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Checking Facts
Lieb: Editing for Clear Communication

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General

Urban Legends on the Web

( http://urbanlegends.about.com )
Encyclopaedia Britannica

( http://www.britannica.com )
Statistical Abstract of the United States

( http://www.census.gov/statab/www/ )
Facts on File

( http://www.factsonfile.com )
Who’s Who

( http://www.whoswho.com )
Current Biography

( http://www.hwwilson.com/Databases/biobank.htm )
Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations

( http://www.bartleby.com/index.html )
White Pages

( http://people.yahoo.com )
Yellow Pages

( http://www.bigyellow.com )
Reverse-lookup directory

( http://www.anywho.com/rl.html )
Street maps

( http://www.mapquest.com )
Amazon.com

( http://www.amazon.com )
Editing for the Web: Using the Internet for Fact Checking

FirstGov

( http://www.firstgov.gov )
FedStats

( http://www.fedstats.gov )
UncleSam

( http://www.google.com/unclesam )
GovSearch

( http://usgovsearch.northernlight.com/publibaccess )
Profnet

( http://www.profnet.com/profsearchguide.html )
Discussion group archives

( http://groups.google.com/ )
The Internet Public Library

( http://www.ipl.org )
The Librarian’s Index to the Internet

( http://www.lii.org )
LibrarySpot

( http://www.libraryspot.com )
Urban Legends Reference Page

( http://www.snopes.com )
The Scout Report

( http://wwwscout.cs.wisc.edu )
FindLaw

( http://www.findlaw.com )
The Medline Fool

( http://www.medportal.com )
General search engines

Altavista

( http://www.altavista.com )
Excite

( http://www.excite.com )
Google

( http://www.google.com )
GoTo

( http://www.goto.com )
Hotbot

( http://hotbot.lycos.com )
Infoseek/Go Network

( http://www.infoseek.com )
Lycos

( http://www.lycos.com )
Northern Light

( http://www.northernlight.com )
WebCrawler

( http://www.webcrawler.com )
Subject directories

About

( http://www.about.com )
DMOZ

( http://www.dmoz.com )
Looksmart

( http://www.looksmart.com )
WWW Virtual Library

( http://www.vlib.org )
Yahoo

( http://www.yahoo.com )
Listen.com

( http://www.listen.com )
Internet Movie Database

( http://www.imdb.com )
Meta-search engines

Dogpile

( http://www.dogpile.com )
Metacrawler

( http://www.metacrawler.com )
Ask Jeeves

( http://www.askjeeves.com )
Search Engine Watch

( http://www.searchenginewatch.com )
Biography.com

( http://www.biography.com )
Encyclopedia.com

( http://www.encyclopedia.com )
Information Please

( http://www.infoplease.com )
News search sites

Excite’s NewsTracker

( http://nt.excite.com )
Wired Digital’s NewsBot

( http://www.newsbot.com )
TotalNews

( http://www.totalnews.com )
WiseWire

( http://www.wisewire.com )
Yahoo’s search engine

( http://dailynews.yahoo.com )
Net2One

( http://www.net2one.com )
The Poynter Institute’s Nelson search engine

( http://www.poynter.org )
HeadlineSpot

( http://www.headlinespot.com )
OnlineNewspapers.com

( http://www.onlinenewspapers.com )
News and Newspapers Online

( http://library.uncg.edu/news )
NewsLink

( http://ajr.newslink.org )
Special Libraries Association News Division

( http://www.ibiblio.org/slanews )