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• ***** E-Ref - Has over 880 free electronic reference titles appropriate for undergraduates.



• BEOnline+ - Has links to mostly reference sources in 41 categories (accounting, companies, economics, finance, marketing research, etc.).



• Best Online Reference Sites - Has over 500 links on biography & history, books & literature, business & finance, countries & government, consumers & household, dictionaries & encyclopedias, directories, entertainment & recreation, facts, health & science, magazines & news, maps & travel, measures, New York State & local, quotations & writing.



• Directory of Corporate Archives in the United States and Canada - Has descriptions & contacts of companies that maintain historical records & those that contract with consulting firms, archives of professional associations, etc.



• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) - Can search, browse over 2,300 links to scientific & scholarly journals in 17 categories (health sciences, etc.). Can search over 670 journals at the article level.



• EDIRC (Economics Departments, Institutes and Research Centers in the World) - Has links to over 10,,000 institutions in 226 countries.



• e-journals.org - Has links to ejournal collections in over 30 categories.



• Encyclopedia of Law & Economics - Has over 5,000 pages of articles with searchable bibliographies of over 20,000 publications.



• Fast Facts: Almanacs/Factbooks/Statistical Reports & Related Reference Tools - Has links in over 140 categories. Focus is U.S. & Canada.



• Geostat (Geospatial and Statistical Data Center) - Has links to statistical & social science data, maps & geospatial data.



• Internet Crossroads in Social Science Data - Has over 750 links in 25 categories (data archives & Web directories [macroeconomics, elections, population, poverty, labor, public opinion, education & health, etc.], etc.



• ITC Trade Information Reference Centre - Has citations & abstracts of 1,100 ITC publications; 1,200 trade journals (550 with links), 1,800 serials, 7,000 books; 700 Web sites; 1,000 series of trade statistics; 300 documents on multilateral trade; 1,200 market reports; 700 quality control documents.



• Lawyers.com - A subsidiary of LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell Has a directory of lawyers & basic consumer legal information. Let's you find, ask, contact lawyers.



• LivRe - Has links to over 2,700 ejournals in the biological, health & medicine, agricultural, exact & earth, engineering, applied social (management, accounting, economy, etc.), human sciences (education, psychology, etc.); linguistics, literature & arts.



• Martindale's The Reference Desk - Quick, easy to use, access to difficult to find data. Updated weekly. Covers language & translation, cyberinfrastructure & Internet, education, electronic media, entertainment & arts, food & cooking, international (overview, countries, travel, business), science, over 20,000 calculators, astronomy/space, bioscience/biotech, chemistry, geoscience, mathematics, physics, etc.



• National Digital Archive of Datasets (NDAD) - Can search, browse links to databases created by U.K. government departments (health, law & order, transport, demography, etc.) back to 1963.



• Scholarly Societies Project - Has links to over 4,100 major international societies & 3,700 conferences, standards, 150 enewsletters, etc.



• Virtual Reference Shelf - Has links in 30 categories (abbreviations, almanacs, associations, awards/prizes, calculators, calendars, clocks/times, consumer information, current events, dictionaries/thesauri, directories, encyclopedias, genealogy, biography & archaeology, government, grant resources, libraries, maps/driving directions, quotations, statistics, etc.).