Reference Resources

Collections of reference resources

• Virtual Reference Desk from Princeton University Libraries
• Research It
• The Virtual Reference Desk from the University of Massachusetts Lowell Libraries

Dictionaries and writing resources

• Britannica Online - an information service of Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., including Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (Princeton only).
• Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Princeton only)
• WordNet, an online lexical reference system
• Roget's Thesaurus - version 1.02
• French-English Dictionary from the ARTFL Project
• EDGE: Electronic Dictionary German-English
• Multilingual dictionary
• Online dictionaries compilation
• Bartlett's Familiar Quotations - 9th ed., 1901
• Elements of Style - By William Strunk, Jr.

Encyclopædia

• Britannica Online - an information service of Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., including Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (Princeton only). Check here how to cite information in the Britannica.

Data archives

• Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities (CETH) (includes help files for the TEI tag set)
• Princeton University Data and Statistical Services
  • Princeton University Data Library
  • Data Library Online Catalog
  • U.S Decennial Census Information
  • Research Services Data Updates
  • Association of Public Data Users(APDU)
• Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
  • '94 Acquisitions: June - December
  • '95 Acquisitions: January - May
• Princeton University Video Library
• Catalogs of machine-readable (computerized) data
• ftp access to Princeton's anonymous archive

Federal information

• FedWorld Information Network - by subject
• The Federal Web Locator - by agency
• The White House: An interactive citizen's handbook

Other resources

• Bible Gateway
• Bookwire - book information on the Web
• Computer magazines on the Web
• The Human-Languages Page
• Financial sources on The Web
• The Unix Reference Desk
• Community of Science from Cartermill Inc., linking researchers worldwide (Princeton only)
• Electronic journals on the Web from CERN. Also a directory of E-journals and newsletters from ARL and a listing of new electronic journals.
• Libweb - Library catalogs at other institutions
• The Library of Congress
• LISTSERV lists
• Mercer County Library access - Dial PAC
• The On-line Books Page
• Publishers' Catalogs Home Page
• Repositories of primary sources
• Scholarly Societies Project from the University of Waterloo Electronic Library
• CERN's Virtual Library Subject Access
• University Press catalogs
• Zuzu's Petals Literary Resource

Let us know if you find other sources.

Last updated 2/27/96