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Books and Libraries

Blackwell's Online Bookshop: Provides full search, quick search and browse facilities. Also holds a comprehensive list of services. (UK)

British Library Map Collections: Provides information about the collections, and access to the library. (UK)

Publishers' On-line Book Catalogue: Comprehensive internet book library, details of features, a shopping basket and a search facility are freely accessible. (UK)

Robert Christopherson Geosystems: A comprehensive online study guide to accompany the book. Includes tests after each chapter. (UK)

Education Virtual Library: Provides virtual links searchable by alphabet, education level, resources provided, type of site and country. (US)

Internet Public Library: Provides resource listings for education, computers and internet, social science, sciences and technology and arts and humanities. (US)

Mass Media

Electronic Telegraph: Provides news, classified information, sport, weather and search access. Access is only available through subscription. (UK)

The Guardian: Provides news, archives, sport and the Online section. All areas of the site are accessible. (UK)

The Times Higher Education Supplement: Brings new research, new opportunities and new dilemmas to the fore, search access is available freely, but full access requires subscription. (UK)

The Times/Sunday Times: Subscription is free to this site, but registration is required for access to the articles and resources. (UK)

Cable News Network CNN Interactive: Resources such as world news, and news specific to Europe are freely available on-line. (US)

NASA News and Information: Free access to a number of useful resources on-line, the most useful are the NASA newsroom and the search facility. (US)

New Scientist: Free access provided to news, features and reviews. A search facility is also available. (US)

Time. Com (US)

Time Daily: Free access to the news wire and daily news features. Also provides access to a comprehensive search facility.

ime Magazine: Articles in the publication freely available to the public includes archives.

The Press Association: Access freely available to new media news, news and technology. (US)

Data Archives

BIRON: Bibliographic Information Retrieval Online. Data held covers most areas of contemporary and historic, social and economic life. (UK)

Great Britain Historical GIS Programme: A large database of geographically-located nineteenth and twentieth century aggregate staistics. (US)

r·cade: Provides staistics from: the European Union Statistical Office (Eurostat); United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco); and the International Labour Organisation (ILO). (UK)

REGARD: Database service containing a wide range of information on social science research. Replaces the previous ESRC awards and outputs database (RAPID). (UK)

Technical Advisory Service for Images (TASI): An advisory service for creating digital image archives.

Encyclopedia Britannica: On-line encyclopedia requiring subscription for full access. Seven day trials are available freely and also some special articles are available without subscription. (US)

Natural Hazards Research and Applications Information Center Hazlit: Searchable hazards literature database, housing extensive collections of social science literature focusing on how society prepares for, responds to, recovers from, and mitigates natural disasters. (US)

Dictionaries and Thesauruses

HASSET: Humanities and Social Sciences Electronic Thesaurus: Designed to be used with the retrieval system BIRON.
The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus: Provides various types of search including exact, floating and approximate. (US)
University of Chicago Rogets' Thesaurus: Comprehensive thesaurus providing a full text and headword search option. (US)
WWWebster's Dictionary: Comprehensive dictionary layed out in a search format, also holds search tips to reduce time used. (US)

Travel Resources

Currency Converter: Simplistic and usable currency converter, requires input data for home region and also for required region. (US)

Time Zone Converter: Simplistic and usable time converter, requires input data for home region and also for required region. (US)

Miscellaneous

Citation Guide: Provides referencing details for individual works, parts of works, journal articles, magazine articles, newspaper articles and electronic communications. (US)
A Guide to Citing Internet Resources: Includes recommendations for citing mailbase/listserv lists and emails. (UK)
Students on the Internet: Provides information on copyright and plagiarism on the internet and recommends guidelines for students to follow. (UK)
UK National Inventory Project: Provides detailed information on a number of research areas. Research topics are listing under subject headings. (UK)