Internet Writing Resources

Internet Writing Resource Links

Internet Libraries

The Internet Public Library - Reference Center. Ready Reference Collection

http://www.ipl.org/ref/

Reference Works - Extensive List of Reference Works From The English Server

http://english-www.hss.cmu.edu/reference/

Law Library - The U. S. House of Representatives Law Library

http://law.house.gov/52.htm

Art Resources - World Wide Art Resources

http://wwar.com/default.html

On-Line Books - Over 6000 Books On-line by John Mark Ockerbloom

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/books.html

Ancient Literature

http://www.cisi.unito.it/arachne/arachne.html

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Encyclopedias

Encyclopedia Smithsonian

"The Smithsonian Institution receives a great many public inquiries covering a wide range of topics. Therefore, the following responses have been compiled to answer frequently asked questions or to provide guidance in finding the requested information. New information will be added continually." Topics covered: Armed Forces History, Anthropology, Mineral Sciences, Musical History, Physical Sciences, Services, Textiles Conservation, Transportation History, and Vertebrate Zoology.

http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/start.htm

Free Internet Encyclopedia

Internet accessible information on a variety of topics arranged in an encyclopediac manner

http://clever.net/cam/encyclopedia.html

Knowledge Adventure Encyclopedia

http://www.adventure.com/library/encyclopedia/

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Science Links

Anatomy - 3-D color images from Colorado State University

http://www.vis.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/gva/gvaview

BioTech Life Science Dictionary

It's a free, completely searchable dictionary of over 3700 terms relating to the life sciences and medicine, and we're adding new terms all the time. The vast majority of our words aren't the kind of thing you'll find in Webster's.

http://biotech.chem.indiana.edu/search/dict-search.html

Dictionary of Cell Biology

The Dictionary of Cell Biology was first published in 1989, and has since been translated into several languages. It is intended to provide quick access to easily-understood and cross-referenced definitions of terms frequently encountered in reading the modern biology literature. This server contains the text of the Second edition, published in April 1995, together with enhancements, hypertext links and new entries which are destined for the third edition.

http://www.mblab.gla.ac.uk/~julian/Dict.html

Web Elements

University of California at Berkeley's mirror of the WebElements server at the University of Sheffield in the UK. A list of other mirrors is available at the Berkeley site. (Table Support Required)

http://www.cchem.berkeley.edu/Table/index.html

Periodic Table of the Elements on the Internet

A Periodic Table from Yinon Bentor.

http://users.boone.net/yinon/default.html

Periodic Table from Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Includes a key word search of the table.

http://mwanal.lanl.gov/CST/imagemap/periodic/periodic.html

Machine Screws

Tapping and Clearance Hole Information for Machinists.

http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/~dhoffman/screws/screw1.html

Weights and Measures

From SouthWest Texas University.

http://eardc.swt.edu/cgi-bin/ucon/ucon.pl

Weights and Measures

http://www.intergo.com/Library/ref/atlas/weights.htm

Unit Conversions ..... Convert any unit of measurement to any other unit from Southwest Texas State University ....

http://eardc.swt.edu/cgi-bin/ucon/ucon.pl/

How far is it?

http://www.indo.com/distance/

Calendar - Month or Year

A simple Web gateway to the Unix 'cal' program, which prints one-month calendars or an entire year. For those who prefer, Julian dates are available.

http://ecco.bsee.swin.edu.au/cgi-bin/cal-ph

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English Language Dictionaries

Hypertext Webster Interface

http://gs213.sp.cs.cmu.edu/prog/webster

http://www.bucknell.edu/~rbeard/diction.html

Hypertext Webster's Dictionary

Carnegie-Mellon University.

http://c.gp.cs.cmu.edu:5103/prog/webster

Merriam-Webster's Dictionary

This site hosts the Merriam-Webster's Dictionary online. The dictionary is accessible through a search engine, returning definitions for the input word.

http://www.m-w.com/netdict.htm

The Oxford English Dictionary

http://oed.purdue.edu/

The King's English ..... A Fine Dictionary .....

http://www.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/fowler/

OneLook Dictionaries

A fast dictionary search tool which allows you to look up a word in 37 different dictionaries simultaneously, or pick specific dictionaries from a grouping of subject-specific dictionaries. Includes Internet/computer, science, technology, business, sports, religion, acronymn, and general dictionaries. You can also browse the dictionaries individually.

http://www.onelook.com/

English Slang

College Slang Dictionary

The official USENET dictionary of college slang.

gopher://wiretap.spies.com/00/Library/Article/Language/slang.col

Slang /Slang words making their way into common usage

gopher://wiretap.spies.com/00/Library/Misc/slang

Ghetto Slang/Terms Dictionary

http://www2.hawaii.edu/~sedward/dictionary.html

Glossary of Sexual Terms

http://eng.hss.cmu.edu/gender/sex-glossary.txt

Specialty English Dictionaries and Lists

Rhyming Dictionary A searchable list of rhyming words.

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dougb/rhyme.html

Oxymorons

http://english-www.hss.cmu.edu/langs/oxymorons.txt

Palindromes

http://english-www.hss.cmu.edu/langs/palindromes.txt

Casey's Snow Day Reverse Dictionary

http://www.c3.lanl.gov:8075/cgi/casey/revdict/

Dictionary of Phrase and Fable

http://www.bibliomania.com/Reference/PhraseAndFable/

Dictionary of the Gods A glossary of the gods, monsters and other entities of the subgenus mythos.

http://rampages.onramp.net/~searcy/gods.html

The Magician's Dictionary

http://www.crl.com/~tzimon/Magidict/

MIT Jargon File

gopher://wiretap.spies.com/00/Library/Classic/jargon.txt

New Hacker's Dictionary

http://www.daimi.aau.dk/htbin/jargon.perl

Bon Appétit Magazine Dictionary (Gourmet cooking)

http://www.epicurious.com/db/dictionary/terms/indexes/dictionary.html

Devil's Dictionary of Lit Terms

http://english-www.hss.cmu.edu/langs/devils-dictionary-of-lit.txt

Dictionary of Feudal Terms of England

gopher://wiretap.spies.com/00/Library/Article/Socio/feudal.dic

Feudal Dictionary

http://english-www.hss.cmu.edu/langs/feudal-dictionary.txt

International Dictionaries

The Alternative Dictionaries - Slang dictionaries for several dozen languages.

http://www.notam.uio.no/~hcholm/altlang/

Technical Glossary in Nine European Languages ..... From The European Commission ....

http://allserv.rug.ac.be/~rvdstich/eugloss/welcome.html

The LOGOS Dictionary

Translates user-input words and phrases to numerous languages. For the multimedia-enabled, some phrases have .wav samples! From Italy. (Be ready for slow link)

http://www.logos.it/query.html

Human Languages Page

A page devoted to bringing together information about the languages of the world.

http://www.hardlink.com/~chambers/HLP/

A Web of Online Dictionaries

Word lists, dictionaries and thesauri for over 130 languages. Maintained by Robert Beard, director of the Russian and Linguistics at Bucknell University.

http://www.bucknell.edu/~rbeard/diction.html

Travlang's Translating Dictionaries

http://dictionaries.travlang.com/

Euro-Dictionary

From the University of Frankfurt in Germany.

http://www.uni-frankfurt.de/~felix/eurodictautom.html

Yiddish Words in America

http://www.koshernosh.com/dictiona.htm

Yiddish Dictionary

http://sunsite.unc.edu/yiddish/diction.html

The Alternative Yiddish Dictionary

http://notam.uio.no/~hcholm/altlang/ht/Yiddish.html

Estonian-English Dictionary

From the Institute of Baltic Studies.

http://www.ibs.ee/dict/index.html

Finnish-English Dictionary

From Finland.

http://www.mofile.fi/-db.htm

French-English Dictionary

Look up words in a simple French English Dictionary containing about 75,000 terms.

http://humanities.uchicago.edu/forms_unrest/FR-ENG.html

German-English Dictionary

From LEO (Link Everything Online).

http://www.leo.org/cgi-bin/dict-search

Jeffrey's Japanese-English Dictionary

A Japanese-English dictionary which can display Japanese text as GIFs, JIS encoding, Shift-JIS encoding, and EUC encoding.

http://www.wg.omron.co.jp/cgi-bin/j-e

Russian-English Dictionary

From Russia.

http://www.elvis.msk.su/cgi-bin/mtrans

Spanish-English Dictionary

A general Spanish English wordlist created by Activa Translation Service.

http://www.activa.arrakis.es/ind-en.htm

Technical English Dictionaries

Anthromorphemics: Anthropology Glossary

Anthromorphemics is a new addition to the excellent anthropology site at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Users can browse or search the entire glossary or list terms by one of three fields: Archaeology, Cultural Anthropology, or Physical Anthropology.

http://www.sscf.ucsb.edu/anth/glossary/index.html

BioTech Life Science Dictionary

It's a free, completely searchable dictionary of over 3700 terms relating to the life sciences and medicine.

http://biotech.chem.indiana.edu/search/dict-search.html

Biotechnology Dictionary - Definitions of terms associated mainly with genetics and biochemistry but also with general biology, chemistry, pharmacology, toxicology and medicine.

http://biotech.chem.indiana.edu/pages/dictionary.html

Dictionary of Cell Biology

http://www.mblab.gla.ac.uk/~julian/Dict.html

Glossary of nomenclatural terms in zoology

This glossary is based on a text intended to aid indexers in the production of nomenclatural entries for the Zoological Record.

http://www.york.biosis.org/zrdocs/ref/sysgl.htm

Medical Term Dictionary Multilingual glossary of technical and popular medical terms in nine European languages.

http://allserv.rug.ac.be/~rvdstich/eugloss/welcome.html

Glossary of Nuclear Terms

Provided by the Uranium Institute, an international, non-governmental organization whose 77 members come from all levels of the nuclear power industry.

http://www.uilondon.org/gloss.html

Search the Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

FOLDOC is a searchable dictionary of acronyms, jargon, programming languages, tools, architecture, operating systems, networking, theory, conventions, standards, mathematics, telecomms, electronics, institutions, companies, projects, products, history, in fact anything to do with computing.

http://wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk/

Search the Hacker's Dictionary/Jargon File (Austria)

http://www.tu-graz.ac.at/Cjargon

Visionary - A Dictionary of terminology in vision research

Boston University's Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems hosts this browsable online dictionary of over 350 terms related to human and animal vision. From Absorption Spectrum to Zollner Illusion, the dictionary includes terms from "biological and machine vision, visual psychophysics, visual neuroscience, and other related fields."

http://cns-web.bu.edu/pub/laliden/WWW/Visionary/Visionary.html

Acronym Dictionaries

Acronym Finder

The Acronym Finder web site is a database of more than 47,000 acronyms and their meanings. The index contains acronyms concerning general topics, computers, technology, government, and telecommunications. The database also includes military acronyms for the Department of Defense, Air Force, Army, Navy, and Coast Guard.

http://www.mtnds.com/af/

Search Acronym Dictionary

A constantly updated acronym dictionary. Users can add new acronyms.

http://www.ucc.ie/info/net/acronyms/acro.html

Acronyms and Abbreviations & Abbreviations of Chemical Compounds

http://www.chemie.fu-berlin.de/cgi-bin/acronym

http://www.chemie.fu-berlin.de/cgi-bin/abbscomp

Both databases use acronyms or abbreviations as keywords, and return full names. From the Freie Universitat Berlin.

Thesauri

Search an updated 1911 Roget's Thesaurus

A simple gopher index search for a Thesaurus. From the National Institute of Health.

gopher://odie.niaid.nih.gov/77/.thesaurus/index

Browse the NASA Thesaurus

A comprehensive listing of NASA terms complete with definitions and related words. From NASA.

http://www.sti.nasa.gov/nasa-thesaurus.html

Quotations

Quotations Page (www.xmission.com,USA)

http://www.xmission.com/~mgm/quotes/

Quotes, by Subject (ngr2@ren.ultranet.com, USA)

http://www.ultranet.com/~ngr2/Quotes

Bartlett's Book of Familiar Quotations

A searchable, cross-indexed, listing of many familiar quotations, each traced to the original author.

http://www.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/bartlett/

Good Quotes by Famous People

http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/quotes.html

Song Lyrics - A search engine to find the words to songs

http://www.lyrics.ch/search.html

The Commonplace Book

A resource of quotable quotes on various topics. Built by submissions from Internet users, screened by the editors.

http://sunsite.unc.edu/ibic/Commonplace-Book.html

A Dictionary of Scientific Quotations

Published by natural SCIENCE, an independent online journal, this is a list of famous science-related quotations, in order by the name of the person to whom the quote is attributed.

http://naturalscience.com/dsqhome.html

Mathematical Quotations Server

Fairly sizable collection of quotes relating to mathematics, culled from a variety of sources. The collection can be browsed by author's name, or keyword searched. A random quote feature is also available.

http://math.furman.edu/~mwoodard/mquot.html

Words of Women

"Database of insightful quotations by historic and contemporary women from Abigail Adams to Oprah Winfrey; includes free quote search."

http://www.wordsofwomen.com/cgibin/var/women/index.html

Grammar & Style

The 11 Most Violated Rules of Grammar

http://kbidesign.cnchost.com/writing.shtml

The Elements of Style, by William Strunk, 1918.

http://www.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/strunk/

On-Line English Grammar, by Anthony Hughes

http://www.edunet.com/english/grammar/index.html

The Curmudgeon’s Stylebook

This site's author, Bill Walsh (a copy editor at The Washington Post), describes his Curmudgeon's Stylebook as a supplement to the AP stylebook. http://www.theslot.com/

Guide to Grammar and Writing

Maintained by Charles Darling (English/Humanities Professor at Capital Community-Technical College in Hartford, Connecticut)

http://webster.commnet.edu/HP/pages/darling/grammar.htm

Elements of Style

This book is intended for use in English courses in which the practice of composition is combined with the study of literature. It aims to give in brief space the principal requirements of plain English style. 1st Edition, 1918.

http://www.cc.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/strunk/

English Grammar ..... Instructions on grammar .....

http://www.edunet.com/english/grammar/index.html

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Geography, Maps, Travel and Money

1996 CIA World Factbook

The World Factbook is produced annually by the Central Intelligence Agency for the use of US Government officials, and the style, format, coverage, and content are designed to meet their specific requirements. The World Factbook contains rather specific information about the countries of the world.

http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/nsolo/wfb-sla.htm

Country Studies

These volumes are a continuing series of books prepared by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress under the Country Studies/Area Handbook Program sponsored by the Department of the Army. Most books in the series deal with a particular foreign country, describing and analyzing its political, economic, social, and national security systems and institutions, and examining the interrelationships of those systems and the ways they are shaped by cultural factors.

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html

Geographic database

This server contains mostly information on locations within the US. It uses the information from the geographic nameserver database on martini.eecs.umich.edu.

http://www.mit.edu:8001/geo

U.S. Gazetteer

Provided by the Bureau of the Census. A place/county search gateway for the Census Bureau's TIGER map server and the 1990 Census Data Lookup server.

http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer

Canadian Geographical Names

By combining this server and the Canadian Geographical Names Data Base (CGNDB), a simple reference service which includes basic locational information and maps that are easy to download has been provided. It's a popular source of information for researchers, genealogists, cartographers and students.

http://www-nais.ccm.emr.ca/cgndb/geonames.html

Geography at The Mining Company.

A geography resource site, with links to current and historical maps, census information, and satellite photos of the earth. Established and maintained by a graduate student in geography at California State University, Northridge.

http://geography.miningco.com/

Map Collections

Map Machine

The National Geographic Society's map and geographical information site contains maps, profiles, and facts about the countries of the world and the U. S. states.

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/resources/ngo/maps/

MapQuest

MapQuest is an interactive atlas of the United States. The user can zoom in to anywhere from the continental level to rural back roads. Allows users to save custom preferences for future visits.

http://www.mapquest.com/

Map Viewer

The Xerox PARC Map Viewer is a World-Wide Web HTTP server that accepts requests for a World or USA map and returns an HTML document including an image of the requested map. Each map image is created on demand from a geographic database.

http://www.xerox.com/map

UT at Austin Map Collection

A collection of electronic maps from the University of Texas at Austin.

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

Maps

http://www-map.lib.umn.edu/map_libraries.html/

Maps and information from The University of Iowa .....

http://www.cgrer.uiowa.edu/servers/servers_references.html#mapworld

U.S. Gazetteer

Provided by the Bureau of the Census. A place/county search gateway for the Census Bureau's TIGER map server and the 1990 Census Data Lookup server.

http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer

Canadian Geographical Names

http://www-nais.ccm.emr.ca/cgndb/geonames.html

Geography at The Mining Company.

http://geography.miningco.com/

How far is it?

http://www.indo.com/distance/

Travel

How far is it?

http://www.indo.com/distance/

Travelocity

Travel resources on the net, includes information about packages, destinations, prices, and more.

http://www.travelocity.com/

Internet Travel Network

Provides a public reservation system, the only system of its kind that provides free Internet access to air, car and hotel information and reservations.

http://www.itn.com/

U.S. State Department Travel Advisories (Search)

Search the State Department's Travel Advisories thanks to St. Olaf's gopher server.

gopher://gopher.stolaf.edu/77/.index/US-State-Department-Travel-Advisories

Money

Currency Converter

This currency converter contains the exchange rates for 164 different currencies beginning on January 1, 1990. The converter is updated every day at 8:00pm EST.

http://www.oanda.com/cgi-bin/ncc

Daily currency exchange rates

The daily currency exchange rate for 23 currencies.

http://www.dna.lth.se/cgi-bin/kurt/rates

Universal Currency Converter

The Universal Currency Converter allows you to perform interactive foreign exchange rate conversion on the Internet.

http://www.xe.net/currency/

Interactive Currency Table

The Interactive Currency Converter provides a list of currency values relative to the base currency that you specify.

http://www.xe.net/currency/table.htm

Currency conversion ..... DynaMind's currency calculator .....

http://www.dynamind-llc.com/services/utilities/currency.cgi

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Internet Phone, Zip Code and Email Address Locator
Phone Numbers

Area Code Lookup - Find an area code, or enter an area code and find the city

http://www.inconnect.com/~americom/aclookup.html

Search for Area Codes

A quick and simple searchable gopher index from Bucknell. You can enter a major city name and find the area code, or enter the area code and find the major cities within that area.

http://www.superpages.com/

1-800-lookup - Directory of toll-free 800 numbers

http://www.tollfree.att.net/dir800

AT&T 800 Number Directory

AT&T's answer to the web. This graphical interface allows you to browse or search through the AT&T 800 Number directory.

http://att.net/dir800/

Yellow Pages

GTE Superpages

Comprehensive and accurate business information derived from over 11 million listings found in over 5,000 Yellow Pages directories from virtually every city in the United States.

http://www.superpages.com/

NYNEX Yellow Pages

NYNEX the New England/New York regional bell operating company's entry into the electronic yellow pages competition.

http://www.niyp.com/

World Wide Yellow Pages

A listing of businesses' phone numbers and other related information searchable by business name, category, or location.

http://www.yellow.com/cgi-bin/SearchWWYP

Yellow Pages Online, Inc.

A listing of business phone numbers, searchable by heading keyword, brand name, or business name.

http://ypo.com/

InfoSpace

Comprehensive listing of personal, business, and organizational phone numbers and email addresses.

http://www.infospace.com/

People

Lycos People Finder

Lycos claims to have all of the telephone numbers for anyone in the U.S., as long as the person is listed in a phone book.

http://www.lycos.com/pplfndr.html

InfoSpace

Comprehensive listing of personal, business, and organizational phone numbers and email addresses.

http://www.infospace.com/

Who Where?

This site will locate email addresses for a person based on a name and organization. Also has phone directories and business directories.

http://www.whowhere.com/

Four11

This site consists of a searchable interface to email addresses, based on personal information such as name and organization. Also has databases of telephone and governmental information.

http://www.four11.com/

Switchboard.com

Directory of business and residential phone numbers, email and web sites.

http://www3.switchboard.com/

CSO Directory Servers

A web interface to the PH email/phone/US-mail lookup system. Access the PH servers at most universities through this elegant web interface.

http://www.uiuc.edu/cgi-bin/ph/lookup

Notre Dame Collection

Notre Dame's Gopher provides a long list of searchable phone-number databases.

gopher://gopher.nd.edu/11/Non-Notre%20Dame%20Information%20Sources/Phone%20Books--Other%20Institutions/North%20America/

X.500 Online Directory

The University of Michigan offers a searchable database for the X.500 directory.

http://www.itd.umich.edu/ITD/web500.html

Airline 800 Telephone Numbers

A quick listing of airline toll-free 800 numbers maintained by Princeton.

http://www.princeton.edu/Main/air800.html

Zip and Postal Codes

Australia Post

Australia Post's core business activities are letter and parcel delivery, both domestic and international.

http://www.auspost.com.au/pcode96.htm

U.S. Postal Service Abbreviations

A list of state name abbreviations for use on mail from the United States Postal Service.

http://www.usps.gov/ncsc/lookups/abbrev.html

U.S. Postal Service ZIP+4 Lookup

A search database that allows you to append the ZIP+4 code to an address before you mail off that letter. This is a service of the U.S. Postal Service.

http://www.usps.gov/ncsc/

Zip Codes for U.S. Cities

The University of Oregon's gopher server has a simple searchable database of ZIP codes and cities, searchable either way (i.e. search for a city get the ZIP code, search for a ZIP code get the city.)

gopher://gopher.uoregon.edu/77/Reference/.index/zipcode

National Address Server

From the University of Buffalo.

http://www.cedar.buffalo.edu/adserv.html

U.S. Gazetteer

From the U.S. Census Bureau.

http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer

Email Addresses

InfoSpace

Comprehensive listing of personal, business, and organizational phone numbers and email addresses.

http://www.infospace.com/

Internet Address Finder

This site consists of a search interface to locate the email address of people based on name, organization, site, or email addresses.

http://www.iaf.net/

Who Where?

This site will locate email addresses for a person based on a name and organization. Also has phone directories and business directories.

http://www.whowhere.com/

Four11

This site consists of a searchable interface to email addresses, based on personal information such as name and organization. Also has databases of telephone and governmental information.

http://www.four11.com/

Switchboard.com

Directory of business and residential phone numbers, email and web sites.

http://www3.switchboard.com/

University of Texas Collection

The University of Texas' gopher contains three different tools for finding address information about a person: Netfind, X-500, and CSO. Each tool works differently and delivers different information.

http://www.utexas.edu/search/email.html

Internet Country Codes

The University of California at Irvine provides an informative list of Internet Domain Name Codes for countries around the globe.

http://www.ics.uci.edu/WebSoft/wwwstat/country-codes.txt

University of Texas Collection

The University of Texas' gopher contains three different tools for finding address information about a person: Netfind, X-500, and CSO. Each tool works differently and delivers different information.

http://www.utexas.edu/search/email.html

International Directories

This Page is brought to you by KAPITOL in order to help you to find ANYONE, ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD. Note: This site is located in Belgium, so loading can be slow.

http://www.infobel.be/infobel/infobelworld.html

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Food and Beverages

Adult Beverages ..... Links to Wine, Beer and Liquor pages ...

http://www.bevnetwork.com/links.html

Gourmet Connection Magazine - Beverages

http://gourmetconnection.com/ezine/beverage.shtml

Gourmet Connection Magazine - Home Page

http://gourmetconnection.com/

Joy of Cooking - Recipes and Menus

http://www.simonsays.com/joy/menus/menus_index.html

Bon Appétit Magazine Homepage