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  • Library and Research-Related Dictionaries and Glossaries

    Online Library Networks and Libraries

  • LibWeb
    ("over 7400 pages from libraries in over 125 countries")
  • LibDex: The Library Index
  • Library of Congress
  • The Internet Public Library
  • Librarian's Internet Index
  • Online Computer Library Center
  • Direct Search
    ( . . . material "hidden" from the general search tools . . . said to reside on the Invisible Web)
  • eserver.org
  • The WWW Virtual Library
  • Library Spot
  • The European Library
    (11,000,000 objects from 43 European Libraries)
  • Awesome Library

    General Reference Portals
    (these are mostly starting points, collections of reference links, and not themselves final destinations)

  • ReferenceDesk.org
  • Virtual Reference Desk
  • Voice of the Shuttle
    ("website for humanities research")
  • Bartleby Reference Library
  • Journalist Express
    (nominally a site for journalists, it is actually one of the best general reference portals on the internet)
  • The Journalist's Database of Databases
  • JournalismNet
    (couldn't decide whether to put this on the News & Op page as a journalism site, or here as a general reference resource, so I put them on both; still looking it over, but it seems really good)
  • Power Reporting
    (another site for journalists with numerous high quality research links)
  • The Info Service
    (very large collection of links about virtually everything; a fun website)
  • WheretodoResearch Best Reference and Research Sites
  • Internet-Resources.com
  • Resource Central Directory
  • List of Lists
  • Cyndi's List
    (a genealogy site in terms of purpose & focus, but really much, much more; almost a quarter million links; worth a look)
  • Live Ref
  • Educypedia
    (pretty incredible; if you link to the site map from the homepage, you'll see what I mean; home page also has a search engine)
  • The Electric Eclectic
    (and we might add "eccentric"; a fun site to browse)
  • The Virtual Reference Desk
  • Reference.com
  • Lex Scripta
  • Infomine Scholarly Internet Resources Collections

    General Reference Sites(online encyclopedias, almanacs, other self-contained, destination sites)

  • Wikipedia
  • Encyclopedia.com
  • Encyberpedia
  • Information Sphere
  • Answers.com
  • InfoPlease
  • CIA World Fact Book
  • The Old Farmers Almanac
  • Quotations and Sayings Database
  • Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
  • Quoteshead
  • Guiness World Records
  • Encyclopedia Mythica

    Periodical Collections

  • World-Newspapers.com
  • Magazines, Journals, Periodicals Online

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    Public Records

  • U.S. National Archive and Records
  • Search Systems
  • BRP Public Records
  • Library Spot Public Records

    Search Engines

  • Ask
    (new feature AskErase makes this the only major search engine that will not keep records of searches)
  • Google
  • Yahoo
  • The Front Page
    (links to most major search engines, directories, and other useful things)
  • Windows Live Search
  • Information.com
  • The BEST Search Engines
    (from UC Berkeley)
  • All the Web
  • Search Engine Watch
    (news, listings, issues)
  • Toolkit for the Expert Web Searcher
    (annotated links; from the American Library Association)
  • Open Directory Project
    (highly overated)
  • PubList
    (search database of over 150,000 periodicals; search for free, get article pay fee)
  • Dogpile
  • Vivisimo
  • SurfWax
    (the three above are "meta-search engines"; for an explanation, see below):
  • "Meta-Search Engines"
  • BlogPulse
    ("search the blogosphere")
  • ForumZilla
    (search by topic for online forums; great concept, but presently the database seems limited or incomplete)
  • Start Natural Language Question Answering System
    (very hard to place this one; definitely worth checking out)
  • Answers.com
  • LookSmart
  • Meta Grid
    ("search for magazines and newspapers")
  • LexusNexus
    (a bit of a tease; charges for the good stuff)
  • InternetArchive
    (retrieve sites no longer on the web)

    Directories: People, Businesses, E-mail

  • Switchboard
  • Yahoo People Search
  • AnyWho
  • Finding People on the Internet
  • Zabasearch
  • Cedar
  • Addresses.com
  • People Search.net
  • Yellow Book
  • E-Mail Search Links from Cyndi's List
    (finding e-mail addresses, in my experience, is much more difficult that finding phone numbers and addresses; the above link is the most promising starting point I've found)
  • Reverse Phone Directory
    (much more than the title suggests; haven't thoroughly checked it out, but it looks pretty good)
  • Area Code Listing, by Number

    Guides, Tutorials, and How-Tos

  • About.com
  • KnowledgeHound
    ("Web's biggest directory of free how-tos")
  • Web Tutorial List
    (extensive collection of info and how-to guides in many subject areas)
  • HowStuffWorks
  • Suite101
  • Expert Village
  • AllExperts
  • Tell Me How
  • eHow
  • WikiHow

    Technical Tools: Calculators, Converters, More

  • Online Conversion Tools for Adobe PDF Documents
    (convert PDF files to HTML or text)
  • Calendar Home
    (several kinds including 100 year and 10,000 year; customizable)
  • Calenders Net
  • XE.com: The Universal Currency Converter
  • EH.Net: What Is Its Relative Value in U.S. Dollars?
    (the "relative value" has to do with time, 1789 to the present, not country or currency)
  • Barcode Server
  • Percent Calculator


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