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• AARP

• Accounting

• Acronyms and Initialisms for Health Information Resources
  © 1997-2001 Marie-Lise Shams MSLS, AHIP, RN

• Accuplacer Testing "Your source for free practice tests."

• Advance Directives Pathfinder: (see also Brain Dead, Bioethics, Ethics)

  • Advance Care Planning: Preferences for Care at the End of Life

  • Center for Ethics in Health Care

• African American Mosaic from the Library of Congress.

• African -American Women © 2004 Uncrowned Queens Institute for Research and Education on Women, Inc.

• AIDS / HIV Resources See also Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual

• Aging Pathfinder  includes links to internet resources (includes NYS aging resources); books, encyclopedias, videos at the RRS Library.   

• Alcohol Pathfinder

• Allied Health and Culture Pathfinder

• Alternate Medicine (Includes Holistic Health)

• Alzheimer's ; Alzheimer's Disease Education & Referrral ;

• American Cancer Society's Local Links 

• American Indians See Native Americans Resources 

• Anatomy from NetAnatomy See also Anatomy Images; Inner Body images;  Medical Images & Movie

• Anatomy & Physiology ONLINE Learning Center
  (c)2004 McGraw-Hill Higher Education - - goes along with Anatomy & Physiology textbook.  Contains study guide, chapter quizzing and exam preparation, etc.

• Anxiety Disorders Fears & Phobias Pathfinder

• APA Style

• Arab Culture and Civilization See Also ISLAM

• Archives from New York State

• Archives of Trocaire College History

• Arthritis Foundation

• Autism- *Autism Spectrum Disorders: The National Institute of Mental Health"

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• Black Abolitionists Archive from the University of Detroit Mercy

• Book information on binding, bookhistory, printing, presses, typography etc. See also Handpapermaking

• Bill of Rights from US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)

• BLOGS - Syndication For Higher Education. If you are trying to keep up with the expanding number of podcaststhat are available, this is a blog worth following.

• Books Online Full-text from the Gutenberg Project See Also Catalogs & Books and Book Reviews

• Brain Dead and Catholic Philosophy

• Brain Tumor Association - - "a global organization making major strides by funding brain tumor research and providing the information patients need to make educated decisions about their healthcare."

• Breast Cancer Pathfinder © Valerie G. Rankow  (Printed with permission)

• Buffalo

  • Buffalo.com- - Everything Buffalo

  • Local Government & Community (also includes federal & state links)

  • Buffalo School Closings

  • Buffalo Weather, local

  • Vital & Original Records (Geneology)
    in Buffalo & Erie County, NY © 2000-2005 by Cynthia Van Ness 

• Bureau of Labor Statistics - - Economy at a glance, career guides, inflation and spending, working and looking for work; how much people earn, worker safety and health, productivity, international statistics, online magazines, economic analysis and information offices.

• Business Resources

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• Cancer Resource Page

  • (AICR) The American Institute for  Cancer Research

  • (WCRF) World Cancer Research Fund

  • American Cancer Society ; 

  • American Society of Clinical Oncology ; 

  • CancerLinks ; 

  • National Cancer Institute

• Cardiac Media Pathfinder 

• Catalogs

• Catholic Encyclopedia (online)

• Census 2000 Tutorial

• Census Data includes data on people, business, geography, minorities and special topics such as Statistical Abstract and FedStats. See also Government Resources Pathfinder

• Central Referral Services of Erie County see also WNYservices

• Chemistry, Periodic Table of Elements

• Child Abuse and Neglect from the National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect Information and the National Adoption Information Clearinghouse.

• Child, Children resources for children from the U.S. government

• Colleges, See Scholarships and Colleges.

• Citation Guides on MLA, APA 

• Clipart  from DiscoverySchool.com and Clipart resources for Teachers

• Complementary & Alternative Medicine

• Computer WEBOPEDIA and  Interactive Technology Activities 

• Constitution of the United States from US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)

• Consumer LINKS to Federal & NYS Agencies, Consumer Groups & Utilities

• Consumer Law Help Manual from NYS See also LawHelp http://lawhelp.org/NY/  "an online, legal-information resource that provides low-income New Yorkers across the state with referrals to free legal services, legal fact sheets and FAQs, links to social services agencies, and information about the court system."

• Copyright Laws & Legislation Pathfinder

• Core Competencies at Trocaire College

• Corporate Information

• Counseling: Resources for students, consumers, and professionals 

• Country Information -- Inglewood Public Library's Guide To Country Information On The Internet See also Country Information / Rankings & Flags

• Country Studies from Library of Congress

• Cost of Living and Salary Calculator

• Critical Thinking Web Resources

• Cultural Awareness and Communication (for HM 103)

• Cultural Diversity & Medicine See also Multiculture

• Cultural Menus & Soul Food Websites

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• Databases; Database Articles

• Death, Loss and Bereavement- - See GriefNet.org an Internet community of persons dealing with grief, death, and major loss GriefNet is directed by Cendra (ken'dra) Lynn, Ph.D., a clinical grief psychologist, death educator, and traumatologist who lives in Michigan, USA.

• Declaration of Independence from US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)

• Dictionaries:

  • Dictionary Merriam-Webster See also Common Errors in English Usage by Paul Brians, Professor of English, Washington State University 

  • Dictionaries- - Includes more than six hundred legal, health & foreign dictionaries  

  • Dictionaries at http://dictionary.reference.com/

  • http://MetaGlossary.com allows users to get fast, and real explanations for words, terms, acronyms and phrases that often cannot be found in dictionaries.

  • WordReference.com - gives a quick definition and word translation to French, German, Spanish and Italian. 

  • Dictionaries, Medical 

    • CancerWEB Online Medical Dictionary © Copyright 1997-2003 - Dept. of Medical Oncology, University of Newcastle upon Tyne.

    • MEDLINE PLUS DICTIONARY from the National Library of Medicine.

    • Terms and Definitions (Office of Rare Diseases)  or  look under Dictionaries/Glossaries on the Health Topic page--Rare Diseases 

    • Word! A Glossary of Medical Words for kids (Nemours Foundation) or click on Children's Health, Children's Page, and Infant and

• Dietary Supplements from the National Library of Medicine

• Disabilities - -The National Council on Disability (NCD) is an independent federal agency making recommendations to the President and Congress on issues affecting 54 million Americans with disabilities.

• Diseases

  • Diseases and Conditions© 2005, Librarians' Internet Index, LII.

  • Diseases, Rare and Terms for rare diseases from the National Library of Medicine

• Disorders from Internet Mental Health contains an excellent alphabetical list of the most common mental disorders including Anorexia, Anxiety, Bulimia, Bipolar, Phobias etc. See Also Neurological Disorders Resources

• Diversity Resources Online - - comprehensive resource center for many aspects of diversity in education, human resources, the public sector, health care and the society at large.

• Domestic Violence from the American Bar Association

• Down's Syndrome - - includes medical issues and essays, global family village, disability solutions.

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• Eating Disorders from The Center for Eating Disorders 

• Educational Resources from Academic Info Your Gateway to Quality Educational Resources

• Educational Technology

• The Educator's Reference Desk. ERD is a service of The Information Institute at Syracuse University. "Through The Educator's Reference Desk (http://www.eduref.org) you can access AskERIC's 2,000+ lesson plans, 3,000+ links to online education information, and 200+ question archive responses. While the question answer service will no longer be active, The Educator's Reference Desk provides a search interface to the ERIC Database, providing access to over one million bibliographic records on educational research, theory, and practice."

• Employment, Geographic Profile of Employment and Unemployment, 2001 (US Department of Labor)
   - -  for job descriptions See Occupational Outlook  Handbook

• Encyclopedia - - the Internet's free encyclopedia with more than 50,000 articles  See also Medical Encyclopedia

• English/ Humanities Pathfinder

• English Literature from Yahoo See also Common Errors in English Usage by Paul Brians, Professor of English, Washington State University 

• End of Life Care - Advance Directives.

• Environmental Education

• Erie County Services see WNYservices

• Ethics / Bioethics: (see also Advance Directives)

• Ethics Updates - by Lawrence M. Hinman, University at San Diego 

• Bioethics: dmoz - Open Directory Project

• National Institutes of Health "Bioethics Resources on the Web"

• Ethnic Foods Multicultural Menus & Soul Food Websites

• Eye Organization of the Retina

• Fact Finder from the US Census Bureau: community profiles, age, education, housing, census, population etc
• Family Web Guide - - gateway to the best sites about families & child development, education. learning, childcare, statistics etc. See Also http://childstats.gov
• General Family Health www.familydoctor.org
• Foods, see Multicultural Menus, Ethnic Food
• Food, diet A Nation at Risk: Obesity in the United States
• Food Pyramid - - MyPyramid for Pregnancy and Breastfeeding
• File Formats - "Every File format in the world" Copyright 2000 - 2004, TechTarget
• Filing taxes See IRS and Tax Forms
• Financial Aid -- The SmartStudent^TM Guide

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• Jobs & Job Descriptions & Payscales (see Occupational Outlook  Handbook) See Also 
  • Geographic Profile of Employment and Unemployment, 2001  
  • Career One Stop http://www.careeronestop.org/aboutus.asp In line with the Department of Labor’s vision for America's Labor Market Information System, CareerOneStop, is a collection of electronic tools, operating as a federal-state partnership, and funded by grants to states. 
  • The Salary Wizard - http://www.salary.com
  • Monthly Labor Review from the US Department of Labor
• Journals - see Available Journals 
• Journal/Chart Comparison - - compares scholarly journals vs. popular magazines.

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• National Institutes on Health from the Federal Government

• National Public Radio (NPR)

• Native Americans Resources 

• Neurological Disorder Resources - - Autism, Bipolar, Fetal Alcohol, Tourette's Syndrome etc.

• Neuroscience Education

• News CNN  

• NEWS and NEWSPAPERS ONLINE   

• News, Sports, Business, A&E, Magazines, World 

• Nursing Resources See Also Needlestick Prevention © 2002 The American Nurses Association, Inc. And  OSHA Bloodborne Pathogens and Needlestick Prevention

• Nutrition Chart

• Nutrition- MyPyramid for Pregnancy and Breastfeeding

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• Occupational Outlook  Handbook - - "the Handbook describes what workers do on the job, working conditions, the training and education needed, earnings, and expected job prospects in a wide range of occupations."

• Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center and Pathfinder 

• Orem, Dorothea

• Palliative Care, caring for a loved one who has a terminal illness.

• Parkinson's Disease Foundation© 2005 "The Parkinson’s Disease Foundation (PDF) is a national non-profit organization devoted to funding research, providing education and advocating for Parkinson’s."

• Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation PBGC is a federal corporation created by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974. It currently protects the pensions of 44.4 million American workers."

• Personality Disorders see also Mental Health 

• Philosophy Webpage

• Phone Directories See also Telephone Directories Online

• Physicians Select - - professional information on most licensed U.S. physicians

• Pictures/Digital Images from New York Public Library. See also Images

• Plagiarism - - Sections for instructors and students.

• Poetry, American - - There are 161 poets including biographies and poems. Copyright © Department of English, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 

• Poet's Corner for students and teachers from Gale Publishers 

• Podcasting from © SirsiDynix

• Polls, Gallup

• Poverty - National Center for Children and Poverty See also "Children"

• Population & Demographics

• Post-partum Depression

• Presidents, See US History

• Professions - - NYS.  Since 1891, the Board of Regents and the New York State Education Department have overseen the preparation, licensure, and practice of the professions. Currently, the Office of the Professions regulates thirty-eight professions defined in Title VIII of the Education Law.

• PubMed

• Psychology - Classics in Philosophy/Psychology ©York University , Toronto , Canada

  • Psychology& Aging Resources Pathfinder see also Health Resources

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• Radiology: American Society of Radiologic Technologists
• Radiology Resources Pathfinder of books, journals & images.
• Ready Reference
• Religion- Country by Country Analysis  All contents copyright © AIAD / ICDAA Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade. See also WNY Religion
• Rare Diseases and Terms for rare diseases from the National Library of Medicine
• Religion, 
•      Facts/Statistics  American Religion Data Archive 
• Research Topic-- How to choose
• Reference Center from Internet Public Library
• Resumes, Salary, Jobs and Career Guides from the U.S. Department of Labor

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• Schizophrenia, understanding of, -- from the University of Texas Harris County Psychiatric Center (HCPC), a  licensed public psychiatric facility for psychiatric and clinical social services. See also mental Health Disorders.

• Scholarships and Colleges for students.

• Science Integrity - - The Integrity in Science project identifies and discloses conflicts of interest - - in matters related to health and the environment.

• Science.gov - - connects to US Government Science and Technology Index

• School Closings see Buffalo school closings

• Sensory Physiology by Dr. Tutis Vilis, a professor in the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology at the University of Western Ontario (Canada)

• Shakesepare Search from Clusty.com ;  Shakespeare - -written by Professor Steven Marx <smarx@calpoly.edu>

• Sleep Disorders

• Smoking & Health

• Social Security (see also Women and Social Security) and the Government Resources and Citizen Guide

• Sociology - 

  • The SocioWeb page. Also listed with Social Sciences Resources below.

  • Social Sciences Resources from the world wide Web Virtual Library.

    • Anthropology; Arts and Classics; Business, Economics, and Finance; Demography, Ecology, and Geography; Education; Government, Law, and Politics; History; Journalism; Languages and Linguistics; Psychology; Regional and Religious Studies; Sociology; Systems (Artificial and Natural).

• Sports  

• Statistical Resources Children, Education, Health & Transportation. See also Fact Finder from the US Census Bureau: community profiles, age, education, housing, census, population etc

• Stocks & Industry market watch from ©BigCharts.com

• Stress Management from Holistic-Health

• Stuttering Foundation of America - - "provides free online resources, services and support to those who stutter and their families, as well as support for research into the causes of stuttering."

• Suicide

• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, SAMHSA, an Agency of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services.

• Surgical and Clinical Pathology Outlines  by Nat Pernick, MD - © 2001-2007 by PathologyOutlines.com, Inc., 

• Surgical Technology (select "Cancel" at login screen)

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• Tax Forms Federal IRS, New York State See Also IRS

• Teaching Resources See Also Lesson Plans

• Telephone Directories Online

• Terrorism Resources See Also, Homeland Security

• Thesaurus

• Toxics If you've ever wondered about health risks associated with a nearby factory, what is in your drinking water or chemicals dumped near a favorite site of yours, please visit the new web site called Tox Town from the National Library of Medicine.

• Transcendentalism authors (American)

• Travel Information from the Center for Disease Control (CDC)

• Tuberculosis from the Centers for Disease Control

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• YouTube Science Lectures U of California at Berkeley
• VietNam War

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• War in Iraq (Middle East)

• Weather, Buffalo, local 

• Weather

• Weather Notebook - - a radio show about weather & everyday life

• Web Sites for Beginners 

• Western NY Information Portal 

• World Bank Organization

• World Fact Book -  - Search by country. "Prepared by the Central Intelligence Agency for use by government officials. Information is provided by various government agencies  and other public and private sources."

• Write Source - - helpful guides for writing reports & research papers.

• WNYservices.org - - on-line directory of health and human services information including "Central Referral Services" to Erie County government, non-profit and community resources.

• WNYLRC (WESTERN NEW YORK LIBRARY RESOURCES COUNCIL)

  • WNYLRC Public Access Catalog

  • WNY LIBRARIES Virtual Union Catalog

  • WNYLRC Member Library Catalogs and Web Pages 

• Women and Health See the Health page 

• Women's History Resources 

• Women Websites all inclusive from child care to politics

• Women and Social Security

• Women, Erie County Commission on the Status of Women

• World Time Zones

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• Zip codes from US Postal Service includes postal fees, zip codes & passport information.
  

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