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The Electronic Reference Shelf
A convenient, selected list of Internet sources.
For a complete list of the Libraries' subscription databases, see
our Library
Indexes and Databases.
| Acronyms & Abbreviations |
Government |
Speeches |
Biographies
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Grants & Scholarships |
Statistics |
| Books (Books
in & Out of Print, Book Reviews, Electronic
texts, Publishers, Stores...) |
Handbooks & Almanacs |
Time, Dates & Calendars |
| Computers and the Internet
(Browsers, Downloads,
ISPs, Statistics) |
Health & Medicine |
Translation |
| Consumers |
Libraries (Worldwide,
National, Regional,
Digital) |
Travel (Comprehensive
Travel Sites, Planes and Trains, Other
Travel Sites) |
| Conversions
& Currency Rates |
Maps & Geography |
Universities & Colleges
(Directories, Information
and Rankings, Dissertations, Studying
Abroad) |
| Copyright, Patents,
& Trademarks |
Measurement Tools |
Weather |
| Dictionaries
& Thesauri |
News & Newspapers
(U.S., Worldwide,
Newswires and Online News, TV
and Radio, News Archives and Transcripts,
Obituaries) |
Web Searching & Meta-Sites |
| Directories
(Phone & E-Mail,
Area Code, Zip Codes...) |
Organizations |
Writing Aids
(Grammar,
Style Manuals, Writing
Ctr.) |
| Electronic Journals/Periodicals
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Quotations |
Other Reference Sites |
| Encyclopedias |
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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.
- Onelook.com A meta-dictionary
which searches for words or acronyms in over 460 dictionaries.
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Biographies
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Books
(Book Reviews, Online Books,
Publishers, Online Bookstores)
Books In and Out of Print
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Books in print information - United States
- Worldwide
in print and price listing resources from AcqWeb
Includes links to the following worldwide sources: Argentina,
Australia,
Austria, Canada,
China,
France,
Germany,
India,
International,
Italy,
Netherlands,
New
Zealand, Spain,
Portuguese,
Switzerland,
United
Kingdom, and the United
States. Also includes links to Serials,
Music,
Videos
and DVDs.
- Out-of-print,
rare and antiquarian agents from AcqWeb
If you need assistance finding what
you need, please
contact
the Reference Desk.
Publishers
Book Reviews & Literary Criticism
for more information see the GU Research
Guide on Book Reviews
- 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.
- 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. (Requires registration - free).
- 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.
Online Books: electronic texts on the internet
Online Bookstores
- DealTime.com checks out
prices, availability, shipping times and shipping costs of any book
at over 25 online stores, including Amazon.com
and Barnesandnoble.com.
- 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.
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Computers and the Internet
(Browsers, Downloads,
ISPs, Statistics)
Browsers
Downloads
ISPs and Web Hosting
Statistics
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Consumers
- ABA LawInfo.org access
to resources designed with consumers in mind. The site is divided
into eight sections: Family, Home, Job, Finances, Buying and Selling,Criminal
Justice, and Finding a Lawyer.
- US 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.
- 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 rights booklets, 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.
- Recalls
and Product Safety U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
list of product recalls and safety information
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Conversions and Currency Rates
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Copyright, Patents & Trademarks
Copyright Information
Patent and Trademark Information
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Dictionaries
(English Language Dictionaries, Foreign
Language Dictionaries, Sign Language Dictionaries
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English Language Dictionaries
Foreign Language Dictionaries
Dictionary gateways
- Foreignword.com's
DictSearch Search in 178 dictionaries on the Internet. Translate
from 63 source languages into 64 target languages - over 300 language
combinations
- YourDictionary.com
(formerly Web of Online Dictionaries) provides
a portal for language & language-related products and services on
the web with more than 1800 dictionaries with more than 250 languages.
Selected language Dictionaries
French
German
Spanish
Sign Language Dictionaries
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Thesauri
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Directories
(Phone & Email, Area Codes
, Zip Codes)
Phone & E-mail Directories
- AnyWho: Find Telephone Number
and Address from AT&T: search for people or businesses;
E-mail, FAX, and Toll Free Number information . Includes reverse
lookups, street proximity listings for business or residential;
match for last name lookups, maps of the address.
- Bigfoot
- InfoUsa.com
search for a person or business. Includes a reverse phone lookup.
- Internet 800 Directory
- Switchboard people
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
- YAHOO! People Search E-mail
addresses and phone numbers. Includes White Pages, Yellow Pages,
Maps/Directions, and a Net Phone.
Area Codes
- AmeriCom Long Distance
Area Decoder A searchable area/city/country code
lookup service to help you find the area codes for most places in
the United States and Canada.
- International
Calling Codes Created by American Computer Resources,
Inc, this site allows you to search for international telephone
codes by country.
Zip Codes
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Encyclopedias
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Government
U.S. Government Homepage
GU
Library's Government Documents and Microforms Department's Frequently
Used Web Resources
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Grants & Scholarships
- fastWEB:Financial
Aid Search Through the Web a free searchable database of more
than 275,000 private sector scholarships, fellowships, grants, and
loans from more than 10,000 sources.
- Federal Student
Aid (from
the US Department of Education)
see also Student
Guide to Financial Aid Financial Aid from the US Department
of Education
- Financial Aid Information Page
- Foundation Center
- GrantsNets funding opportunities
for training in the biological and medical sciences
- GrantsWeb
lists government, general, and private funding sources
- National Institutes
of Health (NIH)
- National Science
Foundation
- ResearchResearchLite
(incorporating ScienceWise.com) includes
FEDIX, an outreach tool that provides grant information to educational
and research organizations from participating federal agencies,
and MOLIS, a minority online information service.
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Handbooks & Almanacs
- Background Notes
(US 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 US officials
and consulate officers.
- 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 & Capitals
includes: 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
Factbook annual CIA handbook gives basic data on all the
countries of the world.
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Health & Medicine
- Centers for Disease Control &
Information has info for travelers,
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)
- Dr. Koop. Extensive health information
site led by Dr. C. Everett Koop, former US Surgeon General, dedicated
to improving the quality of people's lives by empowering them to
improve their health.
- 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.
- Health Information
provided and approved by the nation's leading medical societies.
- Mayo Clinic Oasis a
searchable site, includes recent health news and a library of medical
references
- MEDLINE:
PubMed free access to Medline, The National Library of Medicine's
database of references to articles published in medical journals.
- MEDLINEplus provides access
to reviewed, authoritative information about nearly 400 diseases
and conditions (cancer, diabetes, etc.), a medical encyclopedia,
medical dictionaries, lists of hospitals and physicians, health
information in Spanish, and information about prescription and nonprescription
drugs.
- National Health Information
Center search the Health Information Resource Database, which
includes 1,110 US organizations and government offices 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.
- Profusion, Health. Site
that searches using a number of search engines at once.
- RxList: the Internet Drug Index
provides extensive information for over 500 prescription drugs.
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Libraries & Publishers
(Libraries Worldwide, Regional
Libraries, National Libraries, Digital
Libraries)
For links to Other
Library Catalogs, go to <http://www.library.georgetown.edu/resource/libcats.htm>
Libraries Worldwide
- Libweb library
web pages worldwide
National Libraries
National Libraries (worldwide)
Regional Libraries
Academic
Public
Digital Libraries
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Maps & Geography
(Local and US Maps, Directions
and Distance, Topographical and Relief Maps,
World Maps, Gazetteers and Thesauri
). see also - Travel
Local and US Maps
Directions and Distance
- How
Far Is It? data from the US Census and a supplementary list
of cities around the world to find the latitude and longitude of
two places, and then calculates the distance between them.
- Mapquest Printer-friendly.
Street atlas of the U S provides mileage, and street 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.
Topographical and Relief Maps
World Maps
Gazetteers and Thesauri
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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')
- Martindale's
Calculators On-Line Center links to over 18,000
calculators related to vast array of topics, including science,
engineering, consumer interests, business and more.
- Measurement Conversion Calculator
converts any combination of approximately 800 SI, metric, American,
English, historical, and ancient measures
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News & Newspapers
(US Newspapers, Worldwide
News Resources, Newswires and Online News,
TV and Radio News, Transcripts
and News Archives , Obituaries)
Newspapers - US only
- NewsLibrary - over 75
newspapers in its collection with some archives going back over
20 years. Note: searching and articles summaries are free, but users
must pay for the fulltext of articles
- NewspaperLinks.com
a gateway to local US newspapers
- The Washington Post
Worldwide News Resources
Newswires and Online News
TV and Radio News
Transcripts and News Archives
- 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.
Obituaries
- ObitFinder
Find recent obituaries from more than 1,000 newspapers
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Organizations
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Quotations
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Speeches
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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 Economic Analysis
includes national income data and balance of payments information
for the U.S.
- Bureau of Labor Statistics
includes statistics and reports on employment and unemployment,
price (Consumer
Price Index ) and living conditions, compensation and more.
- CensusScope An easy to
use resource for browsing and reviewing U.S. census data.
- City
Rankings from the County and City Data Book
- Country Statistical Agencies
- CyberAtlas Internet
statistics. Links to research reports tracking general usage, usage
breakdowns by Web site, demographic, locale and computer platform.
- Fedstats: One Stop Shopping
Federal Statistics statistical information from more than 70
government agencies organized in a subject-based A-Z Index.
- General Social Survey
large collection of public opinion data from annual national surveys
- NationMaster.com creates
graphs from political, economic and social statistics for easy
comparison among countries
- State and County Quick
Facts comparative data for each state and county or parish are
given for 33 categories divided in to three groups: People, Business
and Geography.
- 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
Data and Reports from the US Census Bureau
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Time, Dates & Calendars
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Translation
- Babelfish Translation Service
from AltaVista "AltaVista Translation Assistant provides you
with a tool to translate a grammatically correct document into something
comprehensible, but not perfect." Translations available for: French
to English; German to English; Italian to English; Portuguese to
English; Spanish to English; English to French; English to German;
English to Italian; English to Portuguese; English to Spanish.
- ECHO: EuroDicautom
Created by the European Union. Translates words between thirteen
European languages. Best for translating technical terms.
- Foreignword.com's
Translate Now single-point access to 22 of the best systems
for over 30 different languages.
- SYSTRAN uses the software
that Babelfish runs on to translate words or pages, but it has a
larger selection of languages (and can translate between 2 non-English
languages).
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Travel
(Comprehensive Travel Sites, Planes
and Trains, Other Travel Sites )
Comprehensive Travel Sites
- Concierge.com - online
home for the travel magazine, Conde Nast Traveler. Sign-up for bargain
notification services; find consumer advice, airport guides and
research vacation destinations.
- 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.
Planes and Trains
Other Travel Sites
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Universities & Colleges
(Directories, Information and Rankings, Dissertations
, Studying Abroad )
Directories, Information and Rankings
- American
Universities includes a link to Maclean's magazine rankings.
- America's
Best Graduate Schools (US News & World Report)
- Braintrack University Index
"the world's most complete education index."
- College
and University Home Pages home pages for universities and colleges
all over the world (last updated July 1996).
- College
and University Rankings links to sites that rank US and international
colleges and universities according to reputation, level of activism
and a variety of other criteria.
- Peterson's.com: The Education
& Career Center
- TheAdmissionsOffice.com
one-stop Website for college-bound students. Brings together a number
of resources to assist in the application process.
- TheCenter offers an analysis
and data set that rank private and public research universities
in accord with nine institutional characteristics: total research
expenditures, federal research expenditures, endowment assets, annual
giving, faculty members in the National Academies, faculty awards,
doctoral degrees, postdoctoral appointees, and entering freshmen
SAT scores.
- Universities Worldwide
searchable database currently of 89 Countries and 3039 entries.
- University Links
guide to US colleges and universities sorted by alphabet, state,
and type. Also includes college newspapers, student governments,
catholic schools, historically black schools, women's colleges,
business schools, ratings for best colleges (from US News and World
Report), and more
Dissertations
- Digital Dissertations
(off-campus
access instructions) Citations for dissertations published from
1980 forward include 350-word abstracts. Citations for master's
theses from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts. More than 150,000
titles are available for purchase electronically; others may be
purchased in print.
- Ordering
Dissertations information from UMI on ordering from Dissertation
Abstracts
Studying Abroad
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Weather
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Web Searching & Doing Research on the Internet
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Writing Aids
(Grammar, Style Manuals )
Grammar
Style Manuals
(for specifics on citing electronic resources see our page on Citing
Internet Resources)
APA Manuals (American Psychological Association)
MLA Style Manual (Modern Language Association)
Turabian Style
Others
- American Sociological Association (California State Univ. -LA)
- Chicago
Manual of Style FAQ
- ***Citing
Sources (from Duke University Library) Wonderful
site with examples of how to cite using ALA, Chicago, MLA and Turabian
for both print and electronic works.
- Government
Document Citation Guides
- Harvard Style (University of Queensland)
- Karla's
Guide to Citation Manuals annotated links to various styles
for citing electronic, and other sources - MLA, APA, Chicago, Turabian,
etc.
- Sources: Their
Use and Acknowledgement In addition to examples of how to cite
web pages, articles, books, etc., this Dartmouth College page also
provides background on the purpose of citations and how to avoid
plagarism.
- The
Writing Center Georgetown University Department of English
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Last updated: 11/2/2007
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