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WEB   REFERENCE   SOURCES

web sites that answer basic reference questions

[ Almanacs ]   [ Biographies ]   [ Calculators & Converters ] [ Dictionaries ]   [ Directories ]   [ Encyclopedias ]  
[ Maps ]   [ Miscellaneous ]   [ Quotations ]   [ Statistics ]   [ Weather ] [ Library Reference Sites ]   [ Reference Collections ]


ALMANACS 

[ See also Statistics listing below ]


BIOGRAPHIES


CALCULATORS & CONVERTERS


DICTIONARIES


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DIRECTORIES


ENCYCLOPEDIAS


MAPS


MISCELLANEOUS


  • Calories Burned Calculator
    This WWW resource notes the number of calories burned doing various activities.
  • City-Data.com
    This source provides information on thousands of U.S. cities, including demographic statistics, climatological data, and listings of major hospital, media outlets, schools, and other profile data.
  • dMarie Time Capsule
    dMarie Time Capsule provides major news headlines, cost of various products, hit songs, top television shows, academy award winners, best-selling books, etc. for any specified birth date from the years 1800 through 2001.
  • FreeTranslation.com
    This quick, easy-to-use source for translating English phrases / sentences into French, German, Italian, Portuguese, or Spanish also translates phrases from those foreign languages into English.
  • How Far Is It?
    This web resources provides "as the crow flies" distance estimates between any two places in the world.
  • HowStuffWorks
    Winner of Scientific American's 2002 Sci/Tech Award, HowStuffWorks uses colorful illustrations to explain in simple terms "how various things work."
  • Texas Mileage Guide
    The Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts' Texas Mileage Guide driving distances between some 2,000 locations in Texas, including 50 out-of-state cities and 31 airports. In addition, it calculates the official State of Texas reimbursement amounts based on the current per-mile rate.
  • This to That
    This site gives advice on how to glue different various things to other things.

QUOTATIONS


STATISTICS  

[ See also Almanacs listing above ]


WEATHER



If the sources above do not answer your questions,
try the various reference collections listed below:

LIBRARY REFERENCE SITES

  • The Best Information on the Net
    Following their materials selection policy, librarians at St. Ambrose University have produced a subject-oriented listing of reference quality web sites.
  • Fast Facts
    San Antonio Public Library has compiled this listing of major quick reference sources available on the web.
  • Internet Collegiate Reference Collection
    Maintained by Bloomsburg University's Harvey A. Andruss Library, the ICRC is provides keyword and LC call number access to "the best free reference materials on the World Wide Web."
  • The San Antonio College Library Web Guides Page
    Focused solely on Internet resources, this source provides listings and descriptions of web sites selected by collection development librarians.

REFERENCE COLLECTIONS

  • Academic Info
    This Internet source provides links to online publications, study guides, databases, virtual libraries, tutorials, etc. designed for high school and college students.
  • Galaxy
    Compiled by "human Internet librarians," this service organizes and classifies web informational sources. Individual sources are listed by broad categories or can be located through a subject search.
  • INFOMINE: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections
    Designed for college teachers, students, and researchers, INFOMINE is a virtual reference tool that indexes WWW-based electronic books / journals, bulletin boards, listservs, online catalogs,etc.
  • Internet Public Library
    The IPL contains a listing of quality web information resources arranged in broad categories.
  • Issues in Labor Statistics
    Covering 1996 - 2003, this pdf collection of U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports provides quick overviews of various special labor market topics .
  • Librarians' Internet Index
    This selective annotated listing is searchable by topic and includes some 17,000 evaluated web sites. It focuses on sources that answer a typical library user's informational needs.
  • LibrarySpot.com
    Designed for users who need a quick listing of research sources, this "free virtual library resource center" provides links to almanacs, dictionaries, directories, encyclopedias and other sources for Web information.
  • Martindale's: The Reference Desk
    Organized by "information centers," James Martindale maintains an extensive index of web-based sources. It is designed for anybody who needs "to find something they can use on an everyday basis..."
  • refdesk.com
    Refdesk is a "one-stop" virtual shelf listing of hyperlinks for dictionaries, encyclopedias, directories, etc. available on the World Wide Web.
  • Scout Report Archives
    Sponsored by the National Science Foundation, the Archives indexes over 10,000 of the best Internet sources. It is searchable by LC call number and LC subject headings.
  • Special Issues - Gary Price's List of Lists
    The List of Lists includes subject links to various rankings, industrial outlooks / surveys, buyers' guides, salary surveys, etc. that appear in commercial magazines and other web sites.
  • The WWW Virtual Library
    Billed as the "oldest catalog of the Web," it is compiled by a group of volunteer subject experts who provide high-quality guides to specific web topics.



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