Academic Info Reference Desk
Ask An Expert - Askanexpert.com connects you with hundreds of real world experts, ranging from astronauts to zookeepers. For students, teachers, kids, parents, grandparents, your nephew Billy, curious people, researchers, scientists, business people, really smart chimps…ANYONE!
BioTech - Life Sciences Resources and Reference Tools.
Digital Librarian: a librarian's choice of the best of the Web
Encyberpedia - Over 10,000 links to the best reference sites on the Internet, from genealogy to computers, and from education to entertainment.
Global Gateway (Library of Congress) - Access multilingual resources on world culture.
Research Guides A-Z
INFOMINE: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections - Over 20 University of California, California State University, and other university and college librarians have contributed to building INFOMINE, which is intended as a virtual library and reference tool containing highly useful Internet/Web resources including databases, electronic journals, electronic books, bulletin boards, listservs, online library card catalogs, articles and directories of researchers, of relevance to faculty, students, and research staff at the university level.
Information Please - Search almanacs, atlases, dictionaries, encyclopedias and other cool stuff.
Information Resources for Information Professionals
Life Science Library at UT Austin - Links to reference sources in botany, biology, microbiology, pharmacy, medicine.
MIT Libraries: Virtual Reference Collection - Cool links to colleges and universities on the web, statistical information, weather, style manuals and lots more.
Reference Bartleby.com - Access Columbia Encyclopedia, American heritage Dictionary, Roget's Thesaurus, Simpson's Contemporary Quotations, Oxford Shakespeare, Strunk's Elements of Style, the World Factbook and more.
Quick Reference - Useful links put together by The Purdue University Libraries.
UT Library Online: Useful Reference Sites
Quick Reference - Brought to you by the University of Queensland.

[ Directories ]

Bigfoot
International Telephone Directories
Internet@ddress Finder
AOL White Pages
Scholarly Societies Project - facilitating access to information about scholarly societies across the world.
Subway Navigator - This route finder is an online program that helps you find your journey via public transport in over 60 cities around the world, 10 of wich are situated in the US alone ! Vancouver, Baltimore, Madrid, or Tokyo... if your city is listed, all you need to do is enter your departure and arrival stations from the list.
Superpages.com - SuperPages.com is the leading online Yellow Pages directory service with millions of business listings in US.
Telephone Directories on the Web - This is the Internet's original and most complete index of online phone books, with over 400 links to Yellow Pages, White Pages, Business Directories, Email Addresses and Fax Listings from over 170 countries all around the world.
TravelPage.com - Interactive Travel Guides' directory of worldwide destinations. Travel information about destinations, hotels, resorts, cruises, airlines, online reservations, late breaking news and weather and links to thousands of travel sites with practical and objective travel information.
The Ultimate Directory - Infospace - Find people, places, things.
WhoWhere - The way to find people on the web ...
World Directories Guide - Worldwide directory guides, charters, outfitters, fishing, hunting, canoeing, rafting, kayaking, hiking, trekking, climbing, mountaineering, scuba diving, sailing, safaris, snowmobiling, trail riding.

[ Converters ]

10,000-year Calendar! - With this calendar you can view a month or year calendar for any year 1 to 10000 A.D. All leap years and calendar changes are accounted for.
Calculators On-line Center - On Martindale's Reference Desk.
Chemicool Periodic Table
Currency Converter for 164 currencies around the world
A Dictionary of Measures, Units and Conversions
Ecclesiastical Calendar
Measure 4 Measure - A collection of interactive sites on the web that estimate, calculate, evaluate, translate, etc.
MegaConverter 2 - Coverts area, angles, temperature, speed, astro distance, density, energy and more.
Metric Coversion Chart - Length. Millimeters. Inches. Meters. Feet. Yards. Temperature. Fahrenheit. Celcius. Volume. Liters. Ounces. Quarts. Gallons. ...
The World Clock - Time Zones
XE.com - The Universal Currency Converter™, the world's most popular currency tool, allows you to perform interactive foreign exchange rate calculations on the Internet, using live, up-to-the-minute currency rates

[ Encyclopedias ]

Encarta Encyclopedia - Your gateway to 17,000 articles, multimedia, talking dictionaries and world atlas.
Encyclopedia.com - The internet's premiere free encyclopedia with more than 50,000 articles.
Encyclopedia Mythica - A fascinating encyclopedia on mythology, folklore and legend, ranging from Aboriginal mythology to Roman mythology.
Encyclopedia of the New Economy
Encyclopedia Smithsonian - Encyclopedia Smithsonian features FAQs ranging from art to zoology.
EncycloZine: Learning Fun - A fun way of learning about the arts, history, humanities, life, science, space and technology.
Eric Weisstein's Treasure Troves of Science - Here you will find the extensive on-line encyclopedias of math and science compiled by web encyclopedist Eric W. Weisstein.
MacquarieNet - Australia's leading online encyclopedia.
Nolo's Legal Encyclopedia - This site, provided by Nolo Press, a publisher of self-help law books and software, is a handy compendium of brief advice on fifteen topics, including small business, patent, copyright & trademark, legal research, wills & estate planning, and real estate.
Nupedia.com - The open content encyclopedia. A free, international, peer-reviewed encyclopedia.
Probert Encyclopedia - References with over 85,000 linked entries covering the spectrum of human knowledge aimed at journalists and serious researchers.
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - An online encyclopedia maintained and updated by experts in a variety of fields.

[ Maps ]

Best Maps: City Maps, State Maps, Road Maps and World Maps
Country and Regional Map Sites - A fascinating list of useful links to maps of all kinds. By The University of Texas at Austin.
Historical Maps Web Sites - Links you to images of the early world - from Islamic history maps to World War II maps, and from the Roman empire to early trade route maps.
Interactive World Map - By Multimap.com.
Lycos Roadmaps - For US and Canada.
Lycos Roadmaps - International. Get a roadmap from anywhere in the world.
Maps @ nationalgeographic.com
Maps.com: The Place for Maps Online - Plan A Trip. Map & Travel Store. Explore with Maps. Get Directions.
MapQuest Driving Directions, Maps & Live Traffic reports - Where to go, how to get there. MapQuest.com makes it easier for you.
ReliefWeb: Map Centre - Reference and thematic maps concerning current and past humanitarian emergencies and natural disasters.
Road Maps, Travel Maps, Topographic Maps, City Maps, Street Maps - Map Town has maps of all kinds for every country in the world. Everything from a street map of Katmandu, to topographic maps of Antarctic Islands, to hiking maps of your favorite trails.
Street Maps & City Maps - Easy to use street maps, city maps, state maps, highway maps, country maps, and satellite photographs.
United Nations Cartographic Section - Maps and geographic information resources.
Weather Map Sites - Maintained by The Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection, The University of Texas at Austin.
WorldAtlas.com - Find country locators in World Atlas plus country and geography facts, free map clipart, country flags and more.
World City Maps - These maps are produced by the U.S. Dept. of State unless otherwise noted.
World Sites Atlas - Maps, hotels, tourist information, weather, photos, links, news...Almost 1,000 pages of information can be found on this site!

[ Biographies ]

Biographical Dictionary - This dictionary covers more than 28,000 notable men and women who have shaped our world from ancient times to the present day. The dictionary can be searched by birth years, death years, positions held, professions, literary and artistic works, achievements, and other keywords.
Biography.com - Search 25,000 personalities.
Lives, the Biography Resource - The largest guide to biography sites on the Web. Links to thousands of biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, diaries, letters, narratives, oral histories and more. Individual lives of the famous, the infamous, and the not so famous. Group biographies about people who share a common profession, historical era or geography.
Public Figure.com - The world's most famous people ...