A browsable/searchable database of tens of thousands of images and related data
housed at Virginia Tech University Libraries' Digital Library and Archives.
Blue Web'n is an online library of 1800+ outstanding Internet sites categorized by
subject, grade level, and format (lessons, activities, projects, resources, references, &
tools).
Directory of online English-language media all over the world, including newspapers,
magazines, television stations, colleges, visitor bureaus, governmental agencies and
more.
This nonprofit, nonpartisan center follows and initiates legal action on issues,
including campaign finance, election law, political communication and ethics. The site includes a
blog, weekly reports, and links to related articles, court cases, and legislation.
This freely accessible blog, published by the Chronicle of Higher Education, provides
links to articles focusing on the 2008 elections as they affect students, colleges and
universities, and higher education policy. The site also provides summaries of relevant scholarly
publications.
A free news site provided by Congressional Quarterly (CQ) with political news,
political blogs (such as Taegan Goddard's Political Wire) and articles. The site includes a
political toolkit with links to other Web sites that have a connection to CQ, as well as links to
non-CQ "Web Picks."
This metasite is part of the University of Michigan Documents Center site. Topics
include background information; presidential, congressional, and state candidates; campaign
links; policy issues; resources on elections and voting; and links to scholarly sources for
further research.
From the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg Public Policy Center, FactCheck.org
evaluates the accuracy of campaign claims. Visitors can ask FactCheck specific questions, and can
subscribe to the site via RSS or e-mail. FactCheck's archive extends back to 2003, covering the
2004 and 2006 campaign cycles.
This site provides information about legal and regulatory rules relating to federal
campaign finance issues. Its searchable Disclosure Database is the original source of all the
campaign finance data provided by other groups.
The National Institute on Money in State Politics site provides information on the
state level by contributor and industry. The site also includes data on ballot measures and
political parties, along with news releases and research reports focusing on campaign
contributions and public policy.
In addition to data about campaign contribution donors and recipients, lobbying, and
advocacy group spending, the site includes databases covering financial disclosure, the revolving
door between industry and government agencies, and congressional travel.
A project of the St. Petersburg Times and CQ (Congressional Quarterly), this site
uses scorecards, factsheets, and articles to review claims made by candidates (the Truth-O-Meter)
and attacks from opponents (the Attack File). The site includes rulings on some claims, using a
six-point scale that ranges from "True" to "Pants on Fire."
Project Vote Smart provides an extensive amount of information about elected
officials, including voting records (congressional and legislative), special interest group
performance evaluations, campaign finance data, and issue positions from the Political Courage
Test. The site also provides general political information, including voter registration
information, information on statewide ballot measures, and links to other
resources.
This site is sponsored by the League of Women Voters Education Fund, and provides
information at the state level for absentee voting, election dates, voter registration, voting
machines, eligibility requirements, and more.
Wiki the Vote is an open publicly edited encyclopedia of the 2008 elections.
Registration is required for editing and there are specific policies for editing that are
overseen by a managing editor. The site includes candidate profiles, links to political Weblogs,
and general election coverage.
This is an online collection of images (mostly photographic) of persons, places, and
events in the AP Archives dating back to the 1840s. There are over three-million images in this
database and more than 3,000 images are added daily. In addition, there are over 100,000
graphics, including maps, timelines, logos, and graphs.
Newspapers full-text from 1897 to 1910 from the following states: California,
District of Columbia, Florida, Kentucky, New York, Utah, and Virginia. In addition, one can find
information on newspapers published in the United States from 1690 to the present.
Directory of online English-language media all over the world, including newspapers,
magazines, television stations, colleges, visitor bureaus, governmental agencies and
more.
This site provides a comprehensive, uniform, and useful compilation of links to
freely accessible on-line sources of law for the United States and Canada.
Factual publications about the land, people, history, government, political
conditions, economy, and foreign relations of independent states, some dependencies, and areas of
special sovereignty.
Blue Web'n is an online library of 1800+ outstanding Internet sites categorized by
subject, grade level, and format (lessons, activities, projects, resources, references, &
tools).
This site provides a collection of different types of maps, including shaded relief
maps, satellite images, topographic maps, and scanned maps from 1895 Rand McNally Atlas of the
World, and other online information of each state of the United States.
This site provides narrative and statistical information from current and past
editions of the CIA's The World Factbook, the Library of Congress's Country
Studies, and United Nations publications.
The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is a pandisciplinary and lingual
resource that allows users to identify and search free, full-text, quality controlled open-access
scientific and scholarly journals. It included more than 1,900 journals, more than 460 of which
are searchable at the article levels.
Contains information about almost 2 million physical and cultural geographic features
in the United States. The Federally recognized name of each feature described in the data base is
identified, and references are made to a feature's location by State, county, and geographic
coordinates.
Access to consumer health informationfrom sites selected by Public Library of
Charlotte & Mecklenburg County's professional Information Services staff.
HealthWeb is a collaborative project of the health sciences libraries of the Greater
Midwest Region (GMR) of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM) and those of the
Committee for Institutional Cooperation.
A browsable/searchable database of tens of thousands of images and related data
housed at Virginia Tech University Libraries' Digital Library and Archives.
The Index of Economic Freedom is a practical reference guide to the world's
economies. It includes country-by-country analyses and the most up-to-date data available on
foreign investment codes, taxes, tariffs, banking regulations, monetary policy, black markets,
and more.
Contains useful 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.
This site provides information professionals and the academic community with
centralized access to important free online economic materials, databases, and Web
sites.
The premier physician-patient communications network, designed to facilitate online
access to information and care for more than 90,000 physicians, their practices and their
patients, while saving patients time and money and helping physicians generate
revenue.
NationMaster is a vast compilation of data from such sources as the CIA World
Factbook, United Nations, World Health Organization, World Bank, World Resources Institute,
UNESCO, UNICEF, and OECD.
This federated search portal currently searches the content libraries of 15
affiliated societies in the fields of physics, mathematics, engineering, and
geosciences.
STAT-USA/Internet, a service of the U.S. Department of Commerce, is a single point of
access to authoritative business, trade, and economic information from across the Federal
Government.
The full-text version of Etherington's book, "The Very Best of British: The
American's Guide to Speaking British (2000)", arranges terms in seven broad
categories.
