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ProCon.org
Pro-Con.org is an online resource for research on controversial issues. The stated mission of the website is “Promoting critical thinking, education, and informed citizenship by presenting controversial issues in a straightforward, nonpartisan, primarily pro-con format.”

Websites

AllPsych Online
One of the largest and most comprehensive psychology websites. You'll find over 920 individual, cross-referenced web pages and an estimated 3,000 pages of printed material.
Annual Review of Psychology
Covers the significant developments in the field of psychology. Annual Reviews is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide the worldwide scientific community with a useful and intelligent synthesis of the primary research literature for a broad spectrum of scientific disciplines.
Careers in Psychology
Careers in Psychology is a resource for students interested in a career in psychology. It contains career information, advice from experts in the field, and links to internships and jobs.
Classics in the History of Psychology
Provides the full-text of historically significant public domain documents from the scholarly literature of psychology and allied disciplines. The site also contains links to over 200 relevant works posted at other sites. Edited by Prof. Christopher D. Green, Department of Psychology, York University, Toronto, Canada.
Encyclopedia of Psychology
Provides links to a wide range of psychology web resources, from professional organizations and career info to history and theories.
Internet Mental Health
An online encyclopedia of mental health. Includes a guide to many different mental disorders, a section on self-diagnosis, discussion boards, information about medications, a glossary, and other resources.
Mental Help Net
Promotes mental health and wellness education and advocacy.
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Includes sections specifically addressing mental health problems in children and adolescents, older adults, men, and women, and provides basic data, as well as links to additional resources and relevant research.
National Resource Center on ADHD – Library
National clearinghouse for scientific and medical evidence-based information on attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and related topics.
Personality Project
A resource for information on personality theory and research. Provides both academic and nonacademic information on a wide variety of personality topics, including "special advice for students."
Psych Central
The Internet's largest and oldest independent mental health social network created and run by mental health professionals.
Psych Web
Contains links to psychology-related information for students and teachers of psychology.
Reverent Remembrance: Honoring the Dead
From the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture at the University of Washington, this exhibit examines cultural traditions and practices concerning death and remembrance.
Social Psychology Network
One of the largest Internet sites devoted to psychological research and teaching, with more than 20,000 links related to psychology.
Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration – Mental Health Statistics
Focuses on the development of data standards that provide the basis for uniform, comparable, high-quality statistics on mental health services.

Associations

American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law
An organization of psychiatrists dedicated to excellence in practice, teaching, and research in forensic psychiatry. Founded in 1969, AAPL currently has more than 1,500 members in North America and around the world.
American Psychiatric Association
Founded in 1844, this is the world's largest psychiatric organization, representing more than 33,000 psychiatric physicians from the U.S. and around the world. Member physicians work together to ensure humane care and effective treatment for all persons with mental disorders, including intellectual disabilities and substance use disorders.
American Psychological Association
The largest scientific and professional organization representing psychology in the United States, with more than 134,000 researchers, educators, clinicians, consultants, and students as its members.
Association for Psychological Science
The Association for Psychological Science (previously the American Psychological Society) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the advancement of scientifically oriented psychology in research, application, teaching, and the improvement of human welfare.
International Association of Applied Psychology
The oldest international association of psychologists, founded in 1920, with more than 1,500 members from more than 80 countries. Its mission is to promote the science and practice of applied psychology and to facilitate interaction and communication about applied psychology around the world.
National Alliance of Professional Psychology Providers
Promotes and advocates for the clinical practice of psychology. NAPPP welcomes licensed, doctoral-level psychologists who provide healthcare-related services; retired psychologists and students are also eligible for membership.
Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues
An association of approximately 3,000 psychologists, allied scientists, and others interested in the application of research on the psychological aspects of important social issues to public policy solutions.

Government Information

Data.gov
Information and access to data generated and held by the Federal Government.
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Data.gov provides descriptions of the Federal datasets (metadata), information about how to access the datasets, and tools that leverage government datasets.
GovSpeak: A Guide to U.S. Government Acronyms and Abbreviations
This guide lists acronyms and abbreviations commonly used by the United States federal government. Each acronym is defined and links to the home page (or best alternative) of the identified department, agency, office, program or publication.

While Appendix A of the U.S. Government Manual provided the foundation of GovSpeak, this expanded list includes hundreds of acronyms not included in that publication; most have been discovered by manual reviews of department websites. Links are checked and updated monthly.
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Please note: as of June 2011, GovSpeak no longer includes military acronyms. Please see instead the DoD Dictionary of Military Terms.
I-Docs
An online collection of paper and digital resources selectively chosen from published Idaho Government Documents.
National Historical Geographic Information System (NHGIS)
NHGIS retrieves an disseminates statistical and geographic information system (GIS) boundary data for the United States. It covers US history from 1790 to the present.
(from CHOICE, August 2012)

The National Historical Geographic Information System (NHGIS) provides, free of charge, aggregate census data and GIS-compatible boundary files for the United States between 1790 and 2010.
(from the site)
Congress.gov
An easy-to-search source for legislative information, provided by the Library of Congress.
USA.gov
A search engine for government Web pages, with an emphasis on the Executive Branch of the Federal Government. Another good source of statistics.
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The "first-ever" government web site to provide the public with easy, one-stop access to all online U.S. Federal Government resources. This site offers a powerful search engine that searches every word of every U.S. government document in a quarter of a second or less. USA.gov also features a topical index, online transactions, links to state and local government, options to contact your government, and other tools so you don't have to know the name of the government agency to get the information you want anytime you want it.