Reference links page
This document is under continuous construction.Page index
- Searching
- Portals, Net Guides & Indexes (most include search engines too)
- Reference and Information
- Businesses
- People
- Email lists & Usenet news groups
- Dictionaries
- Encyclopedias
- Misc. Info., Bookshops & Publishers
- Quotations
- Libraries ...
- Museums, etc. ...
Searching
- 4Search.com
- Accoona
- All Search Engines.com
- AOL - UK - AOL - US - AOL.com Search (US)
- Ask (UK) - Ask (US) - Was Ask Jeeves
- Beaucoup! - 2000+ Search Engines, Indices and Directories.
- Dogpile
- DMOZ.org - Open Directory Project - Help build the largest human edited directory of the Web
- Exalead
- Excite (US)
- FindHow - The How-To Search Engine.
- Google (UK) -
Google (US) -
Google Scholar -
Google Suggest -
In Google you can use 'cache:', 'site:', 'inurl:', 'allinurl:', 'intitle', 'allintitle', '~' = synonym, 'define:', 'filetype:' and 'link:'. - Google Alert - performs regular Google searches for you and emails you the results.
- Gopher
- GoTo.com
- GoToWorld
- GuideBeam
- Hermia - the intelligent search engine
- Hotbot (UK) - Hotbot (US)
- HotRate - search made relevant
- HotSheet
- ICQ iT!
- Infohiway
- InfoZoid - Meta search engine using 15 search engines simultaneously, with relevancy ranking.
- Internet Oracle
- InvisibleWeb.com
- Invisible-Web.net Searchable databases and specialized search engines.
- Internet Search Engine Database
- iTools - Find-It - Research-It
- Ixquick - meta search engine
- Kanoodle - The Search Rocket
- KartOO - UK version - meta search engine which presents its results on a visual map.
- Kenjin Autonomy's intelligent search engine (requires Windows)
- KillerInfo - Meta search with clustering.
- Leap2.com - A Multi-Search Search Engine
- LinkPopularity.com
- Locate.com - all-in-one search page - Web, News, People, Maps.
- Lycos - The Lycos 50 Daily Report
- MetaFind
- MetaSpy
- Multimeta - The Meta Search Engine - simultaneous metasearch in the major international search engines
- QuestFinder - Searching the Web Search Engines and Web Directories
- ResearchBuzz! - search engine news and information
- REX - The Internet Resource EXchange
- Same Energy - Visual Search Engine
- Scrub The Web
- Search.Com
- Search.msn.co.uk
- SearchEngine.com UK
- Search Engine Colossus - An International Directory of Search Engines.
- Search Engine Showdown - The Users' Guide to Web Searching - Search Engine Features list
- Search Engine Watch
- SearchEngines.com
- SearchHippo
- SearchHound
- SearchKing
- Speegle - Have your search results read to you.
- Spiders Apprentice - How to use web search engines
- Teoma
- Thunderstone
- Turbo10
- Vivisimo - Clustering Engine
- W3 Search Engines
- WebMap - graphically search the web (requires windows)
- What-U-Seek
- Windows Live Beta - Windows Live Academic Beta
- WiseNut.com
- Yahoo (UK) - Yahoo (US) - Yahoo Mindset
- Yippy
- Zuula (beta)
Still can't find what you're looking for ? ... then click here!
Portals, Net Guides & Indexes (most include search engines too)
- 4anything.com
- About.com - Human Guides, Human Interests, Expert guidance from hundreds of guides
- Access Place
- Aigam - web directory and search engine
- AskScott
- Atlas of Cyberspaces
- BBC Web Guide
- CompletePlanet - the deep web directory.
- Cool Site of the Day
- Directory Guide - extensive catalog of search engines and directories.
- FreePint - Internet research portal.
- Galaxy
- Gigablast
- GoGuides.org - Directory and Search
- Internet Scout Project
- Isleuth
- Jayde
- LinkMaster
- LookSmart (UK) - LookSmart (US)
- MiningCo.Com
- MSN - UK - MSN - US - Microsoft Network
- NetScrap
- NoodleTools - Smart Tools, Smart Research.
- ResourceShelf
- SoYouWanna.com
- St Andrews University Library Subject Tree
- Starting Point
- Starting Points
- The Net One
- UK Directory
- UK Index
- UK Plus
- Virgin Net - The UK's entertainment and leisure guide, (Plus Best of the Internet)
- WebBrain.com
- Webby Awards - incl. Best Sites of the Year
- WebCrawler
- WebRing!
- Zing!n - UK web guide for busy people
- Abbreviations.com - acronyms, abbreviations and initialisms on the web.
- abuzz
- Acronym and abbreviation list
- Acronym Finder
- Acronyms, Text, Abbreviations, Slang, Messaging, Jargon - ATXTA
- All Experts
- AnswerBank.co.uk
- Answers.com
- Argus
- AskMeHelpDesk.com
- Athletic World Records
- British Library - Virtual reference library
- CyberLife
- eHow - The fast and easy way to find out how to do just about anything, and get the stuff you need to do it.
- eserver.org/reference
- EXP.com
- Expert Central
- Ezine @rticles
- Fathom.com - interactive knowledge site
- Internet FAQ Consortium
- FindArticles - 10,000,000 articles - not found on any other search engine.
- Flags of the World
- World Flag Database
- Free Glossary.com
- H2G2.com - Earth Edition of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
- HelpWare Directory
- Hints and Things - "Hints and Things is my way of trying to share all those little pearls of wisdom that used to be passed from generation to generation"
- HotDispatch - Info Market
- How Stuff Works
- How Things Work
- If I Knew
- iLearn.To
- InfoPlease.com - On-line Dictionary, Internet Encyclopedia, Atlas & Almanac Reference
- Informatron
- InfoJump - Online Magazines Info.
- InfoMarkets
- InfoMine - Scholarly Internet Resource Collections
- InfoRocket
- Internet.org
- Internet Tools Summary
- Internet Weather Report - Animated maps of current internet lag
- Keen.com
- KnowPost
- Learn2
- Market Analysis and Information Database
- Martindale's 'The Reference Desk'
- Medals of the World
- Mount Kolias - Mountains of Information on How To Do Anything
- Mr Know It All! - Everything About Everything
- Nipper's Internet Resources Page
- NISS Reference
- Open Text
- PINAKES - A subject launchpad
- Professional Researcher - making the web productive for the professional
- RefDesk
- Report Writing Guide, by the Plain English Campaign
- Resource Discovery Network - Virtual Training Suite
- Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography
- SoYouWanna.com
- StudyWeb - The learning portal
- Subjective Electronic Information Repository
- SYMBOLS.com - encyclopedia of Western signs and ideograms.
- SYMBOLS.net
- TipKing - Free household tips, hints and frugal ideas.
- Tutorial - Finding Info. on the Internet
- UselessKnowledge.com
- Virtual Reference - All in one multiform master reference page (not just links).
- Wanna Learn
- Weeno - Learn how to do stuff you don't know
- Whatis
- Wikipedia - the free encyclopedia.
- wiseGEEK - Clear answers for common questions.
- WordSpot
- World Wide Information Outlet
- CompaniesOnline (US)
- LinkStar
- Pronet
- Scoot
- Thomson Directories
- WorldPages - American and Canadian Internet Yellow Pages
- Yellow pages! - Global Yellow Pages
- ActiveNames
- AnyWho
- Bigfoot
- Email Finder
- Internet Address Finder
- People Finder
- Switchboard
- Whois
- Whois Source
- WhoWhere?
- Yahoo People Search
- Cool List
- Cumuli Ezine Finder
- Easynews - Usenet made easy! - incl. a list of ALL newsgroups!
- eGroups - eGroups.com gives groups a FREE place on the Net with tools that make it easier to share ideas, exchange documents, and coordinate events.
- Email Universe.com
- Ezine-Universe.com - email newsletter directory.
- Google Groups - search usenet news groups
- Humour mailing lists
- The List of Lists
- ListBot
- Liszt
- Mailbase
- Mailgate - web usenet news reader
- NewsGuy.com
- NewsOne.net
- NewsReaders.com
- newzbot - public USENET resources for the masses.
- PAML - Publicly Accesible Mailing Lists
- Tile.net
- Topica
- UseNetServer.com
When he has done his best he leaves it to others to continue."
Einstein
Dictionaries
- AllWords.com - incl. find words starting with/ending with/containing, plus loads of other tools.
- Anagram Genius - Andy's Anagram Solver - Internet Anagram Server
- A Web of Online Dictionaries
- Cambridge Dictionaries Online
- Chambers - incl. Scrabble Wordchecker, Crossword Solver & Anagram Finder
- Collins Word Exchange
- Daily Grammar
- Dictionary.reference.com
- A Dictionary of slang - UK.
- English-Dictionary.us
- English Language Resources
- FOLDOC Computing Dictionary
- The Free Dictionary, Encyclopedia and Thesaurus
- FreeThesaurus.net
- Glossarist - a searchable directory of glossaries and topical dictionaries.
- Graphics (and related) Terms
- (The) Human Languages Page - the WWW Virtual Library: Languages
- HyperDictionary
- Jargon
- Merriam-Websters
- NetLingo - internet language dictionary
- OneLook - use 576 dictionaries at once!
- Oxford English Dictionary
- Reverse Dictionaries - type in a meaning and get the word you are looking for!
- RhymeZone - rhyming dictionary and thesaurus.
- Roget's Thesaurus
- Science Dictionary from AccessScience
- Semantic Rhyming Dictionary
- The Roget's Thesaurus
- SKB's online list of ...
- Unscramblerer - Word of the Day
- Urban Dictionary
- Visual Thesaurus
- WordCentral.com
- Wordsmith
- The Word Spy
- Your Dictionary - a web of on-line dictionaries
- CrossWords and helpers
- A2Z Word Finder
- Crossword Buddy
- Crossword Centre
- Crossword Solver.com
- Crossword Solver.io
- Crossword Solver Database
- Eclipse Crossword.com - create crosswords
- One Across - Crossword helper
- Unscramblerer - Crossword Solver
- Translation
- BabelFish translator online
- Free Translation and website Translator
- Free-Translator.com
- LangtoLang
- Systran
- T-Mail - email translation
- Xlation - Translation resources
- The 1911 Edition Encyclopedia
- Atlapedia
- Britannica
- Educypedia - the educational encyclopedia.
- Encarta Online (US) - (UK)
- Encyberpedia
- Encyclopedia.com
- Encyclopedia of Law and Economics
- Encyclopedia of Life - documenting all species of life on earth.
- Encyclopedia Mythica - Myths, Legends and folklore
- Funk and Wagnalls Online Multimedia Enc.
- Hutchinson Encyclopedia 1200 recommended sites.
- Lets Find Out - Kid's Encyclopedia
- Nupedia - open content encyclopedia
- PC Webopaedia
- ALEX - Catalog of Electronic Texts
- ABE - Advanced Book Exchange
- ACQWEB's Directory of Publishers
- AddALL - Book Search and Price Comparison - Used and Out of Print Search
- Barnes & Noble
- Bibliomania - online literature and reference books
- BlackMask - eBooks.
- Blackwell's Online Bookshop
- BOL - the British Bookshop on the Internet
- BookBrain - the smartest way to buy books on the web
- Book Price 24 - finds the cheapest books in the UK (including P&P).
- Cambridge University Press
- Computer Manuals online bookstore
- Cybereditions.com
- FireAndWater.com (Harper Collins)
- Freebook Sifter (UK)
- Internet Book Shop
- Internet Free-Press
- Lulu - Self publishing
- MightyWords.com
- Open eBook Initiative - standard for electronic books
- Oxford University Press
- Penguin
- Pink Monkey - inc. Digital Library
- Prentice Hall
- Project Gutenberg - Online books
- Quotations
- news:alt.quotations
- Bartleby Library of online books - incl. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations 9th ed.
- Cool Quotes
- Coolsig
- DailyFix - The Fix Express: Internet's Best Quotes, Humor, Jokes, Tivia, Vocabulary and History
- Famous Quotations
- Famous Quotes
- Inspirational Quotes - from Meryl Streep's website
- Quotations - The Yale Dictionary
- The Quotations Page
- QuoteLand.com
- Quotes Central - Your Quotation Station
- Siglets.com
- ThinkExist
- WebSonar - Search online for well known quotes which you can't place.
- Simon & Schuster
- Springer-Verlag
- Stobart Davies - spacialist craft and DIY books.
- Wiley
- xrefer - the web's reference engine, Free encyclopedias, dictionaries, a thesaurus and quotations.
Libraries ...
- American Library Association
- British Library - BLPC - Living Words
- EARL - Consortium for public library networking
- ebrary
- Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library
- Education Virtual Library
- Electric Library
- Electronic Libraries Programme
- Ideal
- IEE
- Karnak - Library of infinite knowledge
- Library Land
- LibrarySpot - encyclopedias, maps, libraries and more.
- Living Library
- M25 Web Guide - Consortium of Higher Education Libraries
- NCSTRL - Networked Computer Science Technical Reference Library
- The Open Library
- Public Library of Science
- Questia
- The UK Public Libraries Page
- Understanding Call Numbers
- WWW Virtual Library
stuck on the back of it?Do you know what it means?
| I | = | IESOUS | = | JESUS |
| CH | = | CHRISTOS | = | CHRIST |
| TH | = | THEOU | = | GOD'S |
| U | = | UIOS | = | SON |
| S | = | SOTER | = | SAVIOUR |
Museums, etc. ...
- 24 Hour Museum
- Brighton Toy and Model Museum - Toy Encyclopedia - Had a tour of this in July 2021 by Chris Littledale - absolutely fabulous!
- The British Museum
- The Computer Museum History Center
- Digital Museum of Plugs and Sockets - British manufacturers of plugs and sockets
- English Heritage
- English Nature
- Exploratorium - museum of science, art and human perception - online exhibits
- Imperial War Museum
- Kew Bridge Steam Museum
- Museums Association
- MuseumNet - UK Museums
- National Maritime Museum
- National Trust
- The Museum of London
- National Gallery London
- National Railway Museum
- The Natural History Museum
- The RAF Museum
- Royal Observatory Greenwich
- Royal Academy of Arts
- The Science Museum
- Tank Museum
- Tate Gallery
- Victoria and Albert Museum
- Virtual Library of Museums
- WebMuseum