General Reference Links

American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
http://www.bartleby.com/61
Over 90,000 entries feature 10,000 new words and senses, 70,000 audio word pronounciations, and 900 full-page color illustrations.

Area Codes
http://www.bennetyee.org/ucsd-pages/area.html
All world area codes listed by number or state/country.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
http://www.bartleby.com/100
Over 11,000 searchable quotations from Aaron's Serpent to Zuyder Zee. Search by free text, by alphabetical listing of phrases, authors or works.

Biographies
http://www.biography.com
Short biographies of 25,000 names, both historical and current. Published by the Arts and Entertainment TV network.

The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation
http://www.grammarbook.com

Calculators
http://www.usatoday.com/money/perfi/calculators/calculator.htm
Calculators for mortgages, savings, retirement, home equity, credit cards, and personal loans. Sponsored by the newspaper USA Today.

Census Data
http://www.census.gov
Online access to the 2000 Census data, Census of Manufacturing, Economic Census, Statistical Abstracts and City and County Data Book.

Columbia Encyclopedia - 6th Edition
http://www.bartleby.com/65
Containing nearly 51,000 entries, and with more than 80,000 hypertext cross-references, this is among the most complete and up-to-date encyclopedias ever produced.

Currency Converter
http://www.xe.com/ucc/full.shtml
Convert any of 180 currencies to any other currency.

Fast Facts
http://www.freepint.com/gary/handbook.htm
This site contains extensive ready reference information from handbooks, statistical sources, and almanacs.

Federal Government Information
http://www.firstgov.gov
"Your first click to the US government." Links to US Government information by topic for many common consumer questions. No statistics.

Federal Government Websites
http://www.infoctr.edu/fwl
Quickly and easily find the website of legislative, judicial, and executive agencies, independent boards, commissions and committees.

Federal Statistics
http://www.fedstats.gov
Federal and State statistics on economic and population trends, health care costs, aviation safety, foreign trade, energy use, farm production, and more. Access official statistics collected and published by more than 70 federal agencies without having to know in advance which agency produces them.

Gateway to Associations
http://www.asaenet.org/asae/cda/index/
1,1584,ETI2058_MEN3_NID4062,00.html
A searchable directory of web sites of associations sponsored by the American Society of Association Executives. Search by association name, category, and/or location and get a direct link to each association's web site.

GPO Access
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/index.html
The primary gateway for US government sites. Focus is on congressional and regulatory sites as well as executive and judicial agencies.

Guinness Book of World Records
http://www.guinnessrecords.com
Online version of the famous bar wager settler. Irresistible list of Favorite Records plus sophisticated search interface. Registration requried.

How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement
http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/
Dictionary, tables, and scales for all kinds of measurements.

Information Please Almanac
http://www.infoplease.com
Online version of the popular almanac which you can browse by topic or search. Also includes the Random House - Websters College Dictionary and the Columbia Encyclopedia.

Labor Statistics
http://www.bls.gov
Data and statistics on wages, earnings, employment, unemployment, inflation, consumer spending and industries. Links to the Occupational Outlook Handbook and the Monthly Labor Review.

Microsoft Encarta Concise Encyclopedia
http://encarta.msn.com
"A free concise encyclopedia that contains 16,000 articles and more than 2,200 photos, illustrations, maps, charts, and tables." Also contains advertising, and some features are not available unless you subscribe.

Occupational Outlook Handbook
http://www.bls.gov/oco/home.htm
"A nationally revocognized source of career information, designed to provide valuable assistance to individuals making decisions about their future work lives. Revised every two years, the Handbook describes what workers do on the job, working conditions, the training and education needed, earnings, and expected job prospects in a wide range of occupations."

Open Access Journals
http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=home
Open Access is free online access to the full text of scholarly, peer-reviewed journals. In most cases, these journals are free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. This means “free availability and unrestricted use.” The Directory of Open Access Journals is an online list of open access journals in all fields and languages. For a detailed description and overview of Open Access see Peter Suber’s introduction: (Open Access Project Director and Research Professor of Philosophy at Earlham College)
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm

Plagiarism
http://www.web-miner.com/plagiarism

Research It! : Your one-stop reference desk
http://www.itools.com/research-it/
A great site for any student includes encyclopedias, language translator, biographies, Bartletts Quotations, and more.

Roget's II: The New Thesaurus
http://www.bartleby.com/62
The standard source for synonyms, here are 35,000 of them and over 250,000 cross-references.

Study Guides and Strategies
http://www.iss.stthomas.edu/studyguides/index.htm
Organized in a table of topics and subtopics. Offers tips on such topics as time management, note-taking and study skills, test-taking, writing term papers, and making presentations. Great for freshmen as well as other college students.

Visual Dictionary
http://www.infovisual.info/

World Fact Book
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/
Political, geographic and economic data on the countries of the world put together by the Central Intelligence Agency. Color maps and flags of all nations.

Zip Code Lookup
http://www.usps.gov/ncsc/lookups/lookup_zip+4.html
Enter an address and find the zip or enter a street and zip to find out the location.