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Online Reference Sources
Note: Titles in BOLD will require a login when accessed from off-campus.
Dictionaries	Encyclopedias, Almanacs
American Heritage Dictionary	Encyclopedia of Canada
Oxford English Dictionary	Encyclopedia of Chicago
Roget's II - New Thesaurus	Funk & Wagnalls Encylopedia
Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations	World Almanac
	World Factbook Basic information about each country in the world compiled annually by the CIA.

Style & Writing Guides
Norton Field Guide to Writing	Geographical Sources
	National Atlas of the U.S Allows overlays of various types of information, such as demographics, climate, natural resources, etc.

	U.S. Gazetteer Census maps -searchable
Directories	World Atlas
Business Search (Yellow Pages) People Search (White Pages) College/University Web sites ZIP Codes	Search place names, gets maps and extensive information about each place. Google Maps
Web site directories	Government Info, Law
Infomine ...a virtual library of Internet resources relevant to faculty, students, and research staff at the university level. Intute (Resource Discovery Network) Subject specialists select and evaluate the websites in this database and write high quality descriptions of the resources. Internet Public Library A guide to the best Web sites on a wide range of topics.	Findlaw Search for legal information, court cases, state and Federal law.
	FirstGov Portal to Federal Gov't information on the the Web.
	GovEngine
	U.S. Gov’t Manual The structure of Federal Government offices, including contact names, numbers, email addresses.

Local Information	Statistics - conversions
Rockford Weather	Statistical Abstract of the U.S.
Business/Demographic Info Web site of the Rockford Economic Development Council.	Illinois Vital Statistics
	Census QuickFacts
City of Rockford	National Center for Health Statistics
Rockford Register Star Rockford's daily newspaper	Gallop Opinion Poll
	Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics Annual report on crime from the FBI.
	Conversions of all sorts (For example, feet to meters, C to F, etc.)

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