GENERAL REFERENCE
Acronym Database - List of acronyms gathered from many network sources and submitted by users (not an official dictionary or encyclopedia).
http://www.ucc.ie/cgi-bin/acronym/
Devil's Dictionary - The book was first written and published in 1906 by Ambrose Bierce. This is an electronic version of the witty definitions to everyday vocabulary. http://www.thedevilsdictionary.com/
Infoplease - Quick look-ups on information from the Information Please Almanac plus from other companion almanacs on the topics of sports, entertainment, and weather, culture, money, business, and more.
http://www.infoplease.com/
LibrarySpot - A rich source of links to online reference sources and full-text magazines and newspapers.
http://www.libraryspot.com/
Robert's Rules of Order - The original work by General Henry M. Robert, U.S. Army, written to explain the rules of parliamentary procedure of the U.S. Congress to the general public. http://www.bartleby.com/176/
Roget's Thesaurus - Distributed by Project Gutenberg and made available through the City University of London, this version is based on the Roget's Thesaurus published in 1911. http://asadz.com/thesaurus/
Scientific and Technical Acronyms, Symbols, and Abbreviations - Wiley Interscience has made this reference work available in .pdf format. Contains not only acronyms, symbols, and abbreviations, but also Greek alphabet and Roman numerals, basic weights and measures units, the periodic table of elements, and mathematical notation plus much, much more. http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/stasa/
The Word Spy - website "devoted to recently coined words and phrases, old words that are being used in new ways, and existing words that have enjoyed a recent renaissance." http://www.wordspy.com/
X-refer: The Web's Reference Engine - Free access to over 50 reference titles covering art, British history, business & law, music, philosophy, science and technology.
YourDictionary.com - provides the most comprehensive and authoritative portal for language and language-related products and services on the web with more than 1800 dictionaries with more than 250 languages. With list of most misspelled and mispronounced words, games, word-of-the-day, articles, etc.
http://www.yourdictionary.com/
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Academic Info - Information gateways to: architecture, art, area & country studies, business, digital library, education, engineering, law & government, health & medicine, humanities, library & information science, placement (career), reference desk, sciences, social sciences, student center
http://www.academicinfo.net/index.html
All That JAS: Journal Abbreviation Sources - Not a list of abbreviations, but a listing of Web resources by subject area where you can search for the full title of a journal when you have only the abbreviation.
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/JAS.htm
AnyWho.com - Internet directory assistance, yellow pages, white pages, reverse lookup directory.
http://www.anywho.com/
Argus Clearinghouse - "The Internet's Premier Research Library".
http://www.clearinghouse.net/
Digital Librarian - "A librarian's choice of the best of the Web"
http://www.digital-librarian.com/
Hot Paper Topics - Listing of "hot topics" for student papers, with scores of links to web sites. Collected by the librarians at the O'Keefe Library of St. Ambrose University. http://library.sau.edu/bestinfo/Hot/hotindex.htm
Infomine: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections - a virtual library of Internet resources relevant to faculty, students, and research staff at the university level.
http://infomine.ucr.edu/
InfoSpace Reverse Phone Lookup - find individuals and businesses by phone number. http://www.infospace.com/revphone.htM
INTERNET & NETWORKING: Internet Mailing Lists Guides and Resources - Information on listservs from the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions. http://www.ifla.org/I/training/listserv/lists.htm
Librarians' Index to the Internet - Funded by the Library of California, yet another collection of evaluated links on a wide range of subjects, directed more to public library users (for example, genealogy web sites are included).
http://lii.org/
Plagiarism - annotated webliography of links to a wide variety of articles and sites on plagarism, copyright, intellectual freedom, and ethic resources.
http://www.web-miner.com/plagiarism
Refdesk.com - "The Single Best Source for Facts on the Web."
http://www.refdesk.com/
Research Strategies - an online textbook for learning how to do research and have fun while doing it.
http://www.acts.twu.ca/lbr/textbook.htm
