Palmer College of Chiropractic Florida

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Ready Reference Resources 

PHSL's General Reference Resources page is an active page which is edited each week for new links, links which have moved and links which have ceased.

PHSL's page is not wholly comprehensive. This page is intended to be used as an initial FYI guide to internet resources.

Website inclusion on the PHSL page does not in any away imply any kind of endorsement of the the websites which are listed below. 

• Almanacs

• Colleges & Universities

• Copyright Information

• Dictionaries & Encyclopedias

• Directories

• Internet Citation Guides

• Internet Media

• Internet Search Engines

• Libraries Online

• Newspapers

• U.S. Federal Agencies

• U.S. State & Local Agencies

• Weather

• Writing Style Manuals

READY REFERENCE DIRECTORIES

• Librarian's Index to the Internet
  "The Librarians' Index to the Internet is a searchable, annotated subject directory of more than 7,200 Internet resources selected and evaluated by librarians for their usefulness to users of public libraries."
• MeL Reference Desk
  A tremendously useful subject directory resource from Michigan with comprehensive list upon list of weblinks ranging from Acronyms to Zip Codes.
• ReferenceDesk.com
   A complete web Reference Desk with many standard Ready Reference tools linked on the opening page.
• Telephone Directories menu
  Menu linked directly from the Librarian's Index to the Internet.
• Zip Code Lookup
  From the United States Postal Service site.

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DICTIONARIES & ENCYCLOPEDIAS

• One Look Dictionaries
• Encyclopedia Britannica
• Your Dictionary.com

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ALMANACS

• CIA World Factbook
• Information Please
• Old Farmer's Almanac
• Whitakers Almanack

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COPYRIGHT

• American Library Association Copyright & Fair Use
  This American Library Association website has a long list of copyright information resources including useful internet resources, reports and electronic full text articles about copyright.
• Copyright & Fair Use @fairuse.stanford.edu
  A very useful website from Stanford University Libraries contains internet resources, full-text articles and an internal search engine to find answers to your questions about copyright.
• Copyright Clearance Center
  "Copyright Clearance Center, Inc., the largest licenser of text reproduction rights in the world, was formed in 1978 to facilitate compliance with U.S. copyright law."
• Copyright Resources on the World Wide Web
  A general bibliography with links to a number of Copyright information sites on the internet. The links to resources help with copyright questions and issues for both classroom and library use.
• Medical Library Association Copyright Management Guidelines
  "Copyright management, including interpretation of the scope of fair use under the copyright law and arranging appropriate royalty payments, has become an increasingly important responsibility for health sciences librarians."
• United States Copyright Office
  The official Copyright Office at the United States Library of Congress, this web page was "created with the desire to serve the copyright community of creators and users, as well as the general public.
• United States Patent, Trademark & Copyright Information
  A useful web page from the Franklin Pierce Law Center which in addition to covering copyright, provides resources for Patent and Trademark questions.

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WRITING STYLE MANUALS

• How to Write Medical and Scientific Papers
• ONLINE! A Reference Guide to Using Internet Resources
• OPLIN menu - Ohio Public Library Information Network
• Writer's Handbook - University of Wisconsin/Madison Libraries

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INTERNET CITATION GUIDELINES

• Citing Electronic & Print Resources - Unversity of California/Davis
  Information compiled at the UC/Davis Library.
• Karla's Guide to Citation Style Guides - Univeristy of Iowa
  A useful site from the University of Iowa.
• The Learning Page - Library of Congress
  Useful compilation of sites by the  Library of Congress.

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COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES

• Colleges & Universities World Wide - MIT
• Universities Worldwide

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INTERNET SEARCH ENGINES

Palmer Health Sciences Library has listed a number of useful Major Search Engines & Directories and Major MetaCrawlers below for searching the internet. For additional information about and listings of the wide variety of internet search resources available on the web, visit any of these excellent resources: 

• Search Engine Watch
• Search Engine Guide
• Search IQ

Major Search Engines & Directories

• AltaVista
• Ask Jeeves
• FAST Search
• Google
• HotBot
• Yahoo

Major MetaCrawlers

• C4  
• Dataware 
• Dogpile
• Ixquick
• MetaCrawler
• QuickBrowse 
• Scirus (Scientific Information only)
• Search.com
• Search Engines 2
• SurfWax.com 
• Vivisimo

Libraries Online

Please visit our link to Libraries Online to see a comprehensive list of chiropractic libraries and some other academic libraries online.

NEWSPAPERS

• College News Online
  "College News Online serves as a "campus union", a networked community, of college and college-bound students on campuses across the U.S. and worldwide."
• College Newspapers
  Student.Com, Inc.: " founded by six students at Yale and Columbia Universities in 1995 to provide college students with high-quality online content."
• Daryl Cagle's Political Cartoons
  A compendium of the daily political cartoons from across the USA.
• Drudge Report
  An excellent resource list of major national and international news sources & syndicated columnists.
• HotLinks Newspaper List
  Can select major and local online newspapers by state.
• International News Links
  A comprehensive list of major international news resources, international newspapers and links to other metadirectories. Can also search for specific newspapers by continent, nation and city. 

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INTERNET MEDIA

• ABC News
• CBS News
• CNN
• MSNBC
• USA TODAY
• FOX News

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U.S. FEDERAL AGENCIES

• Consumer.gov 
  A one stop source for consumer recalls, warnings and information issued by the U.S. Federal Agencies.
• Government Resources on the Web - University of Michigan
  A comprehensive list from the University of Michigan covering U.S. and international governmental directories and agency websites.

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U.S. STATE & LOCAL AGENCIES

• Key to the City - USA City Information
  A collection of pages about many of the communities in the United States - enhanced by information sent to us by the citizens of those communities."
• State & Local Government on the Internet
  A comprehensive site from Piper Resources; updated weekly.
• State & Local Governments
  Library of Congress directory.

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WEATHER

• CNN
• USA Today
• Weather Channel
• Weather Underground

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Directories | Dictionaries & Encyclopedias | Almanacs
Copyright | Writing Style Manuals | Internet Citation Guides
Colleges & Universities |Newspapers | Internet Media
U.S. Federal Agencies | U.S. State & Local Agencies | Weather

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