Acronyms & Abbreviations Associations Awards Biography Career & Employment Colleges Consumer Info Copyright Law Dates/Calendars Dictionaries & Thesauri ebooks

Encyclopedias & Almanacs Financial Aid Government Information Grant Resources Health & Medicine Library Information Maps & Atlases Measurement & Converters News North Carolina Information Publishers & Booksellers Quotations

Reference Sources Search the Internet Speeches Statistics Taxes Technical Reports Telephone Directories Time Used Books & DVD's Weather Wilmington Information Writing Resources

Acronyms & Abbreviations

• Acronym Finder



• All that JAS (Journal Abbreviation Sources)



• The WorldWideWeb Acronym and Abbreviation Server

Awards

• Academy Awards - Oscars



• Caldecott Medal Books



• Newberry Medal Books



• Nobel Foundation Nobel Prize Winners



• Pulitzer Prizes
  
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Biography

• Biographical Dictionary



• Biography.com



• Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to Present



• Dead People Server "Remember whatshisname?"



• First Ladies of the United States



• Presidents of the United States
  
  
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Careers & Employment

• About Work



• America's Job Bank



• CareerNFOsource



• JobSmart Salary Surveys



• Jobtrak



• Monster Board
  Joblistings in the US



• Guide to Career Sources (from Randall Library)



• Salary.com



• UNCW Career Services
  
  
• NC Health Careers


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Colleges & Universities

• University of North Carolina Wilmington



• Cape Fear Community College



• The 16 Campuses of The University of North Carolina



• North Carolina Community College System



• North Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities



• Index of American Universities Compiled by University of Florida.



• American Community College System



• Black Collegian Online



• College Rankings from U.S. News & World Report



• Graduate School Rankings from U.S. News & World Report



• Peterson's Education Center



• College News Online
  
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Consumer Information

• Edmund's
  Car prices, reviews, test results.



• Kelley Blue Book
  Car prices.



• Motor Trend



• Consumer World



• ConsumerSearch.com



• Consumer Information Center



• Relocation Salary Calculator



• Online Zipcode Lookup
  
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Dates/Calendars/Time

• Calendarland



• Official U.S. Time



• Today's Calendar and Clock Place



• World Time Server

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Dictionaries & Thesauri

• American Sign Language Dictionary



• yourDictionary.com
  Includes foreign language dictionaries, and specialized subject dictionaries.



• Word2Word
  online dictionaries and translators.



• Thesaurus.com



• WWWebster Dictionary



• Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary


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ebooks

• ebookexplorer.com

Encyclopedias & Almanacs

• North Carolina Encyclopedia



• Britannica restricted to UNCW only



• 50 States and Capitals



• Old Farmer's Almanac



• Information Please Almanac



• Concise Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia



• Symbols
  online encyclopedia of graphic symbols
  
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Financial Aid

• UNCW Financial Aid and Grants Info



• The Foundation Center Online



• College is Possible
  
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Health & Medicine

• Healthfinder



• Human Anatomy On-Line [animated]



• Internet Public Library
  Health and Medical Sciences Reference



• Mayo Health Oasis



• CenterWatch
  clinical trials listing service



• RXList



• North Carolina Health Services Directory-Hospitals



• DocFinder
  The health professional (doctors, nurses, physician assistants) licensing database



• Rosenthal Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine



• Alternative Medicine



• Virtual Hospital
  
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Libraries & N.C. Libraries

• NC Library Catalogs



• State Library of North Carolina



• NC Public Libraries



• UNC System Libraries



• NC State Depository Libraries



• New Hanover County School's Library Catalog



• North Carolina Library Association (NCLA)



• American Library Association (ALA)



• Library of Congress
  
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Measurement

• Calculateme.com



• Currency Converter



• Digital Dutch WWW Unit Converter



• Measurement Converter



• Measure for Measure
  
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News

• Internet Public Library Reading Room Newspapers



• NewsLibrary-Make Your Own Search



• NewsLink



• newspapers.start4all.com



• Online Newspapers.com
  
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Publishers/Booksellers

• Association of American University Presses



• PubList
  the Internet Directory of Publications



• Publishers' Catalogues Home Pages



• Advanced Book Exchange



• Alibris



• Amazon



• Barnes and Noble



• Bibliofind



• Book Closeouts



• Bookfinder



• Library Booksales



• mosaicbooks
  the Black literary showcase



• Powell's Books



• Strand Books
  
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Quotations

• Bartlett's Familiar Quotations



• Quoteland.com



• The Quotations Page

Reference Sources

• Buros Institute of Mental Measurements



• Internet Public Library Ready



• U.S. Copyright Office



• My Virtual Reference Desk



• Bartleby.com


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Speeches

• Abraham Lincoln's Speeches and Writings



• American Leaders Speak: Recordings from World War I and the 1920 Election



• American Rhetoric



• The Avalon Project at Yale Law School: Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy



• The Barbara Jordan National Forum on Public Policy



• The Churchill Centre: Speeches



• Douglass: Archives of American Public Address



• Feminist.com: Articles and Speeches



• Gifts of Speech: Women's Speeches from Around the World



• Great American Speeches: 80 Years of Political Oratory



• The History Channel: Great Speeches Archive



• "I Do Solemnly Swear...": Presidential Inaugurations



• Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States



• Mandela Speaks: Selected Speeches, Statements and Writings



• Michigan State University Libraries: Vincent Voice Library



• MLK Online



• Ronald Reagan Speech Archive



• Top 100 Speeches of the 20th Century


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Statistics: Federal and North Carolina

• Statistics & Sources for Finding Them (Randall Library Guide)



• Statistical Abstract of the United States



• FEDStats



• White House Economic Statistics Briefing Room (ESBR)
  Current statistics on employment, income, unemployment, prices, and more.



• White House Social Statistics Briefing Room (SSBR)
  Current statistics on crime, education, health, and demographics.



• U.S. Census Bureau



• Economic Profile of North Carolina
  from the Federal Reserve Bank.



• North Carolina Vital Statistics



• Dataplace.org


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Telephone Directories

• Online Directories for The 16 UNC Constituent Institutions



• Telephone Directories on the Web
  includes listings for foreign countries



• 555-1212.com
  White and Yellow Pages



• AnyWho: Toll Free Listings



• Big Book (Yellow Pages)



• Big Yellow (Yellow Pages)



• Reverse Phone Directory
  White and Yellow Pages, Fax Number, Reverse Lookup, Email Addresses



• GTE SuperPages (Yellow Pages)



• International Telephone Directory



• Switchboard
  White and Yellow Pages, Email Addresses
  
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Weather: National, State, Local

• Weather Channel



• ncstormtrack.com from WRAL, Raleigh



• Daily Planet The University of Illinois



• National Hurricane Center



• National Weather Service



• National Hurricane Center



• University of Hawaii
  Tropical weather around the world



• WeatherNet



• The Weather Underground - Tropical
  
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Writing Resources

• Online Writing Lab (OWL) from Purdue University



• The Elements of Style, 1918



• MLA Style Citations for World Wide Web Sources check frequently asked questions



• Chicago Manual of Style FAQ



• Guide to Grammar and Writing



• APA electronic citations
  
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Last Update: February 22, 2008