Reference Sources



America's Best Colleges (U.S. News & World Report)

APA Publication Guide (American Psych. Assoc.)

Ask an Expert Education Links (Stevens Institute of Technology)

Bartleby.com KJV Bible & many other often-used reference books

Best Information on the Net (St. Ambrose Univ.)

Book Reviews -- Publisher's Weekly
Over 132,000 free reviews from 1987 to present

Chicago Style Guide (Univ. of Chicago)

CIA World Fact Book

Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia

Conservative Reference Desk (Crown College, MN)

Country Background Notes (U.S. Dept. of State)
Historical, social, economic, and political profiles of the world's countries.

Country Profiles (BBC News)
Complete country profiles of the world's nations and territories.

Country Studies (Library of Congress)

CountryReports.org

Education Index Topical subject index of the best Internet sites

Genealogy (Cyndi's List)

General Reference Sources (Univ. of Virginia)

Guinness Book of World Records

Harvard University Open Collections Program

HotSheet Web Directory - "The easy way to the best of the web" (Impreso)

In the First Person Oral History Database (Alexander Street Press)

InfoMine (Univ. of California-Riverside)
Internet resources relevant to college-level research.

Information Please Almanac

Internet Public Library (Univ. of Michigan)

Jobs. (St. Petersburg Times)

Jobs. (Tampa Bay Jobs.net)

Librarians Index To The Internet (California State Library)

LibrarySpot Use dictionaries, encyclopedias, biographies, maps, online journals, and more. (Libraryspot.com)

Maps (Univ. of Texas at Austin)

My Virtual Reference Desk (ICNet)

Online Books Page (Univ. of Pennsylvania) Hundreds of free e-books, links to journals & periodicals

Picture Sources (St. Ambrose Univ.)

Quick Reference (Purdue University)

Religion Statistics (Adherents.com)

Scholarpedia
Similar to Wikipedia, but is peer reviewed for higher quality. Contains mostly science information at this time.

Statistics (National Safety Council)

Virtual Library (Univ. of South Florida)

Visual Dictionary Online (Merriam-Webster)
15 major themes and over 6,000 images

Weather Sites

Webster's Dictionary