Acronyms

• Acronym Finder
• Yahoo Reference Section

Almanacs

• Fast Facts (Almanacs/Factbooks/Statistical Reports & Related Reference Tools)
• InfoPlease/Time Almanac

Associations & Organizations

• American Society of Association Executives Gateway (information on over 6,000 associations)
• The Directory of Organizations in Educational Management(from ERIC)
• Guidestar: The National Database of Nonprofit Organizations ("database of more than 850,000 IRS-recognized nonprofit organizations")
• International Organization Web Sites ("links to international organizations selected from Yearbook of International Organizations"))
• Internet Public Library Associations on the Net (classified "guide to web sites of prominent organizations and associations")
• MedBioWorld ("links to 25,000 medical journals and medical associations, and similar resources in the biological sciences")
• njserves.org ("database of 40,000 New Jersey nonprofit, community and governmental organizations")
• Scholarly Societies Project ("...information about scholarly societies across the world")

Biographical Information

• A&E Biography
• Biographical Dictionary
• Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress (1774 - Present)
• Distinguished Women of Past and Present
• Lives, the Biography Resource

Calendars and Dates

• Astronomical Sky Calendar
• Calendar Conversions
• Calendar Zone
• Earth Calendar
• Today's Calendar & Clock Page
• Virtual Perpetual Calendar

Career and Job Resources

• America's Job Bank
• Monster Board
• MSU Career Development Center
• Workforce New Jersey Public Information Network
• Texas Guaranteed Student Loan Corp.

Colleges and Universities

• American Universities
• College Locator
• International Universities

Comprehensive Information

• Houston Cole Library (Jacksonville State University)
• Internet Public Library
• Know Play
• Library of Congress Home Page
• Refdesk.com
• Scholes Library of Ceramics Electronic Reference Desk (University Phone Directories, Dictionaries, etc.)
• Virtual Reference Desk (University of Tennessee)

Conferences & Proceedings

• AllConferences.Net (Geographical and other sources)
• Conference Alerts: Academic Conferences Worldwide (Lists conferences by subject area and country)
• Directory of Scholarly and Professional E-Conferences ("discussion lists, newsgroups, MUDS, MOO'S, Muck's, Mushes, mailing, interactive Web chat groups etc. on topics of interest to scholars and professionals for use in their scholarly, pedagogical and professional activities." No longer maintained as of Feb. 2002))
• The Education Conference Listings Service (from the UK: "calendar for education and training related conferences as notified by their organisers and giving information about conference locations, content and contact details")
• The Education Conference Programme Service (from the UK: "programmes and event archives for conferences of organisations which sponsor the service on behalf of their delegates and organisation members")
• Education-line ("database of the full text of conference papers, working papers and electronic literature which supports educational research, policy and practice")
• Mind: The Meetings Index (listings of conferences, congresses, meetings, and symposia)
• Scholarly Societies Project Meeting/Conference Announcement Lists

Dictionaries, English Usage and Thesauri

• American Heritage Dictionary
• American Heritage Book of English Usage
• Infoplease.com Dictionary
• Merriam-Webster Online
• OneLook Dictionaries (Indexes over 4 million words and 740 dictionaries)
• Oxford English Dictionary Online
• Roget's Thesaurus at NIH
• Roget's II: The New Thesaurus
• Roget's Interactive Thesaurus
• Scholes Library of Ceramics Electronic Reference Desk (University Phone Directories, Dictionaries, etc.)
• WordNet1.5 (Synonyms, Antonyms, etc.)
• Wordsmyth: The Educational Dictionary - Thesaurus
• Xrefer (variety of dictionaries, encyclopedias and reference sources from the following publishers: Bloomsbury, Macmillan, Oxford, and Penguin)

Encyclopedias

• Britannica Concise (Encyclopedia Britannica)
• Columbia Encyclopedia (6th edition)
• Funk and Wagnalls Encyclopedia
• Internet Public Library
• Xrefer (variety of dictionaries, encyclopedias and reference sources from the following publishers: Bloomsbury, Macmillan, Oxford, and Penguin)

Geographic & Environmental Information

• CIA World Factbook
• Columbia Earthscape ("Online Resource on the Global Environment")
• Envirolink (Links to thousands of environmental resources)
• Guide to Map Resources on the Internet (MSU)
• MapQuest
• NJ Environmental Digital Library
• Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection (Collection of 230,000 maps spanning the globe at the University of Texas - Austin)
• Rand McNally

Internet Guides and Catalogs

• Academic Info
• BUBL LINK: Libraries of Networked Knowledge
• Infomine
• Librarian's Index to the Internet
• Scout Report Archives
• WWW Virtual Library

Journal Information

• Ingenta (Index of over 17,000 journals)
• New Jersey Union List of Serials (Periodical holdings for many N.J. Libraries - login njuls)
• Yahoo Reference Section

Libraries & Research Collections

• Libdex (Library Web-based Catalogs)
• Libweb (Library Web Pages)
• lib-web-cats (Library Web-based Catalogs)
• NUCMC (National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections)

News and Media Sites

• ABC News (World and national news)
• AJR Newslink (Media links to newspapers, magazines, radio/tv, etc.)
• CNN Interactive (World and national news)
• Daypop (Searches over 6,000 news websites)
• Ecola's Newsstand (includes newspapers arranged geographically as well as magazines)
• MSNBC (World and national news)
• Kidon Media Link (Newspaper links arranged geographically)
• Kiosken (Links to international newspapers)
• NewsCentral (Links to over 3,500 newspapers worldwide)
• Newspapers Online (Montclair State University)
• The Paperboy (Over 5491 links to international newspapers)
• Time Capsule (news headlines searchable by date, 1900 to 1997)
• The WorldNews Network (comprehensive compilation of links to worldwide news stories and photos

Newspapers (National, Regional, and State)

• Asbury Park Press
• Atlanta Journal-Constitution
• Baltimore Sun
• Bergen Record
• Boston Globe
• Business News New Jersey
• Chicago Tribune
• Christian Science Monitor
• Dallas Morning News
• Los Angeles Times
• Miami Herald
• New York Times (Registration required)
• Newark Star-Ledger
• The Press of Atlantic City
• Philadelphia Inquirer (Select Inquirer)
• Saint Louis Post-Dispatch
• Seattle Times
• Washington Post

Phone/Email Directories

• Anywho (AT&T)
• Superpages.com
• Switchboard
• Telephone Directories on the Web (International)
• THOR: The Virtual Reference Desk (Purdue University)

Quotations and Phrases

• Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (1901 ed.)
• Phrase Finder
• Simpson's Contemporary Quotations
• Yahoo Reference Section

Style Manuals

• Academic Integrity and Plagiarism: A Student Guide (Montclair State University)
• APA Style in Brief (Montclair State University Library)
• APA Style Guide (Ohio State Writing Lab)
• Citation Styles online! (guide to several citation styles)
• DocsCite (fill out form that shows proper citation for different style manuals)
• Guide for Writing Research Papers based on MLA Documentation (Capital Community College)
• Internet Public Library (includes Style Manuals for citing electronic sources)
• MLA Style in Brief (Montclair State University Library)
• Sources: Their Use and Acknowledgement (Dartmouth)
• Strunk's Elements of Style
• Citation Style for Research Papers (includes APA, MLA, Chicago, AMA, Turabian)