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Online Reference Resources
- Almanacs
- Dictionaries
- Directories
- Education
- Encyclopedia
- Maps
- Quotations
- Scientiifc Reference - Calculators
CIA World Factbook
Contains useful country information such as geographical information, socio-economic information as well as background information about the country.
Guinness World
Provides information on world records.
Infoplease Almanacs
Covers subject areas such as World and News, biography, history, business, society and culture among others.
Cambridge Dictionaries Online
Provides information on the top 40 most clicked-on entries, word of the day and online activities.
Source: Cambridge University Press.
Dictionary.com
Produced by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC
Financial Terms Dictionary - Provided by MortgageLoan.
Glossarist
Locate the definition of a term or browse subject entries.
Source: Warwick Bone.
Online Dictionary of the Social Sciences
Covers topics on anthropology, sociology, criminology, Canadian studies, political science and women's studies.
TheFreeDictionary
Provides access to computing, legal, medical, and financial dictionary, acronyms, idioms, Columbia Encyclopedia, Wikipedia Encyclopedia.
YourDictionary.com
Includes language dictionaries.
Directory of development organizations
Download information on development organizations by regions: Africa, Asia and the Middle East, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, North America and Oceania.
FinanceGates.com
Provides useful tools to assist in financial decisions.
Hoover's Online
Provides selected company and industry information
Internet Yellow Pages - Singapore
International education directory of Colleges and Universities
KOMPASS
Search for products/services or companies information
Thomas Global Register
Provides information on global industrial suppliers and product information. Source: Thomas Publishing Company
ThomasNet
Comprehensive resource for inductrial information. Provides buyers with immediate access to detailed information such as detailed product or service information, catalogs, CAD drawings, and more. Source: ThomasNet
Websters Online
Online Business Directory
Directories
Australian Universities
Provided by Australian Education Network
Braintrack University Index
Provides links to 8,300 higher education institutions in 194 Countries.
Features include:
- Alphabetical Country List
- Continents: Africa, America, Asia, Australasia and Europe
Directories: Australian Universities
Listing of Australian universities by states. Provided by WebWombat.
Petersons.com
Provides information on US colleges and universities, graduate schools and online and continuing education.
United Kingdom - Universities and Colleges listing
Site maintained by UCAS, Universities and Colleges Admissions Service
U.S. Universities by State
Provided by University of Texas at Austin
Colleges and Universities Rankings
Academic Ranking of World Universities
Provided by Shanghai Jiao Tong University
College and University Rankings
Provided by Education and Social Science Library and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
FT.com - Global MBA Rankings
Provided by Financial Times
Macleans University Rankings
Ranks Canada Universities. Provided by Macleans, Canada's only national weekly current affairs magazine
Rankings of Australian Universities
Provided by Australian Education Network
Top Business Schools
Provided by BusinessWeek
Encarta Online - Abridged version
Atlapedia Online
Contains full color physical and political maps. Also provides keys information and statistics on countries of the world.
CIA World Factbook - Reference Maps
Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection
AskOxford: Little Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
IFLA: Quotations about Libraries and Librarians
Calculators
General Calculators
Business Calculators
Financial Calculators
Calendars, Clocks/Times
