QUESTIA
Top notch research website. Touted as the world's largest online library.
Refdesk.com
Refdesk aims to index, review, and publish quality, credible information-based Web sites and to assist readers in navigating and extracting needed data from these sites.
Information Please Almanac
Information Please has been providing authoritative answers to all kinds of factual questions since 1938 - first as a popular radio quiz show, then starting in 1947 as an annual almanac, and since 1998 on the
Internet.
Librarian Index to the Internet
The Librarians' Index to the Internet (lii.org) is a searchable, annotated subject directory of more than 11,000 Internet resources selected and evaluated by librarians for their usefulness to users of public libraries.
Clearinghouse
Guide to the Best Internet Resources in all Subjects
Poynter Institute
Updated daily. Includes resources for journalists, sample stories, lists of ideas and story topics; helpful hints and writing guides. All areas of journalism are covered:
National Press Center Library
Internet Resources for Reporters
Office of International Information Programs
Topical areas such as terrorism or human rights, updated daily with all links to US Policy and further sources of information, links to Electronic Journals going back to 1996, each having a topic focus with
lists of specific internet Resources and bibliographies.
AllAfrica.com
The largest electronic distributor of African news and information with a searchable archive offering a huge number of articles (more than 900,000), including the archive of BBC Africa News Service dating from 1997. Articles searchable by region, country and keyword.
Resources for African countries, African Studies Centre, Penn U
University of Pennsylvania reference page for resources on African countries. Includes embassy information in the US, State Department Travel Advisories and a variety of online resources unique to each country.
African Studies Centre, Penn U
The African Studies Program at Pennsylvania University is a federally funded Title VI National Resource Center after a rich legacy of academic study on Africa, including the compilation and publishing of papers on African languages, a series of handbooks on African countries and regions.
OneWorld
Alternative news and views from a network of over 1,500 organisations working together for human rights and sustainable development
Official Policy Statements from the US Government
http://www.usinfo.state.gov/regional/af/af.htm
http://www.whitehouse.gov
http://www.state.gov
Washington File on the Internet
University of California, Berkeley - Women's Studies Resources
An academically orientated list of links to encyclopedias, dictionaries, chronologies, directories, statistics, periodical indexes, databases, newspapers, book reviews.
