Quick Reference Links
Bookstores and Used Books
- Abebooks: huge used book database made up of many individual bookstores
- Alibris: another large used book database
- Amazon: one of the largest online bookstores
- Barnes & Noble: large US bookstore chain
- BC Books
- Bibliofind: used book database, associated with Amazon
- Bolen Books
- Chapters-Indigo: large Canadian bookstore
- Munro Books
- WHSmith: online British bookstore
Dictionaries
- American Heritage Dictionary
- Cambridge Dictionaries Online
- Dictionary.com and Thesaurus.com
- Merriam-Webster: dictionary/thesaurus, the unabridged dictionary is only available with a subscription
- Parliamentary Procedure Glossary: from the Canadian Parliament
- Visual Dictionary Online
- Wordsmyth: a dictionary/thesaurus, can search definitions
- YourDictionary.com: dictionary/thesaurus
Encyclopedias
- Canadian Encyclopedia
- Columbia Encyclopedia: 6th edition, see Encyclopedia.com below
- Encyclopedia.com: based on the Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th edition
- Encyclopedia Britannica 1911 edition: a classic edition
- Information Please: an wide-ranging almanac
- Wikipedia: free, open-source encyclopedia
Quotations
Note: none of the online sources are nearly as good as a decent quotations book
- Barlett's Familiar Quotations: the 1919 edition
- Columbia World of Quotations
- Quote World
- Quoteland.com: quotes by author and topic
- Simpson's Contemporary Quotations: 1950-1988
Statistics
- Australian Bureau of Statistics
- BC Stats
- DataPlace: American housing and demographic data
- FedStats: gateway to statistics from US government agencies
- FRED: Federal Reserve Economic Data
- GDSourcing: links to Canadian statistical sources, arranged by subject
- Global Statistics: a wide variety of international statistics
- Infonation: country comparisons, from the UN's cyberschoolbus
- Invest BC: includes statistics information for BC communities
- OECD.Stat Extracts
- OFFSTATS: Official Statistics on the Web
- Statistics Canada
- Canada Year Book
- Canada Year Book Historical Collection
- Estat: a large collection of Canadian statistics
- A Guide to Finding 2001 Census Data: from Carleton University
- A Guide to Finding 2006 Census Data: from Carleton University
- Index of Downloadable Statistics Canada Publications: only accessible from within the library
- Studies by Stats Can: search analytical studies, research papers, series, and periodicals
- UN data: A world of information: Over 55 million records from the United Nations Statistics
- UNECE's Gender Statistics
- United Kingdom National Statistics
- United Nations Population Information Network
- United States Census Bureau
Other Ready Reference
- Acronym Finder
- Babelfish Translation: online translation of text or web pages; far from perfect, but it often gives enough to get a general idea
- Martindale's Calculators Online
- Calendar Zone
- Convert Me: easy to use conversion site
- Dictionary of Measures, Units and Conversions
- FXConverter: currency converter
- Guide to Lists of Acronyms, Abbreviations, and Initialisms
- Internet Archive Wayback Machine: stores web pages as they used to look
- MegaConverter
- Research and Documentation Online: APA, MLA, Chicago and CSE style guides
- Scientific and Technical Acronyms, Symbols and Abbreviations
- Sources: directory of expert contacts and media spokespersons
- Stands4.com: acronyms and abbreviations
- Time Zone Converter
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