Research Resources This page highlights links to selected resources. Try exploring: LBCC Library Reference Center LBCC research guides or pathfinders: by subject/course/department Subject Directories Invisible Web (information not indexed in search engines) Books and Library Catalogs Newspapers Online Business Information Census Information Legal Information Medical Information Copyright/Licensing Information Frequently Used Federal Web Sites Subject directories InfoMine , Academic Info , and The Internet Public Library all provide links to resources of scholarly use that offer annotations or evaluations of sites. InfoMine privides links to thousands of Internet resources covering most disciplines. Academic Info is a directory of Internet resources tailored to a college audience. The Internet Public Library lists subject collections and provides access to reference sources such as The Columbia Encyclopedia. The University of Kentucky WWW Subject Catalog provides links to sites by subject. It indexes Web resources by subject and is based at a non-profit educational institution with an excellent reputation. The Lycos 50 Daily Report , and The Scout Report all bestow awards or sites of the month. At Lycos it is recommended to browse the award archives that are organized by topic. Federal Web Locator and GPO Access are excellent sites to access government information. The Locator is searchable, well-organized, and comprehensive by branch or agency. Access to databases of the Government Printing Office is available with a good search interface with helpful options at GPO Access. Invisible Web Books and library catalogs The Library of Congress online catalog has good forms-based searching; can select database search from books, maps, online books, photos-manuscripts-movies available online, and other digitized materials not available online; can quickly do follow-up searching for works by same author, under same subject heading, etc.; buttons for easy navigating to item list [list of hits], new search, previous & next record, etc. Bartleby, Gutenberg Project, National Academies Press , Internet Public Library and On-line Books Page all have free electronic texts. Amazon is a huge bookshop on the Web, you can search by author, subject or title, read reviews written by other Amazon readers. Newspapers Online Today's Oregonian World-Newspapers.com offers above-average representation of electronic newspapers and news sources from around the world. All Newspapers.com is an easy-to-use, comprehensive site for the world's news media. Documents in the News offers stories and opinions about government making headlines and web sources. Business information Two research guides at the OSU Valley Library site are helpful: the business research guide and the international business guide Please note that many businesses have pages on the net. There may be valuable information about the company, though sometimes the information provided may be biased in favor of the company. Sometimes businesses will include extra information beyond the scope of their products or services that may be appealing. This added information may be valuable, but sometimes it is just superficial data with no useful content. It may be a duplication or abridgement of information elsewhere on the net. Census information Links to current state census (socio-economic data) can be found at Local Area Data for Oregon. Legal information Oregon Law , from Willamette U., lists general Oregon law sites. ABALegalInfo.org and Nolo Law Center include free basic information about the law for consumers on everyday legal topics. LawCrawler and AllLaw.com provide search tools designed for legal research. Supreme Court Collection offers all opinions of the U.S. Supreme Court handed down since 1992, together with over 600 earlier decisions selected for their historic importance. Virtual Chase Web Site: A Research Site for Legal Professionals and FindLaw Constitutional Law Center are two of the best general guides to law on the Internet. FindLaw is dedicated to the U.S. Constitution and the U.S. Supreme Court. Medical information Medline provides free indexes and abstracts of medical articles from the National Library of Medicine. PubMed the National Library of Medicine's journal literature search system. Health Information pathfinders from National Library of Medicine Copyright/licensing information Copyright and Fair Use The TEACH Act is the Technology, Education and Copyright Harmonization Act signed by President Bush in November 2002. This act covers copyright issues for distance education. It's All in the Fine Print is maintained by the copyright attorney at U. of Texas Frequently Used Federal Web Sites Congress Senate House of Representatives General Accounting Office Library of Congress White House General Information Departments Agriculture Commerce Defense Education Energy Health and Human Services Homeland Security Housing and Urban Development Interior Justice Labor State Transportation Treasury Veterans Affairs Agencies Consumer Product Safety Commission Drug Enforcement Adminstration Environmental Protection Agency Federal Communications Commission Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Federal Election Commission Federal Emergency Management Agency Federal Reserve System Federal Trade Commission Food and Drug Administration General Services Administration Internal Revenue Service National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) National Archives and Records Administration National Transportation and Safety Board Nuclear Regulatory Commission Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation Securities and Exchange Commission Small Business Administration Smithsonian Institution Social Security Administration U. 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