Reference Tools
|
WWWebster
|
|
A Merriam-Webster dictionary courtesy of Encylopedia Britannica. |
Acronym
Dictionary
|
|
Find out what "ASAP" means ASAP, with search tool; or, find out
what the correct acronym is for something you can't quite remember the exact
name for. |
Bartlett's
Quotations
|
|
Get the correct phrasing of that famous old saying you can't quite remember.
This is the 1901 edition, News research has the three latest editions plus
another twenty or so other quotation books. |
Biography
1
|
|
15,000 entries from the Cambridge Biographical Encyclopedia, courtesy of
the A&E cable network. |
Biography
2
|
|
You only get about one sentence of info, but it's fast and can be searched
by keyword and date as well. Try velcro in the keyword field. |
Ready
Reference
|
|
Ready reference links collected by the Internet
Public Library at the University of Michigan. |
Virtual
Reference Desk
|
|
A master list of links to dictionaries, foreign-language tools, and databases
of many kinds. |
On-Line
Ready Reference Gopher
|
|
A gopher listing of dozens of reference sites at universities and elsewhere. |
CARL
Databases
|
|
Access to huge numbers of articles and documents. This is a pay service,
but you can search and get article citations for free. |
U.S.
Gazetteer
|
|
Find out where any city or town in the country is, and check spellings and
so forth. |
Zip Code Lookup
|
|
You type in the address, and you get the proper Zip Code, almost every time. |
How Far Is It?
|
|
Type in the names of two cities, and get the distance between them as the
crow flies. If you want, the site will also generate a map of the route. |
Currency
Converter
|
|
How many yen to the dollar this week? Or, if you want, how many francs to
the peso? |
Periodicals
Search
|
|
Works best with names and phrases. "And" searches will turn up
some articles. Courtesy of the Electronic
Newsstand. |
Phones 'n' Addresses
|
Switchboard
|
|
Very good nationwide directory of business and residential phone #s and
addresses. |
InfoSpace
|
|
Biz and residential phones, addresses, and email. |
Yahoo
People Search
|
|
Scroll down a bit when you get there and type in phone number to get an
address! |
Bellsouth
|
|
Bellsouth Yellow Pages plus links to many other yellow and white pages and
email finders. |
AT&T
|
|
AT&T toll-free (800 & 888) phone directory. |
Bell Atlantic
|
|
Yellow pages for Washington, D.C. and Baltimore, MD. |
BigBook
|
|
A really cool nationwide yellow pages. Not only will it give you address
and phone number, it'll draw a map. |
BigYellow |
|
Sixteen million business numbers from all over this great land of
ours. Courtesy of Nynex. |
YellowNet |
|
Yet another biz phone directory. |
Telephone
Directories on the Web |
|
Telephone directories, mostly actual phone company directories, around
the world. |
Email
|
Email |
|
Yahoo's guide to email address finding services |