Bibliographic Databases
Google Scholar
Pubmed - A bibliographic database in Medicine (From the National Library of Medicine)
ERIC - A bibliographic database in Education (Official US Government access )
Film Literature Index
 
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Encyclopedias
Encyclopedia Britannica
(Open to University of Haifa students and staff only)
Columbia Encyclopedia (6th edition)
Wikipedia - The Free Encyclopedia
Encyclopedia of the ORIENT - Covers peoples, cultures, and languages
that are related to the Arab world and the Middle East in general.
My Virtual Encyclopedia - Subject directory of (mostly american) web
 sites. Also has "word search" in titles.
The Catholic Encyclopedia
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
The Internet Movie Database
 
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Dictionaries

Oxford English Dictionary - From OED site
(Open to University of Haifa students and staff only)
Wordnet (a Lexical database for the English Language) - From Prinston University Cognitive Science.
The Glossarist - A searchable directory of glossaries and topical dictionaries
Terminology Collection - Online Dictionaries
Translator Dictionary - Free translation and online dictionaries
Language Dictionaries - On-Line Dictionaries
OneLook Dictionaries- Searches over 100 online dictionaries simultaneously
Acronym Finder (Initials and abbreviations by subject)
abbreviations.com - abbreviations and Acronyms
Roget's Thesaurus (ARTFL)
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus (3rd edition, Bartleby.com)
Merriam-Webster Online Search
Encarta World English Dictionary  
 
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Directories
Phone, fax and e-mail directories on the Web
Israeli Yellow Pages
Bezeq phone directory (144)
University of Haifa Staff Email Addresses 
JAS - Journal abbreviation Sources (From Iowa State University)
College and University Rankings
Incites - Provides a behind-the-scenes look at the scientists, journals,
institutions, nations, and papers selected by ISI Essential Science Indicators.
HyperHistory Online - HyperHistory is an expanding scientific project presenting 3,000 years of world history with an interactive combination of synchronoptic lifelines, timelines, and maps.
 
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Factbooks and Data
World Almanac - From FirstSearch
(Open to University of Haifa students and staff only)
Statistical Yearbook (united Nations)
(Open to University of Haifa students and staff only)
The World Factbook  (CIA)
The World Gazetteer - This site provides information about current population of countries, their administrative divisions, cities and towns.
NationMaster - This site compares graphical data on nations from reliable government and institutional sources.
Portals to the World  (Collected by Library of Congress Subject Specialists)
United Nations Statistical Division - Statistical databases online.
FAOSTAT (From the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations)
A multilingual database covering international agricultural statistics from 1950.
Central Bureau of Statistics, Israel
Statistical Resources on the Web - Meta index to statistical web sites and
individual statistical publications from the University of Michigan Documents
Center.
Statistics Netherlands - Comprehensive set of links to governmental sources of statistics worldwide.
InfoNation - View and compare national statistical data from United Nations CyberSchoolBus.
 
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Biographies and Quotations
World Biography Index - From Braunschweig University
(Open to University of Haifa students and staff only)
Biography Resource Center - From Gale
(Open to University of Haifa students and staff only)
Biographical Dictionary - Information on over 18,000 people from ancient times to the    present day.
Biography - Biographies of over 20,000 of the greatest names from the past and present.  
The Quotations Page
Simpson's Contemporary Quotations
 
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Image Databases
NYPL Digital Gallery - Provides access to over 275,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library.
Earth Science World Image Bank - from AGI (American Geological Institute)
 
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Israeli Sources
Sha'ar Hamemshala - A central site for all government offices and
service, including simple and advance search options.
Facts about Israel  (Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
Central Bureau of Statistics, Israel
Central Zionist Archives
Israel Science and Technology Homepage
The Jerusalem Post
Ha'aretz English Edition - Provides an archive since March 1997 for
searching or browsing.
Israelimages (Photos from Israel by subject)
Shoah Resource Center  (Yad Vashem)
eMap - Maps of Israel in English
Israel Antiquities Authority
 
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