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Internet Virtual Reference Desk
Here is a small collection of Internet reference material we've found
to be interesting, useful, or just kind of cool.
In no particular order:
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InfoSpace Telephone Directory Service
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Canada Post Corp. Postal Code Lookup Service
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Westminster USA/Canadian Postal Code Lookup
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Yahoo Postal Information (code lookups for several countries)
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Environment Canada's Weather Office
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OnlineNewspapers.com 1000s of newspapers on the Net
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Abyz News Links index of newspapers, news media and sources
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The Why Files Science Behind the News
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How Stuff Works
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Whatis?com dictionary of technical terms
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WebElements Periodic Table of the Elements
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Periodic Table of the Elements (at Los Alamos Nat. Lab.)
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1001 Periodic Table of Elements and Science Quiz Questions
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Lenntech Periodic Chart of the Elements with health/environmental effects
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FOLDOC - Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing
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Infoplease.com on-line dictionary, encyclopedia and almanac
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Ask An Expert Page
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eHow.com How things get done
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Travel Information
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The Information "Super-Cul-De-Sac" - Destinations
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The UNIX Reference Desk
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EveryRule.com - Every Rule in the Universe (sports, games, etiquette, etc.)
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Writing Tips from Writers on the Net
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Online Resources for Writers from the National Writers Union
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Project Gutenberg
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Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts
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Bartleby.com - Great Books Online
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IPL - The Internet Public Library - at the University of Michigan
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Xrefer - Cross-referenced encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri & books of quotations
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Roget's Thesaurus
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WWWebster's Dictionary (Merriam-Webster - the real McCoy)
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
(ARTFL
Project)
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Hypertext Webster Dictionary (at UCSD)
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Dictionary.com's English Dictionary
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Online English-French Dictionary
(ARTFL
Project)
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The English-to-American Dictionary
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Yourdictionary.com (over 1800 dictionaries in 230 languages)
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The On-line Medical Dictionary (at the CancerWEB Project, UK)
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Acronym Expander
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Acronym Finder
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Acronym Search
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FILExt - The File Extension Source (lookup file name extensions/suffixes)
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CalculateMe.com calculation and conversion utility
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Online Conversion from almost any type of measure to another
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Encyclopaedia Britannica (with Internet Guide)
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PC Webopaedia encyclopaedia of computer terminology
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File-Extensions.org file name extension library
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Atlapedia Online (Countries A to Z / World Maps)
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Theodora.com's Quick Maps of the World
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Getty Thesaurus of Geographical Names
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WorldSkip news and info from around the world
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WORLDTIME interactive atlas, time info, public holidays
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CIA World Factbook geography, people, government, econonmy of 100s of countries
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Library of Congress' Portals to the World
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Online Dictionaries, Glossaries and Encyclopedias
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CNNfn - Currencies Market
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Universal Currency Converter
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The Internet Movie Database
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Multilingual Bibles
(ARTFL
Project)
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BibleGateway.com (Bible search in language or translation of your choice)
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AllRefer Reference
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U of M's Elizabeth Dafoe Library Virtual Reference
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U of M's Donald W. Craik Engineering Library Reference Desk
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Martindale's "The Reference Desk"
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BBC Online's WebGuide - Best of the Web
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Refdesk.com single source for facts on the Net
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Reference.com online reference and learning services
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The Best of Everything! (from the Internet Tourbus)
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Patrick Crispen's 21 Essential Web Sites (from the Internet Tourbus)
or his more recent Top 22 (part
1,
2,
3,
4,
5 &
6)
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Ask Bob Rankin's The Top Twenty
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This is True's Bonzer Web Sites of the Week
Other links we've collected:
Got any suggestions to add? We'd love to hear about them.
Recently, we've gotten a number of good tips for sites to include from
The Internet Tourbus.
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