Reference Resources
General Reference
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The Virtual Reference Desk - Purdue University
http://www.lib.purdue.edu/vlibrary/
- iTools
http://www.iTools.com/research-it/research-it.html
Science & Technology Reference
- Community of Science
http://www.cos.com
COS brings together prominent scientists and researchers from around the world. - EEVL - The Internet Guide to Engineering, Mathematics, and Computing
http://www.eevl.ac.uk/
EEVL's mission is to provide access to quality networked engineering, mathematics and computing resources, and be the national focal point for online access to information in these subjects. It is an award-winning free service, created and run by a team of information specialists from a number of universities and institutions in the UK. EEVL's target audience is students, staff and researchers in higher and further education, as well as anyone else working, studying or looking for information in Engineering, Mathematics and Computing - Infomine
http://infomine.ucr.edu/
INFOMINE is a virtual library of Internet resources relevant to faculty, students, and research staff at the university level. It contains useful Internet resources such as databases, electronic journals, electronic books, bulletin boards, mailing lists, online library card catalogs, articles, directories of researchers, and many other types of information. It is created by contributions from librarians at several different universities across the U.S. -
Internet Public Library - Science Reference
http://www.ipl.org/ref/RR/static/sci0000.html
- Thomas Register on the Web
http://www.thomasregister.com/
Thomas Register of American Manufacturers allows you to search the 155,000 companies in our database classified under more than 55,000 product and service headings. - Webopedia
www.webopedia.com
An online dictionary and search engine for computer and Internet technology. - Whatis?com
http://whatis.techtarget.com/
An Information Technology- specific encyclopedia, especially covering the Internet and computers.. It contains over 2,000 individual encyclopedic definition/topics and a number of quick-reference pages. The topics contain about 12,000 hyperlinked cross-references between definition-topics and to other sites for further information. - Acronym Finder
http://www.acronymfinder.com/
Look up more than 276,000 acronyms and meanings.
Questions or comments?
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Last modified: Thursday September 23, 2004