Ready Reference Sources on the WWW
 Almanacs |
Elections/Politics/Law |
| Animals |
Encyclopedias |
| Atlases & Maps |
Movies & Music |
| Biography |
Phonebooks/Directories |
| Calculators |
Quotations |
| Consumer Information |
Weather |
| Dictionaries |
- Atlases & Maps
- The Color
Landform Atlas of the United States
Geographic Names Information System - From the U.S. Geological Survey
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names Online - The Getty Research Institute.
HomeTownLocator: Gazetteer - find regional and weather information, aerial photographs, zip codes, and demographic data.
Interactive Ancient Mediterranean - UNC, Chapel Hill
mapsarea.com - a gateway to world maps and atlases
Maps of the World - from the Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection, University of Texas Libraries.
Nationalatlas.gov™ - is the new National Atlas of the United States, interactive and online, 20 government agencies.
Topo Zone - Maps a la carte, Inc. through a partnership with the U.S. Geological Survey provide easy web access to topographic maps.
U.S. Gazetteer
- Afro
American Almanac - Created by Donald E. Jones II/Top Tags Business
Advertising specialties.
Almanacs - from DMOZ, Open Directory Project
Information Please Almanac
time and date.com
ARKive - The WildScreen Trust in Bristol, England has built an online archive of multimedia related to endangered species around the world.
Fat Birder - links to sites specializing in bird songs and sounds.
Biography
- Biographical
Dictionary
Biography resources: Finding information on the famous, infamous, and obscure - from College & Research Libraries, January, 2002 by Susan A. Schreiner and Michael A. Somers.
Dictionary of Canadian Biography - a joint project of the University of Toronto and the Université Laval and presents the work of researchers and writers in many fields from across Canada and around the world.
Dr. Estrella's Incredibly Abridged Dictionary of Composers
MacTutor History of Mathematics Biographies Index - John J. O'Connor & Edmund F. Robertson / University of St. Andrews (Scotland) Mathematicians living and dead, male and female.
POTUS: Presidents of the United States - An Internet Public Library source created by Bob Summers with links to all presidents and some primary sources.
Theorists and Critics - from Sara Zupko's Cultural Studies Center includes links to an interesting collection of social and communication critics.
American Presidents: Life Portraits -basic information, and clips to video and sound, texts of inaugural addresses.
Anthropology Biography Web -
Martindale's Calculators On-Line Center
How Far Is It? - Calculates the distance between cities around the world.
Measure 4 Measure - Judi Wolinsky
Savings Bonds Calculator
Consumer Information/Directories
AskART - "The Artist's Bluebook" Information about 30,000 American Artists and museums.
Kelley Blue Book, New and Used Car Values
- Accounting
Terminology Guide - New York State Society of CPAs.
Acronym Finder -
Art & Architechure Thesaurus Online
- Basic Guide to American Sign Language
- Biotech's
Life Science Dictionary - BioTech Resources Web Project, Indiana
Institute for Molecular and Cellular Biology.
Diabetes Dictionary - from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases.
Dictionary.com - an online English Dictionary and directory of Internet reference sites from Lexico LLC - Dictionary
of Cell Biology - from Academic Press.
A Dictionary of Units - from Frank Tapson, Center for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching
Glossaries & Dictionaries - from Encyberpedia - I Love Languages - A redesign of the Human-Languages Page and the Languages catalog of the WWW Virtual Library.
- Investor Words:
Investing Glossary - by WebFinance, Inc. with definitions for
5,000 words of interest to investors and links to help users go
to related words.
Martindale's Reference Desk - Language and Translation Center - by Jim Martindale with links to many dictionaries and translation services. - Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary
- NetLingo:
The Internet Language Dictionary
New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy - from Bartleby.com
ODLIS - Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science - by Joan M. Reitz, and published by Libraries Unlimited
Online Etymology Dictionary - by Douglas Harper
Rhymezone - Rhyming words, synonyms, homophones and more
Thesaurus.com
Web of On-line Dictionaries- based on the American Heritage Dictionary - Webopedia - an online dictionary for computers and the Internet.
- Encyclopedia.com
- 50,000 articles from the Electric Library.
The Encyclopedia Mythica - includes mythology, folklore, and legends with over 6,100 entries on gods and goddesses, heroes, legendary creatures and beings from all over the world.
Encyclopedia of Psychology - by William Paylya, Jacksonville State University
Encyclopedia of Television - from the Museum of Broadcast Communication. - glbtq: gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender
& queer encyclopedia - edited by Claude J. Summers, William
E. Stirton Professor in the Humanities Emeritus, University of Michigan-Dearborn.
The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy - by James Fieser, Ph.D.and Bradley Dowden from the University of Tennessee at Martin
Instrument Encyclopedia -from the Stearns Collection at the University of Michigan
Jewish Encyclopedia.com - the complete historical 12-volume Jewish Encyclopedia, which was originally published between 1901-1906
The New Georgia Encyclopedia - a project of the Georgia Humanities Council in partnership with the Office of the Governor, the University of Georgia Press, and the University System of Georgia/GALILEO.
Smithsonian FAQs: Encyclopedia Smithsonian - Frequently asked questions at the Smithsonian Institution
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - a publishing project of the Metaphysics Research Lab at the Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI) at Stanford University.
Symbols.com -- an online Encyclopedia of Westerns Signs and Ideograms by Carl G. Liungman, Sweden.
- AnyWho
Online Directory
- Canadian
Postal Code Lookup
- Lawyer
Locator - by Martindale-Hubbell with listings of over 1 million
lawyers and firms.
National Environmental Directory - Lists 13,000 organizations. - NIRA's Directory
of Think Tanks - from the National Institute for Research Advancement.
- Scholarly
Societies Project- maintained by the University of Waterloo
in Canada with links to 1,279 Web sites for international academic
& scholarly societies.
Telephone Directories on the Web
- Zip Code Lookup - U. S. Postal Service
Dictionaries
Elections/Politics/Law
Copyright and Fair Use - Stanford University
LII/ Legal Information Institute's Copyright page - Cornell University.
Policy.com - Links to advocacy groups, think tanks, Issue of the Week & a searchable Library.
Encyclopedias
Movies & Music
CD-Now - Search the site by Artist, Album Title, Song Title, Record Label, Video Title, or Actor/Director.
The Internet Movie Database - extremely useful site.
Metacritic.com - Find reviews of movies, videos/DVDs, music and games originally published in magazines and newspapers.
Movie Review Query Engine
Quotations
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations - 10th edition, 1919.
GIGA Quotes - 50,000+ ancient and modern quotations, aphorisms, maxims, proverbs, sayings, truisms, mottoes, book excerpts, poems, browsable by 4,000+ authors or 1,300+ cross-referenced topics.
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare - Jeremy Hylton, Corporation for National Research Initiatives.
Quotations about Music - compiled at the University of Utah.
The Quotations Page - Michael Moncur.Weather Underground - U.S. and International, with historical data back to 1994.
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