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OAIster

OAIster (Open Archives Initiative) is a digital resources include items such as:electronic books online journals audio files (e.g., wav, mp3) images (e.g., tiff, gif) movies (e.g., mpeg, quicktime) reference texts (e.g., dictionaries, directories). more==>

General

Collections of links to general information websites, e.g. phone directories, maps, calendars, etc.

INFOMINE: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections

The Internet Collegiate Reference Collection

Library Spot

Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection

Reference Shelf

Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Almanacs and Directories

The Acronym Finder

American Heritage Dictionary

CIA World Factbook

Information and statistics about countries collected by the CIA.

Farmer's Almanac

Global Statistics

Statistics on human populations worldwide

Information Please Almanac

Online version of the almanac. Includes dictionary, encyclopedia, and atlas

Merriam-Webster Online

Microsoft Encarta Concise Encyclopedia

Includes encyclopedia, dictionary and atlas

Occupational Outlook Handbook

Online version of familiar directory

Onelook Dictionary Search

Quotations

Familiar quotations from various sources

YourDictionary.com

English plus over 260 foreign language and over 80 specialty dictionaries

Grammar and Composition

see also: Style Guides

Common Errors in English

Guide to Grammar and Style

OWL Online Writing Laboratory

Paradigm Online Writing Assistant

Strunk and White's Elements of Style

Statistics

AmeriStat

One-stop spurce for U.S. population data.

The Population Profile of the United States

The Population Profile of the United States: 2000 (Internet Release) is the first Internet-only version of this U.S. Census Bureau product. It includes data from surveys conducted in 2000 and earlier, as well as some limited Census 2000 data.
The Population Profile of the United States: 2000 is an attempt to provide the public with updated information in the years in which a print version is not issued. While not all chapters a few have not been updated, the report provides the most recent information on each topic as of October 2001. Some chapters have been expanded to include information that was not available in the last publication.

STATS

The Statistical Assessment Service (STATS) is a non-partisan, non-profit research organization in Washington, D.C. STATS is devoted to the accurate use of scientific and social research in public policy debate.

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