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Online Reference

On this page:

• Almanacs
• Biography
• Business & Economics
• Calendars
• Country Information
• Dictionaries & Thesauri
• Directories
• Encyclopedias
• Health & Medicine
• Maps
• News Services
• Newspapers
• Quotations
• Statistics

  All links below lead to external sites.

Almanacs

• Infoplease

Biography

• A&E's Biography
• U.S. Congress Biographies

Business and Economics

• Big Charts
• The Dismal Scientist
• North American Industry Classification System
• OANDA Currency Converter
• Inflation Calculator

Calendars

• Virtual Perpetual Calendars

Country Information

• World Factbook
• Background Notes - State Department
• Embassy World

Dictionaries and Thesauri

• Merriam-Webster Dictionary
• American Heritage Dictionary
• Oxford English Dictionary
• Your Dictionary
• Wordsmyth
• Online Thesaurus
• Roget's Thesaurus
• Acronym and Abbreviation Dictionary
• iTools Language Tools

Directories

• AnyWho Directories
• Verizon Big Yellow
• WhoWhere
• International Telephone Directories
• Infospace - Reverse Lookup
• Switchboard
• ZIP+4
• Area Code Decoder

Encyclopedias

• Columbia Encyclopedia
• Encarta Online

Health & Medicine

• Healthfinder (U.S. Government)
• Merck Manual
• Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body
• MedlinePlus
• Online Medical Dictionary
• CDC Wonder

Maps

• Yahoo Maps
• Mapquest
• National Geographic Map Machine
• U.S. Gazeteer -Census

News Services

• CBS Sportsline
• CNN Interactive
• MSNBC
• WBAL Radio - Local News

Newspapers

• Baltimore Sun (current 2 weeks)
• USA TODAY
• Washington Post
• The Paperboy - newspapers from around the world
• World Newspapers

Quotations

• Bartlett's Quotations
• Simpsons Contemporary Quotations
• Quoteland

Statistics

• Statistical Resources on the Web
• Statistical Abstract of the U.S.
• U.S. Census
• National Center for Education Statistics
• National Center for Health Statistics
• Historical Census Browser
• Maryland State Data Center
• Fedstats

 

Online Reference / Albert S. Cook Library
http://cooklibrary.towson.edu/referenceShelf.cfm
Last revised: September 20, 2007

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