C O N T E N T S

1. Reference Materials
• Databases
• Desktop References
• Dictionaries
• Encyclopedias
• Maps
• Snail Mail. and Telephone
• Travel
• Other
2. Writing Tools

Databases

• 1996 Statistical Abstract - from the U.S. Census Bureau
• GaleNet Databases - for U-M personnel access
• Contemporary Authors - bio-bibliographical guide to current writers
• Encyclopedia of Associations - detailed descriptions of some 140,000 membership organizations
• Gale Directory of Databases - detailed descriptions of nearly 11,000 publicly available databases
• Research Centers - detailed descriptions of more than 30,000 research organizations
• World Factbook 1994 - a very rich collection of international data (from the CIA)

Desktop References

• Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
• Information Please Almanac - for U-M personnel
• Roget's Thesaurus
• Roget's Thesaurus

Dictionaries

• American Heritage Dictionary - for U-M personnel
• Computing Dictionary

Foreign Language Dictionaries
• English <-> Czech
• English <-> Esperanto
• English <-> Finnish
• English <-> French
• English <-> German - gopher
• English <-> Hungarian
• English <-> Japanese
• English <-> Russian
• English <-> Slovene
• Oxford English Dictionary - for U-M personnel
• Webster's Dictionary

Encyclopedias

• Britannica Online- a demonstration of the online encyclopedia
• Grolier's Encyclopedia (Encyclopedia Americana) - preliminary edition, for U-M personnel access

Maps

• Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection - hundreds of historical maps, from University of Texas

Road atlases - zoom in on your house
• MapQuest
• Yahoo! Maps
• World Time Zones
• Xerox PARC Map Viewer - line-art maps

Snail Mail and Telephone

• AT&T 800 Directory
• BigBook - comprehensive yellow pages for U.S.
• What Does Your Phone Number Spell? - enter your phone number, get a list of words
• X.500 Directory - the Web version of the directory
• YellowNet - addresses and phone numbers of 10 million U.S. businesses
• Zip Code Search - type the street address, get the nine-digit Zip

Travel

• City.Net - international guide to communities around the world
• CNN Travel Guide
• Corporate Rate Hotel Directory
• Currency Converter
• Fodor's - travel guides
• Microsoft Expedia - all the travel information you'll need

Other

• AskERIC - education resource directory
• Births and Deaths - on today's date
• Constitutions, Statutes and Codes - from the Cornell Law School
• Dissertation Abstracts - University Microfilms International
• Flags of the World - graphics you can paste into your documents
• Flags of the 18th and 19th Century
• Fortune 500 - with complete data
• Inaugural Addresses - every address of every president
• Internet Public Library - your 24-hour reference desk run by U-M students
• StockMaster - delayed intraday quotes and one-year historical graphs on most U.S. Equities
• Web Elements - a periodic table of the elements

• Elements of Style (Strunk) - the classic writing reference, online
• Grammar, Punctuation, and Capitalization:

A Handbook for Technical Writers and Editors - an excellent online guide, from NASA
• Chapter 3: Punctuation
• Chapter 4: Capitalization
• Purdue University Writing Lab
• Rensselaer Writing Center
• Undergrad Writing Center - University of Texas-Austin
• Writers on the Net - they will help you with your writing