Reference Resources
Directories
- Duke Directory Phonebook - Information about Duke faculty, staff and students.
- AnyWho - Highly comprehensive telephone directory from A.T.&T containing business and individual phone listings, toll free listings, person searching and reverse lookup.
- Telephone Directories on the Web - Provides links to telephone directories on the web for the U.S.A., Europe, and Asia.
- People Search - National white pages provided by Yahoo.
- United States Postal Service - Provides zip code + 4 lookup information.
- Lawyer Locator - Directories of Law Firms and Lawyers.
Ready Reference
- Information Please - This site provides access to millions of facts, biographies, statistics and historical information combining almanacs, atlases, encyclopedias and dictionaries that can easily be searched and browsed.
- IPL2 (Internet Public Library) - Maintains a searchable ready reference collection on a wide variety of topics, answers reference questions by e-mail.
- Britannica Online - Contains full-text articles from Encyclopedia Britannica and Britannica Book of the Year plus Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition. Access limited to Duke University faculty, students and staff..
- CIA World Factbook - Factual information on countries of the world.
- Dictionary.com - Includes several dictionaries, Roget's Thesaurus, Strunk's Elements of Style, and Bartlett's Familiar Quotations.
- Encyclopedias and Dictionaries - Collection of links to a variety of encyclopedias and dictionaries created by Duke University's Perkins/Bostock Library Reference Department.
- Everybody's Legal Glossary and Law Encyclopedia - Plain English reference works on law for the public from Nolo Press.
- Project Bartleby - Reference resources featuring searchable quotation books, and also including other reference works such as Oxford Shakespeare, King James Bible and Columbia Encyclopedia among others.
- Statistical Abstract of the United States - Compendium of national, regional, state, local, and selected international statistics based on the print edition.
- STAT-USA Sources - A service formerly run by the U.S. Department of Commerce that provides access to government-sponsored business, economic, and trade information databases. This guide maintains the links which were provided on the STAT-USA site, which ceased operation in September 2010.
- Webster Dictionary - Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition.
Travel, Weather & Recreation
- UM-Weather - University of Michigan's interactive weather information provides visibility, wind, heat index, wind chill, humidity, and dewpoint, as well as searching by city, zip code, or country.
- WRAL-TV Weather - North Carolina weather and forecasts.
- MapQuest - Interactive Atlas: customizable USA road maps; Tripquest: charts driving routes.
- Embassy.org - Links to foreign embassies in Washington D.C. and Business Directories for companies serving this international community.
- Fodors - Destination guides, hotels, restaurants, discussion forums, and other resources brought from the popular travel publisher.
- Time Zones - Real time from around the world.
- Currency Exchange Rates - OANDA interactive currency converter allows coversion from one type of currency or precious metal to another and for any past date as well as today's date.
Last updated 11/2010 JPB
