Reference

Almanacs
Atlases
Dictionaries
Encyclopedias
MLA Works Cited
Stock Market Information
Telephone Directories
Other Reference Resources

Infoplease Kids' Almanac
http://kids.infoplease.com

Information Please
http://www.infoplease.com
Provides access to several continuously updated almanacs. 

Infomation Please Sports Almanac
http://www.infoplease.com/sports.html
Sports statistics and bios for college, professional and Olympic levels.

Old Farmer's Almanac
http://www.almanac.com
Abridged version of the print classic.
 

ATLASES

Altapedia Online
http://www.atlapedia.com/
World Maps provides full color physical and political maps for regions of the world.  Countries A to Z provides facts, figures and statistical data on geography, climate, people, religion, language, history, economy & more..for  individual country.

An Atlas of Cyberspace
http://www.cybergeography.org/atlas/atlas.html
Maps and graphic representations of the geographies Cyberspace.

Delorme
http://www.delorme.com
Use Earth Maps for city to city driving directions by plugging in your starting point and destination or use the CyberAtlas to find an area map by typing in the city and two letter state abbreviation.

Mapquest
http://www.mapquest.com/
Find door to door driving directions by supplying starting and destination street addresses.

Map Machine
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/resources/ngo/maps/

The National Atlas of the United States
http://www-atlas.usgs.gov/
From the U.S. Geological Survey, this site provides a comprehensive, map-like view into a wealth of data collected by the Federal Government.  This  interactive map of the United States allows the user to display airports, federal lands, urban areas, water  features, parkways, rivers, railroads, roads, volcanoes and seismic events.

World Atlas
http://cliffie.nosc.mil/~NATLAS/index.html
Maritime Command and Control Information System (MCCIS) maintains this site.
Arranged by continents, this atlas provides lists of political country maps.  Also has city maps for a  limited number of international cities of the world and physical maps for continents.

DICTIONARIES

Encyberpedia Dictionary & Glossary
http://www.encyberpedia.com/glossary.htm
Wide range of general and specific dictionaries and glossaries.

Foreign Language Dictionaries
http://www.june29.com//HLP/
Foreign language-English translating dictionaries are available at the Human Languages Page. Choose Languages and Literature.

Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary
http://www.intelihealth.com/IH/ihtIH/WSIHW000/9276/9276.html?k=tnavx408x9276
Dictionary of medical terms.

Merriam-Webster Online
http://www.m-w.com/home.htm
Access to both Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary 2000 and Thesaurus from the same page.

Merriam-Webster's Word Central
http://www.wordcentral.com/
This online student dictionary is based on Merriam-Webster's Intermediate Dictionary.

Merriam-Webster's WWWebster Dictionary 
http://www.m-w.com/netdict.htm
Hyper linked dictionary and thesaurus, based on the Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary 2000. The search engine supports wildcards and right-hand truncation.

Merriam-Webster's WWWebster Thesaurus
http://www.m-w.com/thesaurus.htm
Hyper linked thesaurus and Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary 2000.

Rhyming Dictionary 
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dougb/rhyme.html
If you enter a word, the server will return a list of rhyming words.

Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases 
http://www2.thesaurus.com/thesaurus/
This is a searchable hypertext edition of Roget's Thesaurus, based on the text of the 1911 edition from Project Gutenberg.

Web of Online Dictionaries
http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/diction.html
Includes links to 330 dictionaries in 100 languages.

 ENCYCLOPEDIAS

Britannica
http://search.eb.com
Enhanced encyclopedia. 

Encarta Concise Encyclopedia
http://encarta.msn.com
Access to free encyclopedia, selected related Web links and related news articles from MSNBC.

Funk & Wagnalls Online Multimedia Encyclopedia
http://www.funkandwagnalls.com
Access to the complete 29 volume encyclopedia with enhancements such as animations, sounds, music, flags and maps.  Reuter's World News updates the content on the hour.  Free, but requires registration.

Grolier Online
http://www.go.grolier.com
Grolier Online is by subscription and provides access to three enhanced encyclopedias (enhancements include related web sites which are reviewed by Grolier's editorial staff):

• New Book of Knowledge
• Multimedia Encyclopedia
• Encyclopeida Americana

World Book Encyclopedia
http://www.worldbook.com
Enhanced encyclopedia includes related Web sites.

STOCK MARKET INFORMATION

CNNfn
http://cnnfn.cnn.com/
Stock quotes and other financial information.

Fortune Magazine's 1999 Fortune 500
http://pathfinder.com/fortune/fortune500/
Detailed information, including rankings, on the Fortune 500 companies. Business and stock market news is also available.

Fortune Magazine's Global 500:
http://pathfinder.com/fortune/global500/index.html
Detailed information, including rankings, on the Global 500 companies.  Business and stock market news is also available.

Hoover's Online
http://www.hoovers.com/
Searchable database of 10,000 major public, private, and
international companies. Search the corporate directory by ticker symbol,
name, industry, sales, or location.

Yahoo Finance
http://finance.yahoo.com/?u
Customized stock quotes and business news.

TELEPHONE DIRECTORIES

ATT Tollfree Directory
http://www.tollfree.att.net/tf.html

AT&T AnyWho
http://www.anywho.com/
AT&T's directory service database is the has numerous features. You can do reverse lookups,  ask for a street proximity listing for a business or residential listing, use their "sounds like" match for last name lookups, and get maps of the address (from their sister site MapsOnUs). 

Big Book 
http://www.bigbook.com/
Listings for businesses in the United States. Searchable by business name, location, and/or category. Listings include address, phone number, and a street map showing the business' location. 

Infospace.com Reverse Look Up
http://www.infospace.com/info/reverse.htm
This is a "Big Brother" type tool (referred to as a criss-cross directory) that allows you to plug in a phone number and find the name and address that goes with it. 

NYNEX Interactive Yellow Pages
http://s11.bigyellow.com/ 
Searchable Yellow Pages - business listings for New York and New England. Includes residential listings as well. 

Phone Books & Directories
http://thorplus.lib.purdue.edu/reference/phone.html
Courtesy of Purdue University Libraries, this site provides links to phone books and directories from around the world.

Switchboard.com
http://www.switchboard.com/
National telephone directory.

OTHER USEFUL RESOURCES

All Movie Guide
http://www.allmovie.com
A great reference resource for movie buffs.  Searchable by movie, person, keyword.

Associations on the Net
http://ipl.org/ref/AON/
From the Internet Public Library, this is a searchable annotated guide to more than 550 home pages of prominent organizations and associations.

Bartleby.com: Great Books Online
http://www.bartleby.com
Melville's Bartleby, the Scrivener (scribe) is the namesake for this online great books site.   Access to many fulltext  reference resources (contemporary and classic)  including:
Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. 2000 
American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 3rd ed. 1996
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, 3rd ed. 1995
American Heritage Book of English Usage. 1996 
Simpson's Contemporary Quotations. 1988 
Bartlett, John. 1901. Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. 
Cambridge History of English & American Literature (18 vols.). 1907-21. 
Gray, Henry. 1918. Anatomy of the Human Body, 20th ed.
Post, Emily. 1922. Etiquette. 
Strunk, William, Jr. 1918. The Elements of Style. 

FAQ Finder 
http://ps.superb.net/FAQ/
This is a comprehensive guide to more than 1800 FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) files available on the Internet, arranged by category.

Geographic Names Information System 
http://www-nmd.usgs.gov/www/gnis/gnisform.html
Provided by the U.S. Geological Survey, this is a searchable database for places in the U.S. by feature, state or county name, feature type, population or elevation range.

The Kelly Blue Book
http://www.kbb.com/
Guaranteed to interest high school students, this searchable database is an excellent source of information about the value of new and used cars.

The National Address Server
http://www.cedar.buffalo.edu/adserv.html
Given a valid U.S. postal address, this server rewrites the address in the proper format along with the ZIP+4 code. You can retrieve a Postscript or a GIF file of the address for printing, with a barcode! You can also view a street map of the address, from 2 different Internet map sites (MapBlast and MapQuest).

Occupational Outlook Handbook, 1998-1999
http://stats.bls.gov/ocohome.htm
Published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the complete text of the OOH is available online and seachable by keyword.  This is a standard reference source for job and career information.

Quotations Home Page
http://www.lexmark.com/data/quote.html
Provides links to many quotation sites on the Internet, including Bartlett's 9th edition, published in 1901.

Roget's Thesaurus
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/forms_unrest/ROGET.html
The University of Chicago's ARTFL Project now includes Roget's Thesaurus (the 1911 edition, currently being updated). Although classified as experimental, this is a good reference tool for writers.

Zip Codes
http://www.usps.gov/ncsc/
The zip code directory site is provided by the US Postal Service.