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Miscellaneous reference tools to help you do your job better.

 

Great Books Online

A free on-line resource of books, featuring is the World Factbook 2001, Columbia Encyclopedia, American Heritage Dictionary, Rogett's New Thesaurus, American Heritage Book of English Usage, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, and Strunk's Elements of Style. There are links to a long list of reference books, poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Also includes a easy search index by author, subject, or title.

Online Dictionaries

Extensive links to dictionaries. Foreign language dictionaries, incouding English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese, Chinese, and 260 more. Grammar dictionaries. The top ten specialty dictionaries in English, including business, computing, cooking crafts, finance, genealogy, humor, law, medicine, sports, and more.

Assignment Editor

This newsroom contains extensive links to references, including 1400 U.S. and World newspapers, breaking news coverage guide, news wires, network news, weather, search engines, photo search, research, law resources, politics, government directories, law enforcement, travel information, aviation, white pages, yellow pages, area codes, zip codes, maps, time/zones, international white pages, yellow pages, and international calling codes.

Facts & Reference

A reference site that includes reference tools, including almanacs, calculators & conversions, census & demographics, dictionaries and thesaurus, encyclopedias, maps, quotations, style and writing guide, facts search desk, top news, breaking news, weather, help and advice. Other subjects include philosophy, social sciences, language, applied science, history, and geography.

Language Translator

Online translation software, allowing translation between any combination of English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, and more.

The Journalist's Toolbox

Features a long list of sites helpful to the media and anyone else doing research. Includes reporting tools, editing and fact checking resources, and teaching resources. Search the site or use an alphabetical site map or pulldown menu to locate information.

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