Sponsored by the New York State Supreme Court Library at Buffalo, this site was created by Joanne Walsh, Department of Library and Information Studies, State University of New York at Buffalo, in April 2000.  The list is a new and expanded compilation of previous library guides to legal research on the Internet and would not have been possible without the groundwork and input of the following:

       - Alice Askew (Law Library Assistant, Supreme Court Library at Buffalo) 
       - David G. Badertscher (Principal Law Librarian, Supreme Court, Criminal Term, 
               1st Judicial District, New York City) 
       - The Cornell University Law Library
       - Jay Deveau (Director of Library and Research Services, Goldberg Segalla,  LLP)
       - Melissa Holland (School of Information and Library Studies, University at Buffalo) 
       - Jeannine A. Lee (Senior Law Librarian, Supreme Court Library at Buffalo)
       - Angela M. Patti (Law Librarian, Supreme Court Library at Buffalo)
 
 

Last updated:  January 24, 2003.  Please send comments or suggestions to Jeannine Lee (jalee@courts.state.ny.us).
 
 
 

BOOKSELLERS ON THE WEB

1Bookstreet.com

Alibris    Specialists in out-of-print mass market titles.

Amazon.com

American Booksellers Association

Audio Editions    Books on cassette. 

Barnes and Noble.com

Barnes and Noble.com  (Professional, Technical & Business Bookstore)

bibliofind

Blockbuster

BookBrowse.com

Book-of-the-Month Club

Booksamillion.com

Booksmith

BookWeb.org    Search the directory of the American Booksellers Association and link to bookstore web sites.

Borders

Common Reader    Hard-to-find titles, many of them imported from England.

Daedalus Books    Everybody's favorite bargain bookseller.

E-Book Library    Sponsored by the University of Virginia, Electronic Text Center, this site links to 1,800 publicly-available e-books including British and American fiction, major authors, children's literature, the Bible, Shakespeare, American history, African-American documents and more.

half.com    Secondhand books and CD's (mainly mass market) for half price or less.

netLibrary

Penguin Putnam    You can't order online, but they'll tell you how to order toll free.

Powell's City of Books

Quality Paperback Book Club (QPB.com)

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CANADIAN LEGAL SITES

Aboriginal Law and Legislation

Access to Justice Network (ACJNet Canada)

Alberta Courts    Decisions of the Court of Appeal and provincial Court since 1998.

Best Guide to Canadian Legal Research    Site posted in flow chart format by law librarian Catherine Best of the University of British Columbia.

Bora Laskin Law Library (University of Toronto)    In addition to Canadian sites galore, this links to the British Parliament and courts as well as other Commonwealth high courts.

British Columbia Superior Courts    Court of Appeal and Supreme Court.  Provincial statutes also available.

Canada Customs and Revenue Agency    The CCRA, formerly Revenue Canada, provides frequently requested customs and tax forms and publications online. 

Canada (Foreign and International Law)    Comprehensive collection of links to Canadian legal sites arranged by topic.

Canada News

Canada NewsWire

Canadian Bar Association

Canadian Consolidated Statutes and Regulations    Statutes and regulations through the end of 2001 in downloadable full text.  There are also links to Canada Gazette for more recent legislation and to Parliament's Government Bills page for the status of ongoing bills in the House of Commons and Senate.

Canadian Criminal Justice Resource Page    Compilation of sites dealing with criminal justice, corrections, law enforcement and juvenile delinquency created by a University of Ottawa professor.

Canadian Criminal Law Centre    Plain language articles about Canadian criminal law with links to federal and provincial laws and resources.

Canadian Firearms Centre    Information for visitors to Canada, forms, full text of the Firearms Act and Firearms Act regulations as well as e-filing of forms.

Canadian Human Rights Reporter (CHRR)    Digest of cases and decisions relating to such topics as discrimination, sexual harassment and disability rights.

Canadian Internet Resources    Sponsored by the University of Ottawa, this site offers a quick-and-easy topical index plus links to case law and legislation.

Canadian Law Sources On-line    .

Canadian Lawyer Referral Service (CanLaw)

Canadian Legal Information Institute (CanLII)    Very like Cornell's Legal Information Institute site, this posting by the Federation of Law Societies of Canada, gives access to statutes and regulations, the Supreme and Federal Courts, Tax Court and the higher courts of most provinces.

Canadian Legal Resources

Canadian Legal Resources on the WWW

Canadian Federal and Provincial Legislative Sources

Canadian Legal Research    Excellent introduction to Canada and its legal system with many links to government and the courts.  Section on Quebec's legal system, which is unique among the 10 provinces and 3 territories.

Canadian Patent Database

CBA.org (Canadian Bar Association)

Citizenship and Immigration Canada

Federal Court of Canada    Includes downloadable forms, decisions and court rules.  Original decisions (from 1992 to present) are accessible by date, case name and docket  number.

Government of Canada

Guide to Ontario Courts    Includes Court of Appeal judgments and endorsements, 1998 to present; judges directories and rules of court for the Superior Court of Justice and Ontario Court of Justice; Family Law rules and forms as well as fine schedules for the lower courts.

Industry Canada

LexUM    Sponsored by the University of Montreal, Center for Public Law Research, this web site includes links to Quebec Civil Code, a complete collection of Supreme Court of Canada decisions and a searchable database of all bilateral treaties between the U.S. and Canada from 1783 to 1997.

Newfoundland Courts

Parliament    Click on "Library of Parliament" for an alphabetical archive of full-text documents and acts.

Publications Ontario On-Line

Quicklaw    Subscription service which offers access to over 2,500 databases including caselaw from courts, boards and tribunals in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth, as well as statutes, regulations and bills. 

Supreme Court of Canada    Direct links to justices' bios, court administration, judgments and weekly bulletins.  Note:  when searching decisions by date, use the European format, i.e., 26.7.00 for July 26, 2000.

Victim Assistance Online    Non-profit advocacy organization located in and operating under the laws of Ontario which seeks to aid victims and survivors of crime with emotional support and practical aid.

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COMPREHENSIVE SITES

American Law Sources On-Line    Comprehensive, uniform and useful compilation of links to freely accessible on-line sources of law for the United States, Canada and Mexico.

Best Information on the Net    It's worth the effort of checking out this "best of the web" weekly list compiled by St. Ambrose University (Davenport, IA) librarians.  Everything from a journalist's guide to economic terms to Hispanic/Latino news services plus archives of past lists.

BigEar: Current Legal Resources on the Net    What's new on the Net for lawyers.

CataLaw    Self-described "catalog of catalogs of worldwide law on the Internet" is searchable by topic or region.

Chicago-Kent College of Law    Site provides information on  legal resources including legal research/information, libraries and journals, as well as technology in legal practice.

Digital Librarian    A librarian's choice of the best of the Web updated every few weeks.  Past lists available for browsing. 

Direct Search    This extensive compilation of specialized searchable/interactive databases provides access to all those resources that will not turn up simply by using a search engine.

Electronic Reference Desk    Sponsored by the Emory University School of Law.  Access guides to federal laws or federal agencies.

Federal Judicial Center    Many FJC publications are available for free download at this site.

FedWorld.gov    Comprehensive central access point for searching, locating, ordering and acquiring government and business information.  Includes link to 7,000+ U.S. Supreme Court full text decisions from 1937 through 1975 (U.S. Reports volumes 300 through 422).  You can also obtain IRS forms, search government web pages and link to top government web sites.

FirstGov    Contains federal directories and agency listings, as well as a link to the White House home page. Includes information on U.S. Savings Bonds, passports and visas, Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid and veterans benefits.

Gavel2gavel.com    Internet legal research tool links to federal sources, courts and decisions, statutes, bar associations, forms, etc. 

Glossary Agent (tm)    Annotated gateway to online monolingual, bilingual and multilingual glossaries of legal terms, including Bernstein's Dictionary of Bankruptcy Terminology, Everybody's Legal Dictionary, Real Life Dictionary of the Law, Glossary of Legal Terminology, Glossary of Personal Injury Law Terms.

Government Documents Round Table (GODORT)    Sponsored by the American Library Association, this  is an excellent one-stop site for federal government information.  The Frequently Used Sites Related to U.S. Federal Government Information provides access by level of government as well as subject. Choose an area - Copyright, Patents, Trademarks, Crime and Justice, Supreme Court, Tax Forms - for a list of  links to relevant sites.

Guide to Law Online    Annotated collection of links prepared by the Law Library of Congress with emphasis on sites offering full text.

Hieros Gamos Comprehensive legal web site containing national and international attorney directories, links to legal and law related journals, a guide to vendors, law schools and consultants. Includes telnet links to Westlaw and Lexis.

INFOMINE    Librarian built and featured on the University of California Libraries Government Information page in its Scholarly Resource Internet Collections.

Internet Lawyer    Annotated and rated monthly listing of Internet resources for attorneys is now available by subscription only.

Internet Legal Research Compass    Easy access to federal court and government sites, online state and local courts. Includes subject database for blue sky, immigration, federal securities, patent and tax law. See Villanova's Legal Express  page for an excellent compilation of click-and-go law-related sites.

Internet Legal Resource Guide    Index of 4000+ select, international web sites for academic and professional information.

Internet Public Library    Amazingly comprehensive site that links to web sites in virtually any subject, including the law resources page which has many interesting law-related links. 

Internet Scout Project    Weekly online publication offering a selection of new and newly discovered Internet resources.

Journal Abbreviations Sources - All That JAS    A registry of web resources that list or provide access to the full titles of journal abbreviations for many fields.  The Bluebook Abbreviations of Law Review Titles is almost as good as having Bieber's online. 

Jurist    Sponsored by the University of Pittsburgh School of Law.  Network for law professors links to course outlines, exams, web resources as well as law and book reviews.  Legal news links include synopses of U.S. Supreme Court and New York Court of Appeals decisions.

Law and Politics:  Internet Guide    Site designed with the legal pro in mind.  Lots of how-to-research information, including such esoterica as researching Canadian and international law,  Trialsmith and a posting of depositions for trial lawyers.  New features of the site include Quick Ideas for attorneys and an article targeted to law students in the Law Study section entitled "Finding Express and Implied Rules."

Law Engine!    Comprehensive site with links for courts, statutes, law schools and libraries, CLE and ethics information, etc.

Law Street.com    News and analyses in the Law Street Journal plus summaries of federal laws and those of the 50 states. The New York materials are fairly basic though, covering only criminal, divorce, traffic, wills and real estate laws.

'Lectric Law Library    Among other items of interest, this site has a law lexicon and, one of the largest collections of legal forms on the Web.

Legal Information Institute (LII)    Cornell Law School's LII publishes electronic, full text U.S. Supreme Court and N.Y. Court of Appeals decisions, the U.S. Code, the Federal Rules of Evidence and Civil Procedure and the Constitution. Site contains links to legal materials, organized topically and by source that are published elsewhere on the Web.

Legal Web Site Directory    Sponsored by LexisOne.

lexisONE

Librarians' Index to the Internet    Vast compilation of web sites maintained by UC Berkeley.

MoreLaw.Com    Once-over-lightly approach to verdicts and settlements with enough detail to know whether to dig further.  Jury verdicts and settlements can be searched by state, month and year, court, judge, attorney or expert witness name.  Hypertext links to the e-mail addresses of attorneys and expert witnesses are at this site as well.

New England Law Library Consortium    Network of academic (ABA accredited law schools), private non-profit, or government law libraries in the Northeast sharing cooperative collection development and resource sharing. 

refdesk.com    Serendipitous site with links to news, statistics, directories, fun facts and all kinds of stuff you didn't know you were looking for until you logged on. Includes searchable dictionary, thesaurus, encyclopedia, almanac and Bartlett's quotations.

Re:QUEST dot Net    Links to federal and state government sites with resources for legal research, legal forms, law schools and legal employment available at the Government page and resources regarding politics, the parties involved and elections at the Politics page.

Rominger Legal    All-encompassing legal research site with federal and state materials as well as legal organizations and directories

StartSpot Network    Gateway to a variety of useful information through its Spot sites.  Search LibrarySpot, for instance, for a wealth of reference material or TripSpot for travel guides with tips on how to get to your favorite desination as well as where to stay when you get there. 

SurfWax    General interest source.

Virtual Chase    Originally meant for law librarians and other experienced legal researchers, this site now comprises more than 250 pages of information about Internet resources and research strategies.

WashLaw WEB    Excellent, comprehensive site from Washburn University School of Law containing numerous links to just about every legal resource imaginable.

webdesk.com    Provides news, links and resources on a wide range of popular subjects.

World Wide Legal Information Association    Legal information, on a per country basis, for some English-speaking nations (including U.S., Canada, U.K., Australia and New Zealand).  New York materials can be found more directly elsewhere, but it may be useful for researching laws of the other countries.  Includes a legal dictionary and directory of attorneys on the Web.

WWW Virtual Library - Law    Indiana University School of Law-Bloomington presents this Virtual Law Library (part of the World Wide Web Virtual Library) Search by term, topic (area of law) or by information type (i.e., law firm, school, government or journal).

Xrefer    "The web's reference engine" provides free access to encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, books of quotations, etc., from the world's leading publishers, most of them British, and all of them cross-referenced.  A note of caution: since the cross-references are mostly British, the legal definitions come from English common law, specifically the Oxford Dictionary of Law.  Xrefer is easy to use -- choose your general area, such as Business & Law, then enter your search terms and Go.

Zimmerman's Research Guide    Cleveland law librarian Andrew Zimmerman's A-to-Z guide to legal topics, searchable by keyword or phrase. Depending on the topic and Zimmerman's assessment of the best source of material, you may be linked to another web site or referred to Westlaw, Lexis, print media or a telephone number.

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CRIMINAL JUSTICE 

Buffalo (New York) Police Department    Buffalo's Most Wanted, arrest statistics, department phone numbers and links to other criminal justice sites.

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

CopNet    Directory of police and criminal justice web sites. Copnet New York links to police agencies, associations, wanted/missing persons lists, state crime statistics, etc.

Erie County District Attorney

Erie County Sheriff's Office    Department phone and email directories, Most Wanted List and information about the Erie County Holding Center.

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

Justice Technology Information Network (JUSTNET)    Child of the National Law Enforcement and Correction Technology Center, it shows the latest in cop gear - e.g., reports on the efficacy of new body armor, explosives, contraband detection equipment and "red light" photo enforcement systems.

Law Enforcement Online    Links to national and international criminal justice organizations and state and city police associations, as well as related groups like D.A.R.E. and M.A.D.D.

Law Enforcement Sites on the Web    Links to various sheriffs' offices and police departments in the U.S. and abroad.

National Fraud Information Center (Internet Fraud Watch)    This web site of the National Consumers League targets telemarketing and Internet fraud, particularly against the elderly.

New York City Department of Correction    Helpful directions on how to visit an inmate (there are monthly visitation calendars), post bail and obtain attorney/legal passes (for which there are downloadable applications).

New York City Police Department    View the Department hierarchy, missing persons, Most Wanted and/or links to the home page of every precinct, police service area and transit district in the five boroughs.

Officer.Com    Police officers' Internet directory.

Sex Offender Registries   Provides Sex Offender Registries as well as laws on community notification. 

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DIRECTORIES 

Attorneys

Greater Buffalo Legal Directory    Lists area attorneys by specialty along with their phone numbers and links to their web pages.  Includes articles submitted by local practitioners on such subjects as traffic fatality, crime victim litigation and FAQs about DWI. 

Martindale.com Lawyer Locator

New York State Attorney Directory    The New York State Unified Court System has made this directory available so you can search by attorney name for their address and telephone number. 

West Legal Directory
 

Corporate/Personal

555-1212.com    Fee-based online phone directory.

AcqWeb    International directory of publishers and vendors.

Anywho    Reverse phone directory. (Won't work unless the phone is listed and the phone is in the name of the person who called.)

BRB Publications, Inc. - Public Record Research System    List of 300+ federal, state, county and city URL's with free public record information.  New York State sites include the Department of State, the city of Olean's assessor and Medina County.

FedWorld    U.S. Department of Commerce site which lets you browse its information network, word-search it and/or word-search for government reports.

Forbes.com    List include Forbes 500s, Largest Private Companies, as well as 200 Best Small Companies and the 400 Best Big Companies.  Each entry includes name, rank, type of business, number of employees and revenue.

Go Toll Free: the Internet 800 Directory

Hoover's Online    "The ultimate source for company information" which permits plain English questions about businesses.

Infobel.com    International telephone directories on the Web.

infoUSA.com

National Center for Missing and Exploited Children

Reverse Phone Directories    Fee-based online directory.

Secret No More    Subject guide (with file numbers) to thousands of declassified FBI files and instructions on how to get the files themselves under the federal Freedom of Information Act.

Special Investigations    Sponsored by the United States, General Accounting Office, follow the link to "Other Publications" and locate the 113-page "Investigators Guide to Sources of Information" using the complete listing of Special Publications.

SuperPages.com

Switchboard.com

Talking Phone Book

Ultimate White Pages    Enter what you know about the party you are looking for just once, hit the tab key, then search in sequence Yahoo, Who Where, Switchboard, Infospace, Anywho, Worldpages.  Be aware, however, that this is a commercial site which, if at first you don't succeed (and we didn't with unlisted friends), will offer an "advanced search" for a fee.

UPS Tracking

Virtual Gumshoe    All kinds of links to all kinds of web sites for one person determined to find another - archives and adoption records to criminal histories and cults, to state parole boards and vital records.

Vital Records Information - United States

WhoWhere?

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EXPERT WITNESSES

American Medical Association Physician Select    Search for medical doctors by name or specialty. (Membership in the AMA is not a prerequisite for listing.)

American Psychological Association

DocFinder    Sponsored by AIM - Administrators in Medicine, this site is the only combined public online physician database in the nation that has its direct source of data from state government licensing boards and that also remains free of charge to the public.  Provides links to home pages of state medical boards. 

Expert4Law   Directory of experts and consultants, lawyers available for consultation and ADR specialists.   Sponsored by the Los Angeles County Bar Association.

ExpertPages.com    Listings by specialty, state or country.

Experts.com

ExpertWitness.com    Internet directory of expert witnesses. 

LawInfo.com    Fill-in boxes enable search not only for experts but also for attorneys, consultants, private investigators, court reporters, paralegals and so on.

National Directory of Expert Witnesses   Experts listed in 400 categories.

Zeno's Forensic Site    Links to all manner of forensic expertise - forensic sciences, forensic medicine, forensic psychiatry, etc.  Encompasses laboratories and individual expert witnesses.

For Construction and Safety Consultants see: 

American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM)

National Safety Council

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FEDERAL & STATE COURTS

Courts.net    Billed as "The Nation's Court Directory," this site provides directory listings for federal and most state courts (Nebraska and South Dakota are missing, as is Puerto Rico).  The links found at the New York  page are somewhat limited.

Federal Court Locator    Links to all U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals and District Courts web sites,  including New York's Eastern , Northern and Southern District Courts.  Also provides links to U.S. Bankruptcy Courts, including the Western District of New York as well as the Northern and Southern Districts.  Visit the Hermes Archive of the U.S. Supreme Court at Cornell; Jurist's Guide to the U.S. Supreme Court. Other federal courts include the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, U.S. Court of Federal Claims, U.S. Court of International Trade. See also such federal judicial agencies as the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, the Federal Judicial Center, the Department of Justice and the U.S. Sentencing Commission.

Federal Judiciary    A clearinghouse for information from and about the Judicial Branch of the U.S. Government, this site has links to District and Bankruptcy Courts and offers local court rules and fee schedules, a judges' directory, official bankruptcy forms (in PDF format) and Court Web, selected decisions posted by the judges.

Federal Public Defender's Office - Western District of New York   Directory of mailing and email addresses and staff telephone numbers as well as form plea agreement and a database of Downward Departures from the Federal Sentencing Guidelines.

National Center for State Courts    Site is maintained by the Center, an independent, nonprofit organization committed to the advancement of justice.

Oyez Project    U.S. Supreme Court multimedia database posted by Northwestern University School of Law. Contains abstracts of key constitutional cases (such as Bush v. Gore), audio of oral arguments and more.  Play Oyez Baseball, a continuation of the Law-Baseball Quiz that used to appear in the "New York Times."

State Court Locator    A joint project of the Center for Information Law and Policy of the Villanova University School of Law and Chicago-Kent College of Law, its New York links include the Court of Appeals and its opinions and the Supreme Court Civil Branch, New York County.

Supreme Court of the United States    Contains docket and court rules, information for visitors and those who wish to plead a case before the nation's highest court as well as links to bench opinions and term decisions.

Supreme Court of the United States    Access free  Supreme Court case law courtesy of the Lexis service dating back to 1790 as well as selected federal and state cases from January 1996.  Briefs are available from Findlaw's Supreme Court Center and the Solicitor General (all briefs from July 1998 - present; selected briefs from 1982-96).

United States Attorneys' Manual    Word-for-word version of the U.S. Attorneys Manual. You will, however, need to use a pkunzip function to download.

United States Supreme Court Monitor    Resembles U.S. Law Week in its division into news, decisions, certiorari granted, etc.  News is free.  Other links are available by subscription.

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FEDERAL CASE LAW

Federal Courts Finder    Full text, U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals decisions available within days of being handed down, including  Second Circuit cases  (mostly since 1995, but some prior). Second Circuit Court of Appeals proceedings are also available at Cornell's LII  and Pace Law School.

Federal Rules of Civil Procedure    Full text, current decisions and legal material as well as access to court rules and the Federal Rules of Evidence.

Supreme Court of the United States    Contains docket and court rules, information for visitors and those who wish to plead a case before the nation's highest court, as well as links to bench opinions and term decisions.

United States Supreme Court Collection (LII)   Pending cases as well as decisions from May 1990 to present.

United States Tax Court    Tax Court opinions and memoranda searchable by petitioner's name, date or judge from January 1999 and summary opinions from January 2001, court forms, rules and fee schedules, plus everything you need to know about the court in plain English.

usscplus.com    Search for free for syllabus of decisions (by citation, party name or subject matter) at this otherwise fee based site.

For other decisions see also:

District of Columbia Circuit  (February 1995 -    )

Federal Circuit  (August 1995 -    )

First Circuit  (November 1995 -    )

Second Circuit (January 1995 -    )

Third Circuit  (May 1994 -    )

Fourth Circuit  (January 1995 -    )

Fifth Circuit  (December 1990 -    )

Sixth Circuit  (November 1994 -    )

Seventh Circuit  (1989 -    )

Eighth Circuit  (November 1995 -    )

Ninth Circuit  (1995 -    )

Tenth Circuit  (August 1995 thru October 1997, October 1997 -    )

Eleventh Circuit  (November 1994 -    )

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FEDERAL MATERIALS

American Civil Liberties Union    Source dealing with constitutional issues, from Church and State to Death Penalty, to Free Speech and Workplace Rights, plus links to "in Congress" and "in the Courts" pages featuring ACLU's presence there.

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Code of Federal Regulations    Searchable full text of the CFR provided by the House of Representatives.

Congressional Record    This searchable, full text database of the official record of the proceedings and debates (1995-present) of the United States Congress includes senatorial speeches and debates.

Constitution of the United States    Searchable, full text includes the preamble, articles and sections.

Democratic National Committee

Depowave    Provides attorneys, paralegals and legal secretaries with  an efficient, convenient and cost effective national reporting and video resource.

Federal Agencies and Commissions    Additional sites such as National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Security Agency, Peace Corps, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, National Science Foundation, Railroad Retirement Board, etc.

Federal Agencies Directory    Complete alphabetical and hierarchical directories posted by the Louisiana State University libraries.

Federal Court Locator    Sponsored by Villanova University School of Law, provides information related to the federal judiciary, including court opinions.

Federal Government Resources on the Web    University of Michigan Library's Documents Center site has links to bibliographic sources, historic documents, executive orders, directory of  agencies and more.

Federal Judiciary

Federal Web Locator    Provided by the Center for Information Law and Policy "intended to be the one stop shopping point for federal government information on the World Wide Web".

FedLaw    Useful site for federal government lawyers and employees or anyone doing federal legal research, plus there's a page of  law related "how-to" sites. Alphabetical list of agencies is also available.

FirstGov    A "start" page for U.S. government information resources on the web.

GPO Access    Searchable databases of  full text executive and legislative material, such as U.S. Code, Code of Federal Regulations,  Federal Register (1995-), Congressional Record (1994-) and Public Laws (1995-). Other databases are available such as the Government Information Locator Service, the Pathway Indexer (of 1,300+ agency and military web sites) and the Monthly Catalog (MOCAT) which provides bibliographic records of government information resources plus site links.  Full text of Congressional bills beginning in 1993 and Congressional reports and documents beginning in 1995 are accessible.

INFOMINE    Librarian built and featured on the University of California Libraries Government Information page in its Scholarly Resource Internet Collections.

Law About...    Sponsored by Cornell's Legal Information Institute, this site provides brief summaries of law topics with links to primary source material and other Internet resources.  They can be accessed through broad topic categories, an alphabetical listing of topics and a searchable index.

Library of Congress    "The nation's library" is the world's largest repository of knowledge.  This site has the THOMAS database (current and historical information on the U.S. Congress) and the American Memory Historical Collection (key documents, films, photographs and sound recordings of our nation's history) among other valuable resources.

Meta-Index for U.S. Legal Research    Georgia State University College of Law's searchable site for federal law sources, Supreme Court and all Federal Circuit courts, plus U.S. Code and Congressional Record, in full text.

National Security Archive    Posted by George Washington University, this is the world's largest non-governmental library of declassified U.S. security documents.  Includes full text of the Freedom of Information Act User's Guide.

Police Auction Online   Repossessed and confiscated items for auction.  Register your stolen items and you may get them returned for free. 

Republican (G.O.P.) National Committee

Smithsonian Institution    "The Nation's attic" holds some 140 million artifacts and specimens, has sixteen museums and galleries and the National Zoo. 

Terrorism Law & Policy   Devoted to news, laws and legislation about terrorism at home and abroad.

THOMAS    This site from Congress offers searchable, full text of the Congressional Record (1989 forward), full text of all bills, public laws and legislation and tracking information about them.  Also find committee information and a library of historical documents. 

United States Code    Cornell Legal Information Institute's web site is generated from the most recent version made available by the U.S. House of Representatives. 

United States Code    House of Representative's site.  Titles 1 through 50 are based on the 2000 edition of the Code.  You may also search prior versions, access state statutes, federal regulations and court decisions. 

United States Federal Government Agencies Directory    Hundreds of government agencies organized by government branches.

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GENERAL INTEREST

9/11 NYC Services Center    New York City government's site dedicated to the aftermath of 9/11 including WTC Business Rebuilding Center (with application forms), Lower Manhattan Development Corporation and WTC death affidavits and instuctions.

Ancestry.com    Has link to Social Security Death Index

Aviation Safety

Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations    Offers a variety of resources including Bartlett's to search phrases, proverbs and passages from ancient and modern literature sources.

Bible

Buffalo & Erie County Public Library    Search the county library system's catalog by author, title or subject from your home or office. Includes information on branch hours, locations and holdings; an extensive listing of specialized directories and publications available in the Business Science Technology Department.  With a new card and PIN you can renew books online and access specialized databases.

Buffalo.com    The description of this site is "Everything Buffalo".  Includes the daily Buffalo News online, and an archive of News articles going back to 1989.

Census Data

Computer Viruses    This site tracks virus hoaxes, urban legends and other hysterical messages so you can verify the rumors before you pass them along.

Consumer Price Index

ConvertIt.com    Conversion and calculation site that lets you figure measurements, currency exchanges and world time zones, etc.

Cost-of-Living

Currency and Inflation Rates

Currency Converter    Quick and easy converter of any currency to any other.

Dead People Server    Database of interesting celebrities who are long dead, newly dead or might lausibly be dead. 

Discovery.com

Document Center    Self-described as "your standards library," the Document Center has a huge searchable database of ANSI, ASTM, ASME, AIIM, AP, ASHRAE, ATA, EIA, IEEE, SAE and other collections available to order. 

Drug Related Street Terms/Slang Words

Dun & Bradstreet

Earthquakes

eHow    More than 15,000 how-to's in simple English on almost any topic, from how to research a patent and enforce a trademark to how to use chopsticks.

Elements of Style    Rules of usage and principles of composition most commonly violated.

Encarta Online Encyclopedia/Dictionary/Atlas    Microsoft's Internet multimedia encyclopedia with 42,000 articles, world atlas, web links, etc. .

Encyclopedia Britannica    We include this site with some reservation only because the outline encyclopedia - originally intended to be a subscription online service - has become freeware and is very difficult to get into.

Facade    Divination site including Tarot, Runes, I Ching and Biorhythm charts.

Find A Grave

Guide for Writing Research Papers    Based upon the American Psychological Association style manual.  See also,  APA's Electronic Reference Formats.

HowStuffWorks

Hurricanes

Infoplease.com    Almanacs (including a children's' almanac) plus a dictionary and Columbia encyclopedia.

Kelley Blue Book    Check out new car pricing, trade-in and retail values of used cars and motorcycles.  You can also do a free (they say) "lemon check" to find out where that used car you want to buy has really been.  For this you need the VIN.

Literary Quotations

Litigation (Medical-Legal) Strategies Group    An educational resource and consulting firm that  provides case and medical records review, witness development services, trial consulting and litigation preparation and support.

Maps    World maps, current and historical -- many of them developed by the CIA.

Military

Moody's.com

NAACP.org    National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. 

National Earthquake Information Center

National Hurricane Center

National Organization for Women (NOW)

New York City

New York Public Library

NSSN.org (National Standards System Network)    National resource for global standards.  Searchable database (by keyword, document number and standards developer) of more than 13,500 standards documents, including those of the American National Standards Institute.

Old Farmer's Almanac    Weather, astronomical, astrological, tidal and gardening information.

OneLook Dictionary    Links to more than 500 dictionaries online.

Social Security Death Index

Standard & Poor's Retail Investor Services

United Nations

United States Geological Survey    State-by-state information on the biology, geology, minerals and water resources of each of the 50.

United States Naval Observatory Time Service Department    Information about the Master Clock Facility as well as the official time in standard time zones.

Urban Legends    "I will set down a tale . . . it may be history, it may be only a legend, a tradition. It may have happened, it may not have happened. But it could have happened. . . ."  This quote from mark Twain describes the intent of the web site.

Vehicle Crash Data    Compilation of federal agencies' and insurance companies' ratings of new and used vehicles' performance in side and full frontal collision, amounts paid for personal injury and collision damages and death rates for different makes and models. 

Vmyths.com    This site tracks virus hoaxes, urban legends and other hysterical messages so you can verify the rumors before you pass them along.

Weather    Various sites are available for this type of information including The Weather Channel and the National Weather Service.  Specific types of weather can be tracked through such agencies as the National Hurricane Center and the National Earthquake Information Center.

World Factbook    CIA's online edition profiling countries by geography, people, government and economy.

yourDictonary.com    More than 1,000 dictionaries in 200 languages.  Search the basic ones, like Merriam-Webster OnLine or Roget's Thesaurus.  It's also a great place to decipher Rasta or just about any other tongue, dialect, argot, or patois spoken today or in the past, such as Phoenician and Phrygian.

ZIP Code Look-Up    U.S. Postal Service site.

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HOUSING 

Fannie Mae

Freddie Mac

Housingfinance.com    Affordable housing finance.

HUD User

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INSURANCE 

A.M. Best - the Insurance Information Source    Online ratings for nearly 6,000 insurance companies in the U.S. and abroad. Company profiles and subscriptions available for a fee.

Complete Glossary of Insurance Coverage Explanations

insure.com    Consumer insurance guide.

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INTERNET TUTORIALS

Finding Information on the Internet: a Tutorial

Infopeople Project

Interactive Guide to the Internet

Internet 101

Internet Tutorials

Learn the Net.com

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LAW REVIEWS & JOURNALS

FindLaw    Search by topic, law school or journal name.

Hieros Gamos    Read journals online at this site.

Legal Journals    Arranged by category.

University Law Review Project    Links to general, subject specific online law reviews containing full text or abstracts.

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LAW SCHOOLS 

Albany Law School

Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law

Brooklyn Law School

City University of New York School of Law at Queens College

Columbia Law School

Cornell Law School (Legal Information Institute)

Fordham University School of Law

Georgetown University Law Center    Provides major legal gateways and links to state, federal, and international law.

Hofstra University School of Law

Indiana University School of Law

My Bar Prep    Fee-based on-line course developed to make bar examination preparation efficient and economical. 

New York Law School

New York University School of Law

Pace Law School

Peterson's - The Law Channel    Comprehensive education resource.  Search more than 180 law schools, find resources on financing your education as well as LSAT test preparation materials.

St. John's University School of Law

Syracuse University College of Law

Touro College Law Center

University at  Buffalo Law School

University of Pretoria (South Africa)

University of Southern California Law School

usnews.com    Ranking of law school programs based on experts' opinions of the program quality, the school's  faculty and its research as well as the performance of the students.

Villanova University S