Reference Sources on the Internet

ALMANACS

• 50 States and Capitals
• Fast Facts 
  A guide to almanacs, factbooks, and statistical reports and related reference tools.
• Information Please Almanac

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ASSOCIATIONS

• Scholarly Societies Project (University of Waterloo)

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BIOGRAPHIES

• Biography Center
• In the First Person: An Index to Letters, Diaries, Oral Histories, and Other Personal Narratives
• National Inventors Hall of Fame
• Nobel Foundation
• POTUS: Presidents of the United States

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BOOKS, JOURNALS and PUBLISHING

• Acqweb's Directory of Publishers and Vendors on the Web
• Bartleby.com
   "Great books online."
• Electronic Texts & Digital Libraries 
  Links to the full text of books and other texts on the Web.
• Law and Politics Book Review
• Nancy Pearl 
  Librarian and author of Book Lust and More Book Lust, Nancy Pearl is a regular commentator about books on National Public Radio's "Morning Edition" and NPR affiliate stations KUOW in Seattle and KWGS in Tulsa.
• National Outdoor Book Awards
• New York Times Books on the Web 
  Contains more than 50,000 book reviews, author interviews, and book news articles that appeared in the newspaper and the New York Times Book Review since 1980. Free registration is required.
• Pulitzer Prizes
• University Press Catalogs 
  available on the Internet, compiled by the Association of American University Presses.

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BUSINESS AND ECONOMIC INFORMATION

• Beige Book 
  Summary of Commentary on Current Economic Conditions by Federal Reserve District.
• Bureau of Economic Analysis 
  and its publication, the Survey of Current Business.
  
• Company Information Guide: Company Research on the Web 
  The Virtual Chase offers an eight-step guide to finding information about companies and their products.
• County Business Patterns 
  The County Business Patterns database provides county, state, and national level business data from 1977 to the most recent year available.
• Economagic.com: Economic Time Series Page 
  Browse data collections; over 100,000 data files, with charts and Excel files for each.
• Economic Census Data, U.S. Census Bureau 
  The Economic Census profiles American business every 5 years, from the national to the local level.
• Economic Indicators 
  Available from April 1995 forward, this monthly compilation is prepared for the Joint Economic Committee by the Council of Economic Advisors and provides economic information on prices, wages, production, business activity, purchasing power, credit, money and Federal finance.
• Electronic Data Gathering Analysis and Retrieval (EDGAR) 
  Provides 10-K, 20-F, proxy statements, some annual reports, and other financial statements of public companies filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
• FedBizOpps.gov 
  FedBizOpps.gov (Federal Business Opportunities) is the single government point-of-entry for Federal government procurement opportunities over $25,000. Government buyers are able to publicize their business opportunities by posting information directly to FedBizOpps.
• Fortune Magazine
• Public Register's Annual Report Service 
  Order annual reports of over 3,600 publicly held companies.
• Survey of Income and Program Participation, U.S. Census Bureau
  Thomas Register on the Internet 
  A database of 170,000 U.S. and Canadian companies classified under more than 72,000product and service headings.

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CAREERS

• Career OneStop
• Occupational Outlook Handbook
  (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics)
  
• USAJOBS
  Search for a job with the U.S. Federal Government
  

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CITATION and STYLE MANUALS

• Citation Style for Research Papers 
  Contains a quick guide for citing printed sources using the major manuals, including APA, Turabian, MLA, Chicago and AMA
• Introduction to Basic Legal Citation 
  Bby Peter W. Martin (Cornell Law School) Online's Citation Styles

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COLLEGES and UNIVERSITIES

• American Universities
• Canadian Universities
• Peterson's Guide to Colleges and Universities

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CONSUMER INFORMATION

• E-how 
  This site provides instructions on how to do (just about) anything.
• Epinions.com 
  "Unbiased reviews by real people."
• Gasoline Prices
• How Products Are Made
• Recall Warnings
• Recalls.gov 
  Produced by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.
• U.S. Consumer Gateway

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COPYRIGHT and PATENTS

• Copyright Web Site
• Crash Course in Copyright
• CSEN Global List of Web Sites on Patents
• European Patent Organization
• Fair Use of Copyrighted Materials
• Patent Information Users Group
• Stanford Copyright and Fair Use Center
• U.S. Copyright Office
• U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

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DICTIONARIES and THESAURI

• Acronym Database
• Acronym Finder
• American Heritage Dictionary
• Logos Multilingual E-Translation Portal
• Merriam-Webster Online
• OneLook Dictionaries
• Roget's II: The New Thesaurus
• Thesaurus.com

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ENCYCLOPEDIAS

• Columbia Encyclopedia
• Encyclopedia.com
• Encyclopedia Mythica
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  

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ENGLISH LANGUAGE

• The Able Writer: A Rhetoric Handbook 
  By John P. Broderick
• American Heritage Book of English Usage
• Common Errors in English 
  By Paul Brians
• The Elements of Style
  By William Strunk, Jr.
• Eleven Rules of Writing
• Guide to Grammar and Style
• Online Technical Writing: Online Textbook
  

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FOREIGN COUNTRIES

• C.I.A. World Factbook
• Country Studies  
  (Library of Congress)
• Currency Exchange Rates
• EmbassyWorld.com 
  Directory & Search Engine of the World's Embassies & Consulates
• globalEDGE 
  A portal produced by the Center for International Business Education and Research, Michigan State University
• U.S. State Dept. Foreign Country Background Notes
  

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GOVERNMENT

• The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School 
  Major U.S. and international documents in law, history and diplomacy, from ancient times to the present.
• Core Documents of U.S. Democracy 
  Via Government Printing Office.
• FedBizOpps: Federal Business Opportunities
• USA.gov 
  The U.S. Government's official web portal.
• General Services Administration 
  Links to policies such as the Federal Acquisition Regulation, Federal Management Regulation, Mail Management, Travel Management and Per Diem Rates.
• Historical Text Archive 
  Links to original historical texts and secondary research materials for the study of the history of all regions and time periods.
• The Plum Book 
  United States Government Policy and Supporting Positions, 2008 Edition
• The Presidential Timeline of the Twentieth Century 
  A gateway to the holdings of 12 presidential collections of the National Archives via Government Printing Office.
• The United States Government Manual
  

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HEALTH INFORMATION

• AMA Physician Select
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
• familydoctor.org
• FDA Bulletin Board
• Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body
• Healthfinder 
  Sponsored by the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
• Health News Review.org 
  Health News Review provides objective reviews of media stories covering therapeutic claims.
• Internet Drug Index
• Mayo Clinic
• MEDEM: an information partnership of medical societies
• MEDLINE plus
• MedPedia 
  In association with Harvard Medical School, Stanford School of Medicine, Berkeley School of Public Health, University of Michigan Medical School and other leading organizations, Medpedia is a repository of up-to-date unbiased medical information, contributed and maintained by health experts around the world.
• Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy
• Merck Manual of Geriatrics
• Merck Manual of Medical Information-Home edition
• National Women's Health Information Center (NWHIC) 
  Sponsored by the Office on Women's Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
• Net Wellness 
  This site provides high quality information created and evaluated by medical and health professional faculty at Case Western Reserve University, Ohio State University, and the University of Cincinnati.
• Oncolink 
  Cancer information sponsored by the Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania.
• QuackWatch
• Travelers' Health 
  Sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, this site assists travelers and their health-care providers in deciding the vaccines, medications, and other measures necessary to prevent illness and injury during international travel.
• WebMDHealth

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MAILING INFORMATION

• U.S. Postal Service
• ZIP Code Lookup
  (United States Postal Service)
  

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MAPS and GAZETTEERS

• Color Landform Atlas of the United States 
  Color relief maps.
• David Rumsey Map Collection 
  An extensive digitized gallery of maps, globes, atlases, charts, school geographies, and material in other formats. The site focuses on "cartography of the Americas from the 18th and 19th centuries," but has offerings from all over the world.
• Geographic Names Information System 
  Information about names of geographic features in the United States and Antarctica.
• GEONet Names Server 
  Information about foreign geographic feature names.
• Map History / History of Cartography 
  Old maps, early maps - non-current maps in general - are the subject of this site.
• MapQuest 
  Maps, driving directions, live traffic reports, directories, and travel guide.
• Maps and Cartographic Products
  From the U.S. Census Bureau.
• National Atlas of the United States
• National Geographic Map Machine
• U.S. Gazetteer 
  (U.S. Census Bureau)
  

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MEASUREMENTS and CALCULATORS

• Measure 4 Measure
• Mega Converter 2
  

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QUOTATIONS

• Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
• Quotations Page
• Simpson's Contemporary Quotations
  

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RANKINGS

• Price's List of Lists
  

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SPEECHES

• American Rhetoric
  Includes the Online Speech Bank, a database of and index to 5000+ full text, audio and video versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews, and other recorded media events.
  

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STANDARDS

• American National Standards Institute
• International Organization for Standardization
• National Institute of Standards and Technology
• NSSN: A Resource for Global Standards
  

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STATISTICS

• Bureau of Labor Statistics
• Census 2000
• Census Atlas of the United States
• CensusScope 
  CensusScope is an easy-to-use tool for investigating U.S. demographic trends, brought to you by the Social Science Data Analysis Network at the University of Michigan.
• County and City Data Book 
  Latest edition produced by the U.S. Census Bureau.
• EconData.net 
  "Your guide to regional economic data on the web"
• FEDSTATS 
  Contains links to Federal agencies that produce statistical information.
• Guide to State Statistical Abstracts
  (U.S. Census Bureau)
• International Database
  (Population statistics, U.S. Census Bureau)
• OFFStats, Official Statistics
  Offers a collection of links to official statistics worldwide. It arranges statistics sources alphabetically in three sections--by country, region, and subject--with pull-down boxes for easy selection.
• Population Reference Bureau Data Finder 
  This database contains data on 137 population, health, and environment variables for more than 220 countries, 28 world regions and sub-regions, and the world as a whole. Not all countries have data on all variables.
• Statistical Abstract of the United States
• Statistical Resources on the Web
  (University of Michigan)
• UNdata: A World of Information
  UNdata pools major UN databases and those of several international organizations into a single entry point for easy access.
• U.S. Census Bureau

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TELEPHONE and EMAIL DIRECTORIES

• AnyWho Directories
• Directory of Toll Free Numbers
  Via Internet 800 Directory
• Federal Government Telephone Directories
• Federal Toll-Free Telephone Numbers
• Internet Address Finder
• SuperPages.com (Bigbook) 
  Search U.S. Yellow Pages
• Yahoo People Finder 
  Telephone and e-mail address finder

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WEATHER

• National Weather Service

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