* Most of these refer to US sources. Taken with some mild adaptation and reorganization for our purposes from Princeton University site of the same name which you can access in the original at www.princeton.edu/~pressman/genref.htm It is our intention to continue to develop and refine these reference tools as we move ahead on our common agenda.

Acronyms & Abbreviations

• Acronyms and Abbreviations
• Acronym Finder searchable database containing common acronyms and abbreviations about all subjects, with a focus on computers, technology, telecommunications, and the military.
• WWW Acronym & Abbreviation Server

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.
• CineMedia 18,000 link film and media directory; categories that include: tv shows, cinema, actors, producers, schools, festivals, studios, and production. (American Film Institute)
• 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 Festival Directory & Film Festivals List all film Festivals, 1995+
• Movie Guide in Theaters includes the Motion Picture Database ; lists the cast, credits and reviews for more than 30,000 U.S. movies, plus filmographies and biographical information.
• 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 movie and video releases; summaries of critics' reviews.

• Museums Around the World
• Smithsonian (Washington, D.C.)

• CultureFinder: The Online Address for the Performing Arts includes  schedules for over 1,000 arts organizations in the U.S & around the world; CityGuides - the arts in major U.S. cities, etc.
• On Broadway information on Broadway plays and musicals.
• Playbill On-line U.S. and London theater listings, feature articles,Who's Who, job listings, +

• PBS Online & WNET (Channel 13)
• TV Guide Online Listings
• Ultimate TV tv schedules, contact information for networks, info on all TV shows;& hundreds of links.
• Vanderbilt Television News Archive

• Biographical Dictionary 4,000 biographies covering ancient times to the present.
• Biographies of Leaders in the News (ABC News) includes quotes, photo, and a short biography.
• Biography.com site of A & E's Biography television series; includes the searchable text of 15,000 entries from The Cambridge Biographical Encyclopedia.
• Biography and Geneaology Master Index (Princeton only)
• Britannica Lives
• Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments from the CIA, updated list of current world leaders and their cabinets.
• Contemporary Authors (Princeton only)
• Lives, the Biography Resource "links to thousands of biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, diaries, letters, narratives, oral histories and more"
• NameBase Index over 200,000 citations covering more than 90,000 individual and organizational names from approximately 500 books published since 1962 and thousands of periodicals from 1973. Covers people in academia, high tech, media, politics, intelligence, U.S. foreign policy, religion, crime, business and more.
• Newsmaker Profiles (CNN) biographies of people in the news; U.S. and international.
• Poets & Writers Online the Directory of American poets & fiction writers online; has over 2,000 names and addresses of writers.
• World Biographical Index over 2 million brief biographies forindividuals who lived in North and South America, Western and Central Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and Oceania. (From K.G Saur)

Books (Book Reviews, Publishers, Stores)

Book Reviews & Literary Criticism

• BookWire comprehensive book industry site; includes Library Journal; School Library Journal; Publishers Weekly, with their Bestseller Lists and links to reviews; Computer Book Review; Hungry Mind Review; indexes to publishers and booksellers on the Web; calendars of authors on tour and book events, etc.
• Book Browser: a guide for avid readers "collection of fiction reading lists. . . to help avid fiction readers find books and authors;" lists by genre, location, series.
• Los Angeles Times: Books & Talks
• New York Review of Books includes selections from its current issue and archived selections from issues back to February, 1997, and promises of an eventual complete record of its 34-year publishing history.
• New York Times Book Review includes an archive of more than 50,000 reviews, book-related news pieces, and interviews back to 1980. The full-text of first chapters of selected bestsellers and featured titles are available.
• Online Literary Criticism Collection from the Internet Public Library, includes 1576 critical and biographical websites about authors and their work; browse by author, by title, or by literary period.

• Alex: A Catalogue of Electronic Texts on the Internet
• The Online Books Page directory of books free on the Internet; includes: index of thousands of on-line books;pointers to directories and archives of on-line texts...

• AcqWeb's Directory of Publishers and Vendors comprehensive coverage, including an international directory of e-mail addresses for publishers, as well as publishers' web sites by name, place, and by subject.
• Internet Roadmap to Books links to all aspects of book publishing; including booksellers and

publishers, online editions of books,publishing organizations, book fairs, reviews, resources fo libraries.
• Publishers' Catalogues Home Page geographical index of publisher websites worldwide.
• Books Out-of-Print
• AAUP Combined Online Catalog/Bookstore access to books of all participating Association of American University Presses members and links to the individual on-line catalogs of many scholarly presses.
• Ulrich's International Periodicals

• Acses checks out prices, availability, shipping times and shipping costs of any book at over 25 online stores, including Amazon.com and Barnesandnoble.com.
• Best Book Buys  comparison sites that searches over 20 book stores stores simultaneously to find who's got a book at the lowest price. Used, rare and out-of-print bookstore comparison services include BookFinder, Bibliofind, Advanced Book Exchange and Bibliocity. European resources include Antiqbook from the Netherlands Antiquarian Booksellers' Network and Libri@ntichi.
• Bibliofind nine million used and rare books, periodicals and ephemera offered for sale by thousands of booksellers around the world.
• Bookfinder a book shopping search engine that scans bookseller databases to

find new, used, rare, and out of print books.
• Booksellers

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.
• ConsumerGuide includes Auto Guide to buying new and used cars, and has Best Buy ratings for everything from cameras to freezers, home office products to baby equipment.
• Consumer World " a public service site which has gathered over 1700 of the most useful consumer resources and categorized them. " Offers product reviews, comparison shopping for bargains and travel, info on filing a complaint with a government or company consumer affairs department or the BBB, 100s of consumer rightsbooklets, 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.
• Product ReviewNet indexes and abstracts of product reviews from hundreds of online sites and print publications. It covers a wide range of products, including consumer appliances, computers and software, as well as CDs, gardening supplies and books.

Currency Rates & Measurement Tools

• Cheat Sheet for Travelers includes currency conversion table for each of 164 currencies.
• Currencies of the World
• Currency - Exchange many sources of information on currency, including a table currencies worlwide.
• Currency Converter more than 160 exchange rates for any day, from jan. 1 1990 through yesterday.
• Currency Converter - Universal
• What's a Dollar Worth? Federal Reserve Bank service that uses data from the Consumer Price Index to calculate CPI values across the years.

Measurement Tools

• Common Weights And Measures
• A Dictionary of Measures, Units and Conversions " a summary of most of the units of measurement to be found in use around the world today (and a few of historical interest), together with the appropriate conversion factors needed to change them into a 'standard' unit of the S I."( 'Systeme International')
• Measurement Conversion Calculator converts any combination of approximately 800 SI, metric, American, English, historical, and ancient measures.
• Unit Conversions This converter works for units of energy, pressure, volume, temperature, and mass; calculates the value of: acceleration, area, luminance, mass, pressure, velocity, voltage, and volume.

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Dictionaries & Encyclopedias

• Hypertext Webster Gateway access various dictionary services.
• International Law Dictionary defines words used in international law; lists international organizations with links to home pages; acronyms of international organizations; descriptions of countries with links to home pages.
• Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition
• On-line Medical Dictionary
• Oxford English Dictionary(Princeton only)
• Webster's Dictionary (from the Britannica) (Princeton only)
• Webster's Revised Unabridged 1913 Ed. ARTFL Project
• WordNet  online lexical system developed by the Cognitive Science Laboratory at Princeton University.

Dictionary gateways

• Dictionaries, etc. comprehensive directory of dictionaries from the Linguist List
• Web of Online Dictionaries word lists, dictionaries and thesauri for over 130 languages. (R. Beard, Bucknell University)

French

• ARTFL Project: French-English Dictionary
• ARTFL Project: TLF Dictionary Form  Nicot's Thresor de la langue française from 1606
• Dictionnaire de l'Académie française

• English-German Dictionary by Wolfram Schneider
• LEO Dictionary: German-English

• Diccionario Anaya de la Lengua

• The Thesaurus of Geographical Names
• Roget's Internet Thesaurus
• Roget's Thesaurus 1911 edition;  "supplemented: July, 1991."

• Britannica Online Encyclopedia Britannica (Princeton only)
• The Concise Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia 3rd Edition

Phone & E-Mail Directories

• 555-1212.com telephone numbers, area code and country code information, e-mail addresses, and website locations.
• AnyWho: Find Telephone Number and Address from AT&T: search for people or businesses; E-mail, FAX, and Toll Free Number information . Includes re verse lookups, street proximity listings for business or residential; match for last name lookups, maps of the address .
• AT&T Toll Free Directory
• Bigfoot
• Internet 800 Directory
• Switchboardpeople and business directory, with e-mail and web sites; includes Maps on Us, a new mapping and routing service from Lucent Technologies; has detailed maps and driving directions.
• Telephone Directories on the Web international listing of online phone directories
• World Pages search residential, business & government phone directories from over 50 countries world-wide.
• Yelloweb Europe Directory provides pointers to sites exclusively in Europe. The catalog is divided into 18 major categories from announcements to trade and services.

ZIP Code Lookup and Address Information from the US Postal Service

Government
Federal

• Government documents in Princeton University Library information on locating U.S. documents;comprehensive Government Sites; major databases and reference works, statistics, resources by Subject and Agency.
• CapWeb - A Guide to the U.S. Congress information about Congress .
• Congress.Org info on the 105th Congress which began on January 7, 1997; photographs, room, phone, and fax numbers, key staff, committee assignments, district office addresses, etc.
• DefenseLink - Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, National Guard U.S. Department of Defense site
• Federal Web Locator - from the Villanova Center--for federal government information
• Government Guide comprehensive U.S. government listings, state government, local government and municipal government. Has embassy phone and fax numbers, URLs, and addresses for every embassy and consulate in Washington.
• Internal Revenue Serviceinfo on filing tax returns with the federal government.
• THOMAS: Legislative Information on the Internet access full-text of bills from the 105th Congress, as well as 104th and 103rd; also access the Congressional Record full text.
• United States Government Manual covers agencies of the legislative, judicial, and executive branches; and quasi-official agencies; international organizations in which the U.S. participates.
• Voting Records of Members of Congress voting records from Library of Congress
• The White House

• Governments on the WWWincludes: institutions of the legislative branch (parliaments) ; institutions of the executive branch (ministries, agencies, administrations, offices, institutes, councils, committees and others); institutions of the judicative branch (law courts) governmental representations in foreign countries (embassies, consulates and others) ; political parties and party alliances.
• United Nations

• United States Copyright Office
• Copyright and Fair Use
• Copyright and Intellectual Property from the Association of Research Libraries (ARL),includes links to US Legislation.

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 more than 1500 pages and more than 2500 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 & Capitalsincludes: latitude and longitude, birds, colleges and universities, constitutions, flowers, genealogical resources, mottos, national forests and parks, newspapers, nicknames, nonprofit organizations, populations, state and federal representatives, songs, and the date of entry into the union.
• World Factbookannual CIA handbook gives basic data on all the countries of the world.

Health & Medicine

• Centers for Disease Control & Information has info for travellers,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.
• HealthGate Medline Search free access to the complete Medline database from 1966; also available are AIDSDRUGS, AIDSTRIALS, AIDSLINE, Bioethicsline, CANCERLIT, and HealthSTAR. (National Library of Medicine)
• Mayo Clinic Oasis a searchable site, includes recent health news and a library of medical references
• MEDLINE: PubMed and Internet Grateful Med free access to Medline, The National Library of Medicine's database of references to articles published in medical journals . Search either Internet Grateful Med or PubMed.
• National Health Information Center search the Health Information Resource Database, which includes 1,110 U.S. organizations and government officies that provide health information on request. Entries include contact information, short abstracts, and information about publications and services the organizations provide. Includes a list of toll-free numbers.
• Physician Select (from the AMA) provides information on licensed physicians in the United States and its possessions, including more than 650,000 doctors of medicine (MD) and doctors of osteopathy or osteopathic medicine (DO). All physician credential data have been verified for accuracy and authenticated.
• RxList: the Internet Drug Index provides extensive information for over 500 perscription drugs.

Libraries Worldwide

• Libweb library web pages worldwide
• Webcats library catalogs of the world

• Princeton Public Library includes the Online Catalog & Magazine & Newspaper holdings
• Princeton Theological Seminary Library
• More Links to New Jersey Libraries
• Regional/Worldwide Libraries (includes Rutgers, Penn, Colombia, CRL)
• State Library, including NJ Union list of Serials

• Library of Congress
• The National Agricultural Library
• National Archives and Records Administration
• National Library of Education
• National Library of Medicine

• National Libraries of the World (access to web pages and catalogs)
• National Libraries of the World: address list
• Gabriel, Gateway to Europe's National Libraries server for Europe's National Libraries

• Digital Libraries: Electronic Journal and Text Archives a guide to many of the major electronic journal and text indexes and/or archives

• How Far Is It? data from the US Census and a supplementary list of cities around the world to find thelatitude and longitude of two places, and then calculates the distance between them.
• Map Machine (National Geographic) has political, physical, country maps and more.
• Mapquest street atlas of the U S provides mileage, and streep maps with driving directions. Also has trip information that includes hotels, restaurants, sites and weather.
• Maps on Us, mapping and routing service from Lucent Technologies; detailed maps and driving directions.
• Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection (University of Texas-Austin)political maps covering the entire world, with extensive coverage of Latin America.
• NJ Online: Maps & Directions
• Relief Maps of the United States (by Andrew Birrell)
• The Thesaurus of Geographical Names
• U.S. Census Bureau's Gazetteer identify places with the Tiger Map Server and obtain census data from the 1990 Census. Search for places, counties or MCDs by entering the name and state abbreviation (or 5-digit zip)
• U.S. Census Bureau's Online Maps (Tiger) road maps for U.S. cities.

• Hot News Topics includes resources on current and previous news topics.
• Center for Research Libraries: Foreign Newspaper Holdings
• CNN Interactive
• Drudge Report
• MSNBC
• National Public Radio (NPR)
• Speech & Transcript Center
• Vanderbilt Television News Archive Since August 1968, Archive has recorded, abstracted, and indexed national television newscasts. Videotape loan requests for reference, study, classroom instruction, and research accepted. Covers: -- Network Television EveningNews Abstracts. Special Reports & Periodic News Broadcasts,Specialized News Collections.

US only

• NewsLibrary searchable archives (many going back 10 or more years) of newspapers in the Knight-Ridder chain. Included among the 25 papers currently archived are those from: Boulder, CO, Detroit, MI, Long Beach, CA, Miami, FL, Philadelphia, PA, San Jose, CA, St. Paul, MN, and Wichita, KS. Search and retrieval of citations with brief abstract is free.
• Newspaper Archives on the Web US papers sorted by state; access newspaper home pages; provides the dates of the newspaper's archive & cost to retrieve the full text of articles.
• NewspaperLinks.com a gateway to local US newspapers

• AILEENA media-index with over 5200 links to newspapers, radio & TV stations in 173 countries.
• Directory of World Wide Electronic Newspapers a listing of online newspapers and other media; includes links to the paper, description, price, e-mail addresses and other data.
• My Virtual Newspaper links to newspapers worldwide, arranged by states in the US, then countries; includes links to newswires.  From refdesk.com
• Online Newspapers from the Internet Public Library, links to newspapers worldwide.
• The Ultimate Collection of News Links links to more than 3,700 newspapers around the world; the directory is organized geographically by continent and then by country and state.
• World News Index index to the daily news sources on the Internet, with international coverage.

• 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)

• Associations unlimited International and U.S. National, Regional, State, and Local Associations
• International Research Centers Directory
• Research Centers and Services Directory

Quotation Books

• Bartlett's Familiar Quotations online version of the 1901 edition of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations.
• A Dictionary of Scientific Quotations a list of famous science-related quotations, in order by the name of the person to whom the quote is attributed.
• The Quotations Archive searchable database of quotations; browse quotations by subject, author, or use the search engine.
• The Quotations Page a large quotation site with many original resources

Statistics

• American Factfinder--US Census Bureau a "data access and dissemination system" from the US Census Bureau offers access to some of the Bureau's largest data sets. Users can create a variety of tables, reports, or maps with information on their community, the economy, or American society. There are 3 options for accessing data: Quick Tables and Thematic Maps, which offers predefined reports on widely used statistics, & Build A Query.
• Bureau of Labor Statistics includes statistics and reports on employment and unemployment, price

(Consumer Price Index ) and living conditions, compensation and more.
• County and City Data Booklatest official statistics for 1,078 cities, all 3,141 U.S. counties, and 11,097 places of 2,500 or more inhabitants
• Fedstats: One Stop Shopping Federal Statistics statistical information from more than 70 government agencies organized in a subject-based A-Z Index.
• Statistical Abstract of the United States contains a collection of statistics on social and economic conditions in the United States. Selected international data are also included.
• Statistical Resources on the Web "Meta-index to statistical web sites and individual statistical publications arranged by broad subject category from the University of Michigan Documents Center."
• United States Historical Census Data Browser "The data presented here describe the people and the economy of the US for each state and county from 1790 to 1970."
• World Population Figures country statistical data on population, cities and regions, land use, climate, and industrial output.
• World Population Profile 98 (US Census Bureau) this report offers "a comprehensive assessment of world demographic prospects ..." The report highlights major demographic trends.

• APA Publication Manual Crib Sheet (Georgia Southern U. Psych Web )
• APA-Style Citations of Electronic Sources (by Janice Walker)
• APA Style of Citation by Xia Li

• MLA Style the only guidelines authorized by the Modern Language Association.
• MLA-Style Citations of Electronic Sources (by Janice Walker)
• MLA Style of Citation by Xia Li
• Beyond the MLA Handbook documenting Electronic Sources on the Internet

• Footnote/Endnote and Bibliographic Citation Examples

• Citing Sources  (from Duke University Library)  offers comparison citation tables for  both print and electronic works
• Citing Online Sources a list of several links from the Linguist
• Karla's Guide to Citation Manuals annotated links to various styles for citing electronic, and other sources - MLA, APA, Chicago, Turabian, etc.
• Elements of Style - By William Strunk, Jr.
• Footnoting Electronic Sources in the Chicago Style
• Student Writer's Resources Grammar, style, citation conventions...

Time, Measurement & Calendars

• CalendarLand Interactive, perpetual, cultural, celestial calendars and more.
• Calendar Conversions Julian, Georgian, Jewish, French Republican.
• Date and Time Gatewaydisplays the current time and date for many different time zones.
• This date is history famous dates in history from the History Channel
• Roman Numeral Date Conversion Table
• Times Around the World Countdown
• Sun, Moon Rise & Set Calculator, US Naval Observatory
• World Holiday and Festival Homepage

Travel

• Airlines of the World
• Airlines: Toll Free Numbers
• Amtrak (train schedules) & NJ Transit (train & bus schedules)
• Best Fares Online
• City.net more than 2,400 cities and almost 900 other destinations, gives info on travel, entertainment, local business, government, and community services in places worldwide; includes maps. Updated daily.
• International Traveller's Clinic useful health information and links to other travel sites.
• Microsoft Expedia services include access to published airfares, air and hotel reservations, flight schedules, and e-mail updates on fares; map section & currency converter, hotel guide,worldwide weather reports, and more.
• Travelocity one-stop travel site; includes discount info, flight reservation service, accommodations, cars,vacation packages, as well as destination materials covering events, attractions, exchange rates, and weather along with maps.
• Weather Channel
• World Travel Guide

• Search Engines including: AltaVista, InfoSeek, Lycos, Hotbot, Yahoo, WebCrawler
• Web Subject Guides created by Princeton Library staff, to resources at Princeton and on the Internet

• Academic Info: Gateway to Quality Internet Resources a subject directory of resources tailored to a college audience; guide are annotated listings of the best general Internet sites in the field.
• Argus Clearing House guides describe and evaluate resources; categories include Arts & Humanities, Business, Computers, Education, Engineering, Environment, Government & Law, Health & Medicine, Science, Social Sciences.
• Bubl Link  from Britain, a subject directory of Internet resources.
• Choice selection of academic web sites by Choice, journal of academic reviews
• Digital Librarian: A librarian's choice to the best of the Web
• Finding Images on the Web  compiled by Ruth S. Thomas, Art/Art History Bibliographer;includes image search engines and archives
• Indexes, abstracts, bibliographies, and table of contents services
• Infomine: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections more than 11,000 annotated links to scholarly resources on the Internet; maintained by librarians from various California universities.
• Internet Public Library: Reference Collection
• Librarians' Index to the Internet excellent annotated directory of sites arranged by subjects.
• Pinakes: A subject Launchpad
• Re: QUEST dot Net(tm) annotated list of reference tools, including almanacs, encyclopedias, jobs etc.
• Refdesk.com comprehensive listing of reference resources on numerous subjects
• Scout Report provides weekly annotated reports on internet resources. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation. Can search by Subject or Library of Congress Classification.
• World Wide Web Virtual Library subject guide to internet sites; categories include:Computing,Humanities, Languages, Web, Media, Journalism, Education, Engineering, Law,Economics, Recreation, Political Science, and more.