Best Free Reference Web Sites Combined Index, 1999-2011 RUSA Machine-Assisted Reference Section (MARS)
This is an index of the web sites included in the 1999-2011 annual lists issued by the MARS Best Free Reference Web Sites Committee of the MARS: Emerging Technologies in Reference Section of the Reference and User Services Association ( RUSA) of ALA to recognize outstanding reference sites on the World Wide Web.
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AARP (http://www.aarp.org/) Abbreviations.com, (http://www.abbreviations.com) About.Com (http://www.about.com/) Ad*Access, (http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/adaccess) Africana.com (http://www.africana.com/) AF: Acronym Finder (http://www.acronymfinder.com/) AIDSInfo (http://aidsinfo.nih.gov/) AJR Newslink (http://www.newslink.org/) and (http://ajr.org/) 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) 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 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 Time Use Survey, (http://www.bls.gov/tus/) American Women's History: A Research Guide (http://www.mtsu.edu/~kmiddlet/history/women.html) AmeriStat (http://www.ameristat.org/) Answers.com (http://www.answers.com/) Arbor Day Foundation (http://www.arborday.org/) 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/) AskOxford.com (http://www.askoxford.com/) The Association of Religion Data Archives (http://www.thearda.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/)
Baby Names | The Baby Name Wizard (http://www.babynamewizard.com) Background Notes ( http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/). BAMONA: Butterflies and Moths of BAMONA, 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 Country Profiles (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/country_profiles/default.stm) 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/) Biodiversity Heritage Library (http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/) Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), a consortium of 12 natural history and botanical libraries Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present ( http://bioguide.congress.gov/). Biography.com ( http://www.biography.com/). BlackPast.org (http://www.blackpast.org/) BlackPast.org
Blue Letter Bible (http://www.blueletterbible.org/) Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (http://federalreserve.gov/) BookFinder.com (http://www.bookfinder.com/)
The BookHive ( http://www.bookhive.org/). Britannica.com ( http://www.britannica.com/). Bureau of Labor Statistics ( http://stats.bls.gov/). Business & Human Rights Resource Centre (http://www.business-humanrights.org/)
Calendars through the Ages ( http://webexhibits.org/calendars/index.html). CareerOneStop (http://www.careeronestop.org) Cars.com (http://www.cars.com) 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) Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers (http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/) 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) Cornell Lab of Ornithology (http://www.birds.cornell.edu/) Cornell Lab of Ornithology,
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) Current Value of Old Money (http://projects.exeter.ac.uk/RDavies/arian/current/howmuch.html) Roy Davies, former Librarian, St. Luke's Campus, 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/) ebooks @ Adelaide (http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au) 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/) English Short Title Catalog (http://estc.bl.uk/) Epicurious ( http://eat.epicurious.com/) ePodunk™(http://www.epodunk.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 Monster™ ( http://www.factmonster.com/). FamilyDoctor.org (http://familydoctor.org/online/famdocen/home.html) Family Search Internet Genealogy Service ( http://www.familysearch.org/). Farmers Almanac ( http://www.farmersalmanac.com/). FastWeb: Scholarships, Financial Aid, and Colleges (http://www.fastweb.monster.com/) Federal Citizen Information Center ( http://www.pueblo.gsa.gov/). FedSpending.org (http://www.fedspending.org) 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/) Genetics Home Reference (http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/) 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 Maps (http://maps.google.com/) Google News ( http://news.google.com/) Google Translate (http://translate.google.com/#en|es|) GovTrack.us: Tracking the U.S. Congress (http://www.govtrack.us) 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/). Hathi Trust Digital Library (http://catalog.hathitrust.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/). Hulu (http://www.hulu.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) IMSLP/Petrucci Music Library (http://imslp.org/wiki/Main_Page) 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/). International Business Statistics Database | globalEDGE (http://globaledge.msu.edu/resourcedesk/dibs)
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) Invention Dimension (http://web.mit.edu/invent) ipl2: Information You Can Trust, (http://www.ipl.org) IRS: Forms and Publications . ( http://www.irs.ustreas.gov/formspubs/index.html) iTools ( http://www.itools.com/). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (http://www.iucnredlist.org/) International
Kelley Blue Book ( http://www.kbb.com/). Annie E. Casey Foundation
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) Lexicool (http://www.lexicool.com/) 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) LIFE photo archive hosted by Google, (http://images.google.com/hosted/life) LII: Legal Information Institute ( http://www.law.cornell.edu/). Lives, the Biography Resource ( http://amillionlives.com/). Content of site has changed. (Noted 2006) The Living Room Candidate: Presidential Campaign Commercials, 1952-2008, (http://www.livingroomcandidate.org/) Local Harvest (http://www.localharvest.org/) LocalHikes (http://www.localhikes.com/) The Making of America Project MapQuest ( http://www.mapquest.com/). Maps of War ( www.mapsofwar.com)
The Mark Twain Project Online (http://www.marktwainproject.org/) "MTPO is produced by the Mark Twain Papers and Project of The Bancroft Library in collaboration with the
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/). morgueFile (http://morguefile.com/) Kevin and Michael Connors, Johannes Seemann
Movie Review Query Engine ( http://www.mrqe.com/). Muckety - Exploring the paths of power and influence, (http://news.muckety.com) NASA ( http://www.nasa.gov/). NASA Images, (http://www.nasaimages.org) 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). National Gardening Association (http://www.garden.org/) 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 Ocean Service (http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/) 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) Newseum | Today's Front Pages (http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/) 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/). 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). OnlineConversion.com (http://onlineconversion.com/) Open CRS (http://opencrs.com/) Open CRS, Center for Democracy & Technology
Open Library (http://openlibrary.org/) Internet Archive
Opensecrets.org ( http://www.opensecrets.org/). Papal Encyclicals Online ( http://www.papalencyclicals.net/) Paralysis.org (http://www.paralysis.org) PDRhealthtm (http://pdrhealth.com/) 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/) Plant Information Online (http://plantinfo.umn.edu/) Richard T. Isaacson and Katherine Allen,
Plants Database ( http://plants.usda.gov/) The Poetry Tool (http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poetrytool.html) 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/) ProCon.org – Pros and Cons of Controversial Issues (http://www.procon.org/) ProCon.org
Project Gutenberg ( www.promo.net/pg/). Project Vote Smart ( http://www.vote-smart.org/). PubChem (http://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/) Public Library of Science (http://www.plos.org/) Public Library of Science
PubMed ( http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/). The Pulitzer Prizes ( http://www.pulitzer.org/) Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL) (http://owl.english.purdue.edu/)
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 (h ttp://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/). Special Issues Index (http://www.hillsearch.org/special_issues.cfm) Speech Accent Archive (http://accent.gmu.edu) Sperling's BestPlaces ( http://www.bestplaces.net/). Sports Reference (http://www.sports-reference.com/) Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (http://plato.stanford.edu/) Metaphysics Research Lab, CSLI,
StartSpot Network ( http://www.startspot.com/). State and Local Government on the Net: A guide to government sponsored Internet sites ( http://www.statelocalgov.net/). Statistical Resources on the Web ( http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/statsnew.html). Still Tasty (http://www.stilltasty.com/) StillTasty, LLC
The Straight Dope ( http://www.straightdope.com/). The Supreme Court Database (http://scdb.wustl.edu) TechEncyclopedia ( http://www.techweb.com/encyclopedia/). TED: Ideas Worth Spreading (http://www.ted.com/) TED Conferences LLC
Telephone Directories on the Web ( http://www.infobel.com/teldir/). Test Reviews Online (http://buros.unl.edu/buros/jsp/search.jsp) 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/). Traffic.com (http://www.traffic.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/). UNdata: A world of information (http://data.un.org) The UNESCO Institute for Statistics (http://www.uis.unesco.org/) UNESCO Institute for Statistics
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/). UNT Libraries: CyberCemetery Home (http://govinfo.library.unt.edu/)
Urban Legends Reference Pages ( http://www.snopes.com) UrbanRail.Net (http://www.urbanrail.net/) U.S. Census Bureau ( http://www.census.gov/). U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (http://www.cpsc.gov) U.S. Copyright Office ( http://www.copyright.gov/). U.S. Department of State: Travel (http://www.state.gov/travel) U.S. Economy at a Glance (http://www.bls.gov/eag/eag.us.htm) U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (http://www.epa.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 The White House (http:// www.whitehouse.gov/) Who's alive and who's dead (http://www.wa-wd.com/)
WikiLeaks (http://mirror.wikileaks.info) WikiLeaks
Wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page). Wolfram|Alpha (http://www.wolframalpha.com/) WolframAlpha
Wordnik: All the Words (http://www.wordnik.com) WordReference.com (http://www.wordreference.com) Wordsmyth: The Educational Dictionary-Thesaurus ( http://www.wordsmyth.net/). WorldCat (http://worldcat.org) World Digital Library (http://www.wdl.org) World Factbook ( http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/). World Health Organization (http://www.who.int/en/) World-newspapers.com ( http://world-newspapers.com/). Worldometers (http://www.worldometers.info) The Real Time Statistics Project
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/)
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