Reference Works

• Acronym and Abbreviation Server Bartlett's Familiar Quotations Book Reviews -- New York Times (50,000+) Britannica Online BUBL (the Bulletin Board for Libraries) -- University of Strathclyde English Language Usage -- Yahoo Fast Facts: Almanacs/Factbooks/Statistical Reports & Related Reference Tools -- Gary Price A Guide for Writing Research Papers (based on Modern Language Association [MLA] Documentation) -- Library Capital Community-Technical College, Hartford, Connecticut Internet Public Library (3700+ Online titles, reference works, internet tutorial) The King's English (2nd ed.) -- H. W. Fowler Librarians' Index to the Internet -- Berkeley Public Library Library of Congress Classification System Library of Congress -- LC Online Catalog Mirriam - Webster Online Dictionary Oxford REFERENCE On-Line Reference Desk -- Purdue University Reference Shelf -- Inter-Links Collection of Reference Guides and Services Roget's Thesaurus Webster's Hypertext Interface Dictionary WordNet -- Princeton University (An on-line lexical database for computers that is organized semantically rather than alphabetically.) WWW Virtual Library
  
  
• Libraries

• Books and Manuscripts On-Line

• General Reference Works
  • about.com (network of sites led by expert guides)
    Acronym and Abbreviation Server
    The American Heritage® Book of English Usage
    Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed.
    Bedford Links to Resources in Literature
    Biblical Resources Search -- Dr. Mark Goodacre
    BUBL (the Bulletin Board for Libraries) -- University of Strathclyde
    Bulfinch's Mythology
    Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes
    Cataloger's Reference Shelf -- Library Corporation
    Electronic Texts for Schools and Libraries -- (8,000+ listings)Internet School Library Media Center (ISLMC)
    English Language Usage -- Yahoo
    Essential Links -- Essenti, Inc., Portland, Oregon
    A Guide for Writing Research Papers (based on Modern Language Association [MLA] Documentation) -- Library Capital Community-Technical College, Hartford, Connecticut
    Internet Public Library (Online titles, reference works, internet tutorial)
    Historic Documents -- The Avalon Project, Yale Law School
    Librarians' Index to the Internet -- Berkeley Public Library
    Library of Congress Classification System
    Library of Congress -- Country Studies
    Library of Congress -- LC Online Catalog
    Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLT) -- Virginia Tech
    PsychCrawler -- APA Search
    Publist.com -- publications bibliography
    Reference Desk -- Purdue University
    Reference Shelf -- Inter-Links Collection of Reference Guides and Services
    Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations
    WordNet -- Princeton University (An on-line lexical database for computers that is organized semantically rather than alphabetically.)
    The World Factbook -- CIA, 1996
    World Wide Overview -- Martindale's 'The Reference Desk'
    WWW Virtual Library
    • Book Reviews -- New York Times (50,000+)
    Bookstores

  • Atlases and Maps

bibliography books-on-line dictionaries
encyclopedia foreign-language-reference
glossaries maps and atlases thesauri

• Elements of Style -- William Strunk, Jr.
  Beyond the MLA Handbook: Documenting Elecltronic Sources on the Internet -- Andrew Harnack and Gene Kleppinger, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY Grammars On-Line -- Robert Beard, Bucknell University
• Internet Documentation Guide -- Andrew Harnack and Gene Kleppinger