2008* Core Ready Reference Tools (Multi-Subject) Results
Print -- Free Web-Sites -- Govdocs Sites -- Fee-Based Web-Sites
- Styles Guides (various APA, MLA, Chicago, etc.), Statistical Abstract of the United States
- Dictionaries (English Language, including Merriam-Webster Collegiate, Oxford English. 3rd New International,
- World Book Encyclopedia, World Almanac and Book of Facts, Other Almanac and Encyclopedia (no titles given)
- local phone books
- Medical Dictionaries (including Mosby’s-Medicine, Nursing, and Health Professions, Dorland’s Medical, Dictionary of Syndromes)
These print reference tools got three votes each: Bieber's Dictionary of Legal Abbreviations, Black's Law Dictionary, Encyclopedia Britannica, Physicians Desk Reference (PDR), Wards Business Directory of Public & Private Co.
These print reference tools got two votes each: A to Zoo: A subject guide to picturebooks, The Bluebook, CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, DSM IV, Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, Mental Measurements Yearbook, Value Line
Print -- Free Web-Sites --Govdocs Sites -- Fee-Based Web-Sites
- Google http://www.google.com and Google Scholar - http://scholar.google.com/
- Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
- Amazon.com – http://www.amazon.com
- Librarians’ Internet Index - http://www.lii.org, WorldCat - http://www.worldcat.org
- The Internet Movie Database - http://www.imdb.com
These sites got three votes each: Ask - http://www.ask.com, Bartleby.com - http://www.bartleby.com, Dictionary.com - http://www.dictionary.com, Mapquest - http://www.mapquest.com
These sites got two votes each: AnyWho - http://www.anywho.com/index.html, FindLaw - http://www.findlaw.com, Internet Archive - http://www.archive.org/index.php, Merriam-Webster - http://www.merriam-webster.com/, Orbis Yale University Library Catalog - http://orbis.library.yale.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&PAGE=First, The Internet Public Library - http://www.ipl.org, Yahoo! - http://www.yahoo.com, Zimmermans Research Guide - http://www.lexisnexis.com/infopro/zimmerman/,
Print -- Free Web-Sites --Govdocs Sites -- Fee-Based Web-Sites
- MedlinePlus – http://www.medlineplus.gov, State, local, city government Web sites
- THOMAS-Library of Congress - http://www.thomas.gov
- US Census Bureau/American Factfinder - http://www.census.gov or http://factfinder.census.gov/home/saff/main.html, USA.gov – http://www.usa.gov
- Internal Revenue Service– http://www.irs.gov, FDsys - GPO Access (Government Printing Office) - http://www.gpoaccess.gov/
- Bureau of Labor Statistics - http://www.bls.gov, PubMed - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/, Center for Disease Control and Prevention - http://cdc.gov, National Institute of Standards and Technology/(NIST) Chemistry Webbook - http://www.nist.gov or http://webbook.nist.gov
These sites got two votes each: CIA The World Factbook - https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.html, Code of Federal Regulations - http://www.gpoaccess.gov/cfr/index.html, ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) - http://www.eric.ed.gov, Fedstats - http://www.fedstats.gov, Statistical Abstracts of the United States - http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/, The United Nations - http://www.un.org/
Print -- Free Web-Sites -- Govdocs Sites -- Fee-Based Web-Sites
- Academic Search Complete/Academic Search Premier (EBSCO) - http://www.ebscohost.com/thisTopic.php?marketID=1&topicID=633 or http://www.ebscohost.com/thisTopic.php?topicID=1&marketID=1, Lexis-Nexis/Lexis-Nexis Academic - http://academic.lexisnexis.com/online-services/academic-overview.aspx
- OVID CINAHL/Medline/PsychInfo - http://www.ovid.com, Thomsen-Gail Reference Databases/Virtual Reference/Reference Center (was Infotrac) - http://www.gale.cengage.com, Westlaw/Westlaw Campus - http://campus.westlaw.com/
- Reference USA - http://www.referenceusa.com
- EBSCOhost - http://www.ebscohost.com/, Literature Resource Center (Gale) - http://www.gale.cengage.com/, JSTOR - http://www.jstor.org/
- ABI/Inform (ProQuest) - http://www.proquest.com/en-US/catalogs/databases/detail/abi_inform.shtml, Biography Resource Center (Gale) - http://www.gale.cengage.com/
These e-resources received three votes each: Credo Reference - http://corp.credoreference.com/, Encyclopedia Britannica Online - http://www.britannica.com/, Hein OnLine (agency case law, CFR, FR, Presidential communications) - http://www.heinonline.org/, UptoDate - http://www.uptodate.com/home/index.html, Worldcat – http://www.worldcat.org
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- lawlibref@lists.washlaw.edu
- Libref-L@listserv.kent.edu
- LIS-LINK@jiscmail.ac.uk
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- livereference@yahoogroups.com
- LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
- MEDLIB-L@LIST.UVM.EDU
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