Reference Links

Almanacs | Calendars and Clocks | Calculators and Conversion Tools | Dictionaries and Language | Encyclopedias | Quotations | Reference Collections | Style and Writing Guides

Almanacs

• Fact Monster
  Fact Monster is an online almanac for kids. From Information Please.
• Guinness World Records
• Information Please
  Search the combined contents of the Information Please Almanac, an encyclopedia, a dictionary, and an atlas. The Almanac can also be browsed by subject: World, United States, History and Government, Biography, Sports, Arts and Entertainment, Business and Finance, Society and Culture, and Health and Science.
• The Old Farmer’s Almanac
  Weather forecasts and seasonal folklore.
• World Almanac for Kids

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Calendars and Clocks

• Calendars Through the Ages
  Answers to frequently asked questions about calendars, including Julian, Gregorian, Jewish, Islamic, Chinese, and Mayan.
• Daylight Saving Time
  History of Daylight Saving Time, U.S. law and practice, and worldwide time change dates.
• Local Times Around the World
• Official U.S. Time
  Provided by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the U.S. Naval Observatory.
• Perpetual Calendar
  Use this site to find appropriate years if you know only the day of the week, the date, and the month.
• time and date.com
  Shows current local times around the world. Also, creates customizable calendars that include moon phases and holidays.

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Calculators and Conversion Tools

• calculator.com—Online Scientific Calculator
• Consumer Price Index Calculator
  From the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Uses the Consumer Price Index to calculate inflation rates and the value of a dollar from 1913 to 2004.
• FXConverter: 164 Currency Converter
  This site converts over 164 foreign currencies.
• How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement
• Science Made Simple Conversions
  U.S. customary and metric conversions for unit measurements.
• Simple Numeric Calculator
• Universal Currency Converter
  Another currency exchange rate calculator.
• Yahoo! Reference: Weights and Measures
  Performs conversions with area, length, volume, weight and mass.

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Dictionaries and Language

• Acronym Finder
• AltaVista's Babel Fish Translation
  Translate short passages of text or entire Web sites among 19 pairs of languages.
• American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
• Cambridge Dictionaries Online
• Heinle's Newbury House Dictionary of American English
• Merriam-Webster Online
  Dictionary and thesaurus.
• The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy
  Identifies and defines common cultural knowledge.
• Omniglot
  "Omniglot is a guide to the writing systems and languages of the world. It also contains tips on learning languages, language-related articles, quite a large collection of useful phrases in many languages, [and] multilingual texts"
• Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus
• SDL Free Translation
  Free language translation service for websites and text.
• WriteExpress Online Rhyming Dictionary
• yourDictionary.com
  Links to many foreign language dictionaries, glossaries on specialized topics, thesauri, and more.

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Encyclopedias

• The Canadian Encyclopedia
  A comprehensive reference work on all subjects relating to Canada.
• Columbia Encyclopedia
• Encarta Encyclopedia Center
  Some articles are available only to premium subscribers.
• Encyclopedia Mythica
  An encyclopedia on mythology, folklore, and legend.
• The Encyclopedia of World History
  A chronology of events from prehistoric times to the year 2000.
• How Stuff Works
  Over 1000 articles on how everyday items work.
• SYMBOLS.com
  Online encyclopedia of Western signs and symbols.

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Quotations

• Bartleby.com Quotations
  Search Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations (1919 edition), The Columbia World of Quotations, Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations, and Respectfully Quoted.
• Internet Movie Database IMDb.com
  Look up a movie quote, or other movie facts.
• The Oxford Shakespeare
  Search the 1914 Oxford edition of the Complete Works of William Shakespeare.

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Reference Collections

• Bartleby.com
  Bartleby.com publishes thousands of free online classics of reference, literature and nonfiction.
• Bloomsbury Research Centre
  An online database of reference books.
• Internet Public Library
  Includes directories of online texts, newspapers, magazines, reference materials; plus special sections for youth and teens.
• Yahoo! Reference
  Features content from reference books produced by several companies.

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Style and Writing Guides

• American Heritage Book of English Usage
• The Columbia Guide to Standard American English
• DocsCite: How to Cite Government Documents
• How to Write a Term Paper
  A step-by-step guide to creating a research paper.
• MLA Citation Style
  Samples from the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 6th edition. Site created by the University of Long Island.
• Online! A Reference Guide to Using Internet Sources
  Detailed advice for citing online sources.
• Research and Documentation Online
  Guidelines for the most common documentation styles and annotated listings of research sources.
• University of Wisconsin-Madison Writer's Handbook
  Help for writing assignments, grammar and punctuation, citing references, and more.
• WorksCited4U
  Formats bibliographies and works cited according to MLA style guidelines.

Last updated September 30, 2008