THE VIRTUAL REFERENCE DESK
maintained by Michael
Epstein, Electronic Resources Coordinator, Copley Library
A-C / D-F / G-I
/ J-S / T-Z
This is only a partial listing. More complete
listings include:
Internet
Public Library Ready Reference Collection
RefDesk.Com
The Reference
Desk (Michigan Electronic Library)
A-C
- Almanac, Information
Please - basic facts on many topics
- American Memory
- Library of Congress Historical Collections
- Annual Report
Gallery - links to over 2,000 company annual reports, including most of
the Fortune 500
- Digital
Atlas of California (CSU- Northridge) - digitized images of Los Angeles,
San Diego, and San Francisco
- Bartleby.com -
thesauri, quotations, dictionaries, etiquette, mythology reference works
- Biography Resource
Center - (limited to USD users only) - 180,000+ biographies for
all fields and periods
- Books In Print
- (limited to USD users only) In-print, out-of-print,
and forthcoming books, audios and videos.
- Britannica Online - Web version of Encyclopedia Britannica.
- Citing
Sources on the Internet- several styles to choose from (available from
SDSU).
- College Source
- over 8,800 college and university catalogs 1994-present (requires
Adobe Acrobat to view)
D-F
G-I
J-S
- Jake (Yale
University Library) - indicates where a particular journal is indexed
- Kelley Blue Book (values
of new and Used Cars)
- LIBWEB
- Libraries in over 70 countries on the World Wide Web
- Literature Resource
Center - a full-text database with biographical and critical texts on
writers of all periods/nations
- Maps
of the U.S. and the world
- Medline
Plus - Health Information - information on drugs, diseases, health
practitioners, etc. for the layperson
- Newspaper
archives on the Web - links to full-text web versions of newspapers and
their backfiles
- North
American Industry Classification System (NAICS)
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- Oxford
Dictionary of National Biography An illustrated collection of
50,000 specially written biographies of the men and women who shaped
all aspects of Britain's past, from the fourth century BC to the year
2000. Note: This database allows only one simultaneous user
at a time. When finished please click on the logout button located
in the upper right corner of the screen.
- Oxford English
Dictionary (restricted to USD students, faculty, staff)
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- Oxford
Scholarship Online - Oxford Scholarship Online is
a groundbreaking online resource, combining OUP's core scholarly books
in four disciplines (Economics and Finance, Philosophy, Political Science
and Religion and Theology) and powerful research tools into one cross-indexed,
fully searchable database. With 926 classic and newly published titles
now available, OSO will be updated quarterly with an additional 200
titles added each year.
- PubList - an
electronic directory of over 150,000 magazines, journals, newsletters and
other periodicals
- PubMed Central
- PubMed Central is a digital archive of life sciences journal literature
managed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the
U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). It is not a journal publisher.
Access to PubMed Central (PMC) is free and unrestricted.
- Publishers'
Catalogs home page (worldwide)
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- Routledge
Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online - A fully searchable and extensively
cross-referenced dynamic Web version of the original encyclopedia.
Includes more than 2000 articles covering Anglo-American, ethical and
political, cross-cultural, interdisciplinary, continental and contemporary
philosophy
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- Routledge
Religion Resource - Provides online access to the
best reference titles on Religion in a single fully searchable and
extensively cross-referenced resource. With some 14,000 pages of content,
this site comprises thousands of authoritative, signed articles on
world religions, the sociology of religion, and the history of religion.
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- San
Diego Business Directory - Inside Prospects - Provides
the only locally compiled database of businesses for San Diego.
- SciTechResources
- A catalog of government science and technology Web sites.
- SIC
Codes (Standard Industrial Classification) and SOC
Codes (Standard Occupational Classification)
- Stanford Encyclopedia
of Philosophy - The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is a dynamic reference
work and is a publishing project of the Metaphysics Research Lab at the Center
for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI) at Stanford University.
- Statistical
Abstract of the United States (U.S. Census Bureau)
- Statistical
Resources on the World Wide Web - Univ. of Michigan Library
- Style
Manuals (examples of how to cite from Turabian, MLA, CBE, Chicago and
APA) - courtesy of Bucknell and OSU University Libraries
T-Z
- Tax
Forms (Federal)
- Tax
Forms (California)
- Tax
Forms (Other States)
- Ticker Symbol
Lookup (Yahoo)
- Thomas Register
of American Manufacturers including links to company catalogs (requires
free membership)
- Transit Information
(San Diego County Bus and Trolley Schedules and Information)
- Ulrich's Periodical
Directory - (limited to USD users only) provides
publication information for magazines, journals, newsletters, newspapers,
and other periodicals. Coverage is international in scope.
- Visual
Collections: Images of art, history and culture View maps, fine
artwork, photographs and other items from over thirty renowned collections.
Search for a particular artist, time period, or medium, and use powerful tools to
zoom, pan, view image data and save groups of images.
- Weights
and measures
- World
Factbook (Central Intelligence Agency) - basic social, statistical, and
economic iinformation about countries
- Xreferplus-
xreferplus is a digital reference library containing hundreds of high-quality
reference books from the world's leading publishers. xreferplus offers
access to millions of individual entries and contains all types of reference
books including dictionaries, encyclopedias, thesauri, books of quotations
and atlases. It also includes thousands of images and audio files, together
with subject-specific titles covering everything from the arts to astronomy
and science to Shakespeare.
- ZIP code directory
from US Postal Service
Last updated: July 15, 2005