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:

• InfoSpace Telephone Directory Service
• Canada Post Corp. Postal Code Lookup Service
• Westminster USA/Canadian Postal Code Lookup
• Yahoo Postal Information (code lookups for several countries)
• Environment Canada's Weather Office
• OnlineNewspapers.com 1000s of newspapers on the Net
• Abyz News Links index of newspapers, news media and sources
• The Why Files Science Behind the News
• How Stuff Works
• Whatis?com dictionary of technical terms
• WebElements Periodic Table of the Elements
• Periodic Table of the Elements (at Los Alamos Nat. Lab.)
• 1001 Periodic Table of Elements and Science Quiz Questions
• Lenntech Periodic Chart of the Elements with health/environmental effects
• FOLDOC - Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing
• Infoplease.com on-line dictionary, encyclopedia and almanac
• Ask An Expert Page
• eHow.com How things get done
• Travel Information
• The Information "Super-Cul-De-Sac" - Destinations
• The UNIX Reference Desk
• EveryRule.com - Every Rule in the Universe (sports, games, etiquette, etc.)
• Writing Tips from Writers on the Net
• Online Resources for Writers from the National Writers Union
• Project Gutenberg
• Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts
• Bartleby.com - Great Books Online
  • Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
  • Elements of Style, by William Strunk, Jr.
  • The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language
• IPL - The Internet Public Library - at the University of Michigan
• Xrefer - Cross-referenced encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri & books of quotations
• Roget's Thesaurus
• WWWebster's Dictionary (Merriam-Webster - the real McCoy)
• Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (ARTFL Project)
• Hypertext Webster Dictionary (at UCSD)
• Dictionary.com's English Dictionary
• Online English-French Dictionary (ARTFL Project)
• The English-to-American Dictionary
• Yourdictionary.com (over 1800 dictionaries in 230 languages)
• The On-line Medical Dictionary (at the CancerWEB Project, UK)
• Acronym Expander
• Acronym Finder
• Acronym Search
• FILExt - The File Extension Source (lookup file name extensions/suffixes)
• CalculateMe.com calculation and conversion utility
• Online Conversion from almost any type of measure to another
• Encyclopaedia Britannica (with Internet Guide)
• PC Webopaedia encyclopaedia of computer terminology
• File-Extensions.org file name extension library
• Atlapedia Online (Countries A to Z / World Maps)
• Theodora.com's Quick Maps of the World
• Getty Thesaurus of Geographical Names
• WorldSkip news and info from around the world
• WORLDTIME interactive atlas, time info, public holidays
• CIA World Factbook geography, people, government, econonmy of 100s of countries
• Library of Congress' Portals to the World
• Online Dictionaries, Glossaries and Encyclopedias
• CNNfn - Currencies Market
• Universal Currency Converter
• The Internet Movie Database
• Multilingual Bibles (ARTFL Project)
• BibleGateway.com (Bible search in language or translation of your choice)
• AllRefer Reference
• U of M's Elizabeth Dafoe Library Virtual Reference
• U of M's Donald W. Craik Engineering Library Reference Desk
• Martindale's "The Reference Desk"
• BBC Online's WebGuide - Best of the Web
• Refdesk.com single source for facts on the Net
• Reference.com online reference and learning services
• The Best of Everything! (from the Internet Tourbus)
• Patrick Crispen's 21 Essential Web Sites (from the Internet Tourbus)
  or his more recent Top 22 (part 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6)
• Ask Bob Rankin's The Top Twenty
• This is True's Bonzer Web Sites of the Week

Other links we've collected:

• Internet Search Engines
• Internet Statistics Resources
• SCRC's Internet Resources Guide for Neurosciences
• Weather Forecasts for Manitoba

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.