Section 4: Internet/Reference
Site Directories and Portals:
- About.com
- Academic Info: your gateway to quality Internet resources
- Alpha Search, Calvin College
- AOL.COM
- Argus Clearinghouse: a selective collection of topical guides
- The Best Information on the Net (BIOTN), from O'Keefe Library, St. Ambrose University
- Britannica.com, Encyclopaedia Britannica's Internet guide
- Digital Librarian: a librarian's choice of the best of the web
- Direct Search, links to over 600 resource-specific search interfaces
- Directory of Scholarly and Professional E-Conferences
- DMOZ Open Directory Project
- Essential Links
- Excite
- Galaxy
- GO Network
- Google Web Directory
- Infomine, scholarly Internet resource collections. Univ. of California
- InvisibleWeb
- Librarians' Index to the Internet
- iWon.com
- Links2Go
- LookSmart
- Lycos
- Magellan Internet Guide
- MSN
- NBCi. (Formerly: Snap)
- NetRef: the Internet Reference Library. From Utah State University
- The New Athenaeum, Internet resource guides developed by librarians. (Site under reconstruction, noted 1/11/2001)
- OpenHere
- Pinakes, a subject launchpad. Maintained at Heriot-Watt University
- Tool Kit for the Expert Web Searcher
- UniGuide Academic Guide to the Internet
- The Union Institute (TUI) Research Engine
- WebGEMS, A Guide to Substantive Web Resources
- WonderPort
- WWW Virtual Library
- Yahoo, Web directory
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Search engines:
- Alta Vista
- Argos, Limited Area Search of the Ancient and Medieval Internet
- Ask Jeeves
- CataList, the official catalog of LISTSERV lists
- Deja.com's Usenet Discussions Service, a Usenet search utility
- Ditto, a search engine for images
- FAST Search
- FindWhat
- Google
- Hot Bot
- Liszt, electronic mailing list directory
- MSN Search
- Newsletter Access, directory of online newsletters
- Northern Light
- Official Search, search engine limited to official, authorized web sites for an entity
- Orientation, a regional search directory
- Raging Search, from AltaVista
- Search.Com, c|Net
- SearchBug.com
- TopClick
- WebCrawler
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Metasearch sites: These sites provide searching through multiple search engines.
- All-in-One
- AllSearchEngines.com: Internet search engines index, web directories
- C4
- CompletePlanet: Complete Source for Search Engines and Databases
- Debriefing
- Dogpile
- Findspot
- Highway 61
- InFind
- Ixquick Metasearch
- Karnak
- Langenberg
- LincOn.com
- Mamma
- MetaCrawler
- METAEUREKA, text based metasearch engine
- Metor
- Needle in a CyberStack
- OneSeek
- ProFusion
- qbSearch
- Query Server, Dataware
- SearchAbility, guide to specialized search engines
- Search Engine Colossus, international directory of search engines
- SearchEngineGuide.com
- Search Engine Showdown: The Users Guide to Web Searching
- Search Engine Watch, Guide to Search Engines
- SearchEngines.com: Gateway to Search Engines, Directories, Reference Sites, and Tips
- Search Engines Worldwide
- Search Engines 2000
- SearchIQ, a directory of search engines and directories
- SearchManiac
- SearchPower.com, a searchable subject index of
over 1600 search engines
- SearchThingy
- SearchTurtle
- SURF FAST.com
- SurfWax
- TheBigHub.com
- theinfo.com
- Vivisimo. (Beta version)
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Internet Help:
- About-the-web
- Beginners Central
- Everything E-mail
- Finding Information on the Internet: A Tutorial, Univ. of California, Berkeley
- Guide to Effective Searching of the Internet, from CompletePlanet
- ICYouSee Guide to the World Wide Web, from Ithaca College Library
- Internet Resources Newsletter
- Internet Scout Project. Includes the Scout Report
- IntroNet, a beginner's guide to searching the Internet. John J. Burke
- Learn the Net
- LivingInternet.com
- Net-Happenings
- NetLearn: Internet Learning Resources
- NetLingo: the Internet language dictionary
- NetSurfer Digest
- net.TUTOR, Ohio State Univ. Libraries
- ResearchBuzz, Internet research news and linkbank
- Web Searching, Sleuthing and Sifting, a tutorial series
- webTeacher, web primer and tutorial
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Web Design Resources:
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General Computer Resources:
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Dictionaries & Thesauri:
- Acronym Finder
- American Heritage Book of English Usage, from Bartleby.com
- American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, from Bartleby.com
- Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
- Cambridge International Dictionaries Online. Search engine for the Cambridge International Dictionaries of English, American English, Phrasal Verbs, and Idioms
- Dictionary.com
- Exploding Dictionary
- Foreignword.com, dictionaries & free translation tools
- FreeTranslation.com
- Go Translator Service. Offers translation of web pages, text
- HandSpeak, a sign language dictionary
- Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary
- Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Thesaurus
- Microsoft Encarta World English Dictionary
- Newbury House Online Dictionary
- OneLook Dictionaries, over 170 dictionaries indexed
- Online Dictionary Net
- Online Language Dictionaries and Translators, from Rivendell International Communications
- Quoteland.com
- Quotes.com
- Roget's Thesaurus, ARTFL Project
- Roget's II, The New Thesaurus, 3rd Edition (1995) from Bartelby.com
- Thesaurus.com
- TransHub Encyclopedia of Terminology
- travlang's Translating Dictionaries
- WordReference.com, online German, French, Spanish, and Italian dictionaries
- The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus (WEDT), integrated English dictionary and thesaurus in electronic form
- Voycabulary, transforms any webpage into links to dictionary or thesaurus lookups
- yourDictionary.com, includes A Web of On-line Dictionaries, A Web of On-line Grammars, and more
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Encyclopedias & General Sources:
- Biographical Dictionary
- biography-center
- Biography.com, from A&E
- Columbia Encyclopedia, sixth edition, from Bartleby.com
- Compton's Encyclopedia Online
- ConsumerSearch, product reviews
- DeskRef: Sources for Quick Answers. From Ramapo Catskill Library System
- Encarta Online, Microsoft Encarta Concise Encyclopedia
- Encyclopedia Britannica
- Encyclopedia.com, 17,000 articles from Concise Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia
- Fast Facts, Almanacs, Factbooks, Statistical Reports, & Related Reference Sources. From Gary Price, George Washington Univ.
- Funk and Wagnalls Multimedia Encyclopedia
- Information Please, search index for the Information Please almanacs, Columbia Encyclopedia, and Random House College Dictionary
- Lives, the Biographical Resource
- Martindale's The Reference Desk
- Refdesk.com
- ReferenceDesk.org
- Research-It!
- Virtual Reference Sites
- World Biographical Index
- xrefer, search engine for a number of dictionaries, encyclopedias, etc.
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Directories:
- All Nations Telephone Search Engine, provides international dialing instructions and links to phone directories
- American Directory Assistance, businesses and people. From infoUSA.com.
- AnyWho, businesses and people
- BigFoot, people, email
- 555-1212.com, people, business, email, web sites, etc.
- GuideStar, searchable database of nonprofit organizations in the US
- Helping.org, an online resource designed to help people find volunteer and giving opportunities in their own communities and beyond
- Idealist, directory of nonprofit and volunteering resources on the web
- InfoSpace, people, business, email, web sites, etc.
- NumberFinder, U.S. white pages listings and reverse phone number lookups
- PeopleSpot
- Reverse Directory
- Reverse Phone Directory
- Scholarly Societies Project, Univ. of Waterloo
- SearchBug.com, various directories and Internet search services.
- SuperPages.com, businesses
- Switchboard, people and businesses
- Telephone Directories on the Web, a worldwide set of links
- The Ultimates, links to directories for people, businesses, email. Also includes a trip planner
- WhoWhere?, people, businesses, email
- WorldPages, an international directory of phone numbers, maps, web, and e-mail addresses
- Yahoo People Search
- Yellow Pages & Business Directories on Web
- Zip Code Lookup and Address Directory, U.S. Postal Service
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Maps & Geographical Sources:
- American FactFinder, U.S. Census Bureau
- Atlapedia Online, physical and political maps, as well as key facts and statistics on countries of the world
- Country Studies/Area Handbooks
- Expedia.com Maps
- Geographic Names Information System, U.S. Geological Survey
- InfoNation, statistical data for member states of the United Nations
- MapBlast
- Map Machine, from National Geographic Society
- MapQuest
- Maps.com
- Maps Index
- Maps on Us
- National Atlas of the United States, U.S. Geological Survey
- Official U.S. Time
- Rand McNally - Plan A Trip: maps, directions, road construction advisories, weather
- TerraServer
- Time Zone Page, current time in 600 cities worldwide
- Today's Calendar and Clock Page
- U.S. Gazetteer, U.S. Census Bureau
- World Factbook, Central Intelligence Agency
- WorldSkip.com, country profiles and links
- WORLDTIME, interactive atlas, time info, holidays, etc.
- World Time Server
- www.timeanddate.com. A variety of time and date information services
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Writers' Helps:
- Citation Style for Research Papers: APA, MLA, Turabian, Chicago. From Long Island Univ.
- Columbia Guide to Online Style (CGOS)
- Crash Course in Copyright, from Univ. of Texas
- Guide to Writing Research Papers Based on Modern Language Association (MLA) Documentation, from Capital Community-Technical College
- Guide to Writing Research Papers Based on the Styles Recommended by the American Psychological Association (APA), from Capital Community-Technical College
- ONLINE! Citation Styles. Instructions and examples for citing electronic information using MLA, APA, Chicago, and CBE styles
- Strunk's Elements of Style
- U.S. Copyright Office, Library of Congress
- Writer's Handbook, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
- Writing-Related Resources, Purdue On-Line Writing Lab
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