Bartleby Quotations
Author:  Bartleby.com.

"A collection of passages, phrases, and proverbs traced to their sources in ancient and modern litterature."

Biographical Dictionary
Author:  s9.com.

"This dictionary covers more than 28,000 notable men and women who have shaped our world from ancient times to the present day. The dictionary can be searched by birth years, death years, positions held, professions, literary and artistic works, achievements, and other keywords."

Biography.com
Author:  A&E Television Networks.

Official site of A&E's Biography television series. Includes the searchable text of 15,000 entries from The Cambridge Biographical Encyclopedia.

Britannica Online
Author:  Britannica.com, Inc.

This web site allows users to search and read the full text of the Encyclopædia Britannica, "the oldest and largest general reference in the English language." A search on Britannica's site will produce results from the Encyclopedia, as well as Britannica's directory of web sites, selected articles from magazines like Newsweek, and a version of Books in Print.

Encyclopedia Smithsonian
Author:  Smithsonian Institution.

"The Smithsonian Institution receives a great many public inquiries covering a wide range of topics. Therefore, the following responses have been compiled to answer frequently asked questions or to provide guidance in finding the requested information. New information will be added continually." Topics covered: Armed Forces History, Anthropology, Mineral Sciences, Musical History, Physical Sciences, Services, Textiles Conservation, Transportation History, and Vertebrate Zoology."

Infoplease (Information Please)
Author:  Learning Network

"IInformation Please....[provides] millions of useful and interesting facts on a wide range of topics, the Almanacs have set the standard for scope, authority, and readability among reference works, a tradition that Information Please is continuing online with Infoplease."

LibrarySpot
Author:  StartSpot Mediaworks, Inc.

"A [award winning] free virtual library resource center for educators and students, librarians and their patrons, families, businesses and just about anyone exploring the Web for valuable research information."

Lives, the Biography Resource
Author:  Lives.

"Includes links to thousands of biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, diaries, letters, narratives, oral histories and more."

Measuring Units Conversion Table
Author:  Internet French Property

Tables provide conversion from/to metric and imperial and US measurement systems.
 

ODLIS: The Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science
Author:  Joan M. Rietz at the Western Connecticut State University (WCSU) Ruth A. Haas Library. 

"ODLIS is designed as a reference resource for library and information science professionals, university students and faculty, and the general reader and library user. The primary criterion for including a new term is whether a librarian or other information professional might reasonably be expected to encounter it at some point in his (or her) career. The technical vocabulary of publishing, printing, book history, and computer science has been included when, in the author's judgment, a definition might prove helpful, not only to library and information professionals, but also to laypersons." 

OneLook Dictionaries: The Fast Finder
Author:  Robert K. Ware (bware@onelook.com).

A fast dictionary search tool which allows you to look up a word in 350 different dictionaries simultaneously, or pick specific dictionaries from a grouping of subject-specific ones. Includes Internet/computer, science, technology, business, sports, religion, acronym, and general dictionaries. You can also browse the dictionaries individually.
 

Your Dictionary.com & A Web of OnLine Dictionaries
Author:  Robert Beard (rbeard@bucknell.edu). 

"This page is an index of on-line dictionaries, thesauri, and other reference works pertaining to words and phrases covering dozens of languages. Preference in selection has been given to free online dictionaries of high quality, useful to specialists and translators. However, downloadable and subscription material are listed if exceptionally rare, unusually well-executed." 

World Factbook 2000
Author:  Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

An online publication that includes country profiles and reference maps in the public domain.

World Wide Web Acronym and Abbreviation Server
Author:  Peter Flynn (webmaster@www.ucc.ie).

An index of over 10,000 acronyms and their expansions. Search the acronym itself, the first word which makes up an acronym, or submit an acronym for inclusion in this weekly updated database. 

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