Research tools and consultancies

These pages are always under construction and constantly evolving. I hope you'll use these pages of links as a reference as well as a map to some of the more interesting and relevant places on the Internet. If you have a suggestion for a link you think I should include in these pages, please send your idea to me by clicking here.

Research tools (don't forget you can also call the reference desk at your local library)

About.com

Academic Press Dictionary of Science and Technology

ArtLex dictionary of art terms

Holt, Rinehart & Winston World Atlas

BabelFish language translator

The excellent collection of reference works at Bartleby.com

BioTech life sciences dictionary

Brittanica

Dictionary.com and Thesaurus

FindArticles, a vast archive of published articles you can search for free, with articles dating back to 1998 from more than 300 magazines and journals.

Glossarist, a searchable directory of glossaries and dictionaries on all subjects

Information Please online dictionary, Internet encyclopedia, and almanac

Internet Movie database

The Librarians' Index to the Internet, information you can trust.

The Library of Congress

online Medical Dictionary

Merriam-Webster online dictionary and thesaurus

The Principia Cybernetica Project aims to develop a complete philosophy based on the principles of evolutionary cybernetics and supported by collaborative computer technologies.

RefDesk, the single best source for facts on the Internet

TechTarget.com's WhatIs

The Handbook of Texas Online

THOMAS, legislative information by the U.S. Library of Congress

U.S. Census

U.S. Department of Commerce economic analysis

Wordsmyth educational dictionary-thesaurus

Writers Guild of America research links

Search engines

AllTheWeb (metasearch)

BlogLines blog search engine

CyberJournalist (multiple search engines on one page)