DICTIONARIES

Oxford English Dictionary
American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition
Web of Online Dictionaries

ENCYCLOPEDIAS, QUOTATIONS, & OTHER FACTS

Britannica Online
WorldBook Encyclopedia
World Almanac
Calendar for Any Year (Steffen Thorsen)
Weather.com
National Weather Service at Albany or Boston
World Factbook (CIA)
Current Value of Old Money
CountryWatch
OANDA Currency Converter
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Quotation Page

STYLE MANUALS

Citation Styles (Bedford & St. Martin's Presses)
Using APA Format (Purdue University)
Electronic Reference Formats Recommended by the APA
Using MLA Format (Purdue University)
MLA Style (From the MLA web site; includes electronic resource citation)
Chicago Style (University of Wisconsin Writing Center)
Style Manuals & Citations (U. Cal. Irvine) Use for other citation styles
Sources, Their Use & Acknowledgement (Dartmouth) Includes citation examples

MAPS

Young Science Library Map Page
Mapquest
Yahoo Maps
Map Machines (National Geographic)
TIGER (U.S. Census Bureau Maps)
TopoZone (U.S. Geological Survey Maps)
Electric Library (Also provides access to articles, pictures, TV/radio transcripts, etc.)
How Far Is It? (Distance calculator)

WHO & WHERE

WHO: BIOGRAPHIES

World Biographical Index
American National Biography
Biography Index
Gale Literary Index (Sources for biographies of writers in many discipliness.)
Contemporary Authors
Lives (Online Biographical Metapage)

WHERE: ADDRESSES, TELEPHONE #s, WEB PAGES

Acxiom Directories -- Biz (U. S. Yellow Pages )
Acxiom Directories -- Home (U. S. White Pages )
AcqWeb (Contains publisher and copyright information.)
Reporter's Desktop (Finding people, news, facts, search engines, more)
Global Yellow Pages
Smith College Directory
Yahoo People Finder
Switchboard
Links to Postal Code Pages - Worldwide (Graham Rhind)
Embassies
Scholarly Societies Project
College Guides (U. Cal. Irvine; includes college web pages, rankings, more.) College Scholarship Search
IIE Passport (Study Abroad information from the Institute for International Education)
Career, Internship, & Graduate School Information (Smith College Career Development Office)

STATISTICS

Statistical Abstracts of the United States
Historical Statistics of the United States (University of Virginia)
Statistical Universe
FedStats
International Financial Statistics
Statistical Resources on the Web (University of Michigan Documents Center)
FactSearch

OTHER COLLECTIONS OF WORDS & FACTS

Michigan Electronic Library
General Reference Resources (University of California Irvine)


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