• Biography
• Afro-American Woman Writers of the 19th Century - Biographies
• Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress, 1774-present users may search the database by name, position, and state.
• Biographical Information Politicians, business executives & more via Lexis Nexis
• Biography.com
• Distinguished Women of Past and Present
• Lives, the Biography Resource
• Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People
• Zarate's Political Collection Information about current and past world political leaders.
• 4000 Years of Women in Science

 

• Dictionaries
• American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language The unabridged American Heritage® Dictionary, Third Edition, contains over 350,000 entries and meanings.
• Merriam-Webster Dictionary
• Roget's II: The New Thesaurus
• Academic Press Dictionary of Science and Technology Search from over 130,000 terms defined in 130 fields of science.
• A Web of Online Dictionaries Dictionaries in many languages -- including English.
• American Heritage Book of English Usage
• English-Japanese Dictionaries
• English-Japanese Acronym dictionary
• Excite's Dictionary of English-Japanese University Words
• English-Japanese Dictionary
• Life Science Dictionary Project 

 

• Encyclopedias/ General
• Columbia Encyclopedia The largest one-volume general encyclopedia available, its year 2000 publication date makes it the most timely and up-to-the minute encyclopedic reference source available.
• Encyclopedia Mythica An encyclopedia on mythology, folklore, and legend.
• Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Facts on File Inc., Science On-line reference database
• Funk & Wagnells New World Encyclopedia over 25,000 records, covering an array of topics.
• Gale Virtual Reference Library
• Information Please An online "almanac" for checking facts, statistics, historical information, etc.
• Refdesk.com "Refdesk is about indexing quality Internet sites and assisting visitors in navigating these sites."

• Libraries
• Cornell University Library
• Library Information Servers on the WWW
• SUNY Albany Libraries
• The Library of Congress Web Page
• Search the LC Catalog
• Search other catalogs
• The Internet Public Library
• The New York Public Library
• The New York State Library

• Maps/Countries of the World
• Background Notes Information on countries, including economic and trade topics
• CIA World Factbook
• Color Landform Atlas of the United States
• Country Commercial Guides
• Country Profiles Lexis Nexis
• Country Studies
• CountryWatch.com information and news on the countries of the world
• TopoZone U.S.G.S. topographic maps for the entire U.S.
• World Climate

• Quotations
• Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
• Simpson's Contemporary Quotations Provides over 10,000 quotes from over 4000 sources, including 25 categories of quotes, and 60 sections, ranging from “love” to “criminology.”
• The Columbia World of Quotations

• Statistics
• Ameristat
• FedStats
• National Center for Educational Statistics
• Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics Online
• State and Metropolitan Area Data Book
• Statistical Abstracts of the United States
• UN Social Indicators
• Uniform Crime Reports