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Online Reference Resources

 

Ask A Librarian	Dictionaries & Encyclopedias
Citation Style Guides	Quotations
Subject Guides	Biographical Sources
Research Tutorials	News/Newspapers
Selected Internet Search Engines	Maps & Statistics
Hot Links

Note: (D) indicates sources accessible to Dickinson College users only .

 

Dictionaries & Encyclopedias

Dictionaries

• All Free Dictionaries Project
• Cambridge Dictionary of American English
• Merriam-Webster Online
• OED (Oxford English Dictionary) (D)

Encyclopedias

• Encyclopedia Britannica Online (D)
• Encyclopedia Smithsonian
• Gale's Ready Reference Shelf (D)
• Information Please Almanac
• World Almanac (D)

 

Quotations

• Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
• Cool Quotes
• The Quotations Home Page

 

Biographical Sources

• Biography

Biographical Dictionary

• Biography & Genealogy Master Index (D)
• Black History: Biographies
• Dead or Alive?
• Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB) (D)
• Distinguished Women of Past and Present

 

News & Newspapers

News

• CNN (Cable News Network) Interactive
• C-SPAN
• National Public Radio (NPR)
• Reuters

 Newspaper

• Lexis-Nexis - Academic Universe (D)
• The New York Times
• Online Newspapers from around the World
• Pennsylvania newspapers
• Wall Street Journal
• Washington Post
• World News Connection (D)

 

Maps & Statistics

Maps

• Library of Congress: American Memory Map collection
• World Press: World Maps and Country Profiles
• National Geographic: Maps & Geography

Statistics

• Quick Facts (U.S. Census Bureau)
• Statistical Universe (D)

 

Internet Search Engines and Directories

Search Engines

• Google
• Teoma
• Yahoo!

Specialized Search Engines and Directories

• Google Scholar
• Google Uncle Sam
• Internet Public Library
• Librarian's Internet Index
• WWW Virtual Library

 

Hot Links

Weather

• The Weather Channel
• The Weather Underground

Movie Information and Listings

• Fandango
• The Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Driving Directions

• Mapquest
• Yahoo! Maps

 Just for Fun

• Epicurious
• Peep Research