- AFI 100 Greatest Movies
- Airlines Toll-free
- AMTRAK Hompage
- American Medical Association: Doctor Finder
- American Universities
- Ancestry.com – “Search over 52 million names; look up by name the birth and death dates and Social Security numbers of the deceased.”
- Annals of Improbable Research
- AT&T AnyWho Toll-Free Directory– comprehensive listing of 800 and 888 phone numbers.
- Anyday – Find out birthdays, death dates, and special events that happened any day of the year.
- Archives.com – “Trace your genealogy and family tree to learn more about your family’s history.”
- Area Code / Country Code Look-up
- Ask.com – site allows you to enter plain English questions, to which Jeeves serves up suggested web pages.
- ATM Locator: AMEX | MasterCard| VISA
- Atlapedia Online
- Atomic Clock – U.S. Naval Observatory
- Autolist – ‘Looking for the best site to find a used car? Browse millions of used car deals everyday with our free search engine. Find your dream car now!’
- BabyNames.com – “BabyNames.com has been the the #1 site for names and naming since 1996.”
- Bank Rate Monitor
- Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations – passages, phrases and proverbs traced to their sources.
- Best Doctors – worldwide healthcare services
- Better Homes & Gardens Home Improvement Encyclopedia
- Big Fare Cut Index
- Biography.com – “Read biographies, play games, watch interviews and video clips at Biography.com. Check out our Born On This Day, Deathiversary, and Black History sections. Visit The Biography Channel for great TV shows like BIOGRAPHY, Notorious, I Survived…, and more.”
- BookWire – the first place to look for book information
- Books On-line – “Listing over 35,000 free books on the Web.”
- Browser Watch – “Web browser news for Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, and Apple’s Safari web browsers.”
- Calendar: Perpetual
- CDC Travel Information – Health-related travel advisories, vaccine recommendations, and much more.
- Census Bureau Quick Facts
- Census Bureau Index A-Z
- CIA World Factbook – current data on every country in the world.
- ClassMates – Search for people you went to high school with. Add yourself to the database–if you want to be found.
- Company Profiles – information on over 45,000 leading public and private companies in the U.S.
- Complete Home Medical Guide – 3rd Edition, 1995
- Constitutions, Statutes & Codes (including the full US Code)
- Consulates and Embassies – Yahoo
- Consumer Price Index
- Consumer Reports Online
- Contacting the Congress – comprehensive contact information for members and committees of the U.S. Congress.
- Conversion Online – Excellent site to convert anything to anything.
- Convert-me.com – interactive calculators for many measurement systems both commonly used like metric and U.S. Avoirdupois and quite exotic like Ancient Greek and Roman. U.S. to metric conversion is now easy and fast!
- Country Studies/Area Handbook – Library of Congress – online series presently contains studies of 85 countries
- Countries of the World – InfoPlease
- Currency Converter – view any exchange rates among the 164 currencies for any day since 1 January 1990 through today. The currency converter is updated daily at 8:00 p.m. EST
- Date and Time Gateway
- Driving Directions: Mapquest
- Earthquake Information from the USGS – daily and weekly quake reports, geophysical information on earthquakes, and other background information.
- EconData – comprehensive resource for U.S. socioeconomic data on the net
- EDGAR Database of Corporate Information – EDGAR (Electronic Data Gathering Analysis And Retrieval) is a service of the United States Securities Exchange Commission (SEC)
- Elements of Style – William Strunk’s classic on proper English usage
- Ethnologue – Languages of the World
- FedEx Shipping & Logistics – FedEx.com is your single source fo time-sensitive, time-definite and day-definite package, envelope and freight transportation services both domestic and international.
- FedNet
- Fedstats: One Stop Shopping Federal Statistics – statistics and information from more than 100 federal agencies.
- FindLaw – Excellent one-stop source for legal information
- Flags of all Countries
- Flags of the World
- Fodors – ‘Your smart choice for travel.”
- Free Internet Encyclopedia
- Frequently Occurring Surnames in America – from the Census Bureau
- Fundamental Physical Constants
- Games: Yahoo – “Free online and downloadable games! Play arcade games, board games, card games, puzzle games and other free games at Yahoo! Games.”
- Geologic Time
- Geostationary Satellite Server – Real-time satellite images provide a view from above.
- Grant Writing Guides – “Need grant funds? This site offers a 10-Point Grant Writing Guide designed to help you win grant funds for your organization.”
- Guide to Airport Rental Cars
- Harper’s Index – statistics that may surprise you.
- Healthfinder – “Your source for reliable health information from the Federal government. Offering quick guides to healthy living, personalized health advice, and tips and tools to help you and those you care about stay healthy.”
- Hoover’s Online – information on more than 10,000 of the largest public and private companies in the US and around the world.
- How Far Is It?
- Human Anatomy Online – over one hundred illustrations of the human body with animations and thousands of descriptive links.
- Information Please – from the print reference database, offering millions of useful and interesting facts on a wide range of topics online. Also includes a dictionary and encyclopedia.
- International Data Base – is a computerized data bank containing statistical tables of demographic, and socio-economic data for all countries of the world.
- International Directories – International inquiry names, addresses, telephones and faxes.
- International Marine Signal Flags – reference site that explains the signal flags and the semiphore flag waving system
- International Telephone Directories– Find anyone anywhere in the world. All the white and yellow pages telephone directories available on the web.
- International White and Yellow Pages – a collection of phone directories from around the world.
- Internet 800 Directory – – free listing of toll-free numbers. Companies are listed by category, company name, state, and 800 number.
- Internet Movie Database
- Internet Public Library
- iTools! – Internet Tools
- Jane’s Information Group – weaponry catalogues.
- JudysHighHeels.com: Inspiration with Style – “An inspirational website for Women to Embrace, Empower, Inspire and Enjoy – Women Connecting Women with High Heels!”
- Kelley Blue Book – new and used car pricing
- Largest Known Primes
- LegalDocs – Do your own legal papers – an extensive, classified guide to Internet resources from this California library
- Library of Congress Home Page
- MapQuest!
- Mayo Clinic – “More than 3,300 physicians, scientists and researchers from Mayo Clinic share their expertise to empower you to manage your health.”
- MedicineNet
- Mensa Home Page, The
- Merck Manual
- MetaCrawler
- netLibrary – “The World’s Largest Collection of Electronic Books”
- New York Times Books – includes the complete Sunday Book Review, daily book related news and reviews, a searchable archive of over 50,000 New York Times Book Reviews, and more.
- Nobel Prizes – Comprehensive historical list of winners in all categories.
- Occupational Outlook Handbook – reference tool used to research job information and trends
- Old Farmer’s Almanac
- Online Calculator
- Medical Dictionary: MedlinePlus
- OneLook Dictionaries – 13,587,880 words in 1024 dictionaries indexed.
- Passport Services – U.S. State Department.
- Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection
- Periodic Table – WebElements
- Perseus Project, The – “Detailed searchable library of texts, translations, art and archaeology of Ancient Greece and Rome.”
- Peterson’s Guide to Colleges – information on undergraduate and graduate education in the US
- PollingReport.com
- PriceScan
- Price Watch – Street Price Search Engine.
- Project Gutenberg – “Project Gutenberg offers over 33,000 free ebooks to download.”
- PubMed – “Provides free access to Medline.”
- Pew Research Center: 18 striking findings from 2018 – Pew Research Center takes the pulse of Americans and people around the world on a host of issues every year. They explore public opinion on topics ranging from foreign policy to cyberbullying, as well as demographic trends, such as the emergence of the post-Millennial generation and changes in the number of unauthorized immigrants in the United States. Here are 18 of this year’s standout findings, taken from their analyses over the past year.
- Public School Review – “Profiles, statistics and reviews of over 100,000 public schools in the USA. Help with finding the right school.”
- Pulitzer Prize Web Site
- Purdue Univ. Online Writing Lab – over 100 handouts available on all aspects of writing correctly
- Rulers – Large listing of heads of state.
- RxList -“Medications and prescription drug information for consumers and medical health professionals. The most popular drugs and their side effects, interactions, and use.”
- Search Systems – “Free Public Records Directory at SearchSystems.net. The Internet;s largest directory of free public records databases. Search for criminal records, judgments, tax liens, bankruptcies, find people, reverse phone, background checks, search, licenses”
- Semaphore Flag Signalling System
- Shakespeare – The Complete Works
- Smoking Gun, The – “The Smoking Gun brings you exclusive documents–cool, confidential, quirky–that can’t be found elsewhere on the Web. Using material obtained from government and law enforcement sources, via Freedom of Information requests, and from court files nationwide, we guarantee everything here is 100% authentic.”
- Social Security Death Master File(fee-based)
- State and Local Government on the Net – guide to government sponsored sites.
- Statistical Abstract of the United States – one-stop source for statistical information about the U.S.
- Sunrise/Sunset Computation – Type in a city name and find out times for sunrise, sunset, and more
- SwitchBoard – “Find any person or business listed in the phone book.”
- Ticketmaster
- Thomas: Legislative Information on the Internet
- Today in History: New York Times
- Tucows – “The original software download site, Tucows hosts more than 40,000 virus and spyware free software titles.”
- Ultimate White Pages, The
- Ultimate Yellow Pages, The
- United Parcel Service – Track any UPS bar coded package – any time, any where in the world.
- Unit Conversions
- USGenWeb Project, The – genealogy information for each county in the United States. Organized by state.
- U.S. National Debt Clock
- U.S. Population Clock
- U.S. Postal Service – “Fully featured online version of your local post office.”
- U.S. Postal Service Address Quality and Zip Code Lookup
- Virtual Body, The
- Visible Human Project – creating a complete, anatomically detailed, three-dimensional representations of the male and female human body.
- WWW Virtual Library – extentive library on hundreds of subjects
- Webster’s Dictionary – the on-line version of Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition
- webreference.com
- Weights & Measures
- WhatIs – “An a-z database of all things computers.”
- White House, The
- WhitePages.com – a global directory and index of e-mail addresses and phone numbers.
- Who Represents You in Congress? – Project Vote Smart
- WhoWhere – find email addresses, phone numbers, and addresses, etc.
- Why Files: Science behind the news
- World Clock – Current local times around the world
- World’s Most Wanted Criminals
- WorldPages – more than 112 million integrated white and yellow page listings
- World Population Clock
- World Resources Institute
- Worldwide Yellow Pages
- World Time Zones
- Yellow Pages
- Zip2 – search for over 16 million businesses
- ZIP Code Lookup – USA
PLEASE ALSO SEE:
Earth Calendar – The Earth Calendar is a daybook of holidays and celebrations around the world.
Images – Yahoo!
Martindale’s Reference Desk
Roget’s Internet Thesaurus – Find words relating in six main classes.
Ultimate E-mail Directory, The