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Geology
California Geological Survey

  • Earthquakes
    http://www.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/geologic_hazards/earthquakes/index.htm
    "...studies earthquakes to help Californians plan and build earthquake resistant communities. We record the strong ground motion from earthquakes, study the distribution of historic earthquakes and evaluate faults that are the source of earthquakes. We combine that information to prepare maps showing the potential for ground shaking, fault rupture, liquefaction and seismically induced landsliding."
  • Seismic Hazards Zonation Program
    http://www.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/shzp/
    Sections include: Zone Maps, Reports & GIS Data ; Laws and Guidelines ; Affected Cities and Counties ; Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Assessment Maps ; Alquist-Priolo Earthquake Fault Zones ; Seismic Hazards Mapping Bulletins.

United States Geological Service (USGS) - Publications

U.S. National Archives and Records Administration

USGS Cascades Volcano Observatory - Mount St. Helens

  • Eruption 2004 to Current
    http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Volcanoes/MSH/Eruption04/framework.html
  • Rebuilding Mount St. Helens
    http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Volcanoes/MSH/Publications/SIM2928/framework.html
    "Vertical aerial photographs document dome growth and glacier deformation. These photographs enabled photogrammetric construction of a series of high-resolution digital elevation models (DEMs) showing changes from October 4, 2004 to February 9, 2006."
    Schilling, et. al., 2006.


Health & Medicine
Alzheimer's Association

CDC - HIV/AIDS Fact Sheets

FXB.org
"Since 1989, FXB has established 87 programs or initiatives in 17 countries to fight poverty and AIDS. All its programs aid to reduce he impact of AIDS on society and more particularly on orphans..."

  • 6 Villages 1 Global Fight Against AIDS - (dead link)
    http://www.fxb.org/www2/main_directories/6Villages.htm
    "On December 1st, 2005, World AIDS Day, FXB launched the 6 Villages 1 Fight Against Aids campaign to launch six self-sustaining FXB villages in Rwanda and Uganda."

International Women's Health Coalition (IWHC) - (dead link)
"...IWHC works to generate health and population policies, programs, and funding that promote and protect the rights and health of girls and women worldwide, particularly in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and countries in post-socialist transition."

  • With Women Worldwide: A Compact to End HIV/AIDS
    http://www.iwhc.org/withwomenworldwide/compact.cfm
    "Outlines priority actions for making global HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, and care strategies work for women. Developed by a group of women advocates for use in 2006 negotiations on HIV/AIDS and beyond."

MedlinePlus: Dietary Supplements
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/dietarysupplements.html
Sections include: News ; From the NIH ; Specific Conditions ; Related Issues ; Publications ; Clinical Trials ; Research ; Directories ; Organizations ; Law & Policy ; Teenagers ; Seniors.
- National Institutes of Health

PLoS Medicine (ejournal)
http://medicine.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=index-html&issn=1549-1676
A Peer-Reviewed Open Access Journal
"...is an international, multidisciplinary medical journal that publishes outstanding human studies that substantially enhance the understanding of human health and disease. PLoS Medicine aims to promote translation of basic research into clinical investigation, and of clinical evidence into practice. PLoS Medicine encourages papers that cross disciplines."

PLoS - Public Library of Science
http://www.plos.org/
"is a nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a public resource."

Reaping the Benefits of Genomic and Proteomic Research: Intellectual Property Rights, Innovation, and Public Health (etext)
http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=11487
Committee on Intellectual Property Rights in Genomic and Protein Research and Innovation, National Research Council, 2006.

U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) - HIV and AIDS
"Health has always been an essential component of development policies. In this domain, as in others, culture has a fundamental role to play."
Resources include: Contacts ; Publications ; Events ; News.

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

U.S. National Archives and Records Administration


History

American Historical Association

University History
http://www.universityhistory.org/
"University History promotes the development of international standards for e-scholarship. It contains links to hundreds of online sources that are closely examined before inclusion. Only the highest quality sources are included."
- University of Canterbury School of History, New Zealand

The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon (CAL)
http://cal1.cn.huc.edu/
"This major scholarly reference work will cover all dialects and periods of ancient Aramaic, one of the principal languages of antiquity, with a literature of central importance for history and civilization, and especially for the Jewish and Christian religions."
Edited by Prof. Stephen A. Kaufamn, Hebrew Union College and Prof. Joseph A. Fitzmyer, Catholic University of America.

Library and Archives Canada

  • Framing Canada: A Photographic Memory
    http://www.collectionscanada.ca/framingcanada/
    "Featuring photographs from various public and private collections, Framing Canada: A Photographic Memory presents a searchable database of digitized photographic images from 1843 to the mid-20th century. These images tell the fascinating and ever-changing story of how Canadians see themselves and their world."

The Aquinas Translation Project
http://www4.desales.edu/~philtheo/loughlin/ATP/
"The Aquinas Translation Project is a web-based project which seeks to provide scholars, religious and any interested individuals with translations of St. Thomas Aquinas's works not readily available in English. The co-ordinator of the Project is Stephen Loughlin, an Associate Professor of Philosophy at DeSales University, Center Valley, Pennsylvania, USA."

Georgetown University - National Security Archive
  • The Diary of Anatoly Chernyaev
    http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB192/index.htm
    Former Top Soviet Adviser's Journal Chronicles Final Year of the Cold War
    National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 192, May 2006.

The American Presidency Project
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/
"...was established in 1999 as collaboration between John Woolley and Gerhard Peters at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Our archives contain 69,172 [and growing] documents related to the study of the Presidency."

California Geological Survey

Library of Congress - American Memory

  • Ansel Adams's Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar
    http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/anseladams/
    "In "Suffering under a Great Injustice": Ansel Adams's Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar, the Prints and Photographs Division at the Library of Congress presents for the first time side-by-side digital scans of both Adams's 242 original negatives and his 209 photographic prints (with the print on the left and the negative on the right), allowing viewers to see his darkroom technique and in particular how he cropped his prints."

U.S. National Archives and Records Administration


Internet Studies
Council on Foreign Relations


Iraq Studies
The Arab American News

Brookings Institution

Current History

  • What Should Be Done About Iraq?
    http://www.carnegieendowment.org/publications/index.cfm?fa=view&id=18936&prog=zgp&proj=zdrl,zme
    By Marina S. Ottaway, January 2007.

George Washington University - The National Security Archive

International Compact with Iraq (English or Arabic)
http://www.iraqcompact.org/
"The International Compact is an initiative of the Government of Iraq for a new partnership with the international community. Its purpose is to achieve a National Vision for Iraq which aims to consolidate peace and pursue political, economic and social development over the next five years."
Sections include: News ; Preparatory Group ; Speeches / Reports ; Online Library ; Photo Gallery ; Links.

International Conference on Freedom of Expression and Media Development in Iraq
http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=22589&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
8-10 January 2007, Paris, France
"...organised by the Communications and Media Commission of Iraq (CMC) in cooperation with UNESCO and UNDP will provide a forum for debate, reflection and analysis of different issues concerning the Iraqi media landscape and its development needs..."

International Crisis Group

IRFFI - International Reconstruction Fund Facility for Iraq
"To ensure swift, flexible, and coordinated donor financing for priority investments in Iraq, the World Bank and the United Nations have created the International Reconstruction Fund Facility for Iraq. The Facility helps donors channel their resources to the Iraq reconstruction effort."

Los Angeles Times

Poynter Online

Iraq Revenue Watch
http://www.iraqrevenuewatch.org/index.shtml
Monitoring Iraq Reconstruction Funds, Contracts, Oil.
"Now that Iraq is once again independent, the goal of IRW is to monitor Iraq's oil industry and public finances, to ensure that they are managed with the highest standards of transparency and that the benefits of national oil wealth flow to the people of Iraq."

Sistani, The United States and Politics in Iraq: From Quietism to Machiavellianism?
http://historiae.org/sistani.asp
By Reidar Visser, NUPI Paper no. 700, Oslo: Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, March 2006.

South Asia Analysis Group (SAAG)

  • The Raging Jihad - An Overview
    http://www.saag.org/papers21/paper2054.html
    International Terrorism Monitor, Paper No. 162.
    By B. Raman, Additional Secretary (retd), Cabinet Secretariat, Govt. of India, and, presently, Director, Institute For Topical Studies.
    SAAG Paper No. 2054, 7.12.2006.
    [Re: Afghanistan, Iraq, & Thailand]

TIME

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

  • Seamless Transition Home
    http://www.seamlesstransition.va.gov/
    "...for returning Active Duty, National Guard and Reserve service members of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom. We honor the opportunity to provide benefits information and assistance to eligible veterans who honorably fought and served in our Nation's armed forces."

U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO)

U.S. Navy

  • Strategic Insights
    http://www.ccc.nps.navy.mil/si/
    "...is an electronic journal offering timely, concise assessments of U.S. and international security issues. While the journal is intended especially for U.S. military personnel and defense policymakers, we also welcome the interest of students and the public."

UNAMI - UN Assistance Mission for Iraq
http://www.uniraq.org/
Web Portal for UN Agencies Working in Iraq

Women's Alliance for Democratic Iraq
http://www.wafdi.org/home
"...is an international non-partisan and not-for-profit women rights organization. WAFDI dedicated to a free and democratic with full and equal individual rights for women. "


Islamic Studies
PBS - Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly
An Online Companion to the Weekly Television News Program

  • The Hajj
    http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/week1018/belief.html
    Watch the December 29, 2006 report online.

Russia in Global Affairs

  • Islam, the Way We See It
    http://www.carnegieendowment.org/publications/index.cfm?fa=view&id=18926&prog=zru
    By Alexei Malashenko, Moscow State Institute of International Relations, October-December 2006.

TIME


Jewish Studies
The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon (CAL)
http://cal1.cn.huc.edu/
"This major scholarly reference work will cover all dialects and periods of ancient Aramaic, one of the principal languages of antiquity, with a literature of central importance for history and civilization, and especially for the Jewish and Christian religions."
Edited by Prof. Stephen A. Kaufamn, Hebrew Union College and Prof. Joseph A. Fitzmyer, Catholic University of America.


Katrina Studies
GAO Reports & Testimonies Related to Disaster Preparedness, Response and Reconstruction
- U.S. General Accountability Office

PBS NATURE - Katrina's Animal Rescue
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/katrina/index.html
Sections include: Photos ; Ask the Rescuers ; Meet the Rescuers ; Health Effects ; Resources.


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