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Acronyms and Abbreviations

Acronym and Abbreviation Server
www.ucc.ie/info/net/acronyms/index.html

All That Jas: Journal Abbreviation Sources www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/JAS.htm

Almanacs
Information Please Almanac
www.infoplease.com/

Old Farmer's Almanac
www.almanac.com/

Reference Tools

World Factbook
www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html

Associations

Associations on the Net (from the Internet Public Library)
www.ipl.org/ref/AON/

Bartleby
www.bartleby.com/reference/

Biography
www.biography.com/

Currency Conversion
OANDA
www.oanda.com/

Universal Currency Converter
www.xe.net/currency/

Dictionaries - English

Miriam Webster Online - Dictionary and Thesaurus
www.m-w.org/

Access to over 460 dictionaries (special subjects and languages)
www.onelook.com/

American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
www.bartleby.com/61/

A Basic Dictionary of ASL
home.earthlink.net/~masterstek/ASLDict.html

Terms

Biographical Dictionary
s9.com/biography

Roget's Thesaurus
humanities.uchicago.edu/forms_unrest/ROGET.html

Roget's II: The New Thesaurus
www.bartleby.com/62/

Thesaurus
www.thesaurus.com/

Dictionaries - Non-English

Dictionary - Available in other languages: Spanish, French, German,
Japanese, Chinese, Hindi, Arabic, Russian, Thai
www.yourdictionary.com/

American-British and British-American
www.peak.org/~jeremy/dictionary/dict.html

French-English and English-French
humanities.uchicago.edu/forms_unrest/FR-ENG.html

Human Languages Page
www.ilovelanguages.com

Encyclopedias

Britannica Online
www.britannica.com/

Encyberpedia
www.encyberpedia.com/glossary.htm

Government Information - Federal

Census and Demographics - U. S. Census Bureau
factfinder.census.gov/servlet/BasicFactsServlet

Code of Federal Regulations
www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/cfr-table-search.html

Government Printing Office
www.access.gpo.gov/

Guide to United States Law Library of Congress
lcweb2.loc.gov/glin/us.html

Congress

ParkNet: Gateway to the National Park Service
www.nps.gov/

Tax Forms and Publications (IRS)
www.irs.gov/forms_pubs/index.html

Grammar Handbooks and Style Manuals

Citing Online Sources
www.worldwidewords.org/

International Information

CIA Maps
www.odci.gov/cia/publications/mapspub/index.html

Global Statistics
www.xist.org/

Country Studies/Area Handbooks
lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html

World Factbook
www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html

Maps

States and Capitals
www.50states.com/

Movies

Internet Movie Database
us.imdb.com/

News

Daily Newspapers research site
www.researchville.com/

Postal Information

United States Postal Service
www.usps.gov/

Quotations

Quotations Archive - Select by subject, author, special
topics or to locate source of quote
www.aphids.com/quotes/index.shtml

Familiar Quotations - a collection of passages, phrases,
and proverbs traced
to their sources in ancient and modern literature
www.bartleby.com/99/index.html

Simpson's Contempory Quotations - provides over 10,000 quotes from over 4000 sources, including 25 categories of quotes, and 60 sectios, ranging from "love" to "criminology"
www.bartleby.com/63/

Research

Reference Desk - Vast collection of links covering a wide
range of subjects.
www.refdesk.com/

National Information Standards Organization
www.techstreet.com/nisogate.html

Internet Public Library Pathfinders Subject Resources
www.ipl.org:2000/ref/QUE/PF/

Librarian's Index to the Internet - Links to great resources maintained by the library of California.
www.lii.org

Index
Bloomsbury Magazine.com Research Center
www.bloomsburymagazine.com/ARC./arc_home.asp

Online Resource for Responsible Conduct of Research
www.rcr.ucsd.edu/

ISI Journal Citation Report
www.isinet.com/isi/index.html

Resources

Topical Guide to Internet
www.clearinghouse.net/

AskERIC
ericir.syr.edu/

The Argus Clearinghouse
www.clearinghouse.net/

Infomine
infomine.ucr.edu/

Statistics

FedStats - Provides easy access to the full range of statistics
and information producedby more than 70 agencies in the U.S.
Government for public use
www.fedstats.gov/

National Center for Education Statistics
www.ed.gov/NCES/

Statistical Abstract of the United States
www.census.gov/stat_abstract/

Telephone & E-mail Directories

AT&T 800 Directory
www.anywho.com/tf.html

BigBook
www.bigbook.com/

InfoSpace
www.infospace.com/

Travel Information

Expedia
www.expedia.com/

TheTrip.com
www.thetrip.com/

Weather

INTELLICAST: Dallas/Ft. Worth Weather
www.intellicast.com/Local/USLocalStd.asp?loc=kdfw&seg=LocalWeather&prod
grp=Forecasts&product=Forecast&prodnav=none&pid=none

The Weather Channel
www.weather.com/

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