Selected Reference Resources on the
Web
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Acronyms & Abbreviations
- Acronym Finder searchable database containing common acronyms, with a focus on computers, technology, telecommunications, and the military.
- Oxford Dictionary of Abbreviations (Princeton only)
- WWW Acronym & Abbreviation Server
Arts & Leisure (Film, Museums, Sports, Theater, TV)
Film
- Internet Movie Database covers over 140,000 movies; includes filmographies, plot summaries; character names; movie ratings; year of release; genres; reviews; links to official studio pages, Academy Awards info +. Also covers television series.
- Facets nation's largest distributors of art, classic, cult, foreign and hard-to-find videos. Facets has over 27,000 titles, all of which are available for purchase through mail order.
- Film Festivals.com includes all Film Festivals from 1995 - to date; search by country, date or name.
- Film Studies links maintained by M. Norden for the American Communication Center
- Movie Review Query Engine includes reviews that have been posted in the past to rec.arts.movies.reviews or appear on one of the WWW servers of newspapers and periodicals.
- Movie-STAR information on the Academy Awards since 1927, including more than 6,200 nominations and 1,200 Oscar awards in major categories for over 2400 motion pictures and 3900 individuals.
- Oscars - Academy Awards official site of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
- Reel: the Planet's Biggest Movie Store movie/video guide; rent or buy videos; lists current releases; summaries of critics' reviews.
Museums
- Museums Around the World
- Museums of the World
- Smithsonian (Washington, D.C.)
Sports
- ESPN.COM covers all the major sports,including daily game summaries, scores, schedules, etc.
- SportQuest searchable directory of sport websites.
- Sports Server - comprehensive sports site; covers teams, scores, players, statistics, history. Has special sections on This Day in Sports history, what sports are on TV . . .
- Total College Sports (FANSonly) news and features on major and some minor college sports.
- CBS SportsLine site for major college & professional teams; has schedules, scores, & statistics.
- Sports Network continuously updated sports scores.
- Sports Schedules As You Like 'Em schedules for all major professional and most minor league teams.
Theater
- CultureFinder: The Online Address for the Performing Arts includes schedules for over 1,000 arts organizations in the U.S & around the world; CityGuides - the arts in major U.S. cities, etc.
- Live Broadway.com official web site of Broadway
- Playbill On-line U.S. and London theater listings, feature articles,Who's Who, job listings, +
TV
- PBS Online & WNET (Channel 13)
- TV Guide Online Listings
- Vanderbilt Television News Archive
Biographies
- American National Biography
- Biographical Dictionary 4000 biographies covering ancient times to the present.
- Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to the Present
- Biography.com site of A & E's Biography television series; includes the searchable text of 15,000 entries from The Cambridge Biographical Encyclopedia.
- Biography and Geneaology Master Index (Princeton only), use internet explorer
- Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments from the CIA, updated list of current world leaders and their cabinets.
- Contemporary Authors accessed through Literature Resource Center (Princeton only)
- Contemporary Literary Criticism accessed through Literature Resource Center (Princeton only)
- Dictionary of Literary Biography accessed through Literature Resource Center (Princeton only)
- Lives, the Biography Resource links to thousands of biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, diaries, letters, narratives, oral histories and more
- NameBase Index over 200,000 citations covering more than 90,000 individual and organizational names from approximately 500 books published since 1962 and periodicals from 1973. Covers people in academia, high tech, media, politics, intelligence, U.S. foreign policy, religion, crime, business.
- ObitFinder recent obituaries from more than 1,000 newspapers
- Poets & Writers Online the Directory of American poets & fiction writers online; has over 2,000 names and addresses of writers.
- World Biographical Index two million brief biographies for individuals who lived in North and South America, Western & Central Europe, Africa, Australia, New Zealand, & Oceania. Princeton owns microfiche of some of the works cited in this database. Check titles in the main catalog.
Books (Online Stores, Publishers, Book Reviews, E-Texts )
Online Stores
- Abebooks.com searches used, secondhand, rare, and out-of-print booksellers around the world.
- AddALL book search and price comparison
- Alibris database of out-of-print, rare, and antiquarian books. Updated daily
- Amazon.com
- Antiqbook: antiquarian booksellers online
- Barnesandnoble.com
- Best Book Buys comparison site that searches over 20 book stores stores to find the lowest price. Used, rare and out-of-print bookstore sites compared include:
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European resources include Antiqbook from the Netherlands and Libri@ntichi.BookFinder Advanced Book Exchange Bibliofind@Amazon.com Bibliocity - BookWeb.org from the American Booksellers Association, lists "over 4,500 booksellers, complete with URLs, email addresses and descriptions." Lists bookstores by specialty.
- Internet Book Shop Europe's largest online bookshop
- Meta Book Search (Searchenginez)
- Strand Bookstore (NYC)
- Tomfolio.com an international cooperative of used and rare booksellers
- UsedBookSearch used book search engine for secondhand, rare and out of print books
Publishers
- AcqWeb's Directory of Publishers and Vendors comprehensive coverage, including an international directory of e-mail addresses for publishers, and publishers' web sites by name, place, and subject.
- Global Books in Print(Princeton only)
- Publishers' Catalogues Home Page geographical index of publisher websites worldwide.
- AAUP Combined Online Catalog/Bookstore access to books of all participating Association of American University Presses members and links to the individual on-line catalogs of many scholarly presses.
- Ulrich's International Periodicals (Princeton only)
Book Reviews & Literary Criticism
- BookWire comprehensive book industry site; includes Library Journal; School Library Journal; Publishers Weekly, with their Bestseller Lists and links to reviews; Computer Book Review; Hungry Mind Review; indexes to publishers and booksellers on the Web; calendars of authors on tour and book events, etc.
- Book Browser: a guide for avid readers "collection of fiction reading lists. . . to help avid fiction readers find books and authors;" lists by genre, location, series.
- Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes "comprises the largest reference work of literary criticism and history on the internet." The online version is searchable by keyword and browseable by volume, chapter, and section. Includes an Index to Authors, Index to Chapters , & an Index to Bibliographies.
- Choice Reviews Online (Princeton only)
- Dictionary of Literary Biography accessed through Literature Resource Center (Princeton only)
- New York Review of Books includes selections from its current issue and archived selections from issues back to February, 1997; an eventual complete record of its publishing history is expected.
- New York Times Book Review includes an archive of more than 50,000 reviews, book-related news pieces, and interviews back to 1980. The full-text of first chapters of selected bestsellers and featured titles are available.
- Online Literary Criticism Collection from the Internet Public Library, includes 1576 critical and biographical websites about authors and their work; browse by author, by title, or by literary period.
Electronic texts
- Alex: A Catalogue of Electronic Texts on the Internet "a collection of public domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy."
- Electronic Text Center at UVA
- Humanities Text Initiative
- Oxford Text Archive
- The Online Books Page directory of books free on the Internet; includes: index of thousands of on-line books; pointers to directories and archives of on-line texts...
- One Stop Guide to Online E-texts
- Online Electronic Publishing Collection
- SearcheBooks.com searches the web for electronic books
- University of Toronto English Library
Consumers
- U.S. Consumer gateway a "one-stop" link to a broad range of federal information resources available online. Information by category -- such as Food, Health, Product Safety, Your Money, and Transportation.
- Consumer Search provides links to product reviews ; content added weekly with plans to cover 800 product categories
- Consumer World "a public service site which has gathered over 1700 of the most useful consumer resources..." Offers product reviews, comparison shopping for bargains and travel, info on filing a complaint with a consumer affairs department or the BBB, info on low rate credit card or mortgage, prices of cars, finance tips, how to research a law, ...
- Kelley Blue Book New & Used Car Price Reports lists both new car and used car prices & reports, and a directory of important sites, including dealer and automobile manufacturers' sites.
Currency Rates & Measurement Tools
- Cheat Sheet for Travelers includes currency conversion table for each of 164 currencies.
- Currencies of the World
- Currency Converter more than 160 exchange rates for any day, from jan. 1 1990 through yesterday.
- Currency Converter - Universal
- What's a Dollar Worth? Federal Reserve Bank service that uses data from the Consumer Price Index to calculate CPI values across the years.
Measurement Tools
- Common Weights And Measures
- A Dictionary of Measures, Units and Conversions " a summary of most of the units of measurement in use around the world today (and a few of historical interest), with the appropriate conversion factors needed to change them into a 'standard' unit of the S I"( 'Systeme International')
- Measurement Conversion Calculator converts any combination of approximately 800 SI, metric, American, English, historical, and ancient measures.
Dictionaries & Encyclopedias
- Bartleby.com includes database of more than twenty reference works, (encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, quotations, and English usage), such as: Bulfinch, 1913; the Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th edition, 2000; the American Heritage Book of English Usage, 1996; Roget's II: the New Thesaurus, 3rd edition, 1995; the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, 2000; and more.
- The Century Dictionary Online "the largest freely available online dictionary."
- Dictionary of Slang by Ted Duckworth; from a British perspective; also includes words and phrases that originate from outside the UK and indicates the country of origin, if known.
- Glossarist: a searchable directory of glossaries and topical dictionaries.
- Hypertext Webster Gateway access various dictionary services.
- Infoplease.com includes the contents of the Information Please Almanacs;coverage includes world, us, history & government, biography, sports, arts & entertainment, health and science, etc.
- Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition
- Oxford English Dictionary(Princeton only) updated quarterly; from Oxford UP
- Oxford Reference Online "contains about 100 dictionary, language reference, andsubject reference works published by Oxford University Press." (Princeton only)
- Princeton University Library: Recommended Language Dictionaries
- Webster's Revised Unabridged 1913 Ed. ARTFL Project
- WordNet online lexical system developed by the Cognitive Science Laboratory at Princeton University.
- Wordsmyth:The Educational Dictionary-Thesaurus
Dictionary Gateways
- Linguist's List comprehensive directory of foreign language and English dictionaries.
- Your Dictionary.com word lists, dictionaries and thesauri for over 130 languages. (R. Beard, Bucknell University; formerly Web of Online Dictionaries)
Medical Dictionaries
- Medical Dictionaries from the National Library of Medicine.
- MedicineNet MedTerms search by keyword or browse alphabetically
- Online Medical Dictionary from Medic8.com; links are maintained & categorised by doctors.
- On-line Medical Dictionary (from the UK)
Selected language Dictionaries
French
- ARTFL Project: French-English Dictionary
- ARTFL Project: TLF Dictionary Form Nicot's Thresor de la langue française from 1606
- Dictionnaire de l'Académie française
German
Thesauri
- Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Roget's Internet Thesaurus
- Roget's Thesaurus 1911 edition; "supplemented: July, 1991."
Encyclopedias
- Bartleby.com includes database of more than twenty reference works, (encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, quotations, and English usage), such as:Bulfinch, 1913; the Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th edition, 2000; the American Heritage Book of English Usage, 1996; Roget's II: the New Thesaurus, 3rd edition, 1995; the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, 2000; and more.
- Britannica Online Encyclopedia Britannica (Princeton only)
- Encyclopedia Britannica, 1911 edition. Includes all 29 volumes of the 1911 edition.
- Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes "comprises the largest reference work of literary criticism and history on the internet." The online version is searchable by keyword and browseable by volume, chapter, and section. Includes an Index to Authors, Index to Chapters , & an Index to Bibliographies.
- The Concise Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia 3rd Edition
- Infoplease.com includes the contents of the Information Please Almanacs;coverage includes world, us, history & government, biography, sports, arts & entertainment, health and science, etc.
- International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (Princeton only)
Directories
Phone & E-Mail Directories
- 555-1212.com telephone numbers, area code and country code information, e-mail addresses, and website locations.
- AnyWho: Find Telephone Number and Address from AT&T: search for people or businesses; E-mail, FAX, and Toll Free Number information . Includes re verse lookups, street proximity listings for business or residential; match for last name lookups, maps of the address.
- AT&T Toll Free Directory
- Bigfoot
- Internet 800 Directory
- Switchboard people and business directory, with e-mail and web sites; includes Maps on Us, a new mapping and routing service from Lucent Technologies; has detailed maps and driving directions
- People Search (Yahoo) provides e-mail & telephone information.
- Telephone Directories on the Web international listing of online phone directories
- The Ultimate Directory (InfoSpace) Access to over 112 million U.S. and Canadian listings of people, government offices and businesses; includes e-mail addresses.
- Whitepages.com
- World Pages residential, business & government phone directories from over 50 countries.
- Yelloweb Europe Directory provides pointers to sites exclusively in Europe. The catalog is divided into 18 major categories from announcements to trade and services.
- AmeriCom Long Distance Area Decoder
- International Calling Codes
- ZIP Code Lookup and Address Information from the US Postal Service
- Zip Codes (State of NJ)
Government
Federal
- Government documents in Princeton University Library info on locating U.S. documents; comprehensive Government Sites; major databases & reference works, statistics, resources by subject.
- CapWeb - A Guide to the U.S. Congress information about Congress.
- Congress.Org info on the 105th Congress which began on January 7, 1997; photographs, room, phone, and fax numbers, key staff, committee assignments, district office addresses, etc.
- DefenseLink - Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, National Guard from U.S. Depart. of Defense
- Federal Web Locator - gateway for federal government information.
- Findlaw Constitutional Law Center free caselaw, including US Supreme Court cases from 1893--
- IRS: Internal Revenue Service info on filing tax returns with the U.S. government; IRS Tax Forms.
- Law Library of Congress
- State and Local Government on the Net: guide to government sponsored Internet sites; contains over 6000 links to U.S. state and local government web pages
- United States Government Manual covers agencies of the legislative, judicial, and executive branches; and quasi-official agencies; international organizations in which the U.S. participates.
- Voting Records of Members of Congress voting records from Library of Congress
- The White House
Selected US government databases
- Congressional Universe (Princeton only)
- Federal Depository Library Program Electronic Collection "composed of primary data sources in full text and secondary data sources or finding tools at GPO or at other official sites."
- GPO AccessGPO provides free online use of over 1,500 databases of Federal information in over 80 applications.
- THOMAS: Legislative Information on the Internet access full-text of bills from the 105th Congress, as well as 104th and 103rd; also access the Congressional Record full text.
Copyright Information
- United States Copyright Office
- Copyright and Fair Use
- Copyright and Intellectual Property from the Association of Research Libraries (ARL),includes links to US Legislation.
- Copyright Information Manual (Groton Public Schools)
International
- Altapedia Online contains color physical maps, political maps as well as key facts and statistics on countries of the world.
- Background Notes (U.S. State Department ) full-text info on countries and international organizations; organized by region and country or organization. History, government and political conditions, economy, foreign relations and basic travel information. Also lists principal U.S. officials and consulate officers.
- CountryWatch provides up-to-date information on countries, including news wires, population, currency, maps, as well as brief summaries on history, economy, agriculture, and environment. The Country Review, in-depth reports and News Archive/Search Engine is available only through subscription.
- Elections around the World results around the world, parties, parliaments etc.
- European Union
- Flags of the World - FOTW includes pages about flags and more than 22,300 images of flags.
- Foreign Governent Resources on the Web (University of Michigan)
- Governments on the WWW includes: institutions of the legislative branch (parliaments); of the executive branch (ministries, agencies, administrations, offices, institutes, councils, committees and others); and of the judicative branch (law courts) governmental representations in foreign countries (embassies, consulates and others) ; political parties and party alliances.
- Information Please includes information on the countries of the world from the famous Information Please Almanac
- Library of Congress Country Studies "contains the on-line versions of books published by under the Country Studies/Area Handbook Program sponsored by the U.S. Depart of Army. Not comprehsenisve, the series covers 101 countries;excluded are Canada, France, the United Kingdom, and other Western nations, as well as a number of African nations. The date of information for each country appears on the title page of each country and at the end of each section of text.
- United Nations
- World Factbook annual CIA handbook gives basic data on all the countries of the world.
Grants & Scholarships
- Grant Resources on the Web from the July/August, 1999 issue of the Association of College and Research Libraries' C&RL NewsNet Internet Resources
- fastWEB:Financial Aid Search Through the Web a free searchable database of more than 275,000 private sector scholarships, fellowships, grants, and loans from more than 10,000 sources.
- Federal Loan and Grant Programs (from the U.S. Department of Education)
- Financial Aid Information Page
- Foundation Center
- Grant Proposal Writing Guides
- GrantsNets funding opportunities for training in the biological and medical sciences
- National Institutes of Health (NIH)
- National Science Foundation
- Student Guide to Financial Aid Financial Aid from the U.S. Department of Education
- Research Funding Opportunities (from the National Council of University Research Administrators)
Handbooks &
Almanacs
- The Almanac of Politics and Government
- Background Notes (U.S. State Department ) full-text info on countries and international organizations; organized by region and country or organization. History, government and political conditions, economy, foreign relations and basic travel information. Also lists principal U.S. officials and consulate officers.
- Flags of the World - FOTW includes pages about flags and more than 22,300 images of flags.
- Information Please includes the Information Please Almanac, the Entertainment Almanac, Sports Almanac, the Columbia Encyclopedia, and the Random House College Dictionary online.
- Nobel Prize Internet Archive or The Nobel Foundation comprehensive info on winners and discoveries.
- Old Farmer's Almanac
- The 50 States & Capitals includes: latitude and longitude, birds, colleges/universities, constitutions, flowers, genealogical resources, mottos, national forests/parks, newspapers, nicknames, nonprofit organizations, populations, state/federal representatives, songs, and the date of entry into the union.
- World Factbook annual CIA handbook gives basic data on all the countries of the world.
Health & Medicine
- AMA Physician Select provides information on licensed physicians in the US and its possessions, including more than 650,000 doctors of medicine (MD) and doctors of osteopathy or osteopathicmedicine (DO).
- Centers for Disease Control & Information has info for travelers, such as vaccine requirements, disease outbreaks, country health information, and more.
- Complete Home Medical Guide helpful medical reference work (3rd 1995 edition; Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons)
- Healthfinder from the US government; links to selected online publications, clearinghouses, databases, web sites, and support / self-help groups, as well as the government agencies and not-for-profit organizations.
- Intelihealth.com
- Mayo Clinic Oasis a searchable site, includes recent health news and a library of medical references
- MEDLINE: PubMed free access to Medline, The National Library of Medicine's database of references to articles published in medical journals.
- National Health Information Center access to the Health Information Resource Database, which includes 1,110 U.S. organizations and government officies that provide health information. Entries include contact information, toll-free numbers, and information about publications and services.
- RxList: the Internet Drug Index provides extensive information for over 500 perscription drugs.
Medical Dictionaries
- MedicineNet MedTerms search by keyword or browse alphabetically
- Online Medical Dictionary from Medic8.com; links are maintained & categorised by doctors.
Libraries
Libraries Worldwide
- Libweb library web pages worldwide
- Library Web-Based OPACS library catalogs of the world
National Libraries of the World
- National Libraries of the World (access to web pages and catalogs)
- National Libraries of the World: address list
- Gabriel, Gateway to Europe's National Libraries server for Europe's National Libraries
National Libraries
United States
- Library of Congress (LC Romanization tables)
- The National Agricultural Library
- National Archives and Records Administration
- National Library of Education
- National Library of Medicine
- New Jersey State Library, including NJ Union list of Serials
- Princeton Public Library includes the Online Catalog & Magazine & Newspaper holdings
- Princeton Theological Seminary Library
- More Links to New Jersey Libraries
- Regional/Worldwide Libraries (includes Rutgers, Penn, Columbia, Center for Research Libraries)
- Digital Libraries: Electronic Journal and Text Archives a guide to many of the major electronic journal and text indexes and/or archives
Maps & Geography
- How Far Is It? data from the US Census and a supplementary list of cities around the world to find thelatitude and longitude of two places, and then calculates the distance between them.
- Map Machine (National Geographic) has political, physical, country maps and more.
- Mapquest street atlas of the U S provides mileage, and streep maps with driving directions. Also has trip information that includes hotels, restaurants, sites and weather.
- Maps on Us mapping and routing service from Lucent Technologies; detailed maps and driving directions.
- Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection (University of Texas-Austin)political maps covering the entire world, with extensive coverage of Latin America.
- NJ Online: Maps & Directions
- Relief Maps of the United States (by Andrew Birrell)
- U.S. Census Bureau's Gazetteer identify places with the Tiger Map Server and obtain census data from the 1990 Census. Search for places, counties or MCDs by entering the name and state abbreviation (or 5-digit zip)
- U.S. Census Bureau's Online Maps (Tiger) road maps for U.S. cities.
News & Newspapers
- ABC News
- BBC Radio
- CNN Interactive
- MSNBC
- National Public Radio (NPR)
- Public Broadcasting Service
- Vanderbilt Television News Archive Since August 1968, Archive has recorded, abstracted, and indexed national television newscasts. Videotape loan requests for reference, study, classroom instruction, and research accepted. Covers: -- network television evening news abstracts. special reports &,specialized news collections.
Newspapers
US only
- Daily Newspapers on the Internet also includes radio stations
- National Public Radio Archives browse the archives of: All Things Considered Morning Edition, etc.
- NewsLibrary searchable archives (many going back 10 or more years) of newspapers (Knight-Ridder chain). Includes archives of papers currently from: Boulder, CO, Detroit, MI, Long Beach, CA, Miami, Philadelphia, San Jose, St. Paul, MN, and Wichita, KS. Search and retrieval of citations with brief abstract is free.
- NewspaperLinks.com a gateway to local US newspapers; also includes link to foreign papers
- U.S. News Archives on the Web provides links to US news archives. Papers are arranged by state. Includes the dates of the archive & cost to retrieve the full text. Unless noted, searching is free. Archives of non-US newspaper archives are also available. Pages maintained by Special Libraries Association.
Newspapers Worldwide
- ABYZ Newslinks links to more than 16,400 newspapers & other news sources from around the world
- My Virtual Newspaper links to newspapers worldwide, arranged by states in the US, then countries; includes links to newswires. From refdesk.com
- OnlineNewspapers.com index of over 5,000 online newspapers published in 200 countries
- News and Newspapers Online links to "hundreds of news resources from around the world...that offer full-text news; from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
- Online Newspapers links to newspapers worldwide (Internet Public Library)
Organizations
- Associations on the Net over 700 Internet sites with information about professional and trade associations, cultural and art organizations, political parties, advocacy groups, labor unions, academic societies, and research institutions.
- International Organizations Web Site selected from the Yearbook of International Organizations.
- Scholarly Societies Project over a thousand scholarly societies. (Univ. of Waterloo Electronic Library)
Princeton only
- Associations unlimited international & U.S. National, Regional, State, and Local
- International Research Centers Directory
- Research Centers and Services Directory
- More Directories
Princeton & New Jersey
Princeton University
- Campus Map & Local Transport
- Directions to Princeton University
- Daily Princetonian
- Emergency Preparedness
- OIT/Office of Information Technology (formerly CIT)
- Princeton Alumni Weekly
- Princeton Companion
- Princeton Weekly Bulletin
Around Princeton
- Albert Einstein Online includes: biography, physics, writings, quotes, pictures, etc.
- Amtrak (train schedules) NJ Transit (train & bus schedules) & Septa
- Educational Testing Service
- The Institute for Advanced Study
- NJ State Library, including NJ Union list of Serials
- Princeton Historical Society
- PrincetonInfo a guide to business & entertainment in Princeton and Central New Jersey, by U.S. 1
- Princeton Online for local government, news, events, businesses, and community organizations
- Princeton Packet for Princeton news, events, movies & theater, business info, and classified ads
- Princeton Public Library includes a page with many useful N. J. links
- U.S. 1 guide to central NJ business and entertainment
New Jersey
- New Jersey Internet Directory official N J Directory, with over 1,000 links to New Jersey businesses, services, organizations, schools, and towns on the Web.
- New Jersey InTouch - official state site; has info on state services, lottery, businesses, education, consumer info, employment, travel & tourism, taxes . . .
- NJ
Online many useful links; including NJ Weather (& worldwide), NJO Entertainment
Guide, NJ Maps,
and
NJO Movie finder -- searches the titles of all movies currently playing in NJ and NY - NJ Zip Code Directory
Quotation Books
- Bartlett's Familiar Quotations online version of the 1901 edition of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations.
- A Dictionary of Scientific Quotations a list of famous science-related quotations, in order by the name of the person to whom the quote is attributed.
- The Quotations Archive searchable database of quotations
- The Quotations Page a large quotation site with many original resources
- Simpson's Contemporary Quotations
Statistics
- American Factfinder--US Census Bureau a "data access and dissemination system" from the US Census Bureau offers access to some of the Bureau's largest data sets. Users can create a variety of tables, reports, or maps with information on their community, the economy, or American society.
- Bureau of
Labor Statistics includes statistics and reports
on employment and unemployment, price
(Consumer Price Index) and living conditions, compensation and more. - County and City Data Book latest official statistics for 1,078 cities, all 3,141 U.S. counties, and 11,097 places of 2,500 or more inhabitants
- Data & Statistical Services (from Princeton University)
- Fedstats: One Stop Shopping Federal Statistics statistical information from more than 70 government agencies organized in a subject-based A-Z Index.
- Statistical Abstract of the United States collection of statistics on social and economic conditions in the US. Selected international data also included.
- Statistical Resources on the Web "Meta-index to statistical web sites and individual statistical publications arranged by broad subject category from the University of Michigan Documents Center."
- United States Historical Census Data Browser "The data presented here describe the people and the economy of the US for each state and county from 1790 to 1970."
- World Population Information (US Census Bureau)
Style/Citation Manuals (Citing Sources)
Multiple Style Listings
* Research and Documentation in the Electronic Age By Diana Hacker; includes examples for citing the MLA, APA and CBE
- Citation Styles Online covers MLA, APA, Chicago and CBE
- Citing Sources has comparison tables for print & electronic (including MLA) (Duke)
- Karla's Guide to Citation Manuals annotated links to various styles for citing electronic, and other sources - MLA, APA, Chicago, Turabian, etc
- Style Sheets for Citing Internet & Electronic Resources Humanities (MLA & Chicago), Scientific (APA & CBE), and History (Turabian)
APA Manuals (American Psychological Association)
- APAStyle.org covers commonly asked questions regarding how to cite electronic media.
Chicago Manual of Style (Princeton only)
MLA Style Manual (Modern Language Association)
- Beyond the MLA Handbook: Documenting Electronic Sources on the Internet
- Citing Sources has comparison tables for print & electronic (including MLA) (Duke)
- Citing Government Information Sources Using MLA Style
- Columbia Guide to Online Style (by Janice R. Walker)
Turabian
Others
- Citing Sources has comparison tables for print and electronic (including MLA)
- Citing Online Sources a list of several links from the Linguist
- Elements of Style - By William Strunk, Jr.; accessed thru Bartleby.com
Time, Measurement & Calendars
- Computation of Sunrise, Sunset and Twilight Times Calculates the length of daylight for your particular location, when twilight begins and ends, sunrise and sunset times, the height angle of the sun at noon and the declination
- This date is history famous dates in history from the History Channel
- Roman Numeral Year Dates: Conversion Guide
- Sun, Moon Rise & Set Calculator, US Naval Observatory
- The 10,000 Year Calendar A perpetual calendar; may check days of the week for dates in history and in the future.
- Virtual Perpetual Calendars Provides the calendar for any year in the 19th-21st centuries. Dates for holidays in the United States and Canada from 1995-2010 may also be checked.
- World Public Holidays Database
Travel
- Airlines of the World
- Airlines: Toll Free Numbers
- Amtrak (train schedules) & NJ Transit (train & bus schedules) & Septa
- Best Fares Online
- City.net more than 2,400 cities and almost 900 other destinations, gives info on travel, entertainment, local business, government, and community services in places worldwide; includes maps. Updated daily.
- International Traveller's Clinic useful health info and links to other travel sites.
- Microsoft Expedia services include published airfares, air and hotel reservations, flight schedules, and e-mail updates on fares; map section & currency converter, hotel guide, weather reports, and more.
- Travelocity one-stop travel site; includes discount info, flight & hotel reservations info, weather.
- Weather Channel
- World
Travel Guide
Universities & Colleges
- Galilei: Global Directory of Universities
- American Universities includes a link to Maclean's magazine rankings.
- America's Best Graduate Schools (US News & World Report)
- Center For All Collegiate Information hundreds of links to college home pages, including universities, graduate programs, majors, admissions, international study,departments, staff, collegiate sports, and more.
- College and University Home Pages home pages for universities and colleges all over the world.
- Peterson's.com: The Education & Career Center
- Universities Worldwide searchable database currently of 89 Countries and 3039 entries.
- University Links guide to U.S. colleges and universities sorted by alphabet, state, and type. Also includes college newspapers, student governments, catholic schools, historically black schools, women's colleges, business schools, ratings for best colleges (from U.S. News and World Report), and more
Dissertations
- Ordering Dissertations information from UMI on ordering from Dissertation Abstracts
- Index to Theses in Britain (accepted for higher degrees by the Universities of Great Britain & Ireland)
Web Searching & Meta-Sites
- Best Search Tools (Infopeople) easy to use listing of the major search engines; includes a Search Tools Chart, a quick guide to searching techniques, and Search Engines Quick Guide
- Best Search Engines (UC Berkeley)
- SearchEdu.com "Over 15 million university and education pages indexed and ranked..."
- SearchGov.com search government pages only
- SearcheBooks.com
- Research Guides by Subject created by Princeton Library staff, to resources at Princeton and on the web
More Web Gateways
- Academic Info: Gateway to Quality Internet Resources a subject directory of resources tailored to a college audience; guide are annotated listings of the best general Internet sites in the field.
- Bubl Link from Britain, a subject directory of Internet resources.
- Digital Librarian: A librarian's choice to the best of the Web
- Humbul Humanities Hub a gateway for humanities resources from the UK
- Infomine: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections more than 11,000 annotated links to scholarly resources on the Internet; maintained by librarians from various California universities.
- Internet Public Library: Reference Collection
- Librarians' Index to the Internet excellent annotated directory of sites arranged by subjects.
- LibrarySpot easy to use listing of reference works in many subjects
- Open Directory Project a comprehensive directory of the web, relies on volunteer editors.
- Scout Report provides weekly annotated reports on internet resources.
- Visual Resources Online (Princeton University. Dept of Art & Archeology)
- WWW Virtual Library subject guide to internet sites; categories include:computing,humanities, social sciences, journalism, education, engineering,law, etc.
- xrefer.com quick resource for looking up quotations, terms, or subjects.
Web Archives
- Internet Web Archive offers permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format.
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