• Copyright Search - Library of Congress's searchable database of copyright holders for books, music, films, sound recordings, maps, software, photos, art, and multimedia registered from 1978 to date. 
• Library of Congress Catalog Search
• New York Review of Books - index of magazine's entire contents from 1963 to the present. Subscription needed for full-text.
• Publisher's Catalogues Home Page  
• PubList:The Internet Directory of Publications  - citation information on numerous journals, magazines and serials
• Foreign Films Database - in-depth articles and biographies about foreign and independent films.
• Movie Review Query Engine  - more than 200,000 reviews of over 25,000 films.
• Internet Movie Database

• Dictionary.com - provides a links to a thesaurus, multilingual dictionary, translator and more
• Thesaurus.com - find synonyms
• Biography.com contains over 20,000 brief biographies, both historical and contemporary, from the Cambridge Encyclopedia Database, the Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography and other sources.
• Autosite (Automotive reference information)
• Encyclopedia of World History, 6th ed. 2001.
• Information Please Almanac
• World Factbook 2007
• Zipcode Lookup and Address Information and Postage Rates, from the US Postal Service.

Education & Grants

• Almanac of Higher Education  From the National Education Association.  Includes reports on the status of college and university faculty and staff in the United States with statistics on salaries, tenure, benefits, etc.
• The Educator's Reference Desk An index of the ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) documents.
  
• CollegeNavigator  via IPEDS. A directory produced by the National Center for Education Statistics.  Searchable by region, enrollment, type of institution and programs, this site gives basic address information, enrollment, tuition, etc.
• Digest of Education Statistics. The National Center for Education Statistics.
• FinAid is a clearinghouse for financial aid information with links to many other sites.
• Peterson's Education & Career Center
• FinAid Grant Information
• The Foundation Center
• GrantsNet
• NSF Funding Opportunities and Awards

Geography & Travel

• Country Studies from the Library of Congress, is a collection of book-length studies on individual countries
• MapQuest Looking for directions? Zoom from state map to street map.
• Topozone for topographical maps of the entire US. Searchable by state and town.

Law

• State Statutes
• Findlaw.com Research Portal

Math, Science & Medical

• Calculators On-Line Center - Links to nearly 16,000 types of calculators.
• Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body, 20th ed.
• Periodic Table of the Elements
• Unit Converter  converts just about every possible measurement, every possible way.
• Weather.com
• Healthfinder Consumer health information from the U.S. government.
• Medline (PubMed)  Produced by the National Library of Medicine, indexes the full range of medical literature. Full citation information and excellent abstracts are appended to many entries.
• PDR.net for Consumers Physician's Desk Reference
• RX List is a guide to approximately 4000 pharmaceuticals. Includes generic or commercial equivalents, indications and usage,  adverse reactions, dosage etc.

News Sites

• CNN.com
• NewsLink Offers links to US and foreign newspapers, magazines, radio, and TV networks.
• Boston.com What's happening around the Boston area.
• Channel 5 - The Boston Channel
• Wicked Local is a news database from Community Newspapers Inc., publisher of over 100 local newspapers in cities and towns in eastern Massachusetts.

Quotations

• Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.
• IMDb Movie/TV Quotes Browser Movie and TV quotes from the Internet Movie Database.
• Quoteland.com Literary, humorous, and random quotations, plus quotations by topic.
• Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations. 1988.

Telephone and E-mail Directories

• AnyWho: Find Telephone Numbers  AT&T's comprehensive listing of over 100 million listings. You can do reverse lookups or ask for a street proximity listing for a business or residential listing.
• Switchboard.com  Nation-wide phone directory. Includes business and residential listings.
• Telephone Directories on the Web is an international clearinghouse for telephone directories of all types, organized by region and type of directory.
• Ultimate Email Directory

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