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Reference Resources: D-H

  • Dictionaries
  • Directories
  • Encyclopedias & Handbooks
  • Glossaries
  • Government Information
  • The American-British British-American Dictionary - for English speaking people - by Jeremy Smith.
  • A Basic Dictionary of American Sign Language (ASL) terms
  • Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable - 1898 edition - over 18,000 entries that reveal the etymologies, trace the origins and otherwise catalog “words with a tale to tell.” From Bartleby.com
  • Cambridge Dictionary (from Cambridge University Press).
  • Dictionary.com
  • Duhaime's Law Dictionary - recommended research resource for law students by both Cambridge and Oxford's law schools.
  • Free Online Dictionary of Computing (FOLDOC)
  • Hypertext Webster Gateway - this hypertext Webster interface provides a point-and-click client interface (for non-linemode browsers) for accessing various dictionary services on the Internet created by Bennet Yee.
  • LOGOS Multilingual E-Translation Portal
  • Merriam-Webster Dictionary
  • NetLingo - The Internet Dictionary
  • The New Hacker's Dictionary - slang, jargon and techspeak
  • OneLook Dictionary - a search engine for words and phrases: the OneLook® search engine indexes more than 19 million words in more than 1000 online dictionaries.
  • OnMusic Dictionary - music dictionary created by Connect for Education, Inc.
  • RhymeZone Rhyming Dictionary - find rhymes, synonyms, adjectives, and more!
  • Ultralingua Online Dictionary - (dictionaries in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Latin and Spanish)
  • WordNet Search - a large lexical database of English. Nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are grouped into sets of cognitive synonyms (synsets), each expressing a distinct concept.
  • Wordsmith - home of A Word a Day, the Internet Anagram Server, and the Wordster
  • Wordsmyth- the premier educational dictionary-thesaurus.
  • Company Directories - from BEOnline, Business Reference Services, Library of Congress
  • Find Your Lawyer - from FindLaw.com
  • The Global Disability Directory - a Disability Support International program working to build and maintain an online directory to inform and connect those working in the disability sector and those needing help, especially in the majority world.
  • Government Web Resources - from the Newspaper & Current Periodical Reading Room, Serial and Government Publications Division, Library of Congress.
  • Idealist - Action Without Borders - a searchable directory of Non-Profit Organizations
  • International Organizations  - from the Newspaper & Current Periodical Reading Room, Serial and Government Publications Division, Library of Congress.
  • Scholarly Societies Project - facilitating access to information about scholarly societies across the world since 1994 (last updated 2015)
  • Artcyclopedia - The Fine Art Search Engine: great art online, from over 9,000 famous painters, sculptors and photographers, at art museum sites & image archives worldwide.
  • The Age of Fable - Bullfinch's Mythology from bartleby.com.
  • The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes - considered the most important work of literary history and criticism ever published; the Cambridge History contains over 303 chapters and 11,000 pages, with essay topics ranging from poetry, fiction, drama and essays to history, theology and political writing - from bartleby.com.
  • The Catholic Encyclopedia - from NewAdvent.org.
  • Encyclopedia Astronautica - Mark Wade's space program/space history encyclopedia.
  • Encyclopedia Brittanica (offers free trial, then need paid subscription).
  • Encyclopedia.com - Encyclopedia.com has more than 100 trusted sources, including encyclopedias, dictionaries, and thesauruses with facts, definitions, biographies, synonyms, pronunciation keys, word origins, and abbreviations.
  • Encyclopedia Mythica - award-winning internet encyclopedia of mythology, folklore, and religion.
  • The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
  • Facts Encyclopedia - from refdesk.com.
  • Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body - on bartelby.com.
  • The Merck Manuals - a wide variety of medical information.
  • NatureServe Explorer - an Online Encyclopedia of Life: an authoritative source for information on more than 70,000 plants, animals, and ecosystems of the United States and Canada. Explorer includes particularly in-depth coverage for rare and endangered species.
  • The Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (OEIS)
  • Simonds History of American Literature - from Bibliomania
  • Sparticus Educational - The Spartacus Educational website provides a series of free history encyclopaedias. Entries usually include a narrative, illustrations and primary sources. Primarily focused on England and the U.S.
  • Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - organizes scholars from around the world in philosophy and related disciplines to create and maintain an up-to-date reference work
  • Campbell R. Harvey's Hypertextual Finance Glossary - the largest financial glossary on the Internet.
  • GeoMan's Glossary of Earth Science
  • Glossaries from Encyberpedia.com - A large list of glossaries on subjects from accelerator physics to zoological nomenclature.
  • A Glossary of Literary Terms - from Virtual Salt by Robert Harris.
  • Glossary of Poetic Terms from Bob's Byway -  a unique guide for the study of poetry.
  • A Glossary of Political Economy Terms - by Dr. Paul M. Johnson at Auburn University.
  • Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples - from the University of Kentucky Division of Classics.
  • Glossary of Technical Theatre Terms - from Theatrecrafts.com.
  • InvestorWords - the biggest, best investing glossary on the web.
  • Multilingual Glossary of Technical and Popular Medical Terms in Nine European Languages
  • Talking Glossary of Genetic Terms - from the National Human Genome Research Institute.
  • Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: A Glossary of Hardboiled Slang - by William Denton.
  • Ultimate Guide to Film Terms: The Definitive Glossary of Film Terminology from StudioBinder
  • Weather Glossary - from the National Weather Service, NOAA.
  • Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) - from the U.S, Department of Health & Human Services.
  • AgingStats.gov - federal interagency forum on aging related statistics.
  • The CIA World Factbook - provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities.
  • Collaborative Research on Addiction at National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  • Congress.gov/Library of Congress - legislation, congressional record, committees, members.
  • ClinicalTrials.gov - Up-to-date information for locating federally and privately supported clinical trials for a wide range of diseases and conditions.
  • Embassy.org: The Electronic Embassy - a resource of and for the Washington, D.C. foreign embassy community.
  • FindLaw's Cases and Codes - FindLaw's Cases and Codes section contains resources and links for both state and federal laws. This includes resources pertaining to constitutions, statutes, cases and more.
  • govinfo.gov | U.S. Government Publishing Office - free U.S. Government information for all - a service of the United States Government Publishing Office (GPO)
  • GovSpot.com - a non-partisan government information portal designed to simplify the search for the best and most relevant government information online. This free resource offers a high-utility collection of top government and civic resources hand-selected by its editorial team for their quality, content and utility.
  • HHS.gov (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)
  • International Organizations - from the Newspaper & Current Periodical Reading Room, Serial & Government Publications Division, Library of Congress.
  • National Agriculture Library Catalog (AGRICOLA) - from the United States Department of Agriculture.
  • Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States - from the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO).
  • QuickFacts from the U.S. Census Bureau - statistics for all states and counties, and for cities and towns with a population of 5,000 or more.
  • State and Local Government on the Net -
    the State and Local Internet directory provides convenient one-stop access to the websites of thousands of state agencies and city and county governments and other organizations.
  • United Nations (UN)
  • U.S. National Library of Medicine - from the National Institutes of Health.
  • United States House of Representatives
  • United States Senate
  • USA.gov - the U.S. Government's Official Web Portal
  • WashLaw Web - Legal Research on the Web from Washburn University Law School
  • The White House

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