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Reference Sites

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Colleges & Careers

CollegeBoard (College directory)
College Search (Peterson's directory of colleges)
Occupational Outlook Handbook (Career info)
O*Net Computerized Interest Profiler (CIP)

Dictionaries & Thesauri

Dictionary.com
The Free Dictionary
Infoplease: Dictionary
Merriam-Webster Online (Dictionary & Thesaurus)
OneLook Dictionary (View multiple dictionary definitions in one simple search)
Thesaurus.com
YourDictionary.com: Speciality Dictionaries

Only available off-campus to students/faculty:

Oxford English Dictionary
Oxford Reference Online — Dictionaries and handbooks in all subject areas.

Directories

Verizon Super Pages (Yellow Pages, White Pages, People Finder)
Zip Code Lookup (Zip code directory from the U.S. Postal Service)

Only available off-campus to students/faculty:

Business Source Complete: Company Profiles (Subscription Resource)
Mergent Online (Company profiles)

Encyclopedias

Encyclopedia Britannica — Partial full-text encyclopedia with text and images.
Infoplease: Encyclopedia
Medline Plus Medical Encyclopedia

Only available off-campus to students/faculty:

Oxford Reference Online — Dictionaries and handbooks in all subject areas.
Salem Health — Psychology and Mental Health.
The Sixties in America (Salem History)

Facts & Figures

Conversion Calculator
Farmer's Almanac
Information Please Almanac
Periodic Table of Elements
Stock Market (CNN)
Timelines from Information Please Almanac
U.S. Census Bureau
Weather

Only available off-campus to students/faculty:

CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics — Full-text handbook of chemisty and physics reference information.
Oxford Reference Online— Dictionaries and handbooks in all subject areas.

Geographic Information & Maps

Mapquest
Google Maps (Maps and Directions)
World Factbook

Quotations

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations

Only available off-campus to students/faculty:

Oxford Reference Online — Dictionaries and handbooks in all subject areas.

Additional Reference Information

Encyclopedia Smithsonian — Links to resources available through the Smithsonian Institution.
Internet Public Library Ready ReferenceEvaluated and annotated Internet sites organized by subject.
Refdesk.com: The Single Best Source for Facts on the Net — Links to ready reference in a wide range of topics, including currency conversion, quotations, zip code finder. Features a "Site-of-the-day" and Alltheweb and Google search engines.
Virtual Reference Shelf From the Library of Congress — Selected Web resources compiled by the Library of Congress.
For other useful websites, try the library's A-Z listing of recommended websites and the library's subject guides to RBC courses.

Only available off-campus to students/faculty:

Dissertations and Theses
Oxford Reference Online — Dictionaries and handbooks in all subject areas.

library@rbc.edu | Last Update: February 6, 2012