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Biography

Biographical Dictionary
Biography.com
World Biographical Index

Citation Style Guides

Diana Hacker Sample MLA Works Cited List (Daly) (PDF)
MLA Citation Examples - from Honolulu Community College Library
University of Wisconsin-Madison Writing Center: Documentation Guide
Noodletools.com
Citation Machine
AAA - American Anthropological Association
APA - American Psychological Association
APSA - American Political Science Association
Chicago (Turabian) Style
MLA - Modern Language Association of America
Bedford/St. Martin's Online Citation Styles

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Dictionaries & Thesauri
English Language Dictionaries & Thesauri

The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language. 4th ed. (2000)
Bartleby Great Books Online (Reference Sources )
Cambridge Dictionaries Online
CMU Pronouncing Dictionary
Dictionary.com
Lycos Rhymezone
Merriam-Webster Dictionary and Thesaurus
RhymeZone
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus. 3rd ed. 1995
Wordsmyth Dictionary-Thesaurus

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International Language Dictionaries

LOGOS Multilingual Dictionary
OneLook Dictionaries
Travlang's Translating Dictionaries

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Subject-specific Dictionaries

American Sign Language Dictionary
BioTech Life Sciences Dictionary
Dictionary of Cell Biology
Duhaime's Law Dictionary
FOLDOC - Free Online Dictionary of Computing
Glossary of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Law.com Dictionary
Online Dictionary of the Social Sciences
Water Words Dictionary
Whatis?com (Information Technologies)

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Electronic Serials

AcqWeb's Directory of Journals, Newsletters and Electronic Discussion Archives
D-Lib Magazine
Information Research: an International Electronic Journal

Information Today, Inc. (Computers in Libraries, Information Today, Searcher)
Online Inc.

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Encyclopedias
Botany.Com Encyclopedia of Plants
Britannica.com
Encarta
Encyclopedia.com
The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
NatureServe: An Online Encyclopedia of Life
ORB Encyclopedia (Medieval Studies)
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Webopaedia: Online Computer Dictionary for Computer and Internet Terms and Definitions

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Geography (Atlases, Gazetteers, etc.)

Altapedia Online - Maps and Country Information

CIA World Factbook
Geographic Names Information System (United States)
GEOnet Names Server (non-USA)
Library of Congress Country Studies
MapQuest
TopoZone (topographical maps)
The World Bank Group Countries and Regions
World Development Reports (World Bank)

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Language and Literature

The American Heritage Book of English Usage. 1996

Bartleby Verse: American & English Poetry, 1250-1920
Bartlett. Familiar Quotations. 10th ed. (1919)
Brewer. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
The Cambridge History of English and American Literature (1907-1921)
Concordances of Great Books
Project Gutenberg (Read books online)
Gale Literary Index
Inter-Play: Online index to plays in collections, anthologies & periodicals
Internet Public Library Online Literary Criticism Collection
Lexical FreeNet "Connected Thesaurus"
Simpson's Contemporary Quotations
Voice of the Shuttle

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Research / Reference Metasites

Internet Public Library Ready Reference Collection
iTools.com
Lycos Reference Room
Research-It!

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Statistics

American FactFinder
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
UNESCO Institute for Statistics

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Writing Guides

The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation
Fowler, H.W. The King's English, 2nd ed.
Guide to Grammar and Writing
On-Line English Grammar
Purdue Online Writing Lab
Rensselaer Writing Center
Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric
UVic Writer's Guide

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Other Reference Sources
American Rhetoric: Online Speechbank
Acronym Finder
Bartleby Great Books Online
Chambers's Book of Days (1879)
The Gutenberg Bible: Digitized Images
Information Please: Almanac, Dictionary, Encyclopaedia
The Internet Acronym Server
Internet History Sourcebooks Project
The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy. 17th edition
Mortgage Calculator & Financial Calculators
PubList Directory of Serials
SYMBOLS.com - Encyclopedia of Western Signs and Ideograms
Units of Measurement
WebElements Periodic Table


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