http://libdev1.lib.vanderbilt.edu/readyref.html (World Wide Web Directory, ~04/1995)

Reference Shelf

Heard Library Reference Shelf

This page includes pointers to other sources on the Internet, including Ready Reference Sources, where quick answers might be found to many types of questions, Web Indexes, several webs which provide subject access to Internet resources, other reference sources and recommended sites to visit, and resources for keeping up with new developments on the Internet.

Ready Reference Sources

American English Dictionary

Amtrak Train Schedules

Area Code Finder

AT&T 800 Directory

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (1901)

Calendar of Days (Holidays, Anniversaries, etc.)

Chronicle of Higher Education -- Academe This Week

City/Zip Code Finder

Consumer Price Index (Urban Consumers)

Daily Table of Contents to the Federal Register

FedEx-- Federal Express; trace a package en route (all over the world)

Federal Reserve Data

Federal Web Locator

Foreign Currency Exchange Rates (Current)

French-English/English-French Dictionary

Geographic Name Server

German-English/English-German Dictionary

Hypertext Webster Interface

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) (Source of social science machine-readable datafiles.)

Italian-English/English-Italian Dictionary

Journal Table of Contents Services

Koblas Currency Converter

Latin America/Spanish Speaking Countries Page

National Trade Data Bank

The Omnivore--a daily news and information service (U. Kansas)

The On-line Books Page

Peterson's Education Center

Postal Abbreviations

Roget's Thesaurus: via gopher search or by Web form

Time (Local) Around the World

U.S. Census and Statistical Data

Weather Conditions in U.S. States

Weights and Measures

The White House (Search press releases, budget info, etc.)

World Factbook 1993

World Phone Books and E-Mail Address Searches

World Telephone and Area Codes

Web Indexes

ALIWEB

CUI's W3 Catalog

Web Indexes

WebCrawler (Search WWW by Keyword)

WWWW -- the World Wide Web Worm (Provides a means of searching over 100,000 WWW resources by keyword and with selected search qualifiers (e. g., country or institution)

Web Sites with Subject Indexes to Resources

EINet Galaxy

The English Server (don't be misled by the name. This one has lots of subjects!)

Nova-Links

Planet Earth Home Page

University of Michigan's Clearinghouse for Subject-Oriented Internet Resource Guides

World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Subject Catalogue

Yahoo--A Guide to WWW

Other Reference Sources and Recommended Sites to Try

ALEX: A Catalogue of Electronic Texts on the Internet

ARL Directory of Electronic Journals, Newsletters, and Academic Lists

Awesome List (Selected favorite Internet resources from one network trainer's viewpoint.)

BUBL Information Service (Originally a bulletin board for United Kingdom libraries, BUBL now offers information and access to a range of network services, including JANET and other academic network resources.)

Directory of Scholarly Electronic Conferences

Electronic Newsstand: via gopher or via www

Internet/Network Guides

Internet Public Library

The Internet Sleuth

Library of Congress (LC MARVEL) General Reference

Library of Congress World Wide Web

Mother-of-all BBS (A collection of WWW home pages for companies, universities, etc.)

Other Library Webs

Research Libraries Group (RLG) Home Page

Scholarly Societies Project

Sources for Keeping Up With New Developments on Web

InterNIC InfoGuide--a good starting point for beginners...lots of useful information about the Internet itself, and a weekly "scout report" of new happenings on the Internet

NetHappenings

What's New With NCSA Mosaic

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