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Albany Area Sites

Almanacs

Bookstores

Dictionaries

Encyclopedias

Government

Higher Education Resources

  • University System of Georgia Board of Regents
  • GALILEO - Georgia Library Learning Online
  • Georgia Student Finance Commission - Information on Georgia's HOPE Scholarship Program
  • Chronicle of Higher Education - Offers highlights of the Week's News (brief summaries), facts and figures on U.S. higher education, and the popular Job Openings In and Out of Academe
  • ETS NET - The Educational Testing Service Network - Practice test materials for SAT, GMAT, GRE, PRAXIS, TOEFL
  • Scholarly Journals distributed via the WWW - Links to hundreds of electronic scholarly journals
  • Community College Web - Provides information on over 466 community colleges with a web presence. See their large collection of Information Resources for Community Colleges, with links to several organizations, programs, and services.
  • Board of Regents Guide to Copyright and Educational Fair Use - University guidelines on the use of intellectual property.
  • World Lecture Hall - Links to pages created by faculty worldwide who are using the Web to deliver class materials.
  • American Association of Community Colleges - Provides a national focus and an agenda that promotes, supports, and advances the cause of its member colleges
  • American Association of University Professors - Founded in 1915, AAUP defends academic freedom and tenure, advocates collegial governance, and develops policies ensuring due process
  • American Council on Education - ACE is a forum for the discussion of major issues related to higher education and its potential to contribute to the quality of American life
  • Association for Institutional Research - Dedicated to professional growth of all who participate in decision making related to higher education via management research, policy analysis and planning
  • The College Board - The College Board is a national, nonprofit membership association dedicated to preparing, inspiring, and connecting students to college and opportunity
  • EDUCAUSE - The mission of EDUCAUSE is to help shape and enable transformational change in higher education through the introduction, use, and management of information resources and technologies in teaching, learning, scholarship, research, and institutional management
  • MERLOT - An organization made up of leading higher education systems, consortia, and institutions - provides high quality digital learning materials to faculty members who are using the world wide web for both traditional and distance learning courses. It is a "gateway" to modularized learning materials that faculty can incorporate into their own courses. Learning materials posted in MERLOT are primarily interactive simulations, animations, and tutorials that will be peer-reviewed and tested in appropriate educational settings. MERLOT's mission is to improve the effectiveness of teaching and learning by expanding the quantity and quality of peer-reviewed online learning materials that can be easily incorporated into faculty designed courses.
  • National Center for Education Statistics - The primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data that are related to education in the United States and other nations.
  • National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education - An independent, nonprofit, nonpartisan organization committed to ensuring educational opportunity, affordability, and quality in American higher education.
  • National Education Association -- Higher Education - America's oldest and largest organization committed to advancing the cause of public education.
  • Southern Regional Education Board - Assists leaders of 16 southern member states by directing attention to key issues; collecting, compiling and analyzing comparable data; and conducting broad studies and initiating discussions that lead to recommendations for state and institutional long-range planning, actions and policy proposals.

Libraries

Maps

Miscellaneous Reference

News & Weather

Phone Directories

Search Tools

  • Major Search Engines
    • AltaVista - Powerful, general purpose search engine
    • Dogpile - Very fast, metasearch site.  Users may search the web, newswire services, Usenet, FTP sites, and many other sources
    • Excite - Provides categorized results giving a quick overview of a subject.  Good tools for adjusting the search results
    • Fast Search - One of the largest web indexes.
    • GO Network - Quality results to general and broad searches.
    • Google - Heavy use of link popularity to rank Web sites. Especially helpful for general searches
    • HotBot - Large Web index with many power searching features.
    • Infoseek - Voted by PC Computing magazine's editors as the most valuable search tool. Allows for phrase searching.
    • Lycos - Combines news and other info on its web page.  The Lycos Pro Search feature lets you look for specific content such as images, books, etc.
    • Northern Light - One of the largest search engines. Includes the ability to cluster documents by topic.
  • Meta-Crawlers: Search Several Search Engines at Once
    • Ask Jeeves - Enter queries in natural language, full sentence format.
    • MetaCrawler - Searches dozens of search engines at once.
  • Subject Directories
    • Britannica.com - Scholarly, academic focus. Includes periodical articles and Encyclopędia Britannica.
    • LookSmart - A large subject directory. LookSmart Live offers personalized email responses to questions.
    • Open Directory Project - One of the larger directory projects. Run by a large group of volunteer editors.
    • Snap - Both a directory and search engine. Strong popular content.
    • Yahoo - The largest human-compiled guide to the Web.
  • Usenet News Discussions
    • Deja.com - Largest and oldest collection of Usenet news discussions.
  • Other Searching Information

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