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Directory of Health Organizations Online (DIRLINE) (http://dirline.nlm.nih.gov) Exit NIEHS Website
DIRLINE is the National Library of Medicine's online database containing location and description information on various organizations, research resources, projects, databases, and electronic bulletin boards concerned with health and biomedicine.

InfoMine (http://infomine.ucr.edu/) Exit NIEHS Website
Search by keyword or subject more than 105,000 academically valuable resources, such as databases, electronic journals, electronic books, bulletin boards, mailing lists, online library card catalogs, articles, directories of researchers and many other types of information.

Librarian’s Index to the Internet (LII) (http://lii.org/) Exit NIEHS Website
Librarian’s solution to finding useful information on the internet. LII is a searchable, annotated subject directory of more than 12,000 Internet resources, selected and evaluated by librarians for their usefulness to users of public libraries.

Reference Desk (http://www.refdesk.com) Exit NIEHS Website
Includes just about every desktop resource (almanacs, atlas, calendars, dictionary, encyclopedia, thesauri, weather), fast facts and news features.

Internet Public Library (http://www.ipl.org/div/subject/browse/ref00.00.00) Exit NIEHS Website
Created by the University of Michigan Information School, the IPL has created an organized portal to Web sites based on subject area. The Reference section provides useful links to online calendars, census data, dictionaries, quotations and time/weather, among others.

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Last Reviewed: April 30, 2007