Online Encyclopedias, Almanacs, Dictionaries, and Much More
Author
Biographies and Literary Works
AMERICAN
AUTHORS ON THE WEB:
http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/%7Ematsuoka/AmeLit.html
AUTHORS
LIST and THEIR WORKS BY ALPHABET:
http://www.realliteraturedir.com
AUTHORS
ON THE WEB:
http://www.people.virginia.edu/~jbh/author.html
AUTHORS
YELLOW PAGES:
http://www.steamboatlibrary.org/readersauthorbios.html
KIDSPACE AUTHOR PAGE:
http://ipl.si.umich.edu/div/kidspace/askauthor/
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Dictionaries
CHILDREN’S DICTIONARY:
The Wordsmyth Children’s Dictionary, and Dictionary-Thesaurus
http://www.wordsmyth.net
COMPUTING:
Free Online Dictionary of Computing
http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/index.html
DICTIONARIES:
Various languages, technical references, thesauri,
etymolofies, quotations, and many others.
http://math-www.uni-paderborn.de/HTML/Dictionaries.html
DICTIONARIES:
Free online dictionary that queries eight other dictionaries.
http://www.dictionary.net/
DICTIONARIES:
Various languages, i.e. Hebrew, Taino, Gaelic, Greek-Serbian,
and many strange and unusual dictionaries.
http://onelook.com/?d=all_gen
ECONOMICS:
Martindale’s The Reference Desk
Lists dictionaries on management, business, economics:
http://abigcorporation.com/RefCalculators1B.html#SPREAD-ECON
ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/
ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
Dictionary.com
http://dictionary.reference.com/
ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
Merriam Webster Dictionary Online
http://www.m-w.com/netdict.htm
TRANSLATIONS:
Martindale’s The Reference Desk: Languages & Translation
Center.
http://www.forth.org.ru/~mlg/LangEnc/Language.html
TRANSLATIONS:
English to French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish.
http://translator.dictionary.com/text.html
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Electronic Books Online:
ACCELERATED
SCHOOLS SITE:
http://www.free-books.org/
AFRICAN
AMERICAN WOMEN WRITERS, 19th CENTURY:
http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/writers_aa19/
BANNED
BOOKS ONLINE:
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/banned-books.html
EARLY
TO PRIMARY GRADES--INDEXES:
http://eduscapes.com/tap/topic93.htm
GUTENBERG
PROJECT:
http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/
INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S DIGITAL LIBRARY
http://www.childrenslibrary.org/
ONLINE
BOOKS PAGE : INDEXES:
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/archives.html
ROSETTA
PROJECT:
http://childrensbooksonline.org/library.htm
UNIVERSITY
OF VIRGINIA LIBRARY:
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/ebooks/
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General Encyclopedias and Almanacs
Specialized Encyclopedias
GEOGRAPHY: Atlapedia Online
Includes maps, statistics, and other data on countries of the
world.
http://www.atlapedia.com/
GEOGRAPHY: E-Conflict World Encyclopedia
Varied information on the nations of the world. Includes national
anthems, flags, maps, weather and news.
http://www.emulateme.com/
PHILOSOPHY: The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/
PHILOSOPHY: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
http://plato.stanford.edu/contents.html
SCIENCE: Eric's Treasure Trove of Science
Includes information on Astronomy, Scientific Biography, Math,
Chemistry, Cellular Automaton, Music, Physics, Rockets http://www.treasure-troves.com/
TECHNOLOGY: PC Webopaedia
An online encyclopedia and search engine on computer technology.
http://www.pcwebopedia.com/
TECHNOLOGY: Tech Encyclopedia
Defines terms used in technology.
http://www.techweb.com/encyclopedia
WORLD HISTORY: Encyclopedia of World History
Includes 20,000 entries that span prehistoric times to
the year 2000.
http://www.bartleby.com/67/
WOLD HISTORY: HyperHistory Online
Covers 3,000 years of world history in a searchable timetable
format.
http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html
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Thesauri
Merriam Webster Thesaurus Online:
http://www.m-w.com/thesaurus.htm
Roget’s Thesaurus
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/ARTFL/forms_unrest/ROGET.html
Thesaurus.com
http://thesaurus.reference.com/
The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
http://www.wordsmyth.net/
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Other Reference Resources
ACRONYMS; ABBREVIATIONS: The WorldWideWeb Acronym and
Abbreviation Server
Identifies common and specialized acronyms used in the English
language.
http://www.ucc.ie/acronyms/
ACRONYMS: Acronym Finder
A searchable database containing common acronyms and abbreviations
about all subjects, with a focus on computers, technology,
telecommunications, and the military.
http://www.acronymfinder.com/
CURRENCY, INTERNATIONAL : Currency Converter
http://finance.yahoo.com/m3?u
CURRENCY, INTERNATIONAL : The Universal Currency Converter
http://www.xe.net/currency/
E-BOOKS; DOCUMENTS IN FULL TEXT : Bartleby.com
Bartleby.com publishes thousands of free online classics of reference,
literature and nonfiction
http://www.bartleby.com/
E-BOOKS; DOCUMENTS IN FULL TEXT : Humanities Text Iniative
This organization maintains electronic texts that can be viewed
free on the Internet.
http://www.hti.umich.edu/
ENGLISH LANGUAGE - GRAMMAR : Online English Grammar
This site provides free access to anyone.
http://www.edufind.com/english/grammar/index.cfm
ENGLISH LANGUAGE : Phrase Finder
A professional writers' resource for generating ideas for headlines,
advertising copy, song lyrics etc.
http://phrases.shu.ac.uk/meanings/index.html
LANGUAGES : Language and Translation
http://www.forth.org.ru/~mlg/LangEnc/Language.html
LITERATURE : The Internet Classics Archive
A list of 441 works of classical literature, Greco-Roman,
Chinese, Persian - translated in English.
http://classics.mit.edu/index.html
QUOTATIONS : Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
The ninth edition of this famous collection of passages, phrases,
and proverbs traced to their sources in ancient and modern
literature.
http://www.bartleby.com/100/
REFERENCE, MISC. : Research-It!
Links to various sites on language, research, maps, finance http://www.itools.com/
SHAKESPEARE : The Oxford Shakespeare
Online: the 37 plays and 154 sonnets, from the 1914 Oxford
edition of the Complete Works of William Shakespeare.
http://www.bartleby.com/70/
SURVIVAL SKILLS : Learn2.com
Provides tutorials for skills to be learned, i.e. writing to
your Congressman, balance checkbooks, etc.
http://www.tutorials.com/
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Columbia Guide to Online Style
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/cgos/idx_basic.html
Electronic Sources (APA Format)
http://www.duke.edu/~dutter/eapa.html
Electronic Sources (MLA Format)
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/cgos/idx_basic.html
MLA Citation Examples / Honolulu Community Coll.Lib.
http://www.hcc.hawaii.edu/education/hcc/library/mlahcc.html
Electronic Reference Formats Recommended by the American
Psychological Association
http://www.apastyle.org/elecref.html
Turabian Style: Sample Footnotes and Bibliographic Entries
(6th ed.)
http://www.bridgew.edu/depts/maxwell/turabian.htm
Bibliographic Style Examples
http://www.libs.uga.edu/ref/resaid.html#bibaids
Citation Styles
http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/citex.html
Citation Style Guides
http://www.libs.uga.edu/ref/citation.html
General and Electronic Citation Guides" and "How
to Cite Sources (Avoiding Plagiarism)
http://juno.concordia.ca/services/citations.html#electronic
Automatic Citation Generators
The Citation Machine (by David Warlick of The Landmark Project)
http://citationmachine.net/
KnightCite
http://webapps.calvin.edu/knightcite/index.php
NCSU Libraries
http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/lobo2/citationbuilder/bookcitation.php
(Makes citations in various styles all at once)
Student abc: Citation Creation Machine
http://www.studentabc.com/citation_machine
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