Internet By Subject - Reference
General Reference Sites | Almanacs | Dictionaries | Encyclopedias | Financial Aid | Grammar |Holidays | Colleges and Universities | Maps, Travel, Geography | Quotations | Style Guides | Time | United States Government Gateways | Weights and Measures | Consumer Information | "How to" Info. | Voter Information | Miscellaneous Sites
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Academictips - This site has information on almost anything that has to do with college: college life, stress reduction tips, how to study, how to write a research paper, note taking techniques and more.
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Refdesk - This site is logically laid out and provides a lot of links to quick fact sites.
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Martindale's The Reference Desk - This site is hosted by UC Irvine and is especially strong in science, medicine and weather.
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Guiness World Records - Although this is an interesting site, it is a commercial one that asks you to register and will send advertisements.
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Government Ready Reference - This site provides quick links to statistics and short papers on numerous topics.
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- Almanacs
- Dictionaries
- American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language - Over 200,000 entries feature 10,000 new words and senses, 70,000 audio word pronunciations, 900 full-page color illustrations, language notes and word-root appendixes.
- American Heritage Spanish Dictionary - This dictionary contains over 70,000 entries, with more than 120,000 meanings.
- Dictionaries: includes, Foreign Language Dictionaries, Sign Languages and others
- Web of Online Dictionaries - Dictionaries in over 130 languages, "artificial" languages, fictional languages such as Star Trek, thesauri, and vocabulary aids.
- Dictionary.org - This site offers definitions from at least 3 dictionaries and will offer variations in spelling if what you typed can't be found.. After you have typed in a word it and pressed the search key it looks like nothing has happened but scroll down the page.
- Glossarist - A searchable directory of glossaries and topical dictionaries
- Thesauri
- AcronymSearch This site provides a searchable database of abbreviations, and acronyms.
- Your Dictionary.com - Comprehensive and authoritative portal for languages. This online dictionary has more than 1800 dictionaries with more than 250 languages. There are also choices of dictionaries, glossaries, grammar help, and more.
- Encyclopedias
- The Adam Health Illustrated Encyclopedia - This online medical resource from MEDLINEplus includes over 4,000 articles about diseases, tests, symptoms, injuries, and surgeries. It also contains an extensive library of medical photographs and illustrations.
- Britannica
- Information Please
- Concise Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia
- The Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern
- Financial
Aid for Students using the Web
- Student Loans - A site to help students and parents find the best loans.
- FastWeb
- Federal Student Aid
- FinAid: - The Financial Aid Information Page
- Sallie Mae
- Scholarships.com - College scholarship search and Financial Aid Information
- College Board - Information regarding colleges, testing, & scholarships
- Super College - Explore colleges and find scholarships
- Wired Scholar
- Grammar
- Holidays - Yahoo provides links to sites throughout the internet that are connected to holidays in one way or another.
- Links
to Colleges and Universities throughout the United States and the world
- Campus Tours: links to US colleges with virtual tours
- Universities.com: Over 4,000 colleges/universities worldwide
- Maps.
travel, geography
- CalTrans - Highway information, historic photos, current news, and technology.
- CIAWorld FactbookInternet Map Resources
- The Columbia Gazetteer "With 50,000 entries, this most comprehensive encyclopedia of geographical places and features will prove invaluable to anyone for whom places hold fascination and who require accurate data about them. It covers every incorporated place and county in the United States, along with several thousand unincorporated places, special-purpose sites, and physical features, as well as Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean."
- Geography IQ This site offers geographic, economic, political, historical and cultural information. In addition, it brings together a number of other resources including maps, flags, currency conversion as well as climate and time zone information.
- Internet Map Resources - Site by the Univ. of Texas Library presents an extensive collection of maps resources available on the Internet. Categories include: Cartograhic Reference, City Map Sites, Country Map Sites, Historical Map Sites, State and Weather Map Sites.
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names - Almost 1 million place names and 900,000 places around the world. Each entry contains latitude and longitude, place names and types, and variant or historical names for places.
- Distance - This site calculates the distance between two places
- MapQuest - This sites has maps and information about cities and countries worldwide. There are even street maps.
- Maporama - This site provides street maps for 15 European Nations, Canada & U.S.
- WorldAtlas.com - This site by WorldAtlas.com, supplies 'The List' of continents, countries, dependencies, islands, territories, lakes, rivers, seas, oceans, mountains, and the highest, lowest, biggest, smallest, tallest, deepest places on planet earth.
- World Wide Directory of Chambers of Commerce
- Quotations
- Bartlett's
- Phrase Finder - This site provides word resources, including: Meanings and Origins of Phrases, sayings, cliches, proverbs and quotations. Other features are Euphemisms, Popular Fallacies and phrases with Biblical origins.
- Yahoo's sources for quotations
- Style Guides
- Time
- Today's Date and Time - Much more than just today's date and time, this sites has information on important days in various religions and cultures, historical calendars, celestial calendars, special clocks, a Today in History section, and many other time related tidbits.
- Time/Calendars/Watches - The evolution of time measurement.
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United States Government Gateways
- Citizen Guide - Locate government offices and services in your local community, region or state. Find farmers markets, social security offices, post offices, police departments, substance abuse treatment centers, veterans facilities, state and local agencies by topic and much more. You can also do business with the government from your computer.
- Find Elected Officials - This Yahoo site allows you to find elected officials, including the president, members of Congress, governors, state legislators, local officials, and more. Two other search services: (1) Issues and Action, action alerts on a wide range of current issues from organizations, large and small, that span the political spectrum, and (2) Media Guide, to find and contact national and local media personnel.
- First Gov: Your first click to the U.S. Government - At this recently redesigned U.S. Government site you can apply for jobs or student loans, renew drivers licenses, and buy stamps. Businesses can check laws and regulations, file patents and trademarks, and look into contracting opportunities. Site is a gateway to hundreds of government services and agencies.
- U.S. Blue Pages Web pages and phone numbers for a wide variety of agencies and departments.
- Weights and Measures
- MegaConverter - This sites converts all kinds of measurements and gives the history of some weights and measures.
- Calculators On-Line Center - This site contains over 5,500 links to calculators online. There are calculators for many subjects including finance, home repair, medicine, cooking, textiles, navigation and a lot more.
- Quick Math QuickMath is an automated service for answering common math problems over the internet.
A Cornucopia of Sites
Careers
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Career One-Stop Find jobs--from entry level to technical to professional to CEO. Locate public workforce services in your area. Explore alternative career paths, compare salary data for different occupations, learn which careers are hot, get resume writing tips and job interview strategies, and much more!
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Autosite Maintenance A trouble shooting guide.
- California Department of Consumer Affairs - Links to information specifically for Californians.
- Citizen Guide - Locate government offices and services in your local community, region or state. Find farmers markets, social security offices, post offices, police departments, substance abuse treatment centers, veterans facilities, state and local agencies by topic and much more. You can also do business with the government from your computer.
- Consumer Guide to Renewable Energy - This is a guide to buying clean electricity and finding sources of renewable energy.
- Consumer Resource Guide - A fantastic site for general consumer news and links to over 1700 sites with consumer information on hundreds of topics
- Consumer Information Center - Full text of federal consumer publications
- Consumers and Fraud - This site allows you to report your fraud complaints so they can be shared with law enforcement officials across the U.S. and around the world.
- Edmund's Automobile Buyer's Guide - Information on new and used vehicles
- Federal Toll-Free Numbers
- Kelly Blue Book - The traditional Kelly Blue Book, used in calculating the value of cars, now has its own site.
- United States Postal Service - Information regarding zip codes, postage rates, stamps, and more
Non-Profit Associations
- GuideStar--Donor's Guide to Charities and nonprofits - A site that helps the consumer compare and monitor over 600,000 organizations to which they may contribute.
- American Council of Nonprofit Associations - A lot of general information including tips on running a nonprofit association.
- EHow - Is a site that presents mini lessons on how to do a wide variety of things such as repair a linoleum floor or make a wreath and explanations of things such as what the football referee signals mean or how to ask for a raise.
- How Stuff Works - a series of articles that explores the workings of devices from cell phones to refrigerators, and explains the principles behind things such as helium and pi.
- How Much to Tip? - This site offers advice on calculating tips for a wide variety of situations. Including airports, Casinos, Pet-related services and much, much more.
- Inventing Modern America from Microwave to the Mouse - In depth profiles of 35 inventors telling the often surprising stories of the creation of everyday objects.
- Invention Dimension - Some information about the inventions themselves and some biographical information about the inventor.
- California Voter Foundation - Non-partisan information on the candidates and the ballot issues.
- Project Vote Smart - A Voter's Self-Defense System - A non-profit, non-partisan organization that tracks the performances of over 13,000 political leaders as well as legislation, and links to views of special interest groups. This site also gives current biographical information on government officials and how to contact them.
- FactCheck - "Holding politicians accountable." Sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania, this site researches "facts" cited by candidates and makes corrections.
- Internet Public Library -This is a gateway to sites. One gateway is geared toward young adults and another toward children.
- Money 101 - Created by the editors at Money magazine and its Web site, Money 101 consists of electronic lessons that help you invest, save, borrow and spend more wisely. The essentials of each lesson can be absorbed in just 10 minutes. But all lessons feature greater detail--including calculators, quizzes and a library of supplemental materials--for those who want to dig deeper.
- POTUS Presidents of the United States In this resource you will find background information, election results, cabinet members, notable events, and some points of interest on each of the presidents. Links to biographies, historical documents, audio and video files, and other presidential sites are also included to enrich this site
- State Facts - This site has a variety of facts about our 50 states, ie words to the state song, flag, population, highest and lowest points, tourism, bird, plant, and so forth.
- Statistical Resources on the Web - Extensive list of links to many kinds of statistical data on the Internet, indexed in categories from Abortion to World-Village.
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