Reference Links
A Word A Day
Acronyms
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
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:
www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/labrats/
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
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
Bibliography Software
Free software to generate a bibliography in APA or MLA style:
http://mlagen.sourceforge.net/
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 963 dictionaries with nearly 6 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/
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
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/
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/
Fonts
Create your own special characters in Windows XP:
http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/window-on-windows/?p=618&tag=nl.e064
Free fonts:
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:
school.discovery.com/homeworkhelp/bjpinchbeck/
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.uiuc.edu/earthsci/tofc.htm
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
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
MathworldTM: 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
Print your own graph paper
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
English versions of Chinese authors' names in biomedical journals:
Observations and recommendations:
Indexing the names of authors from Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries:
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
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.upshawinst.org/vendors.htm
www.readplease.com
http://access.adobe.com/
www.blazie.com/
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/
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