Almanacs and Encyclopedias

• Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 
• Full-text search or browse by topic. Short entries, has link for proper attribution.
• Encylopaedia Britannica 
• First, it was a fee site. Then, it was free. Now, you can search for free and retrieve the first paragraph of the article but must pay a subscription for the rest of the article.
• Farmers' Almanac 
• Just like the print version, this web site has weather forecasts, recipes, humor, helpful hints, gardening advice, and entertaining stories.
• Information Please Almanac 
• Allows searches in general, entertainment, sports, biographies, dictionaries, and encyclopedias. Good content, annoying popup ads.
• Internet Movie Database 
• In depth coverage of movies. This site allows you to search by title, year, actor, and other categories. Great for trivia buffs or for that elusive question, "Who played X in Y?"
• The Old Farmer's Almanac 
• Online version of the Farmer's Almanac. Cool tool: under weather, you can see what the weather was in a particular location on a particular day back to 1994.

Business Research

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• Company Information Guide 
• Company information research tips and links from the Virtual Chase.
• EdgarScan 
• Interface to SEC documents provided by PriceWaterhouseCoopers.
• Finance News for IT Managers 
• Stock quotes for technology companies, financial news.
• Hoover's Online 
• Some free, some fee information on all sorts of companies. The free data is enough to get you started.
• Internet Intelligence Index™ 
• List of business related links from the librarians of Fuld & Company.
• LLRX: Company Research Articles 
• List of articles from LLRX.com concerning business research.
• Securities and Exchange Commission 
• Search for U. S. company filings, SEC forms, regulations, statements, and more.
• The Annual Reports Library 
• Mostly links to other sites, nicely catagorized.
• The Report Gallery 
• Links to business snapshots and annual reports. Fee.
• Thomas Register 
• Search for basic Thomas Register listings by company name, product or service, or brand name.

Calculators

• Bloomberg.com Currency Calculator 
• Calculate exchange rates for more than 200 currencies.
• Calculator.com 
• Lots of online calculators, including currency conversion, temperature conversion, percents, graphing, and more. Calculators appear in popup windows. Some popup ads.
• Consumer Price Index 
• From the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. You can calculate the equivilent prices from 1913 through 2003, or clink on links for tables showing the CPI from 1913 to the present.
• Martindale's Calculators Online Center 
• Links to hundreds of different types of calculators, from general to scientific to fun.
• MegaConverter 2 
• Convert measurements using a combination of drop down menus, split into multiple topics. Everything from energy and force to ancient weights and measures.
• NewsEngin Inc. 
• Look under Free Tools for a cost of living calculator and a percentage change calculator.
• OANDA, The Currency Site 
• All sorts of currency calculators and converters, including some historical data.
• The Inflation Calculator 
• Calculate how much a dollar amount is worth, from 1800 to last year.
• WSDOT - Metric Conversions 
• From the Washington State Department of Transportation, how to convert from English measuements to metric measurements.
• XE.com - The Universal Currency Converter 
• Site with currency convertors from 250 countries covering 180 currencies.

Date and Time

• Earth Calendar 
• Nifty site allowing searches for holidays based on country, religion, date. Also has some links within calendars leading to more information about the holiday or religion.
• Internet Clocks, Counters, and Countdowns 
• List of different web sites offering internet clocks, counters, and countdown timers. Has not been updated since 2003.
• Perpetual Calendar 
• Java based calendar for January, 0001 to December, 9999.
• The Official U. S. Time 
• This public service is cooperatively provided by the two time agencies of United States: a Department of Commerce agency, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and its military counterpart, the U. S. Naval Observatory (USNO).
• Time Zone Converter 
• Compare time zones to calculate differences.
• Timeanddate.com 
• Find what time it is in a particular city, time zone, or country. Generate calendars based on year and country.
• Virtual Perpetual Calendars 
• Select calendars by year from 1801 to 2100.

Dictionaries

• Acronym Finder 
• Search by exact acronym, starts with, wildcard, and reverse (keywords).
• Dictionary.com 
• Searchable dictionary, watch for popup ads.
• Merriam-Webster Online 
• Basic dictionary & thesaurus are free, unabridged is fee-based.
• OneLook Dictionary Search 
• A search engine for finding definitions across multiple dictionary web sites.
• The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language 
• Searchable dictionary, based on the American Heritage Dictionary.

History

• History Channel - This Day in History 
• History for a particular date in multiple topics.
• Internet Archive 
• Best know for the WayBack Machine (captured web pages), also has large collections of short movies, audio files, texts, and other materials.
• Rulers.org 
• Site listing rulers for nations from approximately 1700 forward.
• University of Michigan Document Center 
• Links to federal, state, local, and international government documents.

Library Reference

• AALL Publishing Initiatives Caucus (AALL-PIC) 
• Caucus started to highlight librarian authored articles in legal publications.
• AALL Publishing Initiatives Caucus (AALL-PIC) Database 
• Database of librarian authored articles in legal publications.
• Cataloging Oasis 
• Recommended cataloging links from the MIT libraries. Watch for dead links.
• LC Cataloging Newsletter 
• From the Library of Congress. The site contains selective links providing authoritative, in-depth information about the nations and other areas of the world.
• OCLC Technical Bulletins 
• Technical Bulletins from OCLC.
• SMU Document Delivery 
• Link to document delivery request form, pricing information.
• Technical Processing Online Tools 
• Resource links for all sorts of technical processing functions. Watch for dead links.

News Aggregators

• FindLaw Legal News 
• Top legal headlines, arranged by topic.
• Google News 
• Current news by topic from over 4,500 sources.
• NewsDirectory.com 
• Links to news sources all over the world, arranged by media type, subject, and geographical region.
• NewsHub Headlines 
• Current news by topic from Tucows.
• Newslink 
• Links to news sources including newspapers, tv stations, radio stations, and more.
• Yahoo! News 
• Current news by topic.

News Sources

• Austin American-Statesman 
• Newspaper for Austin, Texas, registration required.
• BBC News 
• News with a British flavor. Includes world, UK, news summaries, entertainment, business, and other sections.
• CNN 
• CNN has political, business, international, financial, sports, entertainment and human interest news.
• Dallas Morning News 
• Newspaper for Dallas, Texas. Registration required to read articles.
• ESPN 
• If you need sports information, scores, articles or TV sports listings, you can find it all here.
• Fort Worth Star-Telegram 
• Newspaper for Fort Worth, Texas
• Houston Chronicle 
• Newspaper for Houston, Texas
• Lubbock Avalanche-Journal  
• Newspaper for Lubbock, Texas
• National Law Journal 
• Mixture of free and fee stories.
• National Public Radio 
• NPR news stories. If you click on the News link, you can get to audio files of the top stories.
• Salon.com 
• Articles and essays covering arts, books, business, health, politics, technology. Mix of free and fee articles.
• Texas Lawyer 
• Legal newspaper for Texas. Registration required to read articles.
• The New York Times 
• The New York Times web edition. Free registratrion required to read articles.
• USA Today 
• Online version of the USA Today newspaper. Some articles require that you supply your gender, year of birth, and zip code to read.
• Washington Post 
• DC area newspaper. To read articles, you'll be asked to register.

Statistics

• Census Bureau Home 
• Find a wealth of population statistics for the United States. Data can be broken down by cities, states, gender, income levels, and more.
• Consumer Price Index 
• Provided by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, you can generate all sorts of CPI reports.
• Population Reference Bureau 
• Another source of population statistics, this one world-wide. You can build reports based on geography, population, and other variables.
• United Nations Population Index 
• Starting point linking to population data, publications, organizations, and conferences under the UN umbrella.
• World-Gazetteer: Population figures 
• Statistics about cities and towns around the world, including national flags and information about the largest metropolitan areas. for this web site.

Ready Reference

• 1997 Numerical List of Manufactured and Mineral Products 
• 1997 Numerical List of Manufactured and Mineral Products from the Census Bureau
• Acronym Finder 
• Claims to match over 525,000 human-edited entries acronyms and abbreviations.
• Adherents.com 
• Statistics on over 4,200 different religions. Can answer such questions "how many" or "what percentage" of a particular religion overall or by geography.
• AreaCode-Info 
• Originally allowed area code searches by number or location. Now seems to be a collection of links to telco information.
• Bartlett's Quotations, 10th ed. 
• Quotes from the famous quotes book, 10th (1919) edition.
• Cambridge Dictionaries Online 
• Look up meaning of words using one of several dictionaries.
• Guide to Grammar and Writing 
• Help for the grammatically challenged.
• Hints from Heloise 
• Yes, it's the column that you and your mother read, Hints from Heloise. The site features a mix of hints, personal notes from Heloise, and plugs for books, personal appearances and more.
• How to Clean Anything 
• This site is broken down in to six hint areas: exterior, pet, stain, interior, automotive, recreation. Each section is broken down in to further subcategories.
• Librarians' Index to the Internet 
• Sponsored by The Library of California, links arranged by subjects, chosen by professional librarians.
• North American Industry Classification System 2002 
• North American Industry Classification System 2002 from the Census Bureau
• Queen of Clean 
• Linda Cobb ran her own cleaning business for years and now write books and makes appearances as the Queen of Clean. Her tips section is broken down in to around the house, bathrooms, cement, carpet, cleaning/fabrics, and kitchen.
• Refdesk 
• Many reference links, arranged by topic, mostly to free sources. Home page also has site of the day, thought for the day, word of the day, and topic for the day.
• The Elements of Style 
• The classic reference by William Strunk, Jr.
• The Library Spot 
• Includes reference sites, ask an expert, lists of lists, libraries/librarian's shelf, and related sites (BookSpot, Geneology Spot, HomeworkSpot, etc.)
• U. S. Government: Commonly Used Abbreviations and Acronyms 
• From the United States Government Manual.

Texas Law Libraries

• O'Quinn Law Library 
• Law library at the University of Houston.
• Sheridan & John Eddie Williams Legal Research and Technology Center. 
• The law library web page.
• Tarlton Law Library 
• Law library at the University of Texas at Austin.
• Texas Tech University Law Library 
• Law library at Texas Tech University.
• Texas Wesleyan University School of Law 
• Click on library for the law library links.
• The Fred Parks Law Library 
• Law library at South Texas College of Law.
• Underwood Law Library 
• Law library at Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law.

Urban Legends

• About.com Urban Legends 
• Hoaxes, urban legends, email hoaxes all dealt with humor and reality checks.
• Snopes.com 
• One of the better known hoax, urban legend, and virus debunking sites on the web. Each article covers a hoax or legend, debunking them or affirming them, with sources cited at the end of each writeup.

Last modified 12/01/2010