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                    Using the Internet for Research FAQ

Part 2 of 2

********************************************************************

Part 1

1.       WHAT IS THIS FAQ?
2.       DISCLAIMER
3.       WHY USE THE INTERNET FOR RESEARCH?
4.       HOW CAN I FIND INFORMATION?
       4.1      How Can I Find Specific files, text or images?
       4.2      How Can I Find Specific information?
       4.3      How Can I Find More General Background Information?
5.       HOW CAN I FIND INFORMATION FASTER?
6.       SHOULD I PAY FOR INFORMATION?
7.       WHERE CAN I GET FURTHER HELP?
8.       WHAT ABOUT THE FUTURE?

Part 2

9.       URLS FOR A RAINY DAY - useful links for research
10.      END CREDITS

This FAQ is available on the web at
<http://www.purefiction.com/pages/res1.htm> along with an archive of
changes.

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9.  URLS FOR A RAINY DAY

New and changed addresses are marked * 

9.1  Favourite Searchers
9.2  Lists, Groups and Experts
9.3  Other Directories, Search Engines etc.
    9.3.1  Directories
    9.3.2  Search Engines
    9.3.3  Search Facilities
    9.3.4  Multiple Searchers
	9.3.5  People and Other Miscellaneous Searchers
9.4  Subject Guides and Libraries 
	9.4.1  General Guides and Libraries
	9.4.2  Children's Resources 
9.5  Arts/Humanities
9.6  Award Providers
9.7  General Texts
9.8  Media Archives
9.9  Movies
9.10 News
9.11 Ready Reference
    9.11.1  Facts & Data
    9.11.2  General
    9.11.3  Literary & Publishing
    9.11.4  World
9.12 Academia
9.13 Law, Crime, Political & Government
9.14 Science, General Knowlege & Internet
9.15 Writers & Researchers Resources
9.16 Writing: Screenwriting and On-Line Scripts

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9.1	Favourite Searchers
--------------------------------------------------

- ALTA VISTA - the standard they all have to beat:
<http://www.altavista.com> 
- BRITANNICA - the excellent value-added combined search engine and
directory run by those encyclopedia people:
<http://www.britannica.com/> 
- GALAXY: (Directory) <http://galaxy.einet.net/galaxy.html> 
- IMAGE SURFER - search for images by categories or keywords, the
results are given in thumbnail image form: <http://isurf.yahoo.com> 
- INFERENCE FIND! - sorts the hits according to what kind of website
they come from, eg: homepage, educational, European, etc. Excellent:
<http://infind.inference.com/infind/> 
- INFOSEEK: <http://www.infoseek.com/> 
- LYCOS: <http://www.lycos.com/>  
- PROFUSION - very good metasearch engine which combines results
(saving duplication) and will also check links are still live:
<http://www.profusion.com/> 
- SAVVY SEARCH: access to 200 search engines from one page
<http://www.savvysearch.com/>  
- SEARCH SPANIEL: one of the very best multi-search sites:
<http://www.searchspaniel.com/> 
- THEINFO.COM - excellent multi-search site <http://www.theinfo.com> *
- YAHOO Directory (check out the regional versions):
<http://www.yahoo.com/> 


9.2	Lists, Groups and Experts
----------------------------------------------

- ASK AN EXPERT: <http://www.askanexpert.com/askanexpert/> 
- DEJANEWS - the classic search engine for newsgroups:
<http://www.dejanews.com/>  
- FYI - WGA list of experts on numerous subjects - mostly phone and
snail-mail. Sadly US contacts only:
<http://www.wga.org/tools/fyi.html> 
- INFINITE INK - finding FAQs: <http://www.ii.com/internet/faqs/>  
- KNOWPOST - real human beings guide the lost on the Information
Superhighway: <http://www.knowpost.com/> 
- LISTSERV LIST REFERENCE: <http://www.lsoft.com/lists/listref.html>

- LISTZ - find the mailing list you want out of 85,000:
<http://www.liszt.com/>  
- PROFNET - finding Experts to Answer Questions:
<http://www.profnet.com>  
- PUBLICLY ACCESSIBLE MAILING LISTS:
<http://www.neosoft.com/internet/paml/byname.html>
- REFERENCE.COM - search 150,000 newsgroups, mailing lists and web
forums: <http://www.Reference.COM> 
- SUPERNEWS - fast search facility for newsgroups, includes ability to
read binary files: <http://www.supernews.com/> 
- TOPICA - very large directory and search engine allows you to find
suitable mailing lists or even follow specific discussion topics
on-line: <http://www.topica.com> *
- WINDWEAVER MAILING LIST LINKS:
<http://www.windweaver.com/searchpage2.htm#Discussion>


9.3	Other Directories, Search Engines, Search Facilities and
Multiple Searchers
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

	9.3.1  Directories

- CLEARINGHOUSE - rates links for quality:
<http://www.clearinghouse.net/>   
- EXCITE - can also search across numerous publications:
<http://www.excite.com/>   
- MAGELLAN - with selected reviews("green light" sites):
<http://magellan.excite.com/>   
- SNAP - searchable directory <http://www.snap.com/> 
- WEBRINGS - sites linked by topic for easy browsing:
<http://www.webring.org/ringworld/> 
- YANOFF'S LIST - venerable and wide-ranging:
<http://www.spectracom.com/islist/> 

	9.3.2  Search Engines

- CNET - search the whole Net or by subject: <http://search.cnet.com/>

- GOOGLE - simple, functional and fast, with "search within results"
function to narrow down your search: <http://www.google.com> 
- HOTBOT - can search for pictures, sound, video, etc - now with
"Direct Hit" rankings: <http://www.hotbot.com> 
- OPEN TEXT: <http://www.opentext.com/>   
- STUDYWEB - educational search engine, graded:
<http://www.studyweb.com>  
- ULTRASEEK, super-engine from Infoseek: <http://ultra.infoseek.com> 
- WEBCRAWLER: <http://webcrawler.com/>   

	9.3.3  Search Facilities

- ASK JEEVES - a stylish and intelligent search resource:
<http://www.askjeeves.com> 
- ASK JEEVES FOR KIDS - protected version, currently under test
<http://www.ajkids.com> 

	9.3.4  Multiple Searchers (Multi- and Meta- Search Engines)

- ALIWEB: Search Form:
<http://www.nexor.com/public/aliweb/search/doc/form.html>   
- ALL4ONE allows simultaneous searching of four major search engines
<http://www.all4one.com>  
- ALL-IN-ONE - with a research link for dictionaries,thesaurus, maps,
telephone directories, low-price comparisons on goods, etc.:
<http://www.allonesearch.com/> *
- DEBRIEFING - efficient, removes duplicates, English and French
<http://www.debriefing.com> 
- DOGPILE - impressively fast, and you can set a maximum search time,
eg: 20 secs <http://www.dogpile.com> 
- FREEALITY - includes some less usual search sites:
<http://www.freeality.com>  
- IMAGEFINDER - searches for various kinds of pictures:
<http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/ImageFinder/>
- INTERNET SLEUTH - masses of categories: <http://www.isleuth.com/>   
- IPL - grades the top search engines by their strengths and
weaknesses: <http://www.ipl.org/ref/websearching.html>  
- LANGENBERG - a vast multitude of categories, from government to
finding people, maps to cooking, encyclopedia to translation
<http://www.langenberg.com/> 
- METACRAWLER - search across multiple engines at once:
<http://www.metacrawler.com/> 
- ONLINESPY - from general web searching to song lyrics, pictures,
newsgroup postings and maps (not just USA!):
<http://www.onlinespy.com/> 

9.3.5	People Finding and Other Miscellaneous Searchers (new
section)*

- ANYWHO - reverse phone lookup: <http://www.anywho.com/telq.html> *
- ALL-IN-ONE/PEOPLE - a number of people-searchers on one page:
<http://www.allonesearch.com/all1user.html#People> *
- ANCESTRY.COM - good for genealogical research and looking up details
on dead Americans: <http://ssdi.ancestry.com/> *
- BIGFOOT - look up email addresses, but by no means all-embracing:
<http://www.bigfoot.com> *
- INFOSPACE - reverse telephone lookup, address and email:
<http://www.infospace.com/> *
- INFOUSA - reverse phone lookup: <http://www.infousa.com/> *
- LANGENBERG - find a person by a variety of email search sites:
<http://person.langenberg.com/> *
- PEOPLESEARCH - mostly fee-paid services but also some good free
multi-search facilities to use: <www.peoplesearch.com> *
- VSERVERS DOMAIN CHECK - domain names, what's taken and who's behind
them: <http://www.vservers.com/before/dnscheck/> *


9.4   Subject Guides and Libraries
---------------------------------------------------------

	9.4.1 General Guides and Libraries

- BBC WEB GUIDE - BBC Education's searchable guide to Internet sites
on key subjects, with useful reviews of each site:
<http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/webguide/> 
- BEAUCOUP - search pages on a multitude of subjects:
<http://www.beaucoup.com>  
- ELECTRIC LIBRARY - publications, TV and radio transcripts,
dictionaries, encyclopedias, maps, pictures and classic works. Note:
monthly/annual subscription with free trial:
<http:http://www.elibrary.com> 
- ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITTANICA - THE encyclopedia. Note: monthly/annual
subscription with free trial: <http://www.eb.com> 
- ENCYLOPEDIA.COM - Concise Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia
<http://www.encyclopedia.com/>  
- ESCOTET - links to sites in every category - humanities, social
sciences, economics, etc, but takes time to find your way around: 
<http://www.fiu.edu/~escotet/index0.html>   
- INTERNET PUBLIC LIBRARY - online books, magazines and newspapers
from all over the world: <http://ipl.sils.umich.edu/>  
- INFORMATION RESEARCH FAQ - how to find information fast, online and
off: <http://cn.net.au/> 
- LIBWEB: libraries worldwide: <http://sunsite.Berkeley.EDU/Libweb/>
- MININGCO - a wide-ranging subject-based resource: "500 expert guides
mining the net on thousands of topics." <http://home.miningco.com/> 
- OLIG - Oxford Libraries Internet Gateway - Sciences, Social Sciences
& Humanities: <http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/olig/> 

	9.4.2 Children's Resources 

- BBC EDUCATION - just as classy as you'd imagine with the BBC brand
name: <http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/>
- CHILDREN'S LITERATURE WEB GUIDE - includes info on movies/tv based
on children's books: <http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/index.html>

- ENCARTA ONLINE - concise level searches free, full encyclopedia
payable: <http://www.iac-on-encarta.com/>
- HOMEWORK HEAVEN - a massive online academic directory designed for
student use, from junior to college and beyond:
<http://www.homeworkheaven.com/> 
- INTERNET FOR SCHOOLS - easily navigated educational resources,
linked to UK National Curriculum, school sites and chat rooms:
<http://www.internetforschools.co.uk/>
- NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC - Searchable for all ages, but also has special
area for kids: <http://www.nationalgeographic.com/search.html>
- TOPMARKS - good searchable directory for kids (age range and subject
can be specified): <http://www.topmarks.co.uk/> 
- YAHOOLIGANS - The big Yahoo directory for little terrors:
<http://www.yahooligans.com/>


9.5  Arts/Humanities
---------------------------------------

- ANCIENT WORLD WEB: <http://www.julen.net/aw/> 
- COOMBSWEB: Social Sciences and Asian Studies (updated daily):
<http://coombs.anu.edu.au/CoombsHome.html> 
- GENEALOGY AND FAMILY HISTORY ARCHIVES - useful links for
genealogical or other historical/community research:
<http://www.dcn.davis.ca.us/~vctinney/archives.htm>  
- HISTORY: Guide to Internet History Resources:
<http://www.tntech.edu/http://www/acad/hist/history.html> 
- HUMANITIES HUB: software, resources and eJournals in the Humanities
and Social Sciences: <http://www.spaceless.com/hub/>   
- ICOLLECTOR - art, antiques and crafts: <http://www.icollector.com> 
- MININGCO URBAN LEGENDS AND FOLKLORE:
<http://urbanlegends.miningco.com/> * 
- ON-LINE LITERARY RESEARCH TOOLS: collection of Web sites useful to
literary scholars, organized by period:
<http://www.english.upenn.edu/~jlynch/Lit/>  
- PATRON SAINTS INDEX - everything you wanted to know:
<http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/indexsnt.htm> 
- RELATED READINGS PAGE - wide-ranging on the humanities:
<http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/cgi-bin/readings.pl>  
- REVEALING THINGS - from Smithsonian Without Walls, old posessions,
ironing boards to ancient televisions, in a personal light:
<http://www.si.edu/organiza/museums/ripley/eap/rt/load-index.html> 
- VOICE OF THE SHUTTLE: Web Page for Humanities Research:
<http://humanitas.ucsb.edu/>  
- WORLD WIDE ARTS RESOURCES: visual and performance arts:
<http://wwar.com/>  


9.6  Award Providers
-------------------------------------
- These sites search for new sites, rate them, and provide "Best" (or
sometimes "Worst") type listings, in all subjects: 

- BEST OF THE WEB: <http://botw.org/>  
- GHOST SITES - "the most lumbering, out-of-date and derelict sites on
the Net" <http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/> 
- NETWATCH TOP TEN: <http://www.pulver.com/netwatch/topten/topten.htm>

- LYCOS TOP 5%: <http://point.lycos.com/categories/>  


9.7   General Texts
--------------------------------------

- ALEX: catalogue of electronic texts - UK mirror: :
gopher://rsl.ox.ac.uk:70/11/lib-corn/hunter  
- B&R SAMIZDAT EXPRESS: <http://www.samizdat.com/> 
- BERKELEY DIGITAL LIBRARY - tons of online text and picture
collections can be searched: <http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/> 
- BIBLIOMANIA - classic novels, non-fiction, poetry, ancient texts:
<http://www.bibliomania.com> 
- CETH - Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities
<http://www.ceth.rutgers.edu/>  
- CLASSIC E-TEXTS: <http://classics.mit.edu/>   
- INTERLINKS: <http://alabanza.com/kabacoff/Inter-Links/library.html>

- PROJECT GUTENBERG - *the* online Public Domain texts project:
<promo.net/pg/> 


9.8  Media Archives
------------------------------------

- CNN: <http://www.cnn.com/>  
- TIME/WARNER'S PATHFINDER: <http://cgi.pathfinder.com/time/>  


9.9  Movies
------------------------------------

- AMG: ALL-MOVIE GUIDE: <http://allmovie.com>  
- AUSTRALIAN FILM & TELEVISION INDUSTRY - Online Service Directory:
<http://www.filmtv.com.au/>  
- CINEMA CRAWLER - search engine devoted to cinema, currently small
database, but growing: <http://bx.cinemacrawler.com/> 
- CINEMEDIA - links to over 5,000 sites devoted to actors, 700
magazines and journals, 800 film and video festivals, and 400 TV
networks and channels, new web-address: <http://www.cinemedia.org> *  
- ENZIAN - searchable: : <http://www.enzian.org>  
- GREATEST FILMS - synopses of the greatest (mostly US) films ever
made <http://www.filmsite.org/index.html> 
- GUIDE TO THE INTERNET FOR VIDEO AND FILMMAKERS:
<http://www.infi.net/~rriddle/filmind.htm> 
- H-FILM - Guide to Film and TV resources:
<gopher://gopher.uh.edu/11/Colleges%20and%20Academics/HFAC/History/Guide%20to%20FTV%20Resources%09%09%2B>

- INTERNET MOVIE DATABASE (the best): <http://www.imdb.com/> 
- MEGA-MEDIA LINKS - searchable film, video, radio and new-media:
<http://www.rtvf.nwu.edu/links/search.html>  
- RML MOVIE PAGE: not just Australian links, but some local flavour:
<http://www.netspace.net.au/~haze/>  
- SA FILM INDEPENDENT - links to film and TV databases
<http://www.safilm.org.za/main.html> 
- SCREENSITE: Film & TV Studies:
<http://www.tcf.ua.edu/screensite/contents.htm> 


9.10  News
------------------------------

- ARTS & LETTERS DAILY - Excellent doorway to the best articles on the
Net, updated daily from dozens of top sites and publications:
<http://www.cybereditions.com/aldaily/> 
- CABLE NEWS NETWORK: <http://www.cnn.com/>      
- DOCUMENTS IN THE NEWS - documents and web sources on key issues
since 1995:
<http://www.lib.umich.edu/libhome/Documents.center/docnews.html> 
- EARTHWEEK: <http://www.earthweek.com>   
- ELECTRONIC NEWSTAND - all the online magazines:
<http://www.enews.com>
- ELECTRONIC TELEGRAPH - top UK and international news archive:
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/> 
- GAYSCRIBE.COM - the only free, comprehensive listing of gay and
lesbian newspapers and magazines in the world. (Good, but needs more
info from a number of countries, so please send in details):
<http://www.gayscribe.com/listing/>  
- INTERNET PUBLIC LIBRARY - online books, magazines and newspapers
from all over the world: <http://ipl.sils.umich.edu/>  
- JOURNALISM UK - every possible link for UK news media:
<http://www.octopod.demon.co.uk/journ_uk.htm> 
- NBC TV: <http://www.nbc.com/index.html>   
- NEW YORK TIMES: <http://www.nytimes.com/>   
- NEWSLINK: <http://ajr.newslink.org/>   
- THE OMNIVORE - gateway to global news: <http://way.net/omnivore/> 
- POYNTER INSTITUTE - links and bibliographies for topical issues and
other subjects  <http://www.poynter.org/research/research.htm> 
- PROJECT CENSORED'S UNDERREPORTED STORIES - the stories they didn't
dare tell you: <http://censored.sonoma.edu/ProjectCensored/>  
- PUBLIC BROADCASTING SYSTEM: <http://www.pbs.org/>   
- SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA, MORNING HERALD: <http://www.smh.com.au/>   
- SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE AND EXAMINER: <http://www.sfgate.com/>   
- TIME MAGAZINE: <http://www.pathfinder.com/@@@@h7hIBmIAAAQOEw/time/>

- TOUCH TODAY - unusual tabbed cross-links, mostly USA:
<http://www.clickit.com/touch/news/news.htm>
- YAHOO NEWS - Associated Press, Reuters, world and local
<http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/>   


9.11  Reference - Facts & Data, General, Literary & Publishing, and
World
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

	9.11.1 Reference: Facts & Data

- FINDING DATA ON THE INTERNET - links to online databases for
fact-checking or statistics: <http://nilesonline.com/data/>  
- "STATISTICS EVERY WRITER SHOULD KNOW":
<http://nilesonline.com/stats/> 

	9.11.2 Reference: General

- GENERAL REFERENCE RESOURCES:
<http://galaxy.einet.net/GJ/general-ref.html>   
- INTERNET PUBLIC LIBRARY REFERENCE CENTER: <http://www.ipl.org/ref/>

- MARTINDALE'S REFERENCE DESK - You won't believe the wealth of odd
and unusual, and timely, references you'll find there:
<http://www.sci.lib.uci.edu/HSG/Ref.html>   
- MY VIRTUAL REFERENCE DESK - inc. encyclopaedia, quick ref, fast
facts, almanac: <http://www.refdesk.com/main.html> 
- NATIONAL WRITERS UNION. Loads of very useful research and resource
links, well-organised: <http://www.nwu.org/links/lnkhome.htm> 
- NO JUNK REFERENCE PAGE - reference, news, finance, kids, genealogy,
maps: <http://www.kusner.com/nojunk/ref/> 
- REFERENCE SHELF - inc. Geographic, Phone, Words, Scientific,
Perpetual Calendar: <http://alabanza.com/kabacoff/Inter-Links/>   
- RESEARCH IT! has a currency converter, a language translator,
dictionary, thesaurus, zip code retrieval, biography searcher, bible
search, quotation search and package tracking plus a lot of other
stuff you might need now and then:
<http://www.iTools.com/research-it/research-it.html>  
- VIRTUAL REFERENCE DESK  - census data, Dictionaries, Technical
Dictionaries, Maps and Travel, Science Data:
<http://thorplus.lib.purdue.edu/reference/index.html>     

	9.11.3 Reference: Literary & Publishing

- ACRONYM FINDER - more than 89,000 general and specialised acronyms
and abbreviations in many languages: <http://www.AcronymFinder.com/> *
new address
- BABELFISH - translates text and web pages between many languages:
<http://babelfish.altavista.digital.com/> 
- BREWER'S DICTIONARY OF PHRASE & FABLE:
<http://www.bibliomania.com/Reference/PhraseAndFable/> 
- MEDIAFINDER: subscriptions, advertising and list rental rates-for
over 90,000 publications:  <http://www.mediafinder.com/index.htm> 
- ONELOOK DICTIONARIES - search 1,696,778 words across 258
dictionaries <http://www.onelook.com/> 
- PHRASE FINDER - type in a word and it will give you a list of
related phrases:  <http://www.shu.ac.uk/web-admin/phrases/>
- QUOTATION CENTER - large database
<http://www.cyber-nation.com/victory/quotations/> 
- QUOTATION LINKS: <http://www.starlingtech.com/quotes/>   
- QUOTATIONS - Bartlett:
<http://www.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/bartlett/>
- TRANSLATOR - Rechnik - translates common words and expressions
between English, Spanish, French, Bulgarian, Portuguese, and Italian:
<http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~radev/dictionary/>  
- VOYCABULARY - dictionary, translation and thesaurus links for every
word on any given web-page: <http://www.voycabulary.com> 
- WWW LIBRARIES - libraries on the web, useful but rather a number of
dead links: <http://137.142.42.95/WWWLibraries.html>   

	9.11.4 World

- ANTARCTICA: <http://www.terraquest.com/> 
- ASSOCIATION OF NATIONAL TOURIST OFFICES - tourist offices of the
world: <http://www.tourist-offices.org.uk>   
- CIA WORLDFACTBOOKS (excellent world data) and other publications:
<http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/pubs.html>  
- CURRENCY CONVERSION: <http://www.xe.net/currency/>  
- EUROPE ONLINE: <http://www.europeonline.com/>   
- HOW FAR IS IT? - distances: <http://www.indo.com/distance//>   
- LONELY PLANET ONLINE: <http://www.lonelyplanet.com/>   
- MAP SITES:
<http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/Map_collection.html>

- NATURAL DISASTER DATABASE - NASA:
<http://ltphttp://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/ndrd/fndrd.html>
- ROUGH GUIDES - the famous iconoclastic, refreshingly honest guides
are now online <http://www.roughguides.com> 
- ROYAL MAIL - UK Postcode lookup: <http://www.royalmail.co.uk/> *   
- TIME, Directorate of - Official Time:
<http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/time.html>   
- TRAVEL GUIDES: <http://www.travel-guides.com>
- U.S. CENSUS LOOKUP: <http://cedr.lbl.gov/cdrom/doc/lookup_doc.html>

- U.S. POSTAL SERVICE, ZIP Codes, rates: <http://www.usps.gov/ncsc/> 
- VIRTUAL SURVIVAL - how to survive disasters:
<http://www.virtualsurvival.com> 
- VIRTUAL TOURIST: guide to worldwide web sites by geographical
location: <http://www.vtourist.com/>  
- YOUR SKY - virtual planetarium with interactive star maps for any
time or place: <http://www.fourmilab.ch/yoursky/> 


9.12  Academia
----------------------------

- CITY NET - search more than 5,000 destinations:
<http://www.city.net/>   
- GEORGIE'S COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY RESEARCH & REFERENCE PAGE - also
academic journals and US government:
<http://www.fjg.com/research.html> 
- RESEARCH GUIDE FOR STUDENTS - general research, and the correct form
for citing Internet resources:
<http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Troy/8866/> 
- UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH TOOLS:
<http://www.netins.net/showcase/nwc-iowa/> 
- UNIVERSITIES, American: <http://www.4universities.com/>   
- UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES - worldwide:
<http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/cdemello/univ.html>   


9.13 Law, Crime, Political & Government
-------------------------------------------------------

	9.13.1  Law & Crime

- FORENSICS/POLICE Website for writers - but turn off the colours
first!: <http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Rampart/1035/> 
- HOLLYWOOD CRIMEWRITING NETWORK: <http://hollywoodnetwork.com/Crime/>
- NATIONAL CENTER FOR FORENSIC SCIENCE - useful links page:
<http://ncfs.ucf.edu/> 
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND FORENSIC MEDICINE (Singapore) -
large number of documents on forensics: <http://www.gov.sg/moh/isfm/> 
- ZENO'S FORENSIC PAGE - mind-blowingly enormous list of forensic
links in all fields and many countries:
<http://zeno.simplenet.com/forensic.html> 

	9.13.2 Political & Government

- APPRAISAL OF TECHNOLOGIES OF POLITICAL CONTROL - EU draft report on
social and political control technology, from phone tapping to crowd
control and "invisible" torture <http://jya.com/stoa-atpc.htm> 
- EFFWEB - civil liberties archive: <http://www.eff.org/> 
- GOVBOT - search engine for only US .gov webpages, a great number of
US government webpages <http://www.business.gov/Search_Online.html> 
- POLITICIANS OF THE WORLD - leaders of every state, province and
country with phone, fax and email where available
<http://www.trytel.com/~aberdeen/> 
- PROTEST.NET - from police abuse to Reclaim the Streets:
http://www.protest.net/links.html 
- U.K. GOVERNMENT: <http://www.open.gov.uk/>  
- UNITED NATIONS: <http://www.un.org/>  
- U.S. GOVERNMENT: <http://www.fedworld.gov/>   
- U.S. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS - American history, current legislation and
special databases: <http://www.loc.gov/>   
- U.S. LOCAL GOVERNMENTS: <http://www.piperinfo.com/state/states.html>

- U.S. WHITE HOUSE: <http://www..whitehouse.gov/WH/Welcome.html>   


9.14  Science, General Knowledge, Computer & Internet
---------------------------------------------

	9.14.1  Science and General Knowledge

- ALTERNATIVE SCIENCE - a non-hysterical resource for starting
research into some of the less conventional reaches of science.
Intelligent and thought-provoking: 
<http://www.alternativescience.com/> *
- BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL - high level medical archive
<http://www.bmj.com> 
- HEALTHGATE - more medicine for the layperson, including 295 medical
procedures explained in full <http://www.healthgate.com/> 
- HEALTHWORLD ONLINE - articles on health and medicine across the
spectrum, from general to specialist
<http://www.healthy.net/index.html> 
- LEARN2.COM - how to do all kinds of things from food and drink to
catching mice <http://www.learn2.com> 
- MEDICINET - medical information for the lay public
<http://www.medicinenet.com> 
- NATIONAL HISTORY MUSEUM - exhibitions, extensive databases and
resource links: <http://www.nhm.ac.uk/> 
- NURSALL, ALAN: Science North: personal answers to scientific
questions: wildlife biology, geology, meteorolgy, electronics, human
physiology, astronomy: <http://sciencenorth.on.ca> 
- NURSALL, ALAN: alternative address:
<http://icewall.vianet.on.ca/pages/nursall/> 
- SCIENCE DAILY: <http://www.sciencedaily.com/index.htm>   
- SCIENCE MAGAZINE: <http://www.sciencemag.org/>    
- SCIENCENET. Search the database for essays on any science based
topic or send questions to the scientists behind the site:
<http://www.campus.bt.com/CampusWorld/pub/ScienceNet/qpages/search.html>

- VOLCANOWORLD: <http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/>   

	9.14.2  Computer and Internet

- COMPUTER VIRUS MYTHS - the myths, the hoaxes, the urban legends, and
the implications if you believe in them, with a list of virus hoaxes
from A to Z: <http://kumite.com/myths/> 
- DATAFELLOWS: one of the best sites for the latest on virus myths:
<http://www.europe.datafellows.com/virus-info/hoax> *
- INTERNET TRAFFIC REPORT - reports on data flow around the world 
- JUNKBUSTERS - get rid of junk e-mail, junk snail mail, junk phone
calls:   <http://www.junkbusters.com/>
- OFFICIAL NETSCAPE GUIDE TO INTERNET RESEARCH - tips, articles and
latest research news: <http://www.coppersky.com/ongir/index.html> 
- A STUDENT'S GUIDE TO RESEARCH WITH THE http://www:
<http://www.slu.edu/departments/english/research/> 
- SUZANNE'S COMPUTER PAGE - Useful links, especially for
Internet-related research (Note: the no-frames version may be easier
on the eye) <http://suzann.com/stuff/computers.htm>
- WEB AND INTERNET SEARCH ENGINE FAQ:
<http://www.infobasic.com/pageone.htm> 
- WEBMASTERS' GUIDE TO SEARCH ENGINES: <http://searchenginewatch.com/>

- WINDWEAVER WEB RESOURCES - over 100 pages of useful Internet search
advice, comparisons of search engines and links:
<http://www.windweaver.com/> 


9.15  Writers & Researchers Resources
-----------------------------------------------------

- A BRIEF CITATION GUIDE FOR INTERNET SOURCES - useful if you need to
reference texts from the Internet in footnotes or bibliography
<http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~africa/citation.html>
- ALCS - writers' information directory: <http://www.alcs.co.uk>
- ALICE'S VIRTUAL RESTAURANT - useful resources, in particular
covering history, archaeology, social issues, Ireland and kids:
<http://www.ctel.net/~akehoe/> 
- BRICOLAGE LINKS: <http://bricolage.bel-epa.com/resources/websites/>

- CWRC RESEARCH CENTER -  direct links to search engines, best
research sites, newsgroups etc: <http://www.mindspring.com/~cbi/> 
- FICTION WRITERS CONNECTION - links for writers and researchers
<http://www.fictionwriters.com/fwc5lnks/html/research.html> 
- FROBERG WRITERS' RESOURCES: Links and research advice:
<http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/3223/>  
- INKSPOT - includes research pointers, market information, how-to
articles, Inklings Newsletter, young writers' section:
<http://www.inkspot.com/> 
- JANE DORNER: Writers' Links:
<http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/jane.dorner/jd_links.htm> 
- JOHN MCDONNELL'S RESEARCHER'S TOOLKIT - plus free weekly e-mail
updates about the best Web sites for research:
<http://www.geocities.com/WallStreet/6100/> 
- KEY RESOURCES FOR JOURNALISTS/RESEARCHERS:
<http://www.dgsys.com/~editors/resource.html>  
- RANDOM WORD GENERATOR - lesser known words of interest to writers:
<http://www.celerity.demon.co.uk/WORDS/randomword.htm>  
- SCREAMING IN THE CELLULOID JUNGLE - attractive lists of useful links
with comments - by screenwriter Kelly Miles:
<http://members.tripod.com/~SiberianWolf/index.htm>  
- SOCIETY OF AUTHORS - reference works, publishers, galleries, UK and
world resources: <http://www.writers.org.uk/society/soaref.htm>
(temporary server problems, some users may find problems for a few
weeks)
- WRITE-ON NEWSLETTER - writers' help, discussions and resource links:
<http://www.duban.com/writeon/writeon.htm>
- WRITERS GUILD OF AMERICA: <http://www.wga.org/> 
- WRITERS LINKS - good reference links:
<http://www.writerswebsite.com/Reference/>  
- WRITERS.NET - RESEARCH CENTRAL
<http://www.levity.com/interbeing/rc.html>  
- WRITERS RESOURCES - hundreds of links, but could do with some
ordering! <http://www.execpc.com/~dboals/write.html>  
- WRITER'S TOOLBOX - excellent collection of Internet resources for
writers + search articles in online news media:
<http://www.geocities.com/Athens/6346/> 


9.16  Writing: Screenwriting and On-Line Scripts 
----------------------------------------------------------

- CHARLES DEEMER - resources for screenwriters and playwrights:
<http://www.teleport.com/~cdeemer/scrwriter.html>  
- DREW'S SCRIPTS-O-RAMA - film scripts on the Net:
<http://www.script-o-rama.com>  updated URL
- JOHN HEWITT'S WRITING RESOURCE CENTER: screenwriting and general
writing links: <http://www.azstarnet.com/~poewar/writer/writer.html> 
- HFI CYBERSPACE FILM SCHOOL: <http://www.hollywoodu.com/>  
- HOLLYWOOD NETWORK:
<http://www.hollywoodnetwork.com:80/hn/writing/screennet.html>  
- MOVIE CLICHES: <http://www.like.it/vertigo/cliches.html>  
- RICHARD TOSCAN'S "The Playwriting Seminars" - some info on
screenwriting, too: <http://www.vcu.edu/artweb/playwriting/>   

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10   END CREDITS
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Complaints, criticisms, suggestions etc, to Charlie Harris:
charlie@harris.u-net.com

Many thanks (in alphabetical order) to:
Alex: minder@galdr.demon.co.uk, AmyWriter, Bob Appleton, Chris Barlas:
chris.barlas@alcs.co.uk, Steven Blacher, David Brager, Richard Broke,
Mike Casswell: mike-casswell@mail.u-net.com, Huw Colingbourne, Lloyd
Colston: lloyd@colston.com, Jane Dorner, Marty Fouts, Marnie L.
Froberg: ion@istar.ca, Yvonne Hewett:
<http://www.optiprod.demon.co.uk> yvonne@optiprod.demon.co.uk, TJ,
Floyd H. Johnson, Khem, Ellie Kuykendall, Pat Marcello: patm@sgi.net,
Michelle McIntyre, Laurence A. Moore: larrymor@crl.com, Marty Norden,
Pat, Beth Porter: 100541.165@compuserve.com, Alvaro Ramirez, Allen
Schaaf, Robert Silverman webmaster@freeality.com, Sal Towse.

And to all those who sympathised with my/our plight and lent support.
If I've missed anyone out, please tell me.

(c) Charlie Harris 1996-1999

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