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Internet Sources

Useful sites for business, humanities, law, science & general reference

SEARCH ENGINES
A9	Search engine with related websites to your search, plus history and bookmark function.
Accoona	European search engine.
AllSearchEngines	Simultaneous searching of the six best UK specific search engines.
Alltheweb	Norwegian based fast search engine.
AltaVista	Alta Vista has advanced search facility. Searches the Web and Usenet.
Ask Jeeves	Ask a question and Ask Jeeves will try and answer it.
Dogpile	Meta search engine.
Google	Fast & effective search engine, using PageRank as a relevance ranking method. See the site for further details.
Google Book Search	Google book search from publishers and libraries.
Google Scholar	Full text indexing of academic materials.
Ixquick	Meta search engine. Searches several search engines at once. Also searches news, MP3 or pictures only.
Metacrawler	Meta search engine. Fast & powerful, searching several search engines at once.
MSN Search	Has quick link to worldwide search sites, e.g. Canada, France, Germany, UK & US.
Netscape Net Search	Offers a range of search and directory services.
Overture	Easy to use. Type in keyword(s) or click on one of the subject categories.
RefDesk	A whole host of different reference resources on one site.
Search Engine Watch	A website on effective use of search engines.
Searchy.co.uk	A UK metacrawler.
Slinkyslate UK	UK search engine.
Webcrawler	Rates and reviews websites. Subject search.
Yahoo	Subject search or search across all of the categories together. Worldwide.
Yahoo - UK & Ireland	Subject search - UK & Ireland.
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GENERAL REFERENCE
Bartleby.com	"Great books online" under categories: Reference, Verse, Fiction & Nonfiction.
BBC Learning	Online learning, support and advice.
BBC Online	BBC sites, including news, weather, World Service and education.
Big Foot	An email and telephone directory.
Biographical Dictionary	Contains over 28,000 entries.
Bopcris	British Official Publications Collaborative Reader Information Service - full text government publications 1688-1995.
BritishInformation.com	A UK Internet directory
British Library Net	Easy access to a wide range of information resources, including online catalgues, libraries, museums, art collections, global news, journals, etc. Registration is required but it is free.
BT PhoneNet UK	BT telephone directory (follow links to Phone Book).
BUBL	A national information service for the higher education community, funded by JISC.
Buckinghamshire Online Library	Online information and subscription services for members of Buckinghamshire public libraries.
Bucks County Council	Local community information and links. Travel information.
Cambridge Dictionaries Online	Enter a word to find its meaning in five dictionaries.
Consulates & Overseas Governments	Links from Yahoo.
Copyright Licensing Agency	The UK's reproduction rights organisation.
Currency Converter	Dollars to Pounds, Euros to Yen - it's all here!
Dictionary of Difficult Words (Hutchinson)	Search the dictionary to increase your vocabulary or find out what those words really mean.
Directgov	Straight through to public services
Economist Country Briefings	Source of country information.
ESRC Society Today (formerly Regard)	Information on research projects funded by the Economic and Social Research Council.
Europa	The European Union web site.
EYP	Electronic yellow pages.
Free Pint	Rankings of Business Schools, etc.
Hobsons	Guide to information on careers and courses.
How far is it?	Distance calculator between cities, worldwide coverage.
ICAEW Directory of Firms	Lists over 25,000 chartered accountant firms worldwide.
Infoplease	Web based encyclopedia.
Intute	A major academic gateway to high quality web sites, evolved from RDN (Research Discovery Network).
Librarian's Index to the Internet	A guide to described and evaluated internet resources.
MK Web	The official website for Milton Keynes and North Bucks.
National Rail Enquiries	Rail travel information.
National Statistics Online	UK official statistics reflecting Britain's economy, population & society.
Pinakes Subject Launchpad	The gateway to subject gateways.
Plagiarism - test your understanding	Short online test from the University of Essex showing what is meant by plagiarism.
Postcodes Online	You can make 20 searches in a 24-hour period but you need to register first. Registration is free.
Rail information	See National Rail Enquiries.
Resource Discovery Network	Access to Internet resources for the UK learning and research communities.
Roget's Thesaurus	Roget's II: the new thesaurus. 3rd ed. Contains 35,000 synonyms and over 250,000 cross-references.
Royal Mail	The website for information on Royal Mail services, including postal rates, postcodes, etc.
Successful research on the Web	Training courses available both within the University and externally run with PResS.
TSOnline	Website of The Stationery Office.
TSNN	A trade show and exhibition resource.
Wayback Machine	An internet archive of more than a billion pages.
World Clock	Displays local time in key locations world-wide.
World Factbook	A country information reference source supplied by the US Central Intelligence Agency.
World InfoZone	An international educational resource providing referenced information on country studies, business, history, religion, literature, music, art, sport and news.
WWW Virtual Library	Good quality guide to sections of the web with key links.
Zibb	Business-to-business content
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HUMANITIES
ADAM	Art, architecture, Design And Media information gateway.
AHDS	Arts and Humanities Data Service.
British Academy Portal	A directory of online research resources in the humanities and social sciences.
CAIN	Conflict Archive on the INternet: the Northern Ireland conflict.
Education-line	Conference papers, working papers and electronic literature which supports educational research, policy and practice.
ERIC	The Education Resources Information Center, the world's premier database of journal and non-journal education literature.
Famous Quotes and Authors	Online quotation dictionary.
Historical Association	Website of the Historical Association, with a 'Members Only' section.
HISTORY	Institute of Historical Research information gateway.
HUMBUL	HUManities BULletin Board information gateway.
In the First Person	An index to personal narratives, including letters, diaries, memoirs, autobiographies and oral histories.
Intute	Intute: social sciences pages
Margaret Thatcher Foundation	Free access to the full texts of thousands of documents relating to the politics of the last quarter of a century.
National Foundation for Educational Research	Website of the National Foundation for Educational Research.
Political Science Resource	Gateway to significant sources relevant to political science, maintained by Richard Kimber.
Resource	The Council for Museums, Archives and Libraries web site.
RUDI	Resource for Urban Design Information.
ViewFinder	An image resource for England's history by English Heritage.
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LAW
AccessToLaw	Legal Resources selected and annotated by Inner Temple Library.
AIRE Centre	A database that monitors, reports and comments on developments at the ECHR and domestically in Family Law cases.
BAILII	British and Irish Legal Information Institute website.
Butterworths Direct	Legal links by subject.
CASE: Legal Information Gateway for Yorkshire	Useful for Westlaw tutorial, free legal electronic journals and Research Methods in Law.
Casetrack	Source of full text judgments. Please ask at the Library for the passwords.
Citing the law	How to cite primary and secondary sources of law
Consilio	Online magazine for law students.
EISIL	Electronic Information System for International Law.
EU Foreign Trade	Europa External Trade.
EU Justis daily bulletins	Daily bulletins on EU legislation.
Eur-Lex	Portal to European Union law.
European Law Monitor	Information about proposed EU legislation.
FLAG - Foreign Law Guide	Gateway to the holdings of foreign, international and comparative law in UK Universities / national libraries.
Flare Index to Treaties	Web index to 1500 multilateral treaties.
HUDOC	European Court of Human Rights database of ECHR case law.
Incorporated Council of Law Reporting	Free daily source of reportable case summaries.
Infolaw	Gateway to UK legal information.
Intellectual Property	UK intellectual property website.
International Court of Justice	Useful for International Law.
Law Commission	Law Commission recent publications, and law under review.
Lawbore	Covers legal subjects and gives the top Web links, articles and cases, some of which need Athens authentification.
Lawcrawler	Legal search engine.
Lawdictionaries.com	Law and general dictionary link site by a former Buckingham student.
Lawlinks	Legal information on the Internet.
Lawmaps	Law in mind-maps from 2 of our alumni.
Legal abbreviations online	Cardiff index to legal abbreviations online.
Legalease	Access to the Legal 500 series, Courts & agency directory, Legal experts directory, International legal news, Student law centre, etc.
Linex Legal	Weekly email alerter service for students as a current awareness legal information service
Monitoring the decision making process in the EU	A site that monitors the process of decisions between European Commission and other institutions.
MootingNet	A Web resource for mooters in England and Wales.
Office of Public Sector Information	Full text Statutory Instruments and Acts, from 1997.
Parliament	Includes recent House of Lords judgments.
Solicitors Online	Information about law firms and solicitors in England and Wales.
Sports law IUSPORT	Articles, news and legislation on sports law
Statute Law database	The official revised edition of the primary legislation of the United Kingdom.
Sweet & Maxwell	Publisher website with useful links and academic section.
UN	Useful for International Law.
UN Treaty Collections	Includes the UN Treaty Series, etc. (Free to students and academic researchers. Request a username and password from treaty@un.org )
United States Trade	US trade representative.
World Trade Law site	A database of all GATT and WTO cases.
World Trade Organization	Dispute settlement rulings by country.
World Trade Organization Dept	UK DTI (Department of Trade).
Yahoo - Law	Legal search engine.
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SCIENCE:
WorldWideScience	Worldwide Science gateway
APPLIED COMPUTING
Data Mining	Useful website for data mining.
FOLDOC	Free online dictionary of computing and miscellaneous links which includes useful reference section.
Gamelan	Java technology, including Java tutorial and discussion groups.
Java	The source for Java technology.
ZD Net Reviews	Formerly PC Magazine Online. Jan 1999 includes top 100 websites from computing companies and sites to Web development.
MEDICINE
BioMed Central	Open access journals
Global Library of Women's Medicine	Comprehensive reference to current clinical practice for clinicians and medical professionals.
Mondofacto Online Medical Dictionary	A dictionary of terms relating to science and medicine.
Pubmed and MeSH	US National Library of Medicine
Royal Society of Medicine Library	Library for postgraduate students
PSYCHOLOGY
Association for Psychological Science	Association for Psychological Science with psychology links.
British Psychological Society	British Psychological Society.
Perception journal	Perception journal online.
PORTAL	The British Academy's directory of online resources.
PsychExperiments	Psychology experiments on the Internet
PsychNet- UK	Website for mental health professionals.
RDN Virtual Training Suite	Internet psychology tutorial to practise your skills (select Psychology)
Social Cognition Archive	Social Cognition Paper Archive and Information Centre, Purdue University.
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LIBRARIES

• British Library. Website of UK's national library.
• British Library Public Catalogue . Free online access to over 10 million records of items in the British Library. Also available through COPAC.
• COPAC. A national Online Public Access Catalogue, providing unified access to the online catalogues of some of the largest university research libraries in the UK and Ireland. Includes access to the British Library Public Catalogue.
• eLib. The Electronic Libraries Programme, funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee.
• ETHOS. Electronic Theses Online Service  opening access to UK theses.
• find it! A guide to Library collections in England.
• Google Book Search. Google book search from publishers and libraries.
• ICAEW Library and Information Service website of the library of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales.
• Index to theses database from 1970 onwards, contains titles and abstracts of theses accepted by universities of GB and Ireland.
• Library of Congress Online Catalog - and other specialised catalogues.
• Library OPACS in HE provided by NISS.
• London Library. A subscription library with an extensive collection of books and periodicals in the arts and humanities.
• Sherpa. Electronic access to academic research held in institutional repositories.
• Unesco Libraries Portal. An international information gateway for librarians and library users.

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GATEWAY TO UK UNIVERSITIES

• NISS services include news and information on education for the academic community, a useful reference section and notices.
• UK sensititive maps. University of Wolverhampton - gateway to UK universities, colleges and research sites.

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OPEN ACCESS

• DOAJ. Directory of Open Access Journals - covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals.
• Open J-Gate. A portal to over 3500 freely available peer-reviewed and professional / industry journals.
• OpenDOAR. An authoritative directory of academic open access repositories.
• OAIster. A collection of previously difficult-to-access, academically-orientated digital resources, a project of the University of Michigan Digital Library Production Service.

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SOUND

• Archival Sound Recordings. 12,000 selected recordings of music, spoken word and human and natural environments.
• Poetry Archive. Online collection of recordings of poets reading their work.

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