The Newsstand

References

 

 

 

Newsstand
Index

U.S. News

Foreign News

Periodicals

References

Think Tanks

Blogs on the
War in Iraq

 

 


Artificial intelligence

American Association of Artificial Intelligence

Iowa State Artificial Intelligence Research Laboratory

MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab

 


Astronomy

Astronomical Society of Northern New England (ASNNE)

Astronomy Picture of the Day

NASA Earth Observatory

NASA's pictures of Mars from the Rover Mission and pictures of the universe from the Hubble

New England Light Pollution Advisory Group (NELPAG)

Space.com:  "How 2,500 Points of Light Have Dwindled to 15"

Tonight's Sky

World Atlas of Artificial Night Sky Brightness

Your Sky

 


Biographies

Astronauts,  a NASA site

Biographical Dictionary

Biographies, an A&E television network site

Biographies, a PBS History site

Congressional biographies, a U.S. government site

Founding Fathers, a Colonial Hall site

Presidents: a U.S. government site

Scientists, part of Eric Weisstein's World of Science site  

 


Caregiving

Aging Parents and Elder Care

Caregiving.com

Commonwealth Fund, working to improve health care

Home Health Care Association of Massachusetts

Intergenerations, Expanding the vision, giving shape to life

Massachusetts Elder Affairs Caregiver Support Program

Massachusetts Statewide Independent Living Council (MSILC)

National Alliance for Caregivers

National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI) Massachusetts

National Center for Assisted Living

National Family Caregivers Association

National Quality Caregiving Coalition

Rosalynn Carter Institute for Caregiving

Third Age Guide to Caregiving

 

 


Community

Active Living by Design

America's Most Livable Communities

Bicycle Friendly Communities

Center for Communities by Design, American Institute of Architects

Center for Livable Communities

Center for Urban and Regional Policy, Northeastern University (CURP)

Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU)

Disability Exchange, Boston Metropolitan Area

Disasters and Emergency Preparedness

Environmental Protection Agency, Encouraging Smart Growth

Family, Home, and Community, first.gov

Healthy Communities and Healthy Cities

Highland Park, Illinois, Improving our Community and Ourselves

HUD About Communities 

International Network for Sustainable Cities (ICSC)

Levittown, Documents of an Ideal American Suburb

Livable Communities Initiative

Massachusetts Association for Community Action (MASSCAP)

Massachusetts Statewide Independent Living Council (MSILC)

National Arts and Disability Center (NADC)

National Coalition for the Homeless (NCH)

National Main Street Center, National Trust for Historic Preservation

New Urban News

Project for Public Spaces

 


Consumer awareness

Consumer information

Epinions, product reviews

 


Country profiles

Asia Source

Background Notes, U.S. State Department Country Profiles

BBC Country Profiles

China Online

European Union (EU)

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

Portals to the World, Library of Congress

World Factbook 2004, U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

World Press Review

 

 


Dictionaries and grammar

Acroynm Server Simplified

Capital Community College Foundation's Guide to Grammar and Writing

Dictionary.com

EduFind.com

Medical Dictionary

Modern Language Association (MLA) citation format as implemented by the Department of English at Harvard 

Sharp Points, Jack Walsh's blog, The Slot

Specialty Dictionaries

Symbols.com

Thesaurus.com

 

 


Games

Whist   |   Baccarat   |   Bridge

Cribbage, 5 Card   |   Poker

Five Hundred   |   Gin Rummy

Pinochle

American Crossword Puzzle Tournament

Online Chess

Online Scrabble

Daily Crossword Puzzle from Dictionary.com

 


General information

CEO Express, "designed to be the executive’s interface to the Internet" 

DocuTicker, "A daily update of new reports from government agencies, NGOs, think tanks, and other groups." 

Information Please

Library of Congress Federal Research Division

Massachusetts Library & Information Network 

refdesk.com  

Wikipedia

 

 


Geography

Atlapedia

Atlas of Canada

Atlas of Cyberspace, a new kind of geographical perspective

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) World Factbook Reference Maps

Cities and Towns:  "CityTownInfo.com is the easy way to find info on thousands of U.S. cities and towns."

Holt, Rinehart and Winston World Atlas

InfoPlease Atlas

Library of Congress, world as well as U.S. maps

Maps of World, site developed in India

Multimap.com, "online maps to everywhere"

Merriam-Webster 's Atlas

National Atmospheric and Space Administration (NASA), Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), California Institute of Technology, Imaging Radar at Southport, Clickable world map

National Geographic Map Machine

Oddens' Bookmarks, searchable database of world maps of every kind

Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection

States and Capitals

U.S. Department of the Interior, National Atlas, the new U.S. government national atlas, a project begun in 1997 to update the next most recent U.S. atlas published in 1977

U.S. Cities and Towns:  "CityTownInfo.com is the easy way to find info on thousands of US cities and towns."

Woods Hole Research Center Electronic Atlas of the Cape Cod Environment

 

WorldAtlas.com 

 

 


Geology

This Dynamic Earth:  The Story of Plate Tectonics, U.S. Geological Survey

The Plates Project

Sandia National Laboratories, Geoscience and Environment Center

 

 


Government and law

American Law Sources On-line (covers Canada too)

Congressional Biographical Directory: U.S. government site giving biographies of every member of Congress dating back to the Continental Congress

Congress Online Project, Pew Charitable Trusts

Federal Judicial Center

Federal News Service, "provides transcripts of the news when it happens"

FindLaw, a comprehensive law research site

The Hill

InfoUSA, U.S. Department of State International Information Programs

Robert's Rules of Order

Roll Call

Stateline.org

Thomas, Library of Congress site for legislative information

Virtual Chase, "teaching legal professionals how to do research"

 

 


Health

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

American Diabetes Association

Better Hearing Institute

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Fact Sheet

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Department of Health and Human Services

Empowered Patient, the United Kingdom's reference for self-pay patients, an example of a database for health care treatments, resources, and services

FitnessOnline.com

Foundation Fighting Blindness

Harvard School of Public Health's Nutrition Source

MayoClinic.com

Mayo Clinic's Guidelines for Good Nutrition

Mayo Clinics Menus for Heart-Healthy Eating

Medical Dictionary

National Coalition on Health Care (NCHA), Washington, D.C., "the nation’s largest and most broadly representative alliance working to improve America’s health care . . . . founded in 1990 and is nonprofit and rigorously nonpartisan"

National Institute on Aging

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

National Institutes of Health (NIH), Department of Health and Human Services

National Institute of Mental Health

Oncology.com, American Society of Clinical Oncology

Prescription Index

Prevent Blindness America
(local chapter Prevent Blindness 
Massachusetts)

Simple Steps to Better Dental Health

Unite for Sight

World Health News, Harvard School of Public Health

 

 


History, American

Adams Family Papers, Massachusetts Historical Society

American Journeys

American Memory Project, Library of Congress

American Rhetoric:  Index of thousands of famous speeches

Access to U.S. government archival databases

Archiving Early America

Avalon Project at Yale, Documents in Law, History, and Diplomacy

Civil War, Index of Information Available on the Internet, U.S. Civil War Center, Louisiana State University

Constitution Society

Federalist, text maintained online by the Constitution Society

Franklin (Benjamin) Papers, Yale University

Hamilton, Alexander, guide to original sources available via the Internet

HarpWeek,  "Harpers Weekly is really the only consistent, comprehensive, week-to-week chronological record of what happened world-wide in the last half of the nineteenth century."

History Central, American and World History

Jefferson (Thomas) Digital Archive, University of Virginia

Jefferson (Thomas) Papers, American Memory, by the Library of Congress

Lincoln (Abraham) Papers, American Memory, by the Library of Congress

Lincoln, Collected Works, by the Abraham Lincoln Association

Madison (James) Papers, University of Virginia

Massachusetts Historical Society

National Archives

National Museum of American History, the Smithsonian

Washington (George) Papers, American Memory, by the Library of Congress

Washington (George) Papers, University of Virginia

World War I Document Archive, maintained at the Brigham Young University by the World War I Military History List volunteers

World War II Links on the Internet, maintained by the University of San Diego


Literature            

 

Arts & Letters Daily

Bartleby.com:  The best Internet literary resource  

BookCrossing.org

Great Books Foundation, "an independent, nonprofit educational organization whose mission is to provide people of all ages with the opportunity to read, discuss, and learn from outstanding works of literature."

Online Literature Network

Most Borrowed Books, Library Journal

New York Times Books

Online Books Page, University of Pennsylvania's listing of 20,000 free books on the Web

Online Literature Library

Poetry Daily

Project Gutenberg, "the Internet's oldest producer of FREE electronic books (eBooks or eTexts)." 

ReadervilleThe Social Life of the Mind

Short Stories Collection

This Day in Literature

Writer's Almanac

 


Living with disabilities

Cape Organization for the Rights of the Disabled (CORD)

Cape Cod Disability Access Directory

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMMS)

Disability Exchange, Boston Metropolitan Area

Go Cape Cod!  The Cape Cod Commission's Transportation Information Center

MassHealth

Massachusetts Architectural Access Board (AAB)

Massachusetts Community Access Monitor (CAM) Program

Massachusetts Office on Disability

MassResources.org, "a Web site that provides detailed information about the many types of assistance available to those in need living in Massachusetts"

Medicare

National Council on Disability, U.S. government

National Organization on Disability

New Freedom Initiative, U.S. government

New Freedom Initiative (U.S. government) Online Resource for Americans with Disabilities

President's New Freedom Initiative for People with Disabilities, The 2004 Progress Report

Social Security

Supplemental Security Income (SSI) in Massachusetts

Social Security Disability Secrets

 


Music

All Music Guide

Andante

Columbia University Music & Arts Library

ConcertoNet.com, the classical music network

Essentials of Music, W.W. Norton and Sony site

Juilliard School Library and Archives

Lewis Music Library, MIT

Library of Congress, Recorded Sound Reference Center

Loeb Music Library, Harvard University

Music-Scores.com, classical sheet music

Music & Vision Daily

New England Jazz Alliance

New England Music Camp

New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival

Newport Music Festival, classical

Newport Jazz Festival, a JVC international festival 

This Day in Jazz History, A Smithsonian site

 


New England

American Centuries, View from New England, Museum Hall, Deerfield, Massachusetts

Cocker Spaniel Rescue of New England (CSRNE)

Discover New England

Great Cheeses of New England

Historic New England (Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities)

Invasive Plant Index of New England (IPINE)

New England Governor's Conference (NEGC)

New England Library Association (NELA)

New England Lighthouses

New England Museum Association (NEMA)

New England Newspaper Association (NENA)

New England Press Association (NEPA)

New England Runner

New England Skeptical Society (NESS)

New England Theater Conference (NETC)

New England Trail Runner

Visit New England

Zoo New England

 

 


Oceans

Ocean Conservancy

New England Aquarium

Scripps Institute of Oceanography

United Nations Atlas of the Oceans

Whale Center of New England

Woods Hole Research Center Electronic Atlas of the Cape Cod Environment


Outdoors

All About Birds, Cornell University's Laboratory of Ornithology.  Includes their online collection of recorded bird songs.  

A Bird's Home

Birdwatch, PBS Online

GORP.com

Massachusetts Audubon Society

National Audubon Society

National Museum of Natural History's North American Mammals

Wildlife Garden

 


Photography

Astronomy Picture of the Day

Best of Photojournalism 2005

California Academy of Sciences, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, 49 photographs by Subhankar Banerjee

Newseum:  The Pulitzer Prize Photographs

New York Public Library Picture Collection Online

Picture of the Day from Kodak

Scenes from my life


Science

Beyond Discovery

National Aeuronautics and Space Administration

Science Daily

Science Odyssey, WGBH and PBS

SciTech Daily

 


Travel

Ecotravel

Travel and Leisure magazine

Traveling Online

Virtual Tourist

Camera Works:  Washington Post Traveler Photo Archives 


Weather

Weather Channel local forecast for Barnstable, ten-day local forecast, and national forecast

NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) Barnstable County regular forecast and hazardous weather conditions for Barnstable County and NOAA-NWS Storm Center

     Hurricanes

Plymouth State Weather Center:  good maps

NOAA/NWS National Hurricane Center

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) hurricane general information

U.S. Severe Weather Forecast Map from Weather Underground

Intellicast Storm Center

Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Hurricane information

Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency (MEMA) Hurricane information

American Red Cross Hurricane information 

Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management (CZM) Hurricane information

Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) hurricane information for people with pets


Work and finding work

AmericaOutOfWork.com

Bureau of Labor Statistics

CareerJournal.com, Wall Street Journal free site

Cooperative Fund of New England (CFNE)

Get That Job!

Invention Submission Corporation

Job blog, Boston.com

JobSearchUSA.org

Monster.com

Riley Guide, for job hunters  

SCORE, Cape Cod

Startup Journal, a Wall Street Journal free site

Weddle's Job Search, Recruiting, and Employment Resources

Where the hell did my job go?

Working Wounded