Internet Public Library Reference Center  

• Abbreviations and Acronyms of the U.S. Government
• Acronym Finder
• Journal Abbreviation Sources

• Farmers' Almanac
• Old Farmers' Almanac
• Open Directory Project, Gary Price
• Infoplease.com

Associations

• The Foundation Center
• Associations on the Net
• Private Foundations

Books, Periodicals, and Publishing

• Bartleby.com (Great Books Online)
• Bibliomania (Free Online Literature with more than 2000 Classic Texts)
• ClassicReader.com (Read, search, and annotate great works of literature by authors such as Dickens, Tolstoy, Shakespeare, and many others. New works are added to the collection on a regular basis.)
• FindArticles.com (Free archive of full-text articles dating back to 1998 from over 300 titles)
• Internet Public Library (Link Recommendations. Rather than continuing to maintain its own index of online texts, the IPL is now pleased to recommend a number of other worthwhile resources for this information. )
• The Invisible Library (An online a collection of books that only appear in other books)
• National Academy Press - Full Text Books
• Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
• Online Books Page (Books listed and searchable by Library of Congress call number category)
• Periodical Titles in OCLC FirstSearch (Find specific periodical titles in FirstSearch databases or to generate lists of titles for those databases)
   
• The Online Books Page -Full Text Books and More (University of Penn)
  • New Listings Daily (Check here for newly listed full text materials)
• Project Gutenberg (In operation since 1971. Now updated daily, this site offers free downloads of classic books from the start of this century and previous centuries.)
• PubList
• University of Michigan Full Text Books Online (1800 – 1925)

Business

• Business Internet Resources (Library of Congress, Business Reference Service)
• Fortune 500
• Investor Words Dictionary
• International Trade Data
• Thomas Register of American Manufacturers
• Zagat Survey (Subscription needed, but so popular and useful)

Calculators

• Calculators On-Line Center
• Measure 4 Measure

Calendars, Clocks/Times

• Clocks
• Earth Calendar (A daybook of holidays and celebrations around the world)
• Perpetual Calendar
• Timeticker

Consumer Information

• Federal Consumer Information
• Kelly Blue Book (This online guide provides free values and pricing on new and used cars. New car pricing includes invoice, MSRP and New Car Blue Book Values) 

Dictionaries and Thesauri

• Links and Indexes to Online Dictionaries
  • American Heritage® Dictionary on Yahoo!
  • Dictionary.com
    • Reference.com
  • Language Dictionaries and Translators
  • OneLook Dictionaries
  • Yahoo Dictionaries
• English Language Dictionaries
  • American Heritage Book of English Usage
  • Merriam-Webster Online
• Thesauri
  • Roget's II: The New Thesaurus
• Specialized Dictionaries
  • ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science
  • Online Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols
  • Genealogy Dictionary
  • whatis?com (IT-related words)

Directories

• Associations
  • Associations on the Net
  • The Foundation Center
  • Grants and Related Resources
  • Scholarly Societies Project
• Codes
  • Area Code Decoder
  • Zip Code Lookup
• Federal Government
  • National Contact Center
    • Federal Government Blue Pages
    • Finding Military Personnel
• General
  • AT&T AnyWho Info (includes toll free, reverse telephone lookup)
  • Numberway (Find phone numbers, worldwide.)
  • SearchBug.com--PeopleFinder (includes reverse telephone and address lookup)
  • Switchboard
  • Telephone Directories on the Web (includes international directories)
  • Search Systems (Search over 10334 Free Searchable Public Record Databases)
  • Yahoo People Search
• Internet Directories (Organized by library classification schemes)
  • CyberDewey
  • KidsClick Dewey (Web search for kids by librarians)
  • Net Sites by Numbers
• Yellow Pages
  • Ameritech Smart Pages (Yellow and White)
  • SuperPages
  • AllPages.com (AllPages.com provides an online national "yellow pages" directory for all the US States.)

Education

• College and University Rankings
• Educators Reference Desk (Formerly AskERIC)
• National Center for Education Statistics
• Peterson's Guide to Colleges and Universities

Encyclopedias

• Assorted Encyclopedias Online
• Britannica.com
• Encarta.com (MSN)
• Encyclopedia.com
• Encyclopedia Mythica: An encyclopedia on mythology, folklore, and legend

Genealogy, Biography, and Archaeology

• Family Search
• Genealogy Dictionary
• Genealogy Gateway
• Local History and Genealogy (Library of Congress listing of Internet Resources)

Grant Resources

• Arts Over America: Major Grant Makers to Arts and Culture
• Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
• The Foundation Center
• Grants and Related Resources from Michigan State University
• Grants.gov Grants.gov is THE single access point for over 900 grant programs offered by the 26 Federal grant-making agencies.
• Schock's Guide for Educators
• US Small Business Administration Federal Grant Resources

Health/Medical

• Complete Home Medical Guide (Columbia University)
• Health/Medical Resources (Library of Congress, Science Reference Service)
• Intelihealth
• MedLIne Plus
• Merck Manual: Medical Information
• Rxlist

History (General )

• Harpers Weekly Online: Explore History
• HyperHistory Online
• Outline of American History

Language and Literature

• Quoteland
• Style Guides
  • APA - Electronic Reference Formats
  • Using CBE Style (from Online! A Reference Guide to Using Internet Sources)
  • Online! A Reference Guide to Using Internet Sources

Maps

• Atlapedia Online
• MapQuest (with driving directions)
• World Fact Book

• Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
• Simpson's Contemporary Quotations

Statistics

• American FactFinder
• FedStats (The gateway to statistics from over 100 U.S. Federal agencies)
• Statistical Resources on the Web
• Statistics.com
• Statistical Abstract of the United States

Other Reference Sites

Librarian's Index to the Internet (Very Comprehensive)

• Alcove 9: An Annotated List of Reference Websites (Library of Congress, Main Reading Room)
• Homework Center by Info Please
• Internet Public Library Reference Center
• Internet Resources From the Learning Page (Library of Congress-Great for Educators)
• LibrarySpot
• Net Sites By the Numbers (Web sites categorized by Dewey Decimal number system)
• Refdesk
• Research Tools
• Today in History (Library of Congress)
• WWW Virtual Library