Quick Reference

Finding Information: Quick Reference

Acronyms

Acronym Finder
http://www.acronymfinder.com/


Almanacs

InfoPlease
http://www.infoplease.com/


Art

WebMuseum
http://webmuseum.meulie.net/wm/paint/


Biographies

American Presidents
http://www.americanpresidents.org/

Biographical Dictionary
http://www.s9.com/biography/

The Biography Channel
http://www.biography.com/


Business

Annual Reports
http://www.reportgallery.com/

Fortune 500 Companies
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500/

Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Code
http://www.osha.gov/pls/imis/sicsearch.html

Stock Market
http://finance.yahoo.com


Calendars

10,000 Year Calendar
http://calendarhome.com/tyc/


Calculators

Martindale’s Calculators On-Line Center
http://www.martindalecenter.com/Calculators.html

Math.com
http://www.math.com/students/calculators/calculators.html

Careers

CareerBuilder
http://www.careerbuilder.com/

Career Voyages
http://www.careervoyages.gov

Occupational Outlook Handbook
http://stats.bls.gov/oco/oco1001.htm


Colleges & Universities

America’s Best Colleges (U.S. News & World Report)
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/rankindex_brief.php

American Universities
http://www.clas.ufl.edu/au/

Braintrack University Index
http://www.braintrack.com/

Historically Black Colleges & Universities
http://www.edonline.com/hbcu/

Peterson's
http://iiswinprd03.petersons.com/ugchannel/

Princeton Review
http://www.princetonreview.com/?popup=no

U.S. Two-Year Colleges
http://cset.sp.utoledo.edu/twoyrcol.html


Countries, Geography, Maps

CIA World Factbook
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.html

How Far is it?
http://www.indo.com/distance/

MapQuest.com
http://www.mapquest.com/

Outline Maps
http://geography.about.com/library/blank/blxindex.htm

Perry Castanada Library – Map Collection
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/

Portals to the World
http://www.loc.gov/rr/international/portals.html


Directories

Area Code Listing, by Number
http://www.bennetyee.org/ucsd-pages/area.html

Area Code Listing, by State/Country
http://www.bennetyee.org/ucsd-pages/area.state.html

Internet 800 Directory
http://inter800.com/

The Nation Directory
http://www.thenation.com/directory/

Thomas Register
http://www.thomasregister.com/

USPS Zip Code Lookup
http://zip4.usps.com/zip4/welcome.jsp


Encyclopedias

Britannica Concise
http://concise.britannica.com

Columbia Encyclopedia, 2001-4
http://www.bartleby.com/65/

Encyclopedia.com
http://www.encyclopedia.com/

Encyclopedia Smithsonian
http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/start.htm

Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page


Government Information

Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/chiefs/#U

Gotham Gazette - New York City News and Policy
http://www.gothamgazette.com/

New York City Home Page
http://www.nyc.gov/portal/index.jsp?front_door=true

New York State Home Page
http://www.state.ny.us/

Office of the Federal Register
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/nara/index.html

Project Visa: Visa and Embassy Information around the World
http://www.embpage.org/

Rulers of the World (going back to 1700)
http://rulers.org/

THOMAS - U.S. Congress on the Internet
http://thomas.loc.gov/

United States Congress
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/congress/index.html

United States Government Manual
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/gmanual/index.html

United States Historical Documents
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/help/constRedir.html


Health

Global Health Facts
http://www.globalhealthfacts.org/

Medline
http://medlineplus.gov/

NOAH - New York Online Access to Health
http://www.noah-health.org/


Law

Findlaw
http://findlaw.com/


Library Catalogs

New York City Public Libraries
New York Public Library: Branch Libraries
New York Public Library: Research Library
Brooklyn Public Library
Queens Borough Public Library

CUNY Libraries

Other New York City University Libraries
Columbia University
Fordham University
New York University Libraries

WorldCat (world catalog)


Literature

Books Online (Internet Public Library - includes selected short stories, fables, and poetry)
http://www.ipl.org/div/subject/browse/hum60.60.00/

Classic Short Stories
http://www.bnl.com/shorts/


Dictionaries

Merriam-Webster Online
http://www.m-w.com/

WordReference.com
http://wordreference.com/

yourDictionary.com
http://www.yourdictionary.com/


Thesaurus

ARTFL Project: Roget's Thesaurus
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/ARTFL/forms_unrest/ROGET.html


Quotations

The Columbia World of Quotations
http://www.bartleby.com/66/


Movies

Internet Movie Database
http://www.imdb.com/


Museums

Museums around the World
http://vlmp.museophile.com/world.html

Musee
http://www.musee-online.org/home.asp


News

ABC News
http://abcnews.go.com/

CNN
http://www.cnn.com/

MSNBC
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/

Newsday.com
http://www.newsday.com/

NewsDirectory
http://www.ecola.com/

The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/

Online Newspapers
http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/

The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/


Statistics

Census 2000 Data Access and Use
http://www.proximityone.com/cen2000.htm

Census Bureau
http://www.census.gov/

FedStats
http://www.fedstats.gov/

Geostat Center: Collections: Historical Census Browser
http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/collections/stats/histcensus/

U.S. PopClock
http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/popclock


Style & Writing Guides

IPL Teenspace: A+ Research and Writing
http://www.ipl.org/div/aplus/

Modern Language Association (MLA): Format, Bibliography, Style, Convention
http://www.mla.org/

Writing for the Web
http://www.useit.com/papers/webwriting/


Units & Measurements

College of Chemistry
http://chemistry.berkeley.edu/links/weights/equivalences.html


Weather

NOAA National Weather Service
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/

Weather.com
http://www.weather.com/