Facts and Statistics Sources

The purpose of this page is to lead you to facts and statistics -- short answers rather than books or journal articles -- and to unique formats or content.

The list of sources in each category is intended to be highly selective and to provide direct links to a few frequently used fact and statistics sources accessible online.  Many are free, credible sites on the open web; others are databases with specialized content to which we subscribe for DSU students, staff and faculty. 

The icon indicates a subscription reference source where login is required when off the Madison campus. 

Many additional similar sources (online & in print) are available and can be found by searching the Library Catalog and/or asking a librarian for assistance.   

Links to Categories of Sources
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Acronyms

• Acronym Finder -- "searchable database of more than 179,000 abbreviations and acronyms about computers, technology, telecommunications, and military acronyms and abbreviations"

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Almanacs
What is an almanac?

• Infoplease (Information Please LLC)
• The Old Farmer's Almanac

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Associations/Organizations

• GuideStar -- "database of more than 700,000 U.S. nonprofit organizations" including address, financial information, and other information to serve as a donor's guide to charities.

• Associations on the Net -- links to association web pages

• Scholarly Societies Project -- "facilitating access to information about scholarly societies across the world"

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Astronomy

• Internet Resources for Astronomy -- Sky & Telescope provides this portal to astronomical information.

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• AnalyGIS - US Census demographic data with Google Maps
• Mapquest -- maps and driving directions
• Atlapedia Online -- "full color physical and political maps as well as key facts and statistics on countries of the world"
• CIA World Factbook -- country profiles and maps from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency
• National Geographic Map Machine -- provides access to maps of all kinds from around the world , a star chart, links to many other cartographic resources on the Web, and printable black & white maps.
• National Atlas of the United States of America -- Need a map of county boundaries, precipitation levels, invasive species, or Superfund sites? The interactive National Atlas web site allows users to choose from existing maps or make their own by incorporating geospatial data from numerous government agencies.
• Earthshots -- before-and-after satellite images of recent environmental events.
• Panoramic Maps, 1847-1929 -- from collections of the Library of Congress, American Memory Project; includes historic maps of SD towns
• Andreas' Historical Atlas of Dakota, 1884 -- the project to transcribe this atlas is in progress; some county histories are now available
• MSN Encarta World Atlas - search by geographic name
• Digital Northern Great Plains - provides mapping of environment, transportation, geology, agriculture, and other data for Northern Great Plains from the Upper Midwest Aerospace Consortium
• Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection - A large collection of counties, cities, regions, and thematic maps digitized by the University of Texas.
   

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Calculators & Converters --   
see: Weights, Measures, Calculators & Converters

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Calendars & Holidays

• 10,000 Year Calendar -- "view a month or year calendar for any year 1 to 10000 A.D." Also includes links to holiday and celebration web sites.

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• Occupational Outlook Handbook (U.S. Dept. of Labor) -- describes working conditions, whether occupation is growing or declining, job outlook, training and qualifications, earnings/salary ranges & nature of work.  See also their magazine Occupational Outlook Quarterly.
• Wages by Area and Occupation  (U.S. Bureau of Labor Standards) -- provides national, regional and state data for salaries in various employment sectors, by mean hourly, median hourly, and mean annual salary.
• SD Career Insite-- same kinds of information as  Occupational Outlook Handbook but focused on South Dakota. It's less pleasant to use than the OOH. 
• Exploring Career Information: What do you like? -- career information aimed at grades k-12.
• South Dakota Board of Regents Employment Opportunities Web Site - job listings for positions within the South Dakota university system.
• Glassdoor.com gives you an inside look at company salaries, reviews, and interview questions for thousands of companies. A comprehensive career resource with information on thousands of companies. Glassdoor includes salary and bonuses and details for specific jobs at specific companies, as well as actual interview questions and hiring process details. Also included are reviews written by employees that highlight the pro's and con's of working for a particular employer.
• The Riley Guide: Employment Opportunities and Job Resources on the Internet -- this guide for job-seekers provides links to sites and covers all the issues of interest to job-seekers, from career research to resume-writing to job listings.
• Monster.com -- designed to be a one-stop jobs site with job listings and advice.

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Cartoons

• Baldy Editorial Cartoons, 1946-1982, 1997 -- on password page, click on "public databases"; political cartoons of Clifford H. Baldowski, collection of Richard B. Russell Library, Digital Library of Georgia  

• Big Cartoon Database -- online searchable database of cartoon shorts and animation; it's an Encyclopedia of Cartoon facts or "Tooncylpedia"

• Cartoon Research -- Lists animated feature films from 1937 to 2002 with title, release date, company, runtime, directors, and a brief plot summary.

• Guide to the San Francisco Academy of Comic Art Collection - includes samples from numerous newspaper comic strips 1894-1996. Click on "Detailed description" section to get to links to comics.  "Reference images" are easier to view than "thumbnail images."

• ToonTracker -- about more obscure cartoons

• Warner Bros. Cartoons Filmography And Title Card Gallery -- David Mackey provides Warner Brothers cartoon information from 1929 to 1964 with title, production date, animators, some notes, and a list of videos on which cartoon is available.

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Censorship

• Office of Intellectual Freedom, American Library Association -- “Intellectual Freedom is the right of every individual to both seek and receive information from all points of view without restriction. It provides for free access to all expressions of ideas through which any and all sides of a question, cause or movement may be explored. Intellectual freedom encompasses the freedom to hold, receive and disseminate ideas.”

• Autodafe: the Censored Library -- translations of writings from five continents. Web site of International Parliament of Writers, an "organization ... to create a structure that could provide tangible support for writers victimized by persecution," provided in cooperation with the Culture 2000 Programme of the European Union and the French Community government in Belgium.

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College Catalogs

• CollegeSource Online --  find thousands of college catalogs from across the nation and read them online.  Access is restricted to Dakota State University students, faculty, staff. To login when off-campus, use your 14-digit library ID number as username and use your last name as password. 

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Consumers

• Consumer Find-it! -- searches more than 70 recommended consumer protection sites.

• Federal Consumer Information Center -- hundreds of consumer publications that you can read or order on-line; includes consumer alerts (scams & frauds; recalls)

• National Charities Information Bureau -- rates charities

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Copyright

• United State Copyright Office 
• Copyright Crash Course -- by Georgia Harper, University of Texas System Copyright Management Center
• Copyright: Libraries & the Public -- by American Library Association
• When Works Pass into the Public Domain -- by Lolly Gasaway, this is a table summarizing copyright duration.
• Chilling Effects, a joint project of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Harvard, Stanford, Berkeley, and University of San Francisco law school clinics

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Countries / International

• Countries -- country profiles from the U.S. Department of State See specifically country "Background Notes."
• BBC Country Profiles - country profiles compiled by the British Broadcasting Corporation
• CIA World Factbook -- country profiles and maps from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency
• Constitution Finder -- find constitutions of countries (in own language).
• NationMaster -- intended to be a one-stop shop for country data, compiling data from such sources as the CIA World Factbook, UN, and OECD.
• Portals to the World -- provides links to 2-8 websites for each country, selected by subject specialists at the Library of Congress.
• UNESCO Institute of Statistics -- provides key statistics and indicators on education, science and technology, and culture and communication for countries around the world. Select region and country to get data. For additional statistics and data, go to http://www.uis.unesco.org and use the left navigation bar.
• VOA Pronunciation Guide -- provides the proper pronunciation of world leaders' names and locations in the news
• World Digital Library -- "The World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world."

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Current Issues / Hot Topics

• CQ Researcher  -- explores a single "hot" issue in the news in
  depth each week with intention of providing objective and balanced view. Each issue includes feature and sidebar articles plus a pro-con feature, a chronology, lengthy bibliographies and a list of contacts. Access is restricted to Dakota State University students, faculty, staff. To login when off-campus, use your 14-digit library ID number as username and use your last name as password. 

• CyberNewseum: Interactive Museum of News -- Link to "Today's Front Pages" to find links to numerous newspapers around the world. Investigate exhibits in CyberNewseum and elsewhere on web site.

• Frontline (PBS) -- Since 1983, Frontline has served as PBS's flagship public affairs series. Each week it provides incisive documentaries covering the scope and complexity of the human experience (corresponding web sites for each program since 1996). NOTE: Look for Browse by Subject).

• nationalissues.com -- nonpartisan, issue-oriented web site providing information to individuals, voters and students who are interested in understanding major issues facing the United States.

• NOW (PBS) -- an hour-long weekly news series offering fresh perspectives and analysis on today's events, issues, and the ideas that are shaping our world.  NOW provides documentary reporting, in-depth one-on-one interviews and articulate commentary from a wide variety of media-makers and those behind the headlines.

• Opinion Pages -- current editorials, opinions, commentaries and columnists from English newspapers and magazines on the World Wide Web

• Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center -  provides a complete one-stop source for information on social issues. Access viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles 

• Y?: the National Forum on Peoples Differences -- forum to ask questions about populations that are different from oneself.  For example, "why do white people smell like wet dogs when they come out of the rain?"

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Dakota State University 

• Dakota State University 
• SD Board of Regents Publications -- see Factbook & other online publications for statistics about DSU.
• Yahoo Internet Life: America's Most Wired Colleges 

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Dictionaries and Thesauri
What is a dictionary?

• Alpha Dictionary -- search numerous dictionaries with one search [but with lots of ads].
• The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language -- choose Reference category "Dictionary" to search this 1996 edition at Bartleby.com.
• The Dictionary of Phrase and Fable , by E. Cobham Brewer, 1894, First Hypertext Edition by Bibliomania; Also available at Bartleby.com. See also word dictionaries, thesauri, and quotation dictionaries in the Bibliomania Reference section
• A Dictionary of Slang, English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
• Merriam Webster Online
• Oxford English Dictionary ("the OED"), 2nd edition (plus new edition) -- Click on "enter OED online" to begin.  Access is restricted to Dakota State University students, faculty, staff. To login when off-campus, use your 14-digit library ID number as username and use your last name as password. 
• Plumb Design Visual Thesaurus  -- an unusual visual presentation of a thesaurus; "an exploration of sense relationships within the English language. By clicking on words, you follow a thread of meaning, creating a spatial map of linguistic associations."
• Roget's II: The New Thesaurus -- choose Reference category "Roget's II" to search this 1996 edition at Bartleby.com

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Directories
What is a directory?

• Internet 800 Directory -- toll free directory lists 800 or 888 numbers
• Switchboard -- addresses & phone numbers for people and businesses

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Economics

• Liber8 -- an economic information portal, provided by Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis librarians, as a single point of access to the economic information that the Federal Reserve System, other government agencies, and data providers have to offer. Designed for the general public, it provides non-technical sources that are simpler to use and easier to understand.

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Encyclopedias
What is an encyclopedia?

• Access Science -- click on "subscriber login" to search this web-based version of McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology. Access is restricted to Dakota State University students, faculty, staff. To login when off-campus, use your 14-digit library ID number as username and use your last name as password. 
• Agripedia -- facts, figures, demonstrations, examples, graphics, and more regarding the concepts, practices, and vocabulary of agriculture in a multimedia format using audio clips, graphics, text and animation." Developed by University of Kentucky's College of Agriculture.  (3-20-2000)
• Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. -- Containing nearly 51,000 entries (marshalling six and one-half million words on a vast range of topics), and with more than 80,000 hypertext cross-references.  This link is located at Bartleby.com, but Columbia Encyclopedia is also available at the link below and from other websites.    
• Encyclopedia.com --  Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th edition, with a more kid-friendly look..          
• Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy -- Articles geared to high school level and above are written by credentialed philosophers and reviewed by site editors.
• ORB (Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies) Encyclopedia
• For more encyclopedias, select "Encyclopedias - General"  or "Encyclopedias - Topical" in Librarians' Index to the Internet Reference page.  And try LibrarySpot encyclopedias page.

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English Usage

• American Heritage Book of English Usage -- choose Reference category "English Usage" to search this 1996 edition at Bartleby.com.

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Environment

• EarthTrends: The Environmental Information Portal -- links to environmental information and data provide by World Resources Institute. 

• EarthWire Africa: The Environmental News Portal -- EarthWire is updated every day with environmental news from newspapers in southern Africa.
• EarthWire/WSSD -- updated every day with news from media around the world, related to the World Summit on Sustainable Development. Select a part of the world to access information.
• UNEP.Net -- a global portal to authoritative environmental information based on themes and regions; provided by the United Nations Environmental Programme.

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Genealogy

genealogy - Lake County & Madison, South Dakota

• Obituary Index for the Madison Daily Leader -- Indexes obituaries published in the Madison Daily Leader (Madison, SD) from 1930 - March 2001.
• Lake County genealogy  at SDGenweb.

genealogy - South Dakota

• SDGenWEB -- a key site for South Dakota genealogy research
• South Dakota Birth Record Search Site for South Dakota Birth Records With Birth Dates Over 100 Years.  See SD Genealogy Resources (SD Dept of Health)  for additional vital records information.
• Genealogy: South Dakota --  links to South Dakota sources provided by Everton's Genealogical Helper Magazine

genealogy - Other key genealogy sites 

• American Family Immigration History Center -- www.ellisislandrecords.org, archive offers a database of 22 million people who passed though Ellis Island and entered the Port of New York between 1892 and 1924. ou can search for passengers without registering, but free registration allows you to do more.
• Census Links -- census research links for the United States (federal & state) and a few other countries
• Census Finder: A Directory of Free Census Records -- links for US and other countries
• Census Online -- links to online census records
• Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet --  a very comprehensive resource with thousands of links organized into many categories.
• Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet: South Dakota -- links to SD genealogical information
• Family Tree Maker -- search here for information about your ancestors and find other genealogical information
• FamilySearch --  genealogical resource from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (the Mormons or LDS) 
• Find a Grave -- new entries are added by members so it's not a reliable or comprehensive genealogy source; however, it might locate a grave and the entries often include photos and inscriptions.
• Local History & Genealogy -- Library of Congress genealogy resources & links to key Internet sites for genealogical research.
• Official Federal Land Patent Records database -- image access to more than two million Federal land title records
• USGenWeb Project -- leads to many genealogical sources including State GenWebs with many genealogical tools for counties and other local areas.
• Vital Records Information United States -- "information about where to obtain vital records (such as birth, death & marriage certificates and divorce decrees) from each state, territory and county of the United States."

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Government

government: Federal, State, & Local 

• GovEngine - provides links to federal, state and local government sites in the U.S. and also Guam, American Samoa, Virgin Islands, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands

government: South Dakota  

• South Dakota Legislative Information - State laws, regulations, & legislative information 
• State of South Dakota web site - home page for access to SD information, departments, agencies, etc. 
• SD Service Direct - provides all state forms here, over 1,100. One can find information, download forms for printing, and fill out forms online for submitting
  electronically. Many state forms can be processed entirely online for immediate service.
• Lexis-Nexis State Capital  - database for finding bills, statutes, and regulations of States in the U.S.

government: United States

• USA.gov: Government Made Easy - portal for browsing or searching for information available on federal websites.
• Lexis-Nexis State Congressional  - database for finding bills, statutes, and regulations of the United States
• Students.gov: Student Gateway to the U.S. Government
• Thomas:Legislative Information on the Internet  
• Legislative Branch Internet Resources
• Executive Branch Resource Page (Library of Congress)  
• Guide to Law Online (judicial branch) 

government: United States - Politicians

• OpenSecrets.org - a guide to money used in U.S. elections; provides detailed information on personal and campaign finances.

government: States in U.S.

• Library of Congress State & Local Government Resource Page

government: More State & Federal law in U.S.

• Lexis-Nexis Legal Research -- In Lexis-Nexis, link to "Legal Research." Access is restricted to Dakota State University students, faculty, staff. To login when off-campus, use your 14-digit library ID number as username and use your last name as password. 

government: Biography

• Women in Congress (1917-present) 

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Grammar

• Purdue University Online Writing Lab          

• Capital Community College Foundation  - Guide to Grammar & Writing and Index 

• University of Illinois - Grammar Handbook                                           

• Lynch Guide to Grammar and Style                     

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Grants

• Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (directory of grants provided by the U.S. Federal Government)
• The Foundation Center (information for grantseekers provided by the Foundation Center)
• Foundation Finder (directory of grantors provided by the Foundation Center)
• South Dakota Grant Directory (directory of grantors who have awarded grants in South Dakota)

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Historical documents

• American Memory -- primary sources from collections of National Digital Library (U.S. Library of Congress)
• Making of America -- primary sources in American history, 1850-1877 at University of Michigan; primary sources at Cornell University's Making of America project are available at http://moa.cit.cornell.edu/moa/. 

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How

• How Products Are Made -- "explains and details the manufacturing process of a wide variety of products, from daily household items to complicated electronic equipment and heavy machinery. The site provides step by step descriptions of the assembly and the manufacturing process (complemented with illustrations and diagrams)"

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Internet

• Net Timeline -- timeline of Internet development by PBS

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Laws & Legislation   -- See:  Government

For legal resources, see also: Guide to Legal Resources
in or Accessible from the Mundt Library

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Literary

• The American Short Story: A Selective Chronology 1830-1980s
• BARTLEBYVERSE: American & English Poetry 1250-1920 
• DISCovering Authors -- biographical, bibliographical, and critical information on 1,260 of the most studied authors from ancient times to the present.  For each author, there are two types of entries: Biography and Criticism.  Click on the authenticate button to begin (If off-campus, use same instructions for login as for Infotrac)
• The Dictionary of Phrase and Fable , by E. Cobham Brewer, 1894, First Hypertext Edition by Bibliomania
• Glossarial DataBase of Middle English: Canterbury Tales 

• Glossary of Literary and Rhetorical Terms, by Jack Lynch,
  Rutgers University, 3 August 1999

• Glossary of Poetic Terms, Compiled, edited and cross-referenced by Robert G. Shubinski, 1996-2000
• History and Development of PROSE STYLE: A Reader, Prepared and Compiled by JOHN F. TINKLER, Towson University
• Literary and Rhetorical Terms, Department of English, University of Victoria, 1995
• A Literary Index: Internet Resources in Literature, by Chris Flack
• Literary Resources on the Net -- excellent guide linking to many literary resources
• Literary Theories Page, by Robert C. Evans, Auburn University Montgomery 
• Lit Finder  -- Includes Poem Finder ( search first lines of poems, poet names, & subjects to find poetry), Story Finder (provides thousands of full-text short stories plus explanations, biographies, pictures and more) and Essay Finder (database of full-text essays and discursive writing. The essays focus on the humanities and social sciences, and include biographies and literary criticism).  Access is restricted to Dakota State University students, faculty, staff. To login when off-campus, use your 14-digit library ID number as username and use your last name as password.
• Oxford English Dictionary ("the OED"), 2nd edition (plus new edition) -- Click on "enter OED online" to begin.  Access is restricted to Dakota State University students, faculty, staff. To login when off-campus, use your 14-digit library ID number as username and use your last name as password. 
• Timeline: American Literature Since 1945 -- in American Literature on the Web
• Voice of the Shuttle -- excellent guide linking to numerous literary resources

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Maps   -- see: Atlases & Maps

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Medical Information

• MedlinePlus - Drug Information -- Information on thousands of prescription and over-the-counter medications
• The Merck Manual of Medical Information: Home Edition -- excellent source of medical information (diseases, symptoms, treatment, etc.)
• NIH Health Information  -- health information for the general public, provided by the U.S. National Institutes of Health
• PDR Drug Information -- information about over-the-counter medications, including side effects and interactions with other drugs.  This is the consumer's version of the Physician's Desk Reference 

• U.S. National Center for Health Statistics -- http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/default.htm -- NCHS is the primary Federal organization responsible for the collection, analyses, and dissemination of health statistics. The intent of this site is to provide users access to the health information that NCHS produces.

• South Dakota Department of Health, Health Statistics -- http://www.state.sd.us/doh/stats/ -- provides statistics on diseases, motor vehicle accidents, and more.

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Movies

• MRQE: Movie Review Query Engine -- search by movie title for reviews or select one of the pre-created lists such as Top 10 at box office, Upcoming Releases, etc.

• Internet Movie Database (IMDb.com) -- provides information about movies (cast, plot outline, etc.) and includes user comments about them.

• Internet Archive: Movie Archive -- free collection of archival films "with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format."

• Flixfind.com -- a directory of movie-related sites.  Locate sites for genres, awards, reviews, and more.

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Names

• Behind the Name -- provides etymology and history of first names in various languages and provides lists of most popular names and other name trivia.
• Eponym - provides name origins, name lists, and more.

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Native American Sources

• Native American Sources -- a short, selective set of links to high quality Native American sources.

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Patents and Trademarks

• IBM Intellectual Property Network
• USPTO Patent and Trademark Databases
• Lexis-Nexis Patents-- In Lexis-Nexis, link to "Legal Research", then to "Patents." Access is restricted to Dakota State University students, faculty, staff. To login when off-campus, use your 14-digit library ID number as username and use your last name as password. 

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Poetry

• Poem Finder -- Search first lines of poems, poet names, and subjects to find poetry.  Access is restricted to Dakota State University students, faculty, staff. To login when off-campus, use your 14-digit library ID number as username and use your last name as password. 
• BARTLEBYVERSE: American & English Poetry 1250-1920 
• Poetry Portal -- a directory or guide to the internet poetry world
• Glossary of Poetic Terms, Compiled, edited and cross-referenced by Robert G. Shubinski, 1996-2000

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Quotations

• Fagan Finder Quotations and Proverbs Search -- use the search on this page to search any of the many quotation and proverb web sources available on the Web
• Bartlett's Familiar Quotations -- choose Reference category "Bartlett's" to search this 1901 edition at Bartleby.com.
• Simpson's Contemporary Quotations: The Most Notable Quotes 1950-1988 -- choose Reference category "Simpson's" to search this 1988 edition at Bartleby.com.
• The Quotations Archive
• The Quotations Page

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Research Methods

• Methods Chest -- In wiki format, Methods Chest provides "a list of different constructs and associated measures, organized by topic, with references indicating where the items can be found. Some validation information is also available." Helps answer the question "How do I find a good measure of X?" Research Methods Division of Academy of Management .

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Reviews

• Large Print Reviews -- Provides reviews of large print books and, also, reviews other products of interest to the visually impaired including audiobooks, software, and products.

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Science & Technology

• Access Science -- click on "subscriber login" to search this web-based version of McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology. Access is restricted to Dakota State University students, faculty, staff. To login when off-campus, use your 14-digit library ID number as username and use your last name as password. 
• Knovel Chemistry and Physics databases  -- Access is restricted to Dakota State University students, faculty, staff. To login when off-campus, use your 14-digit library ID number as username and use your last name as password. 
  Includes 4 reference sources: 
  *International Critical Tables of Numeric Data, Physics, Chemistry and Technology, 7 volumes and index (first electronic edition) - Originally published for the National Research Council, ICT offers data on physical, thermodynamic, mechanical, and other key properties. Many tables have been “knovelized” to be interactive. The full text of the original print version is available in PDF format (full-text searchable), including the original index. All entries in the index are hyperlinked to their page numbers 
  *knovel Critical Tables - kCT is a brand new reference featuring tables of properties for commonly used chemical compounds in the physical properties tables. kCT has expanded the original 6,000 chemical compounds in the physical properties tables of International Critical Tables to more than 13,000 compounds. 
  *Thermochemistry of the Chemical Substances - this reference is a revision of the table of values for the heats of formation in the thermochemistry section in International Critical Tables. It includes 5,840 values of heats of formation and 350 values of heats of transition, fusion, vaporization, and reaction. All entries in the index are hyperlinked to their page numbers.   
  *Smithsonian Physical Tables (ninth revised edition) - Comprising 901 tables concentrating on a broad scope of common physical and chemical data, the information provided is of general interest to scientists and engineers, and of particular interest to those involved with physics in its larger sense. On knovel, the Smithsonian Physical Tables are now easy to navigate and full-text searchable (as are all references on knovel!). All entries in the index are hyperlinked to their page numbers.
  
• PubChem -- PubChem contains the chemical structures of small organic molecules and information on their biological activities.
• Science.gov -- web gateway to authoritative selected science and technology information provided by U.S. Government agencies, including research and development results
• The Faces of Science: African Americans in the Sciences -- chemists, biologists, inventors, engineers, and mathematicians 

• Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center  -- natural resource issues and data pertinent to the North American Great Plains."  Click on Biological Resources, then choose State/Province under the Geography category to locate sources about South Dakota.

• Chemical Industry Archives [.pdf] and Trade Secrets [.pdf, RealPlayer] -- The Environmental Working Group provides Chemical Industry Archives, a collection of documents that show companies hiding or denying known health risks of their products.  The documents were collected as a result of lawsuit by the family of a man who died from a rare brain cancer after working at a vinyl-chloride plant.  Trade Secrets is the companion site to the PBS documentary of the same name which reported on chemical companies withholding information from the public and employees about the safety of substances.  It provides an overview of the film, interview transcripts, selected documents in HTML and .pdf formats, chemical worker profiles and videos, and much more. (4-2-2001)

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September 11
SEE: Sept 11