References
Yahoo Reference ...dictionary, encyclopedia, quotations, and world facts
The Info Service: A huge collection, with more than 14,000 links covering 230 subjects.
Writer's Free Reference - List of free reference sites useful to writers.
Twelve Common Errors - Use this checklist as a list of reminders while you are editing your paper.
Grammar Slammer - This help file indexes style and usage, capitalization, abbreviations, punctuation, letter writing, common mistakes and a grammar glossary.
DMOZ Open Directory Project ...comprehensive collection of links to reference works available online
Alpha Dictionary.com - Offers a variety of services including custom dictionaries, translation services and word databases. Capable of searching 1065 online English dictionaries at once.
General dictionaries and glossaries indexed by the OneLook® search engine
Online Dictionaries, Glossaries and Encyclopedias - annotated listing of dictionaries, glossaries and encyclopedias that have some sort of version online
The FreeDictionary.Com - The world's most comprehensive dictionary: English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Chinese, Portuguese, Dutch, Norwegian, Greek, Arabic, Polish, Turkish, Russian, Medical, Legal, and Financial Dictionaries, Thesaurus, Acronyms and Abbreviations, Idioms, Encyclopedia, a Literature Reference Library, and a Search Engine all in one!
Infoplease - Combines contents of encyclopedia, dictionary, and up-to-the minute almanacs loaded with statistics, facts, and historical records. Places the resources of an entire reference information center at your fingertips.
Library Spot.com - Online library resources
Digital Librarian - librarian's choice for best of the Web
GovSpot.com - U.S. government, state government, Congress, government jobs & more.
Bright Planet - deep web research
Infomine - scholarly internet resource collections
50 States - Find facts, stats, the history, leaders, and geography of each state
Repositories of Primary Sources - A listing of over 5000 websites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary sources for the research scholar. All links have been tested for correctness and appropriateness.
American Fact Finder - source for population, housing, economic, and geographic information
THE CAMELOT PROJECT is designed to make available in electronic format a database of Arthurian texts, images, bibliographies, and basic information
ClichéSite.com - a list of over 2100 clichés, euphemisms, sayings and figures of speech complete with definitions and explanations.
The Book of Clichés - phrases to say in times of trouble
Resources for writing RESEARCH PAPERS
Writing the Academic Paper (from Dartmouth)
Bibliomania - more than 2000 free texts, study guides and reference resources
Grandiloquent Dictionary - an ongoing project to collect and distribute the most obscure and rare words in the English language.
The List of Lists is a database of ranked listings of companies, people and resources freely available on the Internet.
WorldStatesmen.org - an online encyclopedia of the leaders of nations and territories. The goal of this site is to provide readers with detailed lists of leaders, chronologies, flags, national anthems and maps to give an overview of polities past and present.
Research-It! - links to all major search engines
Synonym.com is the web's best resource for English synonyms, antonyms, and definitions.
Etymological Dictionary - Etymologies are not definitions; they're explanations of what our words meant and how they sounded 600 or 2,000 years ago.
LitQuotes - Quotes from Literature
Dictionary of American Regional English - Documents varieties of English that are not found everywhere in the United States ó words, pronunciations and phrases that vary from one region to another.
Middle English Dictionary - 15,000 pages of medieval scholarship. Comprehensive analysis of lexicon and usage for the period 1100-1500. Largest collection of this kind available. Searchable.
Slanguage.com - A fun site that helps you pronounce words in a huge variety of languages and locations around the world while laughing a lot at the same time.
VoyCabulary - A convenient and speedy way to look up words without disrupting your normal web browsing. It makes words on web pages, or those you type in, into links so you can click on any word to look it up on the spot. Also provides online dictionaries, thesauri, and word translators.
Webopedia - Does computer language confuse you? Try this dictionary and search engine for computer and Internet terminology.
Beastly Garden of Wordy Delights - OK, so you know it is a 'herd' of buffalo, but what is the collective noun for bats? Jellyfish? Toads? You'll find the answers here, along with other fascinating information about nouns and adjectives and a smattering of humor.
Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable comprises over 18,000 entries that reveal the etymologies, trace the origins and otherwise catalog “words with a tale to tell.”
Phrase Finder - Meanings and origins of over 1200 English sayings, phrases and idioms, and a large searchable archive.
Encyclopedia Mythica - Encyclopedia of mythology, folklore, legends, and much more; over 7000 entries on gods, goddesses, heroes, legendary creatures and other beings from all over the world.
Librarians' Index to the Internet - A well-organized point of access for reliable, trustworthy, librarian-selected Internet resources. From here you can directly search various search engines and other major reference sources
Biography.com - Companion site to A&E's "Biography" TV series: Search database of over 25,000 biographies. Includes a Born on this Day feature, a listing of top 10 bios, discussion forums, and a Classroom section for students and teachers.
Common Errors in English - Paul Brian's 2006 Common Errors in English Usage, arranged alphabetically.
English Usage, Style, & Composition — A collection of reference works at Bartleby.com, including American Heritage, Strunk & White, Fowler's King's English, and other indispensable public-domain works. Worth a bookmark.
The Punctuation Guide - A brief guide to correct English punctuation.