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    SELECTED REFERENCE TITLES  (Mostly Publicly Accessible)
   
DICTIONARIES   American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (Houghton Mifflin) (4ed 2000)(Barbleby)
    Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (2000) (Britannica)
    Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (based on 1913ed) (1913 ed) (UChicago)
    Wordsmith: The Educational Dictionary & Thesurus (2000) (Wordsmith)
    Dictionary of Phrase & Fable: Derivation, Source, Origin of Common Phrases, Allusions (1898) (Bartleby)
   
MULTI-   French-English / English-French Dictionary (75,000 words) (n.d. ) (UChicago)
LANGUAGE   French-English / English French Dictionary  (FreeDict)
DICTIONARIES   German-English / English-German Dictionary (175,000 words) (1995-) (Travlangs)
    Italian-English / English-Italian Dictionary (n.d.) (R-O-matic)
    Italian-English / English Italian Dictionary  (FreeDict)
    Japanese-English / English-Japanese Dictionary (1994-) (FreeDict)
    Polish-English / English-Polish Dictionary (n.d.)
    Spanish-English / English Spanish Dictionary (54,000 words) (Travelangs) [too many advts]
    Spanish-English / English Spanish Dictionary (FreeDict)
    Danish-English / English-Danish Dictionary  (FreeDict)
    Dutch-English / English-Dutch Dictionary  (FreeDict)
    Finnish-English / English-Finnish Dictionary  (FreeDict)
    Hungarian-English / English-Hungarian Dictionary (FreeDict)
    Russian-English / English-Russian Dictionary (FreeDict)
    Swedish-English / English-Swedish Dictionary  (FreeDict)
    Norwegian-English / English-Norwegian Dictionary  (FreeDict)
    Latin-English / English-Latin Dictionary  (FreeDict)
    Indonesian-English / English-Indonesian Dictionary  (FreeDict)
    Portuguese-English / English-Portuguese Dicationary  (FreeDict)
    Swahili-English / English-Swahili Dictionary  (FreeDict)
    Afrikaans-English / English-Afrikaans Dictionary  (FreeDict)
   
LITERATURE   Cambridge History of English & American Literature: (18v) (1907-21) (Bartleby) Van Doren, Carl
    Simond's History of American Literature (BiblioMania) William Edward Simonds
    Main Currents In American Thought: [v1] The Colonial Mind 1620- (1927; UVa) VL Parrington
Main Currents In American Thought: [v2] Romantic Revolution in America V. L. Parrington
Main Currents In American Thought: [v3] The Beginnigs of Critical Realism V. L. Parrington 
    A History of American Literature  (1879) (Dinsmore Docs) Moses Coit Tyler
    A Guide to the Best Historical Novels and Tales (19??) (Gutenberg) Jonathan Nield
    The Heath Anthology of American Literature (5ed.) (Houghton Mifflin; partial text)
   
QUOTATIONS   Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (10ed 1919) (Bartleby)
    Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (1901 9ed) (Bartleby)
    Columbia World of Quotations (1996) (Bartleby)
    Simpson's Contemporary Quotations: Notable Quotes, 1950-1988 (1988) (Bartleby)
   
THESAURI   Roget's II: The New Thesaurus (3rd 1995) (Barbleby)
    Roget's Thesaurus of English Words & Phrases [with hyperlinks] (1922) (Barbleby)
    Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Thesaurus (2000) (Britannica)
   
ENGLISH   American Heritage Book of English Usage (Houghton Mifflin) (1996) (Barbleby)
USAGE   Chicago Manual of Style New Questions & Answers (UChicagoPr; 15ed ) Fun Reading; Free
USAGE   Chicago Manual of Style (UChicagoPr; 15ed ) Subscription
& STYLE   Columbia Guide to Standard American English (1993 ) (Bartleby)
    On the Art of Reading (1920) (Bartleby) Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch
    On the Art of Writing (1916) (Bartleby) Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch
    The Elements of Style (1918) (Bartleby) William Strunk, Jr.
    The King's English (2ed 1908 ) (Bartleby) H.W. Fowler
    Bibliography Style Handbook (AmPsyAssn & ModLangAssn) (1997-) (Writers' Workshop)
    Writing Handbook  (Ohio)
    Writer's Handbook  (2001) (Univ Wisconsin-Madison)
    Grammar Handbook  (2001) (Univ Ill-Urbana-Champaign) (Writer'sWorkshop)
    Banished: 28th annual ‘extreme’ List of Words Banished from the Queen's English
    for Mis-Use, Over-Use & General Uselessness
(2003) (Lake Superior State Univ.)
    Bashished: (Same as above for 1976-2003) (Lake Superior State Univ.)
    For Authors: Index Preparation  (PDF) Penn. State University
    Publishing with the Press: Preparing Your Index Univ. Nebraska Press
   
BIOGRAPHICAL   Biographical Dictionary [18,000+ people]
DICTIONARIES   Biographical Dictionary of English Literature (BiblioMania)
    Famous Americans: Virtual American Biographies. Book I: To 1899  (30,000+ Americans)
   
ENCYCLOPEDIA   Canadian Encyclopedia On-Line (enter "index"; select "subjects") (current) (HistoriaFdnCan)
    Columbia Encyclopedia (Columbia Univ Pr; with hyperlinks) (6ed 2001) (Barbleby)
    Concise Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia (current) (Infonautics)
    Encyclopedia Britannica (1911 edition) (1911-) (1911encylopedia)
  The classic edition: Still useful for pre-20th century subjects; poorly proofread.
    Encyclopedia Britannica On-Line [$9.95/mo subs; 72-hr free trial] (2001) (Britannica)
    Encyclopedia Smithsonian (Smithsonian)
    Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, & Modern (2001, 6ed) Bartleby
.   The Cambridge Modern History (Renaissance > 18th c; 1903-11; U Mannheim; vols 1-6, 13)
    The Cambridge Medieval History (J B Bury, et. al.) 1911-36 (8vols) PDF  vol 1 vol 2 vol 3 vol 4 
   Note: Very large files that are slow to load - high speed modem required.
.   Reader's Companion to American History (1991; Houghton) eds: Eric Foner & John A. Garraty
.   Reader's Companion to Military History (1996; Houghton) eds: Robert Cowley & Geoffrey Parker
.   Reader's Companion to U.S. Women's History (1998, Houghton) ed: Wilma Mankiller, et. al.
    Encyclopedia of North American Indians (1996; Houghton) ed: Frederick E. Hoxie
    Ships of the World: An Historical Encyclopedia (1997; Houghton) ed.: Lincoln P. Paine
    Civil War Battlefield Guide  (2ed., 1998, Houghton)  ed.: Frances H. Kennedy
    The Great American History Fact-Finder (199-?, Houghton)
    Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia (2001–) "A multilingual project to create an...open content encyclopedia" [English, French, Dutch, Polish, Spanish, Italian, German]
   
PHILOSOPHY   Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (UTennMartin)
RELIGION   Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (StanfordU)
    The Catholic Encyclopedia (1917)
    Easton's Bible Dictionary [Searchable & browsable religion] (1897 3ed) (CCEL)
    Easton's Bible Dictionary [Searchable & browsable religion] (Crosswalk )
    The Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge (189?) Philip Schaff (189?) Philip Schaff
    The Jewish Encyclopedia (12 vols., 1901-1906; illus.; searchable & browaeble)
   
MEDICAL   Adam Medical Encyclopedia [illus.] (2002-) (NatInstHealth)
REFERENCE   Columbia Univ College of Physicians & Surgeons Complete Home Medical Guide (1995)
    Yale University School of Medicine Heart Book (YaleU-Med)
    The Merck Manual of Medical Information: Home Edition (1995-2002)
    The Handbook of Parenteral Drug Administration  (Generic & Trade Names (Australian); administration & diagnosis; adverse effects; incompatibilities, etc)
    Chemical Safety Information Glossary (OxfordU)
    Chemical and Other Safety Information (OxfordU)
.   Poisonous Plants [Dict/Ency] (Common & botantical names; toxic agents; species) (CornellU)
    Exposure Factors Handbook  (EPA)
    Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body [illus.] (20ed 1918) (Bartleby)
   
RULES   Robert's Rules of Order, Revised (1915) (Constitution)
PROCEDURES   Robert's Rules of Order, Revised for Deliberative Assemblies (1915) (Bartleby)
LAWS   Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (CornellU)
    Federal Rules of Evidence (1997) (CornellU)
    U.S. Code (CornellU)
    Constitutions, Statutes, and Legislative Information - By State (CornellU)
    State, Local, Tribal and U.S. Territory Resources: State Government Home Pages (FirstGov)
    A-Z Index of Federal Departments and Agencies (FirstGov)
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GEOGRAPHY   The Columbia Gazatteer of North America (2000) (Bartleby)
    CIA World Factbook 2006 [w/maps] (2006) (CIA )
   
    The Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1900 (1919) (Bartleby)
   
CONSUMER   Air Traveler's Handbook
    Consumer Handbook to Credit Protection Laws  (Federal Reserve Board)
    The Consumer Action Handbook Online Edition (GenServAdmin)
   
EMERGENCY   The Disaster Handbook - 1998 National Edition (Univ Fla Extension)
& DISASTER   Disaster Handbook (floods, fire, drought, tornadoes, storms, community/family) (UWisc)
    Earthquake Preparedness Handbook  (Los Angeles Fire Dept )
    Drought Planner's Handbook (2002) (National Drought Mitigation Center)
   
ASSOCIATIONS   Associations on the Net (Internet Public Library)  Accounting, Business & Economics, Computers & Internet, Education, Entertainment, Health & Medical Sciences, Arts & Humanities,  Law, Government & Politics, Science Social Sciences, etc.
   
OTHER   Library Spot
VALUABLE   Book Spot
RESOURCES   Museum Spot
    Homework Spot
    Librarians Index to the Internet
    Digital Librarian: A Librarian's Choice of the best of the Web (Margaret Vail Anderson)
    DeskRef: Sources for Quick Answers (Ramapo Catskill Lib Sys)
    Index to Museums (U.S.) [1700+ U.S. Museums & Web Sites] Botanical gardens, zoos, planetariums, aquariums and other fcultural institutions; by State & Name
     
     

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