Writer's Resources
Telephone & Postal Codes
Company Directories
Encyclopedia & Almanacs
Maps & Atlas
Calendars
Libraries & Book Stores
News & Weather
Biographical Info
Job Searches
Searching the Internet
Citing Sources

Writers' Resources:  Dictionaries, Thesauri & Citing

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate, Tenth Edition
CMU Pronouncing Dictionary
WWW Acronym and Abbreviation Server at Memphis State
Acronym Dictionary
Hypertext Webster Gateway
Roget's Thesaurus
Bartlett's Quotations (1901)
Simpson's Contemporary Quotations - contains words of wit and wisdom from modern notables
Specialty Dictionaries
Strunk's Elements of Style (1918)
Translating Dictionaries from Internet Public Library
travlang's Translating Dictionaries - Online dictionaries in 18+ languages.
Xrefer Reference Engine - Search multiple kinds of resources simultaneously.
Citing Electronic Sources

Refer also to the I Love Languages Page and the Internet Public Library's Dictionaries Reference page.

Telephone & Postal Code Directories

Area Decoder - Area Code Search
BigFoot - Telephone Search
Switchboard
Telephone Directories on the Web worldwide
Anywho Reverse Lookup by Telephone
Anywho Toll Free 800 Directory
World Times and Dialing Codes Time and International Dialing Codes for over 220 countries
U.S. Postal Service (Rates, Zip codes, etc.)
ZIP+4 Code Look-up (Official USPS site)
Postal Codes Around the World Link to postal web pages around the world


Company Directories

Hoover's
Dun's Million Dollar Database
General Business File via InfoTrac Web includes Ward's Business Directory
LookupUSA from American Business Information
Dun & Bradstreet Small Business Solutions Directory
LexisNexis Academic - choose Company Financial Info, then choose report type for international, public, or private companies
Thomas Register - U.S. and Canadian manufacturers searchable by company, product or brand name.
Wright Research Center - International Companies
Corporate Information - Company Directories Worldwide - Links to company directories worldwide


Encyclopedia & Almanacs

Britannica Online
Encyclopedia of World History
CIA World Factbook
General Reference Center in Infotrac Web
Information Please Online
Xrefer Reference Engine - Search multiple kinds of resources simultaneously.


Maps & Atlases

Expedia Maps
Map Machine @ National Geographic
Mapquest
Maps On Us - how to get from here to there
Massachusetts Electronic Atlas via Harvard Geospatial Library - select criteria to create custom state and county maps
Yahoo! Maps - locate specific street addresses
U.S. Census Bureau - U.S. places by city or zip code
Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection - historical maps at UT - Austin

More maps can be found at the Internet Public Library Reference: Atlases/Maps


Calendars

Calendar Zone - Links to many types of calendars.
10,000 Year Calendar - Choose year and month and create on the fly calendars for any given month from 0000-9999.

Library Catalogs & Online Book Stores

WEBnet library holdings of Babson, Bentley, Pine Manor, and Regis Colleges
Massachusetts libraries
Boston Library Consortium Union List of Serials - enter blc at the prompt.
WorldCat via FirstSearch - a merged catalog of library catalogs
Library of Congress
Internet Public Library: Libraries Online
ABE Books - combined inventories of new, used, and out-of- print-books, from over 5500 independent booksellers from around the globe.
Amazon
Barnes & Noble
Bookfinder: New, Used and Out of Print
Internet Public Library: Online Texts

News & Weather

Weather Underground - just the facts for Boston
INTELLiCast Weather - for Boston
WCVB - Channel 5 - for Boston weather + Dick Albert's Almanac
WHDH - Channel 7 - Boston weather
WBZ - Channel 4 - Boston weather
Boston.com - Boston weather and traffic
Boston Globe
Time Magazine - with a daily newsfeed
Weather Channel
Newslink - links to magazines/newspapers worldwide.
Babson's Current Weather
Internet Public Library: Newspapers and Magazines

Biographical Information

Biography.com
LexisNexis Academic - choose Biographical Information
Biographical Dictionary

Job Searches

CareerBuilder's Headhunter.net
Riley Internet Job Guide
Monster Trak
JobWeb - new home of Catapult & National Association of Colleges & Employers
Career Journal - free section of the Interactive Wall Street Journal
Bostonworks.boston.com - Boston Globe's postings
The Monster Board

Searching the Internet

Google
Yahoo!
AltaVista
Excite
Lycos
Dogpile