Reference Tools
Abbreviations & Acronyms
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The world’s largest and most comprehensive dictionary of acronyms, abbreviations and initialisms.
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Formerly known as the Internet Acronym Server that provide definition of acronyms.
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Over 50,000 acronyms and abbreviations in many categories. - Ìý The world’s largest and most comprehensive dictionary of acronyms, abbreviations and initialisms.
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Almanacs & Yearbooks
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Online version of the Time Almanac that “allows searching along with the contents of an encyclopedia, a dictionary, an atlas, and several almanacs containing statistics, facts, and historical records.”
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Formerly known as the Internet Acronym Server that provide definition of acronyms.
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This site contains “astronomical events, weather conditions and forecasts, recipes, and gardening tips.“
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Provides information on the history, people, government, economy, energy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities.
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The authoritative reference work on the UN System
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Atlases & Geography
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Contains full color physical maps, political maps as well as key facts and statistics on countries of the world.
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The renowned geographic encyclopedia.
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The searchable world gazetteer based on Google maps.
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Provides standard interactive road maps and driving directions. If you click on “Outside U.S. and Canada” you may retrieve roadmaps of the rest of the world.
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Offers a series of a travel maps to suit unique travel needs.
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Complete lists of continents, countries, lakes, oceans, mountains, etc.
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Biographies
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Includes 30,000 short entries from Infoplease.
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A Wikipedia type system and everyone can edit biographies or even create their own.
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Includes over 7,000 biographies and daily features that highlight connection.
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Biographies of the famous, influential, and inspirational.
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Country Information
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- Provides facts, figures and statistical data on geography, climate, people, religion, language, history, economy and many more.
- Provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities.
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Encyclopedias
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Includes 9,000 famous painters, sculptors and photographers, at art museum sites & image archives worldwide.
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Provides full and authoritative information on the entire cycle of Catholic interests, action and doctrine.
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Consists of more than 100 trusted sources, including encyclopedias, dictionaries, and thesauruses with facts, definitions, biographies, synonyms, pronunciation keys, word origins, and abbreviations.
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Provides a comprehensive, scholarly, and critical guide to science fiction in all its forms. All 16,500+ entries are free online.
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Includes holocaust-related articles published by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
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A hypertext dictionary for library and information science professionals, university students and faculty, and users of all types of libraries.
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Get information about a particular number sequence.
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Each entry is maintained and kept up-to-date by an expert or group of experts in the field.
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Quotations
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Includes 120,000 most authoritative quotations on the web, with 50,000 other short selections.
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One of the oldest and most established quotation sites on the web.
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Consists of 8,000 quotations online from over 3,400 authors, and more are added daily.
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Includes more than 300,000 quotations by over 20,000 authors.
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Statistics & Demographics
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A web-based system that integrates national food and agricultural statistical information to ensure harmonization of national data and metadata collections for analysis and policy making.
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Contains data from 1995 to the latest available from the source agencies at the time of compilation.
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Includes 120,000 most authoritative quotations on the web, with 50,000 other short selections.
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Keeps various Philippine economic and social data both at the national and sub-national levels and in long time series for some.
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Provides a global centre for data on international trade, national accounts, energy, industry, environment and demographic and social statistics gathered from national and international sources.
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Provides access to data compiled through the UN System in preparation for the Secretary-General’s annual report on “Progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals.
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Offers free access to more than 2,000 financial, business, health, economic and human development statistics.
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A compilation of health statistics for its 194 member states.
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Gives free and easy access to data provided by International Organizations, such as the World Bank, the United Nations and Eurostat.
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