General Research Links

Almanacs and Encyclopedias

• Encyberpedia
  
• Encyclopedia.com
  
• Encylopedia Smithsonian
  
• Guinness World Records
  
• Information Please
  
• Literary Calendar: An Almanac of Literary Information
  
• Old Farmer's Almanac
  
• PC Webopaedia

Business and Finance

• CEO Express!
  
• EDGAR Online
  
• Electronic Accountant
  
• FORTUNE
  
• Galaxy Business and Commerce
  
• Hoover's Online
  
• infoUSA
  
• Jefren Legal Forms
  
• PC Quote Online
  

Colleges and Universities

• American Universities
  
• Canadian Universities
  
• College and University Home Pages
  
• CollegeNET: Online College Applications and Free Financial Aid Search
  
• Law Schools
  
• University Pages
  
• WashLaw WEB: Law Library Catalogs
  

Dictionaries, Thesauri, Quotations, and Rhetoric

• Activa English/Spanish/German Dictionaries
  
• Bartlett's Quotations
  
• Famous Quotes and Quotations
  
• Galaxy Dictionaries
  
• Internet Reference Sources: Quotations / Thesauri
  
• Logos Dictionary
  
• OneLook Dictionaries
  
• Quotations Page
  
• Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric
  
• Thesaurus.com
  
• Travlang's Translating Dictionaries
  
• Web of Online Dictionaries
  
• WWWebster Dictionary
  

Houston and Harris County

• Houston Chronicle
  
• Houston Downtown
  
• Houston Government Net Links
  
• Greater Houston Convention and Visitors Bureau
  
• Greater Houston Partnership
  
• Harris County Home Page
  
• Harris County Weather and Emergency Management
  
• Houston Airport System
  
• Houston Online Resource Guide
  
• Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County
  

Geography, Travel, Currency Conversion, and Weather

• American Express Travel
  
• Cedar National Address Server
  
• Fodor's Travel Online
  
• How Far Is It?
  
• MapQuest
  
• Universal Currency Converter
  
• Weather Channel
  
• Yahoo Maps
  

Medicine

• BioMedNet
  
• CDC - Centers for Disease Control & Prevention
  
• Doctor's Guide to the Internet
  
• Health Web
  
• HealthGate
  
• Houston Academy of Medicine - Texas Medical Center
  
• Medical Matrix / Medline Access
  
• MedicineNet
  
• National Library of Medicine: PubMed and MEDLINE

News and Media

• ABC Channel 13 Houston KTRK
  
• CBS Channel 11 Houston KHOU
  
• CNN
  
• Court TV
  
• Electric Library
  
• Houston Chronicle
  
• Houston Public Television
  
• Houston's WB39 KHWB
  
• Internet Public Library: Online Newspapers
  
• MediaINFO Online Media Directory
  
• NBC Channel 2 Houston KPRC
  
• News Index
  
• Newslink
  
• Newspapers Online
  
• The New York Times on the Web
  
• Television News Archive: Vanderbilt University
  
• The Times of London

People Finders and Directories

• AnyWho
  
• BigBook
  
• BigFoot
  
• Biography
  
• ChoicePoint Online, provides public record information and pre-employment background screening.
  
• Database America
  
• Distinguished Women of Past and Present
  
• Find a Grave
  
• InfoSpace, includes reverse telephone directory.
  
• Internet Address Finder
  
• Internet Public Library: Associations on the Net
  
• Law Review homepages, courtesy of the University of Chicago.
  
• Lycos: WhoWhere?
  
• National Inventors Hall of Fame
  
• Switchboard
  
• Yahoo! People Search

Recommended Books

• Amazon.com
  
• Project Gutenberg
  

Search Engines and Internet Indexes

• About
  
• AltaVista
  
• Argus Clearinghouse
  
• Ask Jeeves!
  
• Dogpile
  
• Excite
  
• Galaxy
  
• Google
  
• HotBot
  
• Internet Public Library
  
• Librarians' Index to the Internet
  
• LookSmart
  
• Lycos
  
• Mamma: Mother of All Search Engines
  
• MSN Search
  
• Northern Light Search
  
• Search
  
• WebCrawler
  
• WWW Virtual Library
  
• Yahoo!

 
Online Bookstores

• Amazon
• Borders
• Barnes & Noble

Rare Bookstores Online

• Alibris: One of the two largest listing sites for used and rare books
• ABEbooks: The other largest listing site for used and rare books
• AddALL: One of the two metasites for used and rare books
• Bookfinder: The other metasite for used and rare books
• Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America: Site of the leading professional rare book sellers of the United States
• International League of Antiquarian Booksellers: Site of the leading professional rare book sellers of the World
• IOBA: A master list and ratings of used and rare book website