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Reference Web Sites
- Almanacs
- Dictionaries
- Encyclopedias
- Famous People
- General Reference
- Quotations
- Research Paper Help
- Statistics
- Telephone Directories
- Weather
Almanacs & Countries of the World
- Background Notes (Countries of the World) - Government Printing Office (GPO) publication
- CountryWatch - "Website to the World"
- Flags of the World
- InfoNation - Contains geographical, economic, demographic, and social indicators data for all 185 UN members
- World Factbook - Produced by the CIA
- World Time Server
- Encyclopedia Britannica Online
- Encyclopedia Smithsonian
- Gale Virtual Reference Library - Managed by Gale, brought to you by SUNYConnect
- Microsoft's Encarta Online
- Biography.com - A&E's searchable web site containing over 20,000 brief biographies
- National Women's History Museum Biographies - Biographical information for some of the world's most influential women
- The Nobel Prize Internet Archive - Both current and historical information about the Nobel Prize and the prize winners
- PBS Biographies - Mtimedia Biographies
- The Pitzer Prizes - "80 searchable years of Pitzer Prize history" - Choice Magazine
- Acronym and Abbreviation Server
- Best Information on the Net
- Calendar & Clock Page - Historical and current timekeeping from all over the world
- Infomine - Created and maintained by the University of California, Riverside, Infomine is a virtual library that features well organized access to important university level research and educational tools on the Internet.
- Internet Public Library Reference Center
- Martindale's "The Reference Desk" - "Covers areas as diverse as astrology and housing, immigration and dinosaurs, chromosome maps and postal information" from Choice Magazine
- Research-It - language tools: dictionary, thesaurus, translator, acronyms
- Symbols.com - the world's largest online encyclopedia of graphic symbols
- Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation
- Citing sources guide from Duke University - includes APA, MLA, Turabian
- Guide to Grammar and Writing - sponsored by Capital Community-Technical College, Hartford, CT
- International Writing Centers Association
- Plagiarism - Annotated webliography of links to information about plagiarism
- Purdue University's Writing Lab
- APA Style of Citation
- MLA Style of Citation
- Thesaurus.com
- Prison Statistics - Maintained by the U.S. Department of Justice
- Statistical Abstract of the United States - Sources of data include the Census Bureau, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Bureau of Economic Analysis, and many other Federal agencies and private organizations.
- Statistical Resource on the Web - Maintained by University of Michigan library
- Statistics Canada
- Bigfoot.com - Telephone numbers, e-mail addresses
- Telephone Directories on the Web