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Reference Sources on the Internet
General Reference Sources from the Gale Virtual Reference Library -- Accessible from DOI Locations Only
There are too many reference sources on the Internet for all
to be listed on our pages. For more complete lists of sources
and to find facts not available in sources that are individually
listed, try these web sites:
Below, we've listed some web sites we've found especially useful.
They are arranged by type of reference work, or by subject.
- Beige
Book
Summary of Commentary on Current Economic Conditions
by Federal Reserve District.
- Bureau of Economic Analysis
and
its publication, the Survey
of Current Business.
- Company
Information Guide: Company Research on the Web
The Virtual Chase offers an eight-step guide to finding information
about companies and their products.
- County
Business Patterns
The County Business Patterns database
provides county, state, and national level business data from
1977 to the most recent year available.
- Economagic.com:
Economic Time Series Page
Browse data collections;
over 100,000 data files, with charts and Excel files for
each.
- Economic Census
Data, U.S. Census Bureau
The Economic Census profiles
American business every 5 years, from the national to the local
level.
- Economic
Indicators
Available from April 1995 forward, this
monthly compilation is prepared for the Joint Economic Committee
by the Council of Economic Advisors and provides economic
information on prices, wages, production, business activity,
purchasing power, credit, money and Federal finance.
- Electronic Data Gathering
Analysis and Retrieval (EDGAR)
Provides 10-K, 20-F,
proxy statements, some annual reports, and other financial
statements of public companies filed with the Securities
and Exchange Commission.
- FedBizOpps.gov
FedBizOpps.gov
(Federal Business Opportunities) is the single government point-of-entry
for Federal government procurement opportunities over $25,000.
Government buyers are able to publicize their business opportunities
by posting information directly to FedBizOpps.
- Fortune Magazine
- Public Register's
Annual Report Service
Order annual reports of over
3,600 publicly held companies.
- Survey of
Income and Program Participation, U.S. Census Bureau
Thomas
Register on the Internet
A database of 170,000 U.S.
and Canadian companies classified under more than 72,000product
and service headings.
- AMA
Physician Select
- Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC)
- familydoctor.org
- FDA Bulletin Board
- Gray's
Anatomy of the Human Body
- Healthfinder
Sponsored
by the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services.
- Health News Review.org
Health News Review provides objective reviews of media stories covering therapeutic claims.
- Internet
Drug Index
- Mayo
Clinic
- MEDEM:
an information partnership of medical societies
- MEDLINE plus
- MedPedia
In association with Harvard Medical School, Stanford School of Medicine, Berkeley School of Public Health,
University of Michigan Medical School and other leading organizations, Medpedia is a repository of up-to-date
unbiased medical information, contributed and maintained by health experts around the world.
- Merck
Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy
- Merck
Manual of Geriatrics
- Merck
Manual of Medical Information-Home edition
- National Women's Health Information
Center (NWHIC)
Sponsored by the Office on Women's Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
- Net Wellness
This site provides high quality information created and evaluated by medical and health professional
faculty at Case Western Reserve University, Ohio State University, and the University of Cincinnati.
- Oncolink
Cancer
information sponsored by the Abramson Cancer Center of the
University of Pennsylvania.
- QuackWatch
- Travelers' Health
Sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, this site assists travelers and their
health-care providers in deciding the vaccines, medications, and other measures necessary to prevent
illness and injury during international travel.
- WebMDHealth
- Color
Landform Atlas of the United States
Color relief maps.
- David Rumsey Map Collection
An extensive digitized gallery of maps, globes, atlases, charts, school geographies, and material in other formats. The site
focuses on "cartography of the Americas from the 18th and 19th centuries," but has offerings from all over the world.
- Geographic Names Information System
Information about names of geographic features in the United States and Antarctica.
- GEONet Names Server
Information about foreign geographic feature names.
- Map History
/ History of Cartography
Old maps, early maps - non-current maps in general - are the subject of this site.
- MapQuest
Maps, driving directions, live traffic reports, directories, and travel guide.
- Maps and Cartographic Products
From the U.S. Census Bureau.
- National Atlas of the United States
- National
Geographic Map Machine
- U.S. Gazetteer
(U.S. Census Bureau)
- American
Rhetoric
Includes the Online Speech Bank, a database of and index to 5000+ full text, audio
and video versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews, and
other recorded media events.
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