DORRY KELLEY'S FAVORITE
PROSPECT RESEARCH LINKS, AND NOT
THE GOLF VARIETY :-}
MY FAVORITE
RESEARCH SITES
organized in the following categories:
The Professions
Search
Engines
Corporate
Research
Foundation
Research
Reference
Tools
Subscription
based Providers
Newspapers/Magazines
Genealogy
Asset/Wealth
Leisure
Time/Hobbies
WWW Surfing Fun
THE
PROFESSIONS
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MY
FAVORITE SEARCH ENGINES
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AltaVista engine does a great
job looking for businesses, people, etc.
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Deja News Research Service search
USENET news archive
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Dogpile is a
meta-search engine that allows you to scan 25 search engines at once.
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Excite a powerful engine allows
for concept searching
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Highway 61 meta-crawler engine
gives you famous quotes while you wait
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Hotbot is a search engine
that I turn to for quick information.
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Infoseek breaks its search capabilities
into categories, such as for companies: company news, press releases, stock
quotes, SEC filings, or street maps.
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Lycos search document titles and
content
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Magellan Internet Guide
search WWW or "Green Light" rated/reviewed sites
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Mamma is similar to Dogpile.
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Yahoo!
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BIGBOOK search national
yellow pages
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BIOGRAPHY.COM
over 20,000 personalities, past & present
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THE BLACK MARKET
extensive links for African Americans
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CENSUS BUREAU U.S. statistics (create
profiles with American
FactFinder)
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CIA PUBLICATIONS
World Book of Facts, foreign cabinet members
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FEDSTATS as provided by 70-plus
U.S. federal agencies
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FEDWEB
complete list of federal government sites
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GRAMMAR GUIDE
"Common Errors in English" and extensive links
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LATIN
AMERICA extensives links to resources
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LIST OF LISTS
GWU Librarian Gary
Price's clearinghouse - amazing!!
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LYCOS ROAD MAPS
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NYC'S OFFICIAL SITE with
links to city services, bus. resources, agencies
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MAPQUEST
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MEGASOURCES
how to find answers (and gateways) on the Web
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PETERSON'S GUIDE K-12 and college/universities
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POLITICAL CONTRIBUTORS An
FEC site for campaign contributors
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PROSPECT RESEARCH
selected sites maintained by NETSource@USC
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PROSPECT
RESEARCH by David Lamb of U of Washington's
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SOUL SEARCH search engine for
people of color with nice list of links
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STATE AND CITY
RESOURCES
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STATISTICAL
RESOURCES compiled by Univ. of Michigan
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TRAC downloadable Federal
law statistical information
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ULTIMATE PAGES six phone
directories in one spot (Yahoo, WhoWhere, Switchboard, Four11, Infospace,
Worldpages) plus reverse searches
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UNITED
NATIONS' INFONATION statistical data on member nations
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VIRTUAL REFERENCE DESK
encyclopedias, thesaurus, biographical sources
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WALL STREET DIRECTORY
trade & investment info., company news
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WASHINGTON RESEARCHERS
research Search References
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WOMEN 250 sites
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WOMEN IN
PHILANTHROPY by Ann Castle; noteworthy net resources
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WRITING RESOURCES
by Dr. Randall S. Hansen of Stetson Univ.
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FOR
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY
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ACADEMIC
ASAP from Astrology Law Religion to Current Events and more
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ASSOCIATIONS UNLIMITED [GaleNet]
approx. 440,000 U.S. organizations
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BIOGRAPHIES (Wilson) 38,000+ figures
from antiquity to present
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BIOGRAPHY & GENEALOGY
MASTER INDEX 10 million+ bio. sketches
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BIOGRAPHY
INDEX indexes 2,700+ Eng.lang. sources from 1984 to present
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BOOKS
IN PRINT 1.8 million+ books in- and out-of-print from 44,000 publishers
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BRITANNICA ONLINE and Webster-Meriam's
Collegiate online dictionary
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BUSINESS
ABSTRACTS abstracts/indexes dating from 1982
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BUSINESS
& INDUSTRY public&private co. data from 340+ leading sources
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CARL UnCover
Reveal awareness service delivers results via email
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CHICANO DATABASE
Once connected, choose "Select a File" to access
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COMPUTER
& COMMUNICATIONS TECH(Faulkner) co. /product. profiles
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CONSUMER REPORTS full-text
dating to 1982
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DATATIMES
over 130 regional newspapers
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DIALOG@CARL
17 topics and thousands of full-text sources (NYTimes, Wall St. Journal,
Wire services, LA Times, Wash. Post, Reuters / International & U.S.
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DIALOG Investment Research Index
1995 to present
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DIALOG WEB
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DISCLOSURE Global Access
co. financials SEC & Worldscope/fulltext articles
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DISSERTATION
ABSTRACTS ONLINE since 1861
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DUN AND BRADSTREET
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E LIBRARY full-text searching
of major sources to more obscure publications
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ENGINEERING
INFORMATION VILLAGE
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ERIC - index
of 800,000+ educational issues since 1966
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ETHNIC
NewsWatch full-text articles from 200 publications in America
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FASTDOC
Includes wide range of topics from busi, pop.culture,tech, med, more
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FOUNDATION DIRECTORY profiles
of 32,000+ grantmakers
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FOUNDATION GRANTS INDEX track
awards from 1,000+ large foundations
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GALE DATABASE OF PUBLICATIONS
AND BROADCAST MEDIA
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GLOBAL NEWSBANK includes
1500 international sources
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GRANTS 1000s of grants/scholarships
offered by gov, priv. foundations, assoc.
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HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEWb full
text since 1976
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INSIDER TRADING MONITOR
ownership changes filed with SEC since 1984
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INVESTEXT
reports and forecasts on 11,000+U.S. and Int'l companies
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KOMPASS BUS. DIRECTORIES
for Canada, Middle East, Europe, Asia & US
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LEXIS-NEXIS Universe
full-text files focusing on legal,news & bus.& industry
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M & A FILINGSdetailed
abstracts of all SEC merger/acquisition docs since 1985
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NORTHERN LIGHTS powerful
engine - newspaper search, Investext
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NEW YORK TIMES
(Firstsearch) abstracts covering 1994 to present
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NEW YORK TIMES
(Dialog) full-text for most recent 90 days
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PROQUEST hundreds of sources
(Barrons, USA Today, busi. & periodicals)
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PUBLISHERS DISTRIBUTORS &
WHOLESALERS books, software,audiocass.
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QUOTATIONS DATABASE full-text
of "The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations"
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RESEARCH
CENTERS AND SERVICES DIRECTORY 26,400+ research org.
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SOCIAL
WORK ABSTRACTS PLUS The Registry of Clinical Social Workers
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STANDARD & POOR'S Biographical
and Corp. Register, Daily News
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SYRACUSE
POST STANDARD / HERALD JOURNAL since 1998
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THOMAS REGISTER ONLINE manufacturing
companies
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THOMSON/POLK BANKING DATABASE
worldwide directory of banks
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TV & RADIO TRANSCRIPTS DAILY
since 1997
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WOMEN
- CONTEMPORARY ISSUES global info. from 150+ countries
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NEWSPAPERS/MAGAZINES/JOURNALS
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GENEALOGICAL
RESOURCES
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ANCESTRY.COM
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CYNDI'S LIST OF GENEALOGY SITES
on the Internet with more than 26,000 links. An award winning site!
Find a researcher working on your family tree, search the Social Security
Death Index, browse for obituaries, or receive a history lesson as you
wander through her wonderful pages.
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CYBERHOMES for real property
comparative values.
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For NYC, try NETSource's NY
Wealthy Zipcodes.
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INFOSPACE.COM's reverse
lookup gives you a list of neighbors, full address, map, and directions.
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LUXURY REAL ESTATE
lists palatial estates for sale in the U.S. and abroad.
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NetSource@USC's site to find the nation's most exclusive zipcodes, various
real estate companies (for comparative values), the Tax Assessor Database,
and Census information.
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NYC - unravel the mystery of NY's
unique real estate market; apartment values, details, peer lists, etc.
Check out top ten lists too.
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REAL ESTATE
LINKS AND WEALTHY ZIP CODES Use
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YAHOO
real estate values based on address, block or entire street.
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SALARY SURVEYS can
be found here.
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YACHT
OWNERS may be listed among the members of the Super Yacht Society;
or check the ultimate list of BOATING
SITES on the Web for information on clubs, marinas, races, manufacturers,
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JUST
FOR FUN
Shop for bargains at Spiegel's
Ultimate Outlet; buy Porto Rican
Importing's Coffee on-line; or plan tonight's dinner via rec.food.recipe's
Recipe Index, Food
Links or Gourmet World's
impressive index. Look for desserts on Godiva's Chocolatier
Recipe Index. For weather warnings, watches or forecasts, check out
the Live Weather Network or
NOAA's NY Site.
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SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
PUBLICATION'S STYLE GUIDE
dekelley@syr.edu
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as of July 22, 1999