Reference Sources

Almanacs	Gateway Reference Sites on the WWW
Biography	Maps and Gazetteers
Book Seller Catalogs and Journal Finders	Quotations
Dictionaries and Thesauri	Statistics
Directories	Virginia
Encyclopedias	Winchester and Frederick County

Infoplease.com - categories include world, U.S., sports, entertainment, business and finance, society and culture, and more standard almanac topics. Scroll to the bottom of the opening page to find the table of contents

Biography.com - provides information on 25,000 people. Biography.com has a slant toward entertainers and current popular figures, but is useful nonetheless
Literary Index - an online index to the 130,000 biographical profiles offered in the Gale family of literary publications such as Dictionary of Literary Biography, Poetry Criticism, and Contemporary Authors

PubList.com, The Internet Directory of Publications - this searchable "database of over 150,000 magazines, journals, newsletters, & other periodicals" is great for finding ISSNs and information about periodical publishers. Try advanced search
BookSense.com - the American Bookseller's Association
Barnes and Noble.com
Amazon.com - the leading online book seller

Anywho - search for individuals, businesses, and toll-free numbers courtesy of AT&T
SuperPages.com - personal and business directories provided courtesy of Verizon. Try the "Reverse Look-up." You provide the telephone number, and the directory will give you name, address etc.
InfoSpace - offers white pages, yellow pages, and e-mail lookup - including reverse look-up and "Search Near Address" which will find a business nearest to an address you provide
Telephone Directories on the Web (teldir.com) - "This is the Internet's original and most complete index of online phone books, with over 400 links to Yellow Pages, White Pages, Business Directories, Email Addresses and Fax Listings from over 170 countries all around the world"
Thomas Register of American Manufacturers - will provide address, phone, and fax numbers for over 157,000 American and Canadian companies. Requires free registration
Foundation Finder - "Use the Foundation Finder to search by name for basic information about foundations within the universe of more than 61,000 private and community foundations in the U.S."
Scholarly Societies Project - this searchable and browsable site, courtesy of the University of Waterloo (Canada), provides links to web sites of over 2,200 organizations ranging from anthropology and chemistry to religion and women's issues
Zip Code Lookup - courtesy of the United States Postal Service - provides Zip Codes plus four

Columbia Encyclopedia Sixth Edition - provides "51,000 entries (marshalling six and one-half million words on a vast range of topics), and with more than 80,000 hypertext cross-references." Courtesy of Bartleby.com

Internet Public Library: Reference Resources - perhaps the single best reference gateway on the WWW, the IPL was started at the University of Michigan School of Information
Bartleby.com: Great Books Online - highlights include encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, several writer's handbooks, Grey's Anatomy, Farmer's Cookbook, Post's Etiquette, and Bartlett's Quotations
Virtual Reference Shelf: Selected Web Resources Compiled by the Library of Congress

Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection - is perhaps the single best source of maps and map information on the Internet. Courtesy of the University of Texas-Austin
Atlapedia Online - "contains full color physical and political maps as well as key facts and statistics on countries of the world"
Color Landform Atlas of the United States - courtesy of Ray Sterner and Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, provides beautiful color relief maps, satellite images, and historical maps of each state
Library of Congress American Memory Map Collections: 1500-1999 - maps of discovery, cities, communication and transportation, environmental, cultural, and military
Mapquest - "directions, maps, traffic reports and city information"
Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) - "contains information about almost 2 million physical and cultural geographic features in the United States. The Federally recognized name of each feature described in the data base is identified, and references are made to a feature's location by State, county, and geographic coordinates"
TopoZone - this very easy to use site claims to have every "USGS 1:100,000, 1:63,360, 1:25,000, and 1:24,000 scale topographic map for the entire United States"
U.S. Census Bureau's Mapping and Cartographic Resources
National Geographic Map Machine

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919) - "contains over 11,000 searchable quotations." Provided courtesy of Bartleby.com
Simpson's Contemporary Quotations: The Most Notable Quotations: 1950–1988 - "over 10,000 quotations from 4,000 sources." Provided courtesy of Bartleby.com

Statistical Abstract of the United States - "contains a collection of statistics on social and economic conditions in the United States."
United Nations Global Statistics - courtesy of the United Nations Statistics Division
United States Historical Census Data Browser - "The data presented here describe the people and the economy of the US for each state and county from 1790 to 1960."
U. S. Census Bureau - United States Department of Commerce is now providing data based on the 2000 census
U. S. Census Bureau Statistical Agencies (International) - provides links to governmental statistics agencies all over the world
InfoNation - "an easy-to-use, two-step database that allows you to view and compare the most up-to-date statistical data for the Member States of the United Nations"
CIA World Factbook - courtesy of the Central Intelligence Agency, provides a variety of statistical data and maps for countries around the world

Virginia Information Providers Network(VIPNet) - the official homepage of the Commonwealth of Virginia provides information about all facets of Virginia government