Best Free Reference Web Sites
Combined Index, 1999-2008
RUSA Machine-Assisted Reference Section (MARS)
View selection criteria | Print the Index
|
AARP (http://www.aarp.org/) About.Com (http://www.about.com/) Africana.com (http://www.africana.com/) Renamed Black Voices: African American and Black Culture Community (noted: 2006) AF: Acronym Finder (http://www.acronymfinder.com/) AIDSInfo (http://aidsinfo.nih.gov/) Now AOL Black Voices (noted January 2006) AJR Newslink (http://www.newslink.org/) and (http://ajr.org/) NOTE: Newslink, offering links to newspapers, broadcaster, magazines and joblink advertising, is available at http://www.newslink.org/. AJR, containing news and columns from the American Journalism Review Magazine, is available from http://ajr.org/. (Feb 27, 2003) All-Music Guide (http://www.allmusic.com/) All Recipes (http://allrecipes.com/) AltaVistas Babel Fish (http://babelfish.altavista.com/) AMA Physician Select (http://www.ama-assn.org/aps/amahg.htm) Renamed AMA DoctorFinder. (Noted January 2006). Amazon.com (http://www.amazon.com/) AMDOCS: Documents for the Study of American History (http://www.vlib.us/amdocs/). The American Civil War Homepage ( (http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/) American Family Immigration History Center (http://www.ellisisland.org/). American Hospital Directory http://www.ahd.com/
American Hospital Directory, Inc. Reviewed: Mars Best 2007 American Law Sources On-line (ALSO!) (http://www.lawsource.com/also). American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library (http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ammemhome.html) AmericanPresident.org (http://millercenter.virginia.edu/scripps/amprez.html). American Presidents: Life Portraits (http://www.americanpresidents.org/). American Rhetoric (http://www.americanrhetoric.com) American Women's History: A Research Guide AmeriStat (http://www.ameristat.org/). According to the Population Reference Bureau website, the AmeriStat website is no longer active. All AmeriStat content is available on the Population Reference Bureau's website http://www.prb.org. (Noted September 2006) Answers.com (http://www.answers.com/). Art & Architecture Thesaurus (http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/aat) Artcyclopedia: the Fine Art Search Engine (http://www.artcyclopedia.com/). AskART (http://askart.com/) AskERIC (http://askeric.org/). NOTE: The AskERIC site and question-answer service was discontinued on December 19, 2003, being replaced byThe Educators Reference Desk. This new site includes the 2000 lesson plans, 3000 pointers to education information & organizations, and 200 question archives formerly available from askeric.org for over 10 years. You can also continue to access the ERIC database at the Educator's Reference Desk. AskOxford.com (http://www.askoxford.com/) AT&T AnyWho (http://www.anywho.com/index.html). Avalon Project: Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy. (www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm/). Background Notes (http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/). Bankrate (http://www.bankrate.com/). Bartleby.com (http://www.bartleby.com/). Baseball-Almanac: The "Official" Baseball History Site Baseball-Reference.com (http://baseballreference.com/). BBC News (http://news.bbc.co.uk/) Ben's Guide to the U.S. Government for Kids (http://bensguide.gpo.gov/). Best of History Web Sites (http://www.besthistorysites.net/). BBB: Better Business Bureau (http://www.bbb.org/). The Big Cartoon Database (http://www.bcdb.com) Big Charts (http://www.bigcharts.com/) The Bill of Rights Institute (http://www.billofrightsinstitute.org/) Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present (http://bioguide.congress.gov/). Biography.com (http://www.biography.com/). Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (http://federalreserve.gov//) The BookHive (http://www.bookhive.org/). Britannica.com (http://www.britannica.com/). Bureau of Labor Statistics (http://stats.bls.gov/). Calendars through the Ages (http://webexhibits.org/calendars/index.html). Catholic Online Saints & Angels (http://saints.catholic.org/index.shtml). Centers For Disease Control and Prevention (http://www.cdc.gov/). CEO Express (http://www.ceoexpress.com/). Child Care and Early Education Research (www.childcarersearch.org) CI: Corporate Information (http://www.corporateinformation.com). CNET.com (http://www.cnet.com/). CNN.com (http://www.cnn.com/). College and University Rankings (http://www.library.uiuc.edu/edx/rankings.htm). Constitution Finder (http://confinder.richmond.edu/index.php) ConsumerSearch (http://www.consumersearch.com/). Cooking Light (www.Cookinglight.com) Council on Foreign Relations (www.cfr.org) Country Studies/Area Handbook (http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html). Crash Course in Copyright (http://www.utsystem.edu/ogc/Intellectualproperty/cprtindx.htm) Cyberschoolbus (http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/). Digital History (http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/). Discovery School (http://school.discoveryeducation.com) DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals (http://www.doaj.org/). Documenting the American South (http://docsouth.unc.edu/) World Bank Reviewed: Mars Best 2007
Earthtrends: the Environmental Information Portal (http://earthtrends.wri.org/) Economist Country Briefings (http://www.economist.com/countries/). EDGAR (http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml). Edmunds.com (http://www.edmunds.com/). Education Research Information Center (ERIC) (www.eric.ed.gov) E-how (http://www.ehow.com) Elemental Data Index (http://physics.nist.gov/PhysRefData/Elements/cover.html). The information on this site serves as a complement to the WebElements Periodic Table (http://www.webelements.com/) selected for the MARS Best 2001 list. (RUSQ. Fall 2001.) The Encyclopedia Mythica (http://www.pantheon.org/). Encyclopedia of Chicago (http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/) Epicurious (http://eat.epicurious.com/) Eric Weisstein's World of Science: A Wolfram Web Resource ERsys (http://www.ersys.com/) ESPN.com (http://espn.go.com/). Eternal Egypt (http://www.eternalegypt.org/) Europa The European Union at a Glance (http://europa.eu/abc/index_en.htm) U.S. International Trade Administration Reviewed: Mars Best 2007 Fact Check (www.FactCheck.org) Fact MonsterTM (http://www.factmonster.com/). Family Search Internet Genealogy Service (http://www.familysearch.org/). Farmers Almanac (http://www.farmersalmanac.com/). Federal Citizen Information Center (http://www.pueblo.gsa.gov/). FedStats (http://www.fedstats.gov/). 50 States and Capitals (http://www.50states.com/). Findarticles.com (http://www.findarticles.com/). Findlaw (http://www.findlaw.com/). FirstGov.gov (http://www.firstgov.gov/). Now USA.gov (noted March 2008) Fodor's (www.fodors.com) Foreign Government Resources on the Web Foundation Center Online (http://fdncenter.org/). Free Medical Journals (http://www.freemedicaljournals.com). The Gallup Organization (http://www.gallup.com/). Gate2Home (http://www.gate2home.com/) National Institutes of Health Reviewed: Mars Best 2007 Geographic Names Information System (http://geonames.usgs.gov/gnishome.html). Paul M. English, gethuman Project Reviewed: Mars Best 2007 Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names Online. (http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/tgn/). glbtq: An Encyclopedia of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Culture(http://www.glbtq.com/). globalEDGE (http://globaledge.msu.edu) Go Ask Alice (http://www.goaskalice.columbia.edu). Google News (http://news.google.com/) GPO Access (http://www.gpoaccess.gov/). Great Buildings Online (http://www.greatbuildings.com/gbc/buildings.html). GrayLit Network: A Science Portal of Technical Reports (http://graylit.osti.gov/index.html). NOTE: GrayLit Network retired on October 31, 2007. Guide to Philosophy on the Internet (http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/philinks.htm). GuideStar (http://www.guidestar.org/). Healthfinder (http://www.healthfinder.gov/). HiCitizen: Making Government Easy for You (http://www.hicitizen.com). NOTE: Web page no longer available.
History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course on the Web (http://historymatters.gmu.edu/) American Social History Project. Hoaxbusters (http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org/). Household Products Database (http://householdproducts.nlm.nih.gov/) How Products are Made (http://www.madehow.com/) How Stuff Works (http://www.howstuffworks.com/). Human Genome Project Information (http://www.ornl.gov/hgmis). HyperHistory Online (http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html). IIHS-HLDI: Crash Testing and Highway Safety (www.iihs.org) Indeed (indeed.com) Industry Research Desk (http://www.virtualpet.com/industry) Informacion en Vivo: Servicios de referencia en español (http://preguntas.nypl.org/) Information Please (http://www.infoplease.com/). Intelihealth (http://www.intelihealth.com/). The Internet Archive (http://www.archive.org/). Internet Broadway Database (http://www.ibdb.com/). Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy IEP (www.iep.utm..edu/) Internet History Sourcebooks Project (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall). The Internet Movie Database (http://www.imdb.com/). Internet Public Library (http://www.ipl.org/). In the first person: An index to letters, diaries, oral histories, and other personal narratives (http://www.inthefirstperson.com) Lemelson-MIT Award Program Reviewed: Mars Best 2007 IRS: Forms and Publications . (http://www.irs.ustreas.gov/formspubs/index.html) iTools (http://www.itools.com/). Kelley Blue Book (http://www.kbb.com/). Kids.gov (www.Kids.gov) KidsHealth (www.kidshealth.org) Kidsreads.com (www.kidsreads.com/series/index.asp) Latin American Network Information Center (http://www.lanic.utexas.edu/) Learn2.com (http://www.learn2.com/). NOTE: No longer free (Noted: March 3, 2003) Librarians' Index to the Internet (http://www.lii.org/). Renamed Librarians Internet Index. (Noted January 2006)Liber8™ An economic information portal for librarians and students (http://liber8.stlouisfed.org) Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Date reviewed: 3/4/07 The Library of Congress (http://www.loc.gov) LII: Legal Information Institute (http://www.law.cornell.edu/). Lives, the Biography Resource (http://amillionlives.com/). Content of site has changed. (Noted 2006) The Making of America Project MapQuest (http://www.mapquest.com/). Maps of War (www.mapsofwar.com) The Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project (http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/). Math Forum (http://mathforum.org//) Martindale's "The Reference Desk" (http://www.martindalecenter.com/ ). MayoClinic.com (http://www.mayoclinic.com/). MEDLINEplus (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/). Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism (www.mipt.org) The Merck Manual Home Edition (http://www.merckhomeedition.com/). Measure 4 Measure (http://www.wolinskyweb.net/measure.htm). Merriam-Webster Online (http://www.m-w.com) Metacritic (http://www.metacritic.com/) Dennis Vierkant, MDBG Date reviewed: 2/28/07 Modern Language Association Language Map (http://www.mla.org/census_main). Monster (http://www.monster.com/). Movie Review Query Engine (http://www.mrqe.com/). NASA (http://www.nasa.gov/). National Archives and Records Administration: Office of the Federal Register (http://www.gpoaccess.gov/nara/index.html). National Atlas (http://www.nationalatlas.gov/) National Centor for Children in Poverty (www.nccp.org) National Criminal Justice Reference Service (http://www.ncjrs.org/index.html). NATIONALGEOGRAPHIC.COM (http://www.nationalgeographic.com/) National Institute of Mental Health Date reviewed: 2/24/07 National Institutes of Health (NIH) (http://www.nih.gov) Nationalissues.com (http://www.nationalissues.com/). Original web site no longer available. (Noted Jan 2005) National Public Radio (www.npr.org) National Weather Service (http://www.nws.noaa.gov/) NationMaster.com (http://www.nationmaster.com/) NatureServe Date reviewed: 2/12/07 NCES: National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/) Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations Union Catalog News365 (http://www.news365.com/) NOTE: Web page no longer available. (Noted Feb 27, 2003) New York Times Article Archives 1851-1995 (http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/nytimes/advancedsearch.html). The New York Times on the Web (http://www.nytimes.com/) NIST Chemistry WebBook (http://webbook.nist.gov/chemistry/) Nobel Foundation (http://www.nobel.se/). Nolo.com - law for all (http://www.nolo.com/). NoodleTools: Smart Tools for Smart Research (http://www.noodletools.com/). North American Mammals (http://web4.si.edu/mna/main.cfm). NSSN National Resource for Global Standards (http://www.nssn.org/). Nutrition.gov (http://www.nutrition.gov/). The NYPL Picture Collection Online (http://digital.nypl.org/mmpco/) Occupational Outlook Handbook (http://www.bls.gov/oco/). OAIster (http://www.oaister.org/). Office of Minority Health OMH (www.omhrc.gov/) The Official Academy Awards® Database OFFSTATS: Official Statistics on the Web(http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/subjects/stats/offstats/). OneLook Dictionaries (http://www.onelook.com/). OnHealth.Com (http://onhealth.com/). The Online Books Page (http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/). Online! Citation Styles (http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/citex.html). Opensecrets.org (http://www.opensecrets.org/). Papal Encyclicals Online (http://www.papalencyclicals.net/) Christopher and Dana Reeve Occupational Resource Center Date reviewed: 3/3/06 (edited 4/12/07) Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection (http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/index.html). Perseus Digital Library (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/). Peterson's Planner (http://www.petersons.com) Pew Internet & American Life (http://www.pewinternet.org/) Picture History (http://www.picturehistory.com/) Plants Database (http://plants.usda.gov/) Political Graveyard (http://politicalgraveyard.com) PollingReport.com: Public Opinion Online (http://www.pollingreport.com/). POTUS: Presidents of the United States (http://www.ipl.org/div/potus/) Project Gutenberg (www.promo.net/pg/). Project Vote Smart (http://www.vote-smart.org/). PubMed (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/). The Pulitzer Prizes (http://www.pulitzer.org/) Radio-Locator (http://www.radio-locator.com/) REALTOR.com (http://www.realtor.com/). Recalls.gov (http://www.recalls.gov) Refdesk.com (http://www.refdesk.com/). Relief Web (http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/dbc.nsf/doc100?OpenForm) Research and Documentation Online (http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/). Resource Discovery Network (http://www.rdn.ac.uk/). RootsWeb.com (http://www.rootsweb.com/). Rotten Tomatoes (http://www.rottentomatoes.com/). RxList: The Internet Drug Index (http://rxlist.com/). SchoolMatters (http://www.schoolmatters.com) Science Daily Magazine (http://www.sciencedaily.com/). SCORE: Counselors to America's Small Business (http://www.score.org/). Scout Report Signpost (http://www.signpost.org). NOTE: Web page no longer available. Search Engine Watch (searchenginewatch.com). Search jake (jointly administered knowledge environment) SeatGuru.com Inc. Date reviewed: 3/11/06 (edited 4/16/07) Shodor.org A national resource for computational science education (http://www.shodor.org) SmallStep.gov (http://www.smallstep.gov/index.html) Smithsonian Institution Date Reviewed: 3/17/06 (edited 4/12/07) Son of Citation Machine (http://citationmachine.net/) David Warlick & The Landmark Project Free/Fee-based: Free Date reviewed: 2/24/07 Sources: Their Use and Acknowledgement (http://www.dartmouth.edu/~sources/). Sparknotes (http://www.sparknotes.com/). Sperling's BestPlaces (http://www.bestplaces.net/). StartSpot Network (http://www.startspot.com/). State and Local Government on the Net: A guide to government sponsored Internet sites (http://www.statelocalgov.net/index.cfm). Statistical Resources on the Web (http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/statsnew.html). The Straight Dope (http://www.straightdope.com/). TechEncyclopedia (http://www.techweb.com/encyclopedia/). Telephone Directories on the Web (http://www.infobel.com/teldir/). Thomas: Legislative Information on the Internet (http://thomas.loc.gov/). ThomasRegister (http://www.thomasregister.com/). Time Magazine (www.time.com/). Timeline of Art History (http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/splash.htm). Topozone.com (http://www.topozone.com/). Transportation Security Administration Area for Travelers (www.tsa.gov/travelers/index.shtm/). Travlang (http://www.travlang.com/). Expedia, Inc Date reviewed: 3/04/07 TV.com (http://www.tv.com/). Unbound Bible (http://unbound.biola.edu/). United States Postal Service (http://www.usps.com/). The Universal Currency Converter (http://www.xe.com/ucc/). University of Michigan Documents Center (http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/). Urban Legends Reference Pages (http://www.snopes.com) U.S. Census Bureau (http://www.census.gov/). U.S. Copyright Office (http://www.copyright.gov/). U.S. Naval Observatory. Astronomical Applications Department: Data Services (http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (http://www.uspto.gov/).
The Valley of the Shadow (http://valley.vcdh.virginia.edu/). Virtual Garden Time/Life Plant Encyclopedia (http://www.vg.com/). (NOTE: site content changed. No longer free.)Visual Dictionary Online (http://visual.merriam-webster.com) QA International/Merriam-Webster Reviewed: Mars Best 2008 Volunteer Match (http://www.volunteermatch.org/) Volunteer Match Reviewed: Mars Best 2008 Weather.Com (http://www.weather.com/). Weather Underground (http://www.weatherunderground.com/). WebElements Periodic Table (http://www.webelements.com/). WebMD Health (http://www.webmd.com/) Webopedia (http://www.pcwebopedia.com/). Where to find MSDS [Materials Safety Data Sheets] on the Internet David Carson Date reviewed: 3/04/07 Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page). Wordsmyth: The Educational Dictionary-Thesaurus (http://www.wordsmyth.net/). Online Computer Library Center, Inc. (OCLC) Date reviewed: 3/4/07 World Factbook (http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/). World-newspapers.com (http://world-newspapers.com/). WordReference.com, Michael Kellogg Date Reviewed: 03/09/06 (edited 4/12/07) XRefer.com (http://www.xrefer.com/). (NOTE: Site content changed. No longer free) Yahoo! Finance (http://finance.yahoo.com) yourDictionary.com (http://www.yourdictionary.com/). Zillow.com (http://www.zillow.com/) Rich Barton and Lloyd Frink Date reviewed: 3/11/06 (edited 4/12/07) |
