General Metasites, Portals & Gateways

• Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE - A virtual library with collections of ebooks, journal articles, theses & dissertations, etc.. Includes the African-AmericanTheses and Dissertations 1907-2002; Digital Scriptorium; EECS Technical Reports; Online Medieval & Classical Library (OMACL), The; etc..



• California Digital Library (CDL) - A virtual library. Includes eScholarship Editions; the eScholarship Repository; the Online Archive of California (OAC); etc..



• Canada's Digital Collections - Has 600 collections on Canada's history, geography, science, technology, culture. Includes Black Loyalists: Our History, Our People; Toronto's First Synagogues; etc..



• Career Voyages - A U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) & U.S. Department of Education site with information on high growth, high demand occupations & the skills & education needed to attain them.



• Cornell University Library Digital Collections - Includes the Cornell University Library: Historical Mathematics Monographs; Cornell University Library: Historical Monographs; New York State Historical Literature; Project Euclid; etc..



• COS Funding Opportunities - Community of Science (COS). A comprehensive funding & grant information resource. Can search 23,000 records, representing over 400,000 opportunities worth over $33 billion.



• FedStats - The gateway to browse statistical sources on over 400 topics from over 100 federal agencies. Includes MapStats, a Statistical Reference Shelf (Statistical Abstract of the United States, etc.).



• FirstGov.gov - The U.S. government's official Web portal. Has information for citizens, businesses & nonprofits, federal employees; a Reference Center. Can search sites, browse links to federal agencies, departments, commissions, boards, etc..



• In the First Person - Includes 3,350 personal narrative collections in English worldwide, over 650,000 pages of full-text by over 15,000 people, 3,500 audio & video files & 30,000 bibliographic records, 20,500 months of diary entries, 63,000 letter entries, 17,000 oral history entries.



• Internet FAQ Archives - Has over 3,900 Usenet Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) postings in HTML format & text format.



• Library of Congress, The - Links to its online catalog, exhibitions, manuscript collections. Includes &/or sponsors American Memory; BEOnline+; Doing Business on the Internet; HLAS Online (Handbook of Latin American Studies); Global Legal Information Network (GLIN); Guide to Law Online; Portals to the World; Technical Reports and Working Papers in Business and Economics; THOMAS; Virtual Reference Shelf; William Blake Archive, The; etc.



• Maryland Earthcast - A virtual library of information, maps, links on the Earth, weather, climate.



• MSU Global Access - A portal to information about the world. Has a database of Web sites & other resources searchable by region/country, thematic area (arts & cultures, commerce & economic issues, education, government & law, language & literature, etc.), constituency group (industry, business, labor; colleges & universities; etc.), resource type (audio/viseo, news, maps, etc.). Features some newly-created resources.



• National Library of Australia - Has catalogs, an online journals guide, libraries gateway, newspapers online, Australian Periodical Publications 1840-1845, etc., a site search.



• nationmaster.com - A vast compilation of data from sources like the CIA World Factbook, United Nations, World Health Organization, World Bank, World Resources Institute, UNESCO, UNICEF, OECD. Using the form, you can generate maps & graphs from a database of 4,350 statistics, from agriculture & economy, to government, language & lifestyle.



• Nations Online Project, The - A portal to countries of the world. Has information & links to official sites, on culture, business, economy, travel, education, environment, etc..



• net.TUTOR - Has 15 interactive tutorials (Citing Net Sources, Evaluating Web Sites, Using Web Search Tools, etc.), resource guides (business, education, health, humanities, math & science, social sciences, etc.), etc..



• New York Public Library (NYPL), The - Includes the Dorot Jewish Division; the NYPL Digital Gallery; the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, etc.. Can search the CATNYP (Research Libraries) & LEO (Branch Libraries) catalogs. Has research guides (women's studies, etc.).



• New York State Library, The - New York State Education Department (NYSED). Can search the Excelsior library catalog & for libraries & library systems in New York State. Has a New York State Government Information Locator Service (NYS GILS).



• NewsCenter - Has current awareness, breaking news, official government press releases worldwide.



• Newseum - Has a 155 front pages from 27 countries, a Cybermuseum (Holocaust: The Untold Story, etc.), etc..



• Penn Library - Has Library information, the Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text & Image (SCETI), online exhibitions (Tradition and Its Discontents: Jewish History and Culture in Eastern Europe; From Written to Printed Text: The Transmission of Jewish Tradition; Modern Jewry and the Arts; etc.).



• Portals to the World - Library of Congress, The. Has selective links providing authoritative, in-depth information about the nations & other areas worldwide are arranged by country or area then sorted into a wide range of broad categories.



• Rare Books on the Web - A guide & library of links to libraries, bookdealers & book ollectors, digitized collections, etc..



• Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text & Image (SCETI) - Penn Library. Can search, search ebook & image collections. Includes the DreiserWebSource, Edgar Fahs Smith Collection, Furness Shakespeare Library, Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection, Robert and Molly Freedman Jewish Music Archive, University of Pennsylvania Art Collection, etc.. Requires Macromedia Flash 5 plug-in.



• Search Engine Guide - Has links to over 3,200 tools (search engines, subject directories, databases [company, education, government, health & medicine, law, science, etc.]), news back to 1999, a vendor directory, etc., Web search.



• Search Engine Showdown - Compares & evaluates tools. Has a features chart, reviews, enewsletter, statistics, strategies, site search.



• Search Engine Watch - Has search tips, linked lists (metacrawlers, multimedia sites, etc.), reviews, ratings, tutorials, etc., a site search.



• Smithsonian Exhibitions - A portal through which images appended to the Smithsonian Institutions digitized catalogs may be accessed. Can search for topics or collections across the museums.



• Sparknotes - Has over 300 study guides in 15 categories (literature, history, philosophy, etc.), charts (math, science, etc.), etc., a site search.



• Spire Project, The - Has information & links on how to evaluate & find information on the Web (country profiles, patents, company information, imports & exports, United Nations information, government resources, industry research, theses & dissertations, news & news databases, etc.].



• StartSpot Network - A portal for 14 human-generated directories. Includes BookSpot, CinemaSpot, EmploymentSpot, GovSpot, GenealogySpot, HomeworkSpot, HeadlineSpot, LibrarySpot, MuseumSpot, TripSpot.



• Study Guides & Strategies - Has tips & advice on learning, studying, classroom & group participation, project management, reading, testing, writing, math & science, Web/Internet.



• U.S. Census Bureau - Has Bureau information, downloadable (pdf) publications (County and City Data Book, Economic Census, Statistical Abstract of the United States, State & County QuickFacks, etc.), a site search. Includes &/or sponsors the American FactFinder; FirstGov.gov; North American Industry Classification System (NAICS); TIGER (Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing system); the U.S. Gazetteer; etc..



• USAJOBS - Official job site of the U.S. Federal government. Can search jobs, create resumes. Has job tips & tools.



• USINFO.STATE.GOV - U.S. Department of State. Has official information on international security, trade & economics, global issues, democracy, human rights, society/culture/values; etc.; a site search.



• Web Text - A guide to Internet resources. Covers orientation, guides, reference materials, browsing & exploring tools, subject & word-oriented searching tools, information about connecting with people, etc..



• Where to get online tourist information - Has address, phone number, links for over 150 countries & all states of the U.S. & provinces of Canada.