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Biography	Citation Style Guides	Dictionaries & Thesauri	Electronic Serials	Encyclopedias
Geography Atlases, Gazetteers	Language & Literature	Research & Reference Metasites	Statistics	Writing Guides
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Biography

Citation Style Guides

Diana Hacker Sample MLA Works Cited List (Daly) (PDF) MLA Citation Examples – from Honolulu Community College Library University of Wisconsin-Madison Writing Center: Documentation Guide Noodletools.com Citation Machine AAA – American Anthropological Association APA – American Psychological Association APSA – American Political Science Association Chicago (Turabian) Style MLA – Modern Language Association of America Bedford/St. Martin’s Online Citation Styles Return to top ^

Bartleby Great Books Online (Reference Sources ) Cambridge Dictionaries Online CMU Pronouncing Dictionary Dictionary.com Lycos Rhymezone Merriam-Webster Dictionary and Thesaurus RhymeZone Wordsmyth Dictionary-Thesaurus Return to top ^
OneLook Dictionaries Travlang’s Translating Dictionaries Return to top ^
American Sign Language Dictionary BioTech Life Sciences Dictionary Dictionary of Cell Biology Duhaime’s Law Dictionary FOLDOC – Free Online Dictionary of Computing Glossary of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Law.com Dictionary Online Dictionary of the Social Sciences Water Words Dictionary Whatis?com (Information Technologies) Return to top ^

Electronic Serials

AcqWeb’s Directory of Journals, Newsletters and Electronic Discussion Archives D-Lib Magazine
Infomine Information Research: an International Electronic Journal Information Today, Inc. (Computers in Libraries, Information Today, Searcher)
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Encyclopedias

Botany.Com Encyclopedia of Plants Britannica.com Encyclopedia.com The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy NatureServe: An Online Encyclopedia of Life ORB Encyclopedia (Medieval Studies) Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Webopaedia: Online Computer Dictionary for Computer and Internet Terms and Definitions
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Geography (Atlases, Gazetteers, etc.)

Altapedia Online – Maps and Country Information CIA World Factbook Geographic Names Information System (United States) GEOnet Names Server (non-USA) Library of Congress Country Studies MapQuest The World Bank Group Countries and Regions World Development Reports (World Bank)

Language and Literature

Research / Reference Metasites

Internet Public Library Ready Reference Collection iTools.com Librarians’ Internet Index Research-It!

Statistics

American FactFinder Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) UNESCO Institute for Statistics

Writing Guides

The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation Fowler, H.W. The King’s English, 2nd ed. Guide to Grammar and Writing Purdue Online Writing Lab Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric UVic Writer’s Guide

Other Reference Sources

American Rhetoric: Online Speechbank Acronym Finder Bartleby Great Books Online Chambers’s Book of Days (1879) ERIC Findlaw.com The Gutenberg Bible: Digitized Images Information Please: Almanac, Dictionary, Encyclopaedia The Internet Acronym Server Internet History Sourcebooks Project MedlinePlus The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy. 17th edition Mortgage Calculator & Financial Calculators Occupational Outlook Handbook PubList Directory of Serials PubMed SYMBOLS.com – Encyclopedia of Western Signs and Ideograms Units of Measurement WebElements Periodic Table

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