General Reference Sources
General Reference
- Fast Facts (Almanacs/Factbooks/Statistical Reports & Related Reference Tools)
- InfoPlease/Time Almanac
- American Society of Association Executives Gateway (information on over 6,000 associations)
- The Directory of Organizations in Educational Management(from ERIC)
- Guidestar: The National Database of Nonprofit Organizations ("database of more than 850,000 IRS-recognized nonprofit organizations")
- International Organization Web Sites ("links to international organizations selected from Yearbook of International Organizations"))
- Internet Public Library Associations on the Net (classified "guide to web sites of prominent organizations and associations")
- MedBioWorld ("links to 25,000 medical journals and medical associations, and similar resources in the biological sciences")
- njserves.org ("database of 40,000 New Jersey nonprofit, community and governmental organizations")
- Scholarly Societies Project ("...information about scholarly societies across the world")
- A&E Biography
- Biographical Dictionary
- Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress (1774 - Present)
- Distinguished Women of Past and Present
- Lives, the Biography Resource
- Astronomical Sky Calendar
- Calendar Conversions
- Calendar Zone
- Earth Calendar
- Today's Calendar & Clock Page
- Virtual Perpetual Calendar
- America's Job Bank
- Monster Board
- MSU Career Development Center
- Workforce New Jersey Public Information Network
- Texas Guaranteed Student Loan Corp.
- Houston Cole Library (Jacksonville State University)
- Internet Public Library
- Know Play
- Library of Congress Home Page
- Refdesk.com
- Virtual Reference Desk (University of Tennessee)
- AllConferences.Net (Geographical and other sources)
- Conference Alerts: Academic Conferences Worldwide (Lists conferences by subject area and country)
- Directory of Scholarly and Professional E-Conferences ("discussion lists, newsgroups, MUDS, MOO'S, Muck's, Mushes, mailing, interactive Web chat groups etc. on topics of interest to scholars and professionals for use in their scholarly, pedagogical and professional activities." No longer maintained as of Feb. 2002))
- The Education Conference Listings Service (from the UK: "calendar for education and training related conferences as notified by their organisers and giving information about conference locations, content and contact details")
- The Education Conference Programme Service (from the UK: "programmes and event archives for conferences of organisations which sponsor the service on behalf of their delegates and organisation members")
- Education-line ("database of the full text of conference papers, working papers and electronic literature which supports educational research, policy and practice")
- Mind: The Meetings Index (listings of conferences, congresses, meetings, and symposia)
- Scholarly Societies Project Meeting/Conference Announcement Lists
Dictionaries, English Usage and Thesauri
- American Heritage Dictionary
- American Heritage Book of English Usage
- Infoplease.com Dictionary
- Merriam-Webster Online
- OneLook Dictionaries (Indexes over 4 million words and 740 dictionaries)
- Oxford English Dictionary Online
- Roget's Thesaurus at NIH
- Roget's II: The New Thesaurus
- Roget's Interactive Thesaurus
- The Free Dictionary
- WordNet1.5 (Synonyms, Antonyms, etc.)
- Wordsmyth: The Educational Dictionary - Thesaurus
- Britannica Concise (Encyclopedia Britannica)
- Columbia Encyclopedia (6th edition)
- Funk and Wagnalls Encyclopedia
- Internet Public Library
- The Free Dictionary
Geographic & Environmental Information
- CIA World Factbook
- Columbia Earthscape ("Online Resource on the Global Environment")
- Envirolink (Links to thousands of environmental resources)
- Guide to Map Resources on the Internet (MSU)
- MapQuest
- NJ Environmental Digital Library
- Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection (Collection of 230,000 maps spanning the globe at the University of Texas - Austin)
- Rand McNally
- Academic Info
- BUBL LINK: Libraries of Networked Knowledge
- Infomine
- Librarian's Index to the Internet
- Scout Report Archives
- WWW Virtual Library
- Ingenta (Index of over 17,000 journals)
- New Jersey Union List of Serials (Periodical holdings for many N.J. Libraries - login njuls)
- Yahoo Reference Section
Libraries & Research Collections
- Libdex (Library Web-based Catalogs)
- Libweb (Library Web Pages)
- lib-web-cats (Library Web-based Catalogs)
- NUCMC (National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections)
- ABC News (World and national news)
- AJR Newslink (Media links to newspapers, magazines, radio/tv, etc.)
- CNN Interactive (World and national news)
- Daypop (Searches over 6,000 news websites)
- Ecola's Newsstand (includes newspapers arranged geographically as well as magazines)
- MSNBC (World and national news)
- Kidon Media Link (Newspaper links arranged geographically)
- Kiosken (Links to international newspapers)
- NewsCentral (Links to over 3,500 newspapers worldwide)
- Newspapers Online (Montclair State University)
- The Paperboy (Over 5491 links to international newspapers)
- Time Capsule (news headlines searchable by date, 1900 to 1997)
- The WorldNews Network (comprehensive compilation of links to worldwide news stories and photos
Newspapers (National, Regional, State and College)
- 1st Headline News
- Abyz News Links
- Asbury Park Press
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution
- Baltimore Sun
- Bergen Record
- Boston Globe
- Business News New Jersey
- Chicago Tribune
- Christian Science Monitor
- College News Online
- Daily Princetonian (Princeton University)
- Daily Targum (Rutgers University)
- Dallas Morning News
- Google News
- Internet Public Library Online Newspapers
- Los Angeles Times
- Miami Herald
- New Jersey Newspapers
- News Center: Up to the Minute News Resources
- NewsLink
- Newspaper Archives on the Web
- Newspaper Links
- New York Times (Registration required)
- Newark Star-Ledger
- The Press of Atlantic City
- Philadelphia Inquirer (Select Inquirer)
- Saint Louis Post-Dispatch
- Seattle Times
- Setonian (Seton Hall University)
- Signal (College of New Jersey)
- U-Wire
- Washington Post
- WN Networks
- Anywho (AT&T)
- Superpages.com
- Switchboard
- Telephone Directories on the Web (International)
- THOR: The Virtual Reference Desk (Purdue University)
- Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (1901 ed.)
- Phrase Finder
- Simpson's Contemporary Quotations
- Yahoo Reference Section
- Academic Integrity and Plagiarism: A Student Guide (Montclair State University)
- APA Style in Brief (Montclair State University Library)
- DocsCite (fill out form that shows proper citation for government documents using different styles)
- Guide for Writing Research Papers based on MLA Documentation (Capital Community College)
- Internet Public Library (includes Style Manuals for citing electronic sources)
- MLA Style in Brief (Montclair State University Library)
- Purdue Online Writing Lab
- Research and Documentation Online (Hacker guide to several citation styles)
- Sources and Citations at Dartmouth College
- Citation Style for Research Papers (includes APA, MLA, Chicago, AMA, Turabian)