Reference Shelf

General Reference Tools Biological Suppliers Encyclopedias and Dictionaries Evaluating Resources

Journal Abbreviations Style Manuals Telephone, Address, E-mail, & Zip Code Directories Web Search Tools

General Reference Tools

• Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
• BioABACUS [Biotechnology Abbreviation & Acronym Uncovering Service] 
• CIA World Factbook 
• Conversion Tools [Science Made Simple, Inc.] 
• CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics 
• Encyclopedia of Associations 
• Information Please Almanac 
• Journal Citation Reports 
• Periodic Table of the Elements 
• Peterson's Guide to Graduate Schools 
• Publishers' Catalogs (Geographical)
• Publishers' Catalogs (by subject)
• Roget's Thesaurus 
• US Census Bureau: Historical Statistical Abstracts 
• United States Statistical Abstracts 

Biological Suppliers

• ACS Labguide Directory 
• BioSupplyNet 
• LabVelocity [was Biowire]: analytical tools and reviews of research products 
• Microbiology and Virology Suppliers 

Encyclopedias and Dictionaries

• Biotech's Life Science Dictionary 
• Combined Chemical Dictionary 
• Dictionary of Abbreviations and Acronyms in Geographic Information 
• Dictionary of Cell Biology 
• Encyclopedia Americana Online
• Encyclopedia Britannica Online  
• Glossary of Genetic Terms [National Human Genome Res. Inst.] 
• Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia 
• Hypermedia Glossary of Genetic Terms [Birgid Schlindwein] 
• Language Dictionaries and Translators 
• McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology (AccessScience) 
• Merck Index 
• MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Sciences 
• Oxford English Dictionary (OED) 
• Systems, Cartography, and Remote Sensing 
• Translation Services and Directory 
• Web of On-line Dictionaries 
• Webster Interface (Dictionary) 

Evaluating Resources

• Critical Evaluation of Resouces [Teaching Library] 
• Evaluating Web Pages [Teaching Libary] 

Journal Abbreviations

• Biological Journals And Abbreviations
• Biological and Chemical Journal Abbreviations

Style Manuals

• Citation Styles, Style Guides, and Avoiding Plagiarism [Teaching Library]
• Online! Citation Styles [Bedford/St. Martin's]

Telephone, Address, E-mail, & Zip Code Directories

• AT&T Directories: People or businesses by name, street, city/state or phone number.
• EmbassyWorld.com: Postal codes, post offices, and more.
• Infobel.com: Information and services for 184 countries.
• UC Phone Directories
• Universities Worldwide: Over 6500 universities in 172 countries, including a section for the United States.
• US Postal Service Address & Zip Code Information 
• World of Learning 

Web Search Tools

• Evaluating Web Pages [Teaching Library, UC Berkeley] 
• Find Web Sites : [Teaching Library, UC Berkeley] 

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