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Full-text coverage of more than 2000 popular magazines and journals, including Fast Company, Information Week, PC Computing, PC Magazine, and Wired.

Websites

Over 14,000 high-quality sites are organized for easy browsing or searching.

From Financial and Tax Fraud Education Associates, Inc., a nonprofit organization. This is a public educational website covering a wide variety of financial scams and frauds, including “prime bank” frauds, exotic foreign currency scams, offshore investment frauds, tax scams, and more.

GetNetWise

This site’s Online Safety Guide covers, by age level and activity type, the online risks children and teenagers face. There is also a directory of online safety resources, including filtering products, advice for reporting Internet safety problems, and a guide to children’s websites.

A partnership between the FBI, the National White Collar Crime Center, and the Federal Trade Commission. Report scams and file a complaint online.

Tools and information to create a SafetyNet for your children online.

NCMEC’s Help Delete Online Predators

The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children together with the Ad Council alert families to online child sexual exploitation.

An educational website that teaches kids, teens and their parents how to stay safer on the Internet.

Information about online shopping safety.

This article explains what “spam” is, its origin, and the problems it creates. The site describes how to minimize, eliminate or complain about spam legally and effectively.

All-in-one page of search engines and reference tools geared towards kids and students.