Reference Sites

General Reference

• Online Dictionaries - see also OneLook
• Online Thesaurus
• Encyclopedia Britannica Online
• University of McGill Library - Reference Pages
• About.Com - formerly The Mining Co.
• - all kinds of stuff
• Information Please - "all the information you need"
• xrefer - search multiple reference sources
• Probert Encyclopedia
• Martindale's 'The Reference Desk'
• Librarians' Index to the Internet
• BUBL LINK - selected internet resources, catalogued by topic and by Dewey Decimal classification
• Collection Index at ibiblio
• CompletePlanet - search the hidden Web
• - another hidden Web search tool
• WebData - a database portal
• Gimpsy - objective-based web searching
• WWW Virtual Library
• INFOMINE Internet Resource Collections
• Searchable databases at Lycos Directory
• direct search - Invisible Web Resources. See also Virtual Acquisition Shelf and News Desk
• Canadian Information by subject - National Library of Canada site
• Canada's Digital Collections
• Australia's Digital Collections
• Library Spot at Start Spot
• Finding Dulcinea - a topical library of internet resources
• OAIster - a catalog of digital resources
• HotBot - Reference
• Yahoo - Reference
• Library & Archives of Canada
• Intute - searchable index of reference sites
• The Old Farmer's Almanac
• The Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• the Internet Archive - "surf the Net as it was"
• Pandora - Australia's Web Archive
• TechEncyclopedia
• Guide to Life, The Universe and Everything - a guide to Earth based on the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Specialized Tools

Travel Information