Ready Reference & Quick Facts

Abbreviations & Acronyms

• Abbreviations.com - Acronyms, Abbreviations, and Initialisms
  Acronyms and Abbreviations- Silmaril Information Management Consultants

Associations & Organizations

• Associations - ASAE Gateway to Associations
• Scholarly Societies Project - Directory (Univ. of Waterloo)

Automobiles

• Automobile Blue Book - Kelley Blue Book Buyer's guide
• Edmunds Automobile Buyer's Guides
• Kelly Blue Book - New and Used Car Prices
• Manual of Traffic Signs

Biographies

• Biography
• Obituaries - Legacy.com nationwide resource for obituaries

Books, Journals, & Publishing

• All That JAS: Journal Abbreviation Sources - Gerry McKiernan, ISU
• American Publishers - Company List
• Bartleby.com - Great Books Online
• BibleGateway - Gospel Communications Network
• Literary Market Place - Information Today Inc.
• The Pulitzer Prizes

Calculators & Money

• Calculators On-Line Center - Martindale's 'The Reference Desk'
• Calendar Zone - Janice McLean
• Complete Sun and Moon Data for One Day - U.S. Naval Observatory
• Currency Converter - OANDA Corp.
• How Far Is It? - Indo.com
• Local Times Around the World - ClariNET Internet Solutions
• Megaconverter - measurement conversions
• Salary Calculator - cost of living in U.S. and International cities
• Salary.com
• Universal Currency Converter - Xenon Laboratories
• What is a Dollar Worth - Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

Careers & Jobs

• Occupational Outlook Handbook - Bureau of Labor Statistics

Cedar Falls/Waterloo

• AEA 267 Media Catalog
• CedarNet
• Cedar Valley Tourism Calendar
• Waterloo Metropolitan Transit Authority
• Weather - Waterloo

Citation Guides - APA, Other

• Citation Guide for Internet Sources in History and the Humanities
• Citing Article Found or Retrieved with InfoTrac SearchBank
• Citing Articles Retrieved with Lexis-Nexis Universe
• Electronic References - American Psychological Association
• Guide for Writing Research Papers Based on Modern Language Assn. (MLA) 
• MLA-Style: Frequently Asked Questions about MLA Style
• Online! Citation Styles - Bedford/St. Martins

Colleges & Universities

• American Universities - Mike Conlon
• Braintrack University Index - Harvard University
• College Source Online - Career Guidance Foundation

Consumers

• Better Business Bureau - Council of Better Business Bureaus
• Companies Online - InfoSpace
• FindLaw Law Crawler - Search legal information
• Product Safety - Consumer.gov
• Referral Information - Legal, Medical/Psychiatry, and Business/Tax
• Where to find Material Safety Data Sheets on the Internet - MSDS Online

Dictionaries - English

• American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language - Bartleby.com
• My Facts Page - Dictionaries and Language Resources - Bob Drudge
• OneLook Dictionaries
• Roget's II: the New Thesaurus - Bartleby.com
• Symbols.com - Encyclopedia of Western Signs and Ideograms
• Webopedia - InternetNewsBureau.com
• Wordsmyth - Educational dictionary and thesaurus
• YourDictionary.com

Dictionaries - Non-English

• I Love Languages - Tyler chambers
• World Languages Dictionary - LOGOS

Encyclopedias

• Black Facts Online
• Columbia Encyclopedia - Bartleby.com
• Encarta Online - MSN
• Encyclopedia Britannica
• My Facts Page - Encyclopedias - Bob Drudge

Financial Aid & Scholarships

• FAFSA
• UNI Financial Aid
• UNI Financial Aid - Scholarships

Geography, Maps & Travel

• 50 States of the United States - Capital Cities and Information Links
• Atlapedia Online - Latimer Clarke Corporation MapBlast!
• MapQuest - GeoSystems Global Corporation
• National Park Service
• PostInfo
• ShawGuides - Educational Travel, Language Vacations, Writers Conferences
• State Parks and Recreation Directory - Iowa DNR
• World Climate - Climate data for many cities across the world
• Yahoo! Maps

Government - IA, US, International

• CIA World Factbook
• Embassy Page
• Flags of the World - Digibel
• Project Visa - Visa and embassy information from around the world
• Rulers - List of Heads of State, etc.
• State Salary Database
• United Nations Member Nations - Cyberschoolbus
• United Nations Member States - UN

Grants

• Foundations and Grantmakers Directory
• GuideStar - GuideStar.org

Health

• AMA DoctorFinder
• NASW Clinical Register - UNI only
• RxList: The Internet Drug Index - RXList, Inc.

Hoaxes

• Purportal.com - Hoaxes, urban legends, viruses, scams, phishing
• Snopes.com - Urban legends

Large Virtual Reference Collections

• My Facts Page - Google refdesk.com Facts Subject Index
• Refdesk.com
• Virtual Reference Shelf - Library of Congress

Public Opinion

• The Gallup Poll
• Public Opinion Surveys - CISER Data Archive

Quotations

• Familiar Quotations - 10th edition, 1919
• The Quotations Page - Michael Moncur

Referral - Law, Medicine, Investments

• Referral Information - Legal, Medical/Psychiatry, and Business Tax - Rod Library
  Campus Referral Document - GIS (Geographic Information Systems) - Rod Library

Reviews - Books, Film, Other

• London Theatre Guide -Online - includes reviews
• Movie Reviews - MetroActive
• Movie Reviews - Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
• Movies and Films - Reviews - Yahoo!

Speeches

• Speech and Transcript Center - Gary Price

Statistics

• Atlapedia Online - Latimer Clarke Corporation
• InfoPlease: Your Ultimate Fact Finder
• Population Reference Bureau - Country statistics and reports
• Statistical Abstracts - U.S. Census Bureau
• United Nations Statistics Division - Common Database

Telephone Books

• Anywho
• U.S. Area Codes - AT & T International
• DexOnline.com - finding businesses
• International Calling Codes - American Computer Resources, Inc.
• Links - International postal and telephone sites
• Telephone Directories on the Web - Infobel.com
• Zip and Area Code Lookup - Jay Computer Services
• Zip Code Lookup - U.S. Postal Service

UNI Information

• Live Media at UNI
• UNI Catalog
• UNI Faculty/Staff Telephone Directory
• UNI Special Collections & University Archives
• UNI Student Handbook
• UNI Student Telephone Directory

Weather

• WxUSA Weather Hub - Rentz Data Systems
• Weather, Waterloo - wunderground.com
• The Weather Channel
• WeatherNet - Weather information from the UK

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