Reference Resources Subject Guide

Search Engines | Almanacs | Atlases,Maps and Geographical Sources | Biography | Dictionaries, Thesauri & Quotations | Directories | Electronic Books l Encyclopedias | Factbooks, Handbooks & Manuals | Scholarly Journals Online I Statistics | Other Electronic Reference Collections

Search Engines

• Academic Information  
• Infomine 
• OAIster - (digital resources)
• Webcrawler

Almanacs

• Daily Almanacs
• Farmer's Almanac
• Information Please
• 50 States of the United States
• Stately Knowledge - The 50 States

  Atlases, Maps, and Geographical Sources

• CIA World Factbook
• Color Landform Atlas of the United States
• Country Studies/Area Handbooks
• Geography
• Geography and GIS Sources (Rutgers)
• Map Blast
• Map Machine (National Geographic Society)
• Map Quest
• Maps (University of Texas, Austin)
• National Atlas of the United States (U.S. Geological Survey, 1997)
• U. S. Gazeteer
• World Atlas
• World City Maps (University of Texas, Austin)
• World Time Zones
• Yahoo: Maps

  Biography

• Biography (A & E and Cambridge Biographical Encyclopedia)
• Biography Dictionary
  Keyword searchable covering from ancient to present times. Name, date of birth, positions, professions, literary and artistic works, and miscellaneous.
• Celebration of Women Writers (Carnegie Mellon University)
• CelebSite (Mr. Showbiz)
• Dead People Server
• Distinguished Women of Past and Present
• Jewish Biographies (JSOURCE)
• Namebase
  Search by name, country or category.
• National Inventors Hall of Fame
• Nobel Laureates
• POTUS: Presidents of the United States)
• Writers Net

  Dictionaries, Thesauri & Quotations

  • Acronyms and Abbreviations | Dictionaries | Quotations

  Acronyms and Abbreviations

• Acronym Finder
  Searchable database focused on computers, technology, telecommunications, and military.
• Acronyms and Abbreviations
• Search Acronym Dictionary
  Constantly updated list of acronyms and abbreviations.
• U.S. Postal Abbreviations

  Dictionaries

• Bartlett's Book of Familiar Quotations
• Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
• Human Languages Page (Foreign Language Dictionaries)
• InterTran (tm): Translate Between Languages
• One Look Dictionaries (Words in 214 dictionaries indexed)
• Roget's Thesaurus
• Semantic Rhyming Dictionary
• Synonym Dictionary (Vancouver)
• Translating Dictionaries
• Yourdictionary.com 

  Quotations

• Bartlett's Book of Familiar Quotations
• Quotations Home Page

  Directories

• AT&T's 800 Number Directory
• Airline 800 Toll Free Numbers and Websites
• AnyWho (AT&T)
  Telephone numbers, addresses and reverse lookup abilities for individuals and businesses.
• The Big Book (Businesses)
• Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments
• Congressional Directory
  Biographical directory of Congress with committee and voting records.
• Foundation Center Online
• Four11 Directory Services
• Reverse Lookup
• Switchboard.com
  People and businesses from phone books
• U. S. Gazetteer
  Census Bureau and location information by city
• U. S. Postal Service ZIP + 4
• Who Where? Email Addresses
• Yellow Pages

   

  Electronic Books

   

• Links and Information

  Encyclopedias

• Afro American Almanac: Internet Resource fro African American History
• Britannica.com
• Catholic Encyclopedia
• Encyberpedia: the Living Encyclopedia in Cyberspace
  developed to use an academic curriculum as its reference.
• Encyclopaedia of the Orient
• Encyclopedia Mythica: Encyclopedia on Mythology,, Folklore and Legend
• Encyclopedia Smithsonian
• Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (University of Tennessee, Martin)
• Nolo's Legal Encyclopedia
• Online Literary Criticism (Internet Public Library)
• Symbols.com

  Factbooks, Handbooks & Manuals

• Awards and Prizes
• Calendar
• Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
• CIA World Factbook
• Country Studies (Library of Congress)
• County and City Databook
• Flags of All Countries
• Guinness World Records
• Kelley Blue Book: Guiding the Car Buyer
• Nations Online: Portal to the Countries of the World
• The Research Paper
• World Wide Web Holiday and Festival Page

  Scholarly Journals Online

• Electronic Journal Miner (peer-reviewed journals by subject)
• ICAAP Journals (International Consortium for the Advancement of Academic Publication)
• Scholarly Electronic Journals: An Annotated Webliography
• Scholarly Journals Online

• General Statistical Links on Many Subjects
• Education Statistics (NCES)
• Fed Stats
• Polling the Nations  
• PopNet: the Source for Global Population Information
• STAT - USA
• Statistical Abstract of the US (online version)
• Statistical Web Resources (University of Richmond)
• Virginia Statistics
• Tazewell County, VA Statistics

  Other Electronic Reference Collections

• Find It in Virginia  an awesome collection of databases free for VA public library card holders
• The Electric Library
• Electronic Reference Shelf (University of Michigan)
• Fugitive Fact File (Hennepien County Library)
• Internet Public Library Reference Center
• Librarian's Index to the Internet
• Ready Reference Collection (Internet Public Library)
• Research Buzz news and information about search engines and databases
• The Reference Desk (Michigan Electronic Library)