The Big Guide to Online Reference

General Reference

• Encyclopaedia Britannica
• Oxford English Dictionary (UMich Only)
• Webster's Dictionary
• Roget's Thesaurus (UMich Only)
• Acronyms Dictionary
• Jargon Dictionary
• Smiley Dictionary
• Bartlett's Familiar Quotations

Almanac, Yearbooks

• World Factbook '94
• World Factbook '93
• Information Please Almanac (UMich Only)
• Daily Almanac
• US Census Estimates: Federal, State, County (Census Gopher Top-Level)
• Computer Almanac - Numbers about Computers

Current Reference

• Associated Press News (Restricted access in certain domains)
• U.S. Government documents
• Clinton speeches and schedules
• Current Stock Graphs (Updated Daily)
• Holt's Stock Reports
• Amtrak Train Schedule
• US State Department Travel Advisories
• Foreign Currency Exchange Rates
• Dept. of Treasury: IRS

Directories

• Federal Register (Sample access)
• Geographic Database: City, State, Zip, Area Code
• Geographic Names Server (Alt-1)
• Map Collection Continents, World Cities
• Congressional Directory
• Flags (National, signal, etc.)
• Internet Domain Country Codes

Scientific Tables

• Weights and Measures
• Periodic Table of the Elements
• Fundamental Physical Constants

Language

• Human Languages Page
• ShortDictionary of Qur'anic Arabic
• Croatian Language Basics
• Dutch Introductory Course
• Esperanto-English and English-Esperanto Translator
• French-English and English-French Translator
• German-English and English-German Translator

Online Text Collections

• Alex Catalog of online collections.
• UIUC Project Gutenberg - Index 1, Index 2
• UCSC E-Texts
• Software Tool and Die (STD) E-Texts
• Wiretap/Spies E-Texts

More Reference

• Yahoo Reference
• UCI Reference
• UCSC Reference
• Online Ready Reference