Search Engines
- Alta Vista
excellent search engine, great for finding images - Google
very popular search engine which emphasizes pages most heavily linked from other pages - Yahoo
popular web portal featuring a good search engine as well as news, weather, and email
Dictionaries & Encyclopedias
- Dictionary.com
free online dictionary, includes sound pronunciation - Merriam-Webster
dictionary and thesaurus - Roget’s Thesaurus
Roget’s II, 3rd ed.
Library Catalogs
- Michigan Electronic Library – MEL
Library of Michigan website, access to premium online products - MeLCat
library catalog and borrowing service - MEL’s Full Text Journal List
find out which magazines and journals are available online in a full-text format - DALNET Consortium Catalog
as an Adam Cardinal Maida Alumni Library card holder, most items are available to you from 20 various libraries
Phone Directories
- AnyWho
includes toll-free directory - International Telephone Directories
search directories from dozens of countries
- Switchboard
business and residential listings
- SuperPages.com
residential and business listings, and email addresses - WhitePages.com
includes reverse look-up feature - YellowPages.com
includes mapping feature
Maps
- Mapquest
maps, driving directions, and gas prices - Microsoft Research Maps
aerial photographic and topographical maps - Yahoo Maps
get maps, driving directions, or find business locations
More Quick Reference Sources
- AMA Physician Select
from the American Medical Association - Bartleby.com
includes Familiar Quotations and Columbia Quotations - Currency Converter
multilingual currency converter for over 164 currencies - Interactive Library Directory
Library of Michigan’s database of Michigan libraries - Librarians’ Internet Index
subject directory of more than 7,000 Internet resources - Postal Codes
post office sites from around the world - Project Vote Smart
find elected representatives using zip code - Sunrise/Sunset
includes astronomical data: moon phases, seasons, and holidays - Time.gov
displays current time - Time Zones Around the World
locate times zones by city, state, province, or country - Traffic & Construction Reports
real time traffic reports for the metro Detroit area from Michigan DOT - U.S. Census Information
official website of the U.S. Census Bureau - Weather.com
from the Weather Channel - World Factbook
information about all countries from the Central Intelligence Agency - World Timer Server
find current time by country or city - Zip+4 Code Look-Up
from the U.S. Postal Service