Associations and Organizations

General

The online version of Encyclopedia of Associations, a key source for information on associations and professional societies from around the world.

Search this directory of more than 6,000 associations. Entries are searchable by name, keyword and geographic location. The American Society of Association Executives maintains this site.

This is the Internet Public Library's guide to web sites of prominent organizations and associations.

The Scholarly Societies Project, developed to facilitate access to information about scholarly societies across the world since 1994. Can search by subject, country and language.

Discipline/Special Area

The WWW Virtual Library's links to research institutes, centers, and laboratories relevant to chemical and process engineering.

Created by Lisa Mitten of the University of Pittsburgh, this lists record labels, distributors, sources for native music, arts organizations and reviews; as well as links for specific artists.

Facilitates access to information about scholarly societies across the world since 1994. Can search by subject, country and language.

Compiled by the National Transportation Library's Librarian to assist in locating organizations related to every aspect of transportation.

International

A guide to international non-profit organizations in the following areas: trade, business, and commercial, environmental and agricultural, legal, governmental, public administration, military, engineering, technological, and natural and social sciences, educational, cultural, social welfare, health and medical, public affairs, fraternal, nationality, and ethnic.

Listing for official international governmental organization web sites from Northwestern University.

Nonprofits

Annual publication which contains information for approximately 22,000 nonprofit American membership organizations of national scope.

Contains many samples.

A comprehensive source of information about American nonprofit organizations. Search the directory to limit by locations, income, keywords and other criteria. Provides access to IRS 990 of tax exempt organizations.