OTHER RESOURCES

Find Mailing Lists & Usenet News Groups

Mailing list discussion groups are topical, and subscriber messages are distributed by e-mail. The discussion groups also are called list serves, a term taken from the software used to set up the discussion group.

Usenet news groups also are organized by topic, but the messages are posted to a site, not delivered by e-mail.

To find the one that serves your purpose, check out these data bases:

DEJA NEWS -- http://dejanews.com/home_ps.shtml
You can search for information posted in Usenet news groups. Several filter options are provided.

INTER-LINKS -- http://www.nova.edu/Inter-Links/resources.html
Search by keywords to find mailing list discussion groups or Usenet news group on a particular topic.

LISZT DIRECTOR -- www.liszt.com
You can search by keyword or by category/subject tree. It covers topics that include business, news, politics, education, culture, computers, etc., and includes more than 71,000 listserves, listproc, majordomo and independent lists from more than 1,800 sites.

STANFORD USENET FILTER -- http://www.reference.com/
Stanford University's site allows you to sift via e-mail more than six months of archives from more than 13,000 Usenet news groups and 1,000 publicly accessible mailing lists. You can set up your profile search, and then whenever you log in later, you'll see articles that match that profile displayed on custom-built Web pages.

TILENET -- http://www.tile.net/
Find e-mail mailing lists by description, name, subject, sponsoring organization or host country. Find Usenet news group by description, name, or hierarchy. TileNet also will help you find FTP sites.

USENET GROUP LOCATORS
http://sunsite.unc.edu/usenet-i/home.html

E-MAIL & USENET GROUPS
http://sunsite.unc.edu/usenet-i/
http://www.neosoft.com/internet/paml/bysubj.html

People or Places

ADDRESSES & MAPS
CityMap -- http://city.net/indexes/top_maps.html

MapQuest -- http://www.mapquest.com/
MapQuest lets you locate a business, address or city in the continental United States on an interactive map.

MetroScope http://metroscope.com/ More cities information

National Zip Code/Address Server
http://www.cedar.buffalo.edu/adserv.html
http://www.ualberta.ca/~slis/guides/direct/phone.htm
http://www.usps.gov/ncsc/


E-MAIL ADDRESS FINDERS --
WhoWhere? -- www.whowhere.com
Directory of e-mail addresses. Provides access to 125 million addresses, personal home pages, individual and business phone numbers, addresses, URLs, stock prices, corporate credit ratings.

http://www.four11.com/
http://www.iaf.net


TELEPHONE BOOKS
General Directories
http://www.infospace.com/
http://www.switchboard.com

Yellow Pages & 800 Numbers
WWW Yellow Pages -- http://www.cba.uh.edu/yellowptext.html
This is a directory of Web sites with links to corporate, government and nonprofit institutions.
http://www.bigbook.com/
http://www.iypn.com/

Business Phone Books
http://www.bigyellow.com/
http://niyp.com


VIRTUAL REFERENCE DESK -- http://thorplus.lib.purdue.edu/reference/index.html
Purdue University's on-line reference library helps you find net-based phone directories, including 800 numbers. This site also has links to government data bases, on-line dictionaries and travel services.


YAHOO PEOPLE -- www.yahoo.com
Category = Society and Culture, People Search. 95 million residential phone numbers and addresses, 5.5 million e-mail addresses and 25,000 individual home pages.

Search for Businesses Info

PROFOUND -- http://www.profound.com
This business information service offers a table of contents for each completed search; automatic searching of specific news; company, financial and broker information; market research; and a portfolio service. Subscription required.

AMERICAN BUSINESS INFORMATION INC. -- www.abii.com Three data bases in one:

• American Directory Assistance: Data base of 10 million U.S. businesses, including address, phone numbers and credit scores. More detail available on each for $3.
  
• American Yellow Pages: This service includes more than 14 million Yellow Page listings from virtually every telephone directory published in the U.S. You can find businesses and professionals by specific Yellow Page headings, and retrieve listings for any city. Listings include company name, address, zip code, and phone number.
  
• American Business Credit: Provides credit-rating scores based on demographic factors such as number of employees, years in business, industry stability, government data.
  
  
  

Miscellaneous

AWESOME LIST -- http://www.clark.net:80/pub/journalism/awesome.html
John Makulowich's list of 38 "truly awesome" and a bunch more merely awesome net resources.

CARL -- telnet://pac.carl.org or http://www.carl.org/
Journal and magazine articles can be located here and faxed to you (for a fee).

CASEY'S INTERNET SURVIVAL GUIDE -- http://www.qns.com/~casey/
Strong on U.S. government resources. Also links to reference materials and to Internet search engines. A few humor links.

FACSNET -- http://www.facsnet.org/
A new service with many original documents including backgrounders and reporting tutorials. Has beat-oriented Internet browsing resource.

FEDWORLD -- http://www.fedworld.gov or telnet://fedworld.gov
U.S. Commerce Dept. gateway to 130+ federal agencies.

Internet Public Library -- http://ipl.sils.umich.edu/
This site has links to reference documents, net catalogs, search engines, etc.

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS -- http://www.loc.gov
This offers links to many government. agency resources, federal and state.

LIVE GOPHER JEWELS -- gopher://cwis.usc.edu
Choose "Other Gopher and Information Resources" from root menu. This will take you to hot-linked Gopher Jewels.

MAKULOWICH'S VIRTUAL JOURNALISM LIBRARY -- http://www.cais.com/makulow/vlj.html
Links to trade organizations, other sites

NIKOS MARKOVITS' JOURNALISTIC RESOURCES -- http://www.it-kompetens.se/journ.html
Links to journalism organizations, research sites, media sites, other hotlists.

PERIPATETIC ECLECTIC GOPHER -- gopher://peg.cwis.uci.edu:7000/
It offers links to strong resources on government, politics, and medicine.

RICEINFO -- gopher://riceinfo.rice.edu/11%2FSubject
This is one of several great Gophers catalog sites.

WEB TRACKER -- www.netmind.com/URL-minder/URL-minder.html
Keeps track of changes at Web pages and other resources on the Web and sends you e-mail updates.

Writers Resources

BARTLETT'S FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS
http://www.cc.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/bartlett/


ROGET'S THESAURUS
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/forms_unrest/ROGET.html