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Finding Legal Information Federal, State, Admin. Law
Directories Phone #s, E-Mail Addresses
Education Colleges, Higher Ed., Plagiarism
E-Mail Mailing Lists, Hoaxes
Medical Information News, Medical Database
News CNN, local news
Research Human Subjects Protection
Search Engines Search by keyword, category
Internet 101 Guide

http://www2.famvid.com/i101
detailed info on using the Internet

Finding Legal Information

General

http://www.findlaw.com/
legal info arranged by category

http://www.law.com/

http://www.law.stetson.edu/law/default.htm
grid containing links to several areas of law: ordinances, patents, international law

http://www.ljextra.com/
legal news updates

Federal/State Law

http://www.thomas.loc.gov/
research federal legislation

http://www.law.house.gov/

http://www.findlaw.com/
U.S. Supreme court cases from 1890 to present

Administrative Law

http://www.findlaw.com/

Directories

http://www.swict/ and
http://www.infospace.com/
search for phone numbers and e-mail addresses

http://www.bigbook.com/
yellow pages

News

http://www.cnn.com/

http://www.newo.com/news
local news links

http://www.pointcast.com/
sends news to you

http://www.dejanews.com/
newsgroup searching

Research

http://ohrp.osophs.dhhs.gov/index.htm
guidance, regulations, and educational materials

Search Engines

Links to other engines:
http://www.800go.com/
http://www.gte.net/search

Categorized searches:
http://www.yahoo.com/
http://www.looksmart.com/

Search several engines at once:
http://www.metacrawler.com/
http://www.inference.com/infind

AV Translation Service translates languages:
http://www.altavista.digital.com/

Simple Search:
http://www.hotbot.com/

Medical

http://www.mayohealth.org/
medical news; prescription drugs interactions & side effects

http://www.healthgate.com/
Medline: free access to this large medical database

Education

Colleges & Universities

Web listing for U.S. Universities, by state

http://www.collegelife.miningco.com/
links to college info & student concerns

http://www.globalcomputing.com/universy.html and http://www.ecola.com/college
directories with links to official college & university web sites

North Central Association

Google's U.S. College & University Directory

Yahoo's U.S. College & University Directory

Directory of State Higher Education Agencies

Higher Education

http://www.galaxy.einet.net/galaxy/Social-Sciences/Education.html
administration & professional organizations

Newspapers


http://www.chronicle.com/

The Chronicle of Higher Education

Plagiarism

http://www.plagiarism.org/
Site allows professors to register their papers to be checked for plagiarism on the web

List of plagiarism resources
Page also contains helpful information about fair use, proper acknowledgement, common knowledge, detecting plagiarism, plagiarism and the Internet, tips for avoiding plagiarism and the University rules regarding plagiarism.

E-Mail

Mailing Lists

http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/~llou/lawlists/info.html
Law Lists

http://www.legalminds.findlaw.com/
Legal lists

http://www.liszt.com/ and http://www.tile.net/
keyword searches for list of your choice

Hoaxes & Urban Legends

http://www.snopes.com/
Hoaxes

http://www.urbanlegends.miningco.com/
Discussing & searching for legends

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