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Almanacs, dictionaries & encyclopedias

AcronymFinder

http://www.acronymfinder.com

A searchable collection of over 143,000 acronyms, abbreviations, and initialisms. Search by acronym or use the "reverse lookup" feature to search by keyword. Users may also submit new acronyms that are not currently included.

Information Please Almanac

http://www.infoplease.com

Dates, facts, statistics, from this well-known almanac publisher.

Roget's II: The New Thesaurus via Bartleby.com

http://www.bartleby.com/

Thesaurus of over 35,000 synonyms.

Merriam-Webster Online

http://www.merriam-webster.com/

Provides a dictionary and thesaurus, as well as assorted information and activities with words. Click the graphic next to a word to hear its pronunciation.

Internet reference collections

ALA-RUSA Best Free Reference Web Sites

http://www.google.com/cse/home?cx=012681041057676717069%3Alxoys7hon_y

Internet Public Library (U. of Michigan)

http://www.ipl.org/div/subject/

KnowPlay

http://www.kplay.cc/reference

Quickly search for definitions, artists, and atlas information.

Reference Desk (Michigan Electronic Library)

http://web.mel.org/viewtopic.jsp?id=53

Virtual Information Center (UC-Berkeley)

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/Collections/

Yahoo's List of Reference Sources

http://dir.yahoo.com/Reference/