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Agencies and organizations General reference and information Image sites New Media reference and Information Science reference and Information Writers' organizations Relax (for when you need a little break) Agencies and organizations American Diabetes Association American Heart Association American Medical Association American Academy of Pediatrics American Cancer Society Centers for Disease Control National Institutes of Health National Science Foundation NASA National Library of Medicine (health topics by subject, PDR online) Statistical Assessment Service, or STATS (A nonprofit organization that helps journalists understand stats on everything from science to politics) U.S. Copyright Office U.S. Census Bureau U.S. Department of Energy U.S. Human Genome Project, sponsored by DOE and NIH World Health Organization back to top General reference and information Acronym and Abbreviation Server Arts & Letters Daily. Check the lefthand column for almost anything. Atlantic Unbound (a lifeline just for general interest) Britannica online CIA World Fact Book Want to know birth rate of Afghanistan for a story on global medical research? Look no more. Cliché Finder Common Errors in English Folio: The Magazine for Magazine Management How Far is It (uses data from the US Census and a list of cities around the world to find latitude and longitude of two places, then calculates the distance between them, as the crow flies) HowStuffWorks.Explanations of how everything around us actually works, like computers or botox, for example. Internet Public Library (a public service organization providing library services to Internet users, developed by the University of Michigan School of Information) Lexis/Nexis (Access may be restricted by university account) Lonely Planet ("reliable, comprehensive and independent travel information") Merriam-Webster Metric and English Conversation calculator National Weather Service (no-nonsense weather reports) Nobel site (images, articles, etc.) OANDA.com (currency conversion for hundreds of currencies and much more) OneLook Dictionary Search (a search engine for words and phrases that consults more than 900 online dictionaries to define and/or translate word in question. Gives definitions from multiple sources and disciplines) The Quotations Page (18,000 quotations, 2,300 authors) Refdesk.com (One-stop info shopping) Rhyming dictionary Statistics Every Writer Should Know The Switchboard (an online phone book) Time and Date (delivers time and date anywhere in the world) Useit.com (on usable information technology, by Jakob Nielsen) The Vocabula Review (cranky bow-tie-wearing word-lover's site—most of it now is pay) Webby Awards (for ideas on using the Web) Web Monkey (Web developer's resource) WhatIs.com (reference for information technology topics, especially about the Internet and computers) back to top Image sites CalPhotos (Berkeley Digital Library Project; 80,000 digital images available for personal, academic, and nonprofit use) C. elegans movies DOE Genomics Image Gallery (with good links to other science image galleries and resources on Web, especially U.S. Government photo galleries) Earth Science World ImageBank Hubble Space Telescope National Image Library (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service image gallery) StockPhotoRequest.com (you post image request, which is e-mailed to photographers; photographers upload images for you in a personal light table posted to the site, and you choose image you want to license) U.S. Department of Science Image Gallery The UGA Bugwood Network (FREE forest, plant, and insect pest images) back to top New Media reference and Information Bloglines lets you subscribe to RSS feeds of your favorite blogs, monitoring updates and displaying them all in one place. Contentious News and musings on how we communicate in the online age. Feedburner RSS feed distribution tool The Right Conversation Amy Gahran helps organizations and professionals raise a clear, strong voice in the public conversation—especially through resourceful use of online media. See her links for the 2006 URMA talk here. YellowBrix online syndication services back to top Science reference and Information Agricultural Research Service, (research arm of the USDA, includes good image site) Beginners guide to molecular biology Biotech Life Science Dictionary Books Every Science Writer Should Read ClinicalTrials.gov (essential if writing about medical research) CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology (for all things bird-related) Encyclopedia of Psychology Environmental Health News EurekAlert (Latest science/medical news from around the country) Genome Analogy Model for Educators (GAME) Genome Glossary Medical Dictionary The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy NASAcast (podcasts from NASA) National Cancer Institute Cancer Statistics (designed to give science writers and reporters information about cancer research) The National Center for Health Statistics National Center for Science Education (Defending the teaching of evolution in the public schools) Newswise (More science/medical news) NIH Medline Plus (has everything from a listing of doctors to databases on the latest health journals) NSF Division of Science Resources Statistics PLANTS National Database (standardized information about plants of the U.S. and its territories) The Rx List (similar offerings to the Physicians Desk Reference) SciTech Daily (daily science and technology news coverage) The Tree of Life Offers a "family tree" of all organisms on Earth WebMD Q&A on Stem Cells WhyFiles (Science behind the news) back to top Writers' organizations American Medical Writers Association Council for the Advancement of Science Writing The National Association of Science Writers Profnet (A free source-locator service for journalists) Society for Environmental Journalists back to top Relax (for when you need a little break) Simple Cooking (great, unfussy writing about food) Animated Political Cartoons (with sound) back to top

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