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Science & Engineering Library Virtual Reference Shelf (http://library.ucsc.edu/science/sciref.html)
Government Publications Reference Shelf (http://library.ucsc.edu/library/gov/refshelf.html)

Denotes Off-Campus Access for UCSC Faculty, Staff and Students only

ADDRESSES and PHONE NUMBERS

AnyWho online directory (http://www.anywho.com)
Yellow Pages (business directory), White Pages (residential directory), Reverse Lookup, plus Maps, and International, Area Code, and Toll-Free Directories from AT&T

AtHand, Network Yellow Pages (http://www.athand.com)
National business listings

Infospace (http://www.infospace.com)
Yellow Pages, White Pages, Maps & Directions, Reverse Lookup, E-mail Search, World Directories, and more

Switchboard.com (http://www.switchboard.com)
Useful feature: Town Directories

International

Infobel: World Directories (http://www.infospace.com/home/white-pages/world)
Provides links to business and residential listings worldwide

WorldPages (http://global.worldpages.com/business)
Provides links to international business directories by country

Specialized Directories

Associations Unlimited
Directory of regional, national, and international associations from GaleNet

Find People at UC Santa Cruz (http://www.ucsc.edu/resources/find_people.asp)
Directories include: UCSC (including students), Faculty & Staff, Academic Department Staff, Individual Home Pages, and Alumni

Scholarly Societies Project (http://www.scholarly-societies.org)
Provides access "to directory information (including links to sites) for a selection of scholarly societies across the world" (text from Web site)

ZIP Code Lookup (http://www.usps.com/zip4)
From United States Postal Service

United States Postal Service Acronyms & Abbreviations (http://www.usps.com/ncsc/lookups/usps_abbreviations.htm)
Understand the USPS's acronyms and abbreviations

ALMANACS

Information Please (http://www.infoplease.com)

The Old Farmer's Almanac (http://www.almanac.com)

World Almanac
From OCLC, provides access to Funk & Wagnall's New Encyclopedia, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, The World Almanac of the U.S.A., The World Almanac of U.S. Politics, and The World Almanac for Kids

World Almanac
From Lexis-Nexis

ARCHIVES and SPECIAL COLLECTIONS

Calisphere (http://www.calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu/)
From the University of California. Includes digitized primary sources - including photographs, documents, newspaper clippings, works of art - from UC museums and libraries and other cultural heritage institutions across California

Online Archive of California (OAC) (http://oac.cdlib.org)
From the California Digital Library. Provides access to materials such as manuscripts, photographs, and works of art held in libraries, museums, archives, and other institutions across California

American Memory, Historical Collections from the National Digital Library (http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amhome.html)
"A gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States."

Repositories of Primary Sources (http://www.uidaho.edu/special-collections/Other.Repositories.html)
Compiled and maintained by the University of Idaho Library, Special Collections

In the First Person (http://www.inthefirstperson.com/firp/index.html)
"Provides in-depth indexing of more than 2,500 collections of oral history in English from around the world."

BIOGRAPHIES

Anthropology Biography Web (http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/information/biography)

Lives, the Biography Resource (http://amillionlives.com)
"Guide to posthumous biography sites on the Web"

Literature Resource Center (LRC)
Provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline

BOOKS

Lists

100 Most Frequently Challenged Books (http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/bannedbooksweek/bbwlinks/100mostfrequently.htm)
From the American Library Association. A list of challenged and banned books

whichbook.net (http://www.whichbook.net/index.jsp)
This innovative Web site enabled users to select a book by plot shape, type of main character, or country the book is set in

100 Best (http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/100best.html)
From the Modern Library. A list of 100 best novels and nonfiction of the 20th century selected by the Modern Library editorial board

Awards / Prizes

Nobel Prize in Literature (http://www.nobel.se/literature)

Pulitzer Prizes (http://www.pulitzer.org/Archive/archive.html)

International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (http://www.impacdublinaward.ie/index.htm)
Awards based on nominations made by libraries throughout the world

Man Booker Prize (http://www.bookerprize.co.uk/aboutprize/previous.html)

PEN/Faulkner Award (http://www.penfaulkner.org/public/pfaulk/awards.htm)
Award for fiction

PEN/Malamud Award (http://www.penfaulkner.org/public/pfaulk/malamud.htm)
Award for short stories

Literature Awards (http://www.literature-awards.com)
Books awards organized by category

Literary and Related Awards (http://www.ala.org/ala/alsc/awardsscholarships/literaryawds/literaryrelated.htm)
Compiled by the ALSC (Association for Library Services to Children). A list of youth-oriented book awards

Reviews

How to...Find Book Reviews (http://library.ucsc.edu/ref/howto/bookreviews.html)
A UCSC library guide

The Beat Book Reviews (http://www.kuow.org/programs/thebeat_books.asp)
Reviews by Nancy Pearl, public radio librarian and author of Book Lust

January Magazine (http://www.januarymagazine.com)
Review of books published in the English language

CALCULATORS

Online Conversion (http://www.onlineconversion.com)
"Convert just about anything to anything else"

Measure 4 Measure (http://www.wolinskyweb.net/measure.htm)
"A collection of sites on the Web that estimate, calculate, evaluate, translate, etc." just about anything

AIER (American Institute for Economic Research) Cost-of-Living Calculator (http://www.aier.org/research/col.php)
Compare U.S. dollar values by year

Universal Currency Converter (http://www.xe.com/ucc)
Allows user "to perform interactive foreign exchange rate calculations...using...up-to-the-minute currency rates"

For additional links SEE Science & Engineering Library Virtual Reference Shelf

COLLEGE INFORMATION

Colleges

How to...Find College Information (http://library.ucsc.edu/ref/howto/colleges.html)
A UCSC library guide on college information

students.gov (http://students.gov)
"Comprehensive information portal providing answers to your questions on education, career, government and more"

NewsDirectory College Locator (http://newsdirectory.com/college.php)
Locate U.S. college Web pages by state

How to...Fund Your College Education (http://library.ucsc.edu/ref/howto/financialaid.html)
A UCSC library guide on finding grants and scholarships and financial aid information

collegeboard.com Scholarship Search (http://apps.collegeboard.com/cbsearch_ss/welcome.jsp)
Searchable database for finding scholarships

Office of Research, University of California (http://www.ucop.edu/research/ucres.html)
UC funding opportunities for undergraduate and graduate research

FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid) (http://www.fafsa.ed.gov)

Federal School Code List (http://www.fafsa.ed.gov/fotw0304/fslookup.htm)

COUNTRY INFORMATION

Library of Congress Country Studies (http://memory.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html)
Provides "description and analysis of the historical setting and the social, economic, political, and national security systems and institutions of countries...and examines the interrelationships of those systems and the ways they are shaped by cultural factors"

Europa World Plus
Reference work that covers "political and economic information in more than 250 countries and territories"

The World Factbook (https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.html)
From the CIA. Provides an annual summary of intelligence on all areas of the world

Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments (http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/chiefs/index.html)
From the CIA. Provides current information on leadership in selected foreign countries

DICTIONARIES

Merriam-Webster OnLine (http://m-w.com)
Dictionary and thesaurus based on Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 10th ed., 2002 and Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Thesaurus, 1988, respectively

Wordsmyth (http://www.wordsmyth.net) (Free user registration required)
Integrates dictionary and thesaurus data to provide clear and simple definitions

Thesaurus.com (http://thesaurus.reference.com)
Roget's New Millennium™ Thesaurus, First Edition (v 1.0.5), edited by Barbara Ann Kipfer, PhD

Oxford English Dictionary

Webster's Unabridged
Webster's Third New International Dictionary, 1961 and subsequent updates. From Chadwyck-Healey

Language

yourDictionary.com (http://yourdictionary.com)
Connect to on-line (language) dictionaries, grammars, and other language resources on the Web

Martindale's Language and Translation Center (http://www.martindalecenter.com/Language.html)

AltaVista's Babel Fish Translation (http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish)
Translate a block of text or an entire Web page

Specialty Dictionaries

Specialty Dictionaries (http://yourdictionary.com/diction4.html)
From yourDictionary.com, find a glossary of terms on just about any topic

Acronym Search (http://www.acronymsearch.com)
Look up acronyms and abbreviations

Glossary of Literary Terms (http://www.virtualsalt.com/litterms.htm)

Slang Dictionary (http://www.bhs.berkeley.k12.ca.us/departments/english/slang_dictionary.htm)

Whatis.com (http://whatis.techtarget.com)
Dictionary of technological terms

ELECTRONIC TEXTS

Scholarship

eScholarship Repository (http://repositories.cdlib.org/escholarship)
Sponsored by the California Digital Library. "Offers faculty a central location for depositing any research or scholarly output deemed appropriate by their participating University of California research unit, center, or department"

OIAster (http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu/o/oaister)
From the University of Michigan Digital Library Production Service. Provides gathers and aggregates academically-oriented digital resources (including electronic books, online journals, audio files, images, and more) from a variety of institutions

Journals

DOAJ, Directory of Open Access Journals (http://www.doaj.org)
This database links users to "free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals"

Books (Public Domain)

Project Gutenburg - Advanced Search (http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/world/search.php)
A "collection of free electronic books, or eBooks"

Turning the Pages (http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/ttp/ttpbooks.html)
From the British Library Online Gallery. "Leaf through 14 great books and magnify the detail" and listen to audio commentary

Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts (http://www.infomotions.com/alex)
A "collection of public domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy"

Internet History Sourcebooks Project (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/index.html)
Edited by Paul Halsall. A "collection of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts...for educational use"

ENCYCLOPEDIAS

Encyclopædia Britannica Online

Columbia Encyclopedia (http://www.bartleby.com/65)
6th edition, 2001

Encyclopedias
UCSC's collection of subscription-based, online encyclopedias

GOVERNMENT

City of Santa Cruz (http://www.ci.santa-cruz.ca.us)

Santa Cruz County Government (http://www.co.santa-cruz.ca.us)

State and local government of the Net (http://www.statelocalgov.net)

Governments on the WWW (http://www.gksoft.com/govt)
Provides links to governmental institutions from around the world

For additional links SEE Government Publications Reference Shelf

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IMAGES

University of California Riverside/California Museum of Photography (http://138.23.124.165/)

Condé Nast Art Archive (http://www.condenastart.com/)
Hosted by CondéNet, Inc. Contains artwork and photos of people, places and events that appreared in various Condé Nast publications

AHDS (Arts and Humanities Data Service) Visual Arts (http://vads.ahds.ac.uk/)
"Collections form a body of digital materials covering all subject areas of the visual arts, from textiles to architecture"

LIBRARIANSHIP

Public Services

Library Bill of Rights (http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/statementspols/statementsif/librarybillrights.htm)

Guidelines for Behavioral Performance of Reference and Information Service Providers (http://www.ala.org/ala/rusa/rusaprotools/referenceguide/guidelinesbehavioral.htm)

Cataloging and Metadata

Library of Congress Classification Outline (http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/lcco/lcco.html)

MARC Standards (http://www.loc.gov/marc)

Dublin Core MetaData Initiative (http://dublincore.org)

Acquisitions and Collection Development

AcqWeb (http://acqweb.library.vanderbilt.edu)
Acquisitions and collection development resources selected and maintained the Vanderbilt Library

Publishers' Catalogs (http://www.lights.com/publisher)
Directory of publishers

PubList (http://www.publist.com) (Free user registration required)
Provides publication information for domestic and international magazines and journals

Associations

American Library Association (ALA) (http://www.ala.org)

Association of Research Libraries (ARL) (http://www.arl.org)

California Association of Research Libraries (CARL) (http://www.carl-acrl.org)

California Library Association (CLA) (http://www.cla-net.org)

Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) (http://www.clir.org/)

International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) (http://www.ifla.org)

LIBRARIES

Online Catalogs

CRUZCAT (http://cruzcat.ucsc.edu)
UCSC's library catalog

Melvyl (http://melvyl.cdlib.org)
Combined catalog of the University of California campus libraries

MOBAC (http://www.mobac.org)
Combined catalog of the Monterey Bay Area Cooperative Library System, which includes libraries in Monterey, San Benito and Santa Cruz Counties

Link+ (http://4.20.101.239)
The catalog lists the holdings of participating California libraries, including several public libraries and academic libraries in the California State University system and private colleges

National Library Catalogues Worldwide (http://www.library.uq.edu.au/ssah/jeast)
Provides links to the catalogues of national libraries around the world; from The University of Queensland Australia Library.

Library Web Pages

University of California Campus Libraries (http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/cultural/libraries.html)

Monterey Bay Area Cooperative (MOBAC) Library System Members (http://mobac.org/members/members.htm)

Guide to Bay Area Libraries (http://gaelnet.stmarys-ca.edu/other.libs/gbal/gbal.php)

Library of Congress (http://www.loc.gov)

California State Library (http://www.library.ca.gov)

LIBWEB, Library Servers via WWW (http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Libweb)
Provides links to the Web pages of libraries around the world

LibDex, the Library Index (http://www.libdex.com)
Search for libraries by country or OPAC vendors

MAPS

For additional links SEE University Library Map Room

NEWS

Local Newspapers

Santa Cruz Sentinel (http://www.santacruzsentinel.com)
Covers Santa Cruz and surrounding communities

Register Pajaronian (http://www.register-pajaronian.com)
Covers Watsonville and the Pajaro Valley

Worldwide Newspaper Listings

Newspapers
UCSC's collection of online newspapers, includes current, topical, and historical newspaper sources

News and Newspapers Online (http://library.uncg.edu/news)
From Walter Clinton Jackson Library, University of North Carolina. "Lists hundreds of news resources from around the world in a variety of languages that offer free access to current, general-interest, full-text news"

U.S. News Archives on the Web (http://www.ibiblio.org/slanews/internet/archives.html)
From Special Libraries Association, News Division. Provide links to United States news[paper] archives available on the Web

NewsLibrary (http://nl.newsbank.com)
Searches hundreds of selected newspapers and other news sources, providing abstracts and pay-by-article service

Radio

Youth Radio (http://www.youthradio.org/indexx.shtml)

PATENTS

For links SEE Science & Engineering Library Virtual Reference Shelf

PERIODICALS (SEE ALSO NEWSPAPERS)

Lists

jake, jointly administered knowledge environment (http://www.jake-db.org/)
Search by periodical title to learn which databases index the periodical

Periodical Titles in OCLC FirstSearch (http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/periodicals/default.htm)
Search for periodical title information for FirstSearch databases that index periodicals

UCSC Library's Electronic Journals
Provides links to the electroinc journals that UCSC subscribes to

Indexes

UCSC Library's Electronic Resources
Annotated list of UCSC's online resources. A back-up list can be found at: http://people.ucsc.edu/~chesley/backup.html.
Note: Currently enrolled UCSC students, faculty and staff who live off campus may connect to the library's electronic resources through the Off-Campus Access service.

CDL Resource Liaisons Roster (http://www.cdlib.org/inside/groups/rl/roster.html)
Resource Liaisons of databases and e-journals licensed by the CDL

*Free* Public Access Indexes

Indexes to Newspapers, Periodicals & Other Media (http://mel.org/viewtopic.jsp?id=169&pathid=1022)
From Michigan eLibrary. Link to periodicals and media indexes

FindArticles (http://www.findarticles.com)
From Looksmart and Gale. A searchable database that provides access to full-text articles in over 700 periodicals

ECONbase (http://www.elsevier.com/homepage/sae/econworld/menu.htm)
Provides access to information within ECONbase (including 67 economics journals from Elsevier), such as tables of content, abstracts, selected full text

Handbook of Latin American Studies (HLAS) (http://lcweb2.loc.gov/hlas/hlashome.html)
"A bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars"

BUBL Journals (http://bubl.ac.uk/journals)
Link to abstracts and/or the full text of library and information science journals and newsletters

Library Reference Center (http://www.epnet.com/freeres.asp)
From EBSCOhost. A searchable database that provides citations to resources in library and information science and teacher and administrator trade journals. Also provides access the Teacher Reference Center, which provides citations to teacher and administrator trade journals

Television News Archive, Vanderbilt University (http://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu) (Free user registration required)
Indexes television news stories back to 1968, includes abstracts

STATISTICS

How to...Find Statistics (http://library.ucsc.edu/ref/howto/statistics.html)
A UCSC library guide on finding statistics

American Fact Finder (http://factfinder.census.gov)
From the U.S. Census. Provides access to population, housing, economic, and geographic data

UC Atlas of Global Inequality (http://ucatlas.ucsc.edu)
"Explores the interaction between global integration (globalization) and inequality, and provides maps, graphics and data"

RAND California
Sponsored by the Rand Corporation. Covers "California and U.S. public policy issues with an emphasis on statistics"

Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics (http://www.albany.edu/sourcebook)
"Brings together data from more than 100 sources about many aspects of criminal justice in the United States"

National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) (http://nces.ed.gov)
"The primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data that are related to education in the United States and other nations"

Ed-Data (Education Data Partnership) (http://www.ed-data.k12.ca.us)
"Fiscal, demographic, and performance data on California's K-12 schools"

For additional links SEE Government and Law Virtual Reference Shelf

STYLE GUIDES (Citations and Bibliographies)

AAA Style Guide (http://www.aaanet.org/publications/style_guide.pdf)
Style guide for the American Anthropological Association in .pdf format

Examples of Chicago-Style Documentation (http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools.html)
Examples from the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition

Frequently Asked Questions about MLA Style (http://www.mla.org/style_faq)
Includes up-to-date information about documenting Web resources from the Modern Language Association

APA Style.org (http://www.apastyle.org/elecref.html)
Includes up-to-date information about documenting Web resources from the American Psychological Association

Basic CGOS Style (http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/cgos/idx_basic.html)
From the Columbia Guide to Online Style, useful reference "for citing electronic sources regardless of the specific bibliographic style you may be required to use"

APA Style Resources (http://www.psychwww.com/resource/apacrib.htm)
From Psych Web

Other Style Resources

How to...Write an Annotated Bibliography (http://library.ucsc.edu/ref/howto/annotated.html)
A UCSC library guide

How to...Organize Your Research: Bibliography Worksheet (http://library.ucsc.edu/ref/howto/bibworksheet.pdf)
A UCSC library guide in PDF format

NCSU Online Writing Lab (http://www2.ncsu.edu/ncsu/grammar)
From North Carolina State University. Questions and responses appear in Grammar Hotline Archives

SUBJECT GUIDES and DIRECTORIES

Library Research and Collection Guides

UCSC Library Subject Guides (http://library.ucsc.edu/Zope/eresources/bytool/SubjectGuides)

InfoSurf, Help by Subject (http://www.library.ucsb.edu/subj/resource.html)

Internet Public Library (IPL) > Pathfinders (http://ipl.si.umich.edu/div/pf)
Written by IPL staff. These guides "are intended to help you get started doing research on a particular topic, both online and at your local library"

Web Resources by Subject

INFOMINE (http://infomine.ucr.edu)
From UC Riverside. Librarian built "resource [that] provides access to Internet resources, such as databases, electronic journals, electronic books, bulletin boards, mailing lists, online library card catalogs, articles, directories of researchers, and many other types of information"

Social Sciences Information Gateway (SOSIG) (http://sosig.ac.uk)
From the UK Resource Discovery Network. Provides links to "selected, high quality Internet information for researchers and practitioners in the social sciences, business and law"

Humble Humanities Hub (http://www.humbul.ac.uk)
From the UK Resource Discovery Network. Provides links to selected, evaluated, and catalogued Web resources in the humanities

Voice of the Shuttle (http://vos.ucsb.edu)
From UC Santa Barbara. Provides links to selected Web sites in the humanities

Librarians' Index to the Internet (LII) (http://lii.org)
Provides "a well-organized point of access for reliable, trustworthy, librarian-selected Internet resources, serving California, the nation, and the world"

Librarian's Resource Center (http://www.sla.org/chapter/ctor/resources/lrc/cover.htm)
From the Special Libraries Association, Toronto Chapter. "This is a selective and searchable collection of [Web] resources compiled to facilitate our informational research and retrieval"

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA

University of California Home page (http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu) / Office of the President (http://www.ucop.edu)

Mission Statement (http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/aboutuc/mission.html)

Campus Web pages (http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/campuses/welcome.html)

Campus Libraries Web pages (http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/cultural/libraries.html)

Ansel Adams / Fiat Lux (http://138.23.124.165/mainFrame/collections/guides/adams/col_adams_default.lasso)
Photos taken by Ansel Adams of UC campuses

WEATHER

Weather Channel (http://www.weather.com)

For additional links SEE Science & Engineering Library Virtual Reference Shelf