California Guide to Free On-line Reference Sites 

(Also see Free Academic Databases)

** The notes such as "free at LAPL & SFPL" pertain to those who have a library card there (usually available free to any resident of California statewide). Most patrons do not realize that a good many commercial library databases can be used free from home and office with your barcode number.

Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, etc.

Acronyms & Abbreviations Almanacs Associations and organizations Biography & Obituaries Books and publishers Calculators Calendars & Holidays & Time California Citation styles & Writing guides Colleges and Universities Company Information Consumer health information Country Information Currency Dictionaries and Thesauri Electronic Text Archives Encyclopedias Gazetteers Grants & Scholarships Images

Inventions, patents, copyright Libraries Maps/GIS (see also Gazetteers) Newspapers & Periodicals Occupations and Careers Prizes and Awards Quotations Statistics Telephone Directories Traffic, Cars and Transportation Translators Travel Virus hoaxes Weather Weights, measures and scientific constants Zip and Postal Codes

Acronyms & Abbreviations

 

• Acronym Finder
  The Acronym Finder is a searchable database of more than 300,000 abbreviations and acronyms covering many disciplines. Its strengths include computer, technology, telecommunication, and military acronyms and abbreviations.
• All That JAS: Journal Abbreviation Sources
• FOLDOC - computing dictionary that includes many acronyms fully defined
• Biomedical Acronym Database
  Comprehensive catalog of biomedical acronyms and abbreviations, containing approximately 176,000 out of the estimated 191,000 unique acronyms within MEDLINE.
• Acronym Links - includes many specialized lists
   

  Almanacs

• Old Farmer's Almanac
  Focus on weather and gardening. Published annually since 1792.
• World Almanac (free at SFPL)
  Contains The World Almanac and Book of Facts, Funk & Wagnall's New Encyclopedia, The World Almanac of the U.S.A., The World Almanac of U.S. Politics and The World Almanac for Kids. There is no table of contents so, if you know what section you want, you can change the keyword drop-down to "title" to reduce the hits.
• Information Please Almanac
  From Informationplease.com
• Guinness World Records
• Fast Facts - links to sites that provide factual and statistical info
• Refdesk.com
• The World Factbook
  Unclassified version of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) publication which provides the essential elements of basic information (area, population etc.) on all areas of the world.
• Urban Legends Reference Pages 

Associations and Organizations

• Associations Unlimited (free at LAPL & SFPL)
  The most comprehensive listing of associations is here. Based on the Encyclopedia of Associations, it provides contact information and brief descriptions for 460,000 associations and professional societies. Covers both private and non-profit organizations.
• Associations on the Net
  Maintained by the Internet Public Library, this resource is a guide to Web sites of prominent organizations and associations.
• ASAE Gateway to Associations
  Maintained by the American Society of Association Executives, this database provides access to Web sites of more than 6,500 associations
• Scholarly Societies Project: "The Scholarly Societies Project offers free Internet access to directory information (including links to Web sites) for a selection of scholarly societies across the world.
• Environmental Organization WebDirectory & National Environmental Directory
   

Biography & Obituaries

Biographies

• African American Biographical Database (free at LAPL)
• American National Biography (at NYPL and free trial)
  "Profiles of more than 18,000 men and women from all walks of American life."
• Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography, edited by James Grant Wilson and John Fiske. Six volumes, New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1887-1889 35,000 bios
• Author Bibliographies - about 5000 bibliographies, no biographies
• Current Biography (Wilson) (free at LAPL)
  also see Wilson Biographies Plus Illustrated
• Biography.com
  A&E sponsored biographical information on over 25,000 people
• Biography and Genealogy Master Index (free at LAPL & SFPL)
• Biography Resource Center (free at LAPL & SFPL)
• Books in Print Professional - has about 10,000 author bios (free at Sacramento PL)
• Britannica Online (free at SFPL)
  Encyclopedia Britannica
• Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, Dictionary of Literary Biography: Simultaneously searches Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select (CLC Select) and Dictionary of Literary Biography (DLB), you'll find in-depth information on the lives and writings of nearly 100,000 authors. (free at Oakland PL)
• Dictionary of Literary Biography (free at Alhambra PL)
• EBSCO Masterfile Premier includes 88,000 biographies (free at Alhambra PL)
• GIGABiographical Index of Names from John C.Shepard,
• HeritageQuest from Proquest (free at Thousand Oaks PL)
• Literature Resource Center (free at LAPL & SFPL)
  Access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. Includes more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors (includes Contemporary Authors)
• Lives, the Biography Resource
  Vast collection of links to biographies of people who are no longer living
• Magill On Authors via EBSCO Masterfile Elite (free at Alhambra PL)
  Provides brief biographies for more than 1,500 authors, 450 images and longer critical surveys of their literary works. Bundled with Magill on Literature which provides Cyclopedia of World Authors, plot summaries and brief critical analyses of thousands of literary works which include Masterplots and Masterplots II.
• Nobel Prize Internet Archive:
  Biographical information on Nobel laureates
• Wilson Biographies Plus Illustrated via EBSCO Masterfile Elite (free at Alhambra PL)
  Contains more than 100,000 biographies and obituaries and more than 31,000 photographs of the subjects, includes Current Biography database.
• Who's Who
  Provides the biographical information for over 1,000,000 newsworthy American and international figures. (included in Biography Resource Center at LAPL and SFPL)
• World Biographical Index
  Short biographical entries for eminent individuals who lived in North and South America, Western and Central Europe, Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and Oceania
• BehindTheName - hand listings for meanings and spellings of names

Obits

• Dead Peoples Server (3,000 famous people since 1984)
• Social Security Death Index (millions of people since 1937)
• America's Obituaries & Death Notices from Newsbank
• Online Searchable Death Indexes for the USA,
• Largest On-Line Newpaper Obituary Search Listing
• The Obituary Daily Times
• The British Library : Authority Control
• Obituaries- Death Notices: A research guide to printed sources from NYPL.
• SearchSystems links to public records databases, also Ancestry.com

Books and Publishers

Publishers

• Books in Print (free at SFPL or just use Amazon's listings)
  An authoritative bibliographic database with millions of titles
• Books in Print Professional
  Includes publisher and author info(free at Sacramento PL)
• Directory of Publishers and Vendors
  Published by AcqWeb, this Web site is an international directory of publishers and vendors used by libraries. It links to their Web sites and email addresses.
• Publishers' Catalogues
  Provides listings and Web page links for more than 7700 publishers worldwide.
• Dissertation Abstracts

Electronic Text Archives

• Electronic Text Center (Univ. of VA) - 45000 texts in twelve languages
• Wordtheque- word by word multilingual library, searchable full-text of 35,000+fiction and non-fiction works in dozens of languages
• Bibliotheque Nationale de France - over 35,000 full-text books in French
• Eserver.org - over 32,000 items from the University of Iowa
• UMDL Texts - over 27,000 items including 19^th Century items (Making of America 8,000 + items)
• Online books page - 20,000+ items shown by author, title and subject
• Project Gutenberg - archive for full text of 10,000+ public domain books
• Bartleby Library: Great Books Online - full text of selected books from late nineteenth and early twentieth century. As well links to poetry and quotes
• Internet Medieval Sourcebook, a collection of hundreds medieval texts and documents
• Classics Archive - full text work by various Greco-Roman authors, also The Great Books
• Historical Text Archive: History of the United States - Article Database;Electronic Texts
• University of California Press Scholarship Editions - free ebooks
• Electronic Theses and Dissertation Digital Library
• University of Karlsruhe Thesis Database

Commercial sites

• Addall
  Book Search and Price Comparison: A one-stop search site that compares the prices of major online booksellers (music and movies too).
• Bookfinder.com
  "BookFinder.com is a one-stop search site that lets users view the collections of over 40,000 sellers of new, used, rare, and out of print books." Try it first!
• Bublos.com
  A one-stop search site that compares the prices of different online booksellers
• Powell's Books
  One of the largest independent used and new books store in the nation. Located in Portland, OR
• Amazon.com
  Online bookstore for new and used books
• Barnes and Noble
  Online bookstore
  

Calculators

• Martindale's Reference Desk: Calculators On-line Center
  Exhaustive list of on-line calculators for all subject areas including Cooking, Calenders and Date Conversion, Finance, Mathematics, Science, Chemistry, Physics, Astronomy, and Engineering.
• Measure 4 Measure
  A set of the most useful calculators in the areas of Science/Math, Health, Finance, and various other areas.
• Unit Conversion - Convert anything to anything else
• Costas Javascript Unit Converter - even works offline if page is saved to hard drive
  

Calendars, Holidays, Timelines

• AnyDay in History  This Day in History and  On This Day
• Calendars through the ages
  Documents the history of calendars
• Calendar Converter
  Interconvert dates from a variety of calendars - including Hebrew, Islamic and Persian.
• CalendarHome.com - 10,000 Year Perpetual Calendar
• Calendar Zone
• Chase's Calendar of Events (Free for use in library at LAPL)
• Computation of Sunrise, Sunset and Twilight Times
• Earth Calendar
  A daybook of holidays and celebrations around the world
• Famous First Facts (Wilson) (free at LAPL)
• Interfaith Calendar - religious holidays
• Literary Calendar: An Almanac of Literary Information
• Local Times Around the World and Time Zone Converter
• Official U.S. Time and World Time Server
• Virtual Perpetual Calendars
• American Memory Timeline
• Infoplease.com Year by Year 1900-2001 U.S.
• HyperHistory Online
• WebChron: World History Chronology
• World Public Holidays Database - for over 100 countries
  

California

• California Government Information
• California Statistical Abstract
• California Ballot Propositions Database
• California Code of Regulations
• California Digital Library
• California Legislative Information - official full text California bills(1993+), and current editions of the state Code, Statutes and Constitution.
• California Online Archive searchable database of "finding aids" to primary sources and their digital facsimiles.
• California Voter Foundation information on initiatives, elections, and more.
• California History Index, 1922-98 - Index to the California Historical Society's quarterly publication, California History from 1922-98. 
• Recent Earthquakes in California and Nevada
   

Citation styles & Writing guides

APA (American Psychological Association)

• APA Format
  Summary of the APA Style for print and online resources created for a University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Writers' Workshop. Examples on how to cite both print and electronic resources.
• Citing Electronic Resources with APA

CBE (Council of Biology Editors)

• Biology Style Page
  Based on CBE Style Manual. Examples for citing print resources.
• CBE Documentation
  Based on the "Scientific Style and Format" by the Council of Biology Editors. Compiled by Univ of Wisconsin-Madison.
• How Do You Cite URLs in a Bibliography?
  Biomedical Style: Based on Karen Patrias' National Library of Medicine Recommended Formats for Bibliographic Citation, courtesy of Jeff Becklehimer.

Chicago

• Documentation and Style Guide
  Based on the Chicago Manual of Style, compiled by Gary Shimek and David Tietygen

Government

• Citing Government Information Sources Using MLA (Modern Language Association)
  Prepared by the Government Information department at the University of Nevada, Reno Libraries.
• DocsCite
  A JavaScript program that generates bibliographic citations in APA and MLA formats for Government Publications. Hosted by the Arizona State University Libraries.
• Uncle Sam
  Based on The Complete Guide to Citing Government Documents: A Manual for Writers and Librarians. Prepared by the Government Publications Department, Regional Depository Library, University of Memphis. Gives examples of how to cite both print and electronic resources.

Legal

• Introduction to Basic Legal Citation
  Maintained by Peter W. Martin, Cornell Law School

MLA (Modern Language Association)

• MLA Style--Documenting Sources from the World Wide Web
  Official guidelines on MLA documentation style for web resources authorized by the Modern Language Association.
• Beyond the MLA Handbook
  (Andrew Harnack & Gene Kleppinger) A very helpful document on citing electronic sources.

Plagiarism

• Avoiding Plagiarism
• Turnitin.com
• UCI Libraries Tutorial: Citing Sources: citation guidelines
  

Turabian

• Turabian Style Guide - A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations
  Compiled by Claudia Rebaza, U of Southern Mississippi. Gives examples for citing both print and electronic resources.

Writing guides

• UCI Style Guide
• Student Writing Resources - Compiled by the UCI Campus Writing Coordinator
• Blue Book of Grammar & Punctuation
• Yale Style Guide (.pdf)
• Columbia Guide to Online Style
• Virtual Training Suite - Online tutorials, including English
• LearnThat.com - Broad selection of online tutorials, including writing

College and Universities

 

Colleges and Universities

• CaliforniaColleges.edu
  Information about higher education opportunities in California
• California College Guide
  Search California Colleges and Universities by program offering and degree type. Produced by the California Postsecondary Education Commission
• Center for All Collegiate Information
• College and University Rankings
  Links to many different sources of college rankings -- from the most wired colleges to the most disability-friendly
• College Source Online (free at LAPL)
• Find a School Searchable Database
• IPEDS College Opportunities On-Line
  Search engine to 9,000 colleges and universities in the U.S. by the National Center for Education Statistics' Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS)
• Peterson's Guide to Colleges and Universities
  Links to information about universities, colleges, private schools (K-12)
• School Information Database (Free at LAPL)
• U.S. News and World Report College Rankings

Free On-line Tutorials

• 20 of the best free e-learning sites on the internet
• 1001tutorials.com
• 2000Trainers.com
• EdSurf - Online Distance Education Learning Resource for Adult Students
• Free IT Training - college-level courses in Visual Basic, Access, SQL, HTML/XML and UML.
• Gary Beene's Information Centers
• Learnthat.com - Free Tutorials, Free courses, computer courses, IT certification exams, business, technology
• TutorGig.com - The Tutorial Website

Company Information

Databases

• Alldata Online (Free for use in library at Thousand Oaks PL only)
• American Business Disc - ReferenceUSA-12M bus.(& 120M res. entries) (Free at LAPL)
• Buckmaster Annual Stockholder Reports (Free at BHPL)
• Business & Company Resource Center from Infotrac/Gale (Free at LAPL & SFPL)
  Includes data from Ward's Business Directory of U.S. Private and Public Companies(100,000+), Ward's Business Directory of Private and Public Companies in Canada and Mexico, Brands and Their Companies, Graham and Whiteside Major Company Series, International Directory of Company Histories
• California Manufacturers Register (Harris InfoSource) (Free at LAPL)
• CIRR Corporate and Industry Research Reports - on CD (1983) from within San Jose PL
• CorporateInformation.com - free signup, over 350,000 company profiles worldwide
• Corporate Affiliations (Free for use in library at LAPL)
• CorpTech.com - 50,000 tech related companies, free access for 48 hours with signup
• D&B International Business Locator (Free at SFPL)
• D&B Small Business Credit Reports - 5,000,000+ free addresses, $25 for credit report
  Also see Zapdata for bargain basement business data from Dun & Bradstreet
• Directory of U.S. Exporters (Free for use in library at LAPL)
• Directory of U.S. Importers (Free for use in library at LAPL)
• Dun & Bradstreet Key Business Ratios (Free for use in library at LAPL)
• EBSCOHost Business Source Premier (Free at SFPL)
• Europages - company information for over 500,000 companies in 30 European countries.
• Factiva - detailed data on 45,000 companies at campuses (was Dow Jones Interactive)
• General Business File - directory listings for over 150,000 companies (Free at LAPL)
• Hoover's Online - $$ for some data on over 50,000 companies, some data FREE
• Investext (Free at LAPL)
• Kompass - Company & Trade Names (1,000,000+) (Free at SFPL)
• Lycos Yellow Pages - searches entire U.S. for a business name
• Mergent Financial Information Services aka Moody's (40,000+) (Free at SFPL)
• Million Dollar Database - Dun & Bradstreet (1,600,000)(Free for use in library at LAPL)
• Morningstar (Free at Alameda PL)
• Powerfinder YP disc from InfoUSA - 14M Businesses (Also free for use in library at LAPL)
• Rich's Guide to Northern California Companies (Free from San Jose PL)
• Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage (Free at LAPL)
• Thomas Register of Manufacturers (150,000+) (Also free for use in library at LAPL)
• ValueLine CD (Free for use in library at Thousand Oaks PL & San Jose PL)
• WAND Global Trade Directory - 1,000,000 companies from 177 countries (more)
• Yahoo! Finance - data on over 7500 public companies, links to more data at Reuters.com
• EDGAR, Industry Research Desk,
  An SEC gateway site for company and industry-wide data.
• SEDAR - equivalent to EDGAR for Canada
• Report Gallery
  Collection of annual reports from the majority of the Fortune 500 companies
• Free Annual Reports - from the Public Register's Annual Report Service (PRARS)
• Wall Street Journal Free Annual Reports Service or try WiLinks
• Company Research - a guide to research using printed sources from CSU Pomona
• Manufacturing Marketplace
  Includes a searchable directory of products and services, suppliers, and trade names. In addition, selected articles are available from a dozen highly targeted trade journals.
• Industry Research Desk
  An 18-step research methodology and a list of industry portals
• Industry Data Finder
  Identifies sources and provides links to over 30 key industries, ranging from aerospace & defense to toys and textiles.
• Business 2.0 and Business.com - popular business portals, extensive hand-picked link lists
• All-in-One search form for additional ticker info
  

Press Releases

• Business Wire - The Global Leader in News Distribution
• Market Wire
• OfficialWire - The Official News & PR Delivery Service
• PR Newswire - A United Business Media Company
• PR Web.com - Free Press Release Distribution Since 1997
• PressBox  
• PRN Wire: Newsroom

Consumer Health Information

• Merck Manual
• Nutrition Navigator
• MEDLINEplus
  Service of the National Library of Medicine and the National Institute of Health.
• Healthfinder
  From the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
• Familydoctor.org
  From the American Academy of Family Physicians
• HighWire Search
  Indexes over a million medical articles, many available free full-text
• NetWellness - Consumer Health Information
• Alt-Health Watch (Free at LAPL)
• Alternative Medicine
  Portal for sources of information on unconventional, unorthodox, unproven, or alternative therapies
• EBSCOHost Clinical Reference Systems (Free at Alhambra PL)
• EBSCOHost Healthsource Plus (Free at Alhambra PL)
• Health & Wellness Resource Center (Free at LAPL & SFPL)
• Health Facts on File (Free at Altadena PL)
• MDX Health Digest - FirstSearch (Free at SFPL)
• Physicians' Desk Reference (Free at LAPL)
   

Country Information

• Background Notes
  From the Bureau of Public Affairs, U.S. Department of State. Provides the latest demographic information on countries. Includes maps.
• Britannica Online (free at SFPL) - Encyclopedia Britannica
• Columbia Gazetteer of the World (free at LAPL)
• Country Background Notes
• Country Business Patterns (free at LAPL)
• Country Commercial Guides
  Prepared annually by U.S. Embassy staff. Information on the business and economic situation of foreign countries and the political climate as it affects U.S. business.
• Country Profiles from BBC News
  History, politics and economic background of countries. Also includes audio and video clips from the BBC archives.
• Country Studies from the Library of Congress
• Economist Country Briefings
  News, country profiles, forecasts and statistics
• Embassy.org
  Embassies in Washington often include economic data links on their sites
• FirstGov - U.S. Government's Official Web Portal
• Foreign Government Resources - heirarchy of links from umich.edu
• Geography IQ
  Online world atlas with geographic, economic, political, historical and cultural information. Includes maps, flags, currency conversion and climate and time zone information.
• U.S. Government Manual -
  An out-of-date directory of all branches, executive agencies, departments or the U.S. Government. Contains contact information in the form of names, telephone numbers and website addresses. Also see U.S. Blue Pages
• National Economic, Social & Environmental Databank (Free for use in library at LAPL)
• NationMaster.com - Extensive statistics worldwide
• SYBWorld aka Statesman's Yearbook, 192 country profiles (free at SFPL)
• Travel & Tourism Guides - by country from Asia Voyager
• The CIA World FactBook
  Country reports include information about geography, people, economy, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues.
• World Almanac (free at SFPL)
  Contains The World Almanac and Book of Facts, Funk & Wagnall's New Encyclopedia, The World Almanac of the U.S.A., The World Almanac of U.S. Politics. Change the keyword drop-down to "title" to reduce the hits for countries, states, 100 cities.
• World Atlas via Britannica Online descriptive atlas, not maps (free at SFPL)
• Also see Travel section
  

Currency

• OANDA currency converter
  FXConverter (Foreign Exchange Currency Converter) is a multi-lingual Currency Converter with up-to-date exchange rates provided from leading market data contributors and is filtered for validity. Contains exchange rates for any of the 164 currencies.
• Universal currency converter
  Universal Currency Converter ®, allows you to perform interactive foreign exchange rate calculations on the Internet, using live, up-to-the-minute currency rates.
• FRED- (Federal Reserve Economic Data) Exchange Rates & Balance of Payments
  From the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. FRED® provides historical U.S. economic and financial data, including daily U.S. interest rates, monetary and business indicators, exchange rates, and balance of payments.
  

Dictionaries and Thesauri

General English-language dictionaries and thesauri

• Bartleby.com: Includes the following reference books online:
  • American Heritage Book of English Usage
  • American Heritage Dictionary, 4th ed.
  • Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
  • Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.
  • Roget's II: The New Thesaurus
  • Simpson's Contemporary Quotations
• Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary and Webster's 10th Ed Abridged
• Merriam-Webster Thesaurus
• Oxford English Dictionary (Free at LAPL)
  "The Oxford English Dictionary is a historical dictionary of English, covering the language from the earliest times to the present day. It aims to show not only the current meanings of words, but also to trace their development through time. Entries contain detailed etymological analysis, and are illustrated by quotations from a wide range of English language sources from around the world, making the OED a unique historical record."
• Wordsmyth English Dictionary & Thesaurus
• YourDictionary.com
• OneLook Dictionaries
  A fast dictionary search tool which allows you to look up a word in 350 different dictionaries simultaneously
• AskOxford.com - a site is for "questions on English grammar, spelling, and usage
• WordNet
  A lexical database that provides synonyms and other related words of English language words. Created by the Cognitive Science Laboratory of Princeton University.
• The Alternative Dictionaries - slang, insults, racial slurs, etc
• SYMBOLS.com Encyclopedia of Western Signs and Ideograms

   

Multi-Subject Dictionaries

• Oxford Reference Online (Free at Alameda County Library)
  Online subject dictionaries in: Art and Architecture, Biological Sciences, Classics, Computing, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Economics and Business, English Dictionaries and Thesauruses, English Language Reference, Food and Nutrition, History, Law, Literature, Medicine, Military History, Modern Languages, Mythology and Folklore, Performing Arts, Physical Sciences and Mathematics, Politics and Social Sciences, Religion and Philosophy, Science
• OneLook Dictionary Search
  Search multiple dictionaries or browse title by title. Subject dictionaries at this site include Art, Business, Computing, Medicine, Miscellaneous, Religion, Science, Slang, Sports, Technology. Can limit to the following languages: Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish.

Science and medical dictionaries

• Biotech Life Science Dictionary
• Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology
• McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms
• PDR Electronic Library Online (Free at LAPL)
  Includes the Physician's Desk Reference, PDR for Nonprescription Drugs & Dietary Supplements, PDR for Ophthalmology, Stedman's Medical Dictionary and the PDR for Herbal Medicines.
• Multilingual Glossary of technical and popular medical terms in nine European Languages
• On-line Medical Dictionary and other Medical dictionaries and glossaries
• Medi-Lexicon - Dictionary of medical, pharmaceutical, biomedial, and healthcare abbreviations and acronyms.
• FOLDOC - computing dictionary that includes many acronyms fully defined
• Webopedia - yet another source for technical and computer jargon also Whatis
• A Web of Specialized On-line Dictionaries
• Index to organism names - type in the latin species name for basic info

Selected foreign language dictionaries

• Language Dictionaries from YourDictionary.com
• Glossaries by Language
• LEO (German Technical Dictionary)
• Chinese-English Dictionary of Modern Usage
  

Encyclopedias

General

• Britannica Online (free at SFPL)
  Encyclopedia Britannica
• Encyclopedia Americana (from Grolier Online free at Yorba Linda PL)
• Columbia Encyclopedia 6th ed.(via Bartleby.com)
• Funk & Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia (Free at Long Beach & Alhambra PL)
• World Book Encyclopedia (Free at LAPL)

Humanities & Social Sciences

• Artcyclopedia: the Fine Art Search Engine
• Encyclopedia Mythica
• Encyclopedia of Psychology
• Grove Dictionary of Art (Free at LAPL)
  Comprehensive encyclopedic reference tool for all aspects of the visual arts
• HyperHistory
• Legal Encyclopedia
• Grove Dictionary of Music & Musicians (Free at LAPL)
  Comprehensive encyclopedic reference tool for all aspects of music.
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Edited by Edward N. Zalta

Science

• Chemcyclopedia
  Comprehensive online source of information about vendors, products, and services for the chemical and allied industries.
• Thermodex Search Page
  From University of Texas - thermodynamic handbooks, chemical compounds and properties, compilation Bielstein etc. online databases and standard handbook,
• Encyclopedia of Animals (Free at Long Beach PL)
• Encyclopedia Astronautica
  Historical and current information on spaceflight
• Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics
  Comprehensive reference on astronomy and astrophysics
• Encyclopedia of Information Technology
  More than 20,000 IT terms and definitions
• Encyclopedia of Life Science (Free at Santa Monica PL)
  Comprehensive reference on all areas of biology
• Encyclopedia of Plants (BotanyWorld.com)
  Provides information regarding the general description of the plants, the various methods of cultivation, such as indoor or outdoor planting, soil and temperature requirements, pruning, and other important details, the means of propagation (seeds, cuttings, division, etc.), and the different varieties and hybrids.
• Encyclopedia of Science & Technology - aka AccessScience (Free at LAPL)
• How Stuff Works
• MEDLINEplus A.D.A.M. Health Illustrated Encyclopedia
  Includes over 4,000 articles about diseases, tests, symptoms, injuries, and surgeries
• The MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Sciences
• PC Webopaedia
  Online dictionary and encyclopedia for computer and Internet technology.
  

Gazetteers

A gazetteer is a geographical dictionary which lists place names alphabetically and provides information about location, size, and, occasionally, principal features.

• Alexandria Digital Library Gazetteer: International
• Columbia Gazetteer of the World (Free at LAPL)
• U.S. Gazetteer: 2000 and 1990
  U.S. Census Bureau utility
  

Grants, Scholarships & Financial Aid

Federal Research Grants

• Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects (CRISP):
  Searchable database of federally funded biomedical research projects conducted at universities, hospitals, and other research institutions.
• National Endowment for the Arts (NEA):
  Information on how to apply for a grant from NEA
• National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH): Information on how to apply for a grant from NEH
• National Science Foundation (NSF)

Financial Aid

• FinAid!: The Smart Student Guide to Financial Aid
  Information about student scholarships and loans -- includes helpful "Frequently Asked Questions."
• The Student Guide
  Financial Aid from the U.S. Department of Education

General Grant Resources

• GrantsNet
  Resource to find funds for training in the sciences and undergraduate science education.
• Grant Writing Guides
  Includes sample grant applications, funding proposals, and budgets. These guides are designed to assist established, experienced private and public non-profit organizations and entities -- not individuals, for-profit businesses or start-up organizations.
• Guidestar: The National Database of Nonprofit Organizations
• Foundation Center Online
  

Images

• Accunet/AP Multimedia Archive (Free at Alhambra PL)
• CineFiles
  Pacific Film Archive's film document image database
• Corbis Image Collection
  over 10,000 still images, searchable by keyword and category and
• Getty Images
  a gateway to 12 collections of still images, covering art reproductions and advertising; most pictures have a fee to download
• Google Image Search
• NASA Image Database
• NOAA Photo Library - 16,000+ photograph images
• Top News Photos
  From Yahoo! news.
• Symbols.com
  Encyclopedia of graphic symbols.
  

Inventions, Patents & Copyright

Inventions and Patents

• U. S. Patent and Trademark Office
  Search for and file patents and trademarks
• USPTO Web Patent Databases
  Full-text and image databases
• Canadian Patents Database
• European Patent Office
  List of links to patent information on the Internet
• World Patents Database
• Surfip.gov.sg
  Search European Patent Office, UK Patent Office, World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), and USPTO simulataneously (and more)
• Patents,Inventions, and Technology Transfer Links to many patent databases.
• MicroPatent
• PatentAlert
• Patent Searching Tutorials

Copyright

• Copyright Management Center
  Indiana University Information site
• Copyright Matters
  From the University of California Office of Technology Transfer
• United States Copyright Office
• US Copyright Database
• US Catalog of Copyright Entries (earlier renewals)

   

Libraries

California Public Libraries

• Los Angeles Public Library  databases
• Long Beach Public Library   databases
• Beverly Hills Public Library   databases
• Santa Monica Public Library  databases
• Los Angeles County Public Library  
• Alhambra Public Library  databases
• Altadena Public Library  databases
• Cerritos Public Library catalog  databases
• Newport Beach Public Library
• Thousand Oaks Public Library
• Orange County Public Library
• San Francisco Public Library  databases
• Oakland Public Library  databases
• Alameda County Library  databases
• San Mateo County Library  databases
• San Jose Public Library  databases
• Sacramento Public Library  databases
• MCLS list and another local list
  

Out-of-State Public Libraries (with large on-line database collections)

• Austin Public Library
• Boston Public Library
• Chicago Public Library
• Cuyahoga Library (Cleveland OH)
• Miami Public Library
• Minneapolis Public Library
• Multnomah County (Portland, OR) Library
• New York Public Library
• Topeka Public Library
• * some public and university libraries allow non-resident access for $$$

UC & Cal State University Libraries (free to walk-in users)

• Melvyl Catalog:
  This Web site provides links to all of the UC library Web sites and catalogs (e.g. UCLA's library catalog).
• Campus Libraries of the California State University system:
  This Web site provides links to all of the CSU library Web sites (e.g. Cal State Fullerton's Pollak Library).
• UC Database Listings for Southern Ca+ UCB  UCI  UCLA  UCR  UCSB  UCSD
• CSU Database Listings for SC CSUBAK  CSUCI  CSUF  CSULA  CSULB  CSUN  CSUSB  
• Other Noteable CA Database Listings Stanford  USC  Cal Poly  All the rest

State Libraries

• California State Library - no free statewide subscription databases!!
• Delaware Digital Library - public library users extend their access
• GALILEO - free on-line databases for residents of Georgia
• ICONN - free on-line databases for residents of Connecticut
• KCVL - free on-line databases for residents of Kentucky
• MEL - free on-line databases for residents of Michigan
• NOVEL - New York Online Virtual Electronic Library, residents contact their public library
• OPLIN - lots of free on-line databases for residents of Ohio
• Pioneer - free on-line databases for residents of Utah
• TexShare Databases - lots of free on-line databases for residents of Texas
• VIVA - Virtual Library of Virginia has an academic emphasis
• Library of Congress Z39.50 catalog gateway - hundreds of university catalogs
• (40 more states with nothing to show!)

National Libraries

• Library of Congress
• National Library of Agriculture
• National Library of Education
• National Library of Medicine
• National Transportation Library
• National & Major Libraries of the World - (IFLA)

Other library catalogs

• Libweb
  A current, comprehensive listing of academic, public, state, national, and international library pages
• OPAC catalogs KVK (75 million) WorldCAT (was free on Google!) and COPAC for UK and Ireland
• OCLC Participating Institutions: find lending policies
  

Maps/GIS

• California Digital Conservation Atlas
• Sanborn Maps 1867-1970 (Free at LAPL)
• World Atlas (Free at Newport Beach PL)
• World Maps
• Mapquest & Maps On Us
• Multimap - Europe and UK
• National Atlas of the United States
• The Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection
  An electronic map collection from the University of Texas libraries.
• USGSMapFinder
• TerraServer - view USGS maps and aerial photos of the U.S.A.
• Zip Code Maps
• U.S, Census Gazatteer 
• County/Town Finder
• ePodunk
• Genealogical Maps
• Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) - lists all features, creeks, trails, mountains, lakes, etc 
• Lots more GIS Resources
  

Newspapers & Periodicals

• Key Web Outlets:
  • Al Jazeera  ABC News  BBC  CBS News  CNN
  • Free Speech Radio News  Independent Media Center  ITN World News
  • MSNBC News  NPR Online - National Public Radio  Pacifica Radio
  • PBS - The Online Newshour  News Archive  WebActive
• Gateways:
  • ABYZ News Links  Google News  Pandia Newsfinder FastNewsSearch
  • La Prensa en Internet  News Resource Page  Yahoo! News Yale Ideas
• Major U.S. Newspapers: Linked by Time Zone, by State, NewsVoyager, ABYZ
  • Christian Science Monitor
  • Ethnic NewsWatch (free at SFPL)
    Provides full-text access to approximately 200 ethnic news publications going back to 1990.
  • Los Angeles Times
  • EBSCOHost Newspaper Source (194+ titles free at SFPL)
  • Facts On File (free at Santa Monica PL)
    A digest of 75,000 news events and public figures from 1980 to the present.
  • InfoTrac Full Text Newspapers (120 titles free at SFPL)
  • NewsBank Full-Text Newspapers (a handful free at LAPL, and elsewhere)
  • Proquest Full-Text Newspapers (500+ titles free at SFPL)
  • Factiva (500 active dailies in English on-site at large universities)
  • New York Times
  • USA Today
  • Washington Post
  • Wall Street Journal (free at Oakland PL)
• London Newspapers: Guardian Independent  Times
• Business Newspapers: Newspaperdrive.com (Worldwide) Bibliomaven (USA)
• General Article Indexes
  • FindArticles.com: free, full-text articles from the most recent two years of over 300 periodicals, including popular and scholarly periodicals as well as trade publications.
  • Infotrieve.com: approximately 20 million citations and 10 million abstracts from over 30,000 scientific, technical, medical, and other academic journals, no full text.
  • Ingenta: for both general and scholarly periodicals, few annotations, no full text. formerly Carl Uncover.
  • ABI/Inform Global (ProQuest) full text (free at SFPL & LAPL)
    Citations to articles in over 2,000 journals in business, management, finance, and economics. All citations include abstracts, and full text is available for 800 journals. Coverage includes 1971 to the present.
  • Alternative Press Index citations1969-current from FirstSearch (free at SFPL)
  • ArticleFirst from FirstSearch (free at SFPL)
    Citation index of articles from nearly 12,600 journals in all areas of study. 1990-present.
  • DOAJ - Directory of Open Access Journals, 50,000 articles in 300 free journals
  • EBSCOHost Magazines aka General Reference Center (free at SFPL)
    1,929 full text periodicals (including index only to NYT, Wash. Post & WSJ), 107,000 photos, maps and flags, 88,000 full text biographies, 83,500 primary source documents, 316 full text reference books, coverage typically 2-3 yrs, sometimes back to 20 yrs
  • EBSCOHost Masterfile Elite (free at Alhambra PL)
    MasterFILE contains indexing to over 2,500 periodicals in a wide range of subjects. Over 1,900 of the titles have the fulltext online. Indexing dates from 1984- , with fulltext coverage back to 1990. Daily updates
  • EBSCOHost Newspaper Source (free at SFPL)
    Provides full text for 194 regional U.S. newspapers, 20 international newspapers, 17 newswires, 25 TV and radio news transcripts.
  • ECO (Electronic Collections Online) from FirstSearch (free at SFPL)
    Access to more than 4,000 full-image electronic journals and any citation from a subscribed ECO journal shows a link to the full-text article.
  • Ethnic NewsWatch (free at SFPL & LAPL)
    The full text of over 200 titles of the ethnic, minority and native press, searchable in both English and Spanish, with coverage back to 1988.
  • Factsearch (free at SFPL)
    A specialized database of full-text statistical statements on current social, economic, political, health, and environmental issues and public policy topics, excerpted from more than 1,100 mainstream and alternative serial sources such as the Christian Science Monitor, the Congressional Record, and Australian, British and Canadian Parliamentary Debates. 100,000 records,1984 to present
  • General Science Index from FirstSearch (free at SFPL)
    Over 465 leading journals and magazines. Over 435,000 records. 1984 to present.
  • HighBeam - covers 32 million documents
  • Humanities Abstracts Full Text from Wilson (free at LAPL)
    Includes more than 450 journals covering theology, religion, performing arts, literary and political criticism, language and literature, philosophy, reviews, etc.1984-present.
  • Humanities Index from FirstSearch (free at SFPL)
    Over 160 leading journals and magazines from the United States and Great Britain. Over 615,000 records. 1984 to present
  • Informe (Gale) search in English (free at SFPL)
  • Informe (Gale) search in Spanish (free at LAPL & SFPL)
    Full-text coverage of news in business, health, popular culture and many other subjects included in Hispanic magazines and newspapers1997 to present.
  • InfoTrac Full Text Newspapers from Gale (free at SFPL)
  • InfoTrac OneFile from Gale (free at LAPL & SFPL)
    Combines General Reference Center, Academic ASAP, Business & Company Resource Center, General Business File, and Health & Wellness Resource Center data to search over 8500 periodicals with millions of full-text article entries from 4900 of them. 1980-present
  • PAIS International from FirstSearch (free at SFPL)
    Public & social policy articles from over 3600 journals and magazines. Over 480,000 records. 1972 to present.
  • PROMT - Predicasts Overview of Markets & Technology(free at LAPL)
    Includes access to over 1000 business journals
  • Proquest General Interest Magazines (free at LAPL)
    Database offers citations, abstracts and full-text of academic and popular publications
  • Proquest Newspapers (free at SFPL)
    Database offers full-text of 500+ newspapers for roughly ten years of coverage
  • PsycFirst from FirstSearch (free at SFPL)
    Index that covers the latest three years of literature in psychology and related disciplines
  • Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature Index (free at Cerritos PL)
    Citations only database for 325 of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and Canada from 1983 to the present from Wilson
  • Readers' Guide Retrospective (free at Multnomah County)
    Citation only database for 500+ popular general interest magazines published in the United States, covering all subjects and topics from the years 1963-1982
• NewsDirectory: newspapers, magazines searchable by title, area code,subject
• NewsTrawler: international newspapers, magazines and journals
• Newspaper Links: A Gateway to Your Local Newspaper
• Newspapers: USA and Worldwide (refdesk.com)
• MagPortal.com: free on-line magazines
• PubList.com and MediaFinder -title verify free, rest $$
• American Journalism Review Newspapers
• Foreign Language News and Newspapers - organized at MIT Libraries
• Alternative Press Titles and Informational links
• Multicultural Press Titles and Informational links
• Ability's Lists of Magazines
• U.S. Newspaper Archives on the Web and International News Archives on the Web
• Online Newspapers from Around the World
• MEL:Indexes to Select Newspapers and Periodicals
• Newspapers of the world on the Internet: by geography
• NewsletterAccess: Business, Investments, Health, Advertising, Marketing
  Ulrich's Periodicals Directory (free at LAPL & SFPL)
  Provides publishing and ordering information for over 250,000 periodicals. Also provides information on what article databases index a particular periodical.
• Union Lists of Periodicals from FirstSearch (free at SFPL)
• Serials Directory part of EBSCO Host (free at Cerritos PL & LAPL)
  Provides up-to-date and accurate bibliographic information and pricing for over 178,500 U.S. and international periodicals.
• Series and Sequels Index (Free at LAPL)
• Jake (Jointly Administered Knowledge Environment) Yale  Openly Jake-DB
  Tells you what databases index a particular journal, and where to find it in full-text (>23,000 titles)
• Electronic Journal Miner - descriptive and contact info for 8000 titles
• PubList - ISSN and publisher contact information (free, but must register)
• Genamics Journal Seek: the largest database of freely available journal information available on the internet. The database presently contains more than 8500 titles.
• NewJour: Electronic Journals & NewsLetters: a completely internet list for new journals and newsletters available on the Internet
• All That JAS: Journal Abbreviation Sources

Database Vendor Title Lists

• EBSCO
• Gale Group - offers over 8000 journals and 100 newspapers
• OCLC - reseller of many offerings
• Newsbank - or search
• ProQuest - offers over 2000 journals and 500 newspapers
• Thomson ISI - over 8000 journals
• JAKE Databases - downloadable lists used by JAKE, very few newspapers
• Dialog $$ - many specialized databases
• Factiva $$ - this list excludes the 500 daily newspapers (also an Older List)
• LexisNexis $$ - legal and business databases and journals
• Wils Online Database Vendors - lists library database products
• Other Vendors - links to find lesser known products

Occupations

• America's Career InfoNet
  Wages and employment trends, occupational requirements, state by state labor market conditions, and employer contacts
• Career Guide to Industries
  Information on available careers by industry, including the nature of the industry, working conditions, employment, occupations in the industry, training and advancement, earnings and benefits, employment outlook, and lists of organizations that can provide additional information
• Careers-Internet.org (Free at LAPL for use in Library)
• Monster.com , Monster Career Advice, CareerBuilder, Yahoo
• Occupational Outlook Handbook
  Describes what workers do on the job, working conditions, the training and education needed, earnings, and expected job prospects in a wide range of occupations.
    

Prizes and Awards

General Awards

• Nobel Foundation
  Information about Nobel prize winners, including full-text of Nobel lectures.
• Pulitzer Prizes
  Database of winners--searchable by keyword, year, or name. Full texts, photographs and cartoons are available for journalism winners from 1995-2002.

Literary Awards

• Literary Awards
  Provides lists of winners and direct links to major literary award sites including the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award, the Booker Prize, the Caldecott Medal, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Newbery Medal, the Pulitzer Prize, and the Nobel Prize for Literature.
• Peabody Awards
  The Peabody Award is given for excellence in the field of journalism and mass communication. Database of winners--searchable by keyword, year, organization, title, and city.
   

Quotations

• Columbia World of Quotations 65,000 quotes from 5,000+ authors (Bartleby.com)
• Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition
  More than 11,000 searchable quotations from this older edition of the famous reference resource.
• LibrarySpot
  Offers a collection of quotation sites like Quoteland, Quoteworld, The Quotations Page, Bartlett's Familiar, and Creative Quotations. Also features sites by quotation topics such as movie quotes, Bible quotes, and scientific quotes.
• Quotations Archive
  Provides a list of quotations by subject and author, as well as a database to search quotations by keywords or phrases. Also features quotes to use in wedding toasts.
• Simpson's Contemporary Quotations - 9,000+ quotes (Bartleby.com)
• Mysticism in World Religions
  Provides quotes organized by topic from religious texts in Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Taoism. Also features a list of sources and a glossary of terms, both organized according to religion.
• About.com Women's History Site
  Features an extensive collection of quotes by women famous in various fields of art, drama, music, science, literature, law, social sciences, and academia. Also provides biographies or links to additional information about some of the featured women.
• Granger's World of Poetry (free at LAPL)
  

Statistics

• Fedstats - provides easy access to full range of statistics and other information from over 70 federal agencies including data on labor, economy, justice, census, the IRS and more
• National UK Statistics Database
• CensusData and Census2000 from the U.S. Census Bureau
• Census2000 at ICPSR and CensusTools
• Industry Accounts Data - Produced by the Bureau of Economic Analysis.
• NCES - National Center for Educational Statistics site with statistics, studies, reports, and periodicals.
• Official Statistics on the Web: arranged by country
• Government Information Sharing Project - convenient and accessible formats for recent U.S. economic and demographic data (Oregon State University)
• American Factfinder - extensive free offering from census.gov
• LexisNexis Statistical (Free at SFPL)
• STAT-USA (free from within the LAPL)
• Statistical Abstract of the United States - .pdf files available free from Census.gov
• Statistical Abstract of the U.S. - .pdf free from within the LAPL
• Ameristat
• Counting California
• Economagic.com
  Provides access to a huge number of key economic time series data, with a special emphasis on forecasting data. This site was started in 1996 to help students in an Applied Forecasting class.
• Harris Polls
• USA TradeOnline
• Statistics.com - extensive statistics portal
• Statistical Resources on the Web
  Hierarchal treatment of links from the University of Michigan
• NationMaster.com - Extensive statistics worldwide

Telephone Directories

• Area Decoder: Area code look-up service and AreaCode-Info.Com
• Infospace Reverse Lookup and Which Phone Book?
• Telephone Directories: links to many different sources of phone directories
• Switchboard.com & SmartPages.com
• Who Where? (from Lycos) and yellow.com (for people and businesses)
• Yahoo! People Search (white pages) and Yahoo! Yellow Pages
• Internet 800 Directory - lookup by product, service or company
• International White & Yellow Pages and Telephone Directories on the Web
• International Country and City Calling Codes
• Multiple Reverse Lookups including area codes, SIC and more
• Reference USA - Business (free at SFPL)
• Reference USA - Residential (free at SFPL)

Traffic, Cars and Transportation

• California Department of Transportation (CalTrans)
• CHP Traffic Incident Information Page
• Edmunds' Automobile Buyer's Guides
• Kelley Blue Book: New car prices & used car values
• Southern California Metrolink & I Hate Driving.com & SC Transit Router
• Metrolink Orange County Schedules & OCTA Bus Routes
• Bay Area Transit Information
• Amtrak: Routes & Services -West Coast map and sample fares 800.USA-RAIL
• US Towns and Cities Served By Amtrak - note half the cites only by bus shuttle!!
• TrainWeb and RailServe
• Greyhound Lines, Inc. - 800-231-2222
• Green Tortoise - the West Coast alternative

Translators

• Altavista Translation Service
  Key in a URL or text, and AltaVista will translate that page from, and into, English with Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese and more
• AllWords.com
  Systran
  Translates words and phrases from, and into, English with Spanish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Chinese, and Dutch, Portuguese, Russian, and Korean. Also offers translation for web pages.
• FreeTranslation
  Translates words and phrases from and into English with Spanish, French, Dutch, Italian, German, and Portuguese. Also translates Norwegian and Chinese into English.
• YourDictionary.com
  Links to dictionaries for languages throughout the world (Artificial, African, Altaic, etc.). Also includes links to thesauri, grammars, word identifiers, and much more.
• Language Dictionaries and Translators
  A language dictionary and translator with pointers to searchable and browsable dictionaries
• Travlang's Traveling Dictionaries
• iTools - Swiss army knife of websites including translation
• Self Study Quizes for ESL students

Travel

• California: Travel Topics
  From the Librarian's Index to the Internet
• Center for Disease Control (CDC): traveler's health site
• Fodors
• Frommers
• Lonely Planet
• Travel on the web: sites to help you plan your vacation
  From the April 2002 College & Research Libraries News - an essay with links
• U.S. National Parks: Accommodations, Lodging, and Information
• Country Information and other Travel lookups: all in one handy form
• U.S. State Department Travel Warnings & Consular Information Services

Virus hoaxes

• F-Secure
  One of the pages considered the industry standard information source for new virus hoaxes and false alerts.
• Symantec Security Response
  List of email virus hoaxes
• McAfee-Virus Hoaxes
  List of hoaxes and links to other information
• CIAC-Hoaxbusters
  Computer Incident Advisor Capability (Computer Security Office of the Dept of Energy)

 

Weather

• National Weather Service Forecast Office
  Forecasts for Los Angeles/Oxnard area
• Intellicast
• Western Regional Climate Center
  Information for the Western United States, including historical climate information.
• The Weather Channel
  Weather information searchable by city or zip code
• WeatherNet
  From the University of Michigan. Major source of weather information. Provides access to thousands of forecasts, images, and the Net's largest collection of weather links.
• Weather Underground

Weights, measures and scientific constants

Weights and measures

• Convert It!
• OnlineConversion
• Measuring Units Conversion Tables
• Costas Javascript Unit Converter - even works offline if page is saved to hard drive
  

Scientific constants, properties and data

• MEDLINEplus Drug Information
  Information on thousands of prescription and over-the-counter medications through two drug resources -- MedMaster™, a product of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP), and the USP DI® Advice for the Patient®.a product of the United States Pharmacopeia (USP).
• Druginfonet Database - full text of official package inserts
• PDR Electronic Library Online (Free at LAPL)
  Includes the Physician's Desk Reference, PDR for Nonprescription Drugs & Dietary Supplements, PDR for Ophthalmology, Stedman's Medical Dictionary and the PDR for Herbal Medicines.
• EBSCOHost USP DI Vol II (Free at Alhambra PL)
• Drug Info Resource Center - includes text and audio versions of listings
• RXList- The Internet Drug Index - same info as PDR; & Nurse's PDR - concise
• 109 - A Visual Interpretation of the Table of Elements
• Physical constants from the National Institute of Standards & Technology
• GNU units.dat - a more extensive list of constants by Adrian Mariano
• Recent Earthquakes in California and Nevada
• US Naval Observatory, Astronomical Applications
• Web elements
  Periodic table of the elements and their properties
  

Zip, Postal and Search Codes

• Area Code and Zip Code Look-ups
  Contains various look-up tools for zip codes, including zip codes within a county, within a radius of another zip code, and more.
• Zip Code by City, County, Census Tract, Time Zone
  Links to many Zip code searchable databases from all-in-one forms pages
• Cedar National Address Server
• Zip code look-up from USPS
• PostalCodeWorld - links to postal code servers worldwide, also Int'l Mail address formats
• NAICS Codes - full list and NAICS / SIC Codes Lookup and Conversion Table
• SIC Codes - full list and Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) System Search
• IPTC Subject Codes - (from International Press Telecommunications Council)