Reference Resources

General Reference

• Specialized Tools
• Best Free Reference Websites / Reference and User Services Association (ALA)
• Top 101 Websites / PCMag.com
  
  
• AARP
• Bartleby.com / Great Books Online

  "The Preeminent Internet publisher of literature, reference and verse providing students, researchers and the itellectually curious with unlimited access to books and information on the web, free of charge."

• Biology-Online Dictionary
• Business.gov / The official business link to the U.S. government

  "Business.gov helps small businesses understand their legal requirements, and locate government services supporting the nation’s small business community."

• GrammarBook.com
• Britannica.com

  Encyclopedia Britannica online.

• AllBusiness

  "The site offers resources including how-to articles, business forms, contracts and agreements, expert advice, blogs, business news, business directory listings, product comparisons, business guides, a small business association and more."

• Cambridge Dictionaries Online

  "We publish dictionaries for people learning English all over the world."

• CEOExpress

  "Connecting busy executives to information that matters."

• Colleges and Universities, U.S. / Yahoo! Directory
• Colleges & Univerities / ScholarStuff.com
• Columbia Encyclopedia / Answers.com
• Country Briefings / Economist.com
• yourDictionary.com
• Data and Statistics / USA.gov
• Electronic Books / University of Texas at Austin
• Famous Quotes & Authors
• Fast Facts for Congress / U.S. Census Bureau
• The Fifty States / Infoplease.com
• EDGAR Online

  "Search over 15 million SEC EDGAR documents by Ticker, Company Name, Form Type or Keyword."

  The Glossarist

  "A searchable directory of glossaries and topical dictionaries."

• < ahref=http://scholar.google.com/schhp?hl=en&tab=ws"? Google Scholar

  a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites."

• infoplease.com / Almanac, Atlas, Dictionary, Encyclopedia
• Internet ArchiveM/a>

  "The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that was founded to build an Internet library. Its purposes include offering permanent access for researchers, historians, scholars, people with disabilities, and the general public to historical collections that exist in digital format."

• List of Lists / Special Issues

  "The List of Lists is a database of ranked listings of companies, people and resources freely available on the Internet."

• MapQuest
• National Association of Counties / County Resource Center

  "NACo collects information on counties, such as county officials, courthouse addresses, county seats, cities within a county as well as various statistical and geographical information."

• NetLibrary / eBooks (password required)

  Washburn University School of Law eContent Collection. "eContent is the digital version of books, journals, and database content. You can access your library’s eContent 24 hours a days, seven days a week."

• OneLook Dictionary Search / 19,089,129 words in 1062 dictionaries indexed
• Online Dictionary of the Social Sciences / Athabasca University and ICAAP

  "[E]ntries covering the disciplines of sociology, criminology, political science and women's study with a commitment to Canadian examples and events and names."

• Population Reference Bureau

  The PRB "informs people around the world about population, health, and the environment, and empowers them to use that information to advance the well-being of current and future generations."

• Presidents of the United States / The White House
• PubMed / National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health

  "...comprises more than 20 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books."

• Regional Economic Conditions / FDIC

  "Using RECON, anyone with internet access is able to drill down to any state, MSA, or county to view standard graphs, tables, and maps depicting economic conditions and how they have changed over time."

• Scirus for Scientific Information Only / Elsevier Science

  "...over 410 million scientific items indexed at last count, it allows researchers to search for not only journal content but also scientists' homepages, courseware, pre-print server material, patents and institutional repository and website information."

• Statistics / Explore Government Documents / University of Michigan
• tutorialfind
• U.S. Census Bureau
• USA CityLink

  "Since 1994, this has been the internet's most comprehensive listing of states and cities offering information on travel, tourism, and relocation. We offer detailed city guides as well as official and independent city and state websites."

• Universal Digital Library / Carnegie Mellon University & Partners

  "Million book collection"

• Wall Street Executive Library

  "The Web's best business sites!"

• Webopedia

  "Webopedia is a free online dictionary for words, phrases and abbreviations that are related to computer and Internet technology."

• Wikipedia / The free encyclopedia
• World Factbook / Central Intelligence Agency
• World History / Infoplease.com
• World Time Server / Any Time, Anywhere
• Zip Code+4 Look-up / U.S. Postal Service
  
  

• Comprehensive Tools