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Reference Links

Internet Acronym Server:
http://silmaril.ie/cgi-bin/uncgi/acronyms
Medical acronyms. A database of over 120,000 acronyms and their associated long forms, e.g., (PDGF: Platelet-derived Growth Factor) that have been automatically extracted from a year's worth of Medline abstracts (2001).
medstract.org/

Medical acronyms and abbreviations:
http://www.medilexicon.com/

Over 165,000 acronyms, abbreviations, initialisms, and definitions about all subjects:
www.acronymfinder.com/

Telephony and computer related acronyms and their meanings:
acronymsonline.com/main.htm

Allied Associations & Partnerships

African Journal Partnership Project
http://www.ajpp-online.org/

American Medical Writers Association
http://www.amwa.org/default.asp?Mode=DirectoryDisplay&id=1&DirectoryUseAbsoluteOnSearch=True

Anagrams

Internet anagram server:
wordsmith.org/anagram/index.html

Animals

Animal drugs approved by the FDA (an online database):
http://www.fda.gov/cvm/Green_Book/greenbook.html
Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals (8th Edition, 2010):
http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12910

ILAR Report: Guidance for the Description of Animal Research in Scientific Publications (2011)
http://dels.nas.edu/Report/Guidance-Description-Animal/13241

Aquatic Resources

FishBase:
With 28,400 species, 35,900 pictures, 32,800 references, 1,070 collaborators, and 8 million website hits per month, FishBase is a globally recognized source for research on living aquatic resources around the world. FishBase was developed at the WorldFish Center in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and other partners.
http://www.fishbase.org
http://www.fishbase.org/home.htm

Bibliography Software

Free software to generate a bibliography in APA or MLA style:
http://mlagen.sourceforge.net/

Calculations and Conversions

Numerous calculators and converters for algebra, statistics, geometry, calculus, day/date, units, physics, chemistry, weather, colors, and many more.
http://www.easycalculation.com/

Copyright, Patents, and Trademarks

Primer on copyright law from the Library of Congress:
www.loc.gov/copyright/circs/
Search in a database of more than 3 million trademarks:
http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/gate.exe?f=tess&state=k8v8so.1.1

Currency converters

www.oanda.com/convert/classic
www.xe.com

Demographics

Demographics from the Population Reference Bureau:
http://www.prb.org/datafind/datafinder5.htm
Statistical bonanza that compares and graphs almost anything you want to know about countries, regions, and sectors:
http://www.nationmaster.com/reviews.php

Dictionaries

American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language: http://www.bartleby.com/61/
Computer and internet technology:
http://www.webopedia.com/

Cambridge University Press Dictionaries of English, American English, Phrasal Verbs, and Idioms:
www.cup.cam.ac.uk/elt/dictionary

Cliches:
www.westegg.com/cliche

Commonly confused words:
http://stage-door.org/stampact/traps.html
http://rinkworks.com/words/confused.shtml
http://karn.ohiolink.edu/~sg-ysu/confword.html
http://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/eduweb/writing/confuse.htm

Compendium of online dictionaries (extensive):
www-math.uni-paderborn.de/dictionaries/Dictionaries.html

Computing:
wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/index.html
www.webopedia.com

The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce, definitions from the dark side:
http://www.thedevilsdictionary.com/?

Homonyms:
http://www.cooper.com/alan/homonym_list.html

Information technology:
www.whatis.com/

Legal definitions:
http://www.legal-definitions.com/

Merriam-Webster Dictionary:
http://www.m-w.com/home.htm

Mispronounced words and phrases:
http://www.yourdictionary.com/library/mispron.html

OneLook Dictionaries (simultaneously search more than 1,000 dictionaries with more than 13 million entries): :
www.onelook.com/index.html

Online Dictionaries
www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/diction.html
www.dictionary.com

Rhyme and synonym finder:
www.rhymezone.com/

Slang, city by city:
www.slanguage.com

Specialized dictionaries (links to several hundred):
http://www.yourdictionary.com/diction4.html

Strange and Unusual Dictionaries (one-letter words, words with all consonants, words with all vowels):
www.blueray.com/dictionary/index.html

Telecommunication terms (FCC glossary):
http://www.fcc.gov/Consumers/glossary.html

Translate a block of text or a web page to or from eight languages:
babelfish.altavista.digital.com/cgi-bin/translate

Units of Measurement:
http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/index.html

Use Google to define words — add "define" before the word
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=define%3Awriting

Wiktionary, a collaborative project to produce a free multilingual dictionary in every language, with definitions, etymologies and pronunciations:
//en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Main_Page

Economic Data

More than 400 links to socioeconomic data sources, arranged by subject and provider, pointers to the Web's premiere data collections, and list of the ten best sites for finding regional economic data:
www.econdata.net/

Education Statistics

The National Center of Education Statistics is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education in the United States and other nations. The site contains statistics, surveys and other data on just about everything related to education at all levels. Visitors can also order a variety of publications from the center through the site. nces.ed.gov/

Encyclopedia

Columbia Encyclopedia: http://www.bartleby.com/65/
Encyclopedia Britannica: http://www.britannica.com/

Spices: http://www.theepicentre.com/Spices/spiceref.html

Wikipedia is an encyclopedia with content created by its users. All original material contributed to Wikipedia is deemed to be free content under the GNU Free Documentation License, meaning that it may be freely used, freely edited, freely copied and freely redistributed. Because pages are continually being edited, no article is ever finished.
//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia

Ethics

CSE's White Paper on Promoting Integrity in Scientific Journal Publications
In January 2000 the Office of Research Integrity (Office of Public Health and Science, U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services) issued a report, Managing Allegations of Scientific Misconduct: A Guidance Document for Editors. It is now available for download from their website: ori.dhhs.gov/misconduct

Fonts

Halloween fonts:
http://www.halloweenfonts.com/43TG71jL/fonts-h.html
http://1001freefonts.com/horror-fonts.php
Create your own special characters in Windows XP:
http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/window-on-windows/?p=618&tag=nl.e064

Free fonts:
http://www.1001freefonts.com/
http://twopeasinabucket.kaboose.com/freefonts.asp

Create unique characters using Windows Private Character Editor:
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/app_start_character_editor.mspx?mfr=true

Create gibberish for sample layouts:
http://www.duckisland.com/greekmachine.asp
http://ungreek.toolbot.com/
http://www.lindquist.dk/tools/LorumIpsumGenerator.asp

Links to websites that offer free fonts:
http://www.fonts.com/UsefulLinks/FreeFonts.htm

Font archive for creating text in languages that use characters other than standard English:
babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/fonts.html

Create your own font and save it as a True Type for PC or Mac: alphabet.tmema.org/

The mission of the Scientific and Technical Information Exchange (STIX) font creation project is the preparation of a comprehensive set of fonts that serve the scientific and engineering community in the process from manuscript creation through final publication, both in electronic and print formats. Toward this purpose, the STIX fonts will be made available, under royalty-free license, to anyone, including publishers, software developers, scientists, students, and the general public: www.stixfonts.org.

General Information

Almanac:
www.infoplease.com
Area code lookup:
http://www.melissadata.com/lookups/phonelocation.asp

Columbia Gazetteer of North America: http://www.bartleby.com/69/

Federal statistics:
More than 70 agencies in the United States Federal Government produce statistics of interest to the public. The Federal Interagency Council on Statistical Policy maintains this site to provide easy access to the full range of statistics and information produced by these agencies for public use:
www.fedstats.gov/

Internet hoaxes:
http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org/

Library links:
http://www.libraryspot.com/

Links to over 500 reference sites. Promoted as a ‘homework helper’ site for students, contains links covering 13 broad disciplines:
http://www.discoveryeducation.com/students/index.cfm

Links to hundreds of sites by category - acronyms & symbols, biography, calculators & conversions, calendars & time, census, demographics, dictionaries & glossaries, encyclopedias & almanacs, experts, geography & maps, miscellaneous, quotes & sayings, reference & subject link collections, statistics, telephone directories: www.gate.net/~barbara/ref.htm

Print your own graph paper

Grid: http://www.incompetech.com/beta/plainGraphPaper/
Probability graph paper: http://www.weibull.com/GPaper/
Logarithmic and polar graph paper: http://www.printfreegraphpaper.com/

Unraveling the mysteries of paper sizes:
www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-paper.html

World Factbook (CIA, 2003): http://www.bartleby.com/151

Who is linking to your website?
http://www.linkpopularity.com/

Geology

Structural geology:
Geology and metamorphic petrology: craton.geol.brocku.ca/guest/jurgen/struct.htm
Earth and geoscience information: http://www.isgs.illinois.edu/index.shtml

Glossaries

Dozens of glossaries in a wide range of subjects:
http://www.glossarist.com/default.asp
Telecommunications terms:
http://www.fcc.gov/Consumers/glossary.pdf

Grammar and Style

Citing the Internet:
Formats for Bibliographic Citation http://www.councilscienceeditors.org/publications/citing_internet.cfm
Commonly confused words:
http://stage-door.org/stampact/traps.html
http://rinkworks.com/words/confused.shtml
http://karn.ohiolink.edu/~sg-ysu/confword.html
http://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/eduweb/writing/confuse.htm

Apple Computer style guide:
http://www.usernomics.com/news/2006/03/apple-style-guide.html

Guide to Grammar and Style:
andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing/

IEEE Standards Style Manual:
http://standards.ieee.org/guides/style/

Microsoft Manual of Style (400 pages) free PDF
http://faculty.washington.edu/farkas/TC407/MSTP-V3.pdf

Purging Americanisms from your writing:
http://www.economist.com/research/styleguide/index.cfm?page=673931

Web style:
info.med.yale.edu/caim/manual/contents.html

U.S. Government Printing Office Style Manual 2000: http://www.gpoaccess.gov/stylemanual/browse.html

Health Information

Activity calorie counter:
http://www.primusweb.com/fitnesspartner/jumpsite/calculat.htm
Food and activity calorie counter:
http://www.calorie-count.com/

Icons

Free members brings icons:
http://www.iconbuffet.com
Thousands of images and icons available free for limited personal and institutional use:
www.iconbazaar.com/

Image Manipulation

Photo retouching, image manipulation, and image authoring. Free software:
http://www.gimp.org/
Compare PMS, RGB, and Hex colors:
http://www.tridesign.com.au/index-tess1.php?ItemNo=2055

Internet

Citing the Internet: Formats for Bibliographic Citation
http://www.councilscienceeditors.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageID=3624

Internet domain suffixes:
http://users.pandora.be/worldstandards/internet%20domain%20suffixes.htm

Who is linking to your website?
http://www.linkpopularity.com/

Journals

Instructions to Authors—contains links to Web sites that provide instructions to authors for over 3,000 journals in the health sciences:
www.mco.edu/lib/instr/libinsta.html
Journal title abbreviations:
wos.mimas.ac.uk/isicgi/help/L_abrvjt.html

Online Journals:
www.nih.gov:80/science/journals/

Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals:
www.icmje.org/index.html

Listservs

Catalog of more than 70,000 public Listserv lists:
http://www.lsoft.com/lists/listref.html

Maps

Users can call up detailed maps of any area of the country, down to a specific location on a block:
http://mappoint.msn.com/
Maps: http://worldatlas.com/

Mathematics

Mathworld^TM: www.mathworld.com
Math Forum: www.mathforum.com

Measurement

Convert measurements in two dozen categories:
http://www.onlineconversion.com/
Convert metric, US, and Imperial measurements:
www.french-property.com/ref/convert.htm

International paper sizes:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/%7Emgk25/iso-paper.html

Numerous calculators and converters for algebra, statistics, geometry, calculus, day/date, units, physics, chemistry, weather, colors, and many more.
http://www.easycalculation.com/

Print your own graph paper

Grid: http://www.incompetech.com/beta/plainGraphPaper/
Probability graph paper: http://www.weibull.com/GPaper/
Logarithmic and polar graph paper: http://www.printfreegraphpaper.com/

Understanding powers of 10 in the world of geeks:
http://www2.sims.berkeley.edu/research/projects/how-much-info/datapowers.html

Units of Measurement:
http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/index.html

Media

Journalist's Guide to the Internet. Very extensive categorized links to many sites:
reporter.umd.edu/
Directory of news sources compiled by the National Press Club, searchable by category, organization, or key word:
http://npc.press.org/newssources/searchdirectory.cfm

Public Agenda Online provides detailed background on a wide variety of public policy issues from a nonpartisan group:
http://www.publicagenda.org/issues/issuehome.cfm

Journalism reference tools from the Columbia Journalism Review: http://www.cjr.org/tools/

Provides links to hundreds of newspapers, magazines, TV stations, news services, as well as reference sources, libraries, and people search sites:
www.executivelibrary.com/

Links to newspapers all over the world, by country:
www.kidon.com/media-link/index.shtml

View the front pages of newspapers from all over the world:
http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/flash/

Pronunciation guide from the Voice of America:
http://names.voa.gov/

Medical Internet

Citing unpublished and electronic documents. The National Library of Medicine "NLM Style Guide for Authors, Editors, and Publishers" includes sections on citing material on the Internet, CD-ROMs, DVDs, and other sources: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=Books&itool=toolbar
Authorship. Who's the Author? Problems with Biomedical Authorship, and Some Possible Solutions.
http://www.councilscienceeditors.org/publications/v23n4p111-119.pdf

Citing the Internet:
Formats for Bibliographic Citation www.councilscienceeditors.org/publications/citing_internet.cfm

Clinical trials:
www.nlm.nih.gov/

The CONSORT Statement is a list of guidelines for reporting randomized controlled trials in the scientific literature. The CONSORT group (CONsolidated Standards Of Reporting Trials) updates the guidelines every few years and this year has included an additional article that explains and elaborates on each of the guidelines. www.consort-statement.org/

Dietary supplements:
International Bibliographic Information on Dietary Supplements (IBIDS) is a database on published, international scientific literature on dietary supplements, including vitamins, minerals, and botanicals. More than 600,000 citations and abstracts.
ods.od.nih.gov/databases/ibids.html

Drug information:
www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginformation.html

Eponyms:
Biographical dictionary of nearly 7,000 medical eponyms.
http://www.whonamedit.com/index.cfm

Free medical books online:
http://www.freebooks4doctors.com/fb/special.htm

Gray's Anatomy (1918): http://www.bartleby.com/107/

Immunization: The National Network for Immunization Information (NNii) provides up-to-date, science-based information to healthcare professionals, the media, and the public — everyone who needs to know the facts about vaccines and immunization.
http://www.immunizationinfo.org/

Instructions to authors for more than 3500 journals in the health and life sciences
http://mulford.meduohio.edu/instr/

Medical acronyms. A database of over 120,000 acronyms and their associated long forms, e.g., (PDGF: Platelet-derived Growth Factor) that have been automatically extracted from a year's worth of Medline abstracts (2001).
medstract.org/

Medical acronyms and abbreviations:
http://www.medilexicon.com/

Medical journal abbreviations according to NLM: ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/pubmed/J_Entrez.txt

Links to medical indexes, medical servers, and clinical information:
http://www.intmed.mcw.edu/MedIndex.html
http://www.intmed.mcw.edu/MedServers.html
http://www.intmed.mcw.edu/MedInfo.html

Medical history. Large collection of links to organizations all over the world:
www.mic.ki.se/West.html

National Library of Medicine:
links to databases and electronic information services, publications (including fact sheets) www.nlm.nih.gov/

As part of the National Library of Medicine, the National Center for Biotechnology Information is a national resource for molecular biology information:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/

Prescription shorthand:
http://mlanet.org/resources/medspeak/medshort.html

Names

Pronunciation guide from the Voice of America:
http://names.voa.gov/

Online Books

Catalog of more than 19,000 books with full online text.
Includes some serials. Searchable by author, title, and subject:
digital.library.upenn.edu/books/

Quotations

Bartlett's Quotations (1919): http://www.bartleby.com/100/
Columbia World of Quotations: http://www.bartleby.com/66/

Medical quotations. Medicine in Quotations:
Views of Health and Disease Through the Ages, Edward Huth, MD and T. Jock Murray, MD, editors: www.acponline.org/medquotes/index.html

Simpson's Contemporary Quotations -- The Most Notable Quotations:
1950-1988. Over 10,000 quotations searchable by key word, author, or subject:
www.bartleby.com/63/

Wikiquote, a free online compendium of quotations in every language, including sources (where known), and translations of non-English quotes:
//en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Main_Page

Science

Gateway to hundreds of links to selected science information provided by U.S. government agencies, including research and development results. Twelve broad categories; search capability across all categories: www.science.gov/

Searching

Simultaneously search numerous scientific databases:
http://worldwidescience.org/
Simultaneously search Google, Yahoo, LiveSearch, and Ask:
http://www.webfetch.com/

Search numerous glossaries, dictionaries, encyclopedias, books, and other sources from one website:
http://term-minator.it/en.html

Who is linking to your website?
http://www.linkpopularity.com/

Software

Timesheet software:
http://www.nchsoftware.com/timesheet/index.html
Conversions Plus converts files to and from various Windows, DOS and Mac formats—and keeps the original formatting:
www.dataviz.com/products/conversionsplus/index.html

Wiki software:
http://wiki.splitbrain.org/wiki:dokuwiki
http://twiki.org/
http://www.tiddlywiki.com/
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mediawiki (used for Wikipedia)
Compare more than 50 Wiki tools:
http://www.wikimatrix.org/

Google docs:
http://docs.google.com
Compare PMS, RGB, and Hex colors:
http://www.tridesign.com.au/index-tess1.php?ItemNo=2055

Who is linking to your website?
http://www.linkpopularity.com/

Technical Communication

Cooperative online library for technical communicators provides links to thousands of websites, articles, course materials, periodicals, reference guides, and many other materials:
http://tc.eserver.org/

Print your own graph paper

Grid: http://www.incompetech.com/beta/plainGraphPaper/
Probability graph paper: http://www.weibull.com/GPaper/
Logarithmic and polar graph paper: http://www.printfreegraphpaper.com/

Mailing lists for technical communicators:
http://www.prc.dk/user-friendly-manuals/ufm/maillist.htm

Business and Technical Writing Resources:
http://www.klariti.com/writing-resources/index.shtml

Technical Writing:
http://www.klariti.com/technical-writing/index.shtml

Thesauri

Merriam-Webster Thesaurus: http://www.m-w.com/home.htm
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus: http://www.bartleby.com/62/

Thesaurus: http://thesaurus.reference.com/

Visual Thesaurus: http://www.visualthesaurus.com/online/index.html

Time

Timesheet software:
http://www.nchsoftware.com/timesheet/index.html
Area code lookup:
http://www.melissadata.com/lookups/phonelocation.asp

U.S. Naval Observatory Master Time Clock:
tycho.usno.navy.mil/what.html

World time zones: http://www.timeanddate.com/

Travel

Electric plugs, sockets, and voltage in different countries:
http://users.pandora.be/worldstandards/electricity.htm
International car codes:
http://users.pandora.be/worldstandards/carcodes.htm

Currency converters:
http://www.oanda.com/convert/classic
www.xe.com

World time zones: http://www.timeanddate.com/

Visual Impairment

Software and information about text readers for the visually impaired
www.readplease.com

http://access.adobe.com/

www.blazie.co.uk

www.trace.wisc.edu/world/doc_access/

Wiki Software

http://wiki.splitbrain.org/wiki:dokuwiki
http://twiki.org/
http://www.tiddlywiki.com/
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mediawiki (used for Wikipedia)
Compare more than 50 Wiki tools:
http://www.wikimatrix.org/