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Medicare Prescription Drug Coverage - Lt. Governor's
Office on Aging
South Carolina
Parent Standards Guide, 2006-2007
InfoTrac/Gale
Including
Biography Resource Center + The
Complete Marquis Who's Who, Custom Newspapers, Expanded Academic ASAP,
General BusinessFile ASAP, General Reference Center, Health and Wellness
Resource Center. Health Reference
Center-Academic, InfoTrac OneFile, Junior Edition, Kids InfoBits, LegalTrac,
Scribner Writers Series, Student Edition, What Do I Read Next?, Business &
Company Resource Center
InfoTrac/Gale (remote
access link)
Use this link to
access InfoTrac from outside.
SC Newspapers: Columbia &
Greenville (NewsBank) ( December 1987-present)
For all age groups
The electronic editions of records for valuable
local, regional, and national U.S. newspapers--all in one easy-to-search
database. Each paper provides unique coverage of local and regional news,
including companies, politics, sports, industries, cultural activities, and
people in the community. Paid ads are excluded.
Archive of full-text articles from The State (Columbia, SC) newspaper
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Locally written articles - news, editorials, sports, business, arts,
features
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Letters to the editor and major newswire articles
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Includes most obituaries; death notice coverage begins March 1994
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Special Reports from NewsBank - topics in the news with reprints of
stories from a variety of sources with related photographs and maps
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Note: Updated 1-2 days after publication of the print newspaper. See
The
State.com for free access to the latest 1-2 days of coverage.
SC
DISCUS
SIRS
Discoverer
SIRS Knowledge
Source
Grolier Online
Including
Encyclopedia Americana, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia
and The New Book of Knowledge.
Note: If
you are accessing the DISCUS Databases from your home or office, you will be
required to supply a user name and password. Please contact the library for the
current user name and password.
AltaVista:
http://altavista.com
Excite:
http://www.excite.com
Hotbot:
http://www.hotbot.com
Infoseek:
http://www.infoseek.com
Lycos:
http://www.lycos.com
Yahoo!:
http://www.yahoo.com
Directory Guide:
http://www.directoryguide.com
Librarian’s Index to the Internet:
http://lii.org/
Dogpile:
http://www.dogpile.com
Metacrawler:
http://www.metacrawler.com
Profusion:
http://www.profusion.com
Google:
http://www.google.com
Slider:
http://www.slider.com
SConnects:
http://www.state.sc.us/scsl/sconnect.html
Fossick:
http://www.fossick.com
Search Engine
Guide:
www.searchengineguide.com/searchengines.html
Search Power:
http://www.searchpower.com
Search.com:
http://www.search.com
Open Directory Project:
http://dmoz.org
About:
http://www.about.com
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ABAA Booknet
Find rare and
antique books, booksellers, resources on book collecting, maps, and prints.
(http://abaa.org/)
American Library Association
ALA's home page
with information on library education, membership and events. Here you will find guides to
the ALA Award, and the Newberry and Caldecott winners.
(www.ala.org)
Audio Publishers Association
An online,
searchable guide to audiobook publishers and their latest offerings, Audie Awards winners,
and much more.
(www.audiopub.org)
Banned Books Online
(digital.library.upenn.edu/books/banned-books.html)
BookFinder.com
Search by author
or title to locate new, used, rare, or out-of-print books for sale.
(www.bookfinder.com)
Book Reviews from Booklist Magazine
Online reviews,
beginning with volume 92 (September 1995) (www.ala.org/booklist/)
BookWire
Bestseller lists,
book reviews, listings of book fairs, author tour information, recent book awards, and a
cartoon gallery
(www.bookwire.com)
Library of Congress Information System
Online catalog,
events, publications, facilities and services of the nation's library.
(www.loc.gov/)
PubList
Search this database
of over 150,000 magazines, journals, newsletters, & other periodicals. Find
FREE
in-depth information on familiar and hard-to-find publications from around the world,
representing thousands of topics. (www.publist.com/)
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Internet Glossary
More than 75
Internet terms defined.
(www.matisse.net/files/glossary.html)
The List
Locate a local
Internet Service Provider (ISP) by area code. Select and compare access speed, price, and
computing services provided by ISPs. (thelist.internet.com)
Ditto.com
A search engine
devoted solely to pictures!
(www.ditto.com)
Internet Smileys
Smileys for every
occasion
J (members.aol.com/bearpage/smileys.htm)
The Spider's Apprentice
Learn the
principles of smart web searching
(www.monash.com/spidap.html)
Shareware
Freeware,
shareware, demos, fixes, patches, and upgrades for your computer (www.shareware.com)
ZDNet
A "full
service" destination for people looking to buy, use, and learn more about technology.
(www3.zdnet.com)
The PC Guide
Excellent
Troubleshooting and Repair Guide, Introduction to the PC, System Care Guide, setup and
installation procedures for CD-ROM drives and memory, and much more!
(www.pcguide.com/)
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RootsWeb
(www.Rootsweb.com)
Gendex
genealogical databases
(www.gendex.com/gendex)
Cyndi’s list
of genealogical web sites
(www.cyndislist.com)
FamilySearch
LDS
Internet genealogy service (www.familysearch.org)
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Medline Plus
Online for you and your
family's health with accurate, current, commercial free and totally private
health information. Includes Health Topics, Encyclopedia, Drug
Information, Clinical Trials, Directories of Doctors, Hospitals, Libraries,
and Latest Health News. (www.medlineplus.gov)
SCSIS
South Carolina Services and Information
System has put its statewide database of aging and disability services on
the web. (www.scsis.org)
Allendale County
Includes links to county
government, community calendar, towns & cities, local business & industry, schools
& affiliations, local churches and organizations & clubs. (www.allendalecounty.com)
Hampton County
Includes links to
local history, government, real estate, hunting clubs, churches, schools and
calendar. (www.hamptoncounty.com)
SCSIS
South Carolina Services and Information
System has put its statewide database of aging and disability services on
the web. (www.scsis.org)
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Smithsonian Institution
Exhibitions,
educational programs, publications and an electronic shopping mall.
(www.si.edu)
International Women's Air & Space Museum
IWASM celebrates
the achievements of women in aviation through personal artifacts and archives.
(www.iwasm.org/)
Museums at the Virtual Library
A comprehensive
directory of on-line museums and museum-related resources. (www.icom.org/vlmp/)
The Foundation Center
An independent
nonprofit information clearinghouse that has a lot to offer for grantseekers and
grantmakers: grant application forms, workshops on proposal writing and funding research,
more than 200 annotated links to grantmaker Web sites for private and community
foundations and corporate grantmakers. (www.fdncenter.org)
South Carolina
State Museum
View a list of
the programs and events the State Library has in store! (http://www.museum.state.sc.us/index.htm)
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Atlanta Journal
(www.accessatlanta.com)
Augusta Chronicle
(http://augustachronicle.com)
The Post and Courier
(www.charleston.net)
Island Packet
(www.islandpacket.com)
Savannah Morning News
(www.savannahnow.com)
The State
(www.thestate.com)
Radio Guide U.S.A.
Listings and
links to the Web pages of Top 100 Cities' radio stations. (www.radioguide.com/)
NewsDirectory.com
Your guide to all
online English-language media. This free directory of newspapers, magazines, television
stations, colleges, visitor bureaus, governmental agencies and more can help you get to
where you want to go, or find sites you didn't know about.
(www.ecola.com)
CNN Interactive
Headline news
updated at least every hour, plus U.S. and world news in brief, business, sports and
entertainment.
(www.cnn.com)
MSNBC
Provides full
coverage of the day's events, updates on breaking stories, and in-depth reports on the
issues that shape our world.
(www.msnbc.com)
FindArticles.com
Offers free access to
articles dating back to 1998 from more than 300 magazines and journals (www.findarticles.com/PI/index.jhtml)
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The Nobel Foundation
Features this
year's Nobel Prize winners, links to related sites, and a searchable database of past
laureates.
(www.nobel.se/)
Today's Calendar and Clock Page
Cultural,
religious, celestial, historical, and world holidays calendars, "this day" and
name day sites, plus special clocks, and calendars' history.
(www.ecben.net/calendar.shtml)
The Old Farmer's Almanac
"Today in
History", etymological quizzes, weather forecasts, rise and set times for the sun,
moon and planets and much, much more.
(www.almanac.com/)
Dalhousie
University African Heritage Month
Large body of
information including links to Black History and African
Studies Information. (http://www.dal.ca/~acswww/dalbh.html)
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IPL Reference Center
This is the
"reference desk" at the Internet Public Library. Use their handy links to online
reference sources, or try the "Ask a Question" link to send the online
librarians your request. (www.ipl.org/ref/Center.html)
The WWW Virtual Library
Covers many
topics including agriculture, business, computing, communications, education, engineering,
humanities, internal affairs, law recreation, regional studies, science and society.
(vlib.org/)
Bartleby.com
Search the
contents of more than 20 well-known reference sources, including
Robert's Rules of Order,
Gray's Anatomy,
The Fanny Farmer Cookbook,
Emily Post's Etiquette,
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
,
Bulfinch's Mythology,
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, and
The American Heritage Dictionary.
(www.bartleby.com)
Britannica.com
Full content of
the inestimable Encyclopaedia Britannica, with added links to magazines, books, and other
Web sites.
(www.brittanica.com)
Research-it!
Look up people,
quotes, maps, zip codes, telephone numbers, facts, ticker symbols and stock quotes. Also
includes currency converter and UPS tracking.
(www.itools.com/research-it/research-it.html)
Information Please
Covers a wide
variety of topics. Includes almanacs,
dictionaries, encyclopedias and atlases. Information also comes from the latest editions
of the A&E Entertainment Almanac, the ESPN (sports) Information Please Almanac, the
Random House Webster's College Dictionary, and the Columbia Encyclopedia.
(www.infoplease.com/index.html)
First Gov
What do finding a
job, getting better health care, contacting Congressional Representatives, reserving a
campsite, getting a college loan, and buying a home all have in common? They are all
things you can now do on the new, free US government portal. It gets you directly in
touch with US government services and links you to state and local governments. (www.FirstGov.gov)
Guinness World Records
Thousands of
amazing records, videos and photos of the strange and wonderful world records.
(www.guinnessworldrecords.com)
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Financenter
Published
research on rates, fees, features, and customer satisfaction levels for financial products
and services online. It is also the number one source for Web calculators that compute
borrowing, investing, and spending options. (www.financenter.com)
FedWorld
Tax Form Search
Locate the
individual IRS form or publication you need. (www.fedworld.gov/taxsear.htm)
IRS Home Page
Internal Revenue
Service Site. E-File here! Locate tax forms and information. (www.irs.gov)
Stockmaster
(www.stockmaster.com)
Kiplinger Online
(www.kiplinger.com)
MoneyScope
(www.moneyscope.com)
StockTrack
(www.stocktrack.com)
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