Index of Reference Sources

Almanacs

• Informationplease Infoplease provides easy-to-use reference materials on just about every subject, with millions of facts, plus definitions, articles, photographs, maps, lists, and tables.

• Old Farmer's Almanac This is the classic Old Farmer's Almanac. It includes tide tables, planting charts, recipes and more.

• CNN.Com DailyAlmanac This site includes a daily archive of newsworthy events back to 1996.

• 50 States and Capitals This site contains diverse information ranging from general state facts and figures to more specific directories and useful state links. `Verify Signature

Career Information

• Kutztown University Career Services

• CareerBuilder - employment ads in newpapers from around the country 

• JobWeb- Occupational Outlook Handbook, career fairs, federal jobs database, company information, many other links

• Morning Call Jobs - job ads in the Lehigh Valley

• NYTimes Career Path section

• Scholarly & Professional Societies - internet sites, many with job listings

Consumer Information

• ConsumerSearch This site was rated by PC World as the best source of expert product reviews on the Internet. ConsumerSearch helps you dig through hundreds of in-depth product reviews that provide in- depth, expert information.

• Consumer World Catalog of over 2000 various consumer resources.

• Edmunds For automotive consumers this site provides complete, clear, timely, accurate and unbiased information needed to make informed purchase and ownership decisions.

• Epinions Consumer site that provides unedited opinions and reviews from user members about a broad range of products, services, and travel destinations. Links to professional reviews and buying guides are also a vailable in many categories.

• Federal Consumer Information Center Provides a lot of free and low cost consumer publications from the federal government as well as many wonderful consumer links.

• Kelley Blue Book Everything you ever wanted to know on buying or selling a car.

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Conversion Tools

• Conversion Factors - many scientific and engineering categories of measurement including area, force, length, volume, weight, etc.

Currency Exchange Rates

• CNN Money - Currencies Market

• Universal Currency Converter

• Yahoo Finance Exchange Rates

Dates & Times

• The World Clock - Time Zones - set your watch to the minute; also, international times

• Ecclesiastical Calendars - what was the date for Easter in 1609?

• Universal Calendar - look up a calendar month for any month & year

Dictionaries

• List of Online Dictionaries

• Acronyms Dictionary

• French-English Dictionary

• Spanish-Spanish and Spanish-English Dictionaries

• WWWebster Dictionary - with links to a thesaurus

• Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus - from Robert Parks and the ARTFL Project at the University of Chicago

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Geographic Data and Maps

• CIA World Factbook - 2004 edition

• Country Studies (from the Library of Congress)

• MapBlast! - Create maps based on U.S. street addresses.

• Maporama - Street-level directional maps for the U.S, 15 European nations, and most of Canada.

• MapQuest - route and mileage information for city-to-city travel in the US; interactive world atlas - includes street maps for some cities

• Panoramic Maps - U.S. and Canadian cities and towns during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

• Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection - from the University of Texas at Austin. About 2100 maps out of 230,000 have been made available electronically.

• Thesaurus of Geographic Names - contains nearly 1 million place names representing approximately 900,000 places.

Government Resources; Tax & Voter Information

• American Factfinder - Population, housing, economic and geographic data for Census 2000 and 1990.

• Budget of the United States

• Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance

• Catalog of US Government Publications- Publications of the Government Printing Office

• Census Department- Includes data from Census Department and Bureau of Labor Statistics.

• Congressional Directory - Official almanac of Congress

• County and City Data Book

• Federal IRS Tax Forms and Publications

• FedWorld - NTIS's gateway to U.S. and foreign government information, including agency databases, files, documents, and federal job listings.

• Google's Uncle Sam Search - An excellent web search engine for government documents.

• GPO Access - Provides access to over 80 government databases including the Congressional Record, Federal Register, Congressional Bills (1994-), U.S. Code, and GAO Reports. Legislative information is also available through the Thomas Legislative Information on the Internet.

• How Our Laws Are Made

• NAICS-North American Industry Classification Codes (1997 NAICS and 1987 SIC Correspondence Tables)

• Periodicals From Columbia University Libraries Documents Services Center - Includes electronic versions of federal, IGO, New York State, and New York City government serial publications.

• SIC Codes-Standard Industrial Classification Codes

• State & Local Government Internet Links

• Statistical Abstract of the United States

• United States Government Manual

• United States Supreme Court Decisions - all decisions since May 1990 and selected historic decisions

• White House - Current news, press releases, executive orders and major speeches.

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Internet Searching Aids

• Britannica Internet Guide - a subject directory from the Britannica Online web site

• How to Choose the Search Tools You Need - from UC Berkeley Library

• INFOMINE - a collection of annotated and indexed links especially for university level research

• InFoPeople Recommended Search Tools - an excellent single page collection of web search engines and directories.  A product developed for California's public libraries.

• Liszt - an extensive directory of mailing lists on the internet including listservs.

• Selected Internet Subject Directories and Search Engines - a chart of web search engines and directories with information about searching options; also from InFoPeople.

• Voice of the Shuttle - a subject guide to web sites devoted to humanities research

News, Weather, & Sports

• Newslink - links to newspapers, magazines, broadcasters, and other media.

• Christian Science Monitor - full text searchable back to 1981; archive link at the bottom of the page. The searching directions are actually fun to read.

• CNN.com

• ESPN Sports News

• National Public Radio Online - includes sound archives of many reports and interviews.

• New York Times

• Time - Online Edition

• USA Today

• Washington Post

• Yahoo! News

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Historical Documents & Resources

• American Memory - historical collections for the National Digital Library.  This site contains the texts for the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.  Click on Documents and then scroll down to click on Documents from the Continental Congress.

• Making of America - a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.

Phone Books, Area Codes, Zip Codes

• Switchboard - nationwide residential & business directory

• Area/Country Code Look Up - U.S. and foreign cities.

• AT&T Anywho Info: Yellow Pages - yellow pages on the web

• Airline toll-free numbers - with links to airline web pages if available

• U.S. Gazetteer - area code, zip code, and map location of most U.S. cities. with links to census information

• U.S. Postal Service Abbreviations

• US Postal Service ZIP Code Lookup

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Publishing: Print & Electronic

• Global Books in Print - (KU Community Only) contains books in and out of print. Search by author, title, subject and ISBN.

• AAUP Online Catalog / Bookstore - 75,000 titles from nearly 60 scholarly presses, some entries with descriptions

• AcqWeb's Directory of Publishers and Vendors - subject list with links to websites & email addresses

• Alex: A Catalogue of Electronic Texts on the Internet - no longer updated but still useful

• Bartleby Library, Great Books Online

• BookWire - links to publishers, booksellers, libraries, electronic texts, publishing information, the Boston Book Review, and many other resources

• E-ZINE List - links to over 2600 electronic magazines

• NewJour: Electronic Journals and Newsletters - archive goes back to 1995 and is searchable by keyword. Frequently updated.

• On-Line Books Page - an index of over 1000 books; includes a subject list using LC classification

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Quotations

• Bartlett's Book of Familiar Quotations

• Bible Gateway - keyword searching in various Bible translations

Science & Medical Reference Sources

• Conversion Factors - many scientific and engineering categories of measurement including area, force, length, volume, weight, etc.

• Nobel Prize Internet Archive - includes chemistry, physics, physiology & medicine

• Periodic Table of Elements

Universities & Colleges

• American Universities - links to web sites

• Braintrack University Index -- Over 5500 Links to Higher Educational Institutions in 161 Countries

• Universities Outside the U.S. - geographic listing with links to web sites

Writer's Resources

• APA and MLA Bibliography Styles - from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's Writers' Workshop
  Note: The Library has the APA-Style Helper 3.0 cd-rom for PC & Mac. This is an updated version to accompany the 5th edition of the print Publication Manual of the APA (2001). It's in the Media Center, BF 76.7.P83 2001

• Citation Guides for Electronic Documents - from IFLA with links to a number of citation guides

• Citation Styles for Research Papers from the B.Davis Schwartz Memorial Library, Long Island University/C.W. Post Campus

• Columbia Guide to Online Style--APA-Style Citations of Electronic Sources - developed by Janice R. Walker of the University of South Florida

• Columbia Guide to Online Style--MLA-Style Citations of Electronic Sources - developed by Janice R. Walker of the University of South Florida

• Electronic Reference Formats Recommended by the American Psychological Association

• Elements of Style - by William Strunk, Jr.

• Glossary of Literary Terms and A Handbook of Rhetorical Devices - by Robert Harris.

• Grammar Handbook - from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's Writers' Workshop

• Journal Abbreviation Sources - All That JAS: Journal Abbreviation Sources is a registry of Web resources that list or provide access to the full title of journal abbreviations.

• Purdue University Online Writing Lab (OWL) - over 100 handouts on specific aspects of writing, with an index and summaries. Includes material on resume and cover letter writing.  From the Purdue University Writing Lab.

• Roget's Internet Thesaurus

• Sources: Their Use and Acknowledgement (from Dartmouth College)

• WWWebster Dictionary - with links to a thesaurus

• Writing Techniques Handbook - from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's Writers' Workshop