• Address, Telephone, E-mail Directories
    • Associations Unlimited. Descriptions and contact information for regional, national, and international associations from GaleNet. (UC only)
    • Switchboard
    • BigBook
    • Telephone Directories on the Web
    • Yahoo People Search
    • International White and Yellow Pages
    • Kapitol - International Directories
    • World Directories
    • Infospace "The Ultimate Directory"
    • AnyWho. Includes ATT Toll-Free Directory, Reverse Lookup and more.
    • WorldPages
    • AtHand: From Pacific Bell CA business listings & more.
    • ZIP Code Lookup and Address Information. From the United States Postal Service.

  • African American Studies
    • African American Webliography. Selected and gathered by the Louisiana State University Library
  • African Studies
    • Africa South of the Sahara Selected Internet resources complied by the African Studies Association.
    • African Studies Center On-line resources from the University of Pennsylvania.
  • Anthropology
    • Anthropology in the UCSC Library
  • Architecture
    • Architecture Web Resources. From the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Libraries.
  • Art
    • DADABASE. "Online Catalog of The Museum of Modern Art Library, Archives and Study Centers."
    • Grove Dictionary of Art (UC Only)
    • Guide to the World Wide WebCompiled by the Art Libraries Society of North America.
  • Asian American Studies
  • Asian Studies
    • AsiaSource Selected and maintained by the Asia Society.
    • China WWW Virtual Library - Internet Guide for Chinese Studies
  • Bibliography
    • AcqWeb. Acquisitions and collection development resources selected and maintained the Vanderbilt Library.
    • ArchivesUSA. Guides to manuscripts and manuscript collections including the National Union Catalog. (UC only)
    • Publishers' Catalogs Home Page
    • Repositories of primary sources. Compiled and maintained by the University of Idaho Library, Special Collections.
  • Biography
    • Lives, the biography resource. "The largest guide to biography sites on the Web."
    • World Biographical Index. Very brief biographical information for historical figures, not useful for contemporary figures. Provides bibliographical information for other sources. From Saur.
  • Book Reviews
    • Book Reviews. An excellent list complied by the Librarians Index to the Internet.
  • Business
    • BRASS Best of the Best Business Web Sites Selected and maintained by the Business Reference and Services Section of the Reference and User Services Association of the American Library Association.
    • Internet Resources in Business and Economics. From the Thomas J. Long Business & Economics Library at UC Berkeley.
    • Thomas Register of American Manufacturers (Username: UCSC, Password: SACRUZ)
  • Career Planning
  • Chicano Studies
  • Citation & Style Guides
    • How to Use the MLA Style Guide.
    • Columbia Guide to Online Style (Janice R. Walker)
    • APA Style Resources.
    • Electronic Reference Formats Recommended by the American Psychological Association
    • How to do an Annotated Bibliography. Developed and maintained by the Cornell University Library
    • NCSU Online Writing Lab. Resources from the North Carolina State University, including the Grammar Hotline.
  • College Guides/Directories/Catalogs
    • Access America for Students:student gateway to the U.S. government.
    • College and University Home Pages
    • College and University Rankings. Provides links to a variety of ranking sites along with cautionary advice. From the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
    • CollegeNet
    • CollegeSource OnlineOnline catalogs for over 10,000 colleges. (UCSC only)
    • IIE Passport: Living and Learning Abroad. Information on US education abroad.
    • NewsDirectory: College Locator.
    • 2000 Graduate School Rankings From U.S. News & World Report.
    • The University Pages. Links to U.S. colleges only.
  • Communications
  • Dictionaries
    • Oxford English Dictionary(UC only)
    • Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 3rd ed.. Available from LION. (UC only)
    • Wordsmyth
    • WWWebster Dictionary, from Merriam-Webster.
    • yourDictionary.com. A language portal with more 1500 dictionaries representing over 230 languages.
  • Economics
  • Education
    • ERIC--Educational Resources Information Center
    • Directory of Scholarly and Professional E-Conferences
    • Scholarly Societies Project
      Web sites for over 1200 scholarly societies, international in scope.
  • Encyclopedias
    • Britannica Online (UC only).
  • Film
  • Financial Aid / Grants
    • Access America for Students:student gateway to the U.S. government.
    • California Student Aid Commission
    • Community of Science. Includes a database which list over 15,000 funding opportunities. (UCSC only). worldwide, primarily for faculty and researchers.
    • fastWEB "financial aid search through the web."
    • Pay for College: Scholarships - Financial Aid. From the College Board.
    • FinAid The Financial Aid Information Page.
    • Sallie Mae College loan information from the nation's leading provider of educational financing.
    • Project EASI U.S. Dept. of Education
    • Title IV School Code list For completing FAFSA application.
    • SPIN. SPIN provides searchable listings of national and international government and private funding sources. (UCSC only).
  • Geography
    • Blank Outline Maps of the Countries and Continents of the World
    • World Factbook. Published by the Central Intelligence Agency
  • Government
    • City of Santa Cruz
    • Governments on the WWW
  • History
    • America: History & Life. (UC only)
    • Foreign Exchange Rates - Historical DataExchange rates back to approx. 1971 collected and certified by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
    • Historical Abstracts. (UC only).
    • Internet Resources on Genocide and Mass Killings Compiled by Faculty of the Economics & Social Science of the University of West of England.
  • Humanities
  • Latin American Studies
    • Latin American Data Base (LADB) Weekly news from Latin America with searchable archive.
  • Libraries
    • Monterey Bay Area Libraries. From MOBAC.
    • UC Libraries.
    • Guide to Bay Area Libraries
    • Libweb. Library WWW servers.
    • National Library Catalogues Worldwide. Provides listing for approximately 50 countries. Maintained by the University of Queensland Library in Australia.
  • Linguistics
    • Ethnologue: Languages of the World. Catalogue of 6700+ languages from 228 countries; produced by Summer Institute of Linguistics. Provides number of speakers, language status, language families, etc. (Added 12/15/98)
    • Linguistics Abstracts Online. (UCSC only).
  • Literature
    • Gale's Literary Index. Online version of the Contemporary Authors Cumulative Index. Click here for a list of Gale literary series available at UCSC.
    • Glossary of Literary Terms
    • Handbook of Rhetorical Devices
    • LION Literature Online (UC only).
  • Magazines/Journals
    • UCSC Electronic Journals. Full-text electronic journals available to UCSC users. Available to UCSC IP addresses only.
    • Cambridge Univ. Press Journals.
      Search CUP Journals.
    • Directory of Electronic Journals and Newsletters (UCSC only).
    • Ejournal SiteGuide: a MetaSource
    • Ethnic Newswatch. Full-text collection of the newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press.
    • jake The Jointly Administered Knowledge Environment (jake) allows users to identify journal titles, where they are indexed, and which vendors make them available in full-text. Hosted by the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library at the Yale University School of Medicine.
    • Johns Hopkins Project Muse
      Search Project Muse.
    • JSTOR
      Search JSTOR.
    • IDEAL - Academic Press Online Journals (UC only).
      Search IDEAL - IDEAL Search
    • Latin American Studies Journals at UCSC
    • PubList: the internet directory of publications.
  • Middle Eastern Studies
  • Music
  • Newspapers
    • UCSC Library Newspapers
    • Ethnic Newswatch. Full-text collection of the newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press.
    • European News and Newspapers. Selected Western European Newspapers and News Services, compiled by the Western European Specialists Section of ACRL.
    • News and Newspapers Online. Extensive list of online news resources from around the world, maintained by the Walter Clinton Jackson Library of the University of North Carolina.
    • NewsDirectory.com: a guide to English-language media online.
    • Newspaper Archives on the Web
    • NewsLibrary. Knight-Ridder papers: from around the country, indexing only.
  • Philosophy
    • Philosophy Research Base.
  • Political Science
    • Field Poll. Public opinion resources for state and national issues.
  • Psychology
    • PsychREF: Resources in Psychology on the Internet
  • Religion
    • Adherents.com "References to published membership/adherent statistics and congregation statistics for over 4,000 religions, churches, denominations, religious bodies, faith groups, tribes, cultures, movements, ultimate concerns, etc."
    • American Religion Data Archive "The American Religion Data Archive collects quantitative data sets for the study of American religion."
  • Social Sciences
    • Academic Info Social Science Gateway.
    • Social Science Information Gateway (SOSIG). From the UK, strong in European as well as North American sources.
    • Social Sciences & Social Issues. From the Argus Clearinghouse
  • Sociology
    • Criminal Justice Links.
    • Justice Information Center: a service of the National Criminal Justice Reference Service.
    • National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect Information "Information on the prevention, identification and treatment of child abuse and neglect."
    • Poverty Related Resources.
    • Social Gerontology & the Aging Revolution.
    • Sociological Abstracts. (UC only)
    • Sociological Tour through Cyberspace.
    • SocioWeb. Gateway site, not the most extensive but easy to use.
    • WWW Virtual Library: Sociology Extensive links from the WWW Virtual Library.
    • Sociosite. This Netherlands site has an international scope.
    • Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics.
  • Statistics
    • STAT-USABusiness, trade and economic statistics from the U.S. Dept. of Commerce.
  • Theater
  • Women's Studies
    • UCSC Library Women's Studies Reference GuideSelected WWW sites related to Women's Studies.
    • Contemporary Women's Issues. (UCSC only).

  • Catalogs
    • CRUZCAT
    • MELVYL, featuring CDL-hosted databases.
    • MOBAC: "Search MOBAC Regional Catalog."
  • Reference Directories
    • Academic Info
    • American Society of Indexers: Internet Reference Sources.
    • The Argus Clearinghouse
    • Britannica Internet Guide. Selected and compiled by the editors of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. (UC only).
    • INFOMINE Scholarly Internet Resource Collections. Developed and supported by the Library of the University of California, Riverside.
    • InfoSurf - Information Resources by Subject
    • Internet Public Library
    • Librarians' Index to the Internet
    • Librarian's Resource Center. A very nice page with a Canadian twist from the Toronto branch of the Special Libraries Association.
    • Martindale's: The Reference Desk.
    • Voice of the Shuttle Web Page for Humanities Research.
    • Yahoo!
  • Periodical Indexes
    Indexes included are available to the public without a subscription. To identify other indexes use "Periodical Index Guides" below.
    • AGRICOLA. Indexes agricultural materials. From the National Agricultural Library.
    • BUBL Journals. Contents, abstracts or full texts of over 200 current journals and newsletters in fields of library and information science, computing and information technology, agriculture and food science, business and marketing, social and medical services.
    • Business Week: Search & Browse back issues to 1995.
    • Christian Science Monitor Archives Search the Monitor Archives back to 1980. Fee for full-text.
    • ECONbase Indexing to over 64 economics journals available from Elsevier. (*Some full-text avail. to UCSC users)
    • FindArticles. Sponsored by Looksmart and Gale Group this provides indexing and full-text access to over 350 periodicals.
    • Library Reference Center. Compliments of EBSCO Publishing, free indexing to over 30 of the most popular library trade journals.
    • PubMed. The National Library of Medicine's search servide that provides access to over 11 million citations in MEDLINE, PreMEDLINE, and other related databases, with link to participating online journals.
    • PubSCIENCE. From the Department of Energy. Indexes peer reviewed journal literature in the physical sciences and other energy-related disciplines.
    • Time Archive. Full-text searchable archive of Time Magazine back to 1994.
    • TV News Archive, Vanderbilt University. Indexes television news stories back to 1968, includes abstracts.
    • UnCoverWeb The CARL Corporation's UnCover index via the Web.
    • Washington Post Archives. Indexes Post stories back to 1977. Full-text available for a fee.
  • Periodical Index Guides
    • UCSC Library: Electronic Resoures
    • California Digital Library Collections and Services
    • Indexes to Newspapers, Periodicals, and Other Media. Links to online indexing resources, some free, some not. Maintained by the Michigan Electronic Library
    • jake The Jointly Administered Knowledge Environment (jake) allows users to identify journal titles, where they are indexed, and which vendors make them available in full-text. Hosted by the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library at the Yale University School of Medicine.
    • Periodical Titles in OCLC FirstSearch Search by periodical title or database title to see which periodicals are included in which FirstSearch index (indexing may be available to UCSC users from other sources as well).
  • Search Engines
    • Bare Bones 101: A Very Basic Web Search Tutorial. From the University of South Carolina's Beaufort Library.
    • Alta Vista
    • excite
    • GO.com
    • Google
    • HotBot
    • Lycos
    • Raging Search
  • Trial Services (rev. 7/5/05)
  • UC Links
    • UC Office of the President
    • University of California WWW Servers