SEARCH ENGINES AND DIRECTORIES
General Reference Resources
General Search Engines
Legal Search Engines and Resources

TOPIC SPECIFIC SITES
Financial Information
Government Sites
Legal Directories
Legal Journals
Legal Resources
General Interest Periodicals and Newspapers
People and Business Finders
Other

SEARCH ENGINES AND DIRECTORIES

General Reference Resources    [back to top]

MapQuest!  Extensive mapping service. -- www.mapquest.com
 

General Search Engines     [back to top]

www.altavista.com
www.google.com
www.lycos.com
www.yahoo.com

Legal Search Engines and Resources   [back to top]

California Law Crawler. Same as the Law Crawler but focused on California and federal law sites. -- www.lawcrawler.com/ca.html
FindLaw. Index of various WWW related legal resources. -- www.findlaw.com
KuesterLaw. A collection of mostly technology related legal sites and resources. -- www.kuesterlaw.com
Law Crawler. A search engine for various legal resources on the Web.
-- www.lawcrawler.com/index.html
Lexis-Nexis. -- www.lexis-nexis.com
The UC Berkeley Libraries. -- www.lib.berkeley.edu
 

TOPIC SPECIFIC SITES

Financial Information    [back to top]

Edgar Online. Information regarding mergers and financings. -- www.edgar-online.com
Hoover's Online! Contains information about companies.
-- www.hoovers.com
IPO Central. Data on recent (last few years) IPO companies as well as  those which have recently filed. -- www.ipocentral.com
USA Data. A compilation of U.S.marketing data. --
www.usadata.com

Government Sites     [back to top]

Bureau of Labor Statistics. Various economic data. -- stats.bls.gov
California Franchise Tax Board. Contains information about the Franchise Tax Board, including Tax Forms. -- www.ftb.ca.gov
California Legislative Information. -- www.leginfo.ca.gov
California Secretary of State Business Portal. Required forms for various business entities as well as UCC forms and California trademark and servicemark forms. -- www.ss.ca.gov/business/business.htm
Code of Federal Regulations. Contains the full text of the CFRs. -- www.gpoaccess.gov/cfr/index.html
Department of Defense, Defense Acquisition Regulations. Contains the full text of the Defense FAR Supplement (DFARs). Also has a link to the FARs. -- www.acq.osd.mil/dpap/dfars/index.htm
DMCA Copyright Office Filing Requirements. Portion of the U.S. Copyright Office site containing information regarding the Digital Millennium Copyright Act filing requirements. -- www.copyright.gov/onlinesp
Export Administration Regulations Database. Contains the full text of the EARs. -- www.access.gpo.gov/bis/ear/ear_data.html
Federal Acquisition Regulation. Contains the full text of the FARs. --
www.arnet.gov/far
Federal Communications Commission. -- www.fcc.gov
Federal Judicial Center. Contains information about federal courts and where to find opinions and rules. -- www.fjc.gov
Federal Trade Commission. -- www.ftc.gov
FedWorld Information Network. Federal government information and related sites. Many searchable databases. --  www.fedworld.gov
Judicial Council of California. Contains information about California courts including full text of opinions. -- www.courtinfo.ca.gov
Library of Congress. -- www.loc.gov
SEC EDGAR Database. Contains filings by public companies with the SEC. -- www.sec.gov/edgar/searchedgar/webusers.htm
State and Local Government on the Net. Links to state and local government sites on the Internet. -- www.statelocalgov.net
THOMAS. Legislative information on the Internet. -- thomas.loc.gov
U.S. Census Bureau. -- www.census.gov
U.S. Copyright Office. -- www.copyright.gov
U.S. Department of Justice. -- www.usdoj.gov
U.S. Department of State. -- www.state.gov
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Home Page. -- www.uspto.gov
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Trademark Trial and Appeals Board (TTAB). Contains the full text of the TTAB Manual of Procedure (TBMP) (First Edition September 1995). --
www.uspto.gov/web/offices/dcom/ttab
U.S. Treasury. This site has everything from treasury auction dates to downloadable IRS forms, to listings of seized property.
-- www.ustreas.gov

Legal Directories     [back to top]

Martindale-Hubbell. -- www.martindale.com
 

Legal Journals     [back to top]

Law.com (formerly known as: Law Journal Extra! and Law News Network). Online journal of articles on technology law related topics. --
www.law.com
 

Legal Resources     [back to top]

American Arbitration Association. Includes forms, rules, related materials, etc. -- www.adr.org
California Law. Includes all California Codes, State Constitution and statutes. -- www.leginfo.ca.gov/calaw.html  
Eur-Lex. Portal to European Union law, cases and treatises. -- europa.eu.int/eur-lex
Lex Mercatoria (International Trade Law Monitor). An extensive library of information on trade law, finance, and economics, including copies of numerous commercial treaties. -- www.jus.uio.no/lm

General Interest Periodicals and Newspapers   
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Bloomberg Online. Contains general interest financial and business information. -- www.bloomberg.com
Forbes Magazine. -- www.forbes.com
Mercury News. -- www.mercurynews.com
New York Times. -- www.nytimes.com
NPR. -- www.npr.org
San Francisco Chronicle. -- www.sfgate.com/chronicle/index.shtml
Wall Street Journal Online. -- www.wsj.com
Washington Post. -- www.washingtonpost.com
ZDNet. -- www.zdnet.com


People and Business Finders     [back to top]

Switchboard. -- www.switchboard.com
Yahoo! People Search. -- www.yahoo.com/search/people
YellowBook -- www.yellowbook.com

Other     [back to top]

IEEE Standards Association. -- standards.ieee.org