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English Language Reference

Acronyms and Abbreviations Server (http://www.ucc.ie/cgi-bin/acronym)
Search a database of over 17,000 acronyms. Provided by Cork University.

Bartleby.com (http://www.bartleby.com)
Provides access to the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Roget's thesauri, the Columbia Encyclopedia, quotations, and a slew of other resources.

WordNet (http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/webwn/)
Princeton University's lexical database of English words provides definitions, synonyms, antonyms, hypernyms, meronyms, sentence examples, and other such things.

Government

Congressional Directory (http://www.access.gpo.gov/congress/cong016.html)
Includes contact information, biographies, and committee membership of House and Senate members.

Project Vote Smart (http://www.vote-smart.org/)
Provides information on both candidates and elected officials.

Law

Connecticut Judicial Branch Law Libraries (http://www.jud.state.ct.us/lawlib/)
Includes locations of public law libraries throughout the state and an online reference service.

Legal Information Institute (http://www.law.cornell.edu/)
Maintained by Cornell Law School, this site provides a wealth of primary legal material including:

• Connecticut General Statutes and pending bills
• U.S. Code (Acts of Congress)
• U.S. Code of Federal Regulations
• U.S. Constitution

LegalEngine (http://www.legalengine.com/)
Includes city, county, state, federal and international law resources and lists of legal forms, courts of the world, legal search engines, law schools, and more.

THOMAS
(http://thomas.loc.gov/)
Provides legislative information such as the status and text of bills, Congressional Record text, and committee reports.

Medicine

Consumer Health Resources on the Internet (http://library.uchc.edu/departm/hnet/inters.html)
Links to sites selected by Healthnet, Connecticut's consumer health information network.

Merck Manual (http://www.merck.com/pubs/mmanual/)
Online version of the professional manual that has been published for a century on a not-for-profit basis. According to the site's authors, the Merck Manual is "the world's most widely used general medical text."

National Institutes of Health Health Information (http://www.nih.gov/health/)
Links to Medline, clinical trials databases, consumer health information, and more. Links include:

• MEDLINE/PubMed
  A database of citations and abstracts of more than 11 million articles published in 4300 biomedical journals
• Drug Information (MEDLINEplus)
  A guide to more than 9,000 prescription and over-the-counter medications provided by the United States Pharmacopeia.

RxList
This database provides the following information on over 4,000 drugs: clinical pharmacology; dosage and administration; warnings, contraindications, and precautions; adverse reactions; drug interactions; and overdosage.

Online Libraries

The On-Line Books Page (http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/)
A directory of thousands of books that can be freely read on the Internet.

Internet Public Library (http://www.ipl.org)
An extensive collection of links to online reference material.

Library of Congress (http://www.loc.gov/)
Provides access to legislative information, country studies, historical material.

Statistics and Demographics

DataHaven (http://research.yale.edu/datainitiative/)
DataHaven provides data on 22 towns in Greater New Haven. The site is available to all organizations and citizens interested in understanding the Greater New Haven area.

FedStats (http://www.fedstats.gov/)
Statistics and other information from more than seventy agencies in the United States Federal Government.

Statistical Abstract of the United States (http://www.census.gov/prod/www/statistical-abstract-us.html)
Provides statistics for 1995 to 2001.

U.S. Census Bureau (http://www.census.gov/)
Find census data regarding subjects such as population, race, state profiles, wealth, employment and a whole bunch more.

Miscellaneous

AnyWho Telephone Directory (http://www.anywho.com)
AT&T's directory includes residential and business phone numbers.

Associations on the Net (http://www.ipl.org/div/aon/)
The Internet Public Library's collection of links to over 2,000 Internet sites of professional and trade associations, cultural and art organizations, political parties and advocacy groups, labor unions, academic societies, and research institutions.

Encyclopedia Mythica (http://www.pantheon.org/mythica/)
Extensive information on a wide range of mythologies from around the world. In addition to Greek and Roman mythology, the site includes Asian, African, Egyptian, Native American and other mythologies. The collection of folklore articles covers more historically recent topics such as vampires and Sasquatch.

Music Resources on the Internet (New York Public Library) (http://www2.nypl.org/home/research/lpa/lpa.cfm?trg=1&d1=141&d3=Music)
Categories include music licensing and publishing, sheet music, professional organizations and societies, etc.

Official U.S. Time (http://www.time.gov)
This service is cooperatively provided by the two time agencies of United States: the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and its military counterpart, the U. S. Naval Observatory (USNO). The displayed time should generally be accurate within 1 second, depending on Internet delays.

Strategic School Profiles (http://www.csde.state.ct.us/public/der/ssp/index.htm)
Educational statistics for Connecticut schools. Adobe Acrobat Reader is needed to view the statistics (you can download Acrobat Reader from the front page of this site).

World Factbook (http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/)
Published annually by the CIA, the World Factbook provides data, including maps, on over 260 countries.

Revised November 19, 2003