The Virtual Reference Desk

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• Dictionaries, Thesaurus, Acronyms
• Maps & Travel Information
• Selected U.S. Documents
• Periodic Tables and Weights & Measures
• Phone Books & Area Codes
• ZIP, & International Country Codes
• Time & Date
• Other Reference Sources

Dictionaries, Thesaurus, Acronyms

• Search Webster's Dictionary (from Carnegie-Mellon University)
• Search the American English Dictionary (from the National Institute of Health)
• Search English and Technical Dictionary (from CERN)
• Dictionary Search (from Bucknell)
• College Slang Dictionary (from Spies.com)
• French-English dictionary (from ARTFL)
• German/English Dictionary(from Darmstadt, Germany)
• Japanese <-> English dictionary (by jfriedl)
• English-Slovene and Slovene-Englishdictionary (from Slovenia)
• Search the Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing (from the United Kingdom)
• Search the Hacker's Dictionary/Jargon File (from Austria)
• Search Acronym Dictionary (from Ireland)
• Search an Acronym Dictionary (from the United Kingdom site 1)
• Search an Acronym Dictionary (from the United Kingdom site 2)
• Search an updated 1911 Roget's Thesaurus (from the National Institute of Health)
• Browse the NASA Thesaurus (from NASA)
• See also the human languages page at Willamette.
• Bartlett's Book of Familiar Quotations

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Maps & Travel Information

• 1994 CIA World Factbook (from CIA)
• Country Studies (from the Library of Congress)
• Map Collection (from the University of Texas, Austin)
• Map Viewer (from Xerox PaloAlto Research Center)
• Geographic database (from MIT)
• U.S. Gazetteer (fromSUNY at Buffalo)
• Canadian Geographical Names (The National Atlas Information Service [Canada])
• U. S. State Department Travel Advisories (Browse) (from the University of Pennsylvania)
• U. S. State Department Travel Advisories (Search) (from St. Olaf College)
• Koblas Currency Converter (from O'Reilly and Associates, Inc.)

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Selected U.S. Documents

• White House Home Page (also gateway to Executive Agencies)
• U.S. House of Representatives (Direct from the House of Representatives)
• U.S. Supreme Court Decisions (Made available by the Cornell University Legal Information Institute)
• Federal Register Table of Contents
• Thomas, a project of the Library of Congress provides a searchable index to the Congressional Record on a daily basis. It also includes the full text of all bill that have been submitted to the current session of Congress.
• Indiana Code (Made available bye the Indiana University Law School)
• Historical Documents (from the Queens Library NYC)
• Declaration of Independence (from the Queens Library NYC)
• U.S.Constitution (from the Queens Library NYC)
• U. S. Budget (1995) (from the University of North Carolina)
• White House File (from Carnegie-Mellon University)
• 1990 Census data (from the University of Michigan)
• US Census server (from the Bureau of the Census)
• 1980 & 1990 US Census (from Lawrence Berkely Labs)
• Internal Revenue Service (from the Department of the Treasury)

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Periodic Tables and Weights & Measures

• Weights & Measures (from the University of Oregon)
• Periodic Table 1 (from the Univ. of California at Berkeley)
• Periodic Table 2 (from the University of Kansas)
• Periodic Table 3 (from Spies.com)

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Phone Books & Area Codes

• Purdue Student & Staff Directory (from the Purdue University Computing Center)
• Selected phonebooks for North American institutions (from the University of Notre Dame)
• University White Pages (from the University of Illinois)
• Airline 800 Telephone Numbers (from Princeton)
• Telecom Digest Guide to Area Codes (from MIT)
• Search for Area Codes (from Bucknell)
• AT&T 800 Number Directory
• World Wide Yellow Pages
• General Gopher to X.500 Gateway (Univ. Michigan)

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ZIP, & International Country Codes

• US Postal Service ZIP+4 Lookup (from the U.S. Postal Service)
• Zip Codes for U.S. Cities (from the University of Oregon)
• USA Zip Codes (from the University of Minnesota)
• The National Address Server (from the University of Buffalo)
• U.S. Gazetteer (from the University of Buffalo)
• U.S. Postal Service Abbreviations (from Princeton University)
• Internet Country Codes (from the University of California at Irvine)

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Time & Date

• Date and Time Gateway (from Berkeley Software Design, Inc.)
• Time Around the World (from the Cleveland Public Library)
• Calendar - Search (from New Mexico State University)
• Calendar - Month (from The U.S. Navy)
• Calendar -Year (from the University of Utah)

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Other Reference Sources

• Selected Dissertations (from University Microfilms International)
• Vanderbilt News Archive (from Vanderbilt University)
• South Bend Tribune Index (from The St. Joseph County Public Library)
  Index to Metro section, with abstracts, since 1990.
• 1994 Indiana State Legislators (from The St. Joseph County Public Library)
  Detailed information, including a picture, of each Indiana State Senator and Representative.
• OnlineReference Works (from Carnegie-Mellon University)
• UCSC Reference (from the University of California at Santa Cruz)
• UCSD Reference Shelf (from the University of California at San Diego)
• NOVA Reference Shelf (from Nova Southeastern University)

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