Research Unit
The Research Unit provides in this webpage a series of hyperlinks to electronic resources available on the Internet. Sorted into major themes. We have tried to cover most common issues that arise in our unit.
Warning: The Embassy is not responsible for the content of hyperlinks to servers that do not belong to the United States government.
Encyclopedia, Dictionaries, Etc.
- Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Quote links: links to a number of dictionaries of quotations.
Finding People
- Switchboard, a telephone directory of individuals and businesses.
- Telephone books around the world.
- Internet Address Finder, a directory of email addresses that allows searching by name and institutions.
- American Universities website addresses of different universities, which offer their directories of employees, teachers and students.
- The Scholarly Societies Project, hyperlinks to more than 1,000 academic and professional organizations.
- Gateway to Associations, the American Society of Association Executives provides links to the websites of its more than 1,000 members.
Finding Places
- U.S. Gazetteer Census Bureau
- MapQuest: U.S. street maps.
- Subway maps, to plan trips on the metro.
- DiscoverAmerica.com
To Know the Latest News
- CNN’s news media, continually updated.
- C-Span, provides links to ElectionLine, public domain resource on the Internet, and sound files of the sessions of the Senate and House of Representatives.
- The Weather Channel, with weather forecasts.
For Information on Scholarships and Education in the U.S.
Please visit:
- Education USA (EducationUSA is a U.S. Department of State-supported network of hundreds of advising centers around the world).
- Fulbright España
Finding a Job
- The Riley Guide, prepared by Margaret Riley, offers links to may sources of information.
- Job-Hunt: A Meta-list of On-Line
- The Monster Board, a huge server with employers and curricula descriptions.
- JobSmart Salary Surveys
- Hoover’s Online
- Uniworld Online. Find company contact information.
- Thomas Register of American Manufacturers. Although it is free, it must be a sign to be used. Includes information on thousands of U.S. manufacturing companies.
- Affordable Colleges Online. Student Job or Internship
Finding Information on the Internet
- Dictionaries
NetLingo: the dictionary of words relating to Internet.
O’Reilly Dictionary of PC Hardware and Data Communications Terms - How to cite electronic information
- Guide to using Internet search engines, with a point-and-click access to each.
- Internet Tools, Browsers and Viewers. Information on how to take advantage of Web applications.
- The Tile.Net list of listservs, information on mailing lists and newsgroups.
Miscellaneous
- Nist Online Reference Databases by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, includes information such as the Chemistry WebBook, the Physical Reference Database produced by the NIST Physics Laboratory, the High Temperature Superconductors Database and Electron Interactions with Plasma Processing Gases.
- Internet Movie Database, describes filmographies, credits of movies, and a search engine for actors, characters, etc.
- U.S. Patent Office provides patent databases.
- IBM Patent Server includes images of new patents.
Other Collections of Electronic Reference Resources
- Princeton University Electronic Reference Shelf. A thematic repertoire.
- The Internet Public Library, developed by the University of Michigan. The resources are arranged by subject.
Electronic Resources Major Federal Institutions
- Library of Congress
- National Library of Medicine
- Center for Disease Control
- National Archives
- NASA Space Calendar includes dates of their releases, current and historical information about this agency, etc.
Official Publications, Maps, Laws and Regulations
You can find the official U.S. government publications in the Government Printing Office, Federal Bureau of publications.
If you want to get maps, you should go to the United States Geological Survey.
The federal legislation is compiled in the United States Code. The bills can be seen daily in the service of the Library of Congress called Thomas.
Finally, the regulations that develop the legislation are available in the Federal Register which, in turn, is encoded in the Code of Federal Regulations.
NOTE: The links to WWW servers that do not belong to the government of the United States of America are not an endorsement of its content.