QUICK REFERENCE / RESEARCH
- Downloads - ZDNet
- 2000 Statistical Abstract of the United States - one-stop source for statistical information about the U.S
- AFI 100 Greatest Movies
- APlus Research & Writing for High School and College Students
- Airlines on the Web
- Airlines Toll-free
- Alki Babynamer - "Babynamer has a world of information on more than 18,000 names to help you choose just the right one for your child."
- AMTRAK on the Web
- American Medical Association Physician Select
- American School Directory - database of Web pages for each of the 106,000 K-12 schools in the U.S.
- American Universities
- Ancestry Genealogy Library - search over 52 million names; look up by name the birth and death dates and Social Security numbers of the deceased.
- Annals of Improbable Research
- AnyWho Toll-Free Directory - comprehensive listing of 800 and 888 phone numbers.
- Anyday - Find out birthdays, death dates, and special events that happened any day of the year
- Area Code / Country Code Look-up
- Argus Clearinghouse - the premier Internet search library
- Ask an Expert
- Ask Jeeves - site allows you to enter plain English questions, to which Jeeves serves up suggested web pages.
- Astrodienst Atlas Database - atlas and timezone database which returns coordinates based on place-name.
- ATM Locator
- Atlapedia Online
- Atomic Clock - U.S. Naval Observatory
- Bank Rate Monitor
- Bartlett's Familiar Quotations - passages, phrases and proverbs traced to their sources.
- Best Doctors - worldwide healthcare services
- Better Homes & Gardens Home Improvement Encyclopedia
- Biographical Dictionary - contains biographical information on over 18,000 people from ancient times to the present day
- BigFoot - the Internet's largest collection of e-mail addresses and white page listings.
- Big Fare Cut Index
- Biography.com - searchable database of 15,000 names from A & E Television
- BookWire - the first place to look for book information
- Books On-line - over 11,000 on-line books
- Bridge to Japan - An annotated index of Japanese/Japan-related Internet resources.
- Browser.com - c|net - download the latest versions of the leading browsers
- BrowserWatch - latest news about and links to the latest versions of all the known Web browsers
- Calendar: Perpetual Zone
- Canadian Information by Subject - National Library of Canada
- Canadian Postal Code Lookup Service - Enter Canadian address information and get back the appropriate postal code. Also has an American zip code lookup.
- Card Games - Rules and Related Information
- CDC Travel Information - Health-related travel advisories, vaccine recommendations, and much more.
- Census Bureau Thematic Maps
- CHORUS - A quick reference hypertext for physicians and med students
- CIA World Factbook - current data on every country in the world.
- Citing Electronic Resources - places to go for recommended electronic information citation guides
- ClassMates - Search for people you went to high school with. Add yourself to the database--if you want to be found
- College and University Home Page- Worldwide
- Common Weights And Measures - Includes Mathematical Notation for Orders of Magnitude, Metric prefixes, and Common U.S. and Metric equivalents
- Company Profiles - information on over 45,000 leading public and private companies in the U.S.
- Complete Home Medical Guide - 3rd Edition, 1995
- Constitutions, Statutes & Codes (including the full US Code)
- Consulates and Embassies - Yahoo
- Consumer Price Index
- Consumer Reports Online
- The Contact Center Network Nonprofit Directory - A searchable directory to the homepages of nonprofit organizations on the Internet. Browsable geographically.
- Contacting the Congress - comprehensive contact information for members and committees of the U.S. Congress.
- Conversion Online - Excellent site to convert anything to anything
- Convert-me.com - interactive calculators for many measurement systems both commonly used like metric and U.S. Avoirdupois and quite exotic like Ancient Greek and Roman. U.S. to metric conversion is now easy and fast!
- Country Studies/Area Handbook - Library of Congress - online series presently contains studies of 85 countries
- Countries of the World - Yahoo
- Currency Converter - view any exchange rates among the 164 currencies for any day since 1 January 1990 through today. The currency converter is updated daily at 8:00 p.m. EST
- Currency Exchange Rates
- CyberAtlas
- Date and Time Gateway
- Debriefing Search Engine - Debriefing is a meta search engine written entirely with Java servlets.
- Driving Directions
- Douglass - Archives of American Public Address
- E-Conflict World Encyclopedia - The E-Conflict World Encyclopedia site profiles the nations of the world. View maps and flags or listen to national anthems. There are over 1,400 pages of written text on the nations.
- Earth Calendar - The Earth Calendar is a daybook of holidaysÊand celebrations around the world.
- Earthquake Information from the USGS - daily and weekly quake reports, geophysical information on earthquakes, and other background information.
- EconData - comprehensive resource for U.S. socioeconomic data on the net
- EDGAR Database of Corporate Information - EDGAR (Electronic Data Gathering Analysis And Retrieval) is a service of the
- United States Securities Exchange Commission (SEC)
- E-mail Addresses - Find e-mail addresses from around the world
- Elements of Style - William Strunk's classic on proper English usage
- ETEXT Archives, The - links to 'zines, complete books in electronic form, underground digests, mailing lists, and more.
- Ethnologue - Languages of the World
- Facts Encyclopedia: - 7,500+ Sites - 73 Subjects
- FedEx
- FedNet
- Fedstats: One Stop Shopping Federal Statistics - statistics and information from more than 70 federal agencies.
- FindLaw - Excellent one-stop source for legal information
- Flags of all Countries
- Flags of the World
- Fodors - 'Your smart choice for travel'
- Free Internet Encyclopedia
- Frequently Occurring Names in America - from the Census Bureau
- Fundamental Physical Constants
- GamesDomain - games, games, games, games
- Genealogy Home Page
- Geologic Time
- Geostationary Satellite Server - real-time satellite images provide a view from above.
- Google Groups
- Grant Writing Guides - Need grant funds? This site offers a 10-Point Grant Writing Guide designed to help you win grant funds for your organization. Resources include sample grant applications, funding proposals, and budgets. These guides are designed to assist established, experienced private and public non-profit organizations and entities. These guides will not assist individuals, for-profit businesses or start-up organizations.
- Great Books of Western Civilization, The - From Mercer University, modeled after the course of study at St John's College, with links to the text of the Great Books
- Guide to Airport Rental Cars
- Harper's Index - statistics that may surprise you.
- Health A to Z
- Healthfinder - Just about everything to be found on the Internet to do with health is here.
- Homework Helper: - Homework help for K through college
- Hoover's Online - information on more than 10,000 of the largest public and private companies in the US and around the world.
- How Far Is It?
- Human Anatomy Online - over one hundred illustrations of the human body with animations and thousands of descriptive links.
- Human-Languages Page - best language links on the Internet
- Images - Yahoo!
- Infomine - resources of relevance to faculty, students, and research staff at the university level
- Information Please - from the print reference database, offering millions of useful and interesting facts on a wide range of topics online. Also includes a dictionary and encyclopedia.
- International Data Base - is a computerized data bank containing statistical tables of demographic, and socio-economic data for all countries of the world.
- International Directories - International inquiry names, addresses, telephones and faxes.
- International Marine Signal Flags - reference site that explains the signal flags and the semiphore flag waving system
- International Telephone Directories - Find anyone anywhere in the world. All the white and yellow pages telephone directories available on the web.
- International White and Yellow Pages - a collection of phone directories from around the world.
- Internet 800 Directory - - free listing of toll-free numbers. Companies are listed by category, company name, state, and 800 number.
- Internet Movie Database
- Internet Public Library
- iTools! - Internet Tools
- Jane's Information Group - weaponry catalogues
- Kelley Blue Book - new and used car pricing
- Largest Known Primes
- LegalDocs - Do your own legal papers
- Librarians' Index to the Internet - an extensive, classified guide to Internet resources from this California library
- Library of Congress Home Page
- LibWeb - over 1428 pages from libraries in 62 countries.
- List, The
- Liszt - find Internet mailing lists
- LookSmart - explore over 16,000 subjects
- MESA - The largest email address book worldwide.
- Martindale's Reference Desk
- MapQuest!
- Mayo Clinic
- MedicineNet
- Megasources
- Mensa Home Page, The
- Merck Manual
- MetaCrawler
- National Address Server - input any U.S. address without its zip code and the server will return the zip + 4 code.
- netLibrary - "The World's Largest Collection of Electronic Books"
- New York Times Books - includes the complete Sunday Book Review, daily book related news and reviews, a searchable archive of over 50,000 New York Times Book Reviews, and more.
- Nine Planets, The - a multimedia tour of the solar system with pictures, text, sound and references to other Net resources.
- Nobel Prizes - Comprehensive historical list of winners in all categories
- Notice Company, The - site that helps consumers participate in class action suits.
- Occupational Outlook Handbook - reference tool used to research job information and trends
- Old Farmer's Almanac
- Online Calculator
- Online Medical Dictionary
- OneLook Dictionaries - over 640,000 words in 109 dictionaries
- Opinion Polls - listing of all major public opinion polls
- Passport Services - U.S. State Department.
- Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection
- Periodic Table - WebElements
- Perseus Project, The - detailed searchable library of texts, translations, art and archaeology of Ancient Greece and Rome.
- Peterson's Guide to Colleges - information on undergraduate and graduate education in the US
- PollingReport.com
- PriceScan
- Price Watch - Street Price Search Engine
- Progress of Nations, The - "The nations of the world ranked according to their achievements in child health, nutrition, education, family planning and progress for women."
- Project Gutenberg - 'Fine literature digitally re-published'
- PubMed - provides free access to Medline
- Pulitzer Prize Web Site
- Purdue Univ. Online Writing Lab - over 100 handouts available on all aspects of writing correctly
- Reference Shelfs on the Net:
- Reporters Network, The - directory of reporters, editors, freelance writers and other news professionals
- Research-It! - collection of online research tools. Search dictionaries, translate words, find quotations and more.
- Reverse Lookup(1) - supply an area code and phone number, and get the name & address of the person associated
- Reverse Lookup(2) - supply an area code and phone number, and get the name & address of the person associated
- Roget's Internet Thesaurus - find words relating in six main classes
- Rulers - Large listing of heads of state
- RxList - the Internet Drug Index
- Scholarly Journals Distributed Via the World Wide Web - University of Houston Libraries
- Search Engines: - 260 search engines in 19 categories
- Search Systems - Over 5,530 searchable public record databases, national and by state.
- Semaphore Flag Signalling System
- Shakespeare - The Complete Works
- Shareware.com - the way to find shareware on the Internet; over 200,000 listings
- SIRS Researcher
- Smoking Gun, The - exclusive documents -- cool, confidential, quirky -- that can't be found elsewhere on the Web.
- Social Security Death Index Search - 62 million records on tap from the Social Security Administration.
- State and Local Government on the Net - guide to government sponsored sites.
- Statistical Abstract of the United States
- Stroud's Consumate Internet Apps List
- Study WEB - comprehensive index that categorizes and reviews over 15,000 educational and reference Web sites
- Sunrise/Sunset Computation - Type in a city name and find out times for sunrise, sunset, and more
- SwitchBoard - find any person or business listed in the phone book
- TIGER Mapping Service - to provide a public resource for generating high-quality, detailed maps of anywhere in the United States, using public geographic data
- Ticketmaster
- Tile.Net - find Internet mailing lists
- Thomas: Legislative Information on the Internet
- Today in History
- Tucows - the ultimate collection of winsock software
- Ultimate Band List, The - huge list of music links.
- Ultimate E-mail Directory, The
- Ultimate Homepage Index, The - easy way to search millions of web pages for any topic imaginable
- Ultimate White Pages, The
- Ultimate Yellow Pages, The
- United Parcel Service - Track any UPS bar coded package - any time, any where in the world.
- Unit Conversions
- Universal Shipping Calculator
- USGenWeb Project, The - genealogy information for each county in the United States. Organized by state.
- U.S. National Debt Clock
- U.S. Population Clock
- U.S. Postal Service - fully featured online version of your local post office
- U.S. Postal Service Address Quality and Zip Code Lookup
- Virtual Body, The
- Visible Human Project - creating a complete, anatomically detailed, three-dimensional representations of the male and female human body.
- WWW Virtual Library - extentive library on hundreds of subjects
- Webster's Dictionary - the on-line version of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition
- webreference.com
- Weights & Measures
- West's Legal Directory
- WhatIs - an a-z database of all things computers
- Where Did They Move To? - track someone who has moved or changed names, e-mail addresses, or URLs
- White House, The
- WhitePages.com - a global directory and index of e-mail addresses and phone numbers.
- Who Represents You in Congress? - Project Vote Smart
- WhoWhere - find email addresses, phone numbers, and addresses, etc.
- Why Files: Science behind the news
- World Clock - Current local times around the world
- World Directories - over 230 directories representing over 100 countries
- World Email Directory (WED) - estimated access to more than 18.000.000 email addresses and more than 140.000.000 business and phone addresses worldwide!
- World's Most Wanted Criminals
- WorldPages - more than 112 million integrated white and yellow page listings
- World Population Clock
- World Resources Institute
- Worldwide Yellow Pages
- World Time Zones
- Yahoo's Index of Reference Tools
- Yale Web Style Guide - covers graphic and information design, page layout, site organization, navigation, and multimedia content.
- Yellow Pages
- Zip2 - search for over 16 million businesses
- ZIP Code Finder - USA
