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Chemistry

Chemisty.org
From the “world’s largest scientific organization”, the highly respected American Chemical Society, comes “science that matters” that appeals to a wide audience. This is where to begin a search for quality chemistry information on the Web.

Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB)
Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB) is a toxicology data file on the National Library of Medicine's Toxicology Data Network (TOXNET), maintained by the National Institutes of Health. In essence, this Web site is a metasearch engine to locate information on the toxicity of a chemical substance or mixtures of substances. Enhanced with information on human exposure, industrial hygiene, emergency handling procedures, environmental fate and regulatory requirements, it is a cluster of nine databases. All data are referenced and derived from a core set of books, government documents, technical reports, and selected primary journal literature. Users may search any one of these databases or easily access any combination of the nine simultaneously.

Librarian's Internet Index - Chemistry
Searchable and annotated subject directory of Internet resources selected and evaluated by librarians for their usefulness to users of public libraries. Excellent resource of reviewed websites covering the facets of chemistry.

Organic Chemistry Resources Worldwide
This site, whose aim is to provide an organized set of links to information for organic chemistry researchers, fully achieves this objective. This unique site makes it very easy to find the type of information desired, striking a balance between being so broad in coverage that the amount of information is overwhelming and being so narrow that the information is only useful to a small group of people. Of particular note are the experimental and analytical sections. Virtually every link leads to high quality information, which is notable given the wide variety of sources. This site is very easy to use. 

The Information Retrieval in Chemistry WWW Server
An index of more than 60 disciplines and sub-disciplines in chemistry leads, when accessed, to a list of categories within that discipline. For example, if the user chooses Organic Chemistry, a list of categories including Commercial Sites, Conferences, Instruction, Resources, Journals, and Societies appears. Accessing a variety of these categories generated links to some 60 databases, 40 educational sites, and more than 50 journals within the organic chemistry discipline. This is highly recommended for undergraduates through professional chemists, as well as two-year technical program students.

Tox Town
Tox Town uses color, graphics, sounds and animation to add interest to learning about connections between chemicals, the environment and public health. Tox Town is designed to give more information on the internet; how the environment can impact human health; and Internet resources on environmental health topics. Users can explore Tox Town by selecting Neighborhoods, Location links, or Chemical links. The City, Town, US-Mexico Border or Farm neighborhoods provide an overview of environmental health concerns in those settings. Locations like school, home, office buildings, or urban settings can be opened for cutaway views and for detailed information about the toxic chemicals that might be found there, as well as for links to environmental health resources. Chemicals are described in nontechnical language, supplemented with Internet links about a chemical and its possible impact on human health. Highly recommended.

Communications

Freedom Forum
The Web site of a nonpartisan foundation devoted to free speech and freedom of the press. Includes online exhibits from the Newseum (a museum of news media), graphic images of front pages from around the world updated daily, and the latest news and analysis of First Amendment issues.

Hotlinks to Newspapers Online
This site has links to 1,123 daily, 452 weekly, and 127 international newspapers as well as other Canadian, business, and alternative newspapers. The format and performance of the site are more than acceptable, and links seem to be updated regularly. The site is designed to “keep up with industry online efforts”.

Librarian's Internet Index - Media
Searchable and annotated subject directory of Internet resources selected and evaluated by librarians for their usefulness to users of public libraries. Excellent resource of reviewed websites covering the facets of media.

NewsDirectory.com: a Guide to English-Language Media Online
Anyone who needs foreign and domestic news in English will find this site a delight. Besides newspapers around the world, it also gives access to magazines, TV stations, news tickets, trade associations, airports, and many more. The site is continually updated.

NewsPaperLinks.com
Links seem to be updated regularly. Maintained by the Newspaper Association of America, the site is designed to “keep up with industry online efforts.” Toward this goal, links are provided to information about technical news, products, conferences, diversity, marketing and the digital cutting edge.

NewsWatch: a consumer’s guide to the news
A project of the Center for Media and Public Affairs (CMPA), this site offers something unique: “the news behind the news. By providing inside coverage on the accuracies and inaccuracies of news reporting and by highlighting sloppiness and bias in reporting, this site performs and invaluable service, examining the full range of print and electronic news media. Keyword searching of the files is also available. It is easy to navigate within Newswatch, and links to other Web sites relating to the news media are conveniently provided. Students and scholars of communication and political science will find this site especially relevant, and news junkies will find a daily visit to Newswatch irresistible.

Newswise
A comprehensive resource for reporters who write about science, medicine, business trends, and the economy, this site offers a database of press releases from 175 universities and numerous nonprofit, public relations, and governmental agencies and corporations. Releases about hard science, social science and humanities, finance/economics, and medical research dominate. The site offers a good deal of information for all users.

The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press
This site presents both survey results on public attention to major news stories and opinions on political and social values. The well-designed page contains limited graphics for quick loading on both local network and dial-access environments. Visitors can move easily and quickly from page to page through well-defined links, though survey result pages containing graphs and tables take considerable time to load in dial-up-access environments. Simple and straightforward to navigate, this site will interest students and instructors in communication, statistics, and survey-design classes and will answer a wide range of reference questions.

VOANews.com
Unless the US is at war, many Americans regard international news as a frill, and audience-driven news media coddle that notion. Offering an abundance of news from abroad, the site gives a glimpse of one important way in which the US presents itself to the world. The site is aimed mostly at foreigners and the editorials convey the policies and ideologies of the US government. The pursuit of objectivity and the fact that English is not the first language of most of its readers explains why much of the writing is bland. The site compartmentalizes its global coverage with seven navigation bars - one each for Africa, the Americas, Asia Pacific, Europe, Mideast, South & Central Asia, and USA. This site is effortless, educational, and aesthetically pleasing. An excellent bookmark.

World News
Founded in 1998, the World News Network provides access to over 500 media  sources and 4000 thematic and regional news sites in numerous languages at its Web site. The main page's top half features links to major news stories, with links across the very top to stories on business, science, society, and sports; news photographs; Web-accessible broadcasts; the site map; site archives; and feedback. Further down the page are links to regional news from North America, Europe, Asia , the Middle East, South America, Africa, Australia and the Caribbean. At the bottom are links to the previous week's news. Links on the left refer users to sites covering world and regional news, entertainment, social and cultural affairs, science, sports and business. Also offered are a search engine for obtaining company financial information. The main page is very organized and easy to navigate.

- Journalism

Cyberjournalist.net
This site caters to online journalists by focusing on the Internet and the new technologies, always looking to see how technology is affecting journalism. Cyberjournalism.net appears to deliver on its promise of “recognizing those who do great work and helping those who don’t.” The SuperSearch page is a combination of popular search engines and ready-reference sites.

FAIR: Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting
FAIR contains criticism of media performance. The site takes on an extensive array of perceived problems, from corporate ownership to advertiser influence to telecommunications policy to pressure groups. Criticism of mass media is the battle of choice for all politicians and most news consumers. FAIR provides a mass of additional ammunition for those who want to enter the fray, in communication and political science.

Finding Data on the Internet: a Journalist’s Guide
This site is written and maintained by Robert Niles, Web Master for The Rocky Mountain News. His convenient one-stop site for journalists consists of two primary parts: “Finding Data on the Internet” and “Statistics Every Writer should know”. Almost 80 links quickly take the user to various government-run or university-supported sites. The writing is very good, spare and to the point, as one would expect from a journalist. Recommended for journalists.

Journalism Resources
Containing more than 30 annotated pages, the home page offers a dozen practical categories related to journalism – Working Journalist’s Resources, New Sources, Media Law Resources, Cyberjournalism, and Journalism Job Resources to name just a few. Highly recommended for mass communications scholars at all levels and for professionals.

Librarian's Internet Index - Journalism
Searchable and annotated subject directory of Internet resources selected and evaluated by librarians for their usefulness to users of public libraries. Excellent resource of reviewed websites covering the facets of journalism.

Investigative reporters and editors, inc
IRE is a member-supported, international organization run by investigative journalists. A gateway for members of IRE and anyone interested in in-depth news reporting, this site is intended to assist members and helping working journalists obtain quick access to databases, model investigative stories, and current background information.. Some areas are restricted to IRE members, among them IRE’s magazines (IRE Journal and Uplink) and records from governmental agencies (e.g., the Federal Aviation Administration’s accident databases). Site navigation is eased by a list of major areas, which appears on the left side of all pages. This site merits the highest recommendation among journalism sites for students, professionals and citizens.

Journalism.org
News about the news industry, information for working journalists, background on issues of concern to journalists, and a detailed survey of the state of the news media, including print, broadcast, cable news, magazines, local TV, alternative media and online news sources. The site is jointly maintained by the Project for Excellence in Journalism and the Committee of Concerned Journalists.

MCS: The Media and Communications Studies Site
A well-organized, searchable collection of links to Web content on a wide variety of topics - gender and ethnicity, news media, advertising, film studies, visual images, textual analysis, media influence and more. The site is based at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.

STATS
The purpose of the Statistical Assessment Service (STATS) is to bring quality and reliability to the reporting of statistics. The audience for the site is mainly journalists, since they are the ones who report the statistical studies. The site appears to this reviewer to be unique in its approach. The information given in each of the studies is reliable, including the references to scientific studies and very good analysis and explanation as to why the current reported opinion is or is not correct. The site is easy to search and navigate. Highly recommended as an excellent Internet resource for all academic libraries, where it will be used for journalists in training, as well for all journalists, the primary intended audience.


- Radio & TV

All Movie Guide
This site contains information on almost 300.000 films and about 90.000 DVDs. Also available are capsule biographies on some 25.000 people. Various quick links take up the center of the home page. Here one finds information on movies currently in theaters; movie trailers for films in a specific genre; links to movies, directors, and actors of a specified time period; and other topics.

Television production
A stellar example of an electronic text, this site is unique in that it is a comprehensive course offered at no cost to the user. The site is well structured and offers many advantages over a print text, primary among them quick updating of material (the bane of print texts). The site presents 70 informative modules (complete with more than 500 graphics) covering scripting and proposals, technical processes and equipment, camera controls and lenses, lighting, audio, editing and careers. Although used by many educational institutions for academic credit, this site can also be used independently by students.

The Internet Movie Database
The largest and oldest Internet film site. The IMD offers a plethora of movie information. The user can search by title, people, characters, plots, quotes, etc. in almost 400.000 films. Approximately 2000 new titles are reviewed each week. It provides us with production credits, Academy Award nominations, popular critical reviews, production or film stills, release dates, filming locations, trivia, etc. All names are linked so the user can instantly uncover the filmography of any individual. As anyone can become a registered user, anyone has access to the message board and can correct or add information. That shortcoming aside, both scholars and casual moviegoers will enjoy this site.

Librarian's Internet Index - Radio
Searchable and annotated subject directory of Internet resources selected and evaluated by librarians for their usefulness to users of public libraries. Excellent resource of reviewed websites covering the facets of radio.

Librarian's Internet Index - Television
Searchable and annotated subject directory of Internet resources selected and evaluated by librarians for their usefulness to users of public libraries. Excellent resource of reviewed websites covering the facets of television.

Public Moving Image Archives and Research Centers
This site gives fast access to major film archives, including seven in Africa and the Far East, 15 in Asia and Oceania, 39 in Canada, 86 in Europe, 18 in Latin America, and about 300 in the US. The listed archives house much more than film, so this site serves an encyclopedia of interests. Researchers can track down rare materials and check new journals. By clicking Other Film Resources, visitors can find their way to sites of studios, copyright holders, and commercial services. In sum: a massive, easy-to-navigate resource that should reward any humanities researcher or browser.


Computer Science

AI Topics
AI Topics is geared to readers new to the field of artificial intelligence (AI). Provided by the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, a society of AI researchers and professional, the site is intended as a “springboard” to provide readable and scientifically accurate information, with sources and concepts to explore further. Thus the coverage is selective and includes material from both academic and reputable popular publications dating from the early 1980s. The AI in the News section is updated daily. The unique scope, variety of the content, and ease of use make AI Topics an excellent resource in computer science and related fields.

Computer Science
The Web site consists of 19 links to resources throughout the Internet, including a list of computer science departments, bibliographies, databases, calculators, algorithms, employment figures, and a wealth of other information. The collection of links is comprehensive and will provide many hours of in-depth research.

Living Internet
Living Internet is a comprehensive site which offers hundreds of intrasite links and thousands of external links woven into its narrative. Consistent navigation links and logical organization makes this site invaluable to Internet researchers at any level.

HTML code tutorial
The goal of this site is to “provide the most helpful and complete guide to creating web pages anywhere”. To this end, it offers a fairly broad scope including sections on links, Java applets, fonts, images, scripts, Cascading Style Sheets and tables. Each tutorial includes many examples displayed right in HTML so one can see the code that created them as well as how they look on the screen. Navigation is simple. After entering a tutorial, users are guided throughout with links to specific elements and forward and backward arrows. Popular sections, such as a Webmaster Resource Directory, HTML Help Forum and Popup Windows Tutorial appear on the home page.

INFOMINE: scholarly Internet resource collections
Academic researchers should bookmark this valuable site. Site design is simple and intuitive, even new users can easily travel through out the site. The home page lists major scholarly categories alphabetically including Biological, Business, Electronic Journals (fee and free), Government, Instructional, Maps, Physical Sciences, Social Sciences and Visual Arts. Most sites in the Infomine collection are free; all marked to indicate content quality and accessibility to site visitors.

Internet Archive
The World Wide Web presents huge challenges to students and researches because few Web sites have long-term stability. Internet Archive is one effort to preserve them by creating an Internet library that will provide permanent access to the sites. Founded in 1996 this site uses automated robot software to trawl the Internet for publicly posted content. The archive is not complete, partly because of the sheer impossibility of the task but also because Web site owners may choose to block their sites from inclusion. Internet Archive is an amazing resource, since it give researchers and students the opportunity to find lost content and see how Web sites evolve over time. The archive also includes browsable collections as well as audio, video, and text file collections. This site is highly recommended.

Librarian's Internet Index - Computers
Searchable and annotated subject directory of Internet resources selected and evaluated by librarians for their usefulness to users of public libraries. Excellent resource of reviewed websites covering the facets of computers.

Programmers’ heaven
This is an online reference for programmers, featuring more than 9,700 file downloads and more than 2,500 links to programming related Web pages. The site puts programmers in touch with information on programming languages (Pascal, COBOL, C, C++, Java and others), development tools, utilities, source code and multimedia. The home page offers technology news headlines, linking to summaries and full articles, as well as a link to the most popular 50 links/downloads. The authors provide a brief summary and sometimes a recommendation for each link and download. The site’s content is updated several times a week . To keep up with the updates, viewers can subscribe to the site’s newsletter.

Web Developer’s Virtual Library
At a time when Web reference and electronic magazine sites are proliferating at a staggering rate, it is refreshing to find one with such professional polish. Slow to load at first the lushly graphical page design of the Web Developer’s Virtual Library has the feel of a glossy magazine, despite busy banner ads at the top and bottom of each page. This site is an “encyclozine”, a combination encyclopedia and electronic magazine, featuring several articles each month that are then integrated into the site’s hierarchical content. One of the oldest Web developer archives on the Web, the library boats more than 1,200 pages with nearly 6,000 links, providing comprehensive information ranging from a beginner’s introduction to the World Wide Web to the latest trends in VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language), CGI (computer graphics interface), or multimedia. Navigating through the content is made easy by the pyramid of buttons repeated at the bottom of each page, by a site map and by intuitive use of links.