University of Rhode Island Libraries
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 Acronym Finder
- Searchable
database containing 73,000 common acronyms and abbreviations and their meanings, with a
focus on computers, technology, telecommunications, and the military.
- Comprehensive
list of U.S. and foreign newspapers from American Journalism Review. Includes college
newspapers.
- An abbreviated online guide to
preparing citations in American Psychological Association format. Made available by the
Writers’ Workshop at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
- Online version
of the 10th edition of Familiar Quotations by John Bartlett, published in 1919. “A
collection of passages, phrases, and proverbs traced to their sources in ancient and
modern literature.” Provided by Bartleby.com
- Dictionary of
more than 33,000 men and women from ancient times to the present day. Can be searched by
name, birth year, death year, positions held, professions, literary and artistic works,
miscellaneous achievements, and other keywords.
- Brief
biographies of over 20,000 people, past and present. Provided by A&E Television Networks.
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Catholic Encyclopedia
- Electronic
version of the Catholic Encyclopedia.
- Contains more
than 57,000 entries from the Concise Columbia Encyclopedia, sixth edition.
- “Clear,
reliable explanations of how everything around us actually work.”
- Preferred
editorial style for the preparation of proposed IEEE standards.
- "INFOMINE is a virtual library of Internet resources relevant to faculty, students, and research staff at the university level. It contains useful Internet resources such as databases, electronic journals, bulletin boards, mailing lists, online library catalogs, articles, directories of researchers, and many other types of information."
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Infoplease
Almanac
- Almanac with
general information on the world, the U.S., sports, people, entertainment, business,
society, living, and science & technology. Also includes a dictionary and an
encyclopedia.
- “A portal designed for librarians to locate Internet resources related to their profession.”
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Internet Movie Database
- Search for
movies and TV shows by title, cast/crew, and character. Information provided includes
director, genre, cast overview, rating, year released, runtime, plot outline.
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Internet Public Library
- A collection of
carefully selected and arranged Internet reference sources, online texts, online
periodicals, and library-related links. Includes IPL original resources such as
Associations on the Net, the
Online Literary Criticism Collection,
POTUS: Presidents of the United States, and
Stately Knowledge (facts about the states for youth).
- “Designed to break through the information overload of
the Web to bring the best library and reference sites together with insightful editorial
in one convenient, user-friendly spot.”
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Merriam Webster Online
- Online
Merriam-Webster English dictionary and thesaurus, Spanish-English dictionary, and medical dictionary.
- An abbreviated online guide to
preparing citations in the Modern Languages Association format. Made available by the
Writers’ Workshop at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
- Provides brief guides and examples of
citation styles for the total range of online information. Detailed descriptions and
examinations are given for MLA, APA, Chicago, and CBE styles.
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The OWL at Purdue (Online Writing Lab)
- Abbreviated online guides for
Modern Languages Association (MLA) and the
American Psychological Association (APA) citation styles from the Writing Lab at Purdue University.
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The Paperboy
- Portal to
newspaper Web sites from around the world.
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PubList.com
- Searchable
directory of more than 150,000 periodicals from around the world. Provides title, subject,
ISSN, publisher, frequency, etc. Articles can be ordered through Infotrieve.
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Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition, 1995
- Online version
of Roget’s Thesaurus through Bartleby.com.
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Statistical Abstract of
the United States
- Electronic
version of the Statistical Abstract of the United States. All files in Adobe Acrobat format.
- Online
encyclopedia of graphic symbols. Contains more than 2,500 Western signs, arranged in
groups according to their graphic characteristics.
- Convenient index
of online phone books, with links to Yellow Pages, White Pages, business directories,
e-mail addresses and fax listings from around the world.
- The official
source of time in the United States. Provides real time updates each time page reloads.
- Free online
encyclopedia written collaboratively by volunteers worldwide, and edited by users.
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Zip Code Lookup
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Offered by the
U.S. Postal Service. Allows searching by address, city, or zip code.
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