Online Reference Collection
Finding People/Businesses/Telephone Numbers/Addresses:
Grants and Foundation Information Sources:
Companies and Corporations Information Sources:
Other Reference Sources:
- Constitution Finder
- Constitutions of the World
- Consumer Information Center (U. S. Government)
- Consumer Price Index
- Countries of the World (U. S. Dept. of State Background Notes)
- Country Profiles (BBC)
"BBC News presents brief up-to-date profiles (history, politics, economy)
of the countries of the world. An audio of the country's national anthem, a timeline of the country's
history, and links to the main mass media outlets in the country accompany each profile." (InfoMine)
- Country Studies: Area Handbook Series (Library of Congress)
- Currency Converter
"... provides an interactive menu that converts any one of 164
worldwide currencies to any other of 164 worldwide currencies, on any given date back to 1990.
It's simple to use, but watch the date - its European form."
- Currency Converter
- Currency Converter from Yahoo
- Dictionaries - A Web of On-line Dictionaries
Linked to more than 500 dictionaries of over 140 different languages.
- Dictionaries - American Heritage Dictionary of
the English Language (Fourth Edition)
- Dictionaries - OneLook Dictionaries
- Dictionary of Computing
- Distance Finder
- Doctor Finder - AMA
- DoctorDirectory.COM
- Dow Jones Indexes - Historical Data
This site provides current and historical information about the Dow Jones
Indexes, including chronological charts, and daily historical data going back to 1896.
- Drug Information - Prescription Drug, Herbals, and Supplements
Information from MedlinePlus (National Library of Medicine
- Drug Information Pathfinder - U.S. Food and Drug Administration
- Economic Data Sources from EconData
- Economic Information and Data - The Dismal Scientist
The Dismal Scientist offers comprehensive and timely economic data
and analysis, at the metro, state, and national level by nationally recognized economists.
The site includes forecasts, demographic information, and thousands of economic statistics.
- Electronic Embassy
An index of all the D.C. Embassies, information on passports and visas,
cultural affairs, and international trade opportunities, rules and regulations.
- Embassy Page
- Embassy World
- Endangered Species
- Etiquette - Business etiquette and culture
- FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service
(The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints)
- Flags - World Flag Database
- Foundation Center
- French-English Dictionary
- Geographic Names Information System
- Historic Documents - Avalon Project at the Yale Law School
- Historic Events & Birthdates that occured on a SELECTED day of the year
- Historical Stock Quotes
- Inflation Calculator
- Journal Abbreviation Sources
- Kelley Blue Book - Used Car Values
- Legal Dictionary
- Map Machine (National Geographic)
- MapQuest
- Maps - TopoZone
- Maps and Geography of the World
-
Maps from the
University of Texas Library
- Maps - Historical Maps
- Maps - Historical Maps
- Maps - Historical Maps
- Medicine - MEDLINEplus
"This directory site is designed to lead the user to resources
containing information that will help with researching their health questions. It includes
information from MEDLINE, links to self-help groups, medical dictionaries, directories of
doctors and hospitals, access to National Institute of Health consumer-related organizations,
clearinghouses, health-related organizations, and a search databases section with dozens of
databases on topics such as clinical trials, nutrition, AIDS, cancer, etc."
- Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy
"The Merck Manual is the most widely used medical text in the world.
Written by over 300 experts, it covers all but the most obscure disorders. In addition to describing
symptoms, common clinical procedures, laboratory tests, and virtually all the disorders that a general
internist might encounter, The Manual deals with problems of pregnancy and delivery; common and serious
disorders of neonates, infants, and children; genetics; drug dependency; psychiatric disorders; and
many disorders covered by other specialties."
- Merck Manual of Medical Information--Home Edition
- Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
- Metric Conversion Factors
- Metric Conversion Factors and Online Converter
- Molecular Modelling Database
"The Molecular Modelling Database (MMDB) contains 3-dimensional
structures determined by X-ray crystallography and NMR spectroscopy. The data for MMDB are
obtained from the Protein Data Bank (PDB). The NCBI has cross-linked structural data to
bibliographic information, to the sequence databases, and to the NCBI taxonomy. The NCBI has developed a
3D structure viewer, Cn3D, for easy interactive visualization of molecular structures from within Entrez."
- Music Publishers
- Music Research Guide
- Mythology - Encyclopedia Mythica
- Myths and Legends
- Names - All-Surnames
- Names - Most Popular, Year-by-Year (from the U. S. Social Security Administration
- Park Search
"At this site, provided by L.L. Bean, users can search a
database of over 1,400 state and national parks, forests, and wildlife refuges by state, region,
and/or activities in which they are interested ".
- Periodic Table of the Elements
- Peterson's Education Center (Peterson's Guides)
- PhobiaList
- Phrase Finder
Look up the meaning or origin of a phrase, saying or idiom.
- Philosophy - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
"A dynamic encyclopedia, each entry is maintained and kept up to
date by an expert or group of experts in the field (the authors are given direct electronic
access to their entries)".
- Physician Finder - AMA
- Poisoning First Aid
- Professional Codes of Ethics Online
- Publishers (AcqWeb's Directory of Publishers)
- The Pulitzer Prizes
- Research Tools
This site provides a search interface to a number of reference tools,
including dictionaries, thesauri, the King James version of the Bible, maps, currency exchange
tables, stock prices and ticker symbols, and zip codes.
- Rhyming Dictionary
- Roget's Thesaurus
-
Speeches - Great Speeches Audio Archive
Requires RealAudio's RealPlayer.
- Statistical Abstract of the United States
- Stocks - Historic Stock Prices and Stock Split Information
- Sun and Moon Data
- Symbols - Online Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols
- Telephone Area Codes - U.S. and Canada
- Temperature Conversion Calculator
- Time - The Official U.S. Time
- Time Service Department, U.S. Naval Observatory, Washington, DC
- Time - The World Clock: Current local times all over the World
- Today in History
- U.S. Geographic Names Database
- U.S. Occupational Outlook Handbook
- U.S. State Department Travel Warnings and Consular Information Sheets
- Units of Measurement
- Vanderbilt Television News Archive
- Weather
- Weather - National Weather Service
- Webster Dictionary - Merriam-Webster
- Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 Edition
- Writing - Strunk's Elements of Style
- Zip+4 Code Lookup (U. S. Postal Service)
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Updated 11/05/06, MRG
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