Local Newspapers throughout the World http://www.mediachannel.org/links/links-frameset.html Links to more than 1,000 newspapers and news sites from 150 countries. As transnational media companies grow and international coverage shrinks, this site provides a way to locate the local story anywhere. Human Development Report (HDR) - 2003 http://www.undp.org/hdr2003/ The UN's report on the vast and uneven range of human development in the world, with astounding progress in some areas amid stagnation and dismal decline in others. Balance and stability in the world will require the commitment of all nations, rich and poor, and a global development compact to extend the wealth of possibilities to all people. Notable Feature(s): PDF versions of individual chapters and of the entire report; events, training, publications, facts, and statistics on human development around the world; Spanish and French, Portuguese and Russian language versions available. Contact Information: William Orme Telephone: 212.906.5382   Email: william.orme@undp.org National Geographic http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/ The first president of the National Geographic Society was Gardiner Greene Hubbard, a lawyer, financier, and philanthropist who helped found a school for the deaf and promoted the experiments of his son-in-law, Alexander Graham Bell. Acknowledging in his introductory address that he was neither “a scientific man, nor...a geographer,” Hubbard stated, “By my election you notify the public that the membership of our Society will not be confined to professional geographers, but will include that large number who, like myself, desire to promote special researches by others, and to diffuse the knowledge so gained, among men, so that we may all know more of the world upon which we live.” Organized ‘to increase and diffuse geographic knowledge,' the National Geographic Society determined that the publication of a magazine was one means of accomplishing its purposes. After more than a century the National Geographic Society today is propelled by new concerns: the alarming lack of geographic knowledge among our nation's young people and the pressing need to protect the planet's natural resources. As our mission grows in urgency and scope, the Society continues to develop new and exciting vehicles for broadening our reach and enhancing our legendary ability to bring the world to our millions of members. Notable Feature(s): Research, maps, publications, news, country profiles, natural resource maps, and much more. Contact Information: National Geographic Society 1145 17th Street N.W. Washington, DC   20036-4688 USA Telephone: 800.647.5463   Pathways Out of Poverty: Innovations in Microfinance for the Poorest Families - Edited by Sam Daley-Harris http://www.microcreditsummit.org/papers/papers.htm http://www.kpbooks.com/ Six recently commissioned papers were discussed in Plenary Session at the Microcredit Summit +5 and have been compiled in a book entitled Pathways Out of Poverty: Innovations in Microfinance for the Poorest Families, published by a leading publisher in the international development field, Kumarian Press in November of 2002. Microfinance is a key intervention in helping poor families in developing countries move out of poverty. The Microcredit Summit Campaign has been working since 1997 to promote microfinance, with the aim of reaching 100 million of the world's poorest families by 2005. Notable Feature(s): Background on Kumarian: Kumarian's range of topics has expanded to include issues of globalization, peace and conflict resolution, the environment, women and gender, NGOs, civil society, microfinance, health, and the interaction between the richer and poorer societies. Kumarian is a pioneer in publishing books emphasizing the people-centered approach to development. Contact Information: Krishna K. Sondhi, President and Publisher Kumarian Press, Inc 1294 Blue Hills Avenue Bloomfield, Connecticut   06002 USA Telephone: 860.243.2098   Email: kpbooks@kpbooks.com Science magazine http://www.sciencemag.org/ http://www.aaas.org/ Published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Science is a weekly, peer-reviewed journal that publishes the best original scientific research, plus reviews and analyses of current research and science policy. Its offices in Washington, D.C., and Cambridge, U.K., welcome submissions from all fields of science and from any source. Notable Feature(s): Fascinating collection of essays on science and society; additional articles of interest at the AAAS site. Contact Information: AAAS 1200 New York Avenue NW Washington, DC   20005 USA Telephone: 202.326.6400   Email: science_editors@aaas.org webmaster@aaas.org Scientific American http://www.sciam.com/ The eminent Scientific American magazine has provided readers with the latest news and information on science and technology for more than 150 years in print. Now it offers a full array of its resources on its Web site. Notable Feature(s): News; readers and site visitors may submit serious questions about science and technology...they may possibly be selected to be answered by top industry or academic researchers. Contact Information: Scientific American, Inc. 415 Madison Ave. New York, NY   10017 USA Telephone: 212.754.0550   Email: editors@sciam.com Water for People / Water for Life - World Water Development Report 2003 http://www.unesco.org/water/wwap/wwdr/ex_summary/ex_summary_en.pdf This first WWDR is a joint undertaking twenty-three United Nations (UN) agencies, and is a major initiative of the new World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP) established in 2000, with its Secretariat in the Paris headquarters of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). This report is organized in six main sections: a background, an evaluation of the world's water resources, an examination of the needs for, the uses of and the demands on water (‘Challenges to Life and Well-Being'), a scrutiny of water management (‘Management Challenges'), seven representative case studies highlighting different water scenarios, and conclusions and annexes. The two ‘challenges' sections are based on the seven challenges identified at the 2nd World Water Forum in 2000 plus a further four challenges identified in the production of this report. The book is documented throughout with revealing figures, tables and global maps that include country-based information, as well as boxes illustrating lessons learned. This Executive Summary covers the key points of the report, and for the detailed synthesis, conclusions and recommendations, readers are referred to its relevant sections. Contact Information: Secretariat c/o UNESCO/Division of Water Sciences 1, rue Miollis F-75732 Paris Cedex 15 France Telephone: +33 1 45 68 39 28   Fax: +33 1 45 68 58 29 Email: wwap@unesco.org World Development Report 2003: Sustainable Development in a Dynamic Economy http://econ.worldbank.org/wdr/wdr2003/text-17926/ http://econ.worldbank.org/wdr/wdr2003/ This report is the World Bank's contribution to an ongoing international dialogue on sustainable development. To make the report as useful and comprehensive as possible, the WDR 2003 team sought the views of a wide range of key stakeholders: government, civil society, academia, and the private sector world wide. Notable Feature(s): Large library of background papers; contact information for core team responsible for the report. Contact Information: The World Bank 1818 H Street, N.W. Washington, DC   20433 USA Telephone: 202.473.1000   Fax: 202.477.6391 Email: world_dev_report@worldbank.org Common Sense (1776) - Thomas Paine http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/1776-1800/paine/CM/sensexx.htm One of the seminal documents on which the new nation - the United States of America - founded itself. Tom Paine's essay Common Sense proved itself a compelling call to action that led to the American Revolution and independence. Notable Feature(s): Other online texts of Paine's writings. Human Rights Watch - World Report 2003 http://www.hrw.org/wr2k3/ This report is Human Rights Watch's thirteenth annual review of human rights practices around the globe. It addresses developments in fifty-eight countries, covering the period from November 2001 through November 2002. Most chapters examine significant human rights developments in a particular country; the response of global actors, such as the European Union, Japan, the United States, the United Nations, and various regional and international organizations and institutions; and the freedom of local human rights defenders to conduct their work. As in past years, this report does not include a chapter on every country where Human Rights Watch works, nor does it discuss every issue of importance. The failure to include a particular country or issue often reflects no more than staffing limitations and should not be taken as commentary on the significance of the problem. There are many serious human rights violations that Human Rights Watch simply lacks the capacity to address. Unlike previous World Reports, this year's does not have separate chapters addressing Human Rights Watch's thematic work. Instead, this year's report incorporates such material directly into the report's regional overviews, country chapters, and a new chapter on "Global Issues." The change was made in the interests of streamlining the volume and mainstreaming developments in thematic areas into our country descriptions and analyses. The Human Rights Watch website can be consulted for more detailed treatment of our work on children's rights, women's rights, arms, academic freedom, business and human rights, HIV/AIDS and human rights, international justice, refugees and displaced, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender rights, and for information on our international film festival. Notable Feature(s): Complete Table of Contents. Contact Information: Human Rights Watch 350 Fifth Avenue 34th Floor New York, NY   10118-3299 USA Telephone: 212.290.4700   Fax: 212.736.1300 Email: hrwnyc@hrw.org A Web of On-Line Dictionaries http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/diction.html AltaVista Translation Service http://babelfish.altavista.com/translate.dyn Send plain text or the URL of a Web site, and this translation service will provide a translation of site content from one of six languages to any of the others: English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. Notable Feature(s): The service will also translate any text the user wants to copy and paste into the work area at the AltaVista site. Alternative Dispute Resolution Practitioner's Guide http://www.usaid.gov/democracy/pdfs/pnacb895.pdf This 155-page technical paper from USAID provides case studies and overview materials on the usefulness and limitations of ADR in selected countries around the world, including Bangladesh, Bolivia, Ukraine, and South Africa. American Memory - historical collections from the Library of Congress http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amhome.html American Memory is a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. The site offers more than 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical collections, including the iconic photographs of the rural and urban poor by Lange, Shahn, Rothstein, Wolcott, Evans, Delano, and others produced for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) - Office of Information - of the U.S. Department of Agriculture during the 1930s and 40s under the direction of Roy Stryker. Notable Feature(s): Access to LOC's Global Gateway to world culture and resources. Contact Information: The Library of Congress 101 Independence Ave, SE Washington, DC   20540 USA Telephone: 202.707.5000   Awesome Library http://www.awesomelibrary.org/ The Awesome Library organizes the Web with 14,000 carefully reviewed resources, including the top 5 percent in education. Best Free Reference Web Sites 2001 http://www.ala.org/rusa/mars/best2001.html This is an annual series, initiated under the auspices of the Machine-Assisted Reference Section (MARS) of the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) of the American Library Association, which recognizes outstanding reference sites on the World Wide Web. Notable Feature(s): A vast compendium of source materials and links to information, statistics, perspective, and facts about most everything and more. Contact Information: Alesia McManus, MARS Web Coordinator Donavan Vicha, RUSA Web Program Officer Email: dvicha@ ala.org am245@umail.umd.edu bmj.com: The general medical journal website http://bmj.com/ BMJ used to stand for the British Medical Journal, now it is a valuable site for medical research and news. The BMJ aims to publish rigorous, accessible and entertaining material that will help doctors and medical students in their daily practice, lifelong learning and career development. In addition, it seeks to be at the forefront of the international debate on health. To achieve these aims BMJ publishes original scientific studies, review and educational articles, and papers commenting on the clinical, scientific, social, political, and economic factors affecting health. Notable Feature(s): Vast collections of articles by medical specialty and topic; customized alerts about new articles; updated materials on HIV/AIDS. Contact Information: Tony Delamothe BMJ Publishing Group BMA House Tavistock Square London WC1H 9JR United Kingdom Telephone: +44(0) 20 7383 6006   Fax: +44(0) 20 7383 6418 Email: webmaster@bmj.com BooksPrice http://www.booksprice.com/ BooksPrice is a free innovative service for finding the best price on a purchase of several books together. This service is more useful than the standard services that perform one book comparison at a time, and can save more money when buying several books together. Contact Information: Lucy Orbach Email: lucy@booksprice.com Britannica.com http://www.britannica.com/ Encyclopædia Britannica's seemingly inexhaustible source for knowledge, research data, and news on virtually every topic known to humankind. Notable Feature(s): A must-visit site! Powerful search engines to help locate relevant materials; other features excellent and too varied and numerous to detail; a 1-to-5 stars rated collection of the "Web's Best Sites" in every field of interest. Contact Information: Britannica.com Inc. 310 S. Michigan Ave Chicago, Illinois   60604 Telephone: 1.800.747.8503   Email: Broadcast News / Newspapers / Magazines http://www.changemakers.net/library/fieldlink.cfm?field=Broadcast+News+/+Newspapers+/+Magazines Find here the Changemakers Library selection of broadcast news services, as well as international and country-specific newspapers and magazines of interest. BusinessLaw http://www.businesslaw.gov/index.cfm BusinessLaw.gov is an online resource guide designed to provide legal and regulatory information to America's small businesses. Because laws and regulations affect every aspect of business strategy, topics covered on the site range from the most basic and crucial, such as choosing a business structure or hiring a lawyer, to highly specialized issues such as e-commerce and exporting. The site also acts as a gateway to federal, state and local information that affects small businesses. From the site, Business owners may quickly check zoning codes for their local area, or file a complaint with the Office of the National Ombudsman. Content for the site is being built by a nationwide virtual team of SBA field lawyers and staff members under the management of Patricia M. Cavanaugh the Seattle District Counsel. Input and assistance continue to be provided by other agencies including the IRS and INS and organizations such as SCORE and Small Business Development Centers, whose members plan to use BusinessLaw.gov as a counseling tool with their clients. Notable Feature(s): Links to alternative dispute resolution resources and much more, including business planning. Contact Information: Email: stephen.glass@sba.gov Center for Reconstruction and Development http://www.rec-dev.com/ http://www.equityinternational.tv/ Through the Center For Reconstruction & Development, Equity International has been a leader in facilitating the economic development of emerging markets by bringing together multilateral lending institutions, US and foreign corporations, and governments to encourage business and finance opportunities. The Center also aids in the reconstruction efforts of countries and regions following natural disasters, war, or political transition. Contact Information: Center for Reconstruction and Development Equity International, Inc. 1101 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, 6th Floor Washington, DC   20006 U.S. Email: Bill.Loiry@equityinternational.tv Collaborative Digital Reference Service (CDRS) http://www.loc.gov/rr/digiref/ The Collaborative Digital Reference Service (CDRS) will provide professional reference service to researchers any time anywhere, through an international, digital network of libraries and related institutions. The service will use new technologies to provide the best answers in the best context, by taking advantage not only of the millions of Internet resources but also of the many more millions of resources that are not online and that are held by libraries. CDRS supports libraries by providing them additional choices for the services they offer their end users. Libraries will assist their users by connecting to the CDRS to send questions that are best answered by the expert staff and collections of CDRS member institutions from around the world. Local, regional, national, and global: the library tradition of value-added service will be the CDRS hallmark. Contact Information: Email: cdrs@loc.gov Council on Foundations (COF) http://www.cof.org/ For 50 years, the Council on Foundations has helped foundation staff, trustees and board members in their day-to-day grantmaking activities. Through one-to-one technical assistance, research, publications, conferences and workshops, legal services, and a wide array of other services, the Council addresses the important issues and challenges that face foundations and corporate funders. Notable Feature(s): Valuable information on starting a foundation; publications and reports about effective philanthropy, grant quidelines, tax matters and more. Contact Information: Council on Foundations 1828 L Street, NW Washington, DC   20036 USA Telephone: 202.466.6512   Email: webmaster@cof.org Country Information - UN Member Nations http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/infonation/e_infonation.htm Country Specific Resources: Web sites, organizations, services, laws, health, schools, press, culture http://www.adminet.com/world/consti/ Current local times around the world http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/ Contact Information: Email: worldclock@timeanddate.com Department for International Development (DFID) http://www.dfid.gov.uk/ The Department for International Development (DFID) is the UK government agency responsible for promoting development and the reduction of poverty. Its central focus is a commitment to an internationally agreed target to halve the proportion of people living in extreme poverty by 2015. In addition, associated targets include ensuring basic health care provision and universal access to primary education by the same date. DFID aims to work in partnership with other governments committed to these targets, and with business and the private sector, civil society and the research community, supporting progress to reduce world poverty. It also works with multilateral institutions, including the World Bank, UN agencies and the European Commission. The bulk of DFID's assistance is concentrated on the poorest countries in Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. Notable Feature(s): White papers, including Eliminating World Poverty: A Challenge for the 21st Century; on-line version of DFID flagship magazine developments; Statistics on International Development: 1994/95 - 1998/99; news centre. Contact Information: DFID Headquarters 94 Victoria Street London   SW1E 5JL UK Telephone: +44 (0) 20 7917 7000   Fax: +44 (0) 20 7917 0019 Email: enquiry@dfid.gov.uk Development Gateway http://www.developmentgateway.org/ The Development Gateway initiative of the World Bank is about collaboration. It's about making it easier for everyone involved in development to find a way around the mass of information available--and much that's not yet available. The site is dedicated to sharing information, finding solutions--at all levels, and talking to each other. Above all its mission is to empower communities and improve the lives of the poorest among us. The Gateway team currently includes the World Bank Group, members of the public and private sectors, and civil society groups. The idea is to build a portal Web site on development issues from which users can access information, resources, and tools, and into which they can contribute their own knowledge and experience. The Gateway creates a common platform for shared material, dialogue, and problem-solving that is easy to access and navigate. These features will enable those in the development field to share information, easily communicate, and build communities of practice around significant challenges from the grassroots up. The Gateway focus will be on local content--from governments at all levels, from communities, from civil society, and from the business community. They will strengthen networks of development communities, help people interact with each other more effectively, and build on the efforts of everyone working in development. Notable Feature(s): Exhaustive directory of topics of interest to those concerned about problems of poverty, the environment, cultural heritage, the financial sector, gender and development, and more; discussion groups; Q&A service; news, features, and statistics; email newsletter. Contact Information: The Development Gateway Room G2-015 1818 H Street, NW Washington, DC   20433 USA Fax: 202.522.7479 Email: developgateway@worldbank.org Development News - The World Bank's Daily Webzine http://www.worldbank.org/developmentnews/ http://www.worldbank.org/html/extdr/showcase.htm In addition to news, the site provides access to a gallery of stories of social change: the faces and words of this exhibition portray six people who are striving to meet their own challenge of inclusion through their personal efforts, supported by local institutions and the World Bank. These individuals and their communities are overcoming social exclusion that has denied them access to institutions that provide basic goods and services, economic opportunities, and good governance. Notable Feature(s): E-subscription to The Week in Review is produced to provide the media, development agencies, academic institutions, think tanks, and NGOs with timely information on World Bank projects, new studies, and other development initiatives; materials in French and Spanish; news updates; special reports; speeches; World Bank Experts listed by topic. Contact Information: Email: WorldBankToday@worldbank.org directtextbook http://www.directtextbook.com/ Directtextbook is a "book aggregator" site that claims to search more than 30 online booksellers and 1,000s of libraries throughout the U.S. for particular book titles, including new and used college texts, sorting all by price. The site also offers individuals a free opportunity to sell their own books online. Notable Feature(s): Search by local area; Search for books by ISBN, Title, Author or Keyword. Contact Information: Chris Lindgren Email: chris@directtextbook.com Document Center - local, state, federal, foreign & international http://henry.ugl.lib.umich.edu/libhome/Documents.center/ Earthscan - http://www.earthscan.co.uk Earthscan is widely recognized as the UK's leading publisher of books on environment and sustainable development. Its publishing aim is to increase understanding of environmental issues and their implications at all levels, from the local to the global, and to influence opinion and policy in ways that promote sustainable forms of development. Notable Feature(s): Excellent collection of links; online catalogue. Contact Information: Earthscan Publications Ltd 120 Pentonville Road London N1 9JN, UK Telephone: +44 (0)20 7278 0433   Fax: +44 (0)20 7278 1142 Email: earthinfo@earthscan.co.uk Editor's Style Sheet on Punctuation, Capitalization, and Other Matters of Putting Words into Type http://www.princeton.edu/pr/style/stylesheet.html This guide from Princeton University provides a helpful set of standards for making editorial decisions. Education International Worldwide http://www.eiworldwide.com/ EI Academic publishes a series of guides and a network of websites dedicated to providing students with the latest and most detailed information on educational institutions across North America. Contact Information: EI Education International Inc. (USA) PTSGE Corp. 5000 Columbia Center 701 5th Avenue Seattle, WA   98104-7078 USA Telephone: 888.633.1111   Fax: 250.658.6285 Email: info@theeigroup.com ELDIS Development Reporter http://www.eldis.org The ELDIS Development Reporter is a free newsletter that currently includes descriptions and links to over 3500 organisations and over 6000 full-text online documents covering development and environmental issues. Contact Information: Tracy Zussman-Kay Telephone: +44 1273 877330   Fax: +44 1273 621202 Email: eldis@ids.ac.uk Electronic Development and Environment Information System (ELDIS) http://nt1.ids.ac.uk/eldis/eldbr.htm Produced by the British Library for Development Studies, ELDIS offers the latest electronic information on development and environmental issues: development economics, children, development education, food security, gender, statistics, participation, forestry, health, climate, development aid, disasters/refugees, waste management, environmental monitoring. Elements of Style http://www.bartleby.com/141/ Strunk and White's classic handbook of English grammar and usage is available on-line for reference and review. Emerging Markets Directory: A World of Connections http://www.emdirectory.com/ Emerging Markets Directory provides selected links to Web sites related to the emerging markets nations of the Americas, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. Broadly defined, an emerging market is a country making an effort to change and improve its economy with the goal of raising its performance to that of the world's more advanced nations. The World Bank classifies economies with a Gross National Income per capita of $9,266 and above as high-income countries. Emerging markets however are not necessarily small or poor. China, for example, is considered an emerging market. It has vast resources and a population of more than a billion people. It has launched satellites into space and has a rather large army. Bangladesh is also an emerging market. It is less endowed with resources and has yet to launch a satellite. Still, both countries have gone to considerable lengths to make their economies strong, more open to international investors, and more competitive in global markets. Notable Feature(s): Providing no transparency, the author of this site, whether organization, individual, or sponsor, is unknown. Contact Information: Email: info@emdirectory.com Encyclopædia Britannica http://www.britannica.com/ Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential http://www.uia.org/uiapubs/pubency.htm http://www.uia.org/website.htm The Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential is the result of an ambitious effort to collect and present information on the problems with which humanity perceives itself to be confronted. It aims to clarify the challenges such problems represent to concepts, values and development strategies. Notable Feature(s): Valuable databases of information about thousands of (linkable) international organizations working in many fields of interest in many regions of the world. Contact Information: Union of International Associations Rue Washington 40 B-1050 Brussels Belgium Fax: 32-2-646.05.25 Email: weblist@uia.be English School on the Internet http://www.study.com/ English for Internet (EFI) is a free on-line course of instruction, reading, and listening. EFI grew out of an experiment to determine the educational potential of teaching through the Internet with volunteer teachers for students from around the world. Notable Feature(s): Opportunities for on-line volunteer teaching (including teacher training, if necessary); English language instruction at different levels; chat rooms English Server Collections in the Arts & Humanities http://eserver.org The English Server (based in the English Department at Carnegie Mellon University) offers over twenty thousand works, as well as access to various services and opportunities. The focus includes a wide range of interests beyond literature, including literacy and education, women's studies, art and architecture, philosophy, history, links between technology and culture, government, languages and linguistics, and music. Notable Feature(s): A bulletin board of calls for papers for scholarly conferences, anthologies and journals in many fields of interest. ESL Study Hall http://gwis2.circ.gwu.edu/~gwvcusas/ This George Washington University Web site offers help with English as a second language (ESL). Notable Feature(s): Reading, writing, grammar, idioms, listening, vocabulary, conversation. Contact Information: Email: cfmeloni@hotmail.com EurasiaNet http://www.eurasianet.org/ http://www.soros.org/ EurasiaNet provides information and analysis about political, economic, environmental and social developments in the countries of Central Asia and the Caucasus, as well as in Russia, the Middle East, and Southwest Asia. EurasiaNet is operated by the Central Eurasia Project of the Open Society Institute (OSI). Notable Feature(s): The Web site offers additional features, including newsmaker interviews, book reviews and a discussion forum EurasiaNet has seven different departments that feature original content on many topics, including cultural and environmental developments, human rights, HIV/AIDS, and more through an extensive network of contributors providing material that keeps readers on top of regional developments. Contact Information: Email: jburke@eurasianet.org Everbody's Legal Dictionary http://www.nolo.com/lawcenter/dictionary/wordindex.cfm http://www.nolo.com/index.cfm This dictionary contains plain-English definitions for over a thousand legal terms and is updated regularly. Notable Feature(s): Numerous law and legal topics, e-newsletters, and practical advice for starting a small business, etc., are accessible from the Nolo Law for All home page. Contact Information: Nolo 950 Parker Street Berkeley, CA   94710-2524 USA Telephone: 800.728.3555   Fax: 800.645.0895 Email: cs@nolo.com FetchBook.Info http://www.fetchbook.info/ FetchBook.Info provides a quick way to compare prices of new and used books. Whether it's used college books, used textbooks, new fiction books or new poetry books - FetchBook.Info finds book stores offering low prices. The free service uses price-scanning technology to scan dozens of discount book stores, used books stores, wholesale books stores and other online book stores, to find the books, searching by title, author, or ISBN. Contact Information: Email: comments@FetchBook.Info Filmakers Library http://www.filmakers.com/ Filmakers Library offers a vast collection of award-winning documentary films and videos for rent or sale to universities, schools, museums, businesses and community groups. Primarily for educational or research use, the materials focus on many subjects, e.g., psychology, sociology, anthropology, women's studies and multicultural issues, Africa, Latin America, Asia, Eastern Europe, development issues, native Americans, the environment and science, health, disability, aging, labor, criminal justice, child welfare and gender issues. The topics are relevant to social change issues and provide, even in thumbnail sketch form, a model of documentary work that can transform communities and lives for the better. Included in the global collection are productions from Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Channel 4, England, KCTS, and independent producers from all over the world. Notable Feature(s): Powerful search engine for finding films and videos of interest. Contact Information: Filmakers Library 124 East 40th Street New York, NY   10016 USA Telephone: 212-808-4980   Fax: 212-808-4983 Email: info@filmakers.com FindLaw http://www.findlaw.com/ http://writ.findlaw.com/ FindLaw, the leading Web portal focused on law and government, provides access to a comprehensive and fast-growing online library of legal resources for use by legal professionals, consumers and small businesses. FindLaw's mission is to make legal information on the Internet easy to find. FindLaw covers U.S. and international topics. Notable Feature(s): FindLaw's Writ provides excellent, wide-ranging essays and commentary on current and important legal issues, cases and decisions; access to more than 8,000 legal forms; news and reference' newsletters. Contact Information: Wendy Brooks - Press Inquiries FindLaw 1235 Pear Avenue, Suite 111 Mountain View, California   94043 USA Telephone: 650.210.1900   Fax: 650.940.4490 Email: wbrooks@findlaw.com Foreign Policy in Focus (FPIF) http://www.fpif.org/ Foreign Policy In Focus (FPIF), established in 1996, seeks to make the U.S. a more responsible global leader and global partner. It is a "think tank without walls" that functions as an international network of more than 650 policy analysts and advocates. Unlike traditional think tanks, FPIF is committed to advancing a citizen-based foreign policy agenda--one that is fundamentally rooted in citizen initiatives and movements. FPIF is a collaborative project of the Interhemispheric Resource Center (IRC) and the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS). Notable Feature(s): Excellent source for the latest global news, commentary, policy briefs, discussion papers, and more. Contact Information: FPIF - IPS 733 15th St NW, Suite 1020 Washington, DC   20005 USA Email: infocus@fpif.org ForeignAid.com http://www.foreignaid.com/ ForeignAid.com hosts an up-to-the-minute collection of news accounts and reports from around the world that are of use to development professionals, NGO leaders, and social entrepreneurs working in myriad fields of interest. The organization also supports a certification program. Its Foreign Aid Certification and Network is the foremost social-value evaluation agency for nonprofits, companies, and governments worldwide. Its aim is a world where private aid exceeds official development assistance, and social value in non-governmental organizations (NGOs), businesses, governments, and academia is recognized and rewarded. Notable Feature(s): E-newsletter. Contact Information: ForeignAid Rating and Certification Program c/o Development International 32 Sunset Road Suite 600 Demarest, NJ   07627 U.S.A. Telephone: 201.993.8727   Fax: 201.750.9114 Email: ratings@foreignaid.com Free Glossary http://www.freeglossary.com/ The freeglossary.com mission is to provide free knowledge, easy and fast to access from anywhere. The information one sees here is provided by various authors in 12 languages from around the world. Contact Information: Martin Bauer Telephone: (0049) 6131 3335601   Email: bauer@freeglossary.com GEOGRAPHICAL ONLINE http://www.geographical.co.uk http://www.rgs.org Geographical Online is the sister site to Geographical magazine, founded by the Royal Geographical Society RGS (with The Institute of British Geographers) in 1935. GEOGRAPHICAL ONLINE rounds up breaking news from around the world in politics, the environment and science. The RGS supports over 20 research groups; promotes geography within the national curriculum; produces scholarly publications; provides training in scientific field techniques; assists personal development in young people through expeditions; presents a popular national lecture series; and provides advice and information through its large map collection, library and picture library. Notable Feature(s): Education; maps; travel; reports from and about geographical professionals; research materials; events, courses, recently published books. Contact Information: Nick Ryan, Online Editor Geographical Online 47c Kensington Court London   W8 5DA UK Telephone: +44 (0)207 938 4011   Fax: +44 (0)207 938 4022 Email: nick@geographical.co.uk Global Issues http://www.globalissues.org/ This site is the result of the entrepreneurial initiative of one individual concerned about global issues and his desire to provide access to relevant information. The constantly updated links provide discussion materials on important social issues and valuable resources throughout the World Wide Web. Notable Feature(s): Special focus on human rights, foreign policy, the environment, children and women, causes of poverty, animals and nature, population, genetic engineering of food, fair trade, media, and many other subjects of interest. Contact Information: Anup Shah Email: comments@globalissues.org Global Poverty Report http://www.worldbank.org/poverty/library/G8_2001.htm http://www.worldbank.org/poverty/index.htm The Global Poverty Report considers the effects of globalizing markets on poverty in developing countries. It outlines the channels through which increased trade openness can affect poverty and examines the evidence from four regions: Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean. Written at the request of the G8, and presented at the G-8 Genoa Summit (July 2001), the report is the result of a joint effort of the African Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the Inter-American Development Bank, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund. Notable Feature(s): A wealth of resources resources for people and organizations working to understand and alleviate poverty around the world; vast library of publications, documents, reports, evaluations, and data on poverty; country contact directory for World Bank offices. Contact Information: The World Bank 1818 H Street, N.W. Washington, DC   20433 USA Telephone: 202.477.1234   Fax: 202.477.6391 Email: feedback@worldbank.org Global Public Goods - Edited by Inge Kaul, Isabelle Grunberg, and Marc A. Stern http://www.undp.org/globalpublicgoods/Executive_Summary/executive_summary.html Global Public Goods: International Cooperation in the 21st Century is a publication from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The 21-page executive summary details all the critical themes and dynamics of civil society and globalization that will affect equity and justice, health, peace and security, environmental and cultural heritage. Globalvision http://www.globalvision.org/ Co-founded by award-winning journalists Rory O'Connor and Danny Schechter, Globalvision is a full-service, independent, international media company specializing in information, entertainment and educational programming. For more than a decade, Globalvision has produced highly acclaimed newsmagazines, nationally televised specials, cutting edge documentary films, leading Web sites, public service campaigns, and a wide variety of corporate communications tools and strategies. Its clients range from mainstream media outlets such as CBS News, Time Warner, Disney, Nippon Television, Universal Pictures and many others, to prominent foundations and nonprofits such as the Gates Foundation, the Open Society, Greenpeace, Sierra Club, Amnesty International and UNICEF, to labor unions and corporations such as the United Auto Workers, the Body Shop, the Coca-Cola Company and Reebok International. Since 1988, Globalvision producers have helped people all over the world tell their own stories. Their first Emmy Award-winning news magazine series South Africa Now presented an uncensored view of life under apartheid from the point of view of local journalists equipped with camcorders. The series aired weekly from 1988 to 1991 on U.S. public television stations as well as in 15 countries abroad and was the beginning of what Globalvision now terms its "inside-out" style of journalism. Globalvision's second international weekly news magazine, Rights & Wrongs: Human Rights Television offered viewers hard-hitting, analytical and caring reporting on global human rights issues. This tradition of storytelling from the "inside out" informs its work in every arena today—from the leading Internet supersite, the MediaChannel.org, to award-winning documentaries such as "Counting on Democracy" and "The Hole in the Wall," and to entertaining television specials such as "We Are Family" and "The Soul of Christmas: A Celtic Music Celebration." Notable Feature(s): Globalvision Bews Network. Contact Information: Rory O'Connor, CEO Globalvision 1600 Broadway, Suite 700 New York, n.y.   10019 U.S.A. Telephone: 212.246.0202   Fax: 212.246.2677 Email: gvinfo@globalvision.org GrantCraft - a project of the Ford Foundation http://www.grantcraft.org/ http://www.fordfound.org/ GrantCraft is a source of practical wisdom from grant makers on the tools and techniques of effective grant making. GrantCraft offers guides, videos, and case studies that present the practitioner's view of philanthropy. Over the past 10 years, the Ford Foundation has developed a set of presentations, publications, and workshops in which its own grant makers share lessons learned about their craft. This new project offers an updated version of some of those materials for a much wider audience, and adds a growing inventory of new material, incorporating insights from foundations of every size and field of interest. Newer materials add the perspective of grantees, too – reflecting a view of grant making from the people who put grants to use. Notable Feature(s): ADVOCACY FUNDING: The Philanthropy of Changing Minds explains what's legally permissible and how to work with grantees who lobby, build a constituency, prepare for opposition and measure success; additional guides on various grantmaking topics based on the actual experiences of grant makers and grant users and largely told in their voices. Contact Information: John Naughton Project Coordinator, GrantCraft The Ford Foundation 320 East 43rd Street New York, N.Y.   10017 U.S.A. Telephone: 212.573.4879   Fax: 212.351.3651 Email: J.Naughton@fordfound.org; Grassroots.org http://grassroots.org/do/Home Grassroots.org is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that serves other nonprofits and information consumers worldwide. Grassroots.org acts as a clearinghouse for the best tools and information to enable nonprofits and everyday citizens to conduct their charitable activities as efficiently as possible. Doing so ultimately helps more people and lessens additional suffering faster. It provides free Internet business services to charities, including full-featured Web hosting and e-mail services. The initiative also provides limited consulting to charities at no charge. In 2004 Grassroots.org envisions offering free legal services, free financial services, and free computer/technology consulting services through a network of volunteer social activists. Grassroots.org focuses on serving nonreligious organizations involved in education, environmentalism, humanitarian relief, fighting disease , homelessness, crime control, political freedom , government reform, consumer protection, youth issues, addiction, and other like-minded, non-legislative causes. Also in 2004, Grassroots.org will organize groups of ordinary citizens to communicate interactively online to focus on how citizens can collectively and proactively address issues of concern and urgency. Notable Feature(s): Building a Better World, One Domain at a Time, an article on Grassroots.org and founder and executive director Michael Mann (of BuyDomains.com), who is planning on changing the world slowly but surely by getting critical social facts to people throughout the world thanks to a clearinghouse of 600+ domain names targeting humanitarian purposes, e.g., Homeless.org, Relief.org, Addicted.org, Starvation.org and more. Contact Information: Grassroots.org Michael Mann Guidestar http://www.guidestar.org/ A massive database of information on more than 700,000 U.S. nonprofit organizations. Harvard's Environmental Information Center http://environment.harvard.edu/HERO/wrapper/pageid=eic/home.html An exhaustive set of resources, guides, policy instruments, and economic and social references is available at this site. Notable Feature(s): Tutorials, library databases and indexes, links too numerous to mention. Contact Information: Tom Parris Environmental Resources Librarian Telephone: 617.496.6158   Fax: 617.495.5324 Email: tparris@fas.harvard.edu Harvard/JFK School of Government Library - Virtual Reference Shelf http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/ifactory/test/library/refshelf.shtml Contact Information: Email: webmaster@ksgwww.harvard.edu Healthfinder http://www.healthfinder.gov/ Contact Information: The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services 200 Independence Avenue, S.W. Washington, DC   20201 USA Telephone: 202.619.0257   Email: hhsmail@os.dhhs.gov Hieros Gamos (HG) - Legal Research Center http://www.hg.org/index.html Touted as the #1 on-line legal research center, Hieros Gamos offers a vast collection of materials on every aspect of international law and regulation, as well as exhaustive resources from 230 countries, country by country, also state by state. Included as well are profiles and contact information of legal firms and practitioners. Notable Feature(s): Newsstand; expert advice on starting a business from the Business Center; enormous directory of UN and other international government sites. Human Development Report 2005—International cooperation at a crossroads: Aid, trade and security in an unequal world http://hdr.undp.org/reports/global/2005/ This year’s UNDP Human Development Report takes stock of human development, including progress towards the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs). Looking beyond statistics, it highlights the human costs of missed targets and broken promises. Extreme inequality between countries and within countries is identified as one of the main barriers to human development—and as a powerful brake on accelerated progress towards the MDGs. Contact Information: Human Development Report Office 304 E. 45th Street 12th Floor New York, NY   10017 U.S.A. Telephone: 212.906.3661   Fax: 212.906.3677 Humanity Development Library http://www.humanitylibraries.net/ The objective of the Humanity Libraries Project (formerly known as Humanity CD-ROM Project) is to provide all persons involved in development, well-being and basic needs, access to a complete library containing most solutions, know-how and ideas they need to tackle poverty and increase the human potential. Contact Information: Email: info@humaninfo.org HURIDOCS - Human Rights Information and Documentation Service International http://www.huridocs.org/ HURIDOCS, initiated in 1979 and formally established in 1982, is a global network of human rights organisations. The aim of HURIDOCS is to improve access to and the dissemination of public information on human rights through more effective, appropriate and compatible methods and techniques of information handling. Notable Feature(s): Tools: a new series of manuals aimed to help build the capacity of human rights organizations in monitoring and documentation; up-to-date news published in English, French, and Spanish. Contact Information: Manuel Guzman, Executive Director HURIDOCS Secretariat 48, chemin du Grand-Montfleury CH-1290 Versoix Switzerland Telephone: 41.22.7555252   Fax: 41.22.7555260 Email: huridocs@comlink.org IKNOW.org http://www.iknow.org/ IKNOW - Interactive Knowledge for Nonprofit Organizations Worldwide - provides nonprofit leaders with critical knowledge for expanding the impact of their programs, finding useful information about starting a nonprofit, fundraising, registering to solicit contributions, IRS filing requirements, financial management, weathering uncertainty, tax issues, volunteerism, and much more. Contact Information: IKNOW Mathew Emery Email: mat@iknow.org Information for Development in the 21st Century (ID21) http://www.id21.org/ ID21 is a fast-track research reporting service backed by the UK Department for International Development (DFID). It aims to make policymakers and on-the-ground development managers aware of the latest and best in British development research findings. Online, in print and through the Southern media, ID21 showcases fresh and unusual research angles on social and economic issues that animate today's development thinking. The service offers hundreds of summaries of problem-solving around the world. Notable Feature(s): E-mail reports of current research and findings in health, economic and social issues, education, urban poverty, and gender violence; searchable archive; e-mail addresses, other direct contact details, hotlinks and printed sources, to ease the direct flow of knowledge and advice between researcher and research user. Contact Information: The Institute of Development Studies University of Sussex Brighton   BN1 9RE UK Telephone: +44 (0) 1273 678787   Fax: +44 (0) 1273 877335 Email: id21@ids.ac.uk Information for Practice http://www.nyu.edu/socialwork/ip/ IP is a new, free, resource for social service professionals that is updated daily. The focus is on: professionally relevant stories in the world’s news outlets; new articles in scholarly journals; and new resources appearing in the grey literature (e.g., scientific and technical reports primarily from governments and organizations). The goal of this service is to provide social service professionals with easier access to high quality information that can be used to improve their practice. Contact Information: Gary Holden, Editor, IP Professor & Chair of Research New York University School of Social Work New York, NY U.S.A. Email: gary.holden@nyu.edu Informational Resources http://www.trakkerinc.com/edu/genworks/infores.htm This directory is full of research materials and tools, including consumer information, global resources, full-text legal resources, free Web-based courses for secondary students, UN statistics, global hunger resources. Notable Feature(s): Useful interactive atlas for finding locations (down to the highway and boulevard) and location information on six continents; subject areas: ARTS, GENERAL WORKS, HEALTH, HISTORY, LITERATURE, SCIENCE, SOCIAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY VOCATIONAL RESOURCES. INFOYOUTH http://www.unesco.org/webworld/infoyouth/index.html The INFOYOUTH Network was initiated in 1991 by UNESCO in order to meet two main challenges: on the one hand, the necessity to counteract the splintering of various and scattered information sources and networks on youth, and on the other, the urgent need to implement appropriate and coherent youth policies from local to global levels. Notable Feature(s): Reports and publications on youth issues worldwide; database of materials on national youth policies, surveys, pilot youth projects, and more, organized into regions: Africa, Arab States, Asia and the Pacific, Europe, North America, Latin America and the Caribbean. Contact Information: Mr Jacques TOUZEAU INJEP Telephone: (331) 39 17 27 77   Fax: (331) 39 17 27 90 Email: info-jeunesse@unesco.org Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) http://www.ips-dc.org/index.htm At a time when other think tanks celebrate the virtues of unrestrained greed, unlimited wealth, and unregulated markets, IPS is striving to create a more responsible society - one built around the values of justice, nonviolence, sustainability, and decency. IPS, as I.F. Stone once said, is "an Institute for the rest of us." Notable Feature(s): Detailed descriptions of IPS programs and partnerships addressing myriad social, political, environmental and cultural issues of concern, including human rights, drug policy, domestic workers' rights, ecotourism, peace and security. Contact Information: Institute for Policy Studies 733 15th St NW Suite 1020 Washington, DC   20005 USA Telephone: 202.234.9382   Fax: 202.387.7915 Institute of Ideas http://www.instituteofideas.com/index.html The Institute of Ideas' mission is to expand the boundaries of public debate by organising conferences, discussions and salons, and publishing written conversations and exchanges on a range of subjects of vital and current interest. Notable Feature(s): Transcripts of interviews and topical reports; events calendar. Contact Information: Academy of Ideas Ltd. Signet House 49-51 Farringdon Road London, EC1M 3JP UK Telephone: +44 (0)20 7269 9220   Fax: +44 (0)20 7269 9235 Email: academy@instituteofideas.com International Development Organizations and Agencies http://www.inasp.org.uk/links/development.html A valuable directory of national organizations around the world working for sustainable development, economies in transition, public debate on social issues, research partnerships, technology transfer, communications, and other means of promoting change for the good. International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) http://www.iied.org/index.html IIED is an independent, nonprofit organization promoting sustainable patterns of world development through collaborative research, policy studies, networking and knowledge dissemination. IIED works to address global issues such as mining, the paper industry, and food systems. Founded in 1971, as the International Institute for Environmental Affairs in the United States, today the institute is represented by a multicultural, multilingual staff of over 70 people from 18 countries and is headquartered in London. Notable Feature(s): News, full-text reports on many topics, including human settlements, urban issues, drylands, forest sector, sustainable development, developing markets for environmental assets, and more; briefing papers for the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg, South Africa. Contact Information: International Institute for Environment and Development 3 Endsleigh Street London WC1H 0DD UK Telephone: +44 (0) 20 7388-2117   Fax: +44 (0)20 7388-2826 Email: mailbox@iied.org International Journal of Not-for-Profit Law (Journal) http://www.icnl.org/journal.html IPS - Inter Press Service News Agency - the Global Gateway http://ipsnews.net http://ipsnews.net/index.asp Inter Press Service News Agency (IPS), the world's leading provider of information on global issues, is backed by a network of journalists in more than 100 countries. Its clients include more than 3,000 media organizations and tens of thousands of civil society groups, academics, and other users. IPS focuses its news coverage on the events and global processes affecting the economic, social and political development of peoples and nations. Notable Feature(s): Regional news service for Africa, Asia-Pacific, Caribbean, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, and North America; human rights coverage, as well as environmental, cultural, and development issues; contact email addresses for every region. Contact Information: Email: webmaster@ipsnews.net IQbell http://iqbell.com/ IQbell is a streamlined search engine focused exclusively on educational establishments, societies, foundations, libraries, museums, international organizations and research bodies. Jane's http://www.janes.com/ Jane's is the legacy of Fred T. Jane, a visionary and creator of what today is widely regarded as the ultimate source for defence, aerospace and transportation information. Notable Feature(s): Up-to-date news and analysis of developments related to global security. Offices in Singapore, Tokyo, Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Contact Information: Jane's Information Group 1340 Braddock Place Suite 300 Alexandria, VA   22314-1651 USA Telephone: 703.683.3700   Fax: 703.836.0297 Email: info@janes.com Journalists' Toolkit: Essential Resources for the Working Journalist http://www.mediachannel.org/getinvolved/journo/ A directory of Web sites collected by MediaChannel to help in directing journalists and others to important international and regional news, training, media, and networking sources and organizations. Knowledge Management Tools and Resources http://hbswk.hbs.edu/websites.jhtml?t=knowledge Harvard Business School's Working Knowledge Web site has compiled a comprehensive selection of links to reports, analyses, and commentary on knowledge management and what different companies have done and learned about information systems and how to evaluate and implement them. Contact Information: HBS Working Knowledge Harvard Business School Baker 100E Soldiers Field Road Boston, MA   02163 USA Email: workingknowledge@hbs.edu Librarians' Index to the Internet (LII) http://www.lii.org/ The Librarians' Index to the Internet is a searchable, annotated subject directory of more than 7,500 Internet resources selected and evaluated by librarians for their usefulness to users of public libraries. It's meant to be used by both librarians and non-librarians as a reliable and efficient guide to described and evaluated Internet resources. Notable Feature(s): Too numerous to list! Contact Information: Carole Leita Email: leita@lii.org Library of Congress Country Studies http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html#about Here is comprehensive information (on some 85 countries) that describes and analyzes their political, economic, social, and national security systems and institutions, and examines the interrelationships of those systems and the ways they are shaped by cultural factors. Notable Feature(s): The studies devote particular attention to the people who make up the society, their origins, dominant beliefs and values, their common interests, and the issues on which they are divided. Local time around the world http://www.hilink.com.au/times/ Many Roads to Justice - The Law Related Work of Ford Foundation Grantees Around the World - Edited by Mary McClymont, Stephen Golub http://www.fordfound.org/publications/recent_articles/docs/manyroads.pdf An excellent 372-page case study report from the Peace and Social Justice Program work of The Ford Foundation, specifically that of the Global Law Programs Learning Initiative (GLPLI). Notable Feature(s): Reports from Bangladesh, China, the United States, South Africa, the Andean and the Southern Cone regions of South America, the Philippines, Eastern Europe, and much more. Contact Information: The Ford Foundation 320 East 43rd Street New York, NY   10017 USA MapQuest http://www.mapquest.com/ This is an excellent source of map and location information. The Interactive Atlas option provides detailed maps in cities and towns on six continents. Maps of the World http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/ Map_collection.html Martindale's 'The Reference Desk' - World Wide Overview http://www-sci.lib.uci.edu/~martindale/Ref1.html Site includes world daily reports, postal and weather information, language dictionaries, encyclopedias, maps. Medical/Health Sciences Libraries on the Internet http://www.arcade.uiowa.edu/hardin-www/hslibs.html Contact Information: Albert Einstein College of Medicine Jack and Pearl Resnick Campus of Yeshiva University 1300 Morris Park Avenue Bronx, N.Y   10461 USA MEDLINEplus http://www.medlineplus.com/ A service of the National Library of Medicine/National Institutes of Health, USA, a virtual gold mine of health information from the world's largest medical library. Contact Information: U.S. National Library of Medicine 8600 Rockville Pike Bethesda, MD   20894 USA MegaConverter http://www.megaconverter.com/Cv_start.htm This "megaConverter" site provides a seemingly exhaustive yet still-growing set of weights, measures and units conversion/calculation modules. MegaConverter allows users to find the equivalent for just about any measure or quantity they can think of or imagine. Merck Manual - Home Edition http://www.merck.com/pubs/mmanual_home/content.htm The classic and authoritative handbook of medical information for non-medical professionals. National Endowment for Democracy (NED) http://www.ned.org/ NED is a private, nonprofit, bipartisan, organization created in 1983 to help strengthen democratic institutions around the world. Funded by an annual congressional appropriation, the Endowment's grants program assists organizations abroad working for democratic goals. The Endowment's programs encourage democratic political development primarily in three major functional areas -- pluralism; democratic governance; and education, culture, and communications. The Endowment's grants have supported nongovernmental prodemocratic programs in some 90 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East, Central and Eastern Europe, and the Newly Independent States. Notable Feature(s): New guide: Sources of Funding in International Affairs and Fellowships, Scholarships, and Grants for Individuals. Contact Information: National Endowment for Democracy 1101 Fifteenth Street, NW, Suite 700 Washington, DC   20005 USA Telephone: 202.293.9072   Fax: 202.223.6042 Email: info@ned.org Nature http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/water/ http://www.nature.com/ Nature, the NPG company's flagship, and the world's foremost weekly scientific journal, was launched in 1869. Nature Genetics the first Nature research journal, followed 123 years later. Now, in 2002, NPG publishes eight Nature Research Journals and plans to launch a ninth during 2003. This site focuses on global water issues and problems. Notable Feature(s): Science updates and research findings in numerous fields; publications; e-alerts; calendars of events. Contact Information: Nature Publishing Group Macmillan Publishers Limited Brunel Road Houndmills, Basingstoke Hampshire   RG21 6XS UK NED Grants Program International Programs and Initiatives http://www.ned.org/grants/grants.html NED supports projects that promote political and economic freedom, a strong civil society, independent media, human rights and the rule of law. Programs in the areas of labor, business, and political party development are funded through four core institutes: the American Center for International Labor Solidarity (ACILS), the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE), the International Republican Institute (IRI), and the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI). Contact Information: Email: webmaster@ned.org On-Line Writing Lab http://owl.English.purdue.edu/ This Purdue University site provides a number of language resources for students and teachers. Notable Feature(s): More than 130 instructional handouts; special help for the ESL student. OneWorld User Guide http://www.benton.org/OneWorldUS/oneworlduserguide.htm OneWorld.net is a global portal that provides a comprehensive overview of current world events and issues through the eyes of more than 1,600 partner organizations working in human rights and sustainable development worldwide. Started as a citzen-based Web site in 1995, OneWorld provides daily news coverage, thematic guides, radio and video programs and weekly reports from Africa, Asia, Europe, United States and Latin America in order to support and give voice to the struggles of the poor to better their lives. The OneWorld User Guide provides descriptions and links to news, research, multimedia, jobs, global campaigns, thematic areas, volunteering, AIDS, learning, and other resources available in OneWorld. OneWorld.net http://www.OneWorld.net http://www.oneworld.net/us/ OneWorld is an online community of 1,600 organizations, covering the whole spectrum of development, environmental, and human rights activities and extending from Manhattan to Delhi. By drawing all these resources together, OneWorld is able to provide the best, the biggest and the most up-to-date news and information service for people interested in understanding the real state of the world. Notable Feature(s): News by Country. Contact Information: OneWorld International Floor 17 89 Albert Embankment London   SE1 7TP United Kingdom Telephone: +44 (0)20 7735 2100   Fax: +44 (0)20 7840 0798 Email: justice@oneworld.net Online Language Dictionaries and Translators http://www.word2word.com/dictionary.html Notable Feature(s): Additional dictionary indexes. Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) http://www.oecd.org/ http://www.oecdobserver.org/ The OECD is an international organisation helping governments tackle the economic, social, and governance challenges of the globalised economy. The OECD groups 30 member countries sharing a commitment to democratic government and the market economy. With active relationships with some 70 other countries, NGOs and civil society, it has a global reach. Best known for its publications and its statistics, its work covers economic and social issues from macroeconomics, to trade, education, development and science and innovation. Notable Feature(s): Extensive resources on every economic and social sector issue; the OECD Observer magazine; offices around the world, including Washington, D.C.. Contact Information: OECD Washington Center 2001 L Street, N.W., Suite 650 Washington, DC   20036-4922 USA Telephone: 202.785.6323   Fax: 202.785.0350 Email: washington.contact@oecd.org Overcoming Human Poverty http://www.undp.org/povertyreport/ http://www.undp.org/povertyreport/tableofcontents/tableofcontents.html The UN Development Programme has published this report. Among other findings, it emphasizes that a review of national anti-poverty plans underscores the importance of developing a new generation of programmes that focus on making growth more pro-poor, target inequality and emphasize empowering the poor. The old-school prescriptions of supplementing rapid growth with social spending and safety nets have proved inadequate. Notable Feature(s): Country profiles; executive summary; full online text of many chapters. Overseas Development Institute (ODI) http://www.odi.org.uk/index.html ODI is Britain's leading independent think-tank on international development and humanitarian issues. Its mission is to inspire and inform policy and practice which lead to the reduction of poverty, the alleviation of suffering and the achievement of sustainable livelihoods in developing countries. ODI does this by locking together high-quality applied research, practical policy advice, and policy-focused dissemination and debate. It works with partners in the public and private sectors, in both developing and developed countries. Notable Feature(s): Research program areas; contact directory for staff working on every sort of development issue around the world, including migration, disaster relief, poverty, the environment, food security, cultural rights, crop diversity, and more; publications. Contact Information: Overseas Development Institute 111 Westminster Bridge Road London SE1 7JD UK Telephone: +44 (0)20 7922 0300   Fax: +44 (0)20 7922 0399 Email: odi@odi.org.uk Percentage Calculator http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~shane007/maths/percent.html Find the value of the % of any given number. Find the % of one number against another. Find the % increase or decrease between two numbers. Portals to the World http://www.loc.gov/rr/international/portals.html The Portals to the World Web site contains selective links providing authoritative, in-depth information about the nations and other areas of the world. They are arranged by country or area with the links for each sorted into a wide range of broad categories. The links were selected by Area Specialists and other Library staff using Library of Congress selection criteria. When completed, the project will include all the nations of the world. Contact Information: The Library of Congress 101 Independence Ave, SE Washington, DC   20540 USA Telephone: 202.707.5000   Public Citizen Pocket Trade Lawyer: The Alphabet Soup of Globalization - by Lori Wallach, J.D., Director of Global Trade Watch http://www.citizen.org/documents/PTL_nov03.pdf http://www.citizen.org/index.cfm While institutions and agreements like the WTO, NAFTA, and a whole alphabet soup of other globalization mechanisms and institutions have deep and direct impacts on many facets of the daily lives of people everywhere, the meaning and implications of their terms are often unintelligible. First, the agreements are written in a technical trade jargon that the author has dubbed "GATTese." In GATTese, words with a clear meaning in common usage have entirely different meanings or implications. In some cases, one or two words are shorthand for entire twenty-year bodies of trade law jurisprudence that simply are not evident on the face of the term. Second, words used in trade and investment agreements have extremely precise legal meanings that can turn on the slight difference in a verb's tense. Since the text of these agreements is often available only in English (or perhaps also French), nonnative speakers are at a disadvantage. Third, there are certain basics of legal interpretation that most nonlawyers simply do not know—they can mask completely the meaning of trade agreement language. The actual provisions of some of the key mechanisms of globalization—namely, the WTO and NAFTA—are so drastic that simply being able to understand what they mean for environmental, food safety, social justice, and other laws and policies is one of critics' strongest arguments. Meanwhile, innocent errors in interpretation made by critics are often cited by proponents of corporate-managed trade to undermine the credibility of legitimate criticisms. This guide is intended to help people go to the legal sources with an understanding of some of the most essential specialized terms, language, and legal quirks of globalization's instruments. Its goal is to empower the maximum number of people to be able to make their own informed decisions about the often intentionally murky provisions hidden in policies and agreements promoting corporate globalization. Contact Information: Public Citizen 1600 20th Street, NW Washington, DC   20009 U.S.A. Telephone: 202.588.1000   Ramsar Convention Manual, 2nd Edition http://www.ramsar.org/lib_manual_1.htm This manual is the authoritative guide to The Convention on Wetlands (officially The Convention on Wetlands of International Importance especially as Waterfowl Habitat), an intergovernmental treaty adopted in 1971 in the Iranian city of Ramsar. Notable Feature(s): Detailed procedures for joining the Ramsar Convention; Small Grants Fund for Wetland Conservation; 1997-2002 Strategic Plan; full-text sections useful for government agencies, NGOs, managers or wardens of wetland nature reserves, environmental educators, policy-makers and others with an interest in wetlands habitat;site resources available in the three official working languages of the Convention - English, French and Spanish. Refdesk http://www.refdesk.com/ A vast collection of resources aimed at answering questions. Refdesk.com has three goals: (1) fast access, (2) intuitive and easy navigation and (3) comprehensive content, rationally indexed. Notable Feature(s): Quick Reference; facts and subject categories too numerous to mention; maps, statistics, geography, history; encyclopedias and dictionaries. Contact Information: Bob Drudge Email: webmaster@refdesk.com Research Tools at the U.S. Library of Congress http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/tools.html Resources and News for Information Professionals & Researchers http://resourceshelf.blogspot.com/ http://gwis2.circ.gwu.edu/~gprice/listof.htm A valuable news service describing the latest Web developments, reports, and a broad array of field-specific research resources and the technology behind the scenes. Notable Feature(s): Gary Price's famous List of Lists: The Internet contains numerous lists of information. Many of these lists present information in the form of rankings of different people, organizations, companies, etc. This collection is designed to be a clearinghouse for these types of resources. Contact Information: Gary Price, MLIS George Washington University Email: gprice@gwu.edu Roget's Internet Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases http://www.thesaurus.com/ Science.gov http://www.Science.gov Science.gov is a gateway to authoritative selected science information provided by U.S. Government agencies, including research and development results. Science.gov contains reliable information resources selected by the respective agencies as their best science information. Two major types of information are included—selected authoritative science Web sites and databases of technical reports, journal articles, conference proceedings, and other published materials. (The specific content varies by database.) The selected Web sites can be explored from the science.gov homepage. The Web pages and the databases can be searched individually or simultaneously from the search page. Contact Information: Email: webmanager@science.gov State of Food and Agriculture 2001 http://www.fao.org/docrep/003/x9800e/x9800e00.htm Five years after the World Food Summit, and at the beginning of the twenty-first century, The State of Food and Agriculture 2001 reflects on some of the main challenges faced in eliminating world hunger and poverty. Ensuring the full, equitable and beneficial participation of all parties in an open, globalized world system is a shared responsibility. The State of Food and Agriculture 2001 discusses the negotiations on international agricultural trade, which have been launched within the World Trade Organization. Agricultural trade is of particular importance to most developing countries, in their capacity as either exporters or importers, and frequently both. Barriers to agricultural trade still represent a significant obstacle for many of them. Contact Information: Email: SOFA@fao.org Statistical Abstract of the United States http://www.census.gov/prod/3/97pubs/97statab/intlstat.pdf The massive U.S. Statistical Abstract contains comparative international data: economic indicators, health, employment, demographic, land characteristics, food and energy consumption. The Web site also includes international contact addresses for additional information. Sustainable Development Dimensions http://www.fao.org/WAICENT/FAOINFO/SUSTDEV/Welcome_.htm An excellent site for news, policy, and developments in many fields of interest, including population, women, rural development, the environment, and others. The Word Detective http://www.word-detective.com/ The Word Detective on the Web is the online version of The Word Detective, a newspaper column answering readers' questions about words and language. The Word Detective is written by Evan Morris and appears in finer newspapers in the U.S., Mexico and Japan. Third World Network http://www.twnside.org.sg/ The Third World Network is an independent non-profit international network of organizations and individuals involved in issues relating to development, the Third World and North- South issues. Its objectives are to conduct research on economic, social and environmental issues pertaining to the South; to publish books and magazines; to organize and participate in seminars; and to provide a platform representing broadly Southern interests and perspectives at international fora such as the UN conferences and processes. Notable Feature(s): A number of online publications, including Third World Resurgence; theme sections, including the environment, women's rights, human rights, health, and tourism. Contact Information: Third World Network 228 Macalister Road 10400 Penang Malaysia Telephone: 60-4-2266728   Fax: 60-4-2264505 Email: twn@igc.apc.org twnet@po.jaring.my Third World Network (TWN) http://www.twnside.org.sg/ The Third World Network is an independent non-profit international network of organizations and individuals involved in issues relating to development, the Third World and North-South issues. Its objectives are to conduct research on economic, social and environmental issues pertaining to the South; to publish books and magazines; to organize and participate in seminars; and to provide a platform representing broadly Southern interests and perspectives at international fora such as the UN conferences and processes. Notable Feature(s): A vast array of materials on fields of interest, including the environment, economics, human rights, health, tourism, peace and security; online access to Third World Resurgence magazine and archives. Contact Information: Third World Network 228 Macalister Road Penang   10400 Malaysia Telephone: 60.4.2266728   Fax: 60.4.2264505 Email: twn@igc.apc.org twnet@po.jaring.my Toronto CED Learning Network http://www.torontoced.com/links/ The goal of community economic development (CED) is to provide individuals and groups with the capacity to respond to the opportunities and challenges in their own communities. In an article in the national CED journal, "Making Waves", Michael Lewis described CED in the following way: Community economic development is a comprehensive, multi-faceted strategy for the revitalisation of community economies, with a special relevance to communities under economic and social stress. Through the development of organisations and institutions, resources and alliances are put in places that are democratically controlled by the community. They mobilise local resources (people, finances, technical expertise, and real property) in partnership with resources from outside the community for the purpose of empowering community members to create and manage new and expanded businesses, specialised institutions, and organisations. Community economic development involves initiatives that attempt to strengthen the community by building equitable and inclusive economies. Individuals from marginalised communities such as psychiatric consumers/survivors, newcomers, the long-term unemployed, women, the disabled, youth and ethno-specific communities face many challenges that cannot be addressed in the traditional economy. Community economic development organisations (CEDOs) work directly on these specific barriers with the communities to provide pathways back into general society. Notable Feature(s): Weekly e-newsletter; Contact Information: Terry Baker, Co-ordinator The Toronto CED Learning Network 2 Carlton Street, Suite 1001 Toronto, Ontario M5B 1J3 Canada Telephone: 416.351.0095   Fax: 416.351.0107 Email: cednetwork@cspc.toronto.on.ca UN Wire http://www.unfoundation.org/unwire/unwire.cfm The UN Wire is a valuable resource for anyone interested in the United Nations and global affairs. It provides a concise, intelligent, daily summary of key news stories from around the world. UN Wire also features direct, immediate links to full-text, audio, video and additional sources of information on the Internet. Notable Feature(s): Authoritative and timely news and resports at UN Wire Business Weekly. Contact Information: Steve Hirsch, Editor in Chief UN Wire United Nations Foundation 1301 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 700 Washington, DC   20036 USA Telephone: 202.887.9040   Email: unwire@unfoundation.org Unit Converter http://www.digitaldutch.com/unitconverter/ The WWW unit converter converts area, density, energy, force, length, mass, power, pressure, speed, temperature and volume. New is the conversion of bits and bytes. Universal Currency Converter http://www.xe.net/ucc/ This fast and simple tool will convert any of the world's currencies into another's. All you have to do is enter an amount and click twice. Virtual Library of International Development http://www.acdi-cida.gc.ca/Virtual.nsf/pages/index_e.htm An enormous and useful site of several directories of issues, public and private organizations, and academic institutions working on international development and communication: economics, literacy, sustainable development, medical help to children, religious tolerance, solar energy, and population. Where the Poor Are: An Atlas of Poverty http://www.ciesin.columbia.edu/povmap/atlas.html http://www.earthinstitute.columbia.edu/ Where the Poor Are: An Atlas of Poverty brings together a diverse collection of maps from different continents and countries, depicting small area estimates of vital development indicators at unprecedented levels of spatial detail. The atlas is a product of the CIESIN Global Poverty Mapping Project, begun in 2004, which was made possible by support from the Japan Policy and Human Resource Development Fund, in collaboration with The World Bank. The atlas of 21 full-page poverty maps reveals possible causal patterns and provides practical examples of how the data and tools have been used, and may be used, in applied decisions and poverty interventions. Notable Feature(s): The Earth Institute in the World: a map tool for learning and to see the location of the Earth Institute's projects. Contact Information: CIESIN The Earth Institute at Columbia University 61 Route 9W PO Box 1000 Palisades, New York   10964 U.S.A. Telephone: 845.365.8988   Fax: 845.365.8922 Email: ciesin.info@ciesin.columbia.edu Why Files http://whyfiles.org/ The array of specialties found in science can be overwhelming. "The Why Files" helps relate all kinds of science news to everyday life in an approachable manner. Health, physical science, social science, and technology are just some of the branches that this site covers. The Why Files covers science globally, seeking sources of information and stories wherever the news of the day occurs. Notable Feature(s): Why Files archives. Contact Information: Virginia Hinshaw University of Wisconsin - Madison Telephone: 608.262.1044   Email: Online form: http://whyfiles.org/cgi-bin/talktous World Advocacy http://www.worldadvocacy.com/ A directory site of advocacy organizations working for social change and a better world. Contact Information: Email: contact@bigclassaction.com Worldwatch Institute http://www.worldwatch.org/ http://www.worldwatch.org/pubs/sow/2002/ Worldwatch is a nonprofit, public policy research organization dedicated to informing policymakers and the public about emerging global problems and trends and the complex links between the world economy and its environmental support systems. The Worldwatch Institute is dedicated to fostering the evolution of an environmentally sustainable society--one in which human needs are met in ways that do not threaten the health of the natural environment or the prospects of future generations. The Institute seeks to achieve this goal through the conduct of inter-disciplinary non-partisan research on emerging global environmental issues, the results of which are widely disseminated throughout the world. The Institute believes that information is a powerful tool of social change. Human behavior shifts either in response to new information or new experiences. The Institute seeks to provide the information to bring about the changes needed to build an environmentally sustainable economy. In a sentence, the Institute's mission is to raise public awareness of global environmental threats to the point where it will support effective policy responses. The Institute's outlook is global because the most pressing environmental issues are global. Given the earth's unified ecosystem and an increasingly integrated global economy, only a global approach to issues such as climate change, depletion of the stratospheric ozone layer, the loss of biological diversity, degradation of oceans, and population growth can be effective. Notable Feature(s): Issues analysis of major challenges facing the world; vast research center on energy, economy, people, and nature, which includes resources on climate change, materials, transportation, population, urbanization, water, security, natural disasters, forests, oceans, bioinvasion, and a host of other topics; description of the new book: State of the World 2002 which features a Foreword by U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, and includes chapters on climate change, farming, toxic chemicals, sustainable tourism, population, resource conflicts and global governance, with a special focus on the United Nations World Summit on Sustainable Development, which will be held in Johannesburg, South Africa in August/September 2002. Contact Information: Worldwatch Institute 1776 Massachusetts Ave., N.W. Washington, DC   20036-1904 USA Telephone: 202.452.1999   Fax: 202.296.7365 Email: worldwatch@worldwatch.org Worldwatch Issue Alert http://www.worldwatch.org/alerts/indexia.html From Worldwatch and Lester R. Brown comes a new initiative, the Earth Policy Institute and its series of Worldwatch Issue Alerts designed for political leaders, corporate planners, and environmental activists. The Alerts are designed to identify both emerging new issues and to update developments with current issues. The Alerts will cover a range of topics, such as rising temperatures, falling water tables, recycling trends, new sources of energy, population, fish farming, tobacco, obesity and other health issues, and various topics central to building an environmentally sustainable global economy. The inaugural issue: FALLING WATER TABLES IN CHINA MAY SOON RAISE FOOD PRICES EVERYWHERE. Contact Information: Lester Brown c/o Reah Janise Kauffman Worldwatch Institute 1776 Massachusetts Ave., NW Washington, DC   20036-1904 USA Telephone: 202.452.1992 x 514   Fax: 202.296.7365 Email: rjkauffman@worldwatch.org WWWebster Dictionary http://www.m-w.com/dictionary The classic Merriam-Webster Dictionary on-line