Reference Guides and Online Tools

Reference Guides

• Abbreviations - Acronyms & abbreviations directory
• Answers.com - Questions & answers
• Ask Here PA - Ask a librarian a question
• Atlas of the Human Body
• Bartleby.com Reference Section
• Big Huge Thesaurus
• The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation
• Book of Odds - The odds of everyday life
• Convert.net - Conversion calculator
• Dictionary.com
• Definr - Incredibly fast dictionary
• Glossary of Internet Terms
• Guide to Grammar and Writing
• How Stuff Works
• Instructables - How to make stuff
• MathWorld
• Merriam-Webster Online
• One Look - Links to many dictionaries
• Purdue University's Online Writing Lab (The OWL)
• Quotes
• Refdesk.com
• The St. Martin's Handbook
• TimeAndDate.com - Local times around the world, date calculators, calendars, weather around the world
• Virtual Reference Shelf
• Visuwords - Graphical dictionary
• Webopedia - Dictionary of computer and Internet technology
• What is Plagiarism?
• Wikipedia

Online Tools

• Create surveys: Polldaddy or SurveyMonkey
• Dabbleboard - Digital whiteboard
• Diigo - Research tool/knowledge-sharing community
• Delicious - Social bookmarking
• Doodle - Schedule a meeting
• Evernote - Save and archive web pages, notes, photos, or memos and access them from any computer
• Feed My Inbox - Sends blogs, feeds, news directly to your email
• Flickr - Creative Commons option for sharing photos
• Go2Web20 - Web 2.0 tools and applications
• Library Thing - Cataloging and social networking site for book lovers
• Personal web portals: iGoogle or My Yahoo or Pageflakes or Netvibes
• Slideshare - Share PowerPoint, Word, & PDF documents
• StumbleUpon - Discover cool stuff personalized to you
• TinyURL - Make a long web address shorter to make sharing easier