June 2011 Hot Sites

The USGS Geographic Names Information System "The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS), developed by the USGS in cooperation with the U.S. Board on Geographic Names (BGN), contains information about almost 2 million physical and cultural geographic features in the United States. You can use for simple things like finding the county where town is located or finding all streams named after a famous person. It also links to maps and aerial photographs."

Nolo: Law for All Nolo offers "high-quality books, software, legal forms," articles, resources,  and an online lawyer directory.  Their goal is to make "the law accessible to everyone."

Robert's Rules of Order Revised, 4th ed. "Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised is the current print version, however, for reference an earlier version is available online at your fingertips.  You can find the 4th edition, Robert's Rules of Order Revised available here."

PRIORsmART "Worldwide prior art searching for patents.  This site connects you to search engines around the world."

Competitive Intelligence Resource Guide A fairly extensive list of places to search and resources to use when performing competitive intelligence research, provided by LLRX.com.

 The Fdsys – New GPO Access : "The U.S. Government Printing Office rolls out the Federal Digital System (FDsys), an advanced digital system that will enable GPO to manage Government information from all three branches of the U.S. Government.  FDsys a powerful tool for the public to access online, authoritative Federal information, but it also serves as a preservation repository for the content and a content management system for Federal agencies."