Mitch Turitz's Online Reference links
Online Reference links
- anywho.com: powerful and
useful directory, including a reverse directory by phone number, address,, etc.
- ABC News.com: includes a wide
range of news, updated throughout the day
- AccuWeather:
Best weather site - type in a city name or zip code and view the current
temperature and forecast. Also weather maps and updated weather satellite
photos.
-
Amazon.com Discount Bookstore: Earth's Biggest Bookstore on the Web
- Answers.com: a
FREE
service that will answer your reference question
- Ask an Expert:
a directory of links to people who have volunteered their time to answer
questions and webpages that provide information.
- Ask Jeeves!: a quick and easy
way to find answers on the web - in plain English!
- AT&T Toll Free Telephone
Number Directory
- Awesome
Lists : online reference links
- Awesome
Library : K-12
Education directory, organizes your exploration of the WWW with 12,000
carefully reviewed resources.
- BarnesandNoble.com:
another "World's largest bookseller online"
- Bibliographies
& Research Guides : Online bibliographic research guides designed by
SFSU Librarians
- The BIGBOOK of yellow pages
- BookSpot: links to book
reviews, book stores, reading lists and more.
- Britannica Online
: the online version of Encyclopedia Britannica
- CBS.MarketWatch.com:
Best free source of business news
- CDnow: Best music store
- Citing
References : instructons on noting the source of information you are
quoting, paraphrasing, or otherwise bringing to your
reader's attention. Compiled by Ned Fielden.
- CNN Interactive: covers breaking
news
- CollegeEdge : helps students find
the right "school, scholarship or career."
- CollegeNET : college search
and financial aid site - has information about schools, financial aid and
tricks for increasing your chances of getting into school
- Collegequest.com's
Apply to College : A free service that allows students to fill out a
standardized universal application that can be electronically submitted to
about 1,000 campuses
- CollegeSource - College
Catalogs Online
- The Electric Library: requires
ID & password, but you can get one for a free 30 day trial.
It features "natural language" searching of books, newspapers, magazines,
transcripts of TV, Radio & Govt. Additionally, it ranks your results and
also lists Reading level.
- Excite's
college and university page
Findout: a FREE
service that will answer your reference questionsOUT
OF ORDER - Four11 Internet Email Address
Directory Service
- Full Text
and Ready Reference Resources (Larry Schankman, Mansfield University
Library)
- Get Into
College : USNews online provides general and specialized rankings such
as
"most men," "smallest schools," tuition-free" and,
for those who are academically challenged, a list of schools with "100
percent acceptance rates."
- Gist TV Listings: Best source of TV
listings - type in your zip code and you get at detailed listing of all
that's on cable, satellite, or broadcast television in your area
- GoTo.com: a free service to search
web sites that may answer your question
- How to find your
state statues online from NOLO Press
- HumanSearch Enterprises,
Inc.: the "Human-based search engine on the Internet" includes
searchable index of questions and answers
- the Internet
Public Library : from the University of Michigan's School of
Information Science's Reference Center
- Internet Public
Library
- INFO-MAC
HyperArchive: Best Macintosh shareware site
- Internet and
Online Searching Bibliography - compiled by Ned Fielden, SFSU
- Internet Movie Database: A database
of over 180,000 titles with actors, directors and screenwriters
cross-referenced
- Kaplan Educational Centers :
college
search and financial aid site - has information about schools,
financial aid and tricks for increasing your chances of getting into
school
- Kidney
Stones in Adults very informative web page from the National Institute
of Health
- The Last Word Science Questions
and Answers: a fun reference site
- Learn2.com - The ability utility -
how to do ... Everything
- The 'Lectric Law Library
- LEXIS-NEXIS Academic
Universe: provides access to a wide range of news, business, legal,
and reference information. FULL TEXT
Librarians' Index
to the Internet: a searchable, annotated, subject directory of more
than 2,500 Internet resources - The Librarian's Yellow
Pages
- The
Libraries FAQ Index : Useful Frequently-Asked Questions such as: What
distinguishes the work of shelvers, library
assistants, library technicians and librarians? How do I cite
information I find on the Internet? What can I do about mouse ball theft?
- Library
Reference Center: Ebsco's access to indexing & abstracts from over 30
library journals
- Library
Resource List from Wisconsin's Division for Libraries
- LibrarySpot links to
libraries, newspapers, encyclopedias, maps and more
- MacFixit: Best troubleshooting
site for Macs
- MapBlast: Type in a street
address and MapBlast shows you a map of the neighborhood, driving
directions, and it's easy to print or e-mail
- MapQuest: Another mapping web
page,
- Merriam-Webster: voted
BEST WORD REFERENCE by MacWorld magazine
- The Mining Co. : over 500 topics -
a network of reviewed web sites
- MovieLink: just like phoning
777-FILM - tell it your zip code and it tells you what movies are playing
in your area
- My Virtual Reference
Desk: AWARD-WINNING compilation of over 10,000 useful links!
- Natonal Institues of Health (NIH) :
EXCELLENT web pages with very detailed, yet easy to understand information
on medical problems, e.g. see "Kidney stones in Adults" above
- NN/LM - National Network of
Libraries of Medicine Home Page : includes Free
MEDLINE
- Needle in a CyberStack:
the InfoFinder - very useful links to Reference tools
- The Official Netscape Guide
to Internet Research Home Page : a supplement to the book but you can
still benefit from the web site without the book
- OneLook Dictonaries -
the Faster Finder: look up ANY word
- Peterson's college guides :
profiles of all accredited colleges in the U.S.
- The Princeton Review : college
search and financial aid site - has information about schools,
financial aid and tricks for increasing your chances of getting into
school
- Ready Reference
using the Internet: Links for everything from Abortion to Zip
codes
- Research-It! - Your
one-stop reference desk : dictionaries, thesaurus, language translators,
phone books, etc.
- Researchpaper.com : tips,
discussion areas and over 2,000 research
topics to help you make the grade.
San
Francisco State University Library's Electronic
Resources
San
Francisco State University Library E-mail Reference
- Student.Com -- College Life
On-line, for parents who want to tune in to college culture,
includes sections with news, sports, culture, and travel and links to
on-line college papers.
- Study
Abroad Web Sitdes of Interest to International Travelers< /dd >
- STUMPERS-L: The official
home page of the reference librarians' resource to find the answers to
difficult questions
- Today in
history ... changes DAILY!
- Undocumented
Internet Secrets - A street-smart guide to
using the Web to get
ahead, spy on the
competition, and uncover
hidden stashes of
incredible free stuff
- Universal Currency
Converter (Xenon Laboratories)
- US Postal Service Rate
and Zip Code Information
- Web Site Garage: Analyze HTML from any web site -
gives you an evaluation of load time, dead links, HTML design, etc.
- WhoWhere? E-mail
Addresses: Search engine to find E-mail addresses of people,
organizations, etc.
- The
Library Resource List - Reference Resources (Wisconsin Division for
Libraries and Community Learning)
- The
WWW Virtual Library
- World
Factbook: The CIA World Factbook is not a guide to intelligence
activities but a wonderous collection of information about geography,
climate, people, governments, and customs of the world, arranged by region
and country, updated annually.
- Yahoo! -
Reference: Libraries: Search engine for Libraries
- Yellow Pages Online : keyword,
subject, company name, brand name and state/city indexes
- Zip code lookup:
Type in any address to Look up the 9 digit zip code
- ZipFind: Calculate distance between two zip codes
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Last update: Nov. 25 2001