Reference Desk
From SJCPLSubjectGuides
- Dictionaries & Thesauri
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- American Heritage English Dictionary
- Cambridge Klett Compact French-English Dictionary
- Cambridge Klett Compact Spanish-English Dictionary
- IM (Instant Messaging) & Computer Dictionary
- Medical Dictionary
- Merriam-Webster English Dictionary and Thesaurus
- OneLook Dictionary & Reverse Dictionary
- Roget's Thesauri
- Thesaurus.com
- Encyclopedias
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- Columbia Encyclopedia
- Ethnologue: Encyclopedia of Languages
- Wikipedia
- World Book Online database
- help sheet
- General Reference
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- Bartleby's Full-text Reference Works
- Know Play: dictionary, thesaurus, encyclopedia, quotations, atlas, countries, artists, & acronyms
- Nation Master: compare nations
- Old Farmer's Almanac
- Internet (not search tools)
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- How can I find out who owns a web page Domain Name?
- What did a certain web page look like last year? Try Wayback Machine.
- Internet Archive includes text, moving images, audio, and software.
- Maps & Directions
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- Google Earth
- Google Maps
- MapQuest
- MultiMap
- Yahoo! Maps
- Online Books
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- Google Books
- Online Books from the University of Pennsylvania
- Project Gutenberg
- Search Engines & Subject Lists
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- All the Web
- Altavista
- Ask.com (formerly "Ask Jeeves")
- Clusty by Vivisimo
- dmoz
- Dogpile
- Google
- Internet Public Library
- Librarians' Internet Index
- Lycos
- Virtual Library - a subject list
- Yahoo!
