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Virtual Reference is a collection of online reference souces organized by subject. It includes dictionaries & thesauruses, encyclopedias and other resources that provide quick answers to your questions. These are Internet resources and are free to all users.
TC3 students and staff are encouraged to use our Ask a Librarian reference services and our online Encyclopedias and Reference Books. An outstanding resource is the Gale Virtual Reference Library consisting of over 250 academic reference encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
Colleges and Universities
Countries
- Africa: Atlas of Our Changing Environment - "This stunning 400-page "Africa: Atlas of our Changing Environment" is a unique and powerful publication which brings to light stories of environmental change at more than 100 locations spread across every country in Africa. There are more than 300 satellite images, 300 ground photographs and 150 maps, along with informative graphs and charts that give a vivid visual portrayal of Africa and its changing environment."
- Commonwealth - Has links to Members
- Country Background Notes - U.S. Department of State
- Country Studies/Area Handbooks
- Embassy.org - Foreign Embassies in the United States
- Foreign Consular Offices in the United States
- GradSchools.com - "Search from over 60,000 master degree, doctorate/doctoral degree, PhD degree and graduate certificate programs."
- Human Development Reports - United Nations Development Programme. Has Statistics and Country Factsheets
- Market Research Library - Locate Country Commercial Guides created by the U.S. Commercial Service
- NationMaster.com
- Permanent Missions to the United Nations
- Portals to the World
- United Nations
- U.S. Department of States Background Notes
- U.S. Embassies, Consulates, and Diplomatic Missions
- U.S. Department of State
- United States Institute of Peace - Independent, nonpartisan federal institution created and funded by Congress to "prevent and resolve violent international conflicts, promote post-conflict stability and development and increase conflict management capacity, tools, and intellectual capital worldwide."
- World Factbook
- World Health Organization
- World Leaders - Central Intelligence Agency
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Dictionaries and Thesauri
Encyclopedias, Almanacs
Note: TC3 students and staff also have access to online Encyclopedias and Reference Books including the Gale Virtual Reference Library, a collection of over 250 academic encyclopedias, and almanacs.
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Music
- Critical Metrics - Created by Joey Anuff and Will Kreth, this music discovery site "keeps track of recommendations and playlists across all media so you can easily find, try, and buy the best new music." Reviews are gathered from such sources as the Village Voice, Washington Post, Rolling Stone, Salon, NPR, Spin and Pitchfork.
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Politics
- FactCheck - "Nonpartisan, nonprofit, "consumer advocate" for voters that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics. We monitor the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews, and news releases."
- Open Secrets "Nonpartisan guide to money’s influence on U.S. elections and public policy."
Statistics
- American Statistical Association
- Bureau of Labor Statistics Handbook of Methods
- Bureau of Labor Statistics News Service
- Census 2000 Data for the State of New York
- Criminal Justice Statistics for New York State
- Data.gov - "Descriptions of the Federal datasets, information about how to access the datasets, and tools that leverage government datasets."
- Digest of Education Statistics
- Economic Indicators - Prepared for the Joint Economic Committee by the Council of Economic Advisers. "Provides economic information on prices, wages, production, business activity, purchasing power, credit, money and Federal finance."
- FBI Uniform Crime Reports
- FedStats
- Fire in New York - Annual statistical report based on fire, accident, and burn injury reports from paid and volunteer departments provided by the New York State Department of State Office of Fire Prevention and Control.
- Health, United States - National Center for Health Statistics
- Issues in Labor Statistics - U.S. Department of Labor
- Mental Health, United States, 2004 - Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
- Monthly Labor Review - U.S. Department of Labor
- National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
- New York State Department of Labor - Workforce Industry Data
- New York State Statistical Yearbook
- OFFSTATS: Official Statistics on the Web
- Penn World Table - "Provides purchasing power parity and national income accounts converted to international prices for 188 countries for some or all of the years 1950-2004."
- Social Science Data on the Internet
- Social Security Programs Throughout the World - Data for
Europe,
Asia and the Pacific,
Africa and
The Americas
- State and County Quick Facts
- State of the World's Children - UNICEF
- Statemaster - "Statistical database which allows you to research and compare a multitude of different data on US states."
- Statistical Abstract of the United States
- UNESCO Institute for Statistics
- United Nations Statistics Division
- United States Bureau of Justice Statistics
- United States Census Bureau - The site is searchable and provides an index.
- WHO Statistical Information System
- World Economic and Social Survey - United Nations
- Yearbook of Immigration Statistics
- Youth Indicators, 2005 Trends in the Well-Being of American Youth
Time, Calendars, Holidays
Weather
Other Ready Reference Collections
Last update: Thursday, September 02, 2010
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