List of helpful reference tools, online reference libraries, and reference material:
| Digital Librarian | Librarian's choice of the best of the Web |
| EconData.net | Designed to help researchers gain access to relevant state socioeconomic data. links to socioeconomic data sources, arranged by subject and provider, pointers to the Web's premiere data collections, and our own list of the ten best sites for finding regional economic data. Click here to learn more |
| Eye Spy Intelligence Magazine | Eye Spy Intelligence Magazine - the world's leading newsstand magazine on intelligence and espionage. Read by the intelligence, security, investigative and military communities around the world. |
| English Server | English Department at Carnegie Mellon University. The EServer is a growing online community where hundreds of writers, artists, editors and scholars gather to publish works as open archives, available free of charge to readers. |
| BBC Online | The BBC is the largest broadcasting organization in the world. Its mission is to enrich people's lives with programs that inform, educate and entertain. It is a public service broadcaster, established by a Royal Charter and funded by the license fee that is paid by UK households. |
| Rice University | Fondren Library at Rice University |
| University of Alberta Libraries | The resources of the University of Alberta Libraries comprise one of the major research collections in Canada. |
| University of Tennessee | University of Tennessee Knoxville Libraries |
| Information Please | Information Please is part of Pearson Education, the largest educational publisher in the world and owner of Prentice Hall, Scott Foresman, Addison Wesley Longman, and other distinguished imprints. Pearson also owns Athe Financial Times and Penguin Putnam publishers. |
| Info Service - Reference Desk | Reference links and reference websites |
| Internet Library for Librarians | Internet Library for Librarians provides links to more than 4,000 resources. All the resources are recommended, selected, and reviewed by librarians. Each entry has a full description of the goals and /or scope of the resource, as well as the contact information if provided. Internet Library for Librarians is a handy and useful tool for both novices and experienced library staff. |
| Price's List of Lists | Clearinghouse of resource lists |
| Quick Reference | University of Texas at Austin |
| Reference Shelf | A daily newsletter with resources of interest to information professionals, educators and journalists. |
| Resource Centers | Library of Congress research and reference information. The Library of Congress is the nation's oldest federal cultural institution and serves as the research arm of Congress. It is also the largest library in the world, with millions of books, recordings, photographs, maps and manuscripts in its collections. The Library's mission is to make its resources available and useful to the Congress and the American people and to sustain and preserve a universal collection of knowledge and creativity for future generations. The Office of the Librarian is tasked to set policy and to direct and support programs and activities to accomplish the Library's mission. |
| Reference Resources sources by Discipline | University of Waterloo Electronic Library |
| Suite101.com | Web-based community dedicated to directing Internet users to the Best of the World Wide Web. |