Reference Tools
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MLA Style Guide
Encarta Encyclopedia
Statistical Abstract of the United States
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Almanacs
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Infoplease: Information Please Almanac
- Find
answers in almanacs, encyclopedias and dictionaries.
Old Farmer's Almanac
- Provides tide tables, sunrise tables,
planting charts and weather predictions.
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Biographies
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Biography.com
Presidents of the U.S.
Oxford
Dictionary of National Biography
The Biographical Dictionary
Dead People Server
Nobel Laureates
Artists.org
I Hear
America Singing: Profiles
National
Inventors Hall of Fame
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Chronologies/Timelines
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dMarie Time Capsule
HyperHistory Online
- Presents 3,000 years of world history in a
combination of lifelines, timelines and maps.
Year by Year 1900-2001
- Describes historic events of the twentieth
century by year and by decade.
http://www.ourtimelines.com/
- Personalize your own timeline.
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Country
Studies
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Background Notes from the U.S. State Department
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Background Notes provide information on geographic entities and
international organizations and are updated periodically. Background
Notes for some countries are currently unavailable.
CIA World Factbook
- The year 2000 marked the 57th year of
continuous basic intelligence support about various countries to the
US Government by The World Factbook.
DeskRef's Country links
- Many links to country studies web sites.
Also includes flags, leaders and capital cities.
Freedom
House - An excellent online resource for students researching
the degree of freedom and democracy in countries around the world.
Library of Congress Country Studies
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Dictionaries and Thesauri
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Cambridge Dictionary
OneLook Dictionaries
– Searches a number of online dictionaries at
one time.
American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
– Online
version of the unabridged American Heritage Dictionary.
Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
- Use this to search for
synonyms, definitions and more.
Lexicool - A directory of over 500 translation dictionaries and
glossaries.
Dictionary.com - Contains a dictionary search, translator, and
multilingual vocabulary learning tools.
InfoPlease Dictionary
Newberry House Online Dictionary
Thesaurus.com
Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Ninjawords
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Encyclopedias
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Columbia Encyclopedia
- 6th edition of the Columbia Encyclopedia,
offered through Infoplease.com. Provides access to 57,000 articles.
Encarta Encyclopedia
- An abbreviated copy of the more comprehensive
one that Microsoft sells.
Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia.com
- Electric Library's keyword-searchable
encyclopedia gets you off to a good start.
Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia - "A multilingual project to create
an...open content encyclopedia".
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Journal Citation Databases
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MagPortal
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FindArticles
HighWire
(from Stanford University Library's HighWire Press)
Ingenta
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Law
Resources
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San Diego County Law Library's
incredible page of law resources available through the Web.
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Maps
and Atlases
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Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection
contains links to many
different kinds of maps.
Mapquest - Maps and city information, travel directions and guides.
WorldAtlas.com
All the Worlds Maps
- Offers national maps and maps for many major
cities.
An Atlas of the Universe
- Nine main maps of the universe.
USGS National Geologic Map Database
Maporama - Offers street-level directional maps for many European
nations, the USA, and most of Canada.
Geography Network
- Online resource for finding and sharing
geographic content, including maps and data, from many of the
world's leading providers.
Live Search Maps- If you know the address, you can get a map and directions
for over 200 countries.
Maps.com
Maptech MapServer
- Topographic maps.
MapMachine
- Creates maps "on the fly".
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Phone Books
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Yahoo! Yellow Pages
- Great for finding businesses
anywhere in the U.S.- by name and category, with the option to limit
to a location.
Yahoo! People Search
- Search for someone anywhere in the United
States.
Bigfoot - U.S. and Canada phone books.
Internet 800
Directory
AnyWho
Infospace
SuperPages.com
Langenberg
AllAreaCodes.com
-Look up area codes for phone numbers.
http://reversephonedirectory.com
- Lists web sites that can help if
you have a phone number and want to know whose name is associated
with it.
Hardtofind800numbers
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Quotations/Speeches
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About.com
- Quotations
AtoZquotes.com
Bartleby's
offerings of both Bartlett's (older)
quotations, and Simpson's (newer) quotations. Use the pick-list to
get whichever one you want.
History Place's Great Speeches Collection
offers links to speeches
worldwide.
Insight
Quotes.com
LitQuotes - This site features quotes from the great works of
literature.
On
Matters of Most Grave Concern
Quotes & Sayings Database
QuoteLand - "Find quotations on anything; identify quotations by
anyone."
QuotationReference
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Reference
Desks
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Refdesk.com
Yahoo! Reference
Virtual Reference Shelf
- The Library of Congress' virtual reference
desk
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Statistics
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Statistical Abstract of the United States - THE
definitive statistical resource for United States information - when
you get to the site, click on the button that says "Adobe Acrobat
PDF Files."
FRED:
Federal Reserve Economic Data
NationMaster
- Compiles statistics from such sources as
the CIA World Factbook, United Nations, World Health Organization,
World Bank, World Resources Institute, UNESCO, UNICEF and OECD.
International Databank - Statistical tables from the U.S. Census
Bureau -- covers 227 countries and areas of the world.
U.S.
Bureau of Justice Statistics
- Crime statistics, including,
victims, offenders, and the justice system.
FEDSTATS - The gateway to statistics from over 100 U.S. Federal
agencies.
Bureau of Labor Statistics: Economy at a Glance - Data at the
national, regional, state, and metropolitan area levels, put
together by the Federal Bureau of Labor
Statistics.
University of Michigan's Statistical Resources on the Web - Offers
an enormous number of links to statistical resources by topic.
Consumer Price Index - Compiled by the Federal Bureau of Labor
Statistics
Population
Reference Bureau - The Source
for Global Population Information - Covers statistics in the
areas of demographics, economics, education, environment,
gender and more.
U.S. Census Bureau's American Factfinder
Counting California
- California data.
Criminal Justice Statistics
Center (California)
Historical Census
Data Browser (1790+)
Social
Science Data on the Net
ERSys.com - Offers mostly
statistical information on American cities.
Transparency International - Contains a Corruption Perceptions
Index (CPI) ranking "more than 150 countries by their perceived
levels of corruption, as determined by experts and opinion surveys."
Vital
Statistics Data Tables (Calif Govt)
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Style and
Grammar Guides
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Note: A great starting
point is our library's
Citation Help
page.
MLA
UC Berkeley's Wonderful MLA Style Guide
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/01/
http://www.liu.edu/CWIS/CWP/library/workshop/citmla.htm
http://www.lib.usm.edu/help/style_guides/mla.html
http://www.library.cornell.edu/newhelp/res_strategy/citing/mla.html
APA
APA Style Essentials
– for a good overview of the APA Style.
APA Electronic Formats -for great examples of electronic formats.
UC Berkeley's Wonderful
APA Style Guide
Chicago
http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools.html
http://www.libs.uga.edu/ref/chicago.html
http://library.osu.edu/sites/guides/chicagogd.php
http://www.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/workshop/citchi.htm
Turabian
http://www.fcc.edu/students/stylemanual/default.asp
http://www.libs.uga.edu/ref/turabian.html
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Online! Citation Styles
- Offers: web site, e-mail, listserv,
newsgroup, Telnet, FTP and other online formats in the styles of
MLA, APA, Chicago and more.
Duke University Libraries' Guide to Citing Sources
Sources: Their Use and Acknowledgement
- A good overall style
handbook (from Dartmouth College) to consult when writing papers.
William Strunk Jr.'s Elements of Style
- Excellent grammar and writing tips
Guide to Grammar and Writing - Comprehensive guide to the use of the
English language, including sentence parts, punctuation marks,
plurals, possessives, and spellings.
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/errors/errors.html
- Paul Brians' common errors in the English language.
Citation Machine - An interactive Web tool assists in the
formation of various citation styles.
Forms
of Address
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Zip Codes
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International Zip Codes
– Postal codes from all
over the world.
USPS.com Zip Code Look-Up
– Official zip code site for the United
States Postal Service.
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