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland.  While some of the websites listed are in the US, many represent the scholarship and viewpoint of other nations.

WWWebster

www.m-w.com

 

Dictionary and thesaurus