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
• The Booklist Center

  "The Web's largest collection of book lists. Currently (July 2004) 346 book lists in 82 categories."

• 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!
• Colleges & Univerities / ScholarStuff.com
• Columbia Encyclopedia / Answers.com
• Country Briefings / Economist.com
• yourDictionary.com
• Electronic Books / University of Texas at Austin
• Encyclopedia Article Center from Encarta / MSN
• Famous Quotes & Authors
• Fast Facts / refdesk.com

  "Refdesk is a free and family-friendly web site that indexes and reviews quality, credible, and current web-based resources."

• Fast Facts for Congress / U.S. Census Bureau
• The Fifty States / Infoplease.com
• Famous Quotes & Authors
• 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."

• Hoover's Online / Company Information

  "Delivers comprehensive company, industry, and market intelligence that drives business growth."

• infoplease.com / Almanac, Atlas, Dictionary, Encyclopedia
• 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 / 13,549,061 words in 1009 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."

• Portals to the World

  From the Library of Congress, Global Gateway. Links to electronic resources from around the world.

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

  "...includes over 18 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources."

• Regional Economic Conditions / FDIC
• Scirus for Scientific Information Only / Elsevier Science

  "Scirus is the most comprehensive science-specific search engine on the web."

• Statistical Sources on the Web / 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
• Wall Street Executive Library

  "The Web's best business sites!"

• Webopedia

  "The only online dictionary and search engine you need for computer and Internet technology definitions."

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

• Comprehensive Tools