Reference Section

Articles
Daily-Update www.daily-update.com/
About (articles from over 700 sites) www.about.com/
Arts & Letters Daily www.cybereditions.com/aldaily
InfoJump (5 million articles from 4000 publications, all rated) www.infojump.com
Infomine (really is a mine for scholarly information) www.infomine.ucr.edu
Suite101.com (articles from over 1500 topics) www.suite101.com

Atlases & maps
www.refdesk.com
www.InterGO.com
Maps- countries, streets etc www.mapquest.com/
Maps www.kartoserver.frw.ruu.nl
World Atlas www.InterGO.com

Biographies links
www.refdesk.com

Books
Page One (reviews,author interviews, literary news, etc) www.pageonelit.com
Readerville www.readerville.com
SeekBOOKS (reviews & bookseller to rival the big names) www.seekbooks.com
See also Christian Books; Children's Book Council; Online Books

British monarchy
http://www.royal.gov.uk/

Calculator
www.math.scarolina.edu

Calendar: create any year
Create any year www.stud.unit.no
Ecclesiastical Calendar cssa.stanford.edu

Charities & NPOs
www.charity.com

Chemistry Research
Research (search chemicals) www.chemfinder.com

Children's Book Council
Resources for children's writing www.cbcbooks.org
Children's Book Publishers Guidelines www.signaleader.com/chldwrit.html

Christian books, libraries etc.
www.eskimo.com

CIA World Factbook - See World Factbook below

Colleges/Universities worldwide
www.mit.edu:8001

Computer Science bibliographies/databases
www.library.cmu.edu

Countries of the World (Library of Congress)
www.lcweb2.loc.gov

Currency converter

Databases on the Web
www.refdesk.com

Dictionaries etc.
www.refdesk.com/factdict.html www.m-w.com/
American Dialect Society (current and regional words) www.americandialect.org
OneLook Dictionaries (access over 500 dictionaries) www.onelook.com
Skeptics' Dictionary www.wheel.ucdavis.edu
YourDictionary (over 200 translation dictionaries and nine thesauri) www.yourdictionary.com
See also Reference Works below

Economics
Dr Ed Yardeni's Economic Network www.yardeni.com/

Education
www.webpages.marshall.edu
Exploratorium (fascinating) www.exploratorium.edu/
Increase and Diffusion (educational articles from the "Smithsonian Web Magazine") www.si.edu/i+d/
NOVA (fun & educational) www.pbs.org

Encyclopedias on-line
www.refdesk.com Atlapedia Online www.geopedia.com/
Concise Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia www.encyclopedia.com
Encyclopedia Britannica www.britannica.com
Encyclopedia of Computing www.mcp.com/
Encyclopedia of Computing www.techweb.com
Legal Encyclopedia www.nolo.com
Virtual Encyclopedia www.refdesk.com

Environment - Earthweek
Earthweek www.earthweek.com

ePublishing - Ebookomatic
Ebookomatic (Note: a Daily-Update sponsor) www.hop.clickbank.net
Rosedog (getting writers, publisher and agents together for free) www.rosedog.com

Facts search
www.refdesk.com
Fast facts www.refdesk.com/fastfact.html
Find Out www.findout.com/
Infoplease (fascinating facts) www.infoplease.com
Useless Facts www.home.nycap.rr.com
USIA - United States Information Agency
See also Articles above

Flags of the world
www.fotw.digibel.be

Geography - Atlapedia Online
Atlapedia Online www.geopedia.com/
Geographic database www.mit.edu:8001

Genealogy
www.rootsweb.com
Genealogy Toolbox www.query.tbox.com

Government (mostly U.S.)
www.refdesk.com
Governments on the WWW www.gksoft.com

History - World History Compass
World History Compass www.SchillerComputing.com

Internet - Who owns that Website?
www.netsol.com

Jargon & Slang
www.locke.ccil.org
Jargon of Hackers www.tuxedo.org

Journalism (tips & education)
www.newslab.org
Columbia Journalism Review www.cjr.org Disinformation (media inaccuracies) www.disinfo.com
Expert Source for Reporters www.businesswire.com
or www.experts.com
MediaNews www.poynter.org/medianews
News and resources on the media (especially film and TV)MediaCentral www.mediacentral.com
Poynter Institute www.poynter.org
Project for Excellence in Journalism www.journalism.org
Journalism Research (including statistics) www.robertniles.com

Law
www.refdesk.com
Findlaw (numerous links & search engine) www.findlaw.com
Legal Information Institute (Cornell Law School's comprehensive site) www.law.cornell.edu
Legal Research Resources www.academicinfo.net
See also Daily-Update Links page (Australian, Chinese, International Law) www.daily-update.com

Libraries (MIT)
(MIT) www.libraries.mit.edu
Baker Library, Harvard Business School www.library.hbs.edu
British Library www.bl.uk
Electric Library www3.elibrary.com
Library of Congress www.loc.gov
Lippincott Library, Uni of Pennsylvania http://www.library.upenn.edu
Online Libraries and Museums www.writesite.org
Public Library Network (OPLIN) www.oplin.lib.oh.us
Virtual Library index www.refdesk.com
WWW Virtual Library www.vlib.org

Literature
Bartleby (Shakespeare) www.bartleby.com
Literary Resources on the Net www.andromeda.rutgers.edu
See also Books above; Online Books below

Magazines - See News below

Maps - See Atlases above

Medical Online
www.medicalonline.com.au
Medical terms (in several languages) www.allserv.rug.ac.be

Medicines
www.rxlist.com

Monarchy - See British Monarchy above

MIR Space Station
www.nonline.com

Museums and Online Libraries

www.writesite.org
American Museum of Natural History www.amnh.org
News Museum (including the stories behind those Pulitzer Prize photos) www.newseum.org
Oregon Museum of Science and Industry www.omsi.org
Smithsonian Institutewww.si.edu
Vatican Museum www.christusrex.org

National Geographic
www.nationalgeographic.com/

News
Journalismnet (find any newspaper) www.journalismnet.com
AJR Newslink (18,000 links to news resources) www.ajr.newslink.org
Cyber Paperboy www.cyberpaperboy.com
Magazines www.webwombat.com.au
News Museum (including the stories behind those Pulitzer Prize photos) www.newseum.org
Online Newspapers www.onlinenewspapers.com/
Smoking Gun (great alternative news site based largely on FOI requests) www.thesmokinggun.com
See also Journalism above

Old Farmers' Almanac
www.almanac.com/

Online Global Mobile Phone
www.mtn.co.za

Online Books
(new and old e-books) www.1stbooks.com/
Bartleby (classic e-books) www.bartleby.com
Free e-Books (information on locating them) www.skybusiness.com
iUniverse www.iuniverse.com
Project Gutenberg (1150 electronic texts and rising) www.promo.net
www.spacestation42.com
University of Pennsylvania (over 10,000 e-books)www.digital.library.upenn.edu

Online Publishing - See ePublishing above

Opinion Polls
list of all the major ones www.library.miami.edu

Patent Search
www.patents.ibm.com

Phone books/postcodes
www.refdesk.com

Photo research
www.corbis.com

Political Resources on the Net
www.agora.stm.it

Population/demographics
www.refdesk.com
Current population (eerily ticks over as you watch) www.emuseum.mankato.msus.edu

Postal information
www.refdesk.com
Postage Rates Worldwide ww.geocities.com

Prescription Drugs - See Medicines above

Publications
(all details needed for over 150,000 publications) www.publist.com

Quotations - See Thesauri below

Recipe finder
With pictures, cooking directions etc. www.homearts.com

Reference
Bartleby (Strunk's; Gray's Anatomy; Columbia Encyclopedia; Quotations; etc) www.bartleby.com
Eastfield College Library (comprehensive research resources) www.efc.dcccd.edu
iTools www.itools.com
Journalist Express (including hundreds of useful links) www.journalistexpress.com
LibrarySpot (links to the best reference sites) www.libraryspot.com
Martindale's resources/links (comprehensive) www-sci.lib.uci.edu:80
MIT's Virtual Reference Links www.libraries.mit.edu
Reference works (dictionaries, thesauri, quotations etc.) www.cs.cmu.edu
Research Beat www.writesite.org
See also Articles above; Libraries above

Salaries (US)
(US) www.salary.com

Science
www.howstuffworks.com

Skeptics' Dictionary
www.wheel.ucdavis.edu

Slang - See Jargon above

Smoking Gun (great alternative news site based largely on FOI requests)
www.thesmokinggun.com

Speech & Transcript Center
www.gwis2.circ.gwu.edu

Statistics & reports - Australia
Australian Bureau of Statistics www.abs.gov.au

Statistics & reports - Canada
E-STAT Canadian educational statistics www.statcan.ca
Statistics Canada www.statcan.ca/start.html

Statistics & reports - UK
DFES - Department for Education & Skills, including wide-ranging statistics www.dfes.gov.uk
Higher Education Statistics Agency (UK) www.hesa.ac.uk/
Office for National Statistics (UK) education statistics on the official British statistics site (which includes the census) www.statistics.gov.uk
StatBase R - Datasets from National Statistics for education and training www.statistics.gov.uk

Statistics & reports - US
Factfinder Search engine for US Census 2000 www.factfinder.census.gov
Fedstats - Statistics from over 100 US Federal Agencies www.fedstats.gov/
FedWorld Information Network (locate US Federal reports or statistics) www.fedworld.gov
Government Information Sharing Project - (Oregon State University) Demographic and economic statistical information from the Bureau of the Census and other federal agencies. www.govinfo.kerr.orst.edu
NCES - National Center for Education Statistics (US) www.nces.ed.gov/
Statistics for business and trade www.stat-usa.gov
US Bureau of Economic Analysis www.bea.doc.gov
US Census Bureau www.census.gov

Statistics & reports - International

Alexander Library - CD-ROMs and Data Sources - A searchable database, including statistical sources from U.S., state, and foreign governments, and international agencies. www.scc.rutgers.edu
EuroStat - (European Union) The latest statistical data on the European Union, including economic and social indicators, trade, regional statistics www.europa.eu.int
OECD Education Statistics Internationally comparable education statistics www1.oecd.org
UNESCO Institute for Statistics www.unescostat.unesco.org/ www.uis.unesco.org
www.ibe.unesco.org
www.ibe.unesco.org
World Statistical Agencies www.econofinance.com

Terrorist group profiles
web.nps.navy.mil

Thesauri/quotations
www.refdesk.com
Bartleby (Roget's Thesaurus & Bartlett's "Familiar Quotations") www.bartleby.com

Time/date
www.refdesk.com

Trademarks - International Trademark Association
(including search function for trademarks) www.inta.org

United Nations
www.un.org

Universities/Colleges world-wide
www.mit.edu:8001

Weathernet
www.cirrus.sprl.umich.edu

Web-based databases
www.library.cmu.edu
See also Databases above

Weights & measures
www.refdesk.com

White House
www.whitehouse.gov
WhoWhere? (find phone numbers, addresses, email, etc)
(find phone numbers, addresses, email, etc) www.whowhere.lycos.com

World Factbook
www.odci.gov

World Population Clock
www.sunsite.unc.edu

Writing - Absolute Write
Absolute Write (great resources for all types of writing)www.absolutewrite.com
Academy of American Poets www.poets.org/index.cfm
Acronym Finder www.acronymfinder.com/
African American Online Writers' Guild www.blackwriters.org
Artslynx (excellent writing links) www.artslynx.org/writing
Assoc. of Authors' Rep.s (independent, non-profit assoc.of author's agents) www.publishersweekly.com
Bartleby (Strunk's "Elements of Style"; Quotations; Shakespeare; etc) www.bartleby.com
Beaucoup Writers Resources (excellent research links) www.beaucoup.com
Guide to Grammar and Writing www.webster.commnet.edu
Misc.Writing (more good writing links) www.scalar.com
Writers' Toolbox www.writerstoolbox.com/
Writing Corner (book reviews and online writing) www.writingcorner.com

Yellow Pages worldwide
www.worldyellowpages.com/

ZDNet
software downloads & all things computerish www.zdnet.com

Zero Population Growth
www.zpg.org

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