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Reference Department

Recommended Reference Sites


Megasites - Directories of Topics and Subjects
Anthropology
Art and Architecture
Biography
Books, Book Reviews and Bookstores
Business, Industry, and Financial
Careers and Jobs
Colleges and Financial Aid
Communications, Journalism and Newspapers
Country Studies
Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
Economics
Education
Environment
Film and Theater
Finding People and Companies
Government, Politics, and Public Policy
Health and Medicine
History
Internet Searching
Language and Literature
Law and Legal
Library Catalogs and Resources
Maps, Geography, and Time
Music
Psychology
Ready Reference Resources and Collections
Sociology
Weather
Women's Studies
Miscellaneous



Megasites - Directories of Topics and Subjects
Academic Info
Best Information on the Web
INFOMINE: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections
Internet Public Library
Martindale's Reference Desk
Research Resources for the Social Sciences
Encyclopedias, News and More from the Longwood Univ. Library
Where To Do Research
World Lecture Hall


Anthropology
ArchNet - Archeology Sites
Ethnographic Studies Resources, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930
National Anthropological Archives
National Archeological Database


Art and Architecture
Architecture and Building
Archives of American Art (Smithsonian Institution)
Art History Resources on the Web
Artcyclopedia
ArtSource
Cities and Buildings Database
The Great Buildings Collection
Grove Dictionary of Art Online (Only UNH students, faculty, and staff have off campus access)
The Louvre
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Museum of Modern Art
Museum of Photographic Art and American Museum of Photography
National Gallery of Art
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Tate Gallery
World Wide Arts Resources


Biography
Biographical Dictionary
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress,1774-Present
Biography.Com
Biography Resource Center (Only UNH students, faculty, and staff have off campus access)
Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online


Books, Book Reviews, and Bookstores
ABE - Advanced Book Exchange
Alibris
Amazon.Com
AcqWeb's Directory of Book Reviews on the Web
Barnes and Noble
Bibliofind


Business, Industry, and Financial Sources
Brint.Com
411Stocks
Advertising World
Bankrate
EDGAR Database of Corporate Information and Annual Reports Online
123 Jump (formerly Financial Web)
Forbes 500s Annual Directory of America's Leading Companies and Other Forbes Lists
Hoover's Online
Morningstar
North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) (formerly SIC Codes)
RefUSA - 14 Million Businesses (Only UNH students, faculty, and staff have off campus access)
Selected Interest Rates (Federal Reserve Statistical Release H.15; includes historical data)


Careers and Jobs
AdQuest™3D - classified ads from newspapers nationwide
America's Career InfoNet
Career Voyages
Monster.Com
Occupational Outlook Handbook
The Riley Guide: Employment Opportunities and Job Resources on the Internet
Vault Online Career Library (Only UNH students, faculty, and staff have off campus access)


Colleges, Higher Education, and Financial Aid
AnyCollege.Com - College Search Engine
America's Best Colleges from U.S. News & World Report
Campus Security Statistics Website (U.S. Office of Postsecondary Education)
CollegeNET
COOL: College Opportunities Online Locator
College Rankings
CollegeToolkit.com
FinAid: The Financial Aid Information Page
Peterson's
Students.gov
StudyAbroad.Com and Study Abroad Directory


Communications, Journalism, and Newspapers
British Library Newspapers
International Newspapers on the Web and World-newspapers.com
Journalism Resources
NewsDirectory.Com
Newslink
STATS at George Mason University
Vanderbilt's Television News Archive


Country Studies
AfricaBib.Org and The Africa Guide
Background Notes
Country Profiles from BBC News
Country Studies/Area Handbooks - Full-Text
CSIS: Center for Strategic and International Studies
EmbassyWorld and Embassy.Org
Foreign Governments: Constitutions, Laws, and Treaties
International Data Base
The Mexican Migration Project
Nations of the World (Nations and Associated Jurisdictions) from the Law Library of Congress
Portals to the World (Library of Congress)
UCLA Asia Institute
United Nations Scholars' Workstation
World Factbook


Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
Catholic Encyclopedia (originally published 1913)
The Cook's Thesaurus
Credo Reference (formerly xreferplus - Online Reference Library) (Only UNH students, faculty, and staff have off campus access)
Encyclopaedia Britannica Online (Only UNH students, faculty, and staff have off campus access)
Encyclopedia.Com
Martindale's Reference Library - Language Dictionaries
OneLook Dictionaries
Oxford English Dictionary (OED) Online (Only UNH students, faculty, and staff have off campus access)
Roget's Thesaurus
Tech Encyclopedia
Travlang - Language Dictionaries for Travelers
yourDictionary.com

Economics
B&E DataLinks: Econ and Financial Data Sources
EconoMagic
FinWeb
Resources for Economists on the Internet
U.S. Economy at a Glance


Education
Developing Educational Standards
The Educator's Reference Desk
Education Statistics at a Glance (includes Digest of Education Statistics, Condition of Education and more)
Education World
Gateway to 21st Century Skills
LD Online
Teachers Network


Environment
Environmental Performance Measurement Project (provides access to the latest Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI))


Film and Theater
Brief Guide to Internet Resources in Theatre and Performance Studies
The Costume Page
History of Film Theme Page
Internet Movie Database
Metacritic and Movie Review Query Engine
Playbill


Finding People and Companies
AnyWho Online Directory
Yahoo! People Search
IAF.net
Switchboard: Your Digital Directory
Whowhere?
Gethuman.com (A list of companies with instructions how to get to a human using their customer service numbers)


Government, Politics, and Public Policy
Congress.org
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress,1774 - present
Council on Foreign Relations
FirstGov: The U.S. Government's Official Web Portal
Foreign Affairs Online
InfoNation
Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University
International Crisis Group
KIDS COUNT Census Data Online
National Priorities Project
New Hampshire Community Profiles
New Hampshire State Government Website
Political Science Resources on the Web
Political Information.Com
Project Vote Smart
State and County Quickfacts
THOMAS - Legislative Information on the Internet
University of Michigan Documents Center and Columbia University Libraries - U.S. Government Documents - Subject Guides and Internet Resources


Health and Medicine
American Hospital Directory
American Medical Association's DoctorFinder
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and CDC National Prevention Information Network
Ethnomed (Ethnic medicine information from Harborview Medical Center)
Health Information Library - Portsmouth Regional Hospital
HealthFinder and HealthWeb
HIV InSite Knowledge Base
Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement: Guidelines & More
Medical Breakthroughs
MedicineNet and Medscape
MedlinePlus (National Library of Medicine and National Institutes of Health)
Merck Manuals Online Medical LIbrary for Healthcare Professionals and Other Merck Manuals
National Quality Measures Clearinghouse (Sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services)
Nutrition.gov and NutritionData.com
Nutrition Information and Resource Center
Drug Info: Drugs@FDA (A Catalog of FDA Approved Drug Products) and RxList - The Internet Drug Index and US Pharmacopeia


History
Amdocs - Documents for the Study of American History and Historical Text Archive
American Family Immigration History Center (The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation)
American Memory from the Library of Congress
American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology
The Avalon Project at Yale Law School: Documents in Law, History, and Diplomacy
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress,1774-Present
Consumer Price Index Calculator
Civil War Rosters
Dictionary of the History of Ideas (1973-1974)
Digitized Primary American History Sources
Digitized World History Sources
EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents from Western Europe
The Historical New York Times (digitized articles from the Civil War era)
Historical United States Census Data Browser
Index of Native American Resources on the Internet and NativeWeb
Internet Medieval Sourcebook
Library of Congress Resources for Classical and Medieval History
Literature and Culture of the American 1950s
Making of America
The Perseus Digital Library
President and POTUS: Presidents of the United States
Repositories of Primary Sources
Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War
Vincent Voice Library


Internet Searching
Google, Yahoo!, Ask.com, Live Search (General search engines)
MetaCrawler and Dogpile (Metasearch engines covering several search engines simultaneously and quickly
Ditto (Searches for visuals and pictures)
Google Groups (Searches Usenet news group postings archived from 1981)
Internet Archive - Wayback Machine (Access 85 billion web pages archived from 1996 to a few months ago. Has separate archives for moving images, texts, audio, and software)
Technorati (Searches blogs,videos, photos, and more)


Language and Literature
American Verse Project and poets.org (from the Academy of American Poets)
Bartleby.Com
Classical Myth: The Ancient Sources and Bulfinch's Mythology
Electronic Text Collections in Western European Literature
Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts
Grammar Help: Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation and Common Errors in English and Guide to Grammar and Writing
Literary Resources on the Net
Literary Index: index to Gale literary series
Luminarium
On-line Books Page
Online Literary Criticism Collection
Online Medieval and Classical Library
Project Gutenberg
Sonnet Central
Voice of the Shuttle


Law and Legal
American Law Sources Online
A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation
FindLaw
LII - Legal Information Institute - US Supreme Court Collection
LegalEngine.com
Lawyers.com and FindLaw's Lawyer Directory
Nations of the World (Nations and Associated Jurisdictions) from the Law Library of Congress
The Virtual Chase: Teaching Legal Professionals How to Do Research
WashLaw: Legal Research on the Web
Westlaw Campus (Only UNH students, faculty, and staff have off campus access)


Library Catalogs and Resources
College and Research Libraries News Internet Resources
LibDex: The Library Index
Librarians' Internet Index
LibrarySpot
LibWeb: Library Servers via WWW
ResourceShelf


Maps, Geography, and Time
The Atlas of Canada
Color Landform Atlas of the United States
GEOnet Names Server (GNS) - National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
MapQuest
Perry- Castaneda Library Map Collection
The Official U.S. Time
Perpetual Calendar
Today's Calendar and Clock Page
TopoZone
World Clock and World Time Server


Music
All-Music Guide
Grove Music Online (Only UNH students, faculty, and staff have off campus access)
J.S. Bach Home Page
Musicals 101
OperaBase


Psychology
Psychology Online
Social Psychology Network


Ready Reference Resources and Collections
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Constants and Equations Pages (Science, Math, and Astonomy)
Canadian Postal Code Lookup
FedStats and Statistical Resources on the Web
How Much Is That?
infoplease (Almanacs and more)
The Internet Acronym Server
Measurement Conversion and A Dictionary of Units
NADA Guides, Kelley Blue Book, and Edmunds.com
Old Farmer's Almanac
Population Reference Bureau: Datafinder
Refdesk.Com and iTools
Researchpaper.Com
Roget's Thesaurus
U.S. Postal Code Lookup
The Universal Currency Converter
Virtual Reference Shelf from the Library of Congress


Sociology
Bureau of Justice Statistics
Criminal Justice Links
A Sociological Tour Through Cyberspace


Weather and Climate
Extreme Weather Sourcebook (Economic Losses Related to Floods, Tornadoes and Hurricanes in the United States)
NOAA National Hurricane Center
United States Interactive Climate Pages
Weather.Com - The Weather Channel
World Climate: Weather, Rainfall, and Tempteraure Data Worldwide


Women's Studies
American Women's History: A Research Guide
Archives for Research on Women and Gender
Voice of the Shuttle - Women's Studies and Feminist Theory (Part of Gender & Sexuality Studies)


Miscellaneous
AeroFiles: American Aviation from 1903 to 2003
Baseball-Reference.com
Consumer.gov
Dead People Server
The Gallup Organization - Gallup Polls and Public Agenda Online
Grant Information, courtesy of the St. Charles City-County Public Library
How Stuff Works
The Nobel Prizes
Roman Numeral Conversion
Search Engine Showdown (Features & reviews about various search engines)
Urban Legends Reference Pages (snopes.com)
Virtual Religion Index and Religious Worlds


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Updated August 29, 2008


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