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ART

DISEASES

MAGAZINES

BIOGRAPHIES

DRUGS

MAPS

BIOLOGY

EARTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE

MATHEMATICS

BOOKS/STORY SUMMARIES

ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS

MUSIC

BUSINESS

FOOD

MYTHOLOGY

CAREER AND COLLEGE INFORMATION

GOVERNMENT

PHYSICS

CHEMISTRY

HEALTH AND NUTRITION

REFERENCE DESK

COUNTRIES

HISTORICAL TIME PERIODS

SCIENCE
(Look under the different sciences too!)

CULTURES

HISTORY

SHAKESPEARE

CURRENT EVENTS

HUMAN RIGHTS

STOCKS

ART

Architect Studio 3D
Art History Resources on the Web
Artcyclopedia
ARTSEDGE: The National Arts and Education Information Network
Louvre Museum
Metropolitan--Timeline of Art History
Michelangelo
National Gallery of Art - The Collection
National Portrait Gallery

BIOGRAPHIES

Biography.com
Librarians' Index to the Internet--Notable People
Women's biographies: Distinguished Women of Past and Present

For more background information on different people look under the Thomson Gale database on the Library Web page!

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BIOLOGY

Cells Project        Biomes

Bioethics.net
BiotechInstitute
Charles Darwin

DNA from the Beginning
DNA Fingerprinting

Human Anatomy Online

Human Genome Project
Howard Hughes Medical Institute: Biointeractive
Journal of Biological Chemistry
National Center for Biotechnology Information
NatureServe Explorer
Neuroscience for Kids
Online Biology Book
ScienceNiche.com--Biochemistry

ScienceNiche.com--Biology

ScienceNiche.com--Biotechnology

BOOKS/STORY SUMMARIES

Amazon.com! Earth's Biggest Bookstore
Banned Books Online
Bartleby.com--Great Books Online
BookSpot
eBooks--Project Gutenberg
Google Books
Grouchy Cafe
Index to Children's and Young Adult's Authors and Illustrators

The On-Line Books Page
Pink Monkey
Spark Notes
Teenreads.com
Young Adult (& Kid's) Books Central

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BUSINESS

Business.com
The Business Review

Business Week.com
Entrepreneur Magazine
Hoovers.com

Investopedia.com

InvestorWords.com

The Mint

National Stock Market Simulations

Small Business Opportunities

SmartMoney.com

YoungInvestor.com

For more background information on different businesses look under the Thomson Gale database on the Library Web page!

CAREER AND COLLEGE INFORMATION

America's Career Infonet
Best Careers for 2007

CareerBuilder.com
Career Zone
Colleges and Universities - Yahoo
Jobstar Central
New York State Department of Labor
Occupational Outlook Handbook
Peterson's College Guide
The Riley Guide
Salary.com
WetFeet.com

CHEMISTRY

ChemiCool Periodic Table
Chemisty.org
Periodic Table of the Elements at Los Alamos National Laboratory
ScienceNiche.com--Chemistry
ScienceNiche.com--Organic Chemistry
Table of Periodic Elements
Web Elements - Professional Edition

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COUNTRIES

2007 World Factbook
Africa--PBS

Africaguide.com

BBC Country Profiles
CountryFacts.com

Fodor's
Frommer's
Infoplease Almanac--Countries
Library of Congress / Federal Research Division / Country Studies / Area Handbook Series
Lonely Planet

National Geographic Publications Index
(This is the Index.  We have the magazines in the library.)
U.S. Department of State
Yahoo Countries

Try the Gale Student Resource Center database for more information!

CULTURES

Alpha Dictionary Language Directory
Holidays Around the World
Infoplease -- Major Holidays

Internet Picture Dictionary

Kid's Turn Central --Holidays

Try the Gale Student Resource Center database for more information!

CURRENT EVENTS

ABC News
CBS News
CNN Interactive
1stHeadlines
CapitalNews 9
Google News
Los Angeles Times
MSNBC
New York Times on the Web
News Summaries--NYT
Newsweek
Online Newspapers from Around the World
PBS News Hour
Time
Times Union
Troy Record
U.S. News & World Report
Washington Post
Yahoo News World Full Coverage

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DISEASES

Breast Cancer.org
Center for Disease Control
HealthyNJ Diseases & Conditions
HIV InSite
National Cancer Institute  

DRUGS

Drug Facts--Office of National Drug Control Policy
Drugs of Concern - DEA
NIDA- Infofax Pages 
National Institute of Drug Abuse
NIDA for Teens

PREVLINE
RxList

Check the Thomson Gale databases for more information on drugs and diseases!

EARTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE

AccuWeather
Constellations and Their Stars
Intellicast - Weather Information
mineral.galleries.com

National Weather Service --Local Weather
The Nine Planets
ScienceNiche.com--Earth Science

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Virtual Courseware for Earth and Enviromental Sciences
Web Geological Time Machine

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ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS

College Prep I Personal Inventory Sources

American Verse Project
Bartleby.com

C-Span American Writers
Elements of Fiction

TheFreeDictionary.com
Guide to Grammar and Writing
High School Ace---English
IPL--Literary Criticism
Literary Criticism
Literary Criticism Study Guide

Literary Concepts

Online English Grammar

Outstanding Books for the College Bound
Poetry Daily
Representative Poetry Online

For more literary criticism and author information try the Thomson Gale Student Resource Center under Databases!

FOOD

Best of the Web
CNNFood--Herbs and Spices

Spice & Herbs Encyclopedia
Hungry Monster--International Cuisine
WorldwideGourmet

GOVERNMENT

To get to the online CQ Researcher, go to the East Greenbush Public Library, click on Research.  Scroll down to Magazines & Newspapers.  Click on Congressional Quarterly then type in your public library card number (on the back of your library card.)
Drugs & Crime Facts
Federal Statistics
FedWorld Information Network
FindLaw for the Public
Google--government
GPO Access--A Service of the U.S. Government Printing Office

Guidestar (Nonprofit Organizations)
GovSpot - Resources for Citizens
Lawhelp.org/NY
LLRX.com--Court Rules, Forms and Dockets
National Center for Health Statistics

National Center for Policy Analysis
New York State Government Information Locator
New York State Legislature Info

New York State Statistical Yearbook

Public Agenda
THOMAS: Legislative Information on the Internet
USA.gov

United States Government Manual
United States House of Representatives
United States Senate
White House

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HEALTH AND NUTRITION 

Health Education Assignment        Health Article Summary Instructions

Centers for Disease Control
drkoop.com
Familydoctor.org
Harvard School of Public Health Food Pyramids

Healthfinder.gov
InteliHealth
Internet Mental Health
MayoClinic.com
MedLine Plus
MyPyramid.gov

National Center for Health Statistics

National Institute for Mental Health

National Library of Medicine
NOAH: New York Online Access to Health
Nutrition Analysis Tool
PubMed Central
TeensHealth
WebMD
World Health Organization

HISTORICAL TIME PERIODS

Age of Victoria
Ancient African Empires
Ancient Aztec, Olmec and Mesoamerica
Ancient China
Ancient China--Kidipede

Ancient Egypt--Kidipede

Ancient Egypt
Ancient Egypt Maps

Ancient Greece
Ancient Greece--Kidipede
Ancient India--Kidipede
Ancient Mayan
Ancient Mesopotamia
Ancient Rome
Ancient Rome--Kidipede

Ancient Scripts

Ancient West Asia (Mesopotamia, Assyria, Persia, Sumer & Babylon)--Kidipede
Ancient World

Archiving Early America
CivilWar@Smithsonian
Cold War Museum
Elizabethan Era

Internet Ancient History Sourcebook
Internet Medieveal Sourcebook
Internet Modern History Sourcebook
Middle Ages
Middle Ages--Kidipede

The Middle Ages--Annenberg/CPB
World War I--Internet History Sourcebook
--See the World War I Resources listed below under HISTORY
World War II--See the World War II Resources page listed below under HISTORY

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HISTORY

World War I Resources   World War II Resources


American Memory
IPL POTUS-Presidents of the U.S.
History Link 101
The History Channel
HistoryforKids

The History Place
 HistoryWiz
Infoplease: Year-by-Year Chronology 1900-2006
National Archives
Native American Indians
Sacred Texts

HUMAN RIGHTS

Amnesty International
Cambodian Genocide Program at Yale
Internet Resources on Genocide and Mass Killings
Leave None to Tell the Story: Genocide in Rwanda
United Nations High Commission for Human Rights
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
World History Archives: Kurds and Kurdistan

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MAGAZINES (PERIODICALS)

Databases such as Thomson Gale's Student Resource Center, ProQuest and EbscoHost are excellent sources for magazine and newspaper articles. (Go back to the library home page and select databases.) The sources below will help you access other free journal articles.

Directory of Open Access Journals
EEVL EJournal Search Engine
FindArticles
FreeFullText.com

Free Medical Journals

Google Scholar

HighWire Press

MagPortal.com

National Geographic Publications Index
(This is the Index. We have the magazines in the library.)
PubMed Central

MAPS

Blank State Outline Maps
Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection
World Factbook  Maps
Xpeditions Atlas

MATHEMATICS

History of Mathematics
Math.com

The Math Forum Home Page
MathMagic!
Women Mathematicians

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MUSIC

Classical Net
DW3 Classical Music Resources
The MHN Instrument Encyclopedia
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

MYTHOLOGY

Classical Mythology
The Encyclopedia Mythica
Introduction to Greek Mythology
Mythography
World Mythology

PHYSICS

American Institute of Physics
Amusement Park Physics
Internet Plasma Physics Education Experience
Physics Classroom

PhysicsWeb
ScienceNiche.com--Physics

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REFERENCE DESK

Bartleby.com
Dictionary.com
FreeDictionary.com

High School Ace

Infoplease Almanac
Internet Picture Dictionary
Internet Public Library

Merriam-Webster Online
Reference Desk.com

Thesaurus,com
U.S. Statistical Abstract

World Fact Book

SCIENCE

Eric Weisstein's World of Science
Exploratorium
How Stuff Works--Science
Live Science

National Science Foundation
National Science Digital Library
Nature

SciCentral
Science Learning Network
Science.gov
ScienceNiche.com

SCIRUS--For Scientific Information Only
WhyFiles

SHAKESPEARE

Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Elizabethan Era

Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
Shakespeare Online
Shakespeare Resource Center

STOCKS

Morningstar.com
Hoovers.com

thestreet.com

nasdaq.com
nyse.com


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This site is maintained by librarian Mary Ellen Bolton.  If you have questions or comments, she can be reached at (518) 207-2101 or boltonma@egcsd.org,  Columbia High School Library, 962 Luther Road, East Greenbush, NY 12061.