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General Reference Sources Index

• Electronic Reference Shelf Index
• Various Educational guides (GRE, LSAT, TOFEL, etc.; university rankings)

Acronyms

• Acronym Finder - Searchable database of more than 55,000 common acronyms and abbreviations
• The World Wide Web Acronym and Abbreviation Server

Addresses -- McGill University

• McGill University Directory

Addresses -- United States / World Coverage

• ANYWHO - reverse phone number lookup
• Canada411 - Look up Canadian phone numbers
• Canadian Government Directory
• CCSO Phonebook Gateway - lookup university phone directories
• Excite - Email Lookup - enter name and domain
• Four11 the Internet White Pages - lookup American phone numbers
• Inter-Network Mail Guide - Information on sending mail between different network
• Internet Address Finder - lookup by last name, narrow by first name, organization, and/or domain
• WhoWhere? - E-mail Addresses - lookup by name and domain
• WHOIS Servers WorldWide
• World E-Mail Directory (WED)
• Yahoo-People Search-Email - lookup by first and last name, and domain

Awards

• Caldecott Medal Winners
• Children's Book Awards - from The Children's Literature Web Guide
• Newbery Medal Winners
• Nobel Prize Internet Archive
• Pulitzer Prize Awards, 1917-2001 Awards (archives)

Book Reviews

• Booklist -- includes Reference Books Bulletin
• H-Net Reviews - H-Net Humanities Online
• CM: Canadian Review of Materials

Calendars

• CalendarLand -- major index to calendar sites, includes sections on celestial, cultural, religious, and today in history calendars, as well as holidays and the millenium.
• World Wide Holiday and Festival Page
• Calendar Conversions -- Allows you to convert dates among various calendar systems
• Khayam A Persian Calendar Program

Copyright

• Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency
• Copyright Act (Bill c-32)

Dictionaries

• Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 Edition - ARTFL Project
• A Web Of On-Line Dictionaries
• Language Dictionaries & Translators
• EDICTA - the Early Dictionaries Centre
• Pedro's Dictionaries
• Roget's Thesaurus ARTFL Project

Glossaries

• Education Week's Glossary of Educational Terms

Library Research Guide - Please note that because this guide is from another university, specific examples of how to search catalogues or databases are not relevant to McGill users.

• Duke University's Guide to Library Research

Subject Dictionaries

• Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing --  FOLDOC

Quotations

• Bartlett's Familliar Quotations

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