General Reference Resources
Britannica Online Encyclopedia
Canadian Reference Centre
Academic Search Complete - Ebsco
- Bartlett's Familiar Quotations - http://www.bartleby.com/99/index.html The ninth edition of John Bartlett?s classic collection of quotations contains over
9,000 selections from Hesiod and Plutarch, through Chaucer and Thomas ? Kempis, up
to the contemporary statesmen of the day.
- Digital Librarian
"A librarian's choice of the best of the Web." An A-Z listing of great websites put
together by a librarian.
- Internet Public Library
This popular site is lists reference sources for general topics such as Social Sciences
and Humanities. It also contains a number of Pathfinders that are more specific guides
to doing research in a parti cular topic, such as Literary Criticism or Job Hunting.
Also has a great Shakespeare site, and sections for kids and teens.
- Martindale's Reference Desk
It's big and ugly, but it's one of the best out there, especially for science and
health related information.
- Roget's Thesaurus
Search the headwords or full text of Roget's Thesaurus, 1911, version 1.02 (supplemented:
July 1991) released to the public domain by MICRA, Inc. and Project Gutenberg. Internal
cross references are represented as clickable links.
- Statistical Abstract of the United States
The Statistical Abstract of the United States, published since 1878, is the authoritative
and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization
of the United States.
- US Gazetteer
"This gazetteer is used to identify places to view with the Tiger Map Server and obtain
census data from the 1990 Census Lookup server. You can search for places, counties
or MCDs by entering the name and state abbreviation (optional), or 5-digit zip code."
- Web of Online Dictionaries
"This website indexes on-line dictionaries, thesauri, and such like containing words
and phrases. Preference in selection has been given to the free online dictionary
of high quality." Also search over 100 different languages.
- Yahoo Reference
One of the most popular reference site directories. Links to Dictionaries, Music Reference,
Units of Measurement sites,
Population, Quotations, and much more. Fun for browsing.