General Reference Collections

• Internet Public Library
• Martindale's Reference Desk
• Purdue University's Virtual Reference Desk
• University of Texas' Virtual Library Online
• Yale University's Health Sciences Reference

Specific Reference Works

• APA (American Psychological Association) Guide to Style
• Acronyms & Abbreviations
• Bartlett's Quotations
• Biomedical Acronym/Definition Database
• Biotechnology Dictionary
• CIA World Fact Book
• Chemfinder - Chemical Searching and Information Integration
• Directory of Biomedical Technology Resource Centers (NIH)
• Encyclopedia Britannica
• Federal Bio-Technology Transfer Directory Home Page covers all federal laboratory inventions, licenses granted and Collaborative Research and Development Agreements(CRADAs) in the biomedical and related biotechnology areas, 1980-present.
• ICD 9 Codes
• National Center for Research Resources (NIH) on-line NCRR directories are available here to readily identify the array of research resource facilities, biomaterials, and models available to biomedical investigators across this country
• Merriam-Webster Online WWWebster Dictionary 1996 (based on the 1994 10th ed of Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary)
• Online Conversion Over 8,100 unit conversions/calculators.
• Periodic Table of Elements (Web-Elements, Dept. of Chemisty, Sheffield University, UK)
• Roget's Thesaurus
• THOMAS -- U.S. Congress on the Internet
• Webopedia -- Online dictionary computer and Internet terminology