Internet Resource Guide

Updated April 12, 2022 | Infoplease Staff

The Internet has become a convenient tool for finding information on just about anything. These days it's hard to find a company or organization that doesn't have its own homepage. Because sifting through search engine returns can be more time-consuming than a trek to the library, we've compiled a list of websites that we've found to be especially useful and informative.

Arts and Literature

Library of Congress: www.loc.gov
The Louvre: www.louvre.fr/
National Endowment for the Arts: www.arts.endow.gov
Smithsonian American Art Museum: americanart.si.edu/index3.cfm
World Wide Arts Resources: www.wwar.com

Business and Investing

Better Business Bureau: www.bbb.org
Commodity Futures Trading Commission: www.cftc.gov
E*TRADE: www.etrade.com
Nasdaq: www.nasdaq.com
New York Stock Exchange: www.nyse.com
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC): www.sec.gov
Small Business Administration (SBA): www.sba.gov
Standard & Poor's: www.standardandpoors.com/home/en/us

Computers and the Internet

CNET: www.cnet.com
CNET Shareware.com: download.cnet.com/windows/
WIRED News: www.wired.com
World Wide Web Consortium: www.w3.org
ZDNet: www.zdnet.com

Education

College Board Online: www.collegeboard.com
FamilyEducation.com: www.familyeducation.com
FinAid: www.finaid.org
Peterson's: www.petersons.com
Princeton Review: www.princetonreview.com
TeacherVision: www.teachervision.com
U.S. News Online Education Page: www.usnews.com/education

Entertainment

All Music Guide: www.allmusic.com
Entertainment Weekly Online: www.ew.com/ew/
IndieWIRE: www.indiewire.com
Hollywood.com: www.hollywood.com
Internet Movie Database: www.imdb.com
Moviefone: movies.channel.aol.com
MTV: www.mtv.com
VH1: www.vh1.com
TV.com: www.tv.com
Zap2It.com: www.zap2it.com

U.S. Government

White House: www.whitehouse.gov
Senate: www.senate.gov
House of Representatives: www.house.gov
Supreme Court: www.supremecourtus.gov
Supreme Court Collection: supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/
Department of Agriculture: www.usda.gov
Department of Commerce: www.commerce.gov
Department of Defense: www.defenselink.mil
Department of Education: www.ed.gov
Department of Energy: www.energy.gov
Department of Health and Human Services: www.dhhs.gov
Department of Housing and Urban Development: www.hud.gov
Department of the Interior: www.doi.gov
Department of Justice: www.usdoj.gov
Department of Labor: www.dol.gov
Department of State: www.state.gov
Department of Transportation: www.dot.gov
Department of the Treasury: www.ustreas.gov
Department of Veterans' Affairs: www.va.gov
Search gov: www.searchgov.com

Other Government Resources

Census Bureau: www.census.gov
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA): www.cia.gov
Consumer Product Safety Commission: www.cpsc.gov
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): www.epa.gov
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC): www.eeoc.gov
Federal Bureau of Investigation: www.fbi.gov
Federal Communications Commission: www.fcc.gov
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC): www.fdic.gov
Federal Election Commission (FEC): www.fec.gov
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA): www.fema.gov
Federal Housing Finance Agency: www.fhfa.gov
Federal Reserve System (FRS), Board of Governors of (the Federal Reserve Board): www.federalreserve.gov
Federal Trade Commission (FTC): www.ftc.gov
Internal Revenue Service: www.irs.gov
National Transportation Safety Board: www.ntsb.gov
Postal Rate Commission: www.prc.gov
Social Security Administration: www.ssa.gov
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights: www.usccr.gov
U.S. International Trade Commission: www.usitc.gov
U.S. Postal Service: www.usps.com/