References
AlmanacsAtlases/Maps/Gazeteers
- Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present
Biographies of the Founding Fathers
Biography.com: 25,000 personalities (mostly contemporary)
Distinguished Women of Past and Present
Forbes.com Lists: brief biographical information on some of the richest people in the world.
HyperHistory: Biographies of famous men and women throughout time.
- Directories to Business Information:
CEO Express (business links prepared by a CEO "move to middle of the page for business links")
General Business Information:
washingtonpost.com Business Dictionary
SIC Standard Industrial Classification (a search engine provided by OSHA)
NAISC North American Industry Classification System (available through the U.S. Census Bureau)
1997 NAICS and 1987 SIC Correspondence Tables: Use this resource to match SIC and NAISC numbers.
Banking
The Federal Reserve Board Economic Research and Data
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
World Bank
World Bank Public Information Center
New York Times BanxQuote Banking Center: Find national statistics on banking services.
bankrate.com: find national and local averages for banking services.
Business Plans
Center for Business Planning
Sample Business Plans from bplans.com
The Business Plan - Roadmap to Success (online tutorial available through the U.S. Small Business Administration
Career Information
Career Development Resources (reference guide)
Occupational Outlook Handbook: from the U.S. Dept. of Labor (Bureau of Labor Statistics)
salary.com: Use this calculator to discover the average salary for various positions around the country.
Chambers of Commerce
World Chamber of Commerce Directory: search by country and city-state-province.
Internet Chamber of Commerce
Company Information
Hoover's Online (limited amount of free information available from your home computer; expanded information available from on-campus computers or through your DeVry student e-mail account)
Europages (the European business directory)
Thomas Register of American Manufactures
EDGAR electronic SEC filings
Currency
Universal Currency Converter
World Exchange Rates (available through Rubicon International)
Consumer Price Index Calculator Machine (available through the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis)
Hugh's Mortgage and Financial Calculators: See how long it will take to pay off loans and the interest you lender will earn.
Economic Statistics
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Marketing Information
How to Prepare a Market Analysis (available through the Edward Lowe Peerspectives website)
Marketing Virtual Library (available through KnowThis.com)
Small Business/Entrepreneurship
United States Small Business Administration
Small Business Advancement National Center
Online Women's Business Center (available through the Small Business Administration)
National Association for the Self-Employed
SCORE Service Corps of Retired Executives: Retired business executives available for consultation.
The Credit Process: A Guide for Small Business Owners (available through the Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
Stock and Investment Information
Hoover's Online (limited amount of free information available from your home computer; expanded information available from on-campus computers or through your DeVry student e-mail account)
American Stock Exchange
NASDAQ
NYSE Listed Companies: find stock price information on companies alphabetically, or by geographic location or industry.
Research: Includes S & P Research Reports, Company Profiles, Company fact sheets, Wall St. analysis & 52-week stock price charts.
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- Computer Hope's Computer Dictionary: a free (donation-based) site with definitions of computer-related terms. Words can be searched for via search box, alphabetically, or by subject.
DeVry Online Library
FOLDOC: Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing: searchable database of computing terms (United Kingdom). Also includes links to other FOLDOC servers/web sites throughout the world.
NISO (National Information Standards Organization): International informational standards.
PC Webopaedia: Definitions of terms, with hot links to Web articles and related terms
Programmer's Heaven: Solid variety of IT information
Symantec AntiVirus Research Center: Virus Encyclopedia: Encyclopedia of computer viruses
Visual Basic Web Directory: Information on the computer language Visual Basic
WhatIs.com: includes categories of definitions for computing fundamentals, PCs, and the Internet.
- Consumer World: non-commercial guide cataloging over 2000 of the most useful consumer resources.
- Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (at britannica.com site)
yourDictionary.com Links to all kinds of dictionaries, including foreign language, specialty, and thesauri
Language Dictionaries (also available through yourDictionary.com) This site has a dictionary for the most common languages.
American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (available through bartleby.com)
Cambridge Dictionaries: includes the International Dictionary of English, the Dictionary of American English, the International Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs, and the International Dictionary of Idioms
Infoplease.com Dictionary
Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 1913 (available through Biblomania)
Roget's II: Thesaurus (available through bartleby.com)
Wordsmyth Educational Dictionary-Thesaurus
French-English Dictionary
Babel Fish 2000 (translates words from one language to another)
- Intersil Lexicon: Dictionary of electronics terms.
- britannica.com: Web-based, commercial version of Encyclopedia Britannica
Columbia Encyclopedia (available through bartleby.com)
Infoplease.com: articles from the Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th edition.
Catholic Encyclopedia
Encyclopedia Mythica: An encyclopedia of mythology, folklore, and legend (covering more than 15 different cultures).
Legal Encyclopedia (available through nolo.com)
- Library of Congress Country Studies/Area Handbooks
Freedomhouse: A nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that has compiled reports evaluating levels of political rights and civil liberties
BBC News: International news and events
- Information Network of Kansas
Blue Skyways of Kansas: Community, Education, Government, and Library Information
- Literary Index: Use this source to identify which Gale reference books contain biographical or critical entries on the author or title you seek. Then check Area Libraries to see which libraries own those reference books.
Bartleby.com includes the following literature-related databases: Cambridge History of English and American Literature, American Heritage Book of English Usage, Elements of Style (by William Strunk, Jr.), Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, Age of Fable or Beauties of Mythology (by Thomas Bulfinch), Bartlett's Quotations, and Simpson's Quotations.
Poetry Archives: Poets are listed alphabetically so you can jump directly to an author and view some of his or her poetry online.
- Internet Resources for the Mathematics Student (sponsored by Langara College): Math help for first- and second-year college students. Covers precalculus, calculus, and some differential equations.
Glossary of Mathematical Terms
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics: Very extensive dictionary, indexed by subject on the left side of the page.
NOVA ROMA: Roman Numeral Converter
- MEDLINE/PubMed: Sponsored by the National Library of Medicine. Index to professional medical journals.
MEDLINEplus Health Information: Consumer health guide from the National Library of Medicine
U.S. National Library of Medicine
Healthfinder: Health topics for the general public
JoCoHealth.net: consumer health information site co-sponsored by the Johnson County (KS) Library, Saint Luke's Health System, the Johnson County (KS) Health Department, and the Community Health Assessment Process (CHAP).
Centers for Disease Control Health Topics
Cancer.gov: A service of the National Cancer Institute
National Center for Health Statistics
Healthy People 2000
Gray's Anatomy (1918 ed.) (available through bartleby.com)
AIDSearch (sign up for free subscription on your own): Free searchable online database covering articles, reports, other documents on AIDS. Sponsored by National Information Services Corp.
- LibrarySpot.com has links to some of the best free reference resources on the Web.
The Internet Scout Project has cataloged quality web resources with Library of Congress Subject Headings and Classification Numbers.
World Population: An interactive population calculator that compares the current world population to population estimates from 1970 to 2037.
DeVry Online Library
- Missouri Spatial Data Information Service: Geographic info and census data
Missouri Census Data Center
- AMG All Music Guide: Covers many major music genres including rock, country, jazz, blues, folk, bluegrass, rap, easy listening, and new age. Can be searched by artist, album, song, music style, and label.
- Political Resources on the Net: contains various links to sources of political/government information for several countries.
United States Constitution (available through Cornell Law School)
Declaration of Independence of the Thirteen Colonies (available through the Indiana University School of Law--Bloomington
American Historical Documents
- Science & Technology Resources on the World Wide Web (available through Regis University)
- Child Abuse, Child Welfare & Adoption (sign up for free subscription on your own): Free searchable online database covering articles, reports, other documents on these topics. Sponsored by National Information Services Corp.
Socioweb: An independent guide to sociology resources on the web
- History Channel: Speeches: an archive of famous speeches, including texts and audio clips.
Gifts of Speech: Women's Speeches From Around the World (available through Sweet Briar College
- Federal Standard 1037C Glossary of Telecommunication Terms
HEI Glossary of Telecommunications Terms
TechWeb: The Business Technology Network (searchable database of over 20,000 IT terms; maintained by the Computer Language Company)
WhatIs.com: Includes categories of definitions for telecommunications, networking, software, and hardware.
Newbie Network Terms: general terms for the "novice Internet user"; maintained by the University of Mississippi
ComputerUser.com High-Tech Dictionary: 7000+ high-tech terms (also available in a no-frames version)
- FedStats: Links to statistics produced by U.S. government agencies
THOMAS: Library of Congress site; contains links to Federal legislative information
U.S. Department of Labor
U.S. Department of Education
National Center for Health Statistics
United States Legislative Branch
Law Library of Congress Guide to Law Online
U.S. Code
FirstGov: Links to all 20,000 government sites, organized by "Interesting Topics"
National Security Archive (George Washington University): Provides access to declassified documents acquired through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
- Stateline: Provides comparative info on the public policies of all 50 states
50states.com
U.S. State Fact Sheets (from the Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture)
State & Metropolitan Area Data Book: PDF file for the 5th Edition (1997-1998) *
Census State Data Centers
U.S. Census Bureau
Statistics for Cities and Other Places (from the U.S. Census Bureau)
- The Blue Book of Grammar & Punctuation: a companion site for the book by Jane Strauss. The site includes exercises and tests for common grammar and punctuation errors.
Understanding Plagiarism (from the Prentice Hall Companion website)
MIT Online Writing and Communication Center
Research and Documentation Online: a comprehensive site by author Diana Hacker, based on her print booklet Research and Documentation in the Electronic Age (3rd ed.). Links are available for examples of in-text citations and various bibliographies & works cited lists for MLA, APA, Chicago, and CBE format styles.
* means only partial information is available online. Full information may be available in a print source; check with library staff.
