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This is a collection of online reference resources selected from the Internet. Please inform us if you know of others that would be useful to have here. Please send comments and suggestions to rujukan@notes.usm.my. Last updated November 2011.
 

Dictionaries & Encyclopaedias |Internet General Subject Resources | Geographical & other place-oriented references

Search Engines/Guides to the Internet | General Statistics & Data Sources | Documentation & Citation Styles

Dictionaries & Encyclopaedias

• Merriam-Webster OnLine
  http://www.m-w.com/
  Includes both the dictionary and thesaurus. This dictionary gives words nearest to your request, if you are not sure of the spelling.
   
• Roget's Thesaurus
  http:www.thesaurus.com
  This is the web version of the Roget's Thesaurus of English words and phrases. A good aid to find synonyms for overused words. Words may be looked up in the thesaurus or dictionary
   
• OneLook Dictionaries
  http://www.onelook.com
  Indexes over 670 online dictionaries including many in specialized subject areas. You may browse an individual dictionary or glossary or use the search engine to search all dictionaries at once.
• yourDictionary.com http://www.yourdictionary.com/ Access 1800 dictionaries in 230 languages.
   
• VoyCabulary.com  http://www.voycabulary.com/ Online web dictionary and thesaurus.
   
• WELL - Web Enhanced Language Learning
  http://www.well.ac.uk/
  Links to a wide array of Web resources for language learning in some of the world's major languages; includes dictionaries, news and magazines, and literature.
   
• The WWW Acronym and Abbreviation Server
  http://www.ucc.ie/info/net/acronyms/acro.html
  An award winning searchable list of acronyms and abreviations
   
• Acronym Finder
  http://www.acronymfinder.com/
  Developer: Mountain Data Systems
  A searchable database of >186,000 acronyms,abbreviations and initialisms.
   
• Yahoo's list of dictionaries
  http://dir.yahoo.com/Reference/dictionaries/
   
• French / English Dictionary
  http://humanities.uchicago.edu/forms_unrest/FR-ENG.html
  Developer: Mark Olsen, ARTFL Project, University of Chicago
   
• NASA Thesaurus
  http://www.sti.nasa.gov/thesfrm1.htmEncyclopaedias
• Encyclopædia Britannica Online
  http://subscribe.eb.com/freetrial/
  14 consecutive days of free access to the 32-volume Encyclopædia Britannica.
   
• Encyberpedia
  http://www.encyberpedia.com/cyberlinks/links/index.html
   
• Freeality Encyclopedias
  http://www.freeality.com/encyclop.htm
   
• Encyclopedia.com from Electric Library
  http://www.encyclopedia.com
   
• Encyclopedia Resources
  http://www.refdesk.com/myency.html
   
• Yahoo! Reference>Encyclopedia
  http://dir.yahoo.com/Reference/Encyclopedia/
   
• Quotations
  Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (of 1919)
  http://www.bartleby.com/100/
  A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs traced to their sources in Ancient and Modern Literature
   

Internet General Subject Resources

• Yahoo: ( A Guide to the WWW)
  http://www.yahoo.com/
   
• COPAC
  http://copac.ac.uk/copac/
  COPAC provides access to the merged online catalogues of 20 of the largest university research libraries in the UK and Ireland.
   
• Argus Clearinghouse 
  http://www.clearinghouse.net/
  A selective collection of topical guides.
   
• BUBL Information Service
  http://bubl.ac.uk/link/subjects/ 
  A national information Service for the UK higher education community.
   
• Information Please
  http://www.infoplease.com/
  Comprising online dictionary, Internet encyclopaedia, atlas and almanac.
   
• WWW Virtual Library
  http://vlib.org/Home.html
  World Wide Web Initiative's massive one-stop subject web - all you need for subject access to the internet.
   

Geographical & other place-oriented references

• World Factbook 2000
  http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
  Developer: Central Intelligence Agency, USA
  Contains country listing, field listing, reference maps, notes and definitions)
   
• ASEANWEB
  http://www.aseansec.org/
  Developer: ASEAN Secretariat, Jakarta

        Atlases

• Online World Atlas
  http://www.maps.com/explore/atlas/
   
• Atlapedia Online
  http://www.atlapedia.com/index.html
  Developer: Latimer Clarke Corporation
  Contains full colour physical and political maps as well as key facts and statistics on countries of the world
   

Search Engines/Guides to the Internet

• WWW Virtual Library
• Alta Vista
• Excite
• HotBot
• Go.com
• Lycos
• WebCrawler
• Magellan
• Netscape Search
• http://www.google.com/
• http://www.ask.com/
   

General Statistics & Data Sources

• Eurostat (Statistical Office of the European Communities
  http://europa.eu.int/comm/eurostat/
   
• International Statistical Agencies Links
  http://stats.bls.gov/oreother.htm
   
• World Bank
  http://www.worldbank.org/
   
• UNICEF Progress of Nations Annual report
  http://www.unicef.org/pon98/
  Progress of Nations Annual Report 1998 - ranks nations by the well-being of their children.
   
• United Nations
  http://www.un.org/
   
• United Nations Infonation
  http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/infonation/e_i_map.htm
  Allows you to view and compare statistical data for the member states of the United Nations.
   
• UN/ECE (Economic Commission for Europe) Website
  http://www.unece.org/stats/links.htm
  Links to WWW sites of International Statistical Agencies and National Statistical Agencies.
   

Documentation & Citation Styles

• Electronic Reference Formats  (APA)
  http://www.apa.org/journals/webref.html
  Developer: American Psychological Association
   
• Endnote Portal
  EndNote Web is a Web-based tool for managing and citing references in papers and creating bibliographies
   
• Citing Electronic Information in History Papers
  http://www.people.memphis.edu/~mcrouse/elcite.html
  Author: Maurice Crouse, Dept. of History, University of Memphis
   
• Cybercitations
  http://kalama.doe.hawaii.edu/hern95/rt007/
   
• How Do You Cite URLs in a Bibliography?
  http://www.nrlssc.navy.mil/meta/bibliography.html
  Developer: Naval Research Laboratory
   
• Columbia Guide to Online Style
  http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/cgos/idx_basic.html
  Authors: Janice R. Walker and Todd Taylor
   
• MLA ONLINE
  http://www.mla.org
  Developer: Modern Language Association of America
   
• The Ohio State University
  http://library.osu.edu/sites/guides/apagd.html
   
• Bedford Martin
  http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/citex.html
   
• The University of Sheffield
  http://www.shef.ac.uk/library/libdocs/hsl-dvc1.html
   
• University of Michigan
  http://www.lib.umich.edu/handouts/guides.html
   
• New York University
  http://library.nyu.edu/research/rg57.html
   
• Online Writing Lab
  http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_apa.html
   
• University of Queensland
  http://www.library.uq.edu.au/useit/
   
• Research and Documentation
  http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/index.html

• APA, MLA, AMA, Turabian, and Chicago Citation Styles (Long Island University)
  http://www.liunet.edu/cwis/cwp/library/workshop/citation.htm
   
• How to cite references: Examples of Harvard Style (NUS LION)
  http://www.lib.nus.edu.sg/lion/s/citeharv.html