Reference Materials

ALMANACS/FACT BOOKS

• Bartleby Factbook 2000
• CIA World Factbook
• National Atlas of the United States
• U.S. Census Factfinder

ATLASES

• Maps.Com Atlas
• World Atlas

DICTIONARIES

• American Heritage
• Cambridge
• Dictionary.com
• Funk & Wagnalls.com
• Infoplease Dictionary
• Merriam-Webster (English)
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• Acronyms/Abbreviations
• Acronym Finder
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• Reverse /phonetic dictionaries
• Rhyming dictionary
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• French/English Dictionary
• German/English Dictionary
• Your Dictionary
  (multi-language)
• Yahoo's Babel Fish (multi-language)

ENCYCLOPEDIAS

• Britannica.com
• Columbia Encyclopedia/Bartleby
• Encyclopedia.com
• EncycloZine
• Encarta for Interactive Learning
• Information Please
• Wikipedia

GENERAL REFERENCE

• Bartleby Reference
  Works Online
• Archive.org
• How Stuff Works

THESAURUS

• Merriam-Webster
• Roget's Thesaurus
• Thesaurus.com

MISCELLANEOUS

• Barlett's Book of Familiar Quotations
• Dictionary of Quotations
• Elements of Style (Strunk)
• Phrase Finder
• Robert's Rules of Order
• Answers
• Just Answer

Research Resources

ONLINE

• Bibliomania
• Find Articles
• Internet Public Library
• Librarians Internet Index
• Library of Congress
• Library Spot
• Open Directory
• Public Record Finder

AREA LIBRARIES

• Toledo Public Library

RESOURCES FOR EDITING

• AP Style Book
• Bartleby - Strunk's Elementary Rules of Style
• Blue Book of Grammar (also punctuation)
• Government Agency Abbreviations
• JCU Study Skills Online
• Sentence Structure - Canadian site
• SharpWriter.com
• Word Crafter - general tips
• WriteContent - bibliography resource

BUSINESS COMMUNICATIONS

• Ragan Communications
• Shel Holtz

PUBLIC RELATIONS

• PR News Wire
• PR Week

Writing/ Writers

• National Association
  of Women Writers
• Writer (The) magazine
• Writers Digest

Design

• Adobe Design Center
• Communication Arts Magazine
• How Design Magazine
• Print Magazine
• Dynamic Graphics Magazine
• The Design Encyclopedia
• Sitepoint
• What the Font?
• A List Apart
• Computerlove
• Graphic Design Info
• All Graphic Design
• Designers Toolbox
• Designer Daily