General Reference Works

• Library Catalog

Purdue University's Online Writing Lab (OWL) offers over 100 handouts on English writing skills. The collection could be called an online grammar book or a basic writing course. Categories covered include sentences, punctuation, parts of speech, spelling, methods of citing sources in research paper writing, English as a second language, and general writing concerns such as writers block, proofreading, non-sexist language, resume writing, business and professional writing, and coping with writing anxiety.

• about.com (network of sites led by expert guides)
• Acronym and Abbreviation Server
• The American Heritage® Book of English Usage
• Anatomy of the Human Body -- Henry Grey
• Bartleby.com
• Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
• Bedford Links to Resources in Literature
• Biblical Resources Search -- Dr. Mark Goodacre
• The Blumsbury Research Centre -- online database of reference books
• 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
• Fast Facts: Almanacs/Factbooks/Statistical Reports & Related Reference Tools -- Gary Price
• Grey's Anatomy
• Guiness Book of Records
• 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)
• Handbook of Forensic Sciences -- FBI
• 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
• Merck Manual of Medical Information: Home Edition
• 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+)
• Uncle Sam's Reference Shelf: County and City Data Book -- official population and housing data from the 2000 Census plus business and other data
  
  

• Writing Guide -- Sociology-Anthropology-Criminology-Humanities/Classics
  
  

• The Columbia Guide to Online Style -- Janice R. Walker and Todd Taylor

• 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
• The King's English (2nd ed.) -- H. W. Fowler