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Acronyms
& Abbreviations |
Stands4com
browse by topic (categories include governmental,
computer, and medical), browse by first
letter of abbreviation, and search. Case
sensitive. |
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Almanacs |
Fast
Facts : Almanacs/Factbooks/Statistical
Reports & Related Reference Tools. |
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Awards
/ Prizes |
Guinness
World
Records world records by category
via a pull-down menu or search by keyword.
Features top stories and the Daily WOW,
a story about a particular world record.
Note that pages are slow, even with a
fast connection. |
Nobel
Prize history of the prize, winners,
biography of Noble, events & exhibitions. |
Pulitzer
Prizes 2001, 2002 achievements
in American journalism, letters, drama,
and music. List of the winners and their
citations, the finalists, links to the
works, short biographies, and lists of
jurors, along with official press releases. |
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Book
Reviews |
Amazon
- includes reader reviews. |
BookWire
-100+ book review sites, covering a range
of subject areas. |
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Citation
Styles / Style Manuals |
Monash
University Library. How to correctly
cite sources books, chapters, journal
articles, web pages and conference papers:
includes a tutorial in citing and referencing. |
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Conversions
(calculate, date, measure, time) |
FXconverter
164 currency converter FXConverter
(Foreign Exchange Currency Converter)
- a multi-lingual Currency Converter with
up to date exchange rates provided from
leading market data contributors. Filtered
for validity. |
Online
Conversion 8,100+ conversions
via Online Conversion. Conversions are
organized by type (temperature, length,
cooking, etc.). |
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Country
Information |
CIA
World Factbook 260+ countries,
map and flag, geographic, population,
government, economic, communication, transportation,
military, and transnational issue information.
World Factbook is recognized as a resource
for quick country information. |
InfoNation
2000+ UN Statistics Division publications,
World Statistics Pocketbook and Statistical
Yearbook. Geographical, demographic and
social indicators for 185 UN member countries. |
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Dictionaries |
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Encyclopedias |
Brittanica
Concise - A rich source of answers
to questions about the full range of human
knowledge, with more than 25,000 alphabetical
entries, covering the arts, business,
computers, geography, history, literature,
medicine, philosophy, politics and popular
culture. |
Encarta
Encyclopedia - Microsoft's free
standard encyclopedia with almost 40,000
articles and more than 12,000 photos,
illustrations, maps, charts, and tables. |
Encyclopedia.com
- Search or browse for free more than
50,000 articles from the Columbia Encyclopedia,
Sixth Edition, 2001. Links to related
Internet sites, search forms, and (for
fee) full-text articles provided by the
Electric Library. |
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Inventions |
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Newspapers |
World
Newspapers - A searchable directory
of online world newspapers, magazines,
and news sites in English, from the customary
to the bizarre, including alternative
online publications. In addition, the
news is searchable by magazine, newspaper,
news, and television photo galleries. |
SciTech
Daily - The site to check for
keeping up in the sciences. Updated five
days a week, it features links to breaking
news, science and technology publications,
feature and background articles, books
and media, and analysis and opinion. |
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Patents |
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Scientist |
Those
interested in the History
of Modern Biomedical Science will
find the archival collections of several
prominent contributors here. Christian
Anfinsen, Oswald T. Avery, Julius Axelrod,
Joshua Lederberg, Barbara McClintock,
Marshall Nirenberg, Linus Pauling, and
Martin Rodbell are included. Each collection
has an introductory exhibit explaining
the scientist's life and work and a comprehensive
collection of digitized documents and
audiovisual material. Searchable. From
the National Library of Medicine. |
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