General

1000 Dictionaries Online http://www.1000dictionaries.com/ Links to 2500 online dictionaries, glossaries and thesauri for various subject categories. The site looks rather messy, but is very useful.

Academic Info http://www.academicinfo.net/ Gateway to a large number of web sites in many academic subjects.

All Academic http://www.allacademic.com./ "The search index is designed to provide scholars and researchers with a refined set of results useful for academic pursuits. Links are direct from source citations to scholarly publications. All Academic catalogs free publications only! Links to commercial and fee based scholarly publications are not included in this database." The site encourages scholars to submit URLs of their online publications and will also host electronic files of non-copyright publications.

Ask a Librarian http://www.ask-a-librarian.org.uk/index.html Reference service provided by EARL, the UK Consortium for Public Library Networking. Queries on any subject may be submitted and are routed to one of the participating reference libraries. Answers are e-mailed to the enquirer within two working days. A number of sample questions and answers can be viewed on the site. Although the service is aimed primarily at UK residents, current policy is not to turn away requests from outside the UK.

Bartleby site http://www.bartleby.com/ A treasure house of reference and other works all available free online in searchable format. Includes 2001 editions of the Columbia Encyclopedia and Encyclopedia of World History, Roget's Thesaurus 1995, CIA World Factbook 2002, three dictionaries of quotations, Fowler, KJV Bible, Bulfinch's Age of Fable, Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, complete Oxford Shakespeare, 1918 Gray's Anatomy, and more.

Biographical Dictionary http://www.s9.com/biography/ 28,000 famous names from ancient times to the present.

Biography Search http://www.biography.com/ Searchable database of 25,000 personalities. Records include links to related records.

Biography Sites on the Net http://amillionlives.com./ "Links to thousands of biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, diaries, letters, narratives, oral histories and more. * Individual lives of the famous, the infamous, and the not so famous. * Group biographies about people who share a common profession, historical era or geography. * Also general collections, resources on biographical criticism and special collections."

Biography/Who's who http://www.refdesk.com/factbiog.html Links to many web sites with biographical or other resources about various categories of people.

Bloomsbury Research Centre http://www.bloomsburymagazine.com/ARC/arc_home.asp On-line database of reference books, with over 17,000 cross-referenced entries on a wide range of subjects including literature, art, myth, human thought, quotations and a thesaurus.

British Library Public Catalogue http://blpc.bl.uk/ Access to the British Library catalogues. It is also possible to order items from the Document Supply Centre directly, without going through a local library as used to be the case.

BUBL http://bubl.ac.uk/ Billed as a national information service for the higher education community. BUBL Link 5:15 promises to deliver between 5 and 15 highly relevant links on a selected academic subject area. Over 200 journals available as abstracts or in full text. The site includes a directory of UK institutions.

Cite Them Right http://www.unn.ac.uk/central/isd/cite/ The correct method for bibliographical citation of different document types, including electronic and other non-paper formats, as required by the relevant British Standard.

Europe: Forms of Place Names http://www.p.lodz.pl/I35/personal/jw37/EUROPE/europe.html Multilingual listings of the different variants of European place names.

FaganFinder http://www.faganfinder.com/ Collection of links to search and reference resources.

Fast Facts http://www.freepint.com/gary/handbook.htm A collection of links to almanacs, factbooks, statistical reports and other reference tools providing information on anything and everything.

FindArticles.com http://www.findarticles.com/PI/index.jhtml Articles (1998 onwards) on a variety of topics from over 300 magazines and journals which can be read and printed free of charge.

Gabriel http://www.bl.uk/gabriel/ "Gabriel is the World Wide Web service of Europe's National Libraries represented in the Conference of European National Librarians (CENL). In Gabriel you can find information about all the National Libraries of Europe, their services and the online exhibitions they offer." Includes Bibliotheca Universalis, which "aims to put major works of worldwide cultural and scientific heritage comprising text, images and sound, at the disposal of the general public using communication and information technology." http://www.bl.uk/gabriel/bibliotheca-universalis/en/bibliotheca_universalis_accueil.htm

Internet Library for Librarians http://www.itcompany.com/inforetriever/ A comprehensive Web database designed to provide a one-stop shopping center for librarians to locate Internet resources related to their profession

Librarians' Index to the Internet http://lii.org/search A searchable, annotated subject directory of more than 7,900 Internet resources selected and evaluated by librarians for their usefulness to users of public libraries.

LibrarySpot http://www.libraryspot.com/ A meta-site of links to libraries, encyclopaedias and other reference sites.

Online Newspapers http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/ Links to thousands of national and local newspaper sites from around the world.

Pinakes http://www.hw.ac.uk/libWWW/irn/pinakes/pinakes.html "In ancient times, the Library of Alexandria was seen as a universal store of human knowledge. As the Library grew in size, however, it became increasingly difficult to locate relevant material. The poet Callimachus solved the problem by compiling a catalogue called The Pinakes. On a far smaller scale, these Web pages hope to provide a similar function for Internet resources, by linking to the major subject gateways."

Quotations http://www.startingpage.com/html/quotations.html Search engine and links to a huge number of quotations sites.

Refdesk http://www.refdesk.com/index.html Meta-site with links to numerous reference sources on the Web. The home page is fussy; scroll down to the bottom to find the index categories.

The Researching Librarian http://www2.msstate.edu/~kerjsmit/trl/index.html Web resources helpful for librarians doing research.

WorldAtlas.com http://www.worldatlas.com/aatlas/world.htm Atlases, guides, flags and "facts" for countries worldwide.

World Almanac http://www.aneki.com/index.html