Subject Guides : General Reference

Acronyms
Acronym Finder
World Wide Web Acronym and Abbreviation Server

Almanacs
Fast Facts
Information Please Almanac, Encyclopedia & Dictionary
The Old Farmer's Almanac
Area Codes
North American Numbering Plan - Area codes for the U.S. and its territories
International Calling Codes
Alternative Print and Media
Alternative Press Center
Independent Media Center
NewPages.com
Street Librarian

Associations
Internet Public Library Associations on the Net

Awards and Prizes
Academy Awards
Grammy Awards
Medal of Honor Awards
Nobel Prizes
Pulitizer Prizes

Biographical Information
Biographical Dictionary
Biography- Center
Biography.com

Books and Publishing
AcqWeb's Directory of Publishers and Vendors
Alibris - Rare and out-of-print books
Bibliofind - Rare and out-of-print books
Bartleby.com (Great Books Online)
Bibliomania - Free Online Literature with over 2000 classic texts
ClassicReader.com - Read and search great works of literature
The Children's Literature Web Guide
Internet Public Library - Electronic Full Text Books Directory
National Academy Press - Full-text books
The On-Line Books Page - Full-text books and more (University of Pennsylvania)
Publishers Catalogs' Home Page
Project Gutenberg -Free downloads of public domain books worldwide
University of Michigan Full-Text Books Online (1800-1925)
Boston
Boston.com
Boston Online
Yahoo! Boston

Calculation and Conversion
Conversion and Calculation Center
A Dictionary of Weights Units and Measures
Measure for Measure
Measure Converter
Online Conversion
Salary Calculator - Calculate the difference in salary and cost of living from one city to another.
How Far Is It? - Distance calculator

Calendars
Calendar Home
Catholic Calendar
Earth Calendar - A daybook of holidays and celebrations around the world.
Interfaith Calendar
Perpetual Calendar
Time and Date - Current calendar

Career
Career Builder
Career Guide to Industries
CareerJournal
Fed World
JobStar Central
JobWeb
Massachusetts Career Information System
Merrimack College Career Services
Monster.com
Occupational Outlook Handbook
O'Net Online

Citations, Style and Writing Guides
American Heritage Book of English Usage
Guide to Grammar and Writing
How to Cite Sources
NoodleBib
APA Style
CBE Style (Council of Biology Editors)
Chicago Manual of Style - Diana Hacker's Chicago Style
Using Chicago Style to Cite and Document Sources
MLA Style - Diana Hacker's MLA Style
Using MLA Style to Cite and Document Sources
Turabian Style - Ohio State University Libraries

*See McQuade Library's "How to CIte Sources" page

Colleges and Universities
Peterson's Education Center
Yahoo! Education Link

Currency
Currency Site
Foreign Exchange Rates - Daily

Country Information
Background Notes
Chiefs of State & Cabinet Members of Foreigh Governments
CIA World Factbook
Country Commercial Guide
Country Reports on Human Rights Practice
CountryWatch
Economist.com: Country Briefings
Dictionaries
Chambers Reference Online
Merriam-Webster Online
Merriam-Webster's Medical Desk Dictionary
Your Dictionary.com
AllWords.com
Language Dictionaries and Translators
Yahoo! Dictionaries

Directories
AT&T Toll-Free Internet DirectorySwitchboard- Listing of 800 and 888 numbers
Switchboard - Phone numbers for individuals and businesses nationwide.
Telephone Numbers/Street Addresses/Email addresses
Zip Codes - U.S. Postal Service

Elements - Periodic Table
WebElements

Encyclopedias
Columbia Encyclopedia
Encyclopedia.com
Internet Public Library: Encyclopedias
MEL: Encyclopedias - Links to subject specific encyclopedias
Merck Manual - Encyclopedia of chemicals, drugs, and biologicals.

Government Information
Browse Government Resources (Library of Congress)
Congress.org
FedWorld
Federal Information Center
FirstGov
GPO Access
State and Local Governments
The Supreme Court of the United States
Thomas-Legislative Information on the Internet
U.S. Federal Government Agencies Directory
U.S. Senate
U. S. House of Representatives
Whitehouse.gov

Health/ Medical
AMA Doctor Finder
Drugs.com
RxList
InteliHealth
MedlinePlus
MEL: Health Information Resources
WebMD
Historical Documents
The Constitution of the United States
The Bill of Rights
The Declaration of Independence
University of Michigan Documents Center
Information Literacy
Information Literacy Standards for Higher Education - ACRL
National Forum on Information Literacy

Internet and WWW
Google
Yahoo!
All About the Internet
Finding Information on the Internet: A Tutorial
SearchEngineWatch.com
WebCrawler
Law
AllLaw
FindLaw
Internet Law Library
Legal Information Institute - Cornell University
Thomas - Legislative Information on the Internet
Libraries
BLC - Boston Library Consortium
McQuade Library - Merrimack College
MLIN- Massachusetts Library and Information Network
MVLC - Merrimack Valley Library Consortium
NOBLE - North of Boston Library Exchange
The Library of Congress
Public Libraries.com - Locate public, academic, national, and international libraries.

Maps & Gazetteers
Altapedia Online
Columbia Gazetteer of North America
Geodata.gov: U.S. Maps & Data
GoogleMaps
MapQuest
MultiMap - maps from around the world
TopoZone (topographic maps)
U.S. Gazetteer Maps and census data by place name or zip code.

Movie Reviews
Internet Movie Database
News
AJR
CNN
Google News
NewsLink
WorldNews

Public Opinion Polls
The Center for Public Opinion Research at Merrimack College
Gallup Polls
PollingReport.com
Roper Center

Quotations
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Primary Sources
Repositories of Primary Sources
Research Subject Guides
Subject Guides - McQuade Library

Speeches
Gifts of Speech: Women's Speeches from Around the World
Douglass: Archives of American Public Address
States
Mass.gov - The Official Website of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
State and County Quickfacts
50States.com

Statistics
AmeriStat
Bureau of Economic Analysis
Bureau of Labor Statistics
FEDSTATS
Health Statistics Sources - National Library of Medicine
National Center for Education Statistics
OFFSTATS: Official Statistics on the Web metasite with links to official statistics from countries, government agencies, and intergovernmental organizations
Social Science Data on the Internet
State and County Quick Facts
Statistical Abstract of the United States
Statistical Resources on the Web
Statistics.com
Uniform Crime Reports
U.S. Census Bureau

Study Guides
Study Guides and Strategies
Study Strategies Homepage
Thesauri
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus
Webster's Thesaurus
Yahoo! Thesauri Links - Subject and language specific thesauri

Time
Local Times Around the World
Timeticker
World Clock - Time Zones

Weather
National Weather Service
Weather Channel
World Weather Information Service
Yahoo! Weather - Global weather information

Other Reference Sites
Academic Info
Internet Public Library Reference Center
INFOMINE: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections
Librarian's Index to the Internet
LibrarySpot
Refdesk.com
Virtual Reference Shelf