Created in 1948 as the Research and Development Corporation (RAND), this organization is financed by the U.S. government and a range of other private entities. Their work has included hundreds of research reports and briefs on health care policy, national security, technology, and civil and criminal justice. This interesting website provides access to "Sixty Ways RAND Has Made a Difference", which...

The Cato Institute is a think tank based on "limited government, free markets, individual liberty, and peace." It's Web site is highlighted by the full text of many of its Briefing Papers, all of its Foreign Policy Briefing Series, over 100 of its Policy Analysis Series, all of its Social Security Privatization Series, and articles from its semi-monthly Cato Policy Reports (under Publications and...

The Los Alamos National Laboratory provides the Center for Nonlinear Studies (CNLS) Website. The goals of the center are "to identify and study fundamental nonlinear phenomena and promote their use in applied research and to stimulate interdisciplinary research and information exchanges inside and outside the laboratory." Research topics include molecular dynamics, patterns in turbulence,...

Founded in 1968, the Institute for Policy Research (IPR) at Northwestern University is an interdisciplinary public policy research institute that supports dozens of research projects dealing with a range of issues, including poverty, race, adolescent studies, philanthropy, and community development. The site will be invaluable to persons interested in these fields (especially those interested in...

Located in Boulder, Colorado, the mission of the National Center for Atmospheric Research is "to plan, organize, and conduct atmospheric and related research programs in collaboration with universities, to provide state-of-the-art research tools and facilities to the entire atmospheric sciences community, to support and enhance university atmospheric research education, and to facilitate the...

In response to a Congressional mandate, the Department of Veterans Affairs created the National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in 1989 "to address the needs of veterans with military-related PTSD". Over the past sixteen years, the Center has created a cornucopia of helpful resources on this subject, including fact sheets, research papers, and handbooks. Many of these items are available...

The National Regulatory Research Institute (NRRI) was created to "provide research, educational services and technical services to the state regulatory commissions." At the site visitors can download selected research articles and read the online version of the NRRI Quarterly Bulletin. The site also contains the latest reports on the electric industry restructuring, a data bank of state commission...

Established by the National Oceans and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in 1982 as an information and referral center for glaciological research, the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) maintains data information on "snow cover and avalanches, glaciers and ice sheets, floating ice, ground ice and permafrost, atmospheric ice, paleoglaciology and ice cores." In addition to its role as an...

The Population Reference Bureau (PRB), a nonprofit educational organization, aims "to increase the amount, accuracy, and usefulness of information about population trends and their implications." PRB maintains PopNet, an extensive directory of population information resources available on the Web. PopNet, "the Source of Global Population Information," contains numerous annotated listings of public...

The Population Reference Bureau (PRB), a nonprofit educational organization, aims "to increase the amount, accuracy, and usefulness of information about population trends and their implications." In addition to general organizational information, PRB's Website provides a selection of full-text articles, excerpts of published reports, and statistical summaries related to world population studies....