General Reference Resources

Librarians’ Index to the Internet
is a searchable, annotated subject directory of more than 8,300 Internet resources selected and evaluated by librarians for their usefulness to users of  public libraries.

The Literary Encyclopedia

The Literary Encyclopedia
is an authoritative, up-to-date reference work written by named scholars whose aspiration is eventually to provide a scholarly description of every author and text read in the English-speaking world.

PubMed

is a service of the National Library of Medicine, includes over 15 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950's from MEDLINE and additional life science journals and includes links to many sites providing full text articles.

Information Please Almanac

WWWebster Dictionary

Exchange Rates

Bartlett Familiar Quotations

Thesaurus

Altapedia Online
Contains full color physical and political maps as well as key facts and statistics on countries of the world

Library of Congress

The Internet Public Library
A site from the University of Michigan to serve the public by finding and organizing quality information sources on the Web.  There are great ready reference resources here.

High School Hub
A good general resource of cites of particular interest to high school students.

Background Notes
US government-compiled information on countries and international organizations.

World Factbook
Basic intelligence for all areas of the world published by the CIA.

Units of Measurement
A dictionary of units of measurement.

Physician Desk Reference

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Friday, January 20, 2006