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Web Search Engines, Indices, and Portals

• Yahoo! Web portal with news, search engine, maps, and a categorized index of the Web.
• dmoz.org is The Open Directory Project which is updated by a vast army of volunteer, net-citizen editors.
• http://www.archive.org/
• Netscape Open Directory Web portal with news, search engine, and a categorized index of the Web. http://directory.netscape.com/
• Netscape NetCenter Web portal with news, ads, and a categorized index of the Web. Also technical information on the Netscape browsers and encryption security. http://www.netscape.com/
• Alta Vista internet search engine, Babelfish language translator, and web portal.
• Craig's List San Francisco Bay Area online community.
• Northern Light Search
• Netscape People Finder (White Pages)
• Netscape Yellow Pages
• The Real Yellow Pages by BellSouth.
• WorldPages.com, "The Source Book" phone book by TransWestern Publishing.
• Yahoo People Search (Formerly Four11 Directory.) Find phone numbers and email addresses for people and companies.
• Switchboard.com Find phone numbers and email addresses for people and companies.
• Infoseek.go.com (Go Network) web search and directory.
• Public Information Research, Inc. is a nonprofit organization which has the NameBase project, which allows you to find references to people mentioned in investigative books and Government files, using the Freedom of Information Act http://www.namebase.org/
• The infoUSA.com web site has online telephone directories and business resources.
• www.lycos.com web search and directory.

Usenet Newsgroups

• Read internet newgroups from any Web browser at http://www.mailgate.org/index.html
• Internet Newgroup archives are on Deja.com now at http://groups.google.com/googlegroups/deja_announcement.html

Encyclopedias and Dictionaries

• Encyclopedia Britannica
• Compton's Encyclopedia
• Encarta Encyclopedia, dictionary, and atlas from Microsoft.
• Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing http://www.foldoc.org.
• NIST Physical Constants http://physics.nist.gov/PhysRefData/contents.html
• Periodic Table of the Elements http://physics.nist.gov/PhysRefData/PerTable/index.html

Newspapers

• The Financial Times
• The Los Angeles Times
• The New York Times
• The The Onion
• The San Francisco Chronicle and Examiner SF Gate.
• The San Jose Mercury is Silicon Valley's newspaper.
• Netscape home pagehttp://home.netscape.com/
• The San Mateo County Times classified ads.
• Time magazine
• The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition.
• The Washington Post newspaper of Washington D.C.

Science Magazines

• Medical literature searching tips and links compiled by John D. Furber
• PubMed provides complete access to the Medline database of Biomedical journal articles maintained by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, at the National Institutes of Health.
• Biology and Biomedical journals: Links compiled by John D. Furber.
• Discover Magazine
• The Edge by The Edge Foundation, The Reality Club, and John Brockman.
• Nature
• New Scientist
• Popular Science magazine.
• PNAS -- Proceedings of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences http://www.pnas.org
• Science magazine of the AAAS
• Science Now daily news service from the AAAS http://www.sciencenow.org
• Scientific American

Other Magazines

• Consumer Reports

Television and Radio News and Information

• ABC News (Disney, Go Network).
  • KOAT Channel 7, Albuquerque NM http://www.thenewmexicochannel.com
• BBC Online Homepage - the Britsh Broadcasting Corporation http://news.bbc.co.uk
• CNN.com Cable News Network.
• C-SPAN.org Public AffairsTelevision of the US.
• DirecTV.com satellite TV system.
• The Discovery Channel and the Learning Channel.
• Minnesota Public Radio http://minnesotapublicradio.org/index_main.shtml
  • Marketplace Radio Business News, produced by Minnesota Public Radio.
• NPR National Public Radio of the US.
  • Science Friday is a weekly 2-hour radio show on various science topics, hosted by Ira Flatow on National Public Radio.
• PBS Public Television Network of the US.
  • Charlie Rose produces an excellent, hourlong interview show on PBS, 5 weeknights per week.
  • KCSM-TV Channel 60 Public TV, College of San Mateo, California.
  • KQED-TV Channel 9 Public TV, San Francisco.
  • KTEH-TV Channel 54 Public TV, San Jose, California.
  • WUFT-TV Channel 5 Public TV, Gainesville, Florida. http://www.wuft.tv/
• Real Computing, "The Insider's Guide to Personal Computing," was a weekly radio show hosted by John Dvorak. Archives and transcripts are on this web site.
• The Stanford Channel 51 of Stanford University.
• TechNation is a weekly Public Radio program focusing on the impact of Technology in our lives. Hosted by Dr. Moira Gunn, TechNation presents interviews with internet entrepreneurs and scientists.

Libraries and Book Stores

• Library of Congress of the United States of America. http://www.loc.gov/
• American Memory is a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. National Digital Library of the Library of Congress. The site offers more than 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical collections. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/
• Palo Alto City Libraries with links to library catalogs in Santa Clara County and to useful reference sources.
• Stanford University Lane Medical Library.
• UC Berkeley Libraries of the University of California, Berkeley. The holdings of Berkeley's 30+ libraries are the fourth largest in North America and contain some of the finest research collections in the United States.
• UCSF Library of the University of California, San Francisco.
• Amazon.com, www.amazon.com
• Barnes & Noble, www.bn.com
• Stacey's Bookstore of San Francisco. http://www.staceys.com/
• Scientific American book club www.ScientificAmericanBookClub.com

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