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Explore the list of reference tools such as dictionaries, thesauri, style manuals and other primary tools as a starting point for your research.

• Acronyms and Abbreviations

  • Acronyms and Abbreviations
  • The Acronym Finder
       Computers, technology, telecommunications, and military acronyms
       and abbreviations
  • All That JAS: Journal Abbreviation Sources
       A registry of Web resources that list or provide access to the full title of
       journal abbreviations
  • Chemical Acronyms Database

• Country Profiles

  • CIA World Fact Book
  • CountryWatch.
  • worldinformation.com. Business, political and economic information

• Dictionaries and Thesauri

  • American Heritage Dictionary. 4th edition
  • Merriam-Webster OnLine Dictionary/Thesaurus
  • Roget's II: The New Thesaurus. 3rd edition

   

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• Encyclopaedias

  • Columbia Encyclopedia . 6th edition
       Enhanced with links to newspaper and magazine articles as well as
       pictures and maps
  • Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia. [UWI Only]
  • Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry

   

• Quotations

  • Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. 10th edition
  • The Daily Quotation Server
       Daily quote from literature, poetry, science & philosophy, and a search facility
  • The Quotations Homepage
  • Simpson's Contemporary Quotations. 1988

   

• Style Manuals

  • Chicago Manual of Style.*
  • Citation Styles
       Based on Harnack and Kleppinger's Online! A Reference Guide to Using
       Internet Sources. Gives examples for MLA, APA, Chicago, and CBE.