Online Reference Shelf
Selected Reference Resources on the Web


Acronyms & Abbreviations

Government & Law

Princeton & New Jersey

Arts & Leisure (Film, TV, Sports...)

Grants & Scholarships

Quotation Books

Biographies

Handbooks & Almanacs

Statistics

Books (Stores, Publishers, Reviews, E-Texts)

Health & Medicine

Style/Citation Manuals

Consumers

Libraries (Worldwide, National, Regional)

Time, Dates & Calendars

Currency Rates & Measurement Tools

Maps & Geography

Travel

Dictionaries, Thesauri, Encyclopedias

News & Newspapers  (US, Worldwide...)

Universities/Colleges

Directories (Phone, E-Mail, Zip Codes)

Organizations

Web Searching/Meta-Sites

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Arts & Leisure (Film, Museums, Sports, Theater, TV)

Film

  • Internet Movie Database covers over 140,000 movies; includes filmographies, plot summaries; character names; movie ratings; year of release; genres; reviews; links to official studio pages, Academy Awards info +. Also covers television series.
  • Facets nation's largest distributors of art, classic, cult, foreign and hard-to-find videos. Facets has over 27,000 titles, all of which are available for purchase through mail order.
  • Film Festivals.com includes all Film Festivals  from 1995 - to date; search by country, date or name.
  • Film Studies links maintained by M. Norden for the American Communication Center
  • Movie Review Query Engine includes reviews that have been posted in the past to rec.arts.movies.reviews or appear on one of the WWW servers of newspapers and periodicals.
  • Movie-STAR information on the Academy Awards since 1927, including more than 6,200 nominations and 1,200 Oscar awards in major categories for over 2400 motion pictures and 3900 individuals.
  • Oscars - Academy Awards official site of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
  • Reel: the Planet's Biggest Movie Store movie/video guide; rent or buy videos; lists current releases; summaries of critics' reviews.
Museums


Sports

  • ESPN.COM covers all the major sports,including daily game summaries, scores, schedules, etc.
  • SportQuest searchable directory of sport websites.
  • Sports Server - comprehensive sports site; covers teams, scores, players, statistics, history. Has special sections on This Day in Sports history, what sports are on TV, . . .
  • Total College Sports (FANSonly) news and features on major and some minor college sports.
  • CBS SportsLine site for major college & professional teams; has schedules, scores, & statistics.
  • Sports Network continuously updated sports scores.
  • Sports Schedules As You Like 'Em schedules for all major professional and most minor league teams.
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Books (Online Stores, Publishers, Book Reviews, E-Texts )

Online Stores

Publishers


Book Reviews & Literary Criticism

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Consumers

  • U.S. Consumer gateway a "one-stop" link to a broad range of federal information resources available online. Information by category -- such as Food, Health, Product Safety, Your Money, and Transportation.
  • Consumer Search provides links to product reviews ; content added weekly with plans to cover  800 product categories
  • Consumer World " a public service site which has gathered over 1700 of the most useful consumer resources..."  Offers product reviews, comparison shopping for bargains and travel, info on filing a complaint with a consumer affairs department or the BBB,  info on low rate credit card or mortgage, prices of cars, finance tips, how to research a law, ...
  • Kelley Blue Book New & Used Car Price Reports lists both new car and used car prices & reports, and a directory of important sites, including dealer and automobile manufacturers' sites.
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Dictionaries & Encyclopedias

 Dictionary gateways
  • Linguist's List comprehensive directory of foreign language and English dictionaries.
  • Your Dictionary.com word lists, dictionaries and thesauri for over 130 languages. (R. Beard, Bucknell University; formerly Web of Online Dictionaries)
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Directories

Phone & E-Mail Directories

Zip Codes
  • AmeriCom Long Distance Area Decoder
  • International Calling Codes
  • ZIP Code Lookup and Address Information from the US Postal Service
  • Zip Codes (State of NJ)
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    Government

    Federal

         Selected US government databases      Copyright Information International
    • Altapedia Online contains color physical maps, political maps as well as key facts and statistics on countries of the world.
    • Background Notes (U.S. State Department ) full-text info on countries and international organizations; organized by region and country or organization. History, government and political conditions, economy, foreign relations and basic travel information. Also lists principal U.S. officials and consulate officers.
    • CountryWatch provides up-to-date information on countries, including news wires, population, currency, maps, as well as brief summaries on history, economy, agriculture, and environment. The Country Review, in-depth reports and News Archive/Search Engine is available only through subscription.
    • Elections around the World results around the world, parties, parliaments etc.
    • European Union
    • Flags of the World - FOTW includes pages about flags and more than 22,300 images of flags.
    • Foreign Governent Resources on the Web  (University of Michigan)
    • Governments on the WWW includes: institutions of the legislative branch (parliaments); of the executive branch (ministries, agencies, administrations, offices, institutes, councils, committees and others); and of the judicative branch (law courts) governmental representations in foreign countries (embassies, consulates and others) ; political parties and party alliances.
    • Information Please includes information on the countries of the world from the famous Information Please Almanac
    • Library of Congress Country Studies "contains the on-line versions of books published by under the Country Studies/Area Handbook Program sponsored by the U.S. Depart of Army.  Not comprehsenisve, the series covers 101 countries;excluded are Canada, France, the United Kingdom, and other Western nations, as well as a number of African nations. The date of information for each country appears on the title page of each country and at the end of  each section of text.
    • United Nations
    • World Factbook annual CIA handbook gives basic data on all the countries of the world.
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    Handbooks & Almanacs
    • The Almanac of Politics and Government
    • Background Notes (U.S. State Department ) full-text info on countries and international organizations; organized by region and country or organization. History, government and political conditions, economy, foreign relations and basic travel information. Also lists principal U.S. officials and consulate officers.
    • Flags of the World - FOTW includes pages about flags and more than 22,300 images of flags.
    • Information Please includes the Information Please Almanac, the Entertainment Almanac, Sports Almanac, the Columbia Encyclopedia, and the Random House College Dictionary online.
    • Nobel Prize Internet Archive or The Nobel Foundation comprehensive info on winners and discoveries.
    • Old Farmer's Almanac
    • The 50 States & Capitals includes: latitude and longitude, birds, colleges/universities, constitutions, flowers, genealogical resources, mottos, national forests/parks, newspapers, nicknames, nonprofit organizations, populations, state/federal representatives, songs, and the date of entry into the union.
    • World Factbook annual CIA handbook gives basic data on all the countries of the world.
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    Health & Medicine

    • AMA Physician Select provides information on licensed physicians in the US and its possessions, including more than 650,000 doctors of medicine (MD) and doctors of osteopathy or osteopathicmedicine (DO).
    • Centers for Disease Control & Information has info for travelers,such as vaccine requirements, disease outbreaks, country health information, and more.
    • Complete Home Medical Guide helpful medical reference work (3rd 1995 edition; Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons)
    • Healthfinder from the US government; links to selected online publications, clearinghouses, databases, web sites, and support / self-help groups, as well as the government agencies and not-for-profit organizations.
    • Intelihealth.com
    • Mayo Clinic Oasis a searchable site, includes recent health news and a library of medical references
    • MEDLINE: PubMed free access to Medline, The National Library of Medicine's database of references to articles published in medical journals .
    • National Health Information Center access to the Health Information Resource Database, which includes 1,110 U.S. organizations and government officies that provide health information.  Entries include contact information, toll-free numbers, and information about publications and services.
    • RxList: the Internet Drug Index provides extensive information for over 500 perscription drugs.
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    Libraries

    Libraries Worldwide

         National Libraries of the World National Libraries

         United States

         National Libraries of the World


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    News & Newspapers Newspapers

    US only

    • Daily Newspapers on the Internet also includes radio stations
    • National Public Radio Archives browse the archives of : All Things Considered  Morning Edition, etc.
    • NewsLibrary searchable archives (many going back 10 or more years) of newspapers (Knight-Ridder chain).  Includes archives of  papers currently  from: Boulder, CO, Detroit, MI, Long Beach, CA, Miami, Philadelphia, San Jose, St. Paul, MN, and Wichita, KS. Search and retrieval of citations with brief abstract is free.
    • NewspaperLinks.com a gateway to local US newspapers; also includes link to foreign papers
    • U.S. News Archives on the Web provides links to US news archives. Papers are arranged by state.  Includes the dates of the archive & cost to retrieve the full text.  Unless noted, searching is free.   Archives of non-US newspaper archives are also available.   Pages maintained by Special Libraries Association.
    Newspapers Worldwide
    • ABYZ Newslinks links to more than 16,400 newspapers & other news sources from around the world
    • My Virtual Newspaper links to newspapers worldwide, arranged by states in the US, then countries; includes links to newswires.  From refdesk.com
    • OnlineNewspapers.com index of over 5,000 online newspapers published in 200 countries
    • News and Newspapers Online  links to "hundreds of news resources from around the world...that offer full-text news; from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
    • Online Newspapers  links to newspapers worldwide (Internet Public Library)
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    Organizations
    • Associations on the Net over 700 Internet sites with information about professional and trade associations, cultural and art organizations, political parties, advocacy groups, labor unions, academic societies, and research institutions.
    • International Organizations Web Site selected from the Yearbook of International Organizations.
    • Scholarly Societies Project over a thousand scholarly societies. (Univ. of Waterloo Electronic Library)
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    Princeton University

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    Style/Citation Manuals (Citing Sources)

    Multiple Style Listings

        * Research and Documentation in the Electronic Age   By Diana Hacker; includes examples
              for citing the MLA, APA and CBE

    APA Manuals (American Psychological Association)
    • APAStyle.org covers commonly asked questions regarding how to cite electronic media.
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    Time, Measurement & Calendars


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    Web Searching & Meta-Sites
      More Web Gateways Web Archives
    • Internet Web Archive offers permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format.
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