REFERENCE LINKS

Sites are presented in alphbetical order and reflect no preference.

• Acronyma: Free online acronym finder and database.
• The Acronym Database: Over 15,000 acronyms.
• Acronym Finder: Acronym Finder, find out what any acronym, abbreviation, or initialism stands for.
• Afro Amarican Almanac: A guide to African American culture.
• The American Dialect: Regional Varieties of English in the U. S. and Canada.
• ArchiveGrid: ArchiveGrid is an important destination for searching through historical documents, personal papers, and family histories held in archives around the world.
• Baby Name Addicts: Over 51,000 names with meanings, origins, polls, popularity graphs, and more.
• Bartlett's Quotations: 1901 9th edition, searchable.
• Bartleby: 12, 000 online books.
• Bibliomania: Free Online Literature with more than 2000 Classic Texts.
• Biographical Dictionary: Brief coverage of over 28,000 notable men and women.
• Biography: Homepage for A & E's online Biography site.
• British Library newspaper library: The British Library Newspaper Library catalogue.
• The Calendar Zone: Formerly known as CalendarLand, provides information about various calendars and dates.
• Chambers Book Of Days: An electronic reprint of the original: Chambers's Book of Days Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1879 presented by University of Wisconsin, Madison.
• Chambers Reference Online: Consult Chambers 21st Century Dictionary, The Chambers Thesaurus (1996) or Chambers Biographical Dictionary (1997 edition with amendments).
• City Directories: Site will attempt to identify all printed, microfilmed, and online directories, and their repositories, for the United States.
• Columbia Encyclopedia: Concise Columbia Encyclopedia, 3rd edition, online.
• CoSA: The Council of State Archivists is a national organization comprising the individuals who serve as State Historical Records Coordinators and their deputies.
• Dare: Dictionary of American Regional English.
• Dictionaries: A Web of On-line Dictionaries.
• Dictionary: Merriam Webster's Dictionary.
• Dictionary of Canadian Biography: Searchable database covering persons who died or were active between 1000 and 1920.
• Dictionary of Quaternary Acronyms and Abbreviations: This dictionary by Alwynne Beaudoin contains acronyms and abbreviations that are common in Quaternary studies.
• Digital Librarian: A librarian's choice of the best of the Web by Margaret Vail Anderson.
• DNZB: Biographies of over 3,000 New Zealanders.
• Electronic Text Center: The Etext Center's mission is to create an on-line archive of standards-based texts and images in the humanities and to build and support user communities adept at the creation and use of online resources.
• Encyclopedia.com: Search or browse over 57,000 articles from the Columbia Encyclopedia.
• FCIC: The Federal Citizen Information Center.
• Findagrave: Locate graves of famous people.
• FOTW: Flags of the world with more than 28,000 pages about flags and view more than 51,000 images of flags.
• The Free Dictionary: Reference site developed by Farlex, Inc.
• The Glossarist: A compendium of glossaries on various subjects organized by topic.
• How Far Is It?: A distance calculator.
• How Stuff Works: Articles by Marshall Brain.
• IAF: Internet Address Finder.
• Imagebase: Searchable database of over 40,000 images.
• Index to Pathfinders: Index of Subject Pathfinders from American University Library.
• Infobel: Worldwide phone numbers.
• Information Please: One stop ready reference.
• IPL: The Internet Public Library.
• iTools: Formerly known as ResearchIt, iTiools provides one step access to a number of ready reference sites.
• KCVL: A Virtual Reference Desk.
• LIVEREF: A Registry of online real time reference sources.
• Mapquest: Door to door driving directions.
• LOL: Gary Price's "List of Lists" now relocated at the Special Issues website.
• MADID: Manuscripts and archives digital image database at Yale University.
• Martindale's Reference Desk: Maintained by Jim Martindale.
• MeL Internet: A web directory compiled by Michigan's State library.
• The National Archives: The repository of the UK's national archives.
• Nobel Foundation: The Nobel Prize site.
• NTL: The National Transportation Library, a virtual library for the transportation community with the ability to search TRIS (Transportation Research Information Services) Online and the NTL Digital Collection simultaneously.
• NYPL Best of the Web: A portal of selected websites arranged by general categories.
• NYPL Digital Gallery: Searchable digital collection at the New York Public Library.
• OAIster: OAIster is a project of the University of Michigan Digital Library Production Service with the goal to create a collection of previously difficult-to-access, academically-oriented digital resources.
• Onelook: Over 2432000 words in 625 dictionaries indexed.
• Online Searchable Death Indexes & Records: This website is a directory of online death indexes listed by state and county. Included are death records, death certificate indexes, death notices & registers, obituaries, probate indexes, and cemetery & burial records.
• Open CRS: Open CRS provides citizens access to Congressional Research Service Reports that are already in the public domain and encourages Congress to provide public access to all CRS Reports.
• Patents and trademarks: A guide provided by the LSU libraries.
• PIR: Public Information Research Name Base.
• Plucked From the Web: Sylvia Milne's Search Engines, News, Library Catalogs, and Senior Citizen's sites.
• Prints and Photos Online Catalog: The Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC) provides access through group or item
• Public Opinion Poll Question Database: From the Odum Institute which maintains one of the oldest and largest archives of machine-readable data in the U.S. Its Louis Harris Data Center is the exclusive national repository for Louis Harris public opinion data. records to about 65% of the Division's holdings, as well as to some images found in other units of the Library of Congress. Congress.
• Quotes: The Quotations Page.
• Refdesk: Virtual Reference Desk.
• Research Quick Guides: From Stanford University.
• Roots-L: Geneological research with resources state by state.
• RZU2U: Animal Terms for Baby, Male, Female and Groups plus other interesting Animal Related Terms.
• Scholes Ready Reference: Ready reference resources from the Scholes Library.
• SLDL: Scottish National Dictionary Association.
• Smithsonian Institution Libraries - Digital Library: The Smithsonian Institution Libraries unites 20 libraries into one system supported by an online catalog of the combined collections.
• Sources of Information in Transportation: 5th edition of 2001 edited by Susan C. Dresley, and published by U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statisticsc National Transportation Library.
• Straight Dope: Adam's The Straight Dope, online.
• Switchboard: Telephone numbers.
• Teldir.com: Telephone directories on the Web.
• Time Zone Converter: Find out what time it is where.
• Topical Guides: Guides from NCSU.
• UN Documentation Research Guide: This guide is designed for researchers and information professionals with an interest in United Nations documentation.
• UTOPIA: UTOPIA provides access to The University of Texas at Austin’s vast reservoir of knowledge and cultural assets at the touch of a button.
• Virtualref: Virtual Reference Shelf, Selected Web Resources from the Library of Congress.
• Vital Records: Vital Records Information United States.
• Wikipedia: A multilingual project to create a complete and accurate open content encyclopedia.
• Wordspy: A website devoted to recently coined words and phrases.
• Your Tree: How to do geneological research online.

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