Reference Sites

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Essential Reference Works:

Citation Guidelines  News Directory Statistics: Putnam County
Translations
Encyclopedia@Bartleby.com  Quotations Search Value Calculator
 Encyclopedia Science White & Yellow Pages
  School Library Journal  World Fact Book  

Additional Reference Aids:

Biography Maps & Directions  Politics Navigator
Conversion Tables Municipal Codes State Index U.S. Geological Survey
Elements of Style  NY Times Navigator  Wikipedia
First Find  % Calculator / %Calculator # 2 World Meter

Targeted Consumer Reference Sites:

Automobile Information   Consumer WebWatch  Mango Languages  
Census Bureau Consumer World Maps & Directions 
Census History Foreign Language Tutorials Workforce
  How Things Work  

Media Links:

ABC News   Philadelphia Inquirer
Arts Journal International Herald Tribune Rolling Stone
Asia Times Journal News (local) Salon.com
Atlantic Online National Public Radio Science Magazine
BBC News Nature Magazine Slate
 City Journal The New Criterion Times of London
CNN    New Pages Online Guide  TomPaine.com
Daily Beast The New Yorker   US News
Daily Kos New York Review of Books Village Voice 
Fox News New York Magazine Washington Post  
Google News New York Times Wired News  
Huffington Post The Onion WNYC (public radio)

General Reference Resources:
The engines listed on Beaucoup's main site (except "Shopping"), are "free information" sites, not lists of commercial products or services. These engines are searchable in that they have either an input engine or an alphanumeric listing, which allows the user to zero in on pages pertaining to the topic being researched.
LibrarySpot.com is a free virtual library resource center for educators and students, librarians and their patrons, families, businesses and anyone exploring the Web for valuable research information.
The Librarians' Index to the Internet (LII) is a searchable, annotated subject directory of more than 9,000 Internet resources selected and evaluated by librarians for their usefulness to users of public libraries. LII is used by both librarians and the general public as a reliable and efficient guide to Internet resources.
Refdesk indexes quality Internet sites and assists visitors in navigating these sites.
Xrefer's site contains encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri & books of quotations from the world's leading publishers. All cross-referenced, all in one place, providing a single source for reliable factual information.

Reference Questions:

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