Almanacs     Back to Top

Global Road Warrior
Information about all countries of the world. Includes topics such as business culture, society and culture, communications, travel essentials, climate, maps, essential terms, and much more.

CIA World Factbook
Comprehensive source with facts and statistics about the history, people, government, economy, geography, and more, of over 250 countries and locations. From the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.

Infoplease
Infoplease is a comprehensive reference source that combines the contents of an encyclopedia, a dictionary, an atlas, and several almanacs loaded with statistics, facts, and historical records.

Awards and Prizes     Back to Top

Nobel Prizes
International annual awards for achievement in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, and peace.

Pulitzer Prizes
Awards given annually in the United States for achievement in journalism, literature, drama, and music.

Biographies     Back to Top

Marquis Who's Who on the Web
Over one million biographies of the most accomplished individuals from all fields of endeavor.

Who's Alive and Who's Dead
This site keeps track of which famous people have died and which are still alive.

Book Reviews     Back to Top

Choice Reviews Online
Over 100,000 reviews of books, media, electronic sources, and other material from the journal Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries (September 1988 – present).

Horn Book Guide
Reviews of books for children and young adults (1989 - present).

Calendars     Back to Top

Calendar Home
Includes a date calendar, calendar converter, and links to other calendar Web sites.

Consumer Guides     Back to Top

Edmund's Car Prices
Searchable database of new and used vehicle prices.

Household Products Database
This database from the National Library of Medicine provides health and safety information on thousands of household products and their chemical ingredients from sources including Material Safety Data Sheets prepared by manufacturers.rn

Kelley Blue Book
Includes prices for new and used cars, small trucks, and motorcycles.

Currency     Back to Top

Currency Site
Daily currency and exchange rates, currency information for travelers and business, and a database of historical exchange rates.

Dictionaries & Thesauri     Back to Top

American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th ed.
A major English language dictionary. Provided by NOVELny.

English Dictionaries and Thesauruses: Oxford Reference Online
Academic dictionaries and thesauruses.

Merriam-Webster Online
Abridged English-language dictionary and thesaurus.

Merriam-Webster Visual Dictionary
6000 images arranged in 15 categories with over 20,000 terms with contextual definitions.

Oxford English Dictionary
The authority on the evolution of English language over the last millennium with definitions, history, and pronunciation of words.

Oxford Language Dictionaries Online
Bilingual dictionaries, grammar guidance, pronunciation charts, and more for six languages. Other languages will be added in the future.

Webster’s Third New International Dictionary Unabridged
Unabridged English-language dictionary.

Yahoo! Thesauri Links
Subject and language specific thesauri.

Encyclopedias     Back to Top

Canadian Encyclopedia
Online version of standard reference source. Includes a youth encyclopedia and the Encyclopedia of Music in Canada.

Encyclopaedia Britannica Online
Encyclopedia entries and articles, plus videos, an atlas, timelines, quotations, and more.

Funk and Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
Encyclopedia entries and articles.

Gale Virtual Reference Library
Dozens of standard, academic reference sources on a variety of topics.

Grolier Online
Collection of encyclopedias including Encyclopedia Americana (general), Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia (middle school level and above), New Book of Knowledge (elementary school level and above), Grolier Online Kids (elementary and middle school level), plus dictionaries including American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th ed. dictionaries for children, Roget's II New Thesaurus, and an atlas. Provided by NOVELny.

Oxford Reference Online Premium
Database of over 120 reference books on many topics.

Sage eReference
Searchable collection of over 65 academic encyclopedias covering the social sciences and humanities.

World Book Online
Encyclopedia articles, Web links, audio and video clips, animations, sounds, and much more.

Investments/Personal Finance     Back to Top

Company Dossiers from LexisNexis Academic
Summary and financial information about companies, with some stock information and current news items included. Searchable by company name, ticker symbol, and more.

Company Profiles from Business Source Complete
In-depth reports on over 17,000 domestic and global companies, prepared by Datamonitor and Life Science Analytics.

Morningstar Investment Research Center (On-campus access)
Research on over 20,000 stocks and mutual funds. Click here for off-campus access.

Library Collection Analysis     Back to Top

Resources for College Libraries
Resources for collection development, reference, and bibliographic instruction in academic libraries.

Primary Sources & Archival Materials     Back to Top

19th Century British Pamphlets (from JSTOR)
A collection that will include more than 20,000 pamphlets from 19th Century Britain covering many subject areas. To search the pamphlet collection, enter the JSTOR database, choose “Advanced Search” option, and check the “Pamphlet” box.

African American Experience
Multiple resources, including reference books, primary documents, classic texts, and more, covering all aspects of African American culture and history.

American Memory from the Library of Congress
Provides access to more than a million primary source documents relating to the history and culture of the United States.

ArchiveGrid
Searchable database of descriptions of archival holdings in libraries, museums, and other organizations. Contact information included.

Avalon Project at Yale Law School
Provides digital documents relevant to the fields of law, history, economics, politics, diplomacy and government, pre-18th century to the present.

British History Online
Digital library of important primary and secondary sources covering the medieval and modern history of Britain.

Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts
This site provides title, author, keyword, and date access to digitized medieval manuscript collections from Europe, North America, Japan, and Australia. Prepared by a team from UCLA.

Duke Collection of American Indian Oral History
Primary sources collection of transcripts of interviews and first person accounts of Native Americans from tribes in the state of Oklahoma. Transcripts are in PDF format. From the University of Oklahoma.

EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents from Western Europe
Links to many Western European historical documents.

European History Primary Sources
Index of Web sites that have online access to primary sources in European history. Browse categories by: country, language, period, subject, and type of source.

In the First Person
An index to English language personal narratives from around the world, including letters, diaries, memoirs, autobiographies, and oral histories.

Making of America
A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction, comprised of books and journals. The library is divided into two distinct, searchable collections: one at Cornell University, and the other at the University of Michigan.

National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections
Searchable database which provides information on archival materials held in American historical repositories. An online continuation of the printed version (Ref Z 6620 .U5 N3), which was discontinued after 1993.

OriginalSources
Original source documents in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences written by original thinkers and experts throughout the ages.

Our Documents
U.S. government Web site that includes the text of 100 milestone documents in American history selected by the National Archives, information about the documents, images, tools for educators, and more.

Repositories of Primary Sources
A listing of over 5,000 Web sites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary sources from around the world.

State Papers Online (Part I - Tudors, 1509-1603: Domestic)
Original historical materials and British government documents.

Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Database
Comrehensive, searchable site with information and materials on ships, crews, slaves, and places of embarkation and landing. Also includes maps, database of slave names, lesson plans, and more.

World Digital Library
Primary documents and materials, international in scope, including manuscripts, rare books, maps, audio recordings, photographs, films, and more. Developed by the U.S. Library of Congress and UNESCO.

Publication Directories     Back to Top

Book Index with Reviews
Information on millions of books, in-print and out-of-print, including fiction and non-fiction titles in all genres, many with full-text reviews.

Books in Print (use Book Index with Reviews)

Cabell's Educational Directory
Directory of journals in education with detailed information on submitting manuscripts (select Member Area tab to access the directory).

Directory of U.S. Newspapers
Information about newspapers published in the United States from 1690 to the present. Provided by the Library of Congress Chronicling America project.

Literary Market Place
Directory of the international book publishing industry.

MLA Directory of Periodicals
Directory of periodicals covered in the MLA International Bibliography.

Serials Directory
Not available at this time. Use another periodicals directory, Ulrich's Periodical Directory.

Ulrich's Periodicals Directory
Directory of magazines, journals, newspapers, and other serials published worldwide.

Quotations     Back to Top

Quotations Sources
A handful of quotation books from Bartleby.com.

Quotations: Oxford Reference Online
Quotations sources.

Yahoo! Reference: Quotations
Links to dozens of popular sites arranged alphabetically and by subject.

Telephone Directories & Zip Codes     Back to Top

Infobel: Telephone Directories
Links to yellow pages, white pages, business directories, e-mail addresses, and fax numbers worldwide.

United States Postal Service
Looks up zip codes and official abbreviations.

Yahoo! People Search
Includes phone number and e-mail address searches.

Travel     Back to Top

Airline Toll-Free Numbers and Web Sites
Alphabetical list of airlines with toll-free phone numbers and links to airline home pages.

Amtrak
Includes schedules, fares, routes and special offers.

Fodors.com
Information on hotels, restaurants, business travel, adventure travel and lots more from Fodors, publisher of popular travel guides.

MapQuest.com
Find maps, driving directions, traffic reports, a travel guide and more.

Weather     Back to Top

National Weather Service
Access to official U.S. weather forecast products and observations.

Weather Channel
Features current conditions and forecasts for cities worldwide.

Yahoo! Weather
Global weather information and links to related topics.