Reference

Reference

Categories

* Acronyms & Abbreviations
* Almanacs and Yearbooks
* Archives and Public Records
* Calendars
* Currency Conversion
* Date and Time Conversion
* Dictionaries
* Encyclopedias
* Flags
* Gazetteers
* Libraries
* Maps
* Measurements and Unit Conversion
* Phone and Trade Directories
* Quotations
* Statistics
* Thesauri
* Tides

Sites

* Credo Reference
Over 100 searchable and browsable reference books from a collection of the world's leading publishers, including Bloomsbury, Collins, Penguin and Thames and Hudson.
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* Encyclopædia Britannica Online
The complete 32-volume Encyclopædia Britannica, plus Britannica's Student Encyclopædia, Elementary Encyclopædia for younger students, and the Britannica Concise Encyclopædia. Search articles, photographs, drawings, maps, flags and more.
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* General Reference Center Gold
Find articles on current events, popular culture, business and industry trends, the arts and sciences, sports, hobbies, and more from a variety of resources.
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* Oxford Reference Online
Brings together 100 language and subject dictionaries and reference works into a single cross-searchable resource.
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* General Reference @ Oxford Reference Online
A collection of General Reference books.
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* Ethnologue, Languages of the World
An encyclopedic reference work cataloging all of the world's 6,912 known living languages. From Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL)
* Guinness World Records
* How Stuff Works
Have you ever wondered how the engine in your car works, or what gears do, or what makes the inside of your refrigerator cold? A great place to learn how things work in the world around you. Good for science projects.
* Worldmapper
A large collection of maps that detail various subjects that are presented in a cartogram form with accompaning text information.