Acronyms & Abbreviations ADA Resources Almanacs Area Codes Associations Awards Biographical Resources Book Reviews Bookstores Online Calculators Calendars Careers Colleges & Universities Consumer Information Copyright

Currency Converters Dictionaries & Thesauri E-Books Elements Encyclopedias Film & Television Genealogy Government Resources Health, Medicine & Science Image Resources Industry Internet Search Engines, Directories & Guides Legal Resources Library of Congress Call Numbers Lubbock Resources News & Newspapers

Other Libraries Phone Directories Quotations Speeches Standards & Specifications Statistics Style Manuals (APA, ASA, Chicago, MLA, Turabian) Texas Information Time Zones Translators Weather Weights/Measures/ Unit Conversions Writing Resources Zip Codes

 

Acronyms and Abbreviations

• AcronymSearch
• Acronym Finder
• Wiley InterScience - Scientific and Technical Acronyms, Symbols and Abbreviations
• The World Wide Web Acronym and Abbreviation Server 

ADA Resources

• AccessTECH Disability Support Program
• Alliance for Technology Access
• American Foundation for the Blind
  
• Disability Law Resource Project
• Learning Disabilities Association of America
• National Women’s Health Information Center – Women with Disabilities
• Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic
  
• Texas Department of Assistive and Rehabilitative Services 
• TexasTalkingBook.org – Texas State Library and Archive Commission

Almanacs

• Information Please: Your Ultimate Fact Finder
• Texas Almanac
• World Almanac(FirstSearch) [On campus and remote] 

Area Codes

• Area Code Listings - by number
• Area Code Listings - by state/country  

Associations

• Associations Unlimited(GALE) [On campus and remote] 
• Resources of Scholarly Societies: By Subject

Awards

• InfoPlease Awards Page

Biographical Resources

• Biographical Dictionary
• Biography Index(WilsonWeb) [On campus and remote]
• Biography Resources
• Note: TTU users may wish to see subscription based Biographical Information databases.

Book Reviews

• Book Review Index Online Plus(Infotrac) [On campus and remote]
• Online Literary Criticism Collection
• The New York Review of Books 

Bookstores Online

• AAABookSearch
• AddALL book search and price comparison
• Abebooks
• Alibris
• Amazon
• Barnes and Noble
• Bibliofind
• BookFinder
• Chambal
• Powells Books

Calculators

• Pocket Calculator
• Math.com Basic Calculator

Calendars

• Interactive Calendars -- The Calendar Zone
• Java Perpetual Calendars
• Time and Date Calendar
• Virtual Perpetual Calendars

Careers

• Career Center, Texas Tech University
• Career, Scholarship, and Writing Resource Collection (TTU Libraries)
• Occupational Outlook Handbook

Colleges and Universities

• Career, Scholarship, and Writing Resource Collection (TTU Libraries)
• College and University Home Pages
• CollegeSource (College Catalogs) [On campus and remote]
• Peterson's Undergraduate Search
• Peterson's Graduate Search
• UnivSource - Higher Education in the United States and Canada

College Financial Aid

• FinAid: The Financial Aid Information Page
• Financial Aid for Students
• Scholarship Search

College Rankings

• U.S. News College Rankings
• U.S. News Graduate School Rankings  

Consumer Information

• Consumer Reports® Online
• Edmund's Automobile Buyer's Guides
• Kelley Blue Book: New and Used Car Price Reports
• The Salary Calculator

Copyright

• Know Your Copyright

Currency Converters

• 164 Currencies Converter
• Universal Currency Converter

Dictionaries and Thesauri

• English Language
  •  Dictionary of Old English[On campus and remote]
  • Glossarist: A Searchable Directory of Glossaries and Topical Dictionaries
  • The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  • OED: Oxford English Dictionary Online [On campus and remote]
  • WWWebster Dictionary
  • WWWebster Thesaurus
• Foreign Languages
  • Chinese Character Dictionary
  • English-German Dictionary
  • German-English Dictionary
  • German-Spanish Dictionary
  • French-English Dictionary
  • Dictionnaire Universel Francophone
  • Le grand dictionnaire terminologique
  • Latin-English Dictionary
  • Diccionarios.com (Spanish)
  • WordReference.com (French, German, Italian, Spanish)

E-Books

• Bartelby.com: Great Books Online
• Books Online - University of Pennsylvania Library
• E-Book Collections - Texas Tech University Libraries
• Internet Archive
• Project Gutenberg

Elements

• American Elements

Encyclopedias

• Artcyclopedia
• Columbia Encyclopedia
• Encyclopædia Britannica[On campus and remote]
• Encyclopedia Smithsonian 
• Wikipedia
• Note: TTU users may wish to see subscription based Encyclopedias databases.

Film and Television

• Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
• AMG: All-Movie Guide
• Film and Video Distributors and Producers
• Internet Movie Database
• Movie Review Query Engine

Genealogy

• Biography & Genealogy Master Index (FirstSearch) [On campus and remote]

Government Resources

• American FactFinder
• CenStats Databases
• CIA World Factbook
• The Electronic Embassy
• Embassy and Consulate Directory
• FirstGov: US Government Official Web Portal
• Foreign Consular Offices in the United States
• Government Documents- Texas Tech University Libraries
• National Archives and Records Administration 
• Texas Mileage Guide
• Texas Online

Health, Medicine and Science

• FamilyDoctor.org
• Hardin Meta Directory of Internet Health Sources
• Hazardous Substances Data Bank 
• Mayo Clinic
• Medlineplus Health Information- U.S. National Library of Medicine
• The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy
• The National Cancer Institutes' Physician Data Query (PDQ)
• RxList-The Internet Drug Index

Image Resources

• Google Image Resources
• Image Databases - Texas Tech University Libraries

Industry

• Thomas Register of American Manufacturers
• Toxic Release Inventory

 Internet Search Engines, Directories and Guides

• Search Crawler or Spider
  • Ask
  • Excite
  • Google
  • Google Scholar
• Directory Search
  • Altavista
  • Open Directory
  • Yahoo
• Meta Search Engines
  • Corpernic Agent
  • Dogpile
  • Meta Crawler
  • SurfWax
  • Vivisimo
• Directories
  • About.com
  • Academic Info
  • Allpages
  • DeskRef-- Sources for Quick Answers
  • Infomine
  • Internet Public Library
  • Librarian's Index
• Guides
  • Basic Search Tools Guide
  • Internet Searching Tools
  • Search Engine Watch

Texas Tech University Libraries
Legal Resources

• Laws Online
• Martindale-Hubbell Lawyer Locator
• Nolo's Legal Encyclopedia

Library of Congress Call Numbers

• Library of Congress Classification Outline (Brief version)
• Library of Congress Classification Outline

Lubbock Resources

• City of Lubbock
• Lubbock City-County Library
• Lubbock Convention and Visitors Bureau
• Lubbock County
• Lubbock Hospitality
• Lubbock Independent School District
• Lubbock International Airport
• Lubbock Memorial Civic Center
• Lubbock Parks and Recreation
• Lubbock Symphony Orchestra
• Lubbock Organizations
• South Plains Association of Government 

News and Newspapers

• ABYZ Newslinks (international newspapers)
• CNN
• Foreign Language News and Newspapers - MIT Libraries
• Google News
• Lubbock Avalanche-Journal
• MediaFinder
• News and Newspapers Online
• The Daily Toreador 
• Vanderbilt Television News Archive
• World News Network
• Washington Post
• Yahoo! News
• Note: TTU users may wish to see subscription based News and Current Events databases.

Other Libraries

• Greater Western Alliance Libraries (formerly Big Twelve Plus)
• LibCat: a guide to library resources on the internet
• LibWeb - Library Servers via WWW
• Lubbock Area Library Association
• National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections
• Texshare Libraries - Texas State Library and Archives Commission
• WorldCat

Phone Directories

• Freeality Reverse Lookup and E-mail Search
• Reverse Phone Directory
• SuperPages.com
• The Ultimates

Quotations

• Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
• Famous Quotations Network
• Literature Quotes
• The Quotations Page

Speeches

• Douglass: Archives of American Public Address  
• History and Politics Out Loud
• Presidential Speeches
• Communication Resources- Texas Tech University Libraries
• Speeches, History Channel
• Vital Speeches of the Day [On campus and remote]   

Standards & Specifications

• NISO Standards & Technical Reports

Statistics

• American Religion Data Archive (ARDA)
• Fedstats:One Stop Shopping Federal Statistics
• Statistical Abstract of the United States
• International Data Base (IDB)
• Note: TTU users may wish to see subscription based Statistical Information databases.

Style Manuals (APA, ASA, Chicago, MLA, Turabian)

• APA Style.org: Electronic Resources- American Psychological Association
• Using APA Format  - Purdue University Online Writing Lab
• ASA Format: American Sociological Association
• Assembling a List of Works Cited in Your Paper- Duke University Libraries
• Chicago Manual of Style- University of Chicago Press
• How to Cite-  Texas Tech University Libraries
• APA, MLA, Turabian, and Chicago Citation Styles - Long Island University
• MLA Style: Citing Sources from the World Wide Web
• Using MLA Format- Purdue University Online Writing Lab
• Landmarks Citation Machine
• Turabian Citation Guide- Ohio State University Libraries
• Uncle Sam - Brief Guide to Citing Government Publications

Texas Information

• Handbook of Texas Online
• State and Local Government on the Net - Texas
• Texas Almanac [On campus and remote]
• Texas Mileage Guide
• Texas Online
• Texas Legislature Online
• Texas Reference Sources
• TRAIL-- searches and locates information from over 150 Texas state agency web servers.
• More Links to Texas and Regional Resources - Texas Tech University Libraries

Time Zones

• The Official U.S. Time
• Time Zone Converter
• The World Clock-Time Zone- Shows current local times around the world

Translators

• AltaVista - Babel Fish Translation- Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish
• Dictionary.com/Translator- Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish
• Free Translation- Chinese, English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Norwegian, Russian and  Spanish
• Google Language Tool- English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish
• World Lingo Online Translator - Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese(Brazil), Russian and Spanish

Weather

• Lubbock Weather
• National Weather Service - Lubbock
• The Weather Channel
• More Weather Links-Local and Regional - Texas Tech University Libraries

Weights/Measures/Unit Conversions

• Conversion and Calculation Center
• Conversion of Units- Institute of Chemistry, Berlin
• Cooking Measures and Conversion Calculator
• A Dictionary of Units of Measurement
• Distance Calculator
• MegaConverter
• Online Conversion
• Online Metric Conversions
• WWW Unit Converter

Writing Resources

• A Guide for Writing Research Papers Based on APA Style- Capital Community College
• A Guide for Writing Research Papers Based on MLA Style - Capital Community College
• A+ Research and Writing for High School and College Students- Internet Public Library
• Assignment Calculator  - University of Minnesota
• Common Errors in English- Washington State University
• Grammar Slammer
• Guide to Grammar and Style
• Guide to Grammar and Writing
• Texas Tech University Writing Center
• Texas Tech University Writing Center Resources- Lists style guides, personal statements and others
• See also Style Manuals and Citation Guides

Zip Codes

• FEIST- Search for zip and area codes in Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas
• Look up address and zip code- United States Postal Service
• Look up city and/or zip code- United States Postal Service 

 

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