Humanities Ready Reference

• ***** 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.



• 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.



• 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.



• e-journals.org - Has links to ejournal collections in over 30 categories. Includes History Journals Guide, The; etc..



• Encyclopedia of 1848 Revolutions - Has articles from authors worldwide.



• Encyclopedia of Narrative Themes in Jewish Literature - Includes Typology of Narrative Collections in Ashkenazi Manuscripts of the 13th & 14th centuries.



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



• Footnotes to History - An overview of micronations, ephemeral & secessionist states, etc., that you never heard of in high school. Has links.



• FreeFullText.com - Has links to over 7,000 scholarly periodicals with some or all articles for free. Some require free registration.



• Gale Virtual Reference Library - Provided by NOVEL, NY State Library's free public statewide virtual library pilot project funded via a Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant to the NY State Library by the Federal Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). Search & browse 27 works. Covers business, history, law, literature, medicine, science, social science. Use the Books & Media (Library Catalog) to link to individual ebooks. RESTRICTED to TC (NY), Law, THmed.



• 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).



• History Journals Guide, The - Has directories of 5,400 periodicals & 950 discussion lists; articles in 170 ejournals; 12,500 reviews in 100 sources. Has an enewsletter.



• History Journals Index - Has links to over 1,200 ejournals (not all free).



• Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism, The - Search a historical survey with over 240 entries. Covers critics & theorists, critical schools & movements, critical & theoretical innovations of specific countries & historical periods. RESTRICTED to TC (NY).



• Literary Reference Center - Search information from major reference works, books, literary journals, original content from EBSCO Publishing. Includes over 10,000 plot summaries, synopses, work overviews; 75,000 articles of literary criticism; 130,000 author biographies; full-text of 300 literary journals; 500,000 book reviews; 25,000 classic & contemporary poems; 11,000 classic & contemporary short stories; full-text of 7,500 classic novels; 3,000 author interviews; 1,000 images of literary figures. Use eJournals to link to individual titles. RESTRICTED to TC (NY, LA, South).



• Literature Resource Center - Search the entire Literature Resource Center, or click on Advanced & limit by database (Contemporary Authors; Contemporary Literary Criticism - Select; Dictionary of Literary Biography, Scribners Writer Series, Twayne's [English Authors, US Authors, World Authors). Has a Literary-Historical Timeline, Encyclopedia of Literature, links to Authors on the Highway & the Gale Literary Index, biographies, bibliographies, critical analyses of over 120,000 authors (2,500 in-depth), articles from 250 periodicals. Use eJournals to link to individual titles & the Books & Media (Library Catalog) to link to individual ebooks. RESTRICTED to TC (NY, LA, Berlin, France, Moscow).



• 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.



• 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.



• 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.



• Rare Map Collection - Has maps of colonial, revolutionary, Civil War America & the South.



• 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 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 - History Matters. Has links on citing & evaluating digital resources, copyright & fair use, standards for history & social studies.



• Reference Resources - History - American and British. Has links to maps, statistics, American & British history bibliographies, ejournals, book reviews, biographies, curricula & syllabi, general/miscellaneous resources.



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



• ScienceDirect Social & Behavioral Sciences College Edition - Search articles in over 550 journals. Includes reference works, handbooks, book series. Covers business, education, health, history, psychology, etc.. Use eJournals to link to individual titles. RESTRICTED to TC (NY), TUC, TUI.



• 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.).



• VLMP (Virtual Library museums pages) - Has links to online art, science, natural history museums worldwide.