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Biography
Biographical Dictionary Biography.com
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
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Dictionaries & Thesauri English Language Dictionaries & Thesauri
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
International Language Dictionaries
OneLook Dictionaries Travlang’s Translating Dictionaries
Subject-specific Dictionaries
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)
Electronic Serials
AcqWeb’s Directory of Journals, Newsletters and Electronic Discussion Archives D-Lib Magazine Information Research: an International Electronic Journal Information Today, Inc. (Computers in Libraries, Information Today, Searcher) Online Inc.
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
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
Bartleby Verse: American & English Poetry, 1250-1920 Bartlett. Familiar Quotations. 10th ed. (1919) Brewer. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898) The Cambridge History of English and American Literature (1907-1921) Concordances of Great Books Project Gutenberg (Read books online) Gale Literary Index Inter-Play: Online index to plays in collections, anthologies & periodicals Internet Public Library Online Literary Criticism Collection Lexical FreeNet “Connected Thesaurus” Voice of the Shuttle
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) The Gutenberg Bible: Digitized Images Information Please: Almanac, Dictionary, Encyclopaedia The Internet Acronym Server Internet History Sourcebooks Project The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy. 17th edition Mortgage Calculator & Financial Calculators PubList Directory of Serials SYMBOLS.com – Encyclopedia of Western Signs and Ideograms Units of Measurement WebElements Periodic Table
