General Reference

Almanacs

Dictionaries

Statistics

Calculators

Calculator.com Online commercial calculator.
Medical Algorithms Project "More than 6100 algorithms, organized into 45 chapters, are available as spreadsheets which can be opened in your browser."
Periodic Table Toolbox "Allows one to add different elements together to make a custom compound."

Acronym Finder
Merriam-Webster Dictionary Online
Oxford English Dictionary (CUA members only) The definitive dictionary of the English language.
Oxford Reference Online: Modern Languages (CUA members only) Provides translations for Spanish, French, German and Italian language to English language.

Access Science. (CUA members only.) McGraw-Hill's electronic version of the Encyclopedia of Science & Technology.
DIRLINE. The National Library of Medicine's directory database of health and biomedical organizations.

American FactFinder. Offers population, economic, housing and geographic statistics.
City Population Offers on statistics and maps of the world's major cities.
FedStats. Links to statistics produced by more than 100 U.S. federal agencies.
Historical United States Census Data Browser. Data on people and the economy for each U.S. county and state from 1790-1960.
National Center for Health Statistics. Statistics from the Center for Disease Control.
U.S. Census Bureau. Provides info on U.S. people and economy. Includes current population clock and access to Statistical Abstract of the United States.

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MODIFIED: January-07-2008