UMSL librarians have suggested these sites as useful sources of information for your research and convenience, to be used in addition to UMSL's primary Databases.
Since these web sites are not provided by UMSL, we cannot endorse or guarantee the accuracy of these sites. If you have any questions, please ask a librarian for assistance.
Quick Reference
- FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid )
- FastWeb (financial aid)
- Federal Student Aid (Dept. of Education)
- FinAid
- Grants & Scholarships (Missouri Dept. of Higher Education)
- Peterson's Education Center
- Student Guide (Department of Education)
- UMSL Student Financial Aid
- UMSL Mail Services (open to the public)
- U.S. Postal Services
Location Finder U.S. Postal Service - FedEx (Federal Express)
- UPS (United Parcel Service)
Reference (Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Almanacs, etc.)
General
Encyclopedias
- Canadian Encyclopedia
- Encyclopedia Mythica (Mythology & Folklore)
- FreeDictionary Encyclopedia (incl. Columbia Encyclopedia)
- Jewish Encyclopedia
- Middle East
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Symbols.com -- Encyclopedia of Western Signs and Ideograms
- American Heritage Dictionary
- Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable
- Merriam-Webster Dictionary/Thesaurus
- OneLook Dictionary Search
- Wordnik
- YourDictionary
The University Library no longer has tax forms. They are available at the following sites:
- Illinois Department of Revenue
- Internal Revenue Service (U.S. Treasury)
- Missouri Department of Revenue
- St. Louis (City of)
Recommended Web Sites
- Artists
- Biographical Dictionary
- Biographical Memoirs of deceased members of the National Academy of Sciences
- Biography.com
- Biography: Women
- Composers
- Mathematicians
- Nobel e-Museum
- Presidents of the United States
- Scienceworld
- Supreme Court Justices
- United States Congress Biographical Dictionary
- Women's Hall of Fame
- Business 2.0 Web Guide
- CEO Express
- Country Commercial Guides
- Doing Business in ...
- Edgar Database
- Encyclopedia of Corporate Governance
- Export.gov (U.S. Government Export Portal)
- Forbes Corporation Lists
- Fortune 500 Lists and Data Archive
- Globaledge
- GuideStar (nonprofit organizations)
- International Trade/Commercial Law
- Joint Transportation Research Program (Purdue University)
- Mergent News Reports
- NAICS Industry Codes
- Nonprofit Sector Literature
- PC Quote
- Philanthropic Studies Index
- SIC Search
- Stock Indexes (Bloomberg)
- Thomas Register
- Valueline
- Yahoo Finance
Also see the Government, Law and Statistics categories below
- CrimeSolutions.gov Evidence-based programs and practices
- Bureau of Justice Statistics
- Criminal Justice Reference Center
- JRSA (Justice Research and Statistics Association)
- Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics
- Uniform Crime Reports (Federal Bureau of Investigation)
- Dissertations and Theses (UMSL Databases)
- DART-Europe E-Theses Portal
- EthOs UK dissertations & theses.
- Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations. Two ways to search:
- Open Access Theses and Dissertations
- ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Open Free PDF full-text dissertations and theses published as open access; most 2007 to present.
- Theses Canada (includes dissertations)
- Bureau of Economic Analysis
- Bureau of Labor Statistics
- Budget - United States
- Currency Exchange Rates
- Dow Jones Averages
- Economic Indicators (Economics and Statistics Administration, U.S. Dept. of Commerce)
- Economic Indicators (Small Business Administration)
- Economic Research Network
- Economic Time Series
- Federal Reserve Bank of Saint Louis: provides access to ALFRED, FRASER, Page One Economics and other banking and economic statistics.
- Financial DataFinder
- Inflation Calculator
- MERIC (Missouri Economic Research and Information Center)
- NAICS Industry Codes
- Office of Industry Analysis
- Salary.com
- SIC Search
- World Bank
- Award Lists: Children and Young Adult Literature Resource Guide
- Best Websites for Teaching and Learning (AASL)
- Chronicle of Higher Education
- College Navigator (U.S. Deptartment of Education)
- College Rankings-Princeton Review
- Center for Measuring Academic Performance
- Education Reports (from ERIC)
- EdStats (Education Statistics compiled by World Bank's Education Group)
- Education Statistics (National Center for Education Statistics)
- Foundation Center
- Missouri Educator Gateway Assessments
- Peterson's Education Center
Government -- United States/Federal
- Agency Index
- Budget -- United States
- Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
- Census Department
- Congress.gov: Federal Legislation (formerly THOMAS)
- Congressional Biographical Directory 1774-
- Congressional Directory
- Congressional Documents 1774-1873
Congressional Research Service (CRS) reports: The Congressional Research Service (CRS), part of the Library of Congress, prepares its reports for the U.S. Congress, but currently there is no one database of these reports for the general public. The following groups have assembled collections of various CRS reports and made them available to the public: - Copyright Office
- Economic Report of the President
- Election Vote Counts
- FDIC Regional Economic Conditions (RECON)
- FDsys (Federal Digital System, formerly GPO Access)
- Federal Register
- Foreign Relations of the United States to 2001 (State Department)
- Government Documents Librarian (Mansfield University)
- Grey Literature Report (Health Services & Public Health Research)
- HealthCare.gov [Health Insurance]
- Internal Revenue Service (Federal Tax Forms and information)
- National Technical Information Service (NTIS)
- State Department Publications
- Supreme Court Collection
- Supreme Court Site
- THOMAS: Federal Legislation (changed to Congress.gov in 2014)
- Treaties in Force (State Department)
- United States Congress Votes Database (Washington Post)
- United States Government Manual
- USA.gov (formerly FirstGov)
- 50 - State Agency Database (via ALA)
- 50states.com
- Census of Governments
- City Profiles
- FDIC Regional Economic Conditions (RECON)
- Guide to Law Online (Library of Congress)
- Public Record Locator
- Regional Data (Bureau of Economic Analysis)
- State & County Quick Facts
- State & Local Government
- State Constitutions
- State Statistical Abstracts
- Vote Smart
- Amnesty International
- Background Notes (State Department)
- Canadian Encyclopedia
- CIA Factbooks, Publications
- Constitutions-World
- Country Studies
- Documents Center (Clark Library, University of Michigan)
- Embassy World
- Foreign Affairs Online
- Governments on WWW
- UN (United Nations)
- UNICEF (United Nations Children's Fund)
- World Statesmen
- CDC (Centers for Disease Control & Prevention)
- Gray's Anatomy
- HealthCare.gov (Health Insurance)
- Healthfinder
- International Classification of Diseases (ICD)
- Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
- Martindale's Health/Science Guide
- Medline Plus
- Merck Manual Home Health Handbook (for Patients and Caregivers)
- Merck Manual (for Professionals)
- Online Medical Dictionary
- PubMed
- Surgeon General Reports
- Toxicology Data Network (U.S. National Library of Medicine)
- Wellcome Images (Medical and other images via the Wellcome Library)
- World Health Reports
- America Memory Collection
- Arts & Letters Daily
- Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States
- The Brooklyn Daily Eagle( 1841-1902, full-text)
- Discovering American Women's History Online
- Early Americas Digital Archive (~1492-1820)
- Founders Online (Founding Fathers Papers projects)
- Paper of Record (Various UK, US, Canadian, & World newspapers - you must register & pay for access.)
- Perseus Digital Library
- The Richmond Daily Dispatch (1860-1865, full-text Civil War era newspaper)
- World War I Document Archive
- Case.net
- Copyright & Intellectual Property
- Copyright Clearance Center
- Criminal Justice Reference Center
- Center for Intellectual Property
- Documents, Law History & Diplomacy (Avalon Project)
- FedLaw
- FindLaw
- International Trade/Commercial Law
- JRSA (Justice Research and Statistics Association)
- Law Library of Congress
- Law.com Dictionary
- LawLinks
- Legal Information Institute
- Nolo (Information, Directories and Legal Products)
- Patents & Trademarks, U.S.
- Supreme Court Collection (Cornell Legal Information Institute)
- World Legal Information
Book Sources & Information
- ABEBooks
- Amazon.com
- Book Reviews
- BookFinder
- BookWire
- New York Times Book Reviews
- Online Books
- Pulitzer Prizes
- Academic Information Digital Library
- Adler Planetarium Digital Collections
- American Memory
- Bartleby
- Canadian Discovery Portal
- Digital Librarian: Electronic Texts
- Digital Public Library of America
- E-Journals.org
- Einstein Papers Project
- English Folk Dance & Song Society (18th & 19th Century books & music)
- European Library
- Europeana
- Evaluating Internet Resources
- Evaluating Web Resources
- Gallica (France)
- Google Art Project
- History Sourcebook
- Internet Archive (books, music, video & audio)
- ipl2 Books
- LibriVox (free public domain audiobooks)
- Making of America
- Missouri Digital Heritage
- MOspace (University of Missouri Institutional Repository)
- New York Public Library Digital Gallery
- Perseus Digital Library
- Polonsky Foundation Digitization Project (Bodleian & Vatican Libraries)
- Project Gutenberg
- Smithsonian Online Collections & Datasets
- University of Missouri Digital Library
- Vatican Library
- ArchiveGrid (Collections by subject and location)
- Center for Research Libraries
- Early Modern Union Catalog
- Gabriel (European National Libraries)
- Internet Library for Librarians
- ipl2
- Journal Abbreviations
- JournalSeek
- Library Blogs (compiled by Salem Press)
- Library of Congress Home Page
- Library of Congress Online Catalog
- Library of Congress Classification Schedule
- Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Library Directories-WWW
- Library Index
- Library Journal
- LibrarySpot
- Missouri Libraries
- National Archives & Records Administration
- National Library Catalogs
- NUCMC
- Publishers & Vendors
- Scholarly Societies
- Smithsonian Institution Research Information Systems
- St.Louis Library Catalogs
- Economic & Policy Analysis Research Center
- Health Data
- Jefferson City News Tribune
- Legislature
- Local Labs - Missouri data (Social Sciences data and visualizations)
- Missouri State Library
- MCDC (Census Data Center)
- MERIC - Missouri Economic Research and Information Center
- MissouriNet
- Missouri Accountability Portal
- Missouri Digital Heritage
- Missouri History Museum
- Missouri Kids Count
- Missouri Office of Social & Economic Data Analysis
- Missouri Secretary of State (Manual,Regulations,Elections)
- Missouri State Government
- Missouri State Government Publications:
- Missouri Statistical Data Archive
- Newspapers and News Media Guide
- Schools - Elementary & Secondary
- State Historical Society
- Tax Forms
- Tourism
- Alternet
- The Brooklyn Daily Eagle ( 1841-1902, full-text)
- BBC
- California Digital Newspaper Collection
- CNN
- Christian Science Monitor
- Columbia Daily Tribune
- Common Dreams
- Google News
- Historical African American Newspapers Available Online
- Independents (NewPages)
- IndyMedia
- Jefferson City News Tribune
- New York Times
- News Archives (United States)
- NewsLink
- Newspaper Association of America
- Online Newspapers
- Paper of Record (Contains links to various UK, US, Canadian, and World Newspapers. You must set up a login to gain access.)
- The Richmond Daily Dispatch, 1860-1865 (full-text)
- St. Louis Today (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
- Washington Post
- Charity Navigator
- Foundation Center
- Form 990 Finder (Foundation Center)
- GuideStar
- National Center for Charitable Statistics
- Nonprofit Explorer tool (ProPublica)
Also see the library's research guide: Nonprofit Organizations and the Nonprofit Sector
- Biology Online
- The Cell (an image library)
- Chemistry Center
- ChemSpider
- EarthTrends
- ENature Field Guides
- Engineering, Math, and Computer Science
- EurekaAlert
- Geology.com
- How Stuff Works
- Math Tables and Formulas
- Measurement Conversions
- PC Webopaedia
- Plant List
- Plants DB
- PMC (PubMed Central)
- SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
- Science.gov
- Toxicology Data Network (U.S. National Library of Medicine)
- World Biodiversity Database
- Census Reports (St. Louis City)
- East-West Gateway
- Explore St. Louis
- Gateway Journalism Review (formerly St. Louis Journalism Review)
- Metro (Bi-State)
- Metropolitan Police Department (City of St. Louis)
- Obituaries Index
- Riverfront Times
- St. Louis American
- St. Louis Area Archives Directory
- St. Louis Beacon Journal
- St. Louis Business Journal
- St. Louis City
- St. Louis County
- St.Louis Library Catalogs
- St. Louis Today (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
- STL250 St. Louis turns 250 in 2014!
- United Way of Greater St. Louis
Statistics - United States
- American FactFinder
- BRFSS at the CDC (Centers for Disease Control & Prevention)
- Bureau of Justice Statistics
- Bureau of Labor Statistics
- Census Bureau
- Child Statistics
- State & County QuickFacts
- Education Statistics (National Center for Education Statistics)
- FedStats
- Gallup Polls
- Health, United States (Public Health Statistics)
- Health, United States (Annual Report from the CDC)
- Historical United States Census Statistics
- ICPSR (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research)
- JRSA (Justice Research and Statistics Association)
- Kids Count
- Local Labs (Social Sciences data and visualizations)
- Missouri Demographics-OSEDA
- Missouri Statistical Data Archive
- Population Profile - United States (Census Bureau)
- Population Reference Bureau
- Social Science Data Center
- Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics
- State Statistical Abstracts
- Statistical Abstract US
- Uniform Crime Reports (Federal Bureau of Investigation)
- Workforce, Report on the American (Bureau of Labor Statistics)
- Children, State of the World
- Datasets on the Internet through Web Portals [via MU]
- EdStats (Education Statistics compiled by World Bank's Education Group)
- Human Development Report
- Population Index
- Population Reference Bureau
- PovertyNet
- United Nations Statistics
- UNESCO Institute for Statistics
- World Bank Open Data (includes Development Indicators)
- World Population 2010
- zanran (data, statistics, graphs, charts and tables)
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- UM-St. Louis Databases
- Locate Journal Titles
- Locate Online Books (also search for online books using the UMSL Catalog)
- MOspace (University of Missouri Institutional Repository)
- Merlin Gateway
- MOBIUS Consortium
- University of Missouri System
- University of Missouri System Salary Report
- University of Missouri System Policies and Rules
