Quick Reference Tools

Acronym Finder

http://www.acronymfinder.com/

Searchable database containing common acronyms and abbreviations.

Onelook.com

http://www.onelook.com/

Searches for words or acronyms in over 460 dictionaries

ABA LawInfo

http://www.abalawinfo.org/

Access to law information on subjects such as family, home, job, finances, buying and selling,criminal justice, and finding a lawyer.

Kelley Blue Book

http://www.kbb.com/

Recalls and Product Safety

http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prerel.html

U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission list of product recalls and safety information.

Full Universal Currency Converter

http://www.xe.net/ucc/full.shtml

What's a Dollar Worth?

http://www.minneapolisfed.org/research/data/us/calc/

Federal Reserve Bank service that calculates CPI values across the years.

Copyright

United States Copyright Office

http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/

Copyright and Fair Use

http://fairuse.stanford.edu/

Copyright Information Center

http://www.copyright.cornell.edu/

Copyright and Intellectual Property

http://www.arl.org/info/frn/copy/copytoc.html

Georgetown University Copyright Information

http://www.georgetown.edu/home/copyright.html

Patents

DNA Patent Database

http://dnapatents.georgetown.edu/

ESP@CENET: Europe's Network of Patent Databases

http://gb.espacenet.com/

European Union - Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market: Trademarks and Designs

http://oami.eu.int/

Free Patents Online

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/

Google Patents

http://www.google.com/patents

United States Patent and Trademark Office

http://www.uspto.gov/

Background Notes

http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/

From the US State Department, information on countries and international organizations.

CDC

http://www.cdc.gov/

Healthfinder

http://www.healthfinder.org/

from the US government; links to selected online resources, as well as the government agencies and not-for-profit organizations

Mayo Clinic Oasis

http://www.mayohealth.org/

Medline Plus

http://medlineplus.gov/

provides access to reviewed, authoritative information about nearly 400 diseases and conditions, a medical encyclopedia, medical dictionaries, lists of hospitals and physicians, health information in Spanish, and information about prescription and nonprescription drugs.

Physician Select

http://www.ama-assn.org/aps/amahg.htm

From the AMA, provides information on licensed physicians. All physician credential data have been verified for accuracy and authenticated.

RxList: the Internet Drug Index

http://www.rxlist.com/

Provides information for over 500 prescription drugs.

All the World's Maps

http://www.embassyworld.com/maps/maps.html

National Atlas of the United States

http://www.nationalatlas.gov/index.html

Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/Map_collection.html

Political maps of the world, with a focus on Latin America.

Thesaurus of Geographical Names

Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection

Common Weights and Measures

http://chemistry.berkeley.edu/links/weights/index.html

Measurement Conversion Calculator

http://www.convertit.com/

American Rhetoric

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations

http://www.bartleby.com/people/BartlettJon.html

Quotations Archive

http://www.aphids.com/quotes/index.shtml

Quotations Page

http://www.starlingtech.com/quotes/

Calendar Conversions

http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/calendar/

Roman Numeral Date Conversion

http://www2.inetdirect.net/~charta/Roman_numerals.html

Sun, Moon Rise, and Set Calculator

http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/

World Clock

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/

American Universities

http://www.clas.ufl.edu/CLAS/american-universities.html

America's Best Graduate Schools

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/beyond/bchome.htm

Braintrack University Index

http://www.braintrack.com/

Institute of International Education

http://www.iiepassport.org/

Peterson's

http://www.petersons.com/