Matt Ball
434-924-3812
jmb4aw@virginia.edu
University of Virginia Library
PO Box 400113
Charlottesville VA 22904-4113
434.924.3021
fax: 434.924.1431
Compiled by the Central Intelligence Agency, this handy resource has a wealth of information about the 190-odd countries that inhabit our world. More than just statistics, it has helpful cultural information as well.
Facts and statistics on the world, United States, sports, people, society, entertainment, buciness & economics, science & technology and more.
Fully searchable and browsable encyclopedia, also including Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus. Many entries have links to related web sites.
Handy online dictionary and thesaurus. Has online audio pronunciations and includes the Abbreviations, Foreign Words and Phrases, Biographical Names, and Geographical Names sections from the print version.
FirstGov.gov is the U.S. government's official web portal. This site makes it easy for the public to get U.S. government information and services on the web.
UVA-recommended websites organized by subject from addresses/zip codes to weather and lots in between.
This publicly-funded website provides searching and browsing capabilities for the best of the Web. The site has over 20,000 entries maintained by LII staff librarians and organized into 14 main topics and nearly 300 related topics.
Covers the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to present with records from 2,000 English-language journals published worldwide. Includes book reviews.
Indexes current and retrospective work for biographical information on people, both living and deceased.
Large compilation of current and retrospective biographical dictionaries with sketches of individuals from all geographic locations and time periods. Includes Marquis Who's Who titles.
Find academic articles in all aspects of the arts, humanities, social sciences, science, and technology. Many full text articles with images. Includes book reviews. InfoTrac OneFile includes the same data and also business articles and articles from popular magazines.
Company and business information from Dow Jones; articles from over 6,000 newspapers and periodicals plus news photographs. Select "News pages" to browse daily issues of recent newspapers from many countries; use "Search" to find older articles. Logout at the end of a session to avoid problems connecting the next time. (Wildcard is $)
Over 41,000 articles on the arts and cultures of Asia, Africa, Europe, the Americas, and the Pacific with links to tens of thousands of images.
Standard comprehensive music encyclopedia in English, with coverage of music history, theory and practice, musical terminology, and biographies. Includes works lists and musical examples. Updated quarterly.
Indexes articles written on the history of the world from 1450 to the present, covering articles published in over 2,000 journals published throughout the world. Includes book reviews. Does not include articles about the US or Canada. For these see the database, America: History & Life.
Large general database of articles from popular magazines and scholarly journals covering a wide range of topics. Millions of full-text articles, many with images. Updated daily. (Wildcard is *)
Full-text backfiles of many important scholarly journals. Coverage is usually from the first issue to 3-5 years before the present. Humanities and social science articles are also listed in Periodicals Index Online and Periodicals Archive Online which have more articles from similar journals.
News and business information from sources around the world; book reviews, biographical, and other reference sources; U.S. Code, constitution, and court cases. Includes many newspapers. Most entries are full-text, some updated daily. (Wildcard is !)
Articles, books, and essays from books on literature, linguistics, and folklore from over 4000 journals and series published worldwide. Also searchable through Literature Resource Center.
International database covering public and social policy. Includes journal articles, books, government documents, statistics, and reports from organizations and abstracts from 1985. Newer book entries include tables of contents. Use this link to search only the more recent years.
Includes Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index which can be searched together or separately. Lists articles from over 5,700 science and engineering journals, 1,700 social sciences journals, and 1,100 arts and humanities journals. Frequent updates make it a good source for very recent information.