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UI Plants (University of Illinois)

UK Active Map of Universities and HE Institutions (University of Wolverhampton)]

Ulrichsweb.com (Penn State Users Only)

Ultimate White Pages, The

UN Atlas of the Oceans

UN Comtrade: United Nations Commodity Trade Statistics Database (Penn State Users Only)

UNAIDS

Unbound Bible

Uncle Sam - Brief Guide To Citing Government Publications

Uncle Sam Who's Who in the Federal Government (UMemphis)

Uncle Tom's Cabin & American Culture (UVA)

UNCTAD: United Nations Conference on Trade and Development

Underrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization

UnderstandingPrejudice.org: Organizations

Underwriters Laboratories Inc. Online Certification Directory

Unearthing the Past: Student Research on Pennsylvania History (PSU University Libraries)

UNESCO

UNESCO Archives Portal

UNESCO Institute for Statistics

UNESCO Libraries Portal

UNESCO Photobank

UNICEF

UNICEF Statistics

UNICEF Statistics: End Decade Databases

UNIFEM

Uniform Crime Report (FBI)

Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals: Sample References (International Comm. Of Medical Journal Editor)

Union Generals of the Civl War (HistoryCentral.com)

Union of International Organizations: Links to Organizations Selected from Yearbook

Unite Here

United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing, Pipefitting and Sprinkler Fitting Industry of the United States and Canada

United Auto Workers

United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America

United Food and Commercial Workers, AFL-CIO, CLC

United Nations

United Nations Environment Network

United Nations Environment Programme: GEO Data Portal

United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime

United Nations: Official WEBSite Locator for the United Nations System of Organizations

United Nations Population Information Network

United Nations Treaty Collection (Penn State Users Only)

United Negro College Fund

United Press International

United States Automobile Recall Database (NHTSA)

United States Blue Pages (Federal Citizen Information Center)

United States Board on Geographic Names (USGS)

United States Bureau of Land Management

United States Census Bureau

United States Census Bureau: American Fact Finder

United States Census Bureau Industries Statistics

U.S. Chain of Command (Federation of Atomic Scientists)

United States Chamber of Commerce: Chambers Directory

United States Code

United States Code, Title 8: Aliens and Nationality (Cornell Law School)

United States Code, Title 26: Internal Revenue Code (Cornell Law School)

United States Congress Votes Database (washingtonpost.com)

United States Constitution Online

United States Constitution Online: Current Events

United States Constitution Online: Other Historical American Documents

United States Consumer Product Safety Commission

U.S.Courts

U.S. Courts: Statistical Reports

U.S. Customs and Border Protection: Travel

United States Department of Agriculture Economics, Statistics, and Market Information System

United States Department of Health and Human Services

United States Department of State

United States Department of State Background Notes

United States Department of State: Travel and Living Abroad

United States Environmental Protection Agency

United States Distance Learning Association

United States Drought Monitor (UNL)

U.S. Economic Outlook (Nat'l Assn of Realtors)

United States Economy at a Glance

United States Elections 2004 (United States Department of State, International Information Programs)

United States Electoral College

United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission [employment discrimination statistics]

United States Gazetteer

United States General Accounting Office

United States General Accounting Office: Reports and Testimony

United States Government [position holders] (World Statesmen)

United States Government Manual (GPOAccess)

U.S. Green Building Council

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

United States Historical Cities Maps (Perry Castenada Library, UT)

United States House of Representatives

United States House of Representatives: Office of the Clerk

United States Housing Market Conditions (HUD)

United States Multiracial Profile (CensusScope) (UMich)

United States Nationwide / Associations / Directories (searchsystems.net)

United States Naval Observatory Complete Sun and Moon Data

United States Naval Observatory Master Clock Time

United States News/American Hospital Association National Directory

United States Olympic Committee: Athlete Bios

United States Olympic Committee Hall of Fame

United States Organizations on Africa

United States Securities and Exchange Commission [with EDGAR access]

United States Senate

United States Senate Virtual Reference Desk

United States Space Agencies (globalsecurity.org)

United Steelworkers of America

Unity: Journalists of Color, Inc.

Universal Library (CMU)

Universities Worldwide (Klaus Forster)

University Archives (Google Directory)

University Channel (Princeton)

University Fellowships Office (PSU)

University of Chicago Library Map Collection

University of Michigan Digital General Collection

University of Virginia Chinese Text Initiative

University of Wisconsin Digital Center Literature Collection

University Park Campus History Collection: The Growth of Penn State's Largest Campus (Penn Users Only)

UnivSource: Higher Education in the United States of America & Canada

Unofficial Guide to Living in State College: A NARRATIVE FOR NEW STATE COLLEGIANS AND VISITORS (Ritter)

UNSTATS (Penn State Users Only)

Upton Sinclair (Literature at SunSITE)

Urban Institute

UrbanRail.net

URL Information (Fagan)

U.S. Cities Gazetteer (hometownlocator.com)

U.S. Highways: from US 1 to (US 830) (us-highways.com)

U.S. Mayors Climate Protection Agreement

US Map Collections: Relief, Elevation, Drainage, Political and Road Maps (Geology.com)

USA.gov [US Government's Official Web Portal]

USA.gov: Senior Citizens' Resources

USA.gov for Nonprofits (FirstGov.gov)

USA by Rail

USA counties

USACityLink

USAjobs [official job site of the United States Federal Government]

USAToday

USC Annenberg School Center for the Digital Future: Internet Project

USC Annenberg School Center for the Digital Future: Television Violence Monitoring Reports

Useful Links, Resources, and Lesson Plans for K-12 Teachers and the Community (Middle East Center, UPenn)

USGenWeb Project

USGS Earthquake Hazards Program

USGS Real-Time Water Data

Using CBE Style to Cite and Document Sources (Bedford St. Martins's)

Using Modern Language Association (MLA) Format

UsingEnglish.com

USNews.com

USNews.com: Rankings & Guides

USPS [zip codes, post offices]

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Vacation Rental by Owner

Vacation Rental Managers Association

Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War [Franklin County, PA and Augusta County, VA] (Virginia Center for Digital History)

Vanderbilt Television News Archive

Variety

Vatican Exhibit (ibiblio.org)

VCCS Litonline (Virginia Community College System)

Veterans and Transitioning Mlitary Personnel

Veterans History Project (Library of Congress)

Veterinarians

Veterinary Medicine Organizations

Veterinary Medicine Resources on the Web: Pet Care and Health (ISU)

Victorian Anthology, 1837-1895 (Stedman,Edmund Clarence; Bartleby.com)

Victorian Art in Britain

Victorian Dictionary: Exploring Victorian London

Victorian Literature Studies Archive (Matsuoka, Nagoya U)

Victorian Literature Studies Archive: Hyper-Concordances (Matsuoka, Nagoya U)

Victorian Studies Bibliography (Indiana University Press)

Victorian Texts in the Victorian Web

Victorian Web: Music, Theatre, and Popular Entertainment in Victorian Britain

Victorian Women Writers' Project (IU)

VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever [Gale Virtual Reference Library] (Penn State Users Only)

Vietnam Project (Texas Tech Univ.)

Vincent Voice Library (MSU)

Virgil: The Aeneid (Columbia)

Virtual Finland

Virtual Library for Regional Studies

Virtual Library Museum Pages

Virtual Library Museums Pages: a distributed directory of on-line museums

Virtual Library of Polish Literature [Wirtualna Biblioteka Literatury Polskiej] (UGdansk)

Virtual LRC

Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco

Virtual Perpetual Calendars

Virtual Religion Index

Virtual Universities (American Distance Education Consortium)

VirtualTourist.com

Visible Earth: a searchable directory of images, visualizations, and animations the earth (NASA)

Visit Your Parks (National Park Service)

visitPA.com

ViVa: A Bibliography of Women's History (Int'l Institute of Social History)

Visual Arts Career Guide (khake.com)

Visual Arts Organizations (artslynx.org)

Visual Collections: Images of Art, History, and Culture (David Rumsey)

Visual Sourcebook of Chinese Civilization (Ebrey, UWashington)

Vivisimo BioMed

Vivisimo Clustering Engine

VN: Virtual Nabokov (Jeff Edmonds, PSU)

VOANews: Voice of America

Voice of the Shuttle (UCSB)

Voice of the Shuttle: Disability Resources (UCSB)

Voice of the Shuttle: Minority Studies (UCSB)

Voices: Commencement Speeches (Humanity.org)

Voices from the GAPS: Women Writers of Color (UMinn)

Vorleser.net: Literatur zum Hören [German short stories and stories translated into German]

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W.B. Yeats Collection (Penn State Users Only)

W.K. Kellogg Foundation

W3: The World Wide Web Central Database

Wait Wait.Don't Tell Me!

Wall Street Journal Online

Walt Whitman Archive (UNL)

War With Iraq (UCSD)

Wars for Vietnam, 1945-1975 (Vassar)

Washington Center Internship Programs

Washington Post

Water: Science and Issues [Gale Virtual Reference Library] (Penn State Users Only)

WaterWatch: Current Water Resources Condition [with a variety of maps showing water and drought conditions over time for U.S. and states] (USGS)

WATCH File [writers, artists, and their copyright holders] (UT)

WAVE: Women's Audio and Visuals in English Database (UWisc)

Weather Almanac [Gale Virtual Reference Library] (Penn State Users Only)

Weather Bonk

Weather Channel

Weatherbase

Web Accessible National and Major Libraries (IFLANET)

Web Brain [shows relationships between topics]

Web Concordances and Workbooks

Web Concordances and Workbooks [Shelley, Keats, Coleridge, Hopkins, Wordsworth, Blake] (Dundee)

Web Design for Librarians (Scholarly Communications Center, Rutgers)

Web Developer's Handbook (alvit.de)

Web Developer's Resource Center (PSU)

Web Geological Time Machine (UCBerkely Museum of Paleontology)

Web of American Transcendentalism (VCU)

Web Gallery of Art (wga.hu)

Web Radio

Web Resources in Demography and Related Subjects (Population Research Institute, PSU)

Web Search Strategies (Debbie Flanagan)

Web Sites Directories

Web Sites for Women's Health (Korenman, UMd)

Webby Awards

webcast.berkeley (UCBerkely)

Webcrawler

WebExhibits

WebMd

WebMuseum, Paris (ibiblio.org)

Webopedia

Websites of United States Embassies and Consulates

Webster's Unabridged (Penn State Users Only)

WebWise

Weekly Weather and Crop Bulletin (USDA)

Weight in America: Obesity, Eating Disorders, and Other Health Risks [Gale Virtual Reference Library] (Penn State Users Only)

Die Welt

WESS Membership Directory (ACRL, Western European Studies Section)

Wessex Parallel Web Texts (Bella Millett)

West Virginia Historical Photographs Collection (WVU)

Western European Library Catalogs on the Internet

West's Encyclopedia of American Law [Gale Virtual Reference Library] (Penn State Users Only)

What a Character! [film]

What Does 200 Calories Look Like (WiseGeek.com)

What is... (O'Reilly Network)

What is Plagiarism? (Turnitin.com)

What is Web 2.0? (Bill O'Reilly)

What's Next? (Kent District Library]

Where to write for vital records

White House (whitehouse.gov)

White House Tapes (UVa)

Whitman Annotated Bibliography (whitmanarchive.org)

Who is Who at NATO?

Who Owns What [major media companies] (Columbia Journalism Review)

WHO Statistical Information System (WHOSIS)

Who2? Find Famous People Fast

Who's Alive and Who's Dead

Who's Who Among Black Americans [Gale Virtual Reference Library] (Penn State Users Only)

Who's Who in Opera (Oxford Reference Online) (Penn State Users Only)

Who's Who in the Classical World (Oxford Reference Online) (Penn State Users Only)

Who's Who of Asian Americans (asianamerican.net)

WIC (Women's International Center) Biography Index

Wikipedia

Wilderness Society

Wildfinder: Mapping the World's Species (worldwildlife.org)

Wildlife Committee, American Branch, International Law Association: Treaties and Soft Law Agreements

Wiley Encyclopedia of Telecommunications [Gale Virtual Reference Library] (Penn State Users Only)

Willa Cather Electronic Archive (UNL)

William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

William Blake Archive

William James (Emory University)

Windows Live Search

Windows Live Maps

Windows to the Universe: History and People

Windows to the Universe: Images and Multimedia

Wired for Books

WiseNut

Women and International Development: Resources (MSU)

Women and Social Movements, 1600-2000 (Penn State Users Only)

Women and The Economy

Women Artists [from Medieval Period to the Present]

Women Artists in History

Women in American Society [Gale Virtual Reference Library] (Penn State Users Only)

Women in History

Women in Military Service for America Memorial

Women in Print ["women-owned, women-centered publishers and booksellers"] (litwomen.org)

Women in Science: Careers (AWIS)

Women in Sports

Women in the Middle East (Columbia)

Women Inventors

Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering

Women of Color, Women of Words (Rutgers)

Women of NASA

Women Physicians: 1850s to 1070s (Drexel)

Women Romantic Era Writers (Adriana Craciun, Birkbeck, ULondon)

Women Watch: Directory of UN Resources on Gender and Women's Issues: Statistics and Indicators

Women Watch: Information and Resources on Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN)

Women Watch: Women with Disabilities

Women Writers Online (Brown)

Women-Focused Cyberculture and Internet Information (Korenman, UMd)

Women's History: Biographies (Thomson Gale)

Women's History Online, 1543-1945 [page images] (Penn State Users Only)

Women'S History Teaching Resources (Smithsonian Education)

Women's Leadership in American History (LaGuardia City College)

Women's Legal History Biography Project (Stanford Law School)

Women's Sports Foundation

Women's Studies: Core Books (ACRL/WSS) (UWisc)

Women's Studies Database (UMd)

Women's Studies Database Film Reviews (UMd)

Women's Studies Database Gender Issues (UMd)

Women's Studies Reading Room (UMd)

Women's Studies Section, ACRL: WSSLinks

Women's Studies/Women's Issues Resource Sites (Korenman, Center for Women & Information Technology, UMd)

womenshealth.gov: the Federal Government Source for Women's Health Information (U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services)

Woodall's Camping and RVing in the Great Outdoors

WordReference.com: Online French, Italian and Spanish Dictionary

Words and Place: Native Literature from the American Southwest (UArizona)

Wordsworth Variorum Archive

Wordtheque: word by word multilingual library

Working in Nanotechnology

Working Women, 1800-1930 (Harvard University)

Works of Jane Austen

Works of Milton (Luminarium)

Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Works of Sir Thomas Malory (1405-1471) (Luminarium)

World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates Report

World Airport Guide

World Animal Net Directory

World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters

World Association of Public Opinion Research

World Atlas

World Bank

World Bank: An Online Atlas of the Millennium Development Goals

World Bank e-Library (Penn State Users Only)

World Bank: GenderStats

World Bank: The Economics of Conflict

World Bank: Topics in Development

World Building and Landscape Pictures of the history of landscape and architectural design (PSU)

World Chambers Network

World Cities Guide

World Civilizations: Concepts, Values, Terms (WSU)

World Clock-Time Zones

World Development Indicators (World Bank) (Penn State Users Only)

World Development Report (World Bank)

World Directory of Environmental Organizations Online (CIPA)

World Directory of Medical Schools (WHO)

World Drug Report (UN Office on Drugs and Crime)

World Economic and Social Survey (United Nations)

World Employment Report 2004-05

World Encyclopedia (Oxford Reference Online) (Penn State Users Only)

World Encyclopedia of Police Forces and Correctional Systems [Gale Virtual Reference Library] (Penn State Users Only)

World Executive City Guides

World Factbook (CIA)

World Factbook Reference Maps (CIA)

World Federation for Mental Health

World Flags (Oxford Reference Online) (Penn State Users Only)

World Food Programme in Statistics

World Gazetteer

World Health Organization

World Health Report (WHO)

World Heritage List (UNESCO)

World Intellectual Property Organization

World Investment Report 2006: FDI from Developing and Transition Economies: Implications for Development (UNCTAD)

World Languages: Web Concordances: Machado, Marti, Lorca, Neruda, Mistral, Altolaguirre, Vicente Aleixandre (spsu.edu, Dr. Bernice Nuhfer-Halten)

World Legal Information Institute (LII)

World Literature in English Study Guide (Paul Brians, WSU)

World Maps (Oxford Reference Online) (Penn State Users Only)

World Meteorological Organization

World Military Guide (globalsecurity.org)

World Museums Guide

World Music (National Geographic)

World News Connection (Penn State Users Only)

World Newspapers Online (actualidad.com)

World of Dante (UVa)

World of Earth Sciences [Gale Virtual Reference Library] (Penn State Users Only)

World of Forensic Sciences [Gale Virtual Reference Library] (Penn State Users Only)

World of Jack London

World of Microbiology and Immunology [Gale Virtual Reference Library] (Penn State Users Only)

World Poetry Directory (UNESCO)

World Population Information (U.S. Census Bureau)

World Population Prospects (United Nations Population Division)

World Poverty [Gale Virtual Reference Library] (Penn State Users Only)

World Press Encyclopedia [Gale Virtual Reference Library] (Penn State Users Only)

World Statesmen

World Steel in Figures (International Iron and Steel Institute)

World Tourist Attractions Guide

World Trade Organization

World Trade Union Directory

World Travel Guides

World War I Biographical Dictionary (BYU)

World War I Biographies (42eXplore)

World Water Council

World Weather Information Service (World Meterological Organization)

World Wide Art Resources

World Wide Banks (Portalino)

World Wide Encyclopedia of Christianity

World Wide Web Acronym and Abbreviation Server

World Wildlife Fund

WorldHistory.com

WorldImages (SJSU)

Worldmark Encyclopedia of National Economies [Gale Virtual Reference Library] (Penn State Users Only)

Worldmark Encyclopedia of Religious Practices [Gale Virtual Reference Library] (Penn State Users Only)

Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations [Gale Virtual Reference Library] (Penn State Users Only)

Worldmark Encyclopedia of the States [Gale Virtual Reference Library] (Penn State Users Only)

Worldnews.com [WN Network]

World-newpapers.com

WorldofQuotes.com: Historical Quotes and Proverbs Archive

WorldOil.com: statistics and tables

Worldpages.com

Worldpress.org

World 's Literature (griffe.com)

World's Women On-line! [artists]

WorldTime (HAB Software)

Worldvitalrecords.com

Worldwide Internet Music Resources (Indiana)

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts (Penn State Users Only)

Wright American Fiction (1851-1875) (CIC/IU)

Write News: Publishing and Media Industry Links: Associations

Writer's Almanac (Minnesota Public Radio)

Writers Directory [Gale Virtual Reference Library] (Penn State Users Only)

Writing Black (Keele)

Writing Center: Writer's Handbook (UWisc-Madison)

Writing Guidelines for Engineering and Science Students (vt.edu; Lead editor, Michael Alley, Penn State)

Writing Resource Center (Empire State College)

Writings of Charles Darwin on the Web (britishlibrary.net)

WRN (formerly World Radio Network)

WWW Library Directory: Organizations

WWW Virtual Library

WWW Virtual Library: Economic and Busines History: Associations and Societies

WWW Virtual Library: International Affairs Resources (Elizabethtown College)

WWW Virtual Library: Labour History: Associations and Societies

WWW Virtual Library: Women's History

WWW Virtual Library: Women's History: Associations, Societies, and International Organizations

www.invisible-web.net

www.REALESTATEAGENTNAMES.com

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xe.com: The Full Universal Currency Converter®

Xinhua Online: China View (Xinhua News Agency, China)

XPDNC Labour Directory

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Yahoo!

Yahoo! Entertainment Directory: Amusement and Theme Parks

Yahoo! Finance: Company and Fund Index

Yahoo! Get Local City Guides

Yahoo! HotJobs

Yahoo! Mindset

Yahoo! News

Yahoo! People Search

Yahoo! Search Directory: Business and Economy > Organizations >Trade Associations

Yahoo! Search Directory: Business Organizations > Professional

Yahoo! Search Directory:...Digital Divide

Yahoo! Search Directory: Education Organizations > Professional

Yahoo! Search Directory: Government > International Organizations

Yahoo! Search Directory: Graduation Speeches

Yahoo! Search Directory: Language Dictionaries

Yahoo! Search Directory: News and Media > by Region

Yahoo! Search Directory: Pennsylvania > Government

Yahoo! Search Directory: Phone Numbers and Addresses

Yahoo! Search Directory: Playwrights

Yahoo! Search Directory: Recreation

Yahoo: Search Directory: Search Engines and Directories

Yahoo! Search Directory: Statistics & Demographics [Internet traffic & usage]

Yahoo! Search Directory: United States Colleges and Universities

Yahoo! Search: Images

Yahoo! Shopping

Yahoo! TV [today's shows,descriptions, ratings, etc.]

Yahooligans! Reference

Yale University Library Digital Collections

Yiddish Sheet Music (Brown)

Yonhap News Agency (Korea)

yourDictionary.com

yourDictionary.com: Language Dictionaries

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Die Zeit

Zembla [Vladimir Nabokov] (PSU)

Zip Express

Zip+4 Lookup (US Postal Service)

ZoomInfo.com

Zoos and Aquariums of the World (WAZA)

Zora Neale Hurston Plays at the Library of Congress

Zvi Har'El's Jules Verne Collection

Zycon



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