A local husband and wife team of librarians has put together a great list of resources on a wide variety of topics - a good place to start your search for factual information in any field.
(http://www.geocities.com/~burkhartguide/)

A nice list of links to useful information of all sorts from Gary Price, MLIS, George Washington University, including a Speech/Transcript directory.
(http://gwis2.circ.gwu.edu/~gprice/direct.htm)

The Internet Fact Finder for Lawyers: How To Find Anything on the Net
(http://www.internetlawyer.com/facts/)

Excellent resource for public records across the nation, including Public Records for each state.
(http://www.factfind.com/linkpage.htm)

This electronic journal for the law library community has great articles on using Internet resources, as well as links to a lot of good information.
(http://www.llrx.com/)

How to Find U.S. Company Information - this handy guide points you to library resources as well as Internet sites.
(http://gopher.nypl.org/research/sibl/company/companyinfo.html)

Ellen Berne, the Director of the Library at the Winsor School maintains a list of useful reference materials organized along the lines of the Library of Congress classification system.
(http://k12.oit.umass.edu/rref.html)

Includes toll free directory and reverse lookup.
(http://www.att.net/find)

Offers reverse phone lookup and many business features, including credit ratings for $3.00, search by SIC code and more.
(http://www.databaseamerica.com/)

Search for active members of the Florida Bar by name and by city.
(http://www.flabar.org/newflabar/organization/Membership/MEMBERSact.html)

Search the Florida corporate records, UCC filings, and fictitious name filings for free. You cannot request official documents through this website, but it's a good starting point towards finding a Florida Corporation.
(http://ccfcorp.dos.state.fl.us/index.html)

Search this site for an association's name, and link right to that association's website.
(http://www.asaenet.org/Gateway/OnlineAssocSlist.html)

On-line genealogy resources include links to many sites on the web where you may be able to trace heirs and ancestry.
(http://genealogy.tbox.com/)

One of the biggest stumbling blocks in finding people on the web is getting too many hits. One way to reduce this is by narrowing down the directory that you are looking in...Get Local. In addition to local yellow pages, you'll find local news, weather, sports, entertainment and more. Choose locations by zip code or by state and city. Get local is a part of Yahoo.
(http://local.yahoo.com/local/)

Over 11 million business listings nationwide, regardless of telephone service provider, 60,000 business URLs, updated monthly.
(http://www.superpages.com)

Database of information on more than 650,000 nonprofit organizations.
(http://209.96.199.3/search/search.cfm)

Over 200 million residential listings worldwide. Has reverse address and phone lookup and reverse area code lookup. The yellow pages also let you search for businesses near an address. Has Business Profiles and Credit Ratings for $5.00.
(http://206.129.166.101/people.html)

Government Phone Listings - the blue pages from the telephone book for city, county, state and federal government.
(http://in-110.infospace.com/info/index_gov.htm)

Most of the addresses that I found are out of date, but it's worth a try.
(http://www.iaf.net/)

This is still the best place to look for an attorney's address, phone number and or e-mail address. You can search by name, state, city, firm, and more.
(http://www.martindale.com/)

You can choose from a variety of databases and a variety of search techniques. Many of these databases offer street maps for the listings.

People Searches
(http://search.cnet.com/Single/0,7,0-1300572,0200.html)

Yellow Pages
(http://search.cnet.com/Single/0,7,0-1250570,0200.html)

Sometimes you can't find a person because they are no longer among the living. Try this index.
(http://www.ancestry.com/SSDI/advanced.htm)

Allows searching by business category near an address. A unique feature of Switchboard is the ability to search within affiliations, such as Bar associations.
(http://www.switchboard.com)

Information on how to obtain vital records from state and county offices.
(http://vitalrec.com/index.html)

If you can't find that attorney at Martindale, try here.
(http://www.wld.com/)

Over 90 million US residential phone and address listings. The yellow pages include some international listings.
(http://www.whowhere.com)

International Telephone Directories
(http://www.whowhere.lycos.com/wwphone/world.html)

Offers e-mail subscription providing current average loan rates. Provides ratings of over 10,000 banks and thrifts.
( http://www.bankrate.com/brm/default.asp)

(http://www.bbb.org)

Guides prepared by U.S. Embassies including commercial environments.
(http://www.state.gov/www/about_state/business/com_guides/)

Purchase D&B Business Reports with a credit card.
(http://www.dnb.com/)

Free Registration - search database of over 100,000 public and private companies. Can purchase Duns Report on a company for $20.
(http://www.companiesonline.com/)

List of links to company information, including state UCC and Corporations websites.
(http://www.inil.com/users/dguss/gator68.htm)

Profiles of over 4,700 high tech companies, including a link to the company's website.
(http://xlink.zdnet.com/cgi-bin/texis/cofinder/cofinder/)

Search the Florida corporate records, UCC filings, and fictitious name filings for free. You cannot request official documents through this website, but it's a good starting point towards finding a Florida Corporation.
(http://ccfcorp.dos.state.fl.us/index.html)

Search by name, license number or county.
(http://fcn.state.fl.us/oraweb/owa/dbpr2.qry_lic_menu)

Can search by name and county and profession for closed liability claims.
(http://www.doi.state.fl.us)

(http://pathfinder.com/@@yRf1fAcA1Qfs5KjR/fortune/index.html)

Includes searchable database of companies planning to go public, Hoover's Company Capsules on more than 13,500 public and private companies, and Company Profiles (with paid membership)
(http://www.ipocentral.com/)

Boolean searches of U.S. Patent text and images from the early '70s to present at no charge.
(http://www.patents.ibm.com/boolquery)

Excellent list of resources for business and corporate research.
(http://www.internetlawyer.com/facts/company.html)

Search the EDGAR database at the SEC website for free.
(http://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/srch-edgar)

Edgar On-line is a commercial site requiring paid registration to access filings
(http://www.edgar-online.com)

1997 NAICS and 1987 SIC Correspondence Tables

(http://www.census.gov/epcd/www/naicstab.htm)

There are many places to obtain current stock quotes at no charge on the Web. Most of these 'current' services are delayed by twenty minutes.
(http://www.quote.com)

Most sites that offer real time quotes require registration. One site that offers real time quotes with a free registration is Wall Street City
(http://www.wallstreetcity.com)

BigCharts
View up to ten years of history.
(http://www.bigcharts.com)

Investorama
Price History for some common stocks
(http://www.investorama.com/index.html)

Free registration required to search this database of 155,000 companies, 60,000 product & service classification headings and 124,000 brand names.

Free access to selected trademark information, updated every two months. Read the limitations carefully before using this site. (http://www.uspto.gov/tmdb/index.html)

Salary Survey Data On-Line
(http://www.wageweb.com/)

Links to home pages, current stock quotes, SEC filings and more...
(http://www.wsrn.com/home/companyResearch.html)

Appears to archive about ten days worth of printed transcripts and one week's worth of video from CNN programming.
(http://www.cnn.com)

Subscription required
(http://www.consumerreports.org/)

The Dialog online service is searchable through the web. An account is required for access, but you can find out which databases are available by using the Blue Sheets.
(http://www.dialog.com/)

Paid service ($69 annually) provides access to the Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones publications (additional fees per article), and many business reports (additional fees per report), and a clipping service.
(http://www.dowjones.com/)

This free searchable database contains links to associations, city guides, magazine, newspaper, news services and syndicates, radio and television Web sites.

(http://www.mediainfo.com/emedia/)

A $25 two-week trial of this transcript database is available. Otherwise, pricing is on an annual contract basis. Searches of official government policy transcripts are free.
(http://www.fsng.com)

Search big screen and television movies by title, year, cast members and more.
(http://www.imdb.com/)

Search the last 365 days of The New York Times and Encyclopædia Britannica Online for free. Articles cost $2.50 each. Register to search without a credit card.
(http://www.nytimes.com/)

Over 12,000 categorized links to over 7,000 newspapers and magazines. Search by name or by area code.
(http://www.newsdirectory.com.)

Free full text word searching of over 40 newspapers from across the U.S. including the Boca Raton News (from '93), the Bradenton Herald (from '89), the El Nuevo Herald (from '82), the Miami Herald (from '82), the Tallahassee Democrat (from '93), and the Tampa Tribune (from '98). Choose create your own list to search more than one paper at a time. The cost to view an article is $1.95 and can be billed to a credit card.
(http://www.newslibrary.com/orig_search.htm)

Five day searchable archive of industry news from over 600 sources. Some articles require paid subscription for viewing, but subscription also includes a 60 day archive. Free trial available.
(http://www.newspage.com/)

The 5000 full text journals available for searching include newswires such as AP, Business wire, PR Newswire, US Newswire, UPI and many others. Most sources date back to 1995. Searching is free but the price to view an article ranges from $1 to $4.
(http://www.northernlight.com)

Free search of the archives back to at least September 1998.
(http://www.sptimes.com/)

Searchable index of broadcast media, providing links to newspapers, TV stations, and more.
(http://www.super-seek.com)

Searchable archive back to 1996.
(http://www.amcity.com/tampabay/)

Provides an index of the past three days of the newspaper for free. Search the one year archive for free, and pay $1.75 to view each article.
(http://www.tampatrib.com)

These folks have been taping and cataloging the evening news since 1968. Use the searchable index to locate a news story, then request a loan of the tape. The tapes are expensive. - at least $165 per hour of tape. This database is helpful if you just want to know when something happened. A search for the Space Shuttle Challenger revealed that the shuttle exploded on January 28, 1986. Includes Nightline and CNN.
(http://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/about.html)

Search this database of current article information taken from well over 17,000 multidisciplinary journals for free, and order articles with a credit card registration. Over 7,000,000 articles.
(http://uncweb.carl.org/)

(http://www.washingtonpost.com/)

Free search of the "Original and Leading Internet Directory of Expert Witnesses and Consultants"
(http://www.expertpages.com/)

Searching the newsgroup archives is almost like listening in over the telephone. People posting to newsgroups forget that their words are being recorded. Search for the name of an expert, or a topic.
(http://www.dejanews.com/)

National network of over 2,500 insurance companies, defense oriented law firms, corporations and government entities help maintain this database of trial and settled case information in which expert witnesses have testified. Includes a library of trial transcripts, deposition transcripts and more. $375 membership fee, plus search fees.
(http://www.idex.com/)

Covers Ohio, Michigan, Georgia, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Virginia, Maryland and Washington, D.C. Searches are free and have the report faxed to you for $45 for a single report or a maximum of $125 for three or more reports involving the same expert.
(http://www.expertsearch.com/index.html)

Searchable database of over 1100 expert witness CV's. $99 per year for unlimited access or $25 per use. Includes a library of articles by the experts.
(http://www.witness.net/)

Archives of trial reports published in this newspaper are available only to subscribers.
(http://www.lweekly.com/)

Searchable directory of experts or verdicts.
(http://www.morelaw.com/)

Search this directory by name or topic.
(http://www.experts.com/)

Contains all reports published since 1994 on the verdicts and settlements page of the National Law Journal and is fully searchable using key words. The database is national in scope.
(http://www.ljextra.com/cgi-bin/vds)

Submit your request for a search of over 60,000 civil trials reported in Jury Verdict Review Publications. $50.00 minimum, pay by credit card.
(http://www.jvr.com/3-verdict-trak.htm)

(http://www.aahp.org)

Search by state, zip code, area code, city and name. Provides detailed report on hospital, with a link to the hospital's website. Additional services for site subscribers.
(http://www.ahd.com/guest1.html)

On-Line Doctor Finder
(http://www.ama-assn.org/aps/amahg.htm)

PsychCrawler allows you to search the websites of the American Psychological Association:
(www.apa.org), the APA Public Information
(helping.apa.org), the National Institute of Mental Health [NIMH]
(www.nimh.nih.gov), the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration [SAMHSA]
(www.samhsa.gov), and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Center for Mental Health Services [CMHS]
(www.mentalhealth.org).

(http://www.psychcrawler.com/plweb-cgi/fastweb?viewform)

(http://www.fdhc.state.fl.us)

(http://www.fha.org)

(http://www.hcfa.gov)

Run full text Boolean searches of nearly 100,000 medical websites.
(http://www.mwsearch.com/)

Free access to the National Library of Medicine's (NLM) premier bibliographic database covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences, containing bibliographic citations abstracts from over 3,900 biomedical journals.
(http://www.nlm.nih.gov/)

Searchable edition from 1997
(http://www.merck.com)

Free access to current issues. Fee-based archive search is available. (http://www.modernhealthcare.com)

(http://158.111.4.28/mmwr/mmwr.htm)

(http://www.pueblo.gsa.gov/)

Searchable database of Unclaimed Property plus Consumer Alerts
(http://www.dbf.state.fl.us/)

Search the Florida corporate records, UCC filings, and fictitious name filings for free. You cannot request official documents through this website, but it's a good starting point towards finding a Florida Corporation.
(http://ccfcorp.dos.state.fl.us/index.html)

The Hillsborough County Property Appraiser's Office maintains a list of other County Property Appraiser's Offices on the Web
(http://www.hcpafl.org/)

(http://dlis.dos.state.fl.us/fgils/)

(http://www.propappr.co.hillsborough.fl.us/disclaimer.html)

(http://www.hctc.co.hillsborough.fl.us/default.htm)

Search over 1,000,000 web pages from U.S. Government
(http://eden.cs.umass.edu/Govbot/)

(http://pao.co.pinellas.fl.us/)

(http://www.mtnds.com/af/)

Look up cities by area code or area codes by city.

(http://www.555-1212.com/ACLOOKUP.HTML)

Purchase legal books online, including guides to Internet research.
( http://www.findlaw.com/18books/)

Searchable database of the indices and tables of contents of legal publications. Subscription based on number of attorneys - start at $75 up to $595 per year
(http://www.indexmaster.com)

(http://cartlab-www.freac.fsu.edu/InteractiveCountyAtlas/Atlas.html)

Search for trade in or retail value of a used car.
(http://www.kellybluebook.com/)

Searchable directory of Internet e-mail mailing lists or listservs
(http://www.liszt.com/)

A. Tampa Hillsborough County (http://scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us/thpl/thpl.htm)

B. USF Tampa Campus (http://www.lib.usf.edu/)

C. Stetson Law Library (http://www.law.stetson.edu/lawlib/)

D. Pinellas Public (http://snoopy.tblc.lib.fl.us/pplc/pplc.html)

E. Clearwater Public Library (http://199.227.224.50/cpl/cpl.html)

(http://cartlab-www.freac.fsu.edu/InteractiveCountyAtlas/Atlas.html)

Links to over 8000 full text publications available for free on the web.
(http://www.cs.cmu.edu/books.html)

Use to translate a website or your own text from one language to another.
(http://babelfish.altavista.com/cgi-bin/translate?)