Reference & Quick Facts
Metasites for Reference Information
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Reference (Internet Public Library)
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Virtual Reference Shelf (U.S. Library of Congress)
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Ready Reference and Quick Facts (Librarians' Index to the Internet)
Dictionaries, Encyclopedias & Quick Answers
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Merriam-Webster Online (Merriam-Webster, Inc.) - Dictionary and thesaurus.
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Encyclopedia.com (Encyclopedia.com) - "More than 57,000 frequently updated articles from the Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition."
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Bartleby.com (Bartleby.com) - Search encyclopedias, dictionaries, quotations, almanacs, language usage, literature, and more.
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Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia (Wikipedia)
- Infoplease (Pearson Education) - "authoritative answers to all kinds of factual questions"
Maps (See also: Web Sites by Subject: Geography)
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Google Maps (Google)
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MapQuest (Mapquest.com)
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Topozone (Maps a la carte, Inc.) - View portions of USGS topographic maps online.
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Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection (University of Texas at Austin)
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Atlapedia Online (Latimer Clarke Corp.)
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WorldAtlas.com (Graphic Maps)
Statistics
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Statistical Resources on the Web (University of Michigan Documents Center)
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Statistical Abstract of the United States ( U.S. Census Bureau)
- NationMaster.com (Rapid Intelligence)- "The Web's one-stop resource for country statistics on everything."
Timelines
- Timelines of History (Algis Ratnikas)
Acronyms
- Acronym Finder (Mountain Data Systems)
Updated June 2006
Send Comments to Nancy Gauss, ngauss@western.edu
