Elizabeth Figa 5600 Websites and Resource List

SCHOOL OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCES
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS

© Elizabeth Figa, 2008

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SLIS 5600/4600 Information Access and Retrieval

University of North Texas Library
Subject Guide to Library and Information Sciences Resources
http://www.library.unt.edu/research-tools/subject-guides/library-information-science/

Terminology for Information Access and Retrieval
http://courses.unt.edu/efiga/Figa/Terminology.htm

PRINT AND ELECTRONIC (WEBSITE) RESOURCES LIST

= Print source available at the UNT Libraries
= Electronic source available through UNT's Electronic Resources

ALMANACS & YEARBOOKS PRINT ~ ELECTRONIC	BIBLIOGRAPHIES & CATALOGS PRINT ~ ELECTRONIC	BIOGRAPHICAL SOURCES PRINT ~ ELECTRONIC	DICTIONARIES PRINT ~ ELECTRONIC
DIRECTORIES PRINT ~ ELECTRONICS	ENCYCLOPEDIAS PRINT ~ ELECTRONIC	GEOGRAPHICAL SOURCES PRINT ~ ELECTRONIC	GOVERNMENT SOURCES PRINT ~ ELECTRONIC
GUIDES PRINT ~ ELECTRONIC	HANDBOOKS & MANUALS PRINT ~ ELECTRONIC	INDEXES PRINT ~ ELECTRONIC	SEARCH ENGINES

SERIALS
PRINT ~ ELECTRONIC

ALMANACS & YEARBOOKS

I. ALMANACS AND YEARBOOKS PRINT RESOURCES

General Resources

School Library Media Annual

Britannica Book of the Year

McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science and Technology

The Book of the States

The Europe World Yearbook

The Bowker Annual Library and Book Trade Almanac™ 2001

School Library Media Annual

The Reader's Digest Almanac (1965- )

The English Whitaker's Almanac

or Whitaker's Almanac

The Almanac of American Politics (1972- )

The Mother Earth News Almanac (1973)

The Biography Almanac (1981- )

The Places Rated Almanac (1981)

The Christmas Almanac (1979)

Corpus Almanac of Canada

The Municipal Yearbook

The Canadian Almanac & Directory

The New York Times Almanac

Information Please Almanac, Atlas and Yearbook

The World Almanac and Book of Facts

The Wall Street Journal Almanac

Texas Almanac

Cambridge Factfinder

Europa World Year Book

Statesman's Yearbook

McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science and Technology

Municipal Yearbook

American Book of Days

The Old Farmer's Almanac

II. ALMANACS AND YEARBOOK ELECTRONIC RESOURCES

General Almanacs and Yearbooks	State Fact Sites
Topical Almanacs and Yearbooks	Calendars
Government Almanacs and Facts Sites	International Almanacs and Yearbooks

General Almanacs and Yearbooks

Britannica Online - Year in Review	http://irservices.library.unt.edu/ * *Link takes you to UNT Electronic Resources page. Once there, do title search for tool listed on the left.
FactMonster Almanac (Kids)	http://www.factmonster.com/almanacs.html
Farmers Almanac	http://www.farmersalmanac.com/
Information Please World Almanac	http://www.infoplease.com/almanacs.html
Old Farmers Almanac	http://www.almanac.com/
RefDesk.com - Daily Almanac	http://www.refdesk.com/quote.html
World Almanac via First Search	http://irservices.library.unt.edu/ * *Link takes you to UNT Electronic Resources page. Once there, do title search for tool listed on the left.
World Almanac - limited search	http://www.worldalmanac.com/
World Almanac for Kids	http://worldalmanacforkids.com

State Fact Sites

50states.com	http://50states.com/
Stately Knowledge	http://www.ipl.org/div/kidspace/stateknow/

Topical Almanacs and Yearbooks

Afro-American Almanac	http://www.toptags.com/aama/
Baseball Almanac	http://baseball-almanac.com/
Black Facts Online	http://www.blackfacts.com/
Celebrity Almanac	http://celebrityalmanac.com/
CNN Video Almanac	http://www.cnn.com/resources/video.almanac/
Computer Almanac	http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/bam/www/numbers.html
Grateful Dead Almanac	http://www.dead.net
Leon's Almanac Of Political History	http://perspicuity.net/cgi/hypercal.cgi
The Living Almanac of Disasters	http://disaster.almanac.xs2.net/
Olympic Almanac	http://www.olympicalmanac.com/
Texas Almanac	http://www.texasalmanac.com/
Sports Almanac	http://houstonsportsteams.com/spalm/index.html
The Writer's Almanac	http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/

Calendars

Calendars Through The Ages	http://webexhibits.org/calendars/index.html
Official U.S. Time	http://time.gov/
Timeticker	http://www.timeticker.com/
Time Zone Converter	http://www.timezoneconverter.com/
The World Clock – Time Zones	http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/
World Time	http://www.worldtime.com/
World Time Zones	http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/tzones.html

Government Almanacs and Fact Sites

American FactFinder	http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/BasicFactsServlet
CIA World FactBook	http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
Department of Defense Almanac	http://www.defenselink.mil/pubs/almanac/
Soldiers Almanac	http://www.army.mil/publications/
United States Air Force Almanac	http://www.afa.org/magazine/May2006/default.asp
U.S. Air Force Space Almanac	http://www.airforce-magazine.com/MagazineArchive/Magazine Documents/2008/August 2008/0808space.pdf
Vietnam War Almanac	http://www.afa.org/magazine/Sept2004/ 0904vietnam.pdf

International Almanacs and Yearbooks

Global Statistics	http://www.geohive.com/
UNESCO Statistical Yearbook 1999	http://www.uis.unesco.org/

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BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND CATALOGS

I. BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND CATALOGS PRINT RESOURCES

General Print Resources

U.S. Current

Books in Print

Subject Guide to Books in Print

Forthcoming Books

Children's Books in Print

Subject Guide to Children's Books in Print

Basic Collection of Children's Books in Spanish Schon, Isabel.

The Elementary School Library Collection. (A Guide to Books and Other Media)

Children's Catalog

Junior High School Library Catalog

Books in Print Plus

Senior High School Library Catalog

Fiction Catalog

Public Library Catalog

Vertical File Index

Bibliographic Index: Wilson and Wilsonline

Publisher's Weekly

American Book Publishing Record

The Reader's Adviser

U.S. Retrospective

Cumulative Book Index (CBI)

American Catalogue of Books, Kelly, James.

Roorbach, Orville Augustus. Bibliotheca Americana. Catalogue of American Publications, Including Reprints and Original Works, from 1820 to 1852, Inclusive.

Sabin, Joseph. Bibliotheca Americana. Dictionary of Books Relating to America, from its
Discovery to the Present Time

Evans, Charles. American Bibliography

Bibliography of Bibliographies

Bibliographic Index

National Library Catalog and Union List

Library of Congress. The National Union Catalog (Nuc)

Bibliographic Records - Foreign Countries

Libros En Venta En Hispanoamerica Y Espana: Por Autor, Por Titulo, Por Materia

MLA Bibliography

Books in Print

II. BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND CATALOGS ELECTRONIC RESOURCES

General Resources Bibliographies and Catalog

Bibliographies and Catalogs UNT Electronic Resources

General Resources

Amazon.com	http://www.amazon.com/
Bibliography for Rhetoric and Composition	http://rhetoric.eserver.org/bibliographies/
Bibliography of African American Theses and Dissertations	http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Bibliographies /AfricanAmerican/
Bibliography on Women in Byzantium	http://www.doaks.org/research/byzantine/women_in_byzantium.html
Bibliomania	http://www.bibliomania.com/
British Library Public Catalogue	http://catalogue.bl.uk
U.S. Government Science and Technology Website Resources	http://www.usa.gov/Citizen/Topics/Science.shtml
Electronic Sources of Information: A Bibliography	http://library.usask.ca/~dworacze/BIBLIO.HTM
GPO Catalog	http://catalog.gpo.gov/F
The Library of Congress	http://catalog.loc.gov/
Library Of Congress Handbook Of Latin American Studies Online	http://memory.loc.gov/hlas/
National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections from Library of Congress	http://www.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/nucmc.html
The OnLine Books Page	http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/
Prints and Photographs Online Catalog	http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/catalog.html
Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography	http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html
Science Fiction and Fantasy Bibliography	http://www.catch22.com/~espana/SFAuthors/

Bibliographies and Catalogs UNT Electronic Resources

ABELL - Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature	http://irservices.library.unt.edu/ * *Link takes you to UNT Electronic Resources page. Once there, do title search for tool listed on the left.
Bibliography of Native North Americans	http://irservices.library.unt.edu/ * *Link takes you to UNT Electronic Resources page. Once there, do title search for tool listed on the left.
Bibliography of the History of Art	http://irservices.library.unt.edu/ * *Link takes you to UNT Electronic Resources page. Once there, do title search for tool listed on the left.
Bowker's Books in Print with Reviews	http://irservices.library.unt.edu/ * *Link takes you to UNT Electronic Resources page. Once there, do title search for tool listed on the left.
MLA International Bibliography	http://irservices.library.unt.edu/ * *Link takes you to UNT Electronic Resources page. Once there, do title search for tool listed on the left.
Reference Universe	http://irservices.library.unt.edu/ * *Link takes you to UNT Electronic Resources page. Once there, do title search for tool listed on the left.
RILM via Firstsearch- Music Bibliography	http://irservices.library.unt.edu/ * *Link takes you to UNT Electronic Resources page. Once there, do title search for tool listed on the left.
WorldCat via First Search	http://irservices.library.unt.edu/ * *Link takes you to UNT Electronic Resources page. Once there, do title search for tool listed on the left.

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DICTIONARIES

I. DICTIONARIES PRINT RESOURCES

General Resources

Juvenile	World Book Dictionary Historical and Etymological Oxford English Dictionary Scott Foresman Beginning Dictionary Merriam-Webster�s Dictionary for Kids Webster's Elementary Dictionary
Slang	Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang Chapman, Robert L. New Dictionary of American Slang Dictionary of American Regional English
Thesauri	Thesaurus of Eric Descriptors Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases Roget's II. The New Thesaurus
Usage	Turabian, Kate L. A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association.
Abbreviations and Acronyms	Acronyms, Initialisms, & Abbreviations Dictionary (Towel and Sheppard) (1976 to Present)
Idioms	A Dictionary of American Idioms. Makkai, Adam, Editor.
Subject	Stedman's Medical Dictionary Harrod's Librarians' Glossary : 9,000 Terms Used in Information Management, Library Science, Publishing, the Book, Trades, and Archive Management Black's Law Dictionary - Definition of the Terms and Phrases of American and English Jurisprudence, Ancient and Modern. Black's Law Dictionary Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary
Foreign Words and Phrases	Larrouse Spanish Dictionary Elsevier's Dictionary of Library Science, Information, and Documentation Harper Collins Series
General	Oxford English Dictionary The American Heritage Dictionary Random House Dictionary of the English Language Webster's Third New International Dictionary. Unabridged. American Heritage Dictionary Scott Foresman Beginning Dictionary

II. DICTIONARIES ELECTRONIC RESOURCES

Guides to Dictionaries on the Internet	General Dictionaries	English Language Dictionaries	Glossaries
Technical Dictionaries /Computing/Hacker's Dictionaries	Foreign Language / Translation Dictionaries	American / British Dictionaries	Thesauri
Quotation Dictionaries	Acronym Dictionaries	Subject Dictionaries	Juvenile Dictionaries
Other/Fun Dictionaries	Sign Language Dictionaries

STUDENTS NOTE: TO ACCESS DICTIONARIES VIA THE UNT LIBRARY, GO HERE:
http://irservices.library.unt.edu/

On the http://irservices.library.unt.edu/ page, you will see a box that look like the one demonstrated below.
You can access all available dictionaries by typing in the box the term: dictionar (this will search dictionary OR dictionaries)
and then hitting the search button.

DEMONSTRATION BOX:

Abstracts and Indices Journals
search

Guides to Dictionaries on the Internet

AllWords.com	http://allwords.com
Languages Directory	http://www.alphadictionary.com/langdir.html
Cambridge Dictionaries Online	http://dictionary.cambridge.org/
Dictionaries and Translators	http://www.word2word.com/dictionary.html
Dictionary.com	http://dictionary.reference.com/
Encyberpedia Dictionary and Glossary	http://www.encyberpedia.com/glossary.htm
English Online Dictionaries	n http://www.online-dictionary.net/english/
The Exploding Dictionary	http://www.hyperdictionary.com/
The Free Dictionary	http://www.thefreedictionary.com/
MedBioWorld: Online Medical and Bioscience Dictionaries	http://www.sciencekomm.at/advice/dict.html
Michigan Electronic Library - Reference Desk - Dictionary Meta list (Dictionaries, Thesauri, & Glossaries)	http://web.mel.org/viewtopic.jsp?id=348& pathid=1143
OneLook Dictionaries - 56 Dictionaries in One	http://www.onelook.com/
A Web Of Online Dictionaries	http://www.alphadictionary.com/index.shtml
Yahoo - Dictionaries	http://www.yahoo.com/Reference /Dictionaries/

General Dictionaries

American Heritage Dictionary	http://www.bartleby.com/61
Carnegie Mellon University Pronouncing Dictionary	http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/cmudict#about
Encarta World English Dictionary	http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/dictionary /dictionaryhome.aspx
InfoPlease Dictionary	http://www.infoplease.com/dictionary.html
Probert Encyclopaedia - Dictionary ([English/French] [English/Spanish] [Abbreviations] [Slang])	http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/xdic.htm
Word Central	http://www.wordcentral.com/
World Yellow Pages - Dictionary	http://www.yellow.com/dict.html
yourDictionary.com	http://yourdictionary.com/

English Language Dictionaries

American Heritage Dictionary	http://irservices.library.unt.edu/ * *Link takes you to UNT Electronic Resources page. Once there, do title search for tool listed on the left.
Heinle's Newbury House Dictionary of American English	http://nhd.heinle.com/home.aspx
Merriam Webster Dictionary	http://www.m-w.com/dictionary
Middle English Compendium	http://irservices.library.unt.edu/ * *Link takes you to UNT Electronic Resources page. Once there, do title search for tool listed on the left.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 Edition	http://humanities.uchicago.edu/forms _unrest/webster.form.html

Glossaries

AllWords.com	http://www.allwords.com
Glossary.com	http://www.glossary.com/

Technical Dictionaries /Computing/Hacker's Dictionaries

3-D Dictionary	http://www.maran.com/dictionary/mgdiction33.html
BABEL: A Glossary of Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms	http://www.cs.tut.fi/tlt/stuff/misc/babel.html
Free Online Dictionary of Computing	http://www.nightflight.com/foldoc
High Tech Dictionary	http://www.computeruser.com/resources/dictionary/noframes/index.html
Netlingo	http://www.netlingo.com/inframes.cfm

Foreign Language / Translation Dictionaries

AltaVista Translation Service - Translate with Babel Fish	http://babelfish.altavista.com/
Common Spanish Phrases	http://www.citi-guide.com/mexico/m-phrases.asp
The EthnoLogue - Languages of the World	http://www.ethnologue.com/
Foreignword.com	http://www.foreignword.com/
Internet Picture Dictionary	http://www.pdictionary.com/
Latin Phrases And Words Used In English	http://modena.intergate.ca/personal/gslj/wordsfromlatin.html
Logos - Multilingual On-Line Dictionary	http://www.logos.it/lang/transl_en.html
Spanish to English/English to Spanish	http://www.freedict.com/onldict/spa.html
Travlang's Translating Dictionaries	http://dictionaries.travlang.com/
English to French, Italian and Spanish	http://www.wordreference.com/index.htm

American / British Dictionaries

The American·British British·American Dictionary for English Speaking People	http://www.peak.org/~jeremy/dictionary/chapters/title.php
BritSpeak American - British Dictionary	http://englishclub.8m.com/usuk1.htm
BritSpeak: British - American - English Dictionary	http://englishclub.8m.com/ukus1.htm

Thesauri

Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT)	http://www.getty.edu/research/tools /vocabulary/aat/index.html
Lexical Freenet	http://www.lexfn.com/
Roget's Thesaurus	http://humanities.uchicago.edu/forms _unrest/ROGET.html
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus	http://www.bartleby.com/62/
Thesaurus.com	http://www.thesaurus.com/
Visual Thesaurus	http://www.visualthesaurus.com/
The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus	http://www.wordsmyth.net/

Quotation Dictionaries

Bartlett's Quotations, 10th edition	http://www.bartleby.com/100
Columbia World of Quotations	http://www.bartleby.com/66
Creative Quotations	http://creativequotations.com/
Dictionary of Quotations	http://www.quotationreference.com/
Famous Quotations	http://www.famous-quotations.com/asp/categories.asp
The Quotations Page	http://www.quotationspage.com/
Quoteland	http://www.quoteland.com/
Simpson's Contemporary Quotations	http://www.bartleby.com/63/
ThinkExist.com - Quotations	http://en.thinkexist.com/

Acronym Dictionaries

Abbreviatonz	http://www.stands4.com/index.asp
Acronym Finder	http://www.acronymfinder.com/
Acronym Search	http://www.acronymsearch.com/
Internet Acronym Server	http://silmaril.ie/cgi-bin/uncgi/acronyms
Internet Anagram Server	http://www.wordsmith.org/anagram/

Subject Dictionaries

Abebooks Glossary	http://www.abebooks.com/docs/ HelpCentral/Glossary/sellerIndex.shtml
ARTLEX – Art Dictionary	http://www.artlex.com/
Biotechnology/ Life Science Dictionary	http://cottongenomics.biosci.utexas.edu/workshop/biotecglossary.php
Bloomsbury Research Center - Dictionary of English Literature	http://www.bloomsburymagazine.com/ ARC/arc_home.asp
Brewster's Dictionary Of Phrase And Fable	http://www.bartleby.com/81/
Everybody's Legal Dictionary	http://www.nolo.com/dictionary/wordindex.cfm
FindLaw Legal Dictionary	http://dictionary.lp.findlaw.com/
Glossary of Library Terms	http://archnet.uconn.edu/using/tutorials/instruction/glossary.htm
Grove Art Online--includes Grove Dictionary of Art	http://irservices.library.unt.edu/ * *Link takes you to UNT Electronic Resources page. Once there, do title search for tool listed on the left.
Grove Music Online--includes Grove Dictionary of Opera and Grove Dictionary of Jazz	http://irservices.library.unt.edu/ * *Link takes you to UNT Electronic Resources page. Once there, do title search for tool listed on the left.
Health Source: Nursing Academic Edition--includes Stedman's Medical Dictionary	http://irservices.library.unt.edu/ * *Link takes you to UNT Electronic Resources page. Once there, do title search for tool listed on the left
law.com Dictionary	http://dictionary.law.com/
Lectric Law Library's -* Legal Lexicon's Lyceum	http://www.lectlaw.com/def.htm
MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary	http://www.medterms.com/Script/Main/hp.asp
ODLIS - Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science	http://lu.com/odlis/
Online Dictionaries, Glossaries, and Encyclopedias- 101 - lists many dictionaries and glossaries pertaining to particular subject areas	http://stommel.tamu.edu/~baum/hyperref.html
Online Medical Dictionary	http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/omd/
Weather Glossary - The Weather Channel	http://www.weather.com/glossary/index.html

Juvenile Dictionaries

Dinosaur Dictionary	http://www.dinodictionary.com/index.asp
Fact Monster Dictionary	http://www.factmonster.com/dictionary.html
Little Explorers Picture Dictionary with Links	http://www.enchantedlearning.com/Dictionary.html
Math Dictionary for Kids	http://www.amathsdictionaryforkids.com/
Word Central Student Dictionary	http://www.wordcentral.com/aol/

Other and Fun Dictionaries

Cliche Finder	http://www.westegg.com/cliche/
Doubletongued	http://www.doubletongued.org/
The Microsoft Lexicon Or Microspeak Made Easier	http://cinepad.com/mslex.htm
Pseudodictionary	http://www.pseudodictionary.com/
Rhyming Dictionary	http://www.rhymezone.com/
Urban Dictionary	http://www.urbandictionary.com/
Word Spy	http://www.wordspy.com/

Sign Language Dictionaries

American Sign Language Browser (has moving images - downloading Quick Time is necessary)	http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/aslweb/browser.htm
American Sign Language	http://www.lifeprint.com/asl101/pages-layout/signs.htm
American Sign Language Dictionary	http://www.aslonline.com/dictionary.html
American Sign Language Dictionary	http://www.masterstech-home.com/ASLDict.html

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DIRECTORIES

I. DIRECTORIES PRINT RESOURCES

Telephone	Governmental	Educational and Institutional	Association and Foundation
Professional	Corporate Investment, Trade and Business	Serials