The following web sites give you quick facts and
ready reference information on a wide range of topics. When your
research requires more in-depth information, you may want to use other
electronic resources or printed publications. Check with a reference
librarian for assistance.
If you have suggestions for additions to this list, please contact the
Library at:
leslie.bretall@canyons.edu
Click on one of the following headings to select a
site. Or, you may simply scroll down the screen.
ACRONYMS
Acronym, Abbreviations,
Initials (this is a list of acronyms by
subject, and not a dictionary listing)
ALMANACS
Information
Please Almanac
Los Angeles Almanac
BIOGRAPHIES
A&E
Television--Biography (lists over 20,000 entries; also searchable by
alphabetical listing)
Biographical Dictionary (includes
more than 27,000 persons from ancient times to the present day)
Gale
Biography Resource Center (includes biographies of more than
185,000 persons - access from campus networked computers; off-campus
access for students, faculty and staff of the College only)
POTUS: Presidents of the United
States (includes biographies, speeches and writings, election
results, odd facts and presidency highlights)
BOOKS ONLINE
Bartleby
Library Great Books Online (lists some 70 full-text titles,
including Familiar Quotations and Elements of Style)
On-line Books Page
(lists thousands of books and documents in full-text, at Univ. of
Pennsylvania)
Project Gutenberg (a huge
library of electronically stored books, mostly classics)
BUSINESS/CAREER
Hoover's Online:
The Business Network (a comprehensive source of business information
about companies, industries, career development, money management, etc.)
Occupational
Outlook Handbook (describes what workers do on the job, working
conditions, the training and education needed, earnings, and expected
job prospects in a wide range of occupations; searchable by
occupation. Also available in paper copy in the Library.)
CENSUS
U.S. Census
Bureau
COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES
American
Universities (lists home pages of American universities granting
bachelor or advanced degree)
California State Universities
(home page for the entire system; includes links to all campuses)
College and
University Home Pages (lists more than 3000 entries worldwide)
Community College League of
California (contains information about the 71 community college
districts in California)
Community College Web
(contains a searchable index to the web sites for 947 community colleges
in the U.S., Canada, and elsewhere around the world)
Guide
to California Colleges & Universities (Web site of California
Postsecondary Education Commission, contains detailed information about
California's public and private postsecondary educational institutions)
Peterson's Education and Career
Center (a comprehensive resource on higher education)
US News & World Report
College & Careers Center (to find a college and compare
colleges)
CONSUMER
INFORMATION
California
Department of Consumer Affairs (provides
many publications in full-text online - some are available in Spanish)
Federal
Citizen Information Center (contains online publications and links
to related sites; allows you to read publications online or order
free/for fee publications)
COPYRIGHT
INFORMATION
Copyright
Resources for College Teachers (provides information on copyright
issues for teachers, including explanation of "fair use" and
link to U.S. Copyright Office)
COUNTRY INFORMATION
CIA
World Factbook (an overview of all countries of the world; includes
statistical data and maps)
CountryWatch
(contains up-to-date economic, political and social data about every
country on the globe) - free access from campus networked computers
Library of
Congress Country Studies (a series of in-depth country studies
prepared under the Country Studies/Area Handbook Program sponsored by
the Dept. of the Army; presently contains studies of 91
countries)
United
Nations Cyberschoolbus (a quick look at various data
about the world's countries)
DICTIONARIES & THESAURI
Internet
Public Library Reference--Dictionaries (lists Web resources about
various aspects of languages)
Onelook Dictionary (allows you to
look up words in several different dictionaries)
Roget's
Thesaurus Search Form (Univ. of Chicago ARTFL Project site for
searching in ROGET's thesaurus)
WWW Webster Dictionary/Thesaurus
(Webster's dictionary/thesaurus online)
ENCYCLOPEDIAS
Encyclopedia
Britannica Online - (free access from computers in the
Library; access from home by subscription)
Encyclopedia.Com
(contains more than 57,000 articles from the Columbia Encyclopedia, 7th edition)
GOVERNMENT INFORMATION / OUR REPRESENTATIVES
GOVERNMENT:
United
Nations (official web site locator for UN
organizations with links to other governmental and non-governmental
international organizations)
Student
Gateway to the U.S. Government (links to
information about the Federal government and resources of special
interest to college students)
USA.gov (provides one-stop access to
all online US Federal Government resources)
U.S.
Federal Government Agencies Page (lists home pages of all federal
agencies, including the three branches, independent agencies and
commissions)
U.S. Congress (THOMAS –
information on Congress, bills, and laws)
FedWorld
Information Network Home Page (to search for US government resources
on the Web; contains full text of Supreme Court decisions from 1937 to
1975)
The White House
Vital
records - Where to write for
birth/death/marriage/divorce records (lists all state agencies to
contact for these documents)
Easy Voter
Guide (a nonpartisan resource for voters - also in Spanish,
Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese)
CALIFORNIA GOVERNMENT
(and its agencies)
California Secretary
of State home page, including election results (March 1996- )
California Codes
(official Web site for the codified laws of California, including the
State Constitution)
LOS ANGELES COUNTY GOVERNMENT
CITY OF SANTA CLARITA
OUR REPRESENTATIVES:
U.S. Senate
Dianne
Feinstein (D)
Barbara
Boxer (D)
U.S. Congress: 25th District
Howard P.
"Buck" McKeon (R)
California State Senate: 17th District
George
C. Runner, Jr. (R)
California State Assembly: 38th District
Cameron Smyth (R)
Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors: 5th
District
Michael D.
Antonovich (R)
HEALTH & MEDICINE
AARP (provides links to
informative pages on health care and housing issues related to the older
population)
CDC
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Dr. Koop's Health
Page (a comprehensive coverage of health/medical issues by
former Surgeon General)
National Institutes of Health (the
U.S. Government's premier source for health information)
OncoLink, University of
Pennsylvania Cancer Center (contains comprehensive information about
specific types of cancer, updates on cancer treatment and news about
research advances)
Pan-American Health
Organization (contains public health profiles and statistics for all
countries in the Western hemisphere)
HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS
Chronology
of U.S. Historical Documents (provides links to full-text of U.S. historical documents from the
colonial period to the present)
INTERNET SEARCH TOOLS
Infomine
(University of California Riverside Library's database of Internet
resources, annotated and arranged by subject categories)
Librarian's Index
to the Internet (an annotated guide to Web resources for all types
of research)
Refdesk.com (links to hundreds of
Web sites with fast facts, current news stories, etc. A one-stop
online information desk)
Virtual
Reference Shelf (selected Web resources compiled by the Library of
Congress on various topics, including links to other Web reference
resources)
LIBRARIES
LibWeb (list of home pages of more than 2700
libraries worldwide)
Internet Public Library (a
comprehensive catalog of Internet resources on a wide range of topics)
Los Angeles County Public Library
(with links to branch libraries in the Santa Clarita Valley)
MELVYL (searchable database of
the library catalogs of the University of California system)
NEWS/NEWSPAPERS/MAGAZINES
ABYZ
News Links (comprehensive list of news sources by region, country,
etc.)
CNN
Los Angeles Times
New York Times
News & Newspapers Online
(Univ. of North Carolina index of Web sites of newspapers and news
services worldwide)
Pathfinder (lists online
version of magazines - Time, Time for Kids, People, Fortune, Sunset,
Cooking Light, Real Simple, and more)
The Signal (newspaper of the
Santa Clarita Valley, with a searchable archive dating back to June 6,
1998)
QUOTATIONS
Bartlett's
Quotations (10th ed., 1919)
STATISTICS
Consumer
Price Indexes (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics information on
consumer price indexes)
FedStats
(the gateway to statistics from over 100 U.S. Federal agencies,
including international comparisons, national, state, county, and local
data)
Statistical Abstract of the
United States (selected features from the Statistical Abstract of
the United States)
STYLE MANUALS/WRITING AIDE
Avoiding Plagiarism (compiled by Glendale Community College Library
on avoiding plagiarism)
Chicago Manual of Style Online Quick Guide
Elements
of Style (the classic writer's guide)
Guide
to Grammar and Writing (compiled by Capital Community College, Hartford, Connecticut)
