Milner Library Reference Shelf A - D

Almanacs

Infoplease.com Almanac
Provides searching of the Information Please Almanacs on sports, entertainment, and general knowledge with the Infoplease Dictionary and the Columbia Encyclopedia 5th Edition.

Calendar Zone
Connections to every type and variety of calendar available on the Internet. Categories of calendars include celestial, historic, cultural, daily, event, holiday, and religious.

Old Farmer's Almanac
Covers astronomical events, weather, and gardening information.

World Factbook
Useful information on countries, including statistical information and outline maps.

Associations

Associations on the Net (Internet Public Library)
Directory of Internet sites for professional and trade associations, cultural organizations, political parties, advocacy groups, academic societies, and research institutions.

Foundation Center
Directory of foundations with links to homepages and downloadable information such as grant applications and financial reports.

Biographies

Biography.com (A&E)
Searchable online database of 20,000 people--past and present--with brief information on each.

Colleges & Universities

American Universities
Alphabetical list of U.S. university homepages.

CollegeNet
Connections to web sites of four-year, technical, junior, and graduate colleges. Students are able to search for institutions by location, tuition, enrollment, and major. Also contains links to information on financial aid, scholarships, and other college information.

Petersons.com: Education Supersite
Includes information about educational programs at all levels and provides searchable databases of colleges and academic programs.

U.S. News and World Report: College
Over 1400 colleges and universities are searchable by rankings, best values, location, and other criteria at this site. Includes information about financial aid, careers for graduates, and application procedures.

U.S. News and World Report: Graduate School
Guide to graduate schools including program descriptions, admission requirements, application procedures, rankings, and more.

Web U.S. Higher Education
Comprehensive state and alphabetical connections to home pages of U.S. universities, colleges, and community colleges.

Yahoo: Higher Education
Indexes listing community colleges, honors programs, graduate programs, educational organizations, distance learning, plus access to home pages of individual schools.

Consumer Information

Better Business Bureau
Find local Better Business Bureaus, company reports, how to file a customer complaint, and other consumer services.

Consumerworld
Offers over 2000 of the most useful consumer resources available, including information on air fare prices, wholesale prices of automobiles, and how to file a customer complaint.

FirstGov for Consumers  
This is a one-stop resource for consumer information from the Federal Government.  It also contains ScamAlert! providing current information on fraudulent and deceptive practices in the marketplace.  This feature appears on each page, as necessary, and contains tips how to avoid scams.  In the Spotlight showcases new education and consumer awareness campaigns and other items of significant interest.

Dictionaries & Encyclopedias

Acronym Finder
Search for acronyms, abbreviations and initialisms in over 480,000 entries.

AskOxford
Provides a link to the Oxford English Dictionary as well as to other reference sources, word games, and writing aids.

Duhaime's Law Dictionary
Easy to use and understand dictionary of legal terms.

Encyclopædia Britannica
Online version of the complete 32-volume encyclopedia.

FreeTranslation.com
Translate text from English into ten languages and from seven foreign languages into English.

Lexicool.com
A directory of bilingual and multilingual dictionaries.

RhymeZone
A rhyming dictionary plus options for finding synonyms, antonymns, homophones, quotations and other language variations.

Sign Language Dictionary Online
Actual people signing words along with written instructions and some mnemonic aids.

Web of On-line Dictionaries
Includes links to 300 language dictionaries and numerous speciality dictionaries.