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



• American National Biography (ANB) - Search & browse over 17,400 articles with descriptive bibliographies & 2,500 illustrations of famous, distinguished, infamous, dead Americans. Limit to special collections on Black History, Women's History, Asian Pacific American Heritage, Hispanic Heritage, American Indian Heritage. Has a teacher's guide. Updated quarterly. RESTRICTED to TC (NY, South, Berlin, France), Law, TUI.



• Associations Unlimited - Search information (full contact, meetings & publications, etc.) on over 460,000 international & U.S. national, regional, state, local nonprofit membership organizations in all fields. Includes IRS data on U.S. 501(c) nonprofit organizations, standard industrial classification (SIC) codes. RESTRICTED to TC (NY, South, Berlin), Law, TUC, TUI.



• 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.



• BooksInPrint.com Professional - Search over 700,000 reviews of titles by over 200,000 publishers; 30,000 full-text previews; 140,000 tables of contents. RESTRICTED to TC (NY, LA, South). WHEN FINISHED, CLICK ON LOGOUT TO CLOSE YOUR SESSION.



• ChoiceReviews.online - Search over 115,000 reviews back to 1987. Covers books & electronic resources of interest to higher education. Updated monthly. You can register, create a profile, and have resources of interest emailed to you monthly. RESTRICTED to TC (NY, LA, South, Israel).



• Credo Reference - Was xreferplus. Search over 210 reference sources (biographies, conversions, dictionaries, encyclopedias, quotations) in 16 academic disciplines. Covers art, business, history, literature, medicine, music, philosophy, psychology, science, social sciences, technology, etc.. Use the Books & Media (Library Catalog) to link to individual ebooks. RESTRICTED to TC (NY, LA, South, Berlin, France, Israel, Moscow), Law, THmed, TUC, TUI, TUN, LIJ.



• 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.



• Encyclopaedia Britannica Online - Academic edition. Search the encyclopaedia of over 73,000 articles & 10,000 illustrations, or limit to the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary & Thesaurus. Includes a World Atlas, Compare Countries, Timelines, Year in Review, World Data, Video Browse, Gateway to the Classics. RESTRICTED to TC (NY, LA, South, Berlin, France, Israel, Moscow), Law, THmed, TUI, TUN, LIJ.



• Encyclopedia Americana - Grolier Online. Search 45,000 articles by 6,500 specialists, links to 100,000 periodical articles, 9,000 bibliographies, 3,000 images, 155,000 Web links. RESTRICTED to TC (NY, LA, South, Berlin, France, Israel), Law, LIJ.



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



• General Reference - Has links to encyclopedias, dictionaries, biographical & geographical sources, statistics, almanacs & yearbooks, museums.



• General Reference Resources - ***** INFOMINE. Has links in 26 categories (acronyms/abbreviations, almanacs/statistics/factbooks, associations/societies, biographies/awards, calendars/dates/time zones, copyright/fair use, ejournal guides, etext guides, English & foreign language dictionaries/quotations/etc., government (federal/California), grants/foundations, library directories, maps/zip codes/distances/places, money/currencies, newspapers, news sources, nonprofit organizations, publishers/book stores, reference desk collections, telephone/fax/email (people & businesses, travel/weather/roads, universities/colleges, weights & measures, writing/style/grammar).



• Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia - Grolier Online. Search 40,000 quick reference articles, 24,000 encyclopedia articles, 7,500 photos & illustrations, 114,000 Web links derived from the Academic American Encyclopedia. RESTRICTED to TC (NY, LA, South, Berlin, France, Israel), Law, LIJ.



• Grolier Online - Search the entire Grolier Online, or limit to the Encyclopedia Americana or Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia. Includes dictionaries, an atlas, news, links to world newspapers, information for educators (lesson plans, etc.). RESTRICTED to TC (NY, LA, South, Berlin, Israel), Law, LIJ.



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



• Marquis Who's Who On The Web - Search over 1 million concise & comprehensive biographies of accomplished individuals worldwide from all fields of endeavor. Drawn from 20 Marquis print titles back to 1985 (Who Was Who in America, Who's Who in (America, American [Art, Education, History, Law, Nursing], 20th Century America, the East, Midwest, South & Southwest, West, the World, Entertainment, Finance & Business, Media & Communications, Medicine & Healthcare, Religion, Science & Engineering), Who's Who Among Human Services Professionals, Who's Who of (American Women, Emerging Leaders in America). Updated daily. RESTRICTED to TC (NY, South, Berlin), Law, TUC, TUI.



• 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..



• NoodleTools - Generate, edit, publish an MLA Works Cited list or APA References list that complies with rules of the current MLA Handbook & APA Publication Manual. For detail on using this program, read our Creating Your Bibliography with NoodleTools. RESTRICTED to TC (NY, LA, South). WHEN YOU LOG IN THE FIRST TIME, CREATE YOUR OWN ACCOUNT. WHEN FINISHED, CLICK ON LOG OUT TO CLOSE YOUR SESSION. FACULTY - Create a Class Name for your students so they can share their citation/reference lists with you for review & comment.



• OED Online (Oxford English Dictionary) - Search for definitions, etymologies, quotations from the 20 vol., 2nd ed., 1989 & 3 vol. add. series, 1993-97. Updated quarterly. RESTRICTED to the TC (NY, LA, South, Berlin, France, Israel, Moscow), Law, THmed, TUC, TUN, LIJ.



• Oxford Reference Online (premier collection) - Search & browse over 100 ebooks in 24 categories. Covers the English language, history, literature, physical sciences & mathematics, politics & social sciences, religion & philosophy, science, etc.). Includes bilingual dictionaries. Use the Books & Media (Library Catalog) to link to individual ebooks. RESTRICTED to TC (NY). WHEN FINISHED, CLICK ON LOG OUT TO CLOSE YOUR SESSION.



• Ready Reference & Quick Facts - ***** Librarians' Internet Index. Has links to abbreviations & acronyms, foreign exchange rates, statistics, zip/postal codes, airports & airport codes, calendars, conversion tables, encyclopedias, holidays & observances, phone books, quotations, weignts & measures, censuses, gazetteers, names, standards, time, etc..



• Reference - Yahoo Search Directory. Has links in 39 categories (phone numbers & addresses, quotations, libraries, dictionaries, thesauri, encyclopedias, calendars, postal information).



• Reference - Voice of the Shuttle (VOS). Has links to general reference collections & meta-pages; English dictionaries & thesauruses; foreign language dictionaries; encyclopedias & biographical dictionaries; quotations; scholarly reference resources; guides to evaluating Internet resources; guides to critical thinking & argument; style & grammar guides; phone & e-mail address directories; mail address, street map, & postal information; atlases & geographical resources; calendars & time; currency rates.



• Reference - IPL (The Internet Public Library). Has links in 19 categories (almanacs, associations & organizations, biographies, calculations & conversion tools, calendars, census data & demographics, dictionaries, encyclopedias, experts & how-to, geneaology, geography, grammars, news & current events, periodical directories, quotations, style & writing guides, telephone & address, trivia).



• Reference Center - FirstGov.gov. Has links to abbreviations & acronyms; calendars, dates & time; government contact information; forms; Freedom of Information & Privacy Act; historical documents; laws & regulations; libraries; maps; news; photos & graphics; government publications; student & teacher resources; etc..



• Reference Collection - Has links to 21 academic (meta sites; acronyms & abbreviations; almanacs; associations; biography; books, book reviews; publishers; colleges & universities; countries; dictionaries; thesauri & grammars; encyclopedias; flags & anthems; government information, the Internet, journal directories, local & regional information, maps & map services, quotations, speeches & transcripts, statistical sources, style guides, U.S. facts & locations) & 19 general information (audo prices; awards & prize winners; calculators; career resources; consumer information; currencies; email addresses; films; financial aid & grants; genealogy; medicine & health; news; phone books; recipes; September 11th terrorist attacks; time, date & calendars; travel; weather; weights & measures) sites.



• Reference Desk - Has links on acronyms & abbreviations, addresses, almanacs, associations & organizations, biography, calculators & converts, calenders, countries, dictionaries, encyclopedias, geography & maps, grants, holidays, occupations & careers, quotations, statistics, telelphones, time, weather, weights & measures, etc..



• Serials Directory, The - Search bibliographic & pricing information on over 184,000 U.S. & international titles, historical data for 20,000 titles. Includes newspapers. Data from 83,500 publishers worldwide. RESTRICTED to TC (NY, LA, South, Berlin, Israel, Moscow), Law, TUC, TUI, TUN, LIJ.



• SIGI PLUS (System of Interactive Guidance and Information) - Use this interactive self-assessment software to make informed & rational educational & career decisions by evaluating your values, interests, skills, resources (educational, financial, etc.). RESTRICTED to TC (NY). WHEN YOU LOG IN THE FIRST TIME, CREATE YOUR OWN ACCOUNT (USE YOUR TOURO I.D. NUMBER AS YOUR USER I.D. AND MAKE UP YOUR OWN PASSWORD).



• Virtual Reference Shelf - Library of Congress, The. 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.).



• Westlaw Campus Research - Search & browse news (hundreds of U.S newspapers, magazines, trade journals, international & foreign language publications, 400 newswires, newsletters, broadcast transcripts, company information) & law-related content (analytical sources - American Jurisprudence, American Law Journal, 800 law reviews & journals; primary law sources - US Code, federal/state/Supreme Court cases, Code of Federal Regulations, Federal Register, European Union Law). Use eJournals to link to individual titles. RESTRICTED to TC (NY, LA, South, Berlin, France, Israel, Moscow), THmed, TUC, TUI, TUN, LIJ.