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- Child Care
See also: Education
- Clearinghouse on Elementary
and Early Childhood Education (CEEP) provides information for
local, state, and national early childhood education, projects, and
organizations. Provided by the Early Childhood and Parenting Collaborative
at the University of Illinois.
- Early
Childhood Education on Line links to resources about child
development, early childhood curriculum, child advocacy, and more.
Presented by the College of Education at the University of Maine, and
managed by James Chiavacci.
- KIDS COUNT Census statistics on children and families
- Kidsource Online includes
information and articles about raising children, from newborns to adolescents.
- National Center for Early
Development & Learning (NCEDL) does research about the
cognitive, social and emotional development of children from birth through
age eight.
- National Child Care Information
Center (NCCIC) is a clearinghouse and technical assistance center
of information for early care and education. Provided by the Child Care Bureau of the
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
- National Parent Information Network
- National Resource Center for Health
and Safety in Child Care (NRC) provides information for parents
and child care providers, including state licensing and regulations and
health and safety tips
- Parenting
Library from the Parent
Soup online community for expectant parents, and parents of infants,
children, and young adults.
- Zero to Three is
dedicated to promoting the healthy development of infants and
toddlers
- College Information
- The Admissions
Office links to colleges, school rankings, online applications,
and financial aid resources.
- College Directory USA
is a comprehensive directory of addresses, phone numbers, maps, and area
info for 10,000 Colleges in the United States
- CollegeNet points to information about U.S. colleges and universities, financial aid, and scholarships.
- Financial Aid
- Home Pages of Colleges and Universities
- University of Hawaii System Information
- CA$H Scholarship Database of over 1,000 local and national scholarships, grants, and financial aid
- Transfer of Credits
- UHINFO is the University of
Hawaii at Manoa's Home Page, and a gateway to Web sites of colleges of the University of Hawaii system.
- Consumer Protection
- Better Business Bureau
- Car Talk
- Consumer Information
Center lists hundreds of free or low-priced federal consumer
publications on health, business, employment, money, federal programs,
and more, which can be read or ordered online.
A service of the Federal Consumer Information Center.
- ConsumerREVIEW
compiled over 85,000 reviews on 15,000 products.
- Consumer World
links over 1,500 consumer resources on the Internet, including
bulletins and product reviews. Created by Edgar Dworsky.
- Edmund's Car Buying Guide
gives new and used car pricing, auto model reviews, etc.
- Internet Fraud
Watch from the National Fraud Information Center provides
information about safe use of the Internet, telemarketing, and
protecting your privacy. The Internet Fraud Watch is a project of the
National Consumers
League, a private, nonprofit advocacy group representing consumers on
marketplace and workplace issues.
- Kelley Blue Book is a resource for
new and used car pricing, and info about buying and selling vehicles.
- Office of Consumer
Protection, State of Hawaii, links appropriate statutes, consumer
tips, complaint forms, and
Landlord-Tenant
Information.
- Product Review Net indexes and summarizes product reviews. Browse categories or
search for particular items.
- U.S. Consumer Gateway
links to a wide range of consumer information from federal
agencies about food, health, product safety, money, and transportation.
Consumer.gov is "your resource for consumer information from the
federal government." Participating agencies:
Federal Trade Commission
(FTC), Securities and Exchange
Commission (SEC), U.S. Consumer Product
Safety Commission (CPSC), Food and
Drug Administration (FDA), National
Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), and U.S. Office of
Consumer Affairs (USOCA).
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- Crime
See also: Law
- CJ Central
includes material to supplement criminal justice textbooks by
Frank Schmalleger, including glossaries
of criminal justice terms and the cybrary of
Web links.
- Country Studies, from the Library of Congress include descriptions of criminal justice systems
throughout the world.
- Crime Prevention and Justice Assistance Division, Hawaii State Department of the Attorney General
- Crime and Justice Statistics from the U.S. Department of Justice
- Criminal Justice Links, from the Florida State University School of Criminology
and Criminal Justice
- Criminal Justice Resource Center
- Federal Bureau of
Investigation,
includes the Library of documents,
and the Uniform Crime Reports.
- Honolulu Police
Department
- Justice Information Center
presents information on corrections, crime statistics, juvenile justice, drugs, etc.
A Service of the National Criminal Justice Reference Service.
- Uniform Crime Reports (UCR), 1990-93, 1994-95
, courtesy of the University of Virginia
More recent UCRs can be accessed at FBI Publications. These are in pdf format, requiring Adobe Acrobat reader.
- World
Factbook of Criminal Justice Systems provides narrative descriptions
about the criminal justice systems of countries around the world.
- Education
See also: Child Care
- Department
of Education, State of Hawaii
- Clearinghouse
Websites compile much of the clearinghouse information previously
available through ERIC. Topics include assessment, early and
elementary education, information technology, vocational education,
counseling, and more. Provided by the North Central Association (NCA)
Commission on Accreditation and School Improvement.
- Disney Educational Productions offer lots of ideas.
- The Gateway to Educational Materials includes lesson plans, curriculum units and education resources.
- Kidsource Online offers
information and articles for infants through high school students, and presents
the Learning
Disability Search Engine.
- LD Online is the
"interactive guide to learning disabilities for parents, teachers,
and children."
- Ethics
- Genealogy
- Government Information
- State and County Government
- CARD Network Online Catalog from the Hawaii State Department of Customer Services Library
searches the collections of the Legislative Reference Bureau Library, the Business Resource Center (DBEDT),
the Supreme Court Law Library (SCCL),
and the Municipal Reference and Records Center (MRRC).
- County and City
Data Books in electronic versions for 1988 and 1994: "a wide variety of demographic, social, and economic variables are presented for counties, cities, places, and states." Hosted by the University of Virginia.
- National Governors'
Association (NGA) includes state issues, governors' biographies and
staff, and State-of-the-state
addresses.
- Federal Government
- FirstGov links 27 million
U.S. government Web pages.
- Federal Register, Congressional Record, Congressional Bills, U.S. Code, and
other Federal Government information are searchable online via GPO Access
of the U.S. Government Printing
Office (GPO).
- FedLaw
- Government Publications such as government publications, a federal web locator, and depository libraries are organized by the Main Library of the University of Nevada Las Vegas.
- How
to Find U.S. Government Data and Info presented by Lycos search engine.
- Links to
Government Websites, courtesy of AT&T Business Bookmarks
- THOMAS, legislative information
on the Internet, including the text of bills
- U.S. Census Information
- U.S. Code,
the general and permanent laws of the United States. By the Office of the Law Revision Counsel.
- U.S. Code of Federal
Regulations (CFR), regulations issued by executive branch agencies.
Courtesy of Cornell University.
CFR
by the National Archives and Records Administration
- U.S.
Federal Register, new and proposed regulations. By the National
Archives and Records Administration.
- Uncle Sam's
Reference Shelf includes statistics and tables from The
Statistical Abstract of the United States. Frequently requested
statistics, tables, and rankings are available with your Web browser.
Others are pdf files.
Note: .pdf format requires Adobe Acrobat
Reader.
- University of Michigan Documents Center is a vast resource for federal, international,
state, and local government information.
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- Hawaii
- History
- An Abridged
History of the United States, by William M. Brinton
- American Historical Documents, from the Declaration of Independence to the North American Free Trade Agreement, and lots more in-between. Originated by Wiretap, now maintained by About.com at the Mining Co.
- American
Historical Documents at THOMAS (legislative information on the Internet) at the Library of Congress
- Black History
Month Resource Center from Gale
Research publishers, includes biographical sketches of
African-Americans, a historical timeline, and excerpts from The
Schomburg Center Guide to Black Literature.
- Exploring Ancient
World Cultures (EAWC), is "an introductory, on-line, college-level
'textbook' of ancient world cultures," provided by Evansville University.
- Internet
Ancient History Sourcebook
Provides and organizes class texts, and links to online collections.
Compiled and edited by Paul Halsall.
- Investing
- EDGAR contains files
submitted by publicly traded corporations to the Securities and Exchange
Commission (SEC). Provided as a service to investors by New York
University and the SEC.
- Hoover's Stock
Screener to screen stocks, research companies, and check quotes
- Nasdaq Stock Market
- InternetStats links
sites for business and market information, statistics, trends, and news.
- IPO.com initial public offering
services: price, data, recent filings, company summaries, and news.
- Quote.com for financial
market data, such as current quotes on stocks, options, commodity
futures, mutual funds, and indices for U.S. and Canadian markets. Plus
current business news, earnings forecasts and reports, tutorials about
investment basics, market analysis, and annual reports.
- Law
See also: Crime
- CARD Network Online
Catalog searches the collections of the Legislative Reference Bureau Library,
the Business Resource Center
(DBEDT), the Supreme Court Law
Library (SCCL), and the Municipal Reference and Records Center (MRRC),
and links to the full text of laws, legislative reports, and court opinions
and rules.
- Hawaii State Judiciary
- FindLaw links Supreme
Court cases, law reviews, state law resources, U.S. federal government
resources, law schools, legal publishers, legal associations, case law,
law firms and lawyers, legal news, international law resources, sample forms
and contracts, more.
- History of the Federal Judiciary,
including landmark judicial legislation
- Law & Policy Institutions
Guide (LPIG) is a gateway to legal and legislative information. By
Randy Roberts.
- Law Crawler searches legal information, law reviews, legal news, the U.S. Code and Constitution, and
other legal code and case law databases to retrieve legal information.
- Legal Dictionary
- Oyez Oyez Oyez is a multimedia database about the United States Supreme Court. By Jerry Goldman and Northwestern University.
- U.S. Code
- World Wide Web
Virtual Library: Law, presented by the Indiana University School of
Law-Bloomington
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- Psychology
- Encyclopedia of
Psychology enables browsing through topics in psychology,
including behavior, history, publications and resources, and theorists and
researchers. By William Palya, Department of Psychology, Jacksonville
State University.
- Psych
Web, by Russell Dewey, Georgia Southern University, organizes
information for students and teachers of psychology, including subtopics
and specializations within the field, and a how-to guide for writing a
psychology research paper.
- Social Science
- Geospatial and Statistical Data Center at the University of Virginia provides access to databases of sociological and economic statistics. Formerly the Social Sciences Data Center.
- Social Science Information Gateway (SOSIG) resources are selected and described by a librarian or subject specialist. SOSIG includes Sociology, Psychology, Economics, Education, Ethnology, Environmental Science, Government, Law, Philosophy, Politics, and Social Welfare.
- Women's Studies
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