Internet Reference Shelf:
Online Quick Reference Sources
Almanacs
Arts and Humanities
Biography
Book Reviews
Business
Consumer and Buying Information
Dictionaries and Thesauri
Directories
Education
Encyclopedias
Government - see Law and Government
Grants and Funding
Health and Health Sciences
International Information
Law and Government
Lists and Rankings
Literature and Writing
Maps and Travel
Movies and Film
News and Newspapers
Photograph Collections
Psychology
Publishing
Readers Advisory
Science and Engineering
Social Sciences
Statistics
Tax Forms
Weather and Climate
Additional Sources
Other Library Catalogues
- Almanacs
Information Please
World Almanac and Book of Facts on FirstSearch
- Arts and Humanties
AskART: The Artists Bluebook
Guide to Philosophy on the Internet
H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online Strong on history sources
Voice of the Shuttle: Web Page for Humanities Research
World Wide Arts Resources
- Biography and People
Biography and Geneology Master Index (Galenet)
Wilson Biographies
- Book Reviews
Arts and Letters Daily (from the Chronicle of Higher Education)
Blogcritics
The Complete Review
January Magazine
New York Review of Books
- Business
Business Resources at Reed Library
Business and Economic Information About Colorado
Thomas Register Web page for the well known manufacturing and wholesale directory.
Consumer and Buying Information
Kelley Blue Book
NADA Guides
- Dictionaries, Language Thesauri, and Grammar
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary
WordSmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
Xrefer Short answer general reference source with access to over 40 published standard reference sources.
Your Dictionary.com
OneLook Dictionaries
The Internet Acronym Server
Guide to Grammar and Writing
Free Translation (automated service)
Lexicool many foreign language dictionariesV
- Directories
DexOnline (US West)
Switchboard for telephone numbers, street and e-mail addresses.
Bigyellow business directory
AnyWho: AT&T Toll Free (800) Directory
Scholarly Societies Project
- Education
College and University Rankings
National Center for Education Statistics
The Educator's Reference Desk includes lesson plans and useful resources.
Censorship and Intellectual Freedom Page
U.S. News Graduate School Rankings
Encyclopedia of Education Statistics
IEE Passport Institute of International Education
Studyabroad.com
Education World, a guide to education resources.
Gateway to Educational Materials (GEM), compendium of education information, including a lesson plan database, from ERIC.
U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges
- Encyclopedias
Britiannica Online
Wikipedia
Xrefer Short answer general reference source with access to over 40 published standard reference sources.
- Grants and Funding
The Foundation Center
Grants Resource Center ID and Password distributed to staff and faculty
Colorado Grants
- Health and Health Sciences
Online Consumer Health Resources
NetAnatomy
The Food and Nutrition Information Center
Nutrition Analysis
Merck Manual
National Institutes of Health
HealthWeb Reference Sources
Health Statistics
- International Information
World Fact File from Dorling-Kindersley
Background Notes from US State Department
World Fact Book (1999)
University of Louisville International Information
Amnesty International Human Rights on the Internet
- Law and Government
- Lists and Rankings
Price's List of Lists
- Literature and Writing
Childrens Literature: A Guide to the Criticism
The Children's Literature Web Guide
The Internet Public Library Online Literary Criticism Collection
Literary Market Place Online
New York Review of Books
- Maps, Geography and Travel
USGS Free Topo Downloads
Colorform Atlas of the United States
Hostelling International - American Youth Hostels
MapQuest
National Atlas of the United States
Perry-Castaņeda Library Map Collection- University of Texas
Outline Maps from Houghton Mifflin Company.
Lonely Planet
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names Online (includes longitide and latitude in degrees or minutes).
See also Reed Library's Map pages
- Movies and Film
Internet Movie Database
All Movie Guide
New York Times Movie Reviews includes archives.
- News
- Photograph Collections
PicSearch
Pics4Learning Educational Images
Digital Library Project
- Psychology and Mental Health
American Psychological Association
Buros Institute of Mental Measurements
Current Topics in Psychology
Encyclopedia of Psychology
Psych Central's Psychology Web Pointer
PsychCrawler: Indexing the Web for the Best in Psychology
- Publishing, Publishers, Books and Journals
Booklist Short book reviews
Literary Market Place (LMP) Online
New York Times Books on the Web
All That JAS: Journal Abbreviation Sources
PubList.com, The Internet Directory of Publications
- Readers' Advisory
BookBrowser
Overbooked (see starred reviews)
BookSpot.com
- Science and Engineering
Agriculture Network Information Center (AgNIC)
Astronomical Data
AstroWeb Astronomy sources
BIOWEB (CSU Stanislaus) Biology Sources
Chemicool Periodic Table
Dictionary of PC Hardware and Data Communications Terms
How Things Work: The Physics of Everyday Life
Intellectual Property Network U.S. and European patent searching
StatLib Index
- Social Sciences
Research Resources for the Social Sciences (Web sources)
- Statistics
- Subject-Oriented "Super Sites"
- Tax Forms
Federal Tax Forms from the IRS
Colorado State Tax Forms
Forms for other states
Weather and Climate
National Weather Service
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- Additional Reference Sources
- Digital Librarian: A Librarian's Choice of the Best of the Web
- Indiana University Reference Department: Internet Quick Reference Shelf
Internet Public Library Ready Reference - Web Resources are categorized by subject categories as well as searchable through a search engine.
LibrarySpot - Well organized gateway Web site, frequently updated with selected reference resources.
- Librarians' Internet Index - searchable, annotated, subject directory of internet resources.
Reed Library Electronic Resources - Includes bibliographic databases available through Reed Library.
- Refdesk: The Single Best Source for Facts
- University of Texas Libraries: Useful Reference Sites
- Other Library Catalogues
Prospector - Colorado library interlibrary loan service
Library of Congress
RedLightGreen - database of books from RLG (Research Library Group) union catalog
New York Public Library
Worldwide Library web sites - from Berkeley
Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog - many European library catalogs
updated 02/06/06; 03/20/06
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