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This page contains links to recommended internet resources grouped by subject.

Art and architecture

• ArchINFORM — "This database includes information over more than 14000 built and unrealized projects from various architects and planners."
• Architecture.com (RIBA) — "One of the world's most extensive built environment portals", run by the RIBA
• Architecture and Building/UNLV Libraries — Selective guide to Internet resources covering topics such as architecture, building, construction, design, real estate, housing, energy and the environment, landscape architecture, etc. 
• Artcyclopedia — "Guide to museum-quality fine art on the internet."
• Artlex Art Dictionary
• Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History — "The Timeline of Art History is a chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of the history of art from around the world."
• Intute: Arts & Humanities — Provides access to 21,000 web resources for education and research, selected and evaluated by a network of subject specialist.
• Librarians Index to the Internet/Architecture & building site
• McGraw-Hill Construction Sweets Network — It is a comprehensive, easy to use online resource for building product information.
• SIBMAS International Directory of Performing Arts Collections and Institutions
• World Wide Arts Resources

Atlases and maps

• Historical Atlas of the Twentieth Century
• Reference Desk: Atlas and Maps — Links to atlas and maps web sites.
• Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection — The Perry-Castaneda map collection of the University of Texax-Austin Libraries includes different types of maps, whether historical or topical maps. Links are also provided to related maps over the internet.

Biography

• Biography.com — This web site, from A&E Television Network, offers over 25,000 biographies for people past and present
• Classical Net: Composer Master Index — This index lists those composers for which there is a dedicated page at this site that may include a biography, recommended works, recommended recordings, and other related reviews and articles.
• Directory of Royal Genealogical Data
• Distinguished Women of Past and Present

Business and business-related

• BigCharts — Provides access to interactive charts, quotes, industry analysis, and market news and commentary.
• Country Indicators for Foreign Policy (CIFP) — Provides statistical data which includes measures of  The CIFP project represents an on-going effort to identify and assemble statistical information conveying the key features of the political, economic, social and cultural environments of countries around the world.
• Economist Country Briefings — Provides profile on 60 major world countries.
• Hoover’s Online —   Provides information on over 12 million companies.
• International Monetary Fund (IMF)
• The World Bank
• World Trade Organization (WTO)

Computers and Information Technology

• TechEncyclopedia —Provides definitions for more than 20,000 information technology terms

Currency Exchange and other Conversions

• AskNumbers.com
• OANDA.com: The Currency site
• xe.com: The Universal Currency Converter

Dictionaries and encyclopedias

• Allergy Glossary  
• Answers.com — It searches and cross-indexes online research tools such as The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, Merriam Webster's Dictionary, etc.
• Artlex Art Dictionary
• Bartleby Reference — Combines the best of both contemporary and classic reference works into the most comprehensive public reference library ever published on the web.
• Dictionary of Islamic Philosophical Terms
• Encarta
• Encyclopedia Mythica — An encyclopedia on mythology, folklore, and legend.
• Encyclopedia of Psychology
• Environment Glossary
• The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• LookLex / Encyclopaedia
• MedTerms / MedicineNet.com
• Merriam-Webster Online — Includes Merriam-Webster Dictionary and Merriam-Webster Thesaurus.
• Merriam-Webster Visual Dictionary Online — "Explore the 15 major themes to access more than 6,000 images and see words like never before."
• Psychology Dictionary
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Webopedia — Dictionary and search engine for computer and Internet technology.
• Who Named It? — A Biographical dictionary of medical eponyms.
• Wikipedia
• YourDictionary.com — An authoritative and comprehensive language portal with more than 2500 dictionaries in over 300 languages.

Education

• The Educator’s Reference Desk — Provides access to the Resource Collection which links to over 3,000 resources on a variety of educational issues, to the ERIC database, etc.
• The National Science Digital Library (NSDL) — “Provides organized access to high quality resources and tools that support innovations in teaching and learning at all levels of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education.”
• ERIC — the Education Resources Information Center - is an online digital library of education research and information.

Environment

• Environment Glossary
• International Water Law Project
• Republic of Lebanon: Ministry of Environment
• United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
• World Health Organization / Protection of the Human Environment
• World Resources Institute

Free books

• Digital Book Index — Provides link to more than 126,000 title records. About 86,000 of these titles are available free, while many others are available at very modest cost.
• eScholarship Editions — Includes more than 1,400 books from academic presses on a range of topics, including art, science, history, music, religion, and fiction.
• FreeBooks4Doctors!
• Hoover Books Online
• The National Academies Press — Provides free online access to more than 3,000 books.
• Online Library of Liberty — Provides access to some classic books about individual liberty, covering the disciplines of economics, history, law, literature, philosophy, political theory, religion, war, and peace.
• Project Gutenberg — Provides free online access to more than 15,000 books.

General sources

• British Library Direct — Multidisciplinary database containing 20,000 journals and focusing predominantly on the subjects of science, technology and medicine
• GuideStar: The National Database of Nonprofit Organizations — Provides detailed information on more than 850,000 nonprofit organizations.
• Infoplease — Provides authoritative answers to all kinds of factual questions.
• InterDok — Locates events and procure published proceedings from thousands of conferences, congresses, meetings & symposia.
• The Library of Congress’s Portals to the World — Contains selective links providing authoritative, in-depth information about the nations and other areas of the world.
• Intute — Provides access to recommended web resources selected and evaluated by a network of subject specialist from universities across the UK.
• ipl2: Information You Can Trust — It is the result of a merger of the Internet Public Library (IPL) and the Librarians’ Internet Index (LII). It povides a searchable, browsable collection of high-quality websites selected by librarians.
• Martin Luther King, Jr. (with links to Civil rights Movement)
• RefDesk — A portal for quick facts. Lookup weather, zip codes, stock prices,daily almanac, quotations, grammar, news, etc.
• Repositories of Primary Sources — A listing of over 5,000 websites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary sources for the research scholar.
• Time and date
• The World Factbook
• Érudit — Érudit est un consortium interuniversitaire composé de l'Université de Montréal, de l'Université Laval et de l'Université du Québec à Montréal. Société sans but lucratif, Érudit propose un modèle innovateur de promotion et de diffusion des résultats de la recherche.

Geography and history

• Calendars throught the Ages
• Geographic Names Information System — Contains information about almost 2 million physical and cultural geographic features in the United States.
• Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names On line
• The History Journals Guide — An international directory for journals and discussion lists in the fields of history and archaeology.
• World History Chronology

Islamic studies

• ABZU: A Guide to information related to the study of the Ancient Near East on the Web
• Dictionary of Islamic Philosophical Terms
• Islam - Islamic Studies
• Islamic Philosophy Online
• Virtual Religion Index/Islamic Studies

Law

• American Law Sources On-Line — A comprehensive, uniform, and useful compilation of links to freely accessible on-line sources of law for the United States and Canada.
• FindLaw
• NOLO: Law for all

Lebanese and Middle East

• 5INDEX: Lebanon’s information provider — Lebanese directory and search engine
• Central Administration for Statistics / Lebanese Republic
• Lebanon Atlas City Guide
• LookLex/Encyclopedia Previously “Encyclopaedia of the Orient”.
• LebanonLINKS — Lebanese and Middle East links and web site directory.
• LEBCOM — Lebanese directory and search engine.
• Social and Cultural Development Association (INMA) — Non-profit, non-governmental organization whose scope of activities is normally based on servicing a cluster of Lebanese villages.

Library and information studies

• ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science

Meta search engines

• Clusty It searches several top search engines, groups the results into clusters or topics, and generates an ordered list based on comparative ranking which helps raise the best results to the top.
• Dogpile — It sends search to a customizable list of search engines, directories and specialty search sites just like Metacrawlers, then displays results from each search engine individually.
• iBoogie — In addition to being a meta search engine, it also performs real-time clustering of results, creating a list of categories related to your search terms for easy browsing
• Metacrawler — One of the oldest meta search engines, Metacrawler searches Google, Yahoo, Altavista, Ask Jeeves, About, LookSmart, Overture, FindWhat, etc.
• Mamma — One of the oldest meta search engines, Mamma searches against a variety of major crawlers, directories, and specialty search sites and then displays results in a uniform manner according to relevance.
• See Metacrawlers and Metasearch Engines for more information and a comprehensive list of meta search engines.

News sites and communication arts

• AKHBAAR —Arabic Middle East news directory, where you may link to Annahar newspaper, Assafir, Aljazeera, Arabic CNN, etc.
• HeadlineSpot — A news portal that provides links to thousands of the best U.S. and international news resources
• The Internet Movie Database — Provides information on thousands of films in all genres and from all around the world.
• MiddleEastNews.com — Middle East news and world report directory.
• NewsDirectory — Provides access to thousands of news sources, including more than 3,600 newspapers, 4,800 magazines and hundreds of television stations worldwide, etc.
• World-newspapers.com — Covers world newspapers online and news sites in English and also links to selected magazines.
• WorldNews Network

Pharmacy, medicine and health-related

• All Nursing Schools — Directory of accredited nuring schools searchable by location, degree, and/or program area.
• Allergy Glossary
• ABX Guide — Provides concise, clinically useful, and up-to-date information about the evaluation and treatment of infectious diseases in adults.
• Asbestos.net — A comprehensive resource on asbestos and its devastating effects, including mesothelioma, asbestos cancer, and other asbestos-related diseases.
• Approved Drug Products with Therapeutic Equivalence Evaluations (Orange book)
• CDER — FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research.
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) US Department of Health and Human Services’ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
• Citing Medicine — The NLM Style Guide for Authors, Editors, and Publishers
• http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cder/drugsatfda/index.cfm — FDA Approved Drug Products
• Drug Information Portal — Provides information to more than 18,000 drugs.
• Drugs.com: Drug Information Online
• Facts & Comparisons — Facts and Comparisons’ web site which provides drug new update as well as drug information, etc.
• FreeBooks4Doctors!
• FreeMedicalJournals.com
• Genomics.energy.gov — Genome programs of the US Department of Energy Office of Science.
• Healthfinder It links to carefully selected information and Web sites from over 1,500 health-related organizations.
• HIV InSite Provides comprehensive, up-to-date information on HIV/AIDS treatment, prevention, and policy from the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine.
• IMEMR Index Medicus (IMEMR) Provides access to the health literature published in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region.
• Martindale’s Health Science Guide — Contains links to over 63,600 teaching files, over 138,525 medical cases & grand rounds, 1,370 courses and textbooks, 470 journals, 4,580 databases, etc.
• Mayo Clinic A not-for-profit medical practice dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of virtually every type of complex illness.
• Medi Lexicon — Dictionary of over 200,000 medical, pharmaceutical, biomedical and healthcare acronyms and abbreviations.
• MedNets — Links to medical databases and journals such as ClinicalTrials.gov, Merck manual of diagnosis and therapy.
• MedTerms/MedicineNet.com
• Merck
• Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
• MLANET: user's guide to finding and evaluating heatlh information on the web Provides in addition to a guidelines that help in the evaluation of internet websites, MLA top ten most useful consumer health websites, MLA recommended cancer websites, MLA recommended diabetes websites, MLA recommended heart disease websites.
• Mondofacto: Online Medical Dictionary
• National Cancer Institute — The U.S. National Institutes of Health web site which provides access to a wide range of cancer information, including clinical trials, statistics, news releases, etc.
• NOAH New York Online Access to Health
• OncoLink The Web's first cancer resource
• Online Medical Dictionary
• PDRHealth
• PubMed Bookshelf — Searchable biomedical books available through PubMed.
• The Unified Medical Dictionary — An English-Arabic medical dictionary.
• WHO/Health Topics
• Who Named It? — A biographical dictionary of medical eponyms.
• WHO Statistical Information Service (WHOSIS)

Political science and international affairs

• Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs
• Center for International Development & Conflict Management (CIDCM)
• Council on Foreign Relations — The Council is an independent organization dedicated to producing and disseminating ideas regarding the foreign policy choices facing the United States and other governments. It provides in-depth analysis and background on major foreign policy and international affairs issues of the day
• Country Indicators for Foregin Policy (CIFP) — The CIFP project represents an on-going effort to identify and assemble statistical information conveying the key features of the political, economic, social and cultural environments of countries around the world.
• GPO Access — It is a service of the U.S. Government Printing Office that provides free electronic access to a wealth of information products produced by the the Federal Government, i.e. Congressional Record, etc.
• International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
• International Peace Research Institute (PRIO)
• Political Science Resources on the Web/University of Michigan Documents Center
• United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR)
• The WWW Virtual Library: International Affairs Resources — An internet directory of over 2600 annotated links in a wide range of international affairs, international studies, and international relations topics.

Population

• POPIN Western Asia — It constitutes a comprehensive population information gateway for the Arab region.
• Population and Health InfoShare — Features documents in reproductive and child health, HIV/AIDS, and population.
• United Nations Population Division: World Population Prospects

Quotations

• Bartleby.com — Provides the best of both contemporary and classic quotations collections such as Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, The Columbia World of Quotations, Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations.

Religion

• Bible Gateway — A service for reading and researching scripture online, all in the language or translation of your choice.
• The Koran
• Papal Encyclicals Online — Provides papal encyclicals and other Catholic Church documents from 1226 to the present
• ReligiousResources.org — A directory of internet resources for all major religions.
• Resource Pages for Biblical Studies

Sciences

• Abbreviations of Chemical Compounds
• Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology — An inter- and multidisciplinary research institute devoted to basic research in the physical sciences, computation, engineering, biology, behavior, and cognition.
• British Library Direct — Multidisciplinary database containing 20,000 journals and focusses predominantly on the subjects of science, technology and medicine.
• iCivilEngineer: The Internet for Civil Engineers
• Intute: Science, Engineering & Technology — Provides access to “Web resources for education and research, evaluated and selected by a network of subject specialists. It covers the physical sciences, engineering, computing, geography, mathematics and environmental science.”
• Martindale’s Calculators Online Center — Link to over 18,000 science and math calculators.
• The Math Forum: Internet Mathematics Library
• The National Science Digital Library (NSDL) — “Provides organized access to high quality resources and tools that support innovations in teaching and learning at all levels of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education.”
• Science.gov — A gateway to authoritative selected science information provided by U.S. Government agencies. It allows searches across 30 scientific databases and more than 1,700 science Web sites.
• Scirus – for scientific information only —The most comprehensive science-specific search engine on the internet.
• TechXtra — A free service which can help find articles, books, valuable websites, latest industry news and research, technical reports, thesis & dissertations, etc. It cross-searches 31 different collections relevant to engineering, mathematics and computing.

Social Science

• National Criminal Justice Reference Service — Provides access to a wealth of information, including statistics, research findings, etc. on crime, juvenile justice, victims of crime, etc.
• The National Science Digital Library (NSDL) — “Provides organized access to high quality resources and tools that support innovations in teaching and learning at all levels of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education.”
• Questia — An online library that provides 24/7 access to a large online collection of books and journal articles in the humanities and social sciences, as well as magazine and newspaper articles

Statistics

• Central Administration for Statistics / Lebanese Republic
• Country Indicators for Foregin Policy (CIFP) — The CIFP project represents an on-going effort to identify and assemble statistical information conveying the key features of the political, economic, social and cultural environments of countries around the world.
• NationMaster.com — "One-stop resource for country statistics on anything and everything, whether it be soldiers, Olympic medals, tourists, English speakers or wall plug voltage."
• OFFSTATS: Official Statistics on the Web — "A metasite that pulls together links to official statistics from countries, governement agencies and intergovernmental organizations."
• • Statistical Resources on the Web/University of Michigan Library: Government Documents Center

Tourism

• World Tourism Organization

Weather

• AccuWeather.com
• Meteo Consult

Source : LAU library website