• Reference Shelves
• Encyclopedias
• Factbooks
• Dictionaries & Thesauri
• Acronyms

• Subject Guides for Web Resources

Reference Shelves

• Gale Group Reference Reviews provide links to reviews on print, online, and CD-ROM reference resources.

• Inter-Links has links to topical resources, library resource, reference shelves, guides and tutorials as well as news and weather from around the world.

• Librarian's Resource Center: the toolbox by the SLA Toronto Chapter provides a "selective collection of resources compiled to facilitate informational research and retrieval."  It contains links to directories, ready reference, topical guides, library catalogues, etc.   It also provides links to Professional Development and Technical resources. 

• Library Spot features a collection of useful reference resources such as acronyms, calendars, dictionaries, statistics, etc.  It also provides links to libraries, special listings such as top books, college rankings, and answers to reference questions.

• Refdesk.com contains research tools such as newspapers, searchable dictionaries, almanacs, weather reports, stock quotes, etc.

• Research-It by I-Tools provides searchable databases categorized into language, library, geographical, financial, shipping & mailing, Internet tools. 

• USCD Libraries Reference Shelves contains a collection of reference resources including biographical information, dictionaries & thesauri, encyclpedias, style manuals, etc.

• Yahoo's Reference has links to a wide variety of resources such as almanacs, encyclopedia, quotations, thesauri, web directories, etc.

• The Virtual Technical Reports Center by the University of Maryland Universities features alphabetical listings of full-text technical reports, preprints, reprints, dissertations, theses and research reports.  It is updated weekly. 

• ZDNet's Incredibly Useful Site of the Day features annotated links to sites on personal finance, reference, entertainment, education, travel, medical/legal, politics/government, household, health, shopping, etc.

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Encyclopaedias

• Encyclopędia Brittanica Online includes the complete encyclopedia, as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and the Britannica Book of the Year. You can also use EB Online to search an Internet directory that includes more than 130,000 links to Web sites selected, rated, and reviewed by Britannica editors. 
  Note: This is a subscribed title available to NUS Staff and Students.

• Encyclopedia.com is a searchable database containing over 14,000 articles from The Concise Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia.

• Encyclopedia of Electrical & Electronics Engineering.
  Note: This is a subscribed title available to NUS Staff and Students.

• Encarta Concise Free Encyclopedia by MSN provides free access to selected articles.  Premium content such as multimedia and periodical articles requires a subscription.

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Factbooks

• Atlapedia Online "contains full color physical and political maps as well as key facts and statistics on countries of the world."

• CIA World Factbook contains reference maps and country profiles.  Information featured includes the country's geography, people, government, economy, communications, transportation, military and transnational issues.

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Dictionaries & Thesauri

• A Web of Online Dictionaries has links to dictionaries in various languages.  It also has links to therauri and other vocabulary aids.

• Academic Press Dictionary of Science & Technology is the "largest scientific dictionary ever compiled in the English language to the Web."  It contains over 130,000 terms in 130 fields of science, including engineering, life, medical, physical, mathematical, computer and social sciences.

• Dictionary.Com enables you to search words, chemical elements, bible names, US cities and zip codes, and information on countries.  It also has quotations and links to web directories categorized by topics.

• Infoplease.com enables you to search or browse almanacs by regions or topics.  You can also search the Columbia Encyclopedia and biographies.

• Merriam-Webster Online contains a searchable dictionary and thesauri.

• One-Look Dictionary enables you to find a word or acronym in a dictionary or glossary.

• Online Dictionary Database Query

• Online Dictionary of Computing enables you to search computer-related words.

• Roget's Thesaurus

• WordSmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus

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Acronyms

• Acronym Finder is a "searchable database containing common acronyms and abbreviations about all subjects, with a focus on computers, technology, telecommunications, and the military."

• The WWW Acronym & Abbreviation Server

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