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AARP (http://www.aarp.org/) 
American Association of Retired People.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2004

About.Com (http://www.about.com/)
About.Com.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2000.

Africana.com (http://www.africana.com/)
Africana.com Inc.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2001.

Renamed Black Voices: African American and Black Culture Community (noted: 2006)

AF: Acronym Finder (http://www.acronymfinder.com/)
Mountain Data Systems, LLC
Reviewed: Mars Best 2006.

AIDSInfo (http://aidsinfo.nih.gov/)
U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2003.

Now AOL Black Voices (noted January 2006)

AJR Newslink (http://www.newslink.org/) and (http://ajr.org/)
AJR and NewsLink Associates.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2001.

NOTE: Newslink, offering links to newspapers, broadcaster, magazines and joblink advertising, is available at http://www.newslink.org/. AJR, containing news and columns from the American Journalism Review Magazine, is available from http://ajr.org/. (Feb 27, 2003)

All-Music Guide (http://www.allmusic.com/)
Matrix Software, Inc.
Reviewed: Mars Best 1999.

All Recipes (http://allrecipes.com/)
Allrecipes.com.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2005.

AltaVistas Babel Fish (http://babelfish.altavista.com/)
Overture Services, Inc.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2005.

AMA Physician Select (http://www.ama-assn.org/aps/amahg.htm)
American Medical Association.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2000.

Renamed AMA DoctorFinder. (Noted January 2006).

Amazon.com (http://www.amazon.com/)
Amazon.com, Inc.
Reviewed: Mars Best 1999.

AMDOCS: Documents for the Study of American History (http://www.vlib.us/amdocs/).
Lynn Nelson and Kendall Simmons.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2002.

The American Civil War Homepage ( (http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/)
George H. Hoemann, University of Tennessee.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2004

American Family Immigration History Center (http://www.ellisisland.org/).
The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, Inc.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2002.

American Law Sources On-line (ALSO!) (http://www.lawsource.com/also).
LawSource, Inc.
Reviewed Mars Best 2002.

American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library (http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ammemhome.html)
Library of Congress.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2003

AmericanPresident.org (http://millercenter.virginia.edu/scripps/amprez.html).
Center of Public Affairs - University of Virginia.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2005

American Presidents: Life Portraits (http://www.americanpresidents.org/).
National Cable Satellite Corporation.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2003.

American Rhetoric (http://www.americanrhetoric.com)
Michael E. Eidenmuller
Reviewed: Mars Best 2006.

American Women's History: A Research Guide
(http://www.mtsu.edu/~kmiddlet/history/women.html)
Ken Middleton, Middle Tennessee State University.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2004

AmeriStat (http://www.ameristat.org/).
Population Reference Bureau and Social Science Data Analysis Network.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2001.

According to the Population Reference Bureau website, the AmeriStat website is no longer active. All AmeriStat content is available on the Population Reference Bureau's website http://www.prb.org. (Noted September 2006)

Answers.com (http://www.answers.com/).
GuruNet Corporation.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2005.

Art & Architecture Thesaurus (http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/aat)
Paul Getty Trust
Reviewed: Mars Best 2006.

Artcyclopedia: the Fine Art Search Engine (http://www.artcyclopedia.com/).
John Malyon, Artcyclopedia, Inc.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2001.

AskART (http://askart.com/)
AskART.com.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2003.

AskERIC (http://askeric.org/).
Information Institute of Syracuse, ERIC Clearinghouse on Information & Technology.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2000.

NOTE: The AskERIC site and question-answer service was discontinued on December 19, 2003, being replaced byThe Educators Reference Desk. This new site includes the 2000 lesson plans, 3000 pointers to education information & organizations, and 200 question archives formerly available from askeric.org for over 10 years. You can also continue to access the ERIC database at the Educator's Reference Desk.

AskOxford.com (http://www.askoxford.com/)
Oxford University Press.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2004

AT&T AnyWho (http://www.anywho.com/index.html).
AT&T.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2000.

B

Background Notes (http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/).
United States Department of State.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2005.

Bankrate (http://www.bankrate.com/).
Intelligent Life Corporation.
Reviewed: Mars Best 1999.

Bartleby.com (http://www.bartleby.com/).
Steven H. van Leeuwen.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2001.

Baseball-Almanac: The "Official" Baseball History Site
(http://baseball-almanac.com/)
Marvin Terry.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2003.

Baseball-Reference.com (http://baseballreference.com/).
Baseball Think Factory.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2001.

BBC News (http://news.bbc.co.uk/)
BBC News
Reviewed: Mars Best 2006.

Ben's Guide to the U.S. Government for Kids (http://bensguide.gpo.gov/).
Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office
Reviewed: Mars Best 2005.

Best of History Web Sites (http://www.besthistorysites.net/).
Thomas Daacord, with Sumita Chakraborty.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2003.

BBB: Better Business Bureau (http://www.bbb.org/).
Council of Better Business Bureaus.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2003.

The Big Cartoon Database (http://www.bcdb.com)
Dave Koch, The Big Cartoon Database (bcdb.com)
Reviewed: Mars Best 2006.

Big Charts (http://www.bigcharts.com/)
A service of MarketWatch.com, Inc.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2000.

Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present (http://bioguide.congress.gov/).
United States Congress. Senate Historical Office and the Legislative Resource Center of the House of Representatives.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2003.

Biography.com (http://www.biography.com/).
A&E Television Networks.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2002.

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (http://federalreserve.gov//)
U.S. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2004

Britannica.com (http://www.britannica.com/).
Britannica.com, Inc.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2000.

Bureau of Labor Statistics (http://stats.bls.gov/).
Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2001.

C

Calendars through the Ages (http://webexhibits.org/calendars/index.html).
Institute for Dynamic Educational Advancement (IDEA) by WebExhibits.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2002.

Catholic Online Saints & Angels (http://saints.catholic.org/index.shtml).
Catholic Online Internet Services.
Reviewed Mars Best 2000.

Centers For Disease Control and Prevention (http://www.cdc.gov/).
U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2002.

CEO Express (http://www.ceoexpress.com/).
CEO Express Company.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2001.

CI: Corporate Information (http://www.corporateinformation.com).
George Matthew Regnery (Winthrop Corporation)/distributed by Wright Investor's Service.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2000.

CNET.com (http://www.cnet.com/).
CNET, Inc.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2000.

CNN.com (http://www.cnn.com/).
Cable News Network.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2000

College and University Rankings (http://www.library.uiuc.edu/edx/rankings.htm).
Education and Social Science Library, University of Illinois.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2002.

Constitution Finder (http://confinder.richmond.edu/index.php)
University of Richmond
Reviewed: Mars Best 2006.

ConsumerSearch (http://www.consumersearch.com/).
ConsumerSearch, Inc.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2005.

Country Studies/Area Handbook (http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html).
Federal Research Division, Library of Congress.
Reviewed: Mars Best 1999.

Crash Course in Copyright (http://www.utsystem.edu/ogc/Intellectualproperty/cprtindx.htm)
University of Texas System, Georgia Harper
Reviewed: Mars Best 2006.

Cyberschoolbus (http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/).
United Nations Statistics Division
Reviewed: Mars Best 2004

D

Digital History (http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/).
Professor Steven Mintz, University of Houston.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2005

DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals (http://www.doaj.org/).
Lund University Libraries.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2005

Documenting the American South (http://docsouth.unc.edu/)
University Library, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Reviewed: Mars Best 2006.

Download.com (http://www.download.com/).
CNET Networks, Inc.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2005

E
 

Earthtrends: the Environmental Information Portal (http://earthtrends.wri.org/)
World Resources Institute.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2004

Economist Country Briefings (http://www.economist.com/countries/).
Economist Newspaper, Ltd.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2002.

EDGAR (http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml).
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2003.

Edmunds.com (http://www.edmunds.com/).
Edmunds.com, Inc.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2001.

E-how (http://www.ehow.com)
E-how, Inc.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2006.

Elemental Data Index (http://physics.nist.gov/PhysRefData/Elements/cover.html).
Physics Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2002.

The information on this site serves as a complement to the WebElements Periodic Table (http://www.webelements.com/) selected for the MARS Best 2001 list. (RUSQ. Fall 2001.)

The Encyclopedia Mythica (http://www.pantheon.org/).
M.F. Lindemans, sponsored by Ultimum-IT.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2001.

Encyclopedia of Chicago (http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/)
The Chicago Historical Society, The Newberry Library and Northwestern University
Reviewed: Mars Best 2006.

Epicurious (http://eat.epicurious.com/)
CondéNet.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2004

Eric Weisstein's World of Science: A Wolfram Web Resource
(http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/)
Eric W. Weisstein. Wolfram Research.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2004

ERsys (http://www.ersys.com/)
Synergos Technologies, Inc.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2004

ESPN.com (http://espn.go.com/).
ESPN, Inc.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2000.

Eternal Egypt (http://www.eternalegypt.org/)
Egyption Center for Documentation of Cultural and Natural Heritage
Reviewed: Mars Best 2006.

F

Fact Monster^TM (http://www.factmonster.com/).
Family Education Network Inc.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2003.

Family Search Internet Genealogy Service (http://www.familysearch.org/).
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2000

Farmers Almanac (http://www.farmersalmanac.com/).
Almanac Publishing Co.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2003.

Federal Citizen Information Center (http://www.pueblo.gsa.gov/).
U.S. General Services Administration.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2005.

FedStats (http://www.fedstats.gov/).
Federal Interagency Council on Statistical Policy.
Reviewed: Mars Best 1999

50 States and Capitals (http://www.50states.com/).
Ray Weber; Weber Publications.
Reviewed: Mars Best 1999

Findarticles.com (http://www.findarticles.com/).
Gale Group and LookSmart.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2002.

Findlaw (http://www.findlaw.com/).
FindLaw (Tim Stanley and Stacy Stern).
Reviewed: Mars Best 2000

FirstGov.gov (http://www.firstgov.gov/).
U.S. General Services Administration.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2001.

Foreign Government Resources on the Web
(http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/foreign.html).
U.S. General Services Administration.
Reviewed: Mars Best 1999

Foundation Center Online (http://fdncenter.org/).
The Foundation Center.
Reviewed: Mars Best 1999

Free Medical Journals (http://www.freemedicaljournals.com).
AmedeoGroup.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2002.
 

G

The Gallup Organization (http://www.gallup.com/).
The Gallup Organization.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2000.

Geographic Names Information System (http://geonames.usgs.gov/gnishome.html).
U.S. Geological Survey.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2002.

Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names Online. (http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/tgn/).
Getty Research Institute, Getty Vocabulary Program.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2003.

glbtq: An Encyclopedia of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Culture(http://www.glbtq.com/).
Claude J. Summers, General Editor / glbtq, Inc.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2005

globalEDGE (http://globaledge.msu.edu)
Center for International Business Education and Research, Michigan State University
Reviewed: Mars Best 2006.

Go Ask Alice (http://www.goaskalice.columbia.edu).
Columbia University's Health Education Program.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2000.

Google News (http://news.google.com/)
Google.com.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2003.

GPO Access (http://www.gpoaccess.gov/).
U.S. Government Printing Office.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2003.

Great Buildings Online (http://www.greatbuildings.com/gbc/buildings.html).
Artifice, Inc.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2000.

GrayLit Network: A Science Portal of Technical Reports (http://graylit.osti.gov/index.html).
Department of Energy's Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI).
Reviewed: Mars Best 2005.

Guide to Philosophy on the Internet (http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/philinks.htm).
Peter Suber (Philosophy Department, Earlham College).
Reviewed: Mars Best 2002.

GuideStar (http://www.guidestar.org/).
Philanthropic Research, Inc.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2002.

H

Healthfinder (http://www.healthfinder.gov/).
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Reviewed February 9, 2000.

HiCitizen: Making Government Easy for You (http://www.hicitizen.com).
Imagitas, Inc.
Reviewed Apr. 11, 2001.

NOTE: Web page no longer available.

History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course on the Web (http://historymatters.gmu.edu/) American Social History Project.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2004

Hoaxbusters (http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org/).
CIAC (Computer Incident Advisory Capability ), U.S. Dept. of Energy.
Reveiwed: Mars Best 2003.

Household Products Database (http://householdproducts.nlm.nih.gov/)
National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Dept. of Health & Human Services
Reviewed: Mars Best 2004

How Products are Made (http://www.madehow.com/)
Thomson Gale
Reviewed: Mars Best 2006.

How Stuff Works (http://www.howstuffworks.com/).
BYG Publishing, Inc.
Reviewed: Mars Best 1999.

Human Genome Project Information (http://www.ornl.gov/hgmis).
Human Genome Management Information System (HGMIS) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, part of the U.S. Department of Energy.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2001.

HyperHistory Online (http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html).
World History Online.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2003.

I

Industry Research Desk (http://www.virtualpet.com/industry)
Polson Enterprises.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2002.

Informacion en Vivo: Servicios de referencia en español (http://preguntas.nypl.org/)
The New York Public Library.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2003.

Information Please (http://www.infoplease.com/).
Information Please LLC.
Reviewed: Mars Best 1999

Intelihealth (http://www.intelihealth.com/).
Intelihealth, a subsidary of Aetna, Inc.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2001.

The Internet Archive (http://www.archive.org/).
The Internet Archive with Prelinger Archives.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2002.

Internet Broadway Database (http://www.ibdb.com/).
League of American Theaters and Producers, Inc.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2002.

Internet History Sourcebooks Project (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall).
Paul Halsall, Fordham University.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2002.

The Internet Movie Database (http://www.imdb.com/).
The Internet Movie Database Ltd.
Reviewed: Mars Best 1999

Internet Public Library (http://www.ipl.org/).
Internet Public Library
Reviewed: Mars Best 1999

In the first person: An index to letters, diaries, oral histories, and other personal narratives (http://www.inthefirstperson.com)
Alexander Street Press
Reviewed: Mars Best 2006.

IRS: Forms and Publications . (http://www.irs.ustreas.gov/formspubs/index.html)
U.S. Internal Revenue Service.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2000.

iTools (http://www.itools.com/).
itools.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2002.

J 

K

Kelley Blue Book (http://www.kbb.com/).
KBB.
Reviewed: Mars Best 1999.

L

Latin American Network Information Center (http://www.lanic.utexas.edu/)
Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, University of Texas, Austin.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2003.

Librarians' Index to the Internet (http://www.lii.org/).
Librarians Internet Index.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2001.

Renamed Librarians Internet Index. (Noted January 2006)

The Library of Congress (http://www.loc.gov)
The Library of Congress
Reviewed: Mars Best 2006.

LII: Legal Information Institute (http://www.law.cornell.edu/).
Cornell Law School.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2003.

Lives, the Biography Resource (http://amillionlives.com/).
Kenneth P. Lanxner.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2001.

Content of site has changed. (Noted 2006)

M

The Making of America Project
(http://moa.umdl.umich.edu/ and http://moa.cit.cornell.edu/moa/index.html).
University of Michigan, Cornell University.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2003.

MapQuest (http://www.mapquest.com/).
MapQuest.com, Inc.
Reviewed: Mars Best 1999.

The Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project (http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/).
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project / Stanford University.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2000.

Math Forum (http://mathforum.org//)
Drexel University.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2004

Martindale's "The Reference Desk" (http://www.martindalecenter.com/ ).
Jim Martindale.
Reviewed: Mars Best 1999.

MayoClinic.com (http://www.mayoclinic.com/).
Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2002.

MEDLINEplus (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/).
National Library of Medicine.
Reviewed: Mars Best 1999.

The Merck Manual Home Edition (http://www.merckhomeedition.com/).
Merck & Company, Inc.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2002.

Measure 4 Measure (http://www.wolinskyweb.net/measure.htm).
Judi Wolinsky.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2001.

Merriam-Webster Online (http://www.m-w.com)
Merriam-Webster, Inc.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2006.

Metacritic (http://www.metacritic.com/)
CNET
Reviewed: Mars Best 2006.

Modern Language Association Language Map (http://www.mla.org/census_main).
Modern Language Association.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2005.

Monster (http://www.monster.com/).
TMP Worldwide.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2002.

Movie Review Query Engine (http://www.mrqe.com/).
Stewart M. Clamen.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2003

N

NASA (http://www.nasa.gov/).
U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2003.

National Archives and Records Administration: Office of the Federal Register (http://www.gpoaccess.gov/nara/index.html).
Office of the Federal Register.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2000.

National Atlas (http://www.nationalatlas.gov/)
United States Department of the Interior
Reviewed: Mars Best 2006.

National Criminal Justice Reference Service (http://www.ncjrs.org/index.html).
U.S. Department of Justice.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2005.

NATIONALGEOGRAPHIC.COM (http://www.nationalgeographic.com/)
National Geographic Society.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2004

National Institutes of Health (NIH) (http://www.nih.gov)
National Institutes of Health (NIH), U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services
Reviewed: Mars Best 2006.

Nationalissues.com (http://www.nationalissues.com/).
Nationalissues.com.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2001.

Original web site no longer available. (Noted Jan 2005)

National Weather Service (http://www.nws.noaa.gov/)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Reviewed: Mars Best 2006.

NationMaster.com (http://www.nationmaster.com/)
NationMaster.com; Luke Metcalfe, Manager / Developer.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2005.

NCES: National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/)
National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education
Reviewed: Mars Best 2003.

Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations Union Catalog
(http://www.ndltd.org/browse.en.html).
NDLTD, OCLC, VTLS.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2004

New York Times Article Archives 1851-1995 (http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/nytimes/advancedsearch.html).
The New York Times Company; hosted by ProQuest Archiver.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2005 .

The New York Times on the Web (http://www.nytimes.com/)
The New York Times Company.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2003.

NIST Chemistry WebBook (http://webbook.nist.gov/chemistry/)
P.J. Linstrom and W.G. Mallard, eds. National Institute of Standards and Technology.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2004

Nobel Foundation (http://www.nobel.se/).
The Nobel Foundation.
Reviewed: Mars Best 1999.

Nolo.com - law for all (http://www.nolo.com/).
Nolo Press.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2000.

NoodleTools: Smart Tools for Smart Research (http://www.noodletools.com/).
Debbie Abilock, Librarian/Curriculum Coordinator, Damon Abilock, NoodleTools Web site design and development.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2001.

North American Mammals (http://web4.si.edu/mna/main.cfm).
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2005.

NSSN National Resource for Global Standards (http://www.nssn.org/).
American National Standards Institute (ANSI).
Reviewed: Mars Best 2004

Nutrition.gov (http://www.nutrition.gov/).
National Agricultural Library, Food and Nutrition Information Center.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2005

The NYPL Picture Collection Online (http://digital.nypl.org/mmpco/)
The New York Public Library.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2004

O

Occupational Outlook Handbook (http://www.bls.gov/oco/).
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Reviewed: Mars Best 1999.

OAIster (http://www.oaister.org/).
University of Michigan Digital Library Production Service (DLPS).
Reviewed: Mars Best 2003.

The Official Academy Awards® Database
(http://www.oscars.org/awardsdatabase/index.html)
Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2005.

OFFSTATS: Official Statistics on the Web(http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/subjects/stats/offstats/).
Rainer Wolcke, University of Auckland Library.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2005.

OneLook Dictionaries (http://www.onelook.com/).
Bob Ware, Study Technologies.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2000.

OnHealth.Com (http://onhealth.com/).
OnHealth Network Company.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2000.

The Online Books Page (http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/).
John Mark Ockerbloom, University of Pennsylvania.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2003.

Online! Citation Styles (http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/citex.html).
Bedford/St. Martin's.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2001.

Opensecrets.org (http://www.opensecrets.org/).
The Center for Responsive Politics.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2002.

P

Papal Encyclicals Online (http://www.papalencyclicals.net/)
Papal Encyclicals Online.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2005.

Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection (http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/index.html).
General Libraries, University of Texas at Austin.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2002.

Perseus Digital Library (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/).
Perseus Project, Department of the Classics, Tufts University.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2003.

Peterson's Planner (http://www.petersons.com)
Thomson Peterson
Reviewed: Mars Best 2006.

Pew Internet & American Life (http://www.pewinternet.org/)
Pew Research Center.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2004

Picture History (http://www.picturehistory.com/)
Kunhardt Productions.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2004

Plants Database (http://plants.usda.gov/)
National Resources Conservation Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2004

PollingReport.com: Public Opinion Online (http://www.pollingreport.com/).
The Polling Report, Inc.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2001.

POTUS: Presidents of the United States (http://www.ipl.org/div/potus/)
Internet Public Library/School of Information University of Michigan
Reviewed: Mars Best 2006.

Project Gutenberg (www.promo.net/pg/).
Michael Hart.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2003.

Project Vote Smart (http://www.vote-smart.org/).
Project Vote Smart.
Reviewed: Mars Best 1999.

PubMed (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/).
National Library of Medicine.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2005.

The Pulitzer Prizes (http://www.pulitzer.org/)
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Reviewed: Mars Best 2006.

Q

R

Radio-Locator (http://www.radio-locator.com/)
Theodric Technologies LLC
Reviewed: Mars Best 2006.

REALTOR.com (http://www.realtor.com/).
National Association of Realtors.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2005.

Recalls.gov (http://www.recalls.gov)
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
Reviewed: Mars Best 2006.

Refdesk.com (http://www.refdesk.com/).
Refdesk.com, Inc.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2000.

Research and Documentation Online (http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/).
Bedford/St. Martin's Press
Reviewed: Mars Best 2004.

Resource Discovery Network (http://www.rdn.ac.uk/).
RDNC, coordinated by staff from UKOLN (University of Bath) and Kings College London.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2002.

RootsWeb.com (http://www.rootsweb.com/).
MyFamily.com
Reviewed: Mars Best 2002.

RxList: The Internet Drug Index (http://rxlist.com/).
Neil Sandow, Parm D.
Reviewed: Mars Best 1999.

S

SchoolMatters (http://www.schoolmatters.com)
Standard and Poors, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2006.

Science Daily Magazine (http://www.sciencedaily.com/).
Dan Hogan, Editor.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2004

SCORE: Counselors to America's Small Business (http://www.score.org/).
SCORE Association.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2005

Search Engine Watch (searchenginewatch.com).
Danny Sullivan and Chris Sherman.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2002.

Search jake (jointly administered knowledge environment)
(http://mercury.lib.sfu.ca/~tholbroo/sfujake/search.cgi).
Todd Holbrook, Simon Fraser University.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2002.

SkyscraperPage (http://skyscraperpage.com/)
SkyscraperPage.com
Reviewed: Mars Best 2006.

Sources: Their Use and Acknowledgement (http://www.dartmouth.edu/~sources/).
Dartmouth College.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2001.

Sparknotes (http://www.sparknotes.com/).
Barnes & Noble Learning Network.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2004

Sperling's BestPlaces (http://www.bestplaces.net/).
Bert Sperling.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2001.

StartSpot Network (http://www.startspot.com/).
StartSpot MediaWorks, Inc.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2003.

State and Local Government on the Net: A guide to government sponsored Internet sites (http://www.statelocalgov.net/index.cfm).
Piper Resources.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2001.

Statistical Resources on the Web (http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/statsnew.html).
Grace York, University of Michigan Library Documents Center.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2001.

The Straight Dope (http://www.straightdope.com/).
Cecil Adams, The Chicago Reader.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2004

T

TechEncyclopedia (http://www.techweb.com/encyclopedia/).
TechWeb Network, CMP Media LLC.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2005.

Telephone Directories on the Web (http://www.infobel.com/teldir/).
Robert Hoare, creator and Webmaster; a service of Infobel (Brussels).
Reviewed: Mars Best 2001.

Thomas: Legislative Information on the Internet (http://thomas.loc.gov/).
Library of Congress.
Reviewed: Mars Best 1999.

ThomasRegister (http://www.thomasregister.com/).
Thomas Publishing Company.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2004

Timeline of Art History (http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/splash.htm).
Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2005

Topozone.com (http://www.topozone.com/).
Maps a la Carte, Inc. & US Geological Survey.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2000.

Travlang (http://www.travlang.com/).
The Travlang Company.
Reviewed: Mars Best 1999.

TV.com (http://www.tv.com/).
John Nestoriak, Collaborative Content LLC; CNET Networks.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2005.

U

Unbound Bible (http://unbound.biola.edu/).
Biola University.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2003.

United States Postal Service (http://www.usps.com/).
United States Postal Service.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2000.

The Universal Currency Converter (http://www.xe.com/ucc/).
XE Corporation.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2002.

University of Michigan Documents Center (http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/).
Grace York, University of Michigan.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2004

Urban Legends Reference Pages (http://www.snopes.com)
Barbara and David P. Mikkelson
Reviewed: Mars Best 2006.

U.S. Census Bureau (http://www.census.gov/).
United States Department of Commerce.
Reviewed Apr. 2, 2001.

U.S. Copyright Office (http://www.copyright.gov/).
United States Copyright Office.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2004

U.S. Naval Observatory. Astronomical Applications Department: Data Services (http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data).
U.S. Naval Observatory Astronomical Applications Department.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2005

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (http://www.uspto.gov/).
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Reviewed March 2003.

V

The Valley of the Shadow (http://valley.vcdh.virginia.edu/).
Edward L. Ayers.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2004

W

Weather.Com (http://www.weather.com/).
Weather Channel Enterprises, Inc.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2000.

Weather Underground (http://www.weatherunderground.com/).
The Weather Underground, Inc.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2003.

WebElements Periodic Table (http://www.webelements.com/).
Mark Winter, University of Sheffield Dept. of Chemistry.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2001.

WebMD Health (http://www.webmd.com/)
WebMD, Inc.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2006.

Webopedia (http://www.pcwebopedia.com/).
INT Media Group, Inc.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2002.

Where to find MSDS [Materials Safety Data Sheets] on the Internet
(http://www.ilpi.com/msds/index.html).
Dr. Rob Toreki, Interactive Learning Paradigms Incorporated
Reviewed: Mars Best 2004

Wikipedia
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page).
Nupedia.Com.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2005

Wordsmyth: The Educational Dictionary-Thesaurus (http://www.wordsmyth.net/).
Wordsmyth Collaboratory.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2001.

World Factbook (http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/).
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.
Reviewed: Mars Best 1999.

World-newspapers.com (http://world-newspapers.com/).
Marius Kazokaitis, Vilnius, Lithuania.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2002.

X

Y

yourDictionary.com (http://www.yourdictionary.com/).
Dr. Robert Beard, and an Advisory Council of Experts.
Reviewed: Mars Best 2001.

Z