Internet Research: I

Image/Photograph Collections

Cities/Buildings Database
The Cities/Buildings Database is a collection of digitized images of buildings and cities drawn from across time and throughout the world, available to students, researchers and educators on the web.
Earth From Space
Astronaut acquired imagery of Earth.
Fashion Collection - University of Washington Libraries - Digital Collections
This collection includes 417 fashion plates from 1806-1914 from some of the leading fashion journals of the times: La Belle assemblee, Le Bon ton, Le Follet, courrier des salons, Journal des dames et des modes, Godey's lady's book and magazine and others. The hand-colored illustrations cover many stylistic periods in French and English history. These styles overlapped as the fashions and tastes changed. These include the Empire (1806-1813), Georgian (1806-1836), Regency (1811-1820), Romantic (1825-1850), Victorian (1837-1859), Late Victorian (1860-1900) and Edwardian (1901-1915).
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
Includes 275,000 images chosen from NYPL collections.
New York Public Library Picture Collection Online
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service National Image Library
Photos of wildlife, wildlife refuges, nature scenes.
U.S. Government Graphics and Photos
An alphabetical list (by subject and government agency) of photos and graphics, most of which are in public domain.

Latin America
- Amazon Watch
  Environmental and rights issues for peoples in the Amazon region. Includes maps, video clips, photos, news, etc.
- SAIIC – South and Meso American Indian Rights Center
  Access to the advocacy work of the SAIIC. Contains news and articles from the SAIIC journal.

E-mail
- Spam E-mail Harvesting Your E-mail address
  Info. from the Federal Trade Commission on how to stop Spam e-mail.
Evaluating Internet Sources
- Evaluating Web Pages - Duke University Library
- Evaluating Web Sites - Wolfgram Memorial Library
- Hoax? Scholarly Research? Personal Opinion? You Decide!
Citing Internet Sources
- Citing Internet Sources
General
- Pew Internet and American Life
  The goal of this site is to provide “research that explores the impact of the Internet on children, families, communities, the work place, schools, health care and civic/political life.”
Hoaxes
- Hoaxbusters
  Created and maintained by the CIAC (Computer Incident Advisory Capability), U.S. Dept. of Energy, this site seeks to "describe some of the warnings, offers, and pleas for help that are filling our mailboxes, clogging our mailservers, and that generally do not have any basis in fact." Alleged hoaxes can be confirmed by keyword searching, through an index, or by clicking through categories such as Urban Myths, Giveaways, etc.
Search Strategies
- The Invisible or Deep Web - Univeristy of California Berkeley
Statistics
- Cyberatlas - Statistics and other data on Internet usage
Tutorials
- Internet Tutorials