Reference Sites

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Essential Reference Works:

Citation Guidelines  News Directory Statistics: Putnam County
Translations
Encyclopedia@Bartleby.com  Quotations Search White & Yellow Pages
 Encyclopedia Science World Fact Book
  School Library Journal   

Additional Reference Aids:

Biography Maps & Directions  Politics Navigator
Conversion Tables Municipal Codes State Index U.S. Geological Survey
Elements of Style  NY Times Navigator  Wikipedia
First Find  % Calculator / %Calculator # 2 World Meter

Targeted Consumer Reference Sites:

Automobile Information   Consumer WebWatch  How Things Work 
Census Bureau Consumer World Maps & Directions 
Census History Foreign Language Tutorials Workforce

Media Links:

ABC News National Public Radio Rolling Stone
Arts Journal Nature Magazine Salon.com
Asia Times The New Criterion Science Magazine
Atlantic Online New Pages Online Guide Slate
BBC News The New Yorker Times of London
 City Journal New York Review of Books TomPaine.com
CNN    New York Magazine  US News 
Fox News New York Times  Village Voice 
Google News The Onion Washington Post  
International Herald Tribune   Wired News 
Journal News (local) Philadelphia Inquirer WNYC (public radio)

General Reference Resources:
The engines listed on Beaucoup's main site (except "Shopping"), are "free information" sites, not lists of commercial products or services. These engines are searchable in that they have either an input engine or an alphanumeric listing, which allows the user to zero in on pages pertaining to the topic being researched.
LibrarySpot.com is a free virtual library resource center for educators and students, librarians and their patrons, families, businesses and anyone exploring the Web for valuable research information.
The Librarians' Index to the Internet (LII) is a searchable, annotated subject directory of more than 9,000 Internet resources selected and evaluated by librarians for their usefulness to users of public libraries. LII is used by both librarians and the general public as a reliable and efficient guide to Internet resources.
Refdesk indexes quality Internet sites and assists visitors in navigating these sites.
Xrefer's site contains encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri & books of quotations from the world's leading publishers. All cross-referenced, all in one place, providing a single source for reliable factual information.

Ten Government Reference Sites:
see also: Government Links

Department of Justice Library of Congress
NASA
National Archives
Patents & Trademarks
Supreme Court

Reference Questions:

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