Maple Woods Library

BOOKS

Bartleby Great Books Online
Project Gutenberg (eBooks)

BUSINESS

• Bplans.com Business Plans
• BusinessUSA 
• CNNmoney.com
• EDGAR (U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission)
• NAICS (North American Industry Classification System)
• U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

CAREERS

• Major and Career Profiles
• CareerOneStop
• Occupational Outlook Handbook

CITATIONS

• Citation Machine
• Citations Styles
• Citing Sources
• MLA Citation Style

COUNTRIES

• BBC News Country Profiles
• CIA World Factbook
• Country Studies
• U.S. Dept. of State Background Notes

DICTIONARIES & ACRONYMS

• Acronym Finder
• AllWords.com
• Dictionary.com
• Merriam-Webster Online
• NetLingo
• Onelook Dictionaries
• Wordnik

EDUCATION

• ERIC - Educational Resources Information Center
• National Center for Education Statistics
• U.S. Department of Education

EDUCATION - COLLEGES & FINANCIAL AID

• College and University Rankings
• College Board Online
• FAFSA (Student Financial Aid)
• FinAid
• KCREACHE (Distance Education)
• Peterson's Educational Center

FILMS

• Internet Movie Database
• Metacritic
• Rotten Tomatoes

HEALTH & MEDICINE

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Mayo Clinic
• MEDLINEplus
• National Center for Complementary & Alternative Medicine
• National Institute of Mental Health
• National Institutes of Health

HISTORY

• American Memory
• Documents for the Study of American History
• Missouri Digital Heritage

LAW

• Findlaw
• Legal Information Institute
• Nolo Law Centers

MAPS

• Perry Castaneda Library Map Collection
• MapQuest

NEWSPAPERS & TELEVISION

• CNN.com
• New York Times
• Wall Street Journal

POLITICAL SCIENCE: ELECTIONS AND POLITICAL PARTIES

• Democratic National Committee
• Federal Election Commission
• Kansas City Election Board
• Republican National Committee
• Vote Smart

POLITICAL SCIENCE: LOCAL GOVERNMENT

• City-Data.com
• Inside the Legislative Process
• State & Local Government

POLITICAL SCIENCE: MISSOURI GOVERNMENT

• Legislator Lookup
• Missouri Constitution
• Missouri General Assembly Bill Tracking
• Missouri Judiciary
• Missouri Revised Statutes
• Missouri Secretary of State
• Official Manual, State of Missouri
• Official Web Site, State of Missouri

POLITICAL SCIENCE: U.S. GOVERNMENT

• Cornell Law School: Supreme Court
• Federal Judiciary
• GPO Access (official info from all three branches of Federal Government)
• Library of Congress
• Thomas: Legislative Information on the Internet
• USA.gov: the U.S. Government's Official Web Portal
• U.S. Code of Federal Regulations
• U.S. Constitution
• U.S. House
• U.S. Senate
• U.S. Supreme Court
• White House

PRO/CON

• ProCon.org
• Public Agenda (Click on Issues Guides)

REFERENCE - GENERAL & MISCELLANEOUS

• HowStuffWorks
• Infoplease
• Quoteworld
• RefDesk.com
• WordReference: Online Language Dictionaries

RESEARCH

• How to Recognize Plagiarism
• IRIS Research Tutorials
• Research 101
• A Research Guide for Students

STATISTICS AND DEMOGRAPHICS

• American Community Survey
• American FactFinder
• Bureau of Labor Statistics
• FedStats
• Missouri Census Data Center
• Population Reference Bureau
• Statistical Abstract of the United States
• United Nations Statistics Division
• U.S. Census Bureau