CCBC Catonsville Library
Online Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, Reference Sources

• Infoplease.com - Almanac
• The Old Farmer's Almanac

Business

• New York Stock Exchange
• Annual Reports
• Annual Report Resource Center view thousands of current and historical annual reports
• CEO Express News & info
• Executive Planet International business culture, customs, and etiquette
• GlobalEdge Business climate, news, history, political structure.
• Hoovers Online Business information: companies, stocks, and more. Some subscriber-only content.
• Maryland Business Directory Search by name or category.
• Martindale's Reference Desk: Calculators
• Sweet's Online Compare product information, find specs, CAD libraries, local manufacturers reps and forward Requests for Information (RFI) and Requests for Proposal (RFP). Requires free registration.
  
  
  Statistics

• Bureau of Labor Statistics
• Maryland Economic Profile
• Population Resource Center
  Latest demographic data.
• Statistical Resources on the Web
• US Census Bureau
• US Census Bureau - USA Statistics in Brief

• Articulation System for Maryland Colleges and Universities ARTSYS provides students and advisors with course equivalencies. transcript evaluations, & recommended transfer programs.
• Colleges and Universities in the U.S.
• Community Colleges in the U.S. and World
• College and University Rankings
• FinAid: The Smart Student's Guide to
• Financial Aid
• College Board Online Scholarship Search
• Application for Federal Student Aid -FAFSA (Catonsville's college code is 002063)
• Testing & Education Resource Center
  Provides practice entrance, certification and professional license exams and detailed information on undergraduate and graduate programs, executive education programs, and identifying financial aid.Instructions for off-campus access.

  For test practice: You must first login to the library system. At the next screen, click register for TERC, then click on "login and register now."
  

Countries

• Background Notes information on all the countries of the world with which the U.S. has relations
• Country Studies/Profiles from Library of Congress
• Portals to the World Links from Library of Congress
• World Fact Book CIA World Factbook 2005 provides country information.

Maps

• MapQuest
• Atlapedia Online Physical maps, political maps as well as key facts and statistics on countries of the world.
• Terraserver Maps and aerial photographs of the U. S.
• National Imagery/Mapping Agency Complete files of geographic names information covering countries or geopolitical areas.
• US Geological Survey Federal source for science about the Earth, its natural and living resources, natural hazards, and the environment.

• American Civil Liberties Union
• Federal Bureau of Investigation
• Federal Bureau of Prisons
• Justice Research and Statistics Association
• National Criminal Justice Reference Service
• Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics

• People's Law Library Provides legal information on Maryland and federal law affecting low and moderate income people and their families.
• United States Department of Justice
• Handbook of Forensic Services
• Global Legal Information Network a searchable public database of laws, regulations, judicial decisions, and other complementary legal sources contributed by governmental agencies and international organizations.
• National Crime Prevention Council
• National Criminology Justice Reference Service statistics and fullt text documents
• U. S. Department of Justice: Bureau of Justice Statistics

• YourDictionary.com - Foreign Language Dictionaries
• Roget's Thesaurus
• WWWebster's Dictionary & Thesaurus
• Oxford English Dictionary (CCBC use only)

• Telephone Directories on the Web
• Zip Codes

• Britannica Online 
  
• Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
  Instructions for off-campus access.
  
• Encyclopedia.com
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

BALTIMORE

• Baltimore City Government
• Baltimore County Government

MARYLAND

• COMAR - Code of Maryland Regulations
• Maryland Register (temporary supplement to COMAR)
  
• Legislative Election District Maps
• Maryland.gov Online services and information
• Maryland General Assembly
• Maryland Manual Online
• Maryland Municipal League Find officials by city.
• Who Are Your Elected Officials?

UNITED STATES

• United States Government USA.GOV
  Official information and services from the U.S. government.
  
  Legislative:
• United States House of Representatives
• United States Senate
• Government Printing Office
• Thomas Legislative Information on the Internet
• United States Legislative Branch
• Vote Smart Web
  Judicial:
• United States Supreme Court
• United States Judicial Branch
  Executive:
• Official Federal Government Web Sites of the Executive Branch
• Fedstats

• United States Government Manual 2005-06 edition

• Occupational Outlook Handbook
• Princeton Review's Find a Career
• Resume Tutor
• Testing and Education Resource Center
  Provides practice entrance, certification and professional license exams and detailed information on undergraduate and graduate programs, executive education programs, and identifying financial aid. Instructions for off-campus access.
  
  Local:
• Maryland's JobBank
• Maryland CareerNet
• Baltimore County Office of Employment & Training

• Literature Resource Center
  Critical analysis, bibliographies, and biographies of authors from every age and literary discipline. Instructions for off-campus access.
  
• Online Literary Criticism Collection
• Speeches & Quotations

• Combined Health Information Database
  Health information summarized in abstracts with availability/contact information. Some full text. Funded by National Institutes of Health.
  
• The Harvard Medical School Family Health Guide Companion to the book.
• Medline Plus Information from the world's largest medical library, the National Library of Medicine.
• The Merck Manual Health and disease information.

• Adherents.com Data on thousands of faiths worldwide.
• English Religious Resources Provides the King James and Revised Standard Bible, Koran and Book of Mormon, as well as a Dictionary of Religion.
• Religion Gateway Academic links on religious topics.
• Religious Studies Information and links for study and interpretation of religions.

• The Sciences Explorer Interactive material on the topics of biology, physics, chemistry, and math.
• World of Science Provided by Eric Weisstein, Contains encyclopedias of astronomy, scientific biography, chemistry, and physics.
• National Science Digital Library
• Access Science
  Search articles written by leading figures in their fields from the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology and the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms. Updated daily. Instructions for off-campus access.
• Science Direct
  Large electronic collection of science, technology and medicine in full-text (current + last 9 years) and bibliographic information. Browse or search available journals, book series, reference works, and abstract databases. Instructions for off-campus access.