Reference Tools

Why leave your computer while you are writing your story just to go down to the library and pull out heavy reference book when you can check the spelling, fact or quotation at your fingertips? The Internet provides a vast wealth of reference material :

• Libraries
• Maps
• Encyclopedias
• Biographies
• Find quotes
• Political guides, atlases, governments
• Converters (exchange, etc)
• Other Web Reference Sites
• En Francais

The best tools:

• Start your reference search right away with one of the best tools, Xrefer:
  

• Kplay Reference    Making it simple to use different reference works on the Web. Reference Search gives you several dictionaries, encyclopedias and factbooks all on one page with easy-to-use buttons. Finance search gives you stock market and SEC databases. There are also speical pages to search for people and pictures and videos.

Other reference sites:

• Purdue's Reference Desk          Links to phone directories, government databases
• My Virtual Reference Desk         One intrepid cybernaut has compiled one of the best listings or reference books. A good place to start
• Kplay Reference    Making it simple to use different reference works on the Web.
  
• Ready Reference              Ellen Berne of Boston's Windsor School maintains this useful list of documents and sites
• University of Alberta
• iTools A convenient gathering on one site of some of the top web tools. You get the major search engines, but also language tools and research sources such as dictionaries, biographies and quotes.
• WebCATS:  Library Catalogues