Listed here are four noteworthy general collections of links to online reference tools. Oxford Reference Online is purchased by the library; the other three collections are free on the Web:

• Library of Congress, Main Reading Room, Alcove 9: An Annotated List of Reference Websites
• Librarians' Index to the Internet, lii.org("reliable, trustworthy, librarian-selected Internet resources")
• Oxford Reference Online (core collection of Oxford University Press reference tools covering all subject areas)
• refdesk.com("grass roots" site)

• Abbreviations.com
• AF: Acronym Finder

• Farmers Almanac.com
• Fast Facts: Almanacs/Factbooks/Statistical Reports ...
• The Old Farmer's Almanac
• Infoplease.com
• U.S. Census Bureau, State and County QuickFacts
• World Almanacs(includes The World Almanac and Book of Facts, The World Almanac of the U.S.A., etc.)
• The World Factbook (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)

• American Council of Learned Societies(links to directory of Constituent Societies)
• Associations on the Net(directory from Internet Public Library)
• The Foundation Center(directory of foundations)
• GuideStar: The National Database of Nonprofit Organizations
• Scholarly Societies Project(information about scholarly societies ?University of Waterloo Library)

• Oscar.com(Academy Awards)
• Grammy.com(Grammy Awards)
• Medal of Honor Citations(U.S. Army Center for Military History)
• Nobel e-Museum
• The Pulitzer Prizes

• Biographical Dictionary
• Biographical Directory of the United States Congress(searchable directory of persons who have served in Congress)
• Biography and Genealogy Master Index(in Oxford Reference Online )
• Biography.com
• A Dictionary of Political Biography (in Oxford Reference Online )
• A Dictionary of Scientists (in Oxford Reference Online )
• Distinguished Women of Past and Present(site created by individual)
• Who's Who in the Twentieth Century(in Oxford Reference Online )
• WIC Biography Index (Women's International Center)
• Wilson Biographies Plus Illustrated(in Oxford Reference Online )

• Books
  • ACLS Humanities E-Book (Over 1,500 books of high quality in the field of history)
  • amazon.com, Search Books(large-scale retailer of books)
  • ClassicReader.com: Read Search, and Annotate the Classics
  • Global Books in Print
  • IPL Books Collection(free online texts collected by Internet Public Library )
  • The National Academies Press(free online texts on science, engineering and medicine)
  • netLibrary(e-books purchased through BCR [Bibliographical Center for Research] library services cooperative)
  • Making of America(books and journals ?/font> free online primary sources covering 1800-1925)
  • The Unbound Bible (collection of searchable Bibles)
  • Wichita State University Libraries, E-Books(major, free sources of online texts)
  • WorldCat(catalog of libraries world-wide)
• Book Reviews
  • ARBA Online(book reviews of reference works)
  • Book Review Digest

• A (in Dictionary of Weights, Measures, and Units Oxford Reference Online )
• Martindale's Calculators On-Line Center(collected links to calculators of any kind)
• Measure 4 Measure(collected links that estimate, calculate, evaluate, translate, etc.)

• Clocks(collected links from Galaxy web directory)
• Earth Calendar(a book of days for holidays and celebrations around the world)
• The Official U.S. Time (National Institute of Standards and Technology )
• Perpetual Calendar
• Timeticker(shows current time, by time zone)

• Compilations of sites, etc
  • Yahoo! Directory, Grammar, Usage, and Style > Internet Citation(collected links from Yahoo! search Directory of the web)
• American Psychological Association Citation/Style
  • APA Style.org, Electronic References(excerpted from American Psychological Association's Publication Manual, Fifth Edition)
  • Capital Community College, A Guide for Writing Research Papers Based on Styles Recommended by The American Psychological Association
• Chicago/Turabian Citation/Style
  • Online! a reference guide ..., Using Chicago Style to Cite and Document [Internet] Sources(based on The Chicago Manual of Style, Fourteenth Edition [not current edition])
• Modern Language Association Citation/Style
  • A Guide for Writing Research Papers Based on Modern Language Association (MLA) Documentation (Capital Community College)
  • Online! a reference guide ..., Using MLA Style to Cite and Document [Internet] Sources(based on MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 2003)
• Other Systems for Citation/Style
  • Columbia University Press, Basic CGOS [Columbia Guide to Online Style] Style
  • NARA, Publications, Citing Records in the National Archives of the United States(General Information Leaflet Number 17)
  • National Library of Medicine Recommended Formats for Bibliographic Citation, Supplement: Internet Formats(.PDF document, July 2001)
  • Online! a reference guide ..., Using CBE Style to Cite and Document [Internet] Sources(based on Scientific Style and Format: The CBE [Council of Biology Editors] Manual for Authors, Editors and Publishers, Sixth Edition) as used in natural sciences)

• Federal Citizen Information Center(National Contact Center for government related issues)

• Compilations of sites
  • Bartleby.com: Great Books Online, Reference
  • Google Directory, Dictionaries(collected links from Google Directory of the web)
  • LexiCool: Directory of Bilingual and Multilingual Dictionaries
  • Yahoo! Directory, Dictionaries(collected links from Yahoo! Directory of the web)
  • YourDictionary.com: The Last Word in Words(covers many world languages)
• General Encyclopedias
  • Encyclopedia Britannica Online)
  • Encyclopedia.com(articles from Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition)
  • MSN, Learning and Research: Encyclopedia Center from Encarta(Microsoft's Encarta)
  • World Book Online
• English Language Dictionaries
  see alsoLanguage and Literature , below
  • Bartleby.com ...The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language(Fourth Edition, 2002)
  • The Concise Oxford English Dictionary(in Oxford Reference Online )
  • Merriam-Webster Online: The Language Center
  • The Online Slang Dictionary: A Collaborative Project("open content," incorporating submissions from public)
  • Oxford English Dictionary(in Oxford Reference Online )
  • VOA: Voice of America, Pronunciation Guide(pronunciations of people, places, things in the news)
  • The Oxford American Dictionary of Current English(in Oxford Reference Online )
• Thesauri, etc.
  • Bartleby.com ... Roget's II: The New Thesaurus(Third Edition, 1995, Houghton Mifflin)
  • Getty, Research, Learn About the Getty Vocabularies(structured vocabularies for geographic names, art, etc.)
  • Merriam-Webster Online: The Language Center
  • The Oxford American Thesaurus of Current English (in Oxford Reference Online )
  • The Oxford Paperback Thesaurus (in Oxford Reference Online )
  • Web Thesaurus Compendium(links to thesauri and classification schemes, collected by a consultant for hire)
• English-Spanish Language Dictionaries
  • The Concise Oxford Spanish Dictionary (Spanish-English)(in Oxford Reference Online )
  • The Concise Oxford Spanish Dictionary (English -Spanish)(in Oxford Reference Online )
  • The Oxford Business Spanish Dictionary (English -Spanish)(in Oxford Reference Online )
  • The Oxford Business Spanish Dictionary (Spanish-English) (in Oxford Reference Online )
• English-French Language Dictionaries
  • The Concise Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary (English-French) (in Oxford Reference Online )
  • The Concise Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary (French-English) (in Oxford Reference Online )
  • French-English Dictionary(University of Chicago, project on Treasury of the French Language)
  • The Oxford Business French Dictionary (English-French)(in Oxford Reference Online )
  • The Oxford Business French Dictionary (French-English) (in Oxford Reference Online )
• English-German Language Dictionaries
  • The Concise Oxford-Duden German Dictionary (German-English) (in Oxford Reference Online )
  • German-English Dictionary(Technische University Chemnitz)
• English-Italian Language Dictionaries
  • The Pocket Oxford Italian Dictionary (English-Italian) (in Oxford Reference Online )
  • The Pocket Oxford Italian Dictionary (Italian-English) (in Oxford Reference Online )
• English-Latin Language Dictionaries
  • The Pocket Oxford Latin Dictionary (English-Latin) (in Oxford Reference Online )
  • The Pocket Oxford Latin Dictionary (Latin-English) (in Oxford Reference Online )
• Specialized Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
  see also Fine and Performing Arts , Geography and Maps, Health Sciences, Language and Literature, Law, Quotations, below

• The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics (in Oxford Reference Online )
• A Dictionary of Astronomy (in Oxford Reference Online )
• A Dictionary of Biology (in Oxford Reference Online )
• A Dictionary of Chemistry(in Oxford Reference Online )
• A Dictionary of Earth Sciences (in Oxford Reference Online )
• A Dictionary of Ecology (in Oxford Reference Online )
• A Dictionary of Physics (in Oxford Reference Online )
• A Dictionary of Plant Sciences (in Oxford Reference Online )
• A Dictionary of Statistics (in Oxford Reference Online )
• A Dictionary of Weather (in Oxford Reference Online )

• The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology(in Oxford Reference Online )
• The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics (in Oxford Reference Online )
• A Dictionary of Contemporary World History(in Oxford Reference Online )
• A Dictionary of Political Biography(in Oxford Reference Online )
• Dictionary of the Social Sciences(in Oxford Reference Online )
• A Dictionary of Sociology(in Oxford Reference Online )
• The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics(in Oxford Reference Online )
• The Oxford Guide to the United States Government (in Oxford Reference Online )

• Assorted Encyclopedias on the Web(collected links from an encyclopedia project of University of Einhoven)
• A Dictionary of First Names (in Oxford Reference Online )
• Encyclopedia Mythica: An encyclopedia on mythology, folklore, and legend
• ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science
• Symbols.com(online dictionary-like look up for graphic symbols)

• OAIster ... find the pearls(search portal for digital collections of electronic books, journals audio and image files, etc.)

• Associations
  see Associations, above
• Area Codes, Zip Codes, etc.
  • The Area Decoder(look up for telephone area codes, national and international)
  • United States Postal Service, Zip Code Look-Up and Address Information(includes zip+4 look-up)
• Federal Government
  see also WSU Subject Librarian's Government Information page
  • Federal Citizen Information Center(National Contact Center for government related issues)
  • Finding Military Personnel
• Finding People, Businesses, etc.
  • SBC, SMARTpages.com: Your Online Yellow Pages and More
  • AT&T, AnyWho Online Directory: Finding People, Places and Businesses(includes toll free, reverse telephone lookup)
  • SearchBug(includes reverse telephone and address lookup)
  • Switchboard.com(Yellow Pages)
  • Infobel.com(includes international telephone directories)
  • Search Systems(collected links to free searchable public records databases)
  • Verizon, SuperPages.com(Yellow Pages)
  • Yahoo! People Search(White Pages)

• Current Research @ Wichita State University: A Digital Library of Dissertations and Theses(hosted by UMI)
• Dissertation Abstracts Online

• College and University Rankings
• collegeboard.com (Scholastic Aptitude Test information)
• CollegeSource(college catalogs)
• National Center for Education Statistics
• Peterson's Guide to Colleges and Universities
• students.gov: student gateway to the U.S. Government

• The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists(in Oxford Reference Online )
• The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms(in Oxford Reference Online )
• The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music(in Oxford Reference Online )
• The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera(in Oxford Reference Online )
• The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre(in Oxford Reference Online )
• A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture(in Oxford Reference Online )
• A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art(in Oxford Reference Online )
• Grove Art Online(Grove Dictionary of Art, continuously updated)
• Grove Music Online(various Grove dictionaries of music, continuously updated)
• MRQE: Movie Review Query Engine(database of links to online reviews)
• The Oxford Dictionary of Art(in Oxford Reference Online )
• The Oxford Dictionary of Dance(in Oxford Reference Online )
• Performing Arts(in Oxford Reference Online )
• The Rap Dictionary(maintained by individual)
• Who's Who in Opera(in Oxford Reference Online )

• Family Search(Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints)
• Genealogy.com(basic genealogy glossary, with some how-to information)
• Gengateway.com
• Library of Congress, Other Internet Sources on Local History and Genealogy
• The Oxford Dictionary of Local and Family History(in Oxford Reference Online )

• Atlapedia Online(full color physical maps, etc.)
• A Dictionary of Geography(in Oxford Reference Online )
• A Dictionary of British Place-Names(in Oxford Reference Online )
• MapQuest(with driving directions)
• nationalatlas.gov(project of U.S. Geological Survey)
• NationalGeographic.com, Maps and Geography
• Quick Maps(commercial site)
• USGS, Maps of the United States(U.S. Geological Survey)
• University of Virginia Library, Collections, Maps and Geographic Data Collections
• UT Library Online, Perry-Casta馿da Library Map Collection(University of Texas at Austin)
• World Fact Book (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)

• The Oxford Guide to the United States Government(in Oxford Reference Online )
• The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military(in Oxford Reference Online )
• Catalog of U.S. Government Publications
• GPO Monthly Catalog
• MarciveWeb DOCS
• THOMAS Legislative

• Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance(covers fifteen types of assistance programs)
• Grants and Related Resources(Nonprofit Resource Guide: A Directory of Organizations of Interest to or Serving Nonprofits ? Michigan State University Libraries)
• discoveryschool.com, Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators, Business Sources and Grants (from Discovery Channel)
• U.S. Small Business Administration, Federal Grant Resources

• Aetna InteliHealth - featuring Harvard Medical School's Consumer Health Information
• American Association for Cancer Research
• American Institute for Cancer Research
• Concise Medical Dictionary(in Oxford Reference Online )
• An A-Z of Food and Drink(in Oxford Reference Online )
• An A-Z of Medicinal Drugs (in Oxford Reference Online )
• A Dictionary of Nursing(in Oxford Reference Online )
• drkoop.com
• A Dictionary of Food and Nutrition(in Oxford Reference Online )
• Food and Fitness: A Dictionary of Diet and Exercise(in Oxford Reference Online )
• Health and Wellness
• Health Central
• Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research
• Medline (PubMed public interface to major medical research tool)
• Medscape from WebMD
• MeL: Michigan eLibrary, Health Information Resources
• US Department of Health and Human Services: National Institutes of Health
• WebMD Health

• Compilations of Sites
  • Blue Skyways: A Service of Kansas State Library(links to Kansas communities, libraries, government and education resources)
  • The Official Web Site of the State of Kansas: Kansas.gov(state portal, including links to State agencies, boards and commissions, telephone directory)
  • StateInformation.com, Kansas (unofficial state agency portal)
• Government Information
  • 50 state.com, Kansas(basic Kansas information)
  • FindLaw for Legal Professionals, State Resources > Kansas
  • Kansas Legislature(includes searchable full text of bills, state session laws, unannotated statutes)
  • Kansas, Office of the Governor
  • Kansas Supreme Court/Kansas Court of Appeals Opinions(court cooperative project with Washburn University School of Law Library and University of Kansas School of Law Library)
  • LexisOne, The Resource for Small Law Firms, Legal Web Site Directory, Kansas(Kansas legal information)
  • Washlaw, State Information for Kansas(Kansas legal information)
• Statistics
  • ERS, Economic Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture(includes for Kansas and other states "State Fact Sheets," which contain information on population, income and various agriculture-related statistics)
  • Institute for Policy & Social Research, The University of Kansas(Census 2000 ?Kansas Data, Kansas Quarterly Economic Indicators, etc.)
  • Kansas Statistical Abstract

• English as a Second Language
  • Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab(listening quizzes, exercises, conversation)
• English Language Reference
  • Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language(in Oxford Reference Online )
  • The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology(in Oxford Reference Online )
  • A New Dictionary of Eponyms(in Oxford Reference Online )
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Idioms(in Oxford Reference Online )
  • The Oxford Essential Dictionary of Foreign Terms in English(in Oxford Reference Online )
• Grammar, Usage
  • Guide to Grammar and Writing(Capital Community College, with tutorials, etc.)
  • The Jargon Dictionary
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Abbreviations(in Oxford Reference Online )
  • The Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar(in Oxford Reference Online )
  • Pocket Fowler's Modern English Usage (in Oxford Reference Online )
• Literature
  • The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature(in Oxford Reference Online )
  • The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature(in Oxford Reference Online )
  • The Concise Oxford Companion to Classical Literature(in Oxford Reference Online )
  • The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature(in Oxford Reference Online )
  • The Concise Oxford Companion to Irish Literature(in Oxford Reference Online )
  • The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms(in Oxford Reference Online )
  • A Dictionary of Shakespeare(in Oxford Reference Online )
  • A Dictionary of Writers and their Works(in Oxford Reference Online )
  • The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry in English(in Oxford Reference Online )
• Phrase and Fable
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs (in Oxford Reference Online )
  • 苨op's Fables Online
• Usage, Style, Composition
  • Bartleby.com: Great Books Online, English Usage, Style and Composition(including out-of-date editions of The American Heritage Book of English Usage, The Elements of Style and The King's English)
  • The Oxford Dictionary of American Usage and Style(in Oxford Reference Online )
  • refdesk.com, My Facts Page, Grammar, Usage, and Style(compiled links)

• A Dictionary of Law
• FindLaw (major portal to find sources of law on the web)
• HierosGamos (portal to find sources of law on the web)
• LexisNexis Academic(under Legal Research, comprehensive Federal and state resources)
• LexisOne, The Resource for Small Law Firms
• LII: Legal Information Institute(reliable resource for retrieving wide range of legal materials, created by Cornell Law School)
• The Oxford Guide to United States Supreme Court Decisions(in Oxford Reference Online )

• GPO Access, Locate a Federal Depository Library(Federal government publications are available for free public use in Federal Depository Libraries throughout the United States)
• NARA Presidential Libraries(National Archives and Records Administration)
• NCES: National Center for Education Statistics, Library Statistics Programs, Public Library Locator(Institute for Education Studies, U.S. Department of Education)
• Public Libraries.com: Your guide to all public libraries and beyond(with links to national, state and university libraries)

• Find Articles(free archive of full-text articles from LookSmart search engine)
• Making of America(books and journals ?/font> free online primary sources covering 1800-1925)
• OCLC, Available periodical titles in FirstSearch(generates lists of titles, searchable by title, ISSN, etc.)
• PubList(free online magazines, journals, newsletters, etc.)

• Barleby.com ... Familiar Quotations: A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature, Compiled by John Bartlett(Tenth Edition, 1919)
• Bartleby.com ... Simpson's Contemporary Quotations, The Most Notable Quotations, 1950 -1980, Compiled by James B, Simpson(1988)
• The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations(in Oxford Reference Online )
• The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations(in Oxford Reference Online )

• FedStats: The gateway to statistics from over 100 U.S. Federal agencies
• LexisNexis Statistical(sources include American Statistics Index, Statistics Reference Index, etc.)
• Statistics.com(commercial site)
• STAT-USA(U.S. Department of Commerce)
• University of Michigan Documents Center, Statistical Resources on the Web
• U.S. Census Bureau, American FactFinder

• StartSpot Network(in-depth web portal for various subject areas, "spots")

• MIT Libraries, Virtual Reference Collection
• Purdue University Libraries, Quick Reference List
• 101 Free Online Collaborative Learning Tools
• Teacher Resources: Library of Congress