Ready Reference Sources on the WWW
 Almanacs |
Elections/Politics/Law |
| Animals |
Encyclopedias |
| Atlases
& Maps |
Movies
& Music |
| Biography |
Phonebooks/Directories |
| Calculators |
Quotations |
| Churches |
Weather |
| Dictionaries |
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.
- The
Atlas of Canada
Geographic Names Information System - From the U.S. Geological Survey, U. S. Board on Geographical Names.
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
Biography
- American Presidents: Life Portraits -basic information, and clips to video and sound, texts of inaugural addresses.
Anthropology Biography Web
Australian Dictionary of Biography: Online Edition - An online version of the traditional Australian Dictionary of Biography, published from 1966-2005.
Biographical Dictionary
Biography.com
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.
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
Churches
Major Religions of the World and Religion by Location Index - by Adherents.com
U.S. Congregational Membership: Data for counties, states and the U.S.from ARDA, the Association for Religion Data Archives.
Dictionaries
Accounting Terminology Guide - New York State Society of CPAs.
Acronym Finder -
Art & Architecture Thesaurus Online
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 Quaternray Acronyms and Abbreviations
A Dictionary of Units - from Frank Tapson, Center for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching.
English slang and Colloquialisms Used in the United Kingdom - A dictionary of slang.
EOL - Encyclopedia of Life
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 Online - includes the The Merriam-Webster Dictionary, Thesaurus, Spanish-English Dictionary and their Medical Dictionary.
NetLingo: The Internet Language Dictionary
ODLIS - Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science - by Joan M. Reitz, and published by Libraries Unlimited.OneLook Dictionary Search - One search for 1,024 online dictionaries including a reverse dictionary.
Online Etymology Dictionary - by Douglas Harper.
Rhymezone - Rhyming words, synonyms, homophones and more.
Twists, Slugs and Roscoes : A Glossary of Hardboiled Slang
Urban DictionaryThe Very Best of British - The American's Guide to Speaking British.
Web of On-line Dictionaries- based on the American Heritage Dictionary.
Webopedia - an online dictionary for computers and the Internet.
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
- The
Canadian Encyclopedia
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.
Middle English Dictionary
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 FAQ's: 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.
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.
Movie Review Query Engine
- AnyWho
Online Directory
AskART - "The Artist's Bluebook" Information about 30,000 American Artists and museums.
- Canadian
Postal Code Lookup
- Lawyer
Locator - from Martindale.com with listings 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.
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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