Library
Online Reference Desk

Ready Reference Sources:
U of Chicago ARTFL Project: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 Edition
U of Chicago ARTFL Project:  Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 Edition
Merriam Webster WWW Dictionary (© 1997 by Merriam-Webster, Incorporated)
Merriam Webster's WWW Thesaurus (© 1997 by Merriam-Webster, Incorporated)

Almanacs/Factbooks
The Old Farmer's Almanac 

Search Engines
AltaVista
Yahooligans
Excite Home
Welcome to Lycos
Yahoo!


On-line reference works

 
 
Dictionaries
(See also the human languages page)  
OneLook (search 107 dictionaries of all types)
English Dictionaries
WWWebster Dictionary
Acronym Guide
Foreign Language Dictionaries
Foreign Languages for Travelers
French - English dictionary
Logos Multilingual dictionary
Computing Dictionaries
Free Online Dictionary of Computing
Thesauri
Roget's Thesaurus
Quotations
 
Encyclopedias
Encyclopedia.com


Internet Resources
Internet Indexes
Internet Resources Meta-Index
Internet Tools Summary
Yahoo
 
Librarian's Index to the Internet


Geographical and other place-oriented references
Maps
MapQuest
Addresses and Postal Codes
National Address Server
Place Information
U.S. Gazetteer
World Fact Book (2005)
US Census Bureau
Geographic DB
Area codes
Area codes listed by number
Telecom Digest Guide to Area Codes
Phone books
AnyWho
          Big Book
Switchboard
Currency converter
oanda.com
          xe.com


Other References

Bibliographies
Legal and governmental references
Legal Information Institute
Political documents from around the world (locally listed)
 
 
Facts
Infoplease
         
General Reference
The WWW Virtual Library
The Virtual Reference Desk

 
 
Created October 5, 1997
Updated, Octobe r3, 2008

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