The Nevada Index: Reference Desk

Reference Desk
Part I
Information

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Words	Legal Words	General Resources
Journalists' Resources	Data - Statistics	Newspaper Collections
News Archives	People	Population
Libraries	Maps	Miscellaneous Legal
Legal Forms	Grants	E-zines

Language
Words

Dictionaries (Paderborn)	Dictionaries (Bucknell)	Hypertext Webster

Merriam Webster	Roget's Thesaurus - U. of Chicago	Roget's Internet Thesaurus

Bartlett's Quotations	Acronym Server	Acronym Finder

One Look Dictionaries	Wordsmyth	Logos

Dept of Defense Military Dictionary	WordNet (Princeton)	Semantic Rhyming Dictionary

The Online Medical Dictionary	Glossary of Literary Terms	Ambroce Bierce - The Devil's Dictionary

The Visual Thesaurus	Guide to Grammar and Writing	Animated American Sign Language Dictionary

Jane's Defence Glossary	Ambroce Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary	World Wide Words

The totally unoffical Rap Dictionary	The malapropism page	Computer jargon lexicon

Webopedia computer terms	Funk & Wagnall's - Lycos	The Cambridge Dictionaries

The Exploding Dictionary	xrefer	Dictionary of Science & Technology

Medifocus	Jargon Scout	Bartleby.com

Foreignword.com

Legal Words

International Law Dictionary	Legal Dictionary - Lectric Library	The Law Office Dictionary

Information
General Resources

Internet Public Library	Information Please	Purdue: The Virtual Reference Desk

Encyberpedia	Berkeley Internet Index	Library Spot

Galaxy	WWW Virtual Library - Stanford	Meta Index

Virtual Reference Desk	Corp. Investigative Services	Needle in a Cyberstack

Internet Encyclopedia	U. of Michigan Documents Center	C.I.A. World Factbook C.I.A. foreign govt. leaders

U.S. Census Bureau	Bible Gateway	Research-It!

Symbols	Columbia University U.S. Government Documents	Encyclopedia Brittanica's Internet Guide

International Organizations Websites	Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy	United States Government Manual

Bureau of Governmental Research	American Memory	Lycos Company Sleuth

Science Journals (Stanford U.)	Great American Speeches	Firstgov.gov

Startspot Mediaworks	Business.com	Merck medical information

Refdesk.com	Complete Planet	USATrace

Non-profit organizations	Corporateinformation.com	Nevada's largest employers

Area code info

Journalists' Resources

Reporters' Resources	Virtual Library: Journalism	Reporters Network

American Journalism Review	Journalistic Resources	Reporters' Internet Guide

Internet Journalism Resources	Investigators Guide to Internet Sources	Quotations

U.S. Copyright Office	CyberScribe: Web links for Journalists	National Press Club

Newsmaker Profiles	Forbes 500 -1998	Fortune 500 - 1998

Columbia Journalism Review	Hyperhistory	The Image Bank

Newswatch.org	First Amendment Handbook	Reporters' Committee for Freedom of the Press

Newsnow	Hoovers [company info]	Opinion Pages.org

News search engine	Stratfor.com	Moreover - news database

Knowledgerush	The Corporate Library	Pandia Newsfinder

Newspaper headlines

Data - Statistics

FedStats (Fed Interagency Council on Statistical Policy	Finding Data - Journalists Guide	Data on the Net - UCSD

United Nations Statistics Division	Eurostat	Government Information Sharing Project - OSU

White House Social Statistics Briefing Room	Univ. of Michigan Documents Center	U.S. National Debt Clock

GPO Access	National Center for Education Statistics	Nevada State Data Center

Bureau of Economic Analysis	Stat-USA	Regional Economic Information Service

State & Metropolitan Area Data Book	Stateline.org Pew Center on the States	Repositories of Primary Sources

Public Record Databases - Pacific Information Resources, Inc.	State & County Quick Facts	FastFacts

Newspaper Collections

CJR Newspaper Finder	AJR Newslinks	N-Net

The Paperboy	News Index	Newspapers Online

Web Press	NewsHunt	News Resource

News and Newspapers Online	The Ultimate Collection of News Links	Crayon's News Links

E-zines	MetaGrid: Newspapers & magazines	NewsDirectory

Onlinenewspapers.com

News Archives

Newspaper Archives	Searchable News Archives	Washington Post

People

The Biographical Dictionary	Philosophers	Newsmaker Profiles

Biography.com	Nobel Laureates	20th Century Women in Physics

20th Century leaders - a timeline from Time	Arts & Letters Daily	World Biographical Index

Population

Population Reference Bureau	World Population Clock - Sunsite	World Population Clock - U.S. Census Bureau

U.S. Population Clock - U.S. Census Bureau	United Nations population division statistics

Nevada Libraries

Cooperative Libraries Automated Network	Government Publications Nevada and the West	LV/Clark County

Neon UNR	Univ. of Nevada	Library.nevada.edu

Boulder City	Washoe County	Washoe County Law

	Clark County Law Library	UNLV Law Library

Other Libraries

Library of Congress	St. Joseph's (ultimate) list	LibrarySpot

Academic search engine	The Researching Librarian	The Library Index

Maps

Map Quest	City Search	Cyber Maps

City.net (Excite)	Maps & Directions	Altapedia

Maps.com

Legal Stuff
Miscellaneous Legal

Library Spot Law Libraries	Appellate Counselor	Jurist: The Law Professors' Network

Divorce Source	Mining Company Guide	U.S. Patent Office

Nevada Law and You - Reno Gazette-Journal	National Consumer Law Center	Lawnewsnetwork.com

SEC filings - 10k Wizard

Legal Forms

Legal Forms - FindLaw	Legal Forms - ILRG	Legal Forms - Lectric Law Library

CounselQuest

Grants

Nat. Endowment for the Humanities	Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance	Foundation Center

Pitsco's Grants & Funding	Yahoo grants page	Pew Charitable Trusts

F.S. Beveridge Foundation	State & Local Competitive Grants	American Political Science Association - Grants & Fellowships

National Academy of Sciences grants list	Andrew Mellon	Council for International Exchange of Scholars

Rockefeller Foundation	Carnegie Corporation