News and Reference Links

• Newspapers
• Other News Sources
• Reference Works
• Libraries
• Book Catalogs

Newspapers

Boston Globe

http://www.boston.com/

International Herald Tribune

http://www.iht.com/

Los Angeles Times

http://www.latimes.com/

New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/

The Times (London)

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/

Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/

Other News Sources

Alltop: Top Stories (Guy Kawasaki)

http://alltop.com/

All You Can Read

http://www.allyoucanread.com/

BBC News Online

http://news.bbc.co.uk/

CNN Interactive

http://www.cnn.com/

Fact Check (Annenberg Public Policy Center)

http://www.factcheck.org/

Futurity [university research news]

http://futurity.org/

Life

http://www.life.com/

Metagrid: Newspapers and Magazines (includes search engine)

http://www.metagrid.com/

Newsweek

http://www.newsweek.com/

National Public Radio

http://www.npr.org/

Reuters

http://www.reuters.com/

Time

http://www.time.com/time/

Topix

http://www.topix.net/

USA Today

http://www.usatoday.com/

U.S. News and World Report

http://www.usnews.com/

Wired News

http://www.wired.com/

World News Network

http://www.wn.com/

Reference Works

1911 Encyclopedia Britannica

http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/

Answers.com [definitions and explanations]

http://www.answers.com/

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations

http://www.bartleby.com/100/

Biographical Dictionary

http://www.s9.com/

Business Dictionary

http://www.businessdictionary.com/

dictionary.com

http://dictionary.reference.com/

A Dictionary of Slang

http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/news.htm

Encyclopedia [formerly High Beam Encyclopedia]

http://www.encyclopedia.com/

English Server [humanities texts]

http://eserver.org/

Encyclopedia Mythica (M.F. Lindemans)

http://www.pantheon.org/mythica.html

Farmers' Almanac

http://www.farmersalmanac.com/

Flavorwire - Cultural News and Critique

http://flavorwire.com/

Free Internet Encyclopedia (Margaret Fincannon)

http://www.cam-info.net/enc.html

GLBTQ Encyclopedia

http://www.glbtq.com/

Information Please [dictionary, encyclopedia, and almanac]

http://www.infoplease.com/

Merriam-Webster OnLine

http://www.merriam-webster.com/

One Look Dictionaries: The Faster Finder (Robert Ware)

http://www.onelook.com/

Oxford English Dictionary

http://www.oed.com/

PubMed (National Library of Medicine)

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/

Quickref (UT Austin Library Online)

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/refsites/

Reference Desk (Bob Drudge)

http://www.refdesk.com/

Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography (Charles W. Bailey, Jr.)

http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepb.html

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

http://plato.stanford.edu/contents.html

Your Dictionary [multiple languages]

http://www.yourdictionary.com/

Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia (Jimmy Wales)

http://www.wikipedia.org/

LiteSum Wikipedia extract (Jake Jarvis)

http://litesum.com/

Zip Code Lookup (U.S. Postal Service)

http://www.usps.com/ncsc/lookups/lookup_ctystzip.html

Libraries

AcqWeb [library acquisitions]

http://www.acqweb.org/

Austin [Texas] Public Library Online Catalog

https://www.ci.austin.tx.us/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/x/0/49

British Library Public Catalogue

http://blpc.bl.uk/

InfoMine: Scholarly Internet Research Collections (U of California at Riverside)

http://infomine.ucr.edu/

Internet Library for Librarians (Vianne Tang Sha)

http://www.itcompany.com/inforetriever/

Internet Public Library

http://www.ipl.org/

LibCat: A guide to library resources on the Internet

http://www.librarysites.info/

LibDex - The Library Index

http://www.libdex.com/

Library of Congress Online Catalog

http://catalog.loc.gov/

Library of Congress Wise Guide

http://www.loc.gov/wiseguide/

Library Spot

http://www.libraryspot.com/

Taxonomy Warehouse

http://taxonomywarehouse.com/

TexaShare (Texas library partnership)

http://www.texshare.edu/

TRAIL - Texas Records and Information Locator (Texas State Library)

http://www2.tsl.state.tx.us/trail/

UT Austin Library Online Catalog

http://catalog.lib.utexas.edu/

World Cat

http://www.worldcat.org/

Book Catalogs

Amazon.com Books

http://www.amazon.com/

BookWire

http://www.bookwire.com/bookwire/

Publishers' Catalogues

http://www.lights.ca/publisher/