1. Newspaper USA Today each day selects the Best Sites. 7/6/98
    1. http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/ch.htm
  2. 1001 Websites recommended by PC Computing Magazine. 12/14/97
    1. http://www.zdnet.com/pccomp/webmap/welcome.html
  3. Librarians' Index to the Internet. 8/12/98
    1. http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/internetindex/
  4. Smart Computing Magazine. Links to 2500 outstanding websites. 12/10/98
    1. http://www.smartcomputing.com/editorial/stoc.asp?guid=zzwqocwi&vol=7&iss=1&type=4
  5. Suite101.com.  This site proclaims that it is an "Online community of Real People helping Real People find the best and most current information on the Internet." 6/1/99
    1. http://www.suite101.com/
  6. Big Eye. A grandfather setting out to find the best sites for his granddaughter ended up creating a webpage valuable for all ages. 7/17/99
    1. http://www.bigeye.com/
  7. Florida's newspaper The Tampa Tribune provides short reviews and links to its favorite websites. 10/21/98
    1. http://tampatrib.com/news/sitelist.htm
  1. Bigbook. Look up any business anywhere.5/7/98
    1. http://bigbook.com
  2. Looking for old friend, relative? Try the Ultimate White Pages. In addition to phone numbers, finds e-mail addresses. Sends out multiple search engines at one click to find that missing someone. 6/5/98
    1. http://www.theultimates.com/
  3. CFIS. Looking for a long lost friend or relative? Or want information on products or services tied into the investigation industry? Packed with valuable links. 4/30/99
    1. http://www.gate.net/~ispyonu/links.htm
  4. More help finding people and businesses.
    1. Yahoo
      1. http://yahoo.four11.com/cgi-bin/Four11Main?yahooe&template=yahoo.t
    2. Four11. 12/11/97
      1. http://www.four11.com/
    3. Switchboard 12/11/97
      1. http://www.switchboard.com/
    4. WhoWhere? 12/11/97
      1. http://whowhere.com/
  1. Pinellas County property taxes from appraisers. 12/11/97
    1. http://pao.co.pinellas.fl.us
  2. Realtors Association — Greater Clearwater Association of Realtors. 12/11/97
    1. http://www.tampabayrealtor.com
  1. Zip code locator. Ready to mail a letter and discover that you don’t know the correct zip code? 12/11/97
    1. http://www.usps.gov/ncsc/
  2. Encyclopedia Britannica. Why pay hundreds of dollars for the printed volumnes of this great encyclopedia when you can access free the same information and more at this great site? 11/24/99
    1. http://www.britannica.com/
  3. WWWebster Dictionary. Type in any word and this online dictionary will give you the definition, pronunciation, origin, synonyms and more.
    1. http://www.m-w.com/netdict.htm
  4. Elements of Style, by William Strunk Jr. Check out your grammar and usage before turning in that written report. 10/14/98
    1. http://www.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/strunk
  5. Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus. 10/6/98.
    1. http://www.lightlink.com/bobp/wedt/
  6. CIA 1997 World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) keeps information on every country, and much of this information is available to the public through this site giving socioeconomic data, population statistics, and maps. 6/7/98
    1. http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
  7. One Look Dictionaries. Another great dictionary site. Will search through more than 200 dictionaries at one shot. 6/5/98
    1. http://www.onelook.com
  8. Computer Dictionary. RAM, DVD, Harddrive, diskette, CD -- any computer term you can think of, check out this source for the meaning. 11/18/98
    1. http://wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/index.html
  9. Enclopedia.com. Internet encyclopedia gives free access to more than 17,000 articles.10/14/98
    1. http://www.encyclopedia.com
  10. Compton's Encyclopedia On-Line. 1/23/99
    1. http://comptonsv3.web.aol.com/
  11. The Virtual Reference Desk. 2/1/99
    1. http://www.refdesk.com/
  12. Top fifty best selling books. Updated weekly. Many titles are linked to reviews, summaries.7/15/98
    1. http://www.usatoday.com/life/enter/books/leb1.htm
  13. Research It. One site having all these research tools: Dictionary, thesaurus,telephone and zip code finder, foreign language translator, quotations, maps, currency converter, stock market quotes, and more.x1/29/99
    1. http://www.itools.com/research-it/research-it.html
  14. Awesome Library. Links to different online encyclopedias focuses on diverse subjects such as astronomy, law and poetry. 12/11/97
    1. http://www.neat-schoolhouse.org/Library/Reference_and_Periodicals/General_Reference/Encyclopedias.html
  15. The Library of Congress. Historical documents, census statistics, workings of Congress. 4/11/00
    1. http://www.loc.gov/
  1. Citing Internet Sources in Research Papers. MLA (Modern Language Association). When writing a research paper for a college course, you may have to give footnotes, endnotes, and bibliographical information for Internet sources. But what is the proper, acceptable way to cite such sources? 6/16/98
    1. http://www.mla.org/set_stl.htm
  2. Evaluating and Citing Internet Sources. Provides a checklist for evaluating a website.6/18/98
    1. http://www.spjc.cc.fl.us/0/lib/lesson8.htm
  3. Teachers provide this site to help you evaluate whether a website can be relied on for accurate information, worthy of citing in your own research papers. 7/1/98.
    1. http://7-12educators.miningco.com/msub18.htm
  4. Evaluating Web Resources. Another site that encourages you to view websites with a critical, skeptical eye. Includes a PowerPoint presentation for educators to help their students spot unreliable information on the Internet. 7/14/99.
    1. http://www2.widener.edu/Wolfgram-Memorial-Library/webeval.htm
  5. SPJC Internet Research Help. If you’re doing a research paper, and need some help in developing your topic, check out this SPJC site. Includes link to site showing how to document information taken from websites. 12/11/97
    1. http://www.spjc.cc.fl.us/0/research/home.html
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