Searching
the Net? Here Are Places to Start
Collections
for Journalists
- APBNews.com crime news and
information, including police scanners from major cities.
- Business
Connections
- Census Bureau home page, 1990 Census tables and Ferret, for recent
population and income data
- Criminal justice links
assembled by Cecil Greek at Florida State University
- DefenseLink
News and live briefings from the U.S. Department of Defense
- Federal Aviation Administration
databases of airline safety reports
- Federal Government
Agencies, a clean, easy-to-use listing
- Federal Web Locator allows
searching
- Fedstats
collects and organizes statistics from 70 agencies
- FedWorld
Information Services: Comprehensive guide to Government databases
- FindLaw
has an extensive collection of legal links
- GPO
Access searches the Federal Register, U.S. Code, Congressional bills and other Government
publications
- John Makulowich's list of web resources
- KnowX
Free and low-cost information about lawsuits, bankruptcies, U.C.C. and
other public filings for businesses and individuals
- Landings Comprehensive aviation
site offers databases of plane registrations, service difficulty reports,
pilot certifications
- National Archives and Records Administration
catalogs records held by Government agencies
- National Criminal Justice Reference
Service
- National Hurricane Center
- Newsahead
upcoming news events around the globe
- Reporters Committee for Freedom
of the Press has links and information, including a fill-in-the-blanks
Freedom of Information request. (This list of Federal freedom
of information officers may be useful, as well as this New York State FOI page)
- State and local
government websites from Piper Resources
- Statesearch,
state-level information on a variety of topics
- Telecommunications
information resources: social, economic, political
- The European
Journalism page
- The Freedom Forum Journalism,
journalism education and first amendment issues
- The House of Representatives
- The Senate
- The Smoking Gun presents
(undigested) documents obtained from court files and through freedom of information
requests
- The Supreme Court
- The White House
- Thomas, the Library of Congress
information service. Also try the experimental Web catalog
- Top 200 Government contractors
from Government Executive
- UniSci
gives updates on scientific research at U.S. universities
- United Nations and U.N. Web locator
- United States Geological Survey,
current earthquake information
and Earthquake Information Center
- WebGator
has a variety of useful investigative links
The
Reference Desk
- Babelfish
basic (and sometimes amusing) translations of Web pages or text
- Biography.com offers brief,
cross-referenced biographies of more than 25,000 notables.
- British Slang
- C.I.A. World
Factbook
- Carl Uncover Free citations
from 17,000 publications; charge for full articles
- Consumer World has
consumer finance rates, company contacts, consumer information
- ConvertIt converts measurements, currencies, time zones
and more
- Cost-of-living
calculator and other useful tools
- Currency converter
from Olsen & Associates converts from any currency to another
- Encyclopaedia
Britannica The one and only. (Now with a fee for full articles.)
- Health
Navigator
- How Far Is It? gives
the distance between two cities
- I.R.S. information
and publications. For more tax sites, try taxsites.com.
- Information Please Almanac Almanac,
dictionary and the full Columbia Encyclopedia
- Law Guru gives access to
hundreds of legal search engines and the Internet Law Library
- Lawoffice.com from West's
Legal Directory and Martindale-Hubbell's
Lawyer Locator
- Library of Congress, including
Marvel and Locis
- LibrarySpot
Extensive guide to online reference works
- Mapquest
and Mapblast give
street-level maps and directions for U.S. addresses
- Metroscope
city, business, entertainment guides for major cities
- National
Geographic's Map Machine
- National Library of Medicine
and Medline
- Nutrient
database from the U.S.D.A.
- Reference
Desk
- Research It all-in-one
reference desk: dictionary, quotes, translators, more
- Roger’s Profanisaurus
- Roget's Internet Thesaurus
- RxList:
The Internet Drug Index Extensive information on prescription and over-the-counter
drugs
- Social
Security death index
- Terra Serve USGS maps and aerial photos of the US.
- The
Bible Browser
- The Elements of Style
The 1918 version
- The Merck Manual guide
to diseases
- The New York Public Library
- The
U.S. Constitution
- The World Wide Web Virtual
Library
- TopoZone
Maps
- Travlang
language-to-language translation dictionaries
- U.S. Naval Observatory
clock
- U.S. Patents since 1971,
from Delphion or the Patent and Trademark Office
- YourDictionary.com and Onelook give
access to hundreds of dictionaries, specialized and general
Telephone
& E-mail Directories
Publications
on the Net
Breaking
News & Daily Publications
Magazines
& Features
Guides
to Many Publications
Politics
The
New York Region
Commerce
- Amazon.com The online megastore. Books, music, videos, games, electronics,
auctions -- and growing
- Barnesandnoble.com and
Borders also have books, music, videos
and DVD’s to enjoy off line.
- Bizrate
compares prices and lets you see how fellow consumers rate online merchants
- BizWeb:
Internet commercial sites by category
- Buy.com good prices and service
on electronics, books, music and video.
- Buyer's Index searches
19,000 Web sites and catalogs for the product you seek.
- CD Now Playcentric
and Alphacraze
Discounts for music, videos and DVD’s.
- Ebay
The online auction house and storefront
- Internet Fashion Mall
- NetMarket
has discounts on brand name goods.
- PriceLine
lets you name your own price for travel, cars or mortgages, and see if
anyone will bite.
- PriceScan
and PriceGrabber
compare prices for computer hardware and software, electronics, movies
and books.
- Travelocity, Biztravel, Expedia,
Trip.com and Orbitz have
airline tickets, car rentals, hotel reservations, travel information
- Travelzoo
collects special travel offers from many sites
Entertainment/Culture/Pastimes
Sports
& Recreation
- Allsports
has news, scores, odds, audio feeds and more
- CNN/SI from CNN and Sports
Illustrated
- ESPN SportsZone
- GolfWeb,
GolfDigest.com and Golf.com cover the golf world
- GORP, the Great Outdoor Recreation
Pages, has extensive information on parks and outdoor activities of all sorts
- majorleaguebaseball.com
from Major League Baseball
- NFL.com from the N.F.L.
- Sportsline
from CBS
- The Sports Network gives
up to the minute news and results
- The Tennis Server and Tennis Country have news, schedules,
rules and more
- The WWW Bicycle Lane A bit
dated, but still a good collection of links
- Total Sports well organized
sports news, plus Head to Head Baseball, which lets you compete online with
others using real players' stats.
Demonstrations
and Miscellany
About
This Page
Navigator
is the home page used by the newsroom of The New
York Times for forays into the Web. Its primary intent was
to give reporters and editors new to the Web a solid starting point for a wide
range of journalistic functions without forcing all of them to spend time wandering
around blindly to find a useful set of links of their own. Its secondary purpose
was to show people that there's a lot of fun and useful stuff going on out there.
The
list is by its nature highly selective and constantly changing. Suggestions
are always welcome.
Maintained
by Rich Meislin.
Revised 8/10/01.
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