This guide shows a list of Reference Resources links.
- Famous Firsts
- Guinness World Records
- Infoplease.com -This site includes contents of the Information Please Almanacs, a biography database, a dictionary, an atlas and articles from the Columbia Encyclopedia.
- World Factbook - Central Intelligence Agency -Includes: "Maps, Geography, People, Government, Economy, Communications etc."
- Dictionary of Art Historians: a Biographical Dictionary of Historians, Museum Directors and Scholars of Art - Lee Sorensen, Duke University Libraries. The database is searchable by name, methodology and country of origin.
General
- Dictionary (OneLook Dictionaries): find meanings and translations of words.
- Language Dictionaries (Awesome Library) -Dictionaries for some the more commonly used languages.
- Translate into another Language
- Merriam-Webster - Dictionary and thesaurus in one.
- Dictionaries and Translators
- Slang Dictionary
- Thesaurus.com
Subject Dictionaries
- BioTech's life sciences
- Etymology Dictionary -- "Etymologies are not definitions; they're explanations of what our words meant and how they sounded 600 or 2,000 years ago.
- FOLDOC-The Free Online Dictionary of Computing--over 12,000 extensively hyperlinked terms in computer science.
- Medical Dictionary (Medline Plus).
- Webopedia – Online dictionary for computer and internet terms.
- Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary
- College and University Rankings - Links to many sources of ranckings.
- Infobel - telephone directories from all over the world.
- Yellow pages (Malaysia) - telephone directory providing information of commercial establishments, residential homes, government departments and embassies.
- The Malaysian Bar - telephone directories of courts, AG's Chambers and legal aid centres.
- eGuide - A business directory for the Asia region.
- Malaysia Central - Local Seach Engines, Portals, Directories & Guides.
General
- Credo – Access provided to Tun Hussein Onn Sunway Library users.
- Encyclopedia (Encyclopedia.com) -Provides information by search engine or alphabetical order.
- Searchgateway Encyclopedia - Provides over a dozen "encyclopedia" search engines.
- Wikipedia (Wikipedia.org) - Anyone can contribute to this encyclopedia. Verify before using information from this source.
Subject Encyclopedias
- Eric Weisstein's world of science. Multimedia Encyclopedia/Dictionaries (Text & Images).
- Encyclopedia of Psychology -- over 2000 links from people & history, careers, theories and much more. From Jacksonville State.
- Medical Encyclopedia
- Merck Manual
- All Subjects - The WWW Virtual Library
- Art - World Wide Arts Resources
- Arts & Humanities - Voice of the Shuttle
- Biological sciences - WWWVL Biosciences
- Business & Economics - Business Navigator (New York Times) , WWWVL Business & Economics , Business Reference Services (Library of Congress) , Resources for Economist (RFE)
- Chemistry - Rolf Claessen's Chemistry Index
- Computer Science - Computer Science : a guide to Web resources
- Engineering - WWWVL Engineering
- History - History Online
- Hospitality & Toursim - Hospitality (Temple University)
- Languages - iLoveLanguages
- Law - Lawlinks
- Mathematics - The Math Forum Internet Mathematics Library
- Psychology - Psych Web , Psychology Virtual Library
- Philosophy - Peter King's Website
- Physics - Physics Internet Resources
- Religion - Virtual Religion Index (Rutgers University Department of Religion)
- Social sciences - SocioSite , WWWVL International affairs
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