The college's library catalog is available online (you may use their library if you're not a student there, although you can't check out books). They also have a great listing of useful Web sites under the “Subject Guide” heading.
CHECK THIS OUT:
CALCULATORS & CONVERTERS
Measurements http://www.convertit.com/Go/ConvertIt/Measurement/Converter.ASP
Measurements
http://webphysics.ph.msstate.edu/units/index.html
Percent Change http://javascript.internet.com/calculators/percent.html
Percent Change http://www.newsengin.com/neFreeTools.nsf/PercentChange/formPercentChange
Time Converter http://www.convert-me.com/en
CALENDARS
Day of Week Finder http://harold.com/toys/cal.cgi
Holiday Dates (Religious) http://www.smart.net/~mmontes/ec-cal.html
Holiday Dates (Secular) http://www.smart.net/~mmontes/ushols.html#HOLS
Holiday
Finder http://www.vpcalendar.net
DICTIONARIES
OneLook http://www.onelook.com
Web of Online
Dictionaries http://www.yourdictionary.com
Webster's Dictionary
http://www.m-w.com
ENCYCLOPEDIAS
How Stuff Works
http://www.howstuffworks.com
MATH FOR REPORTERS
Budget-time Help http://www.projo.com/words/tip408.htm
Inflation Adjuster http://www.kricar.com/tools/tools.htm
Math Help from Robert Niles
http://nilesonline.com/stats
Math
Help from Steve Doig http://cronkite.pp.asu.edu/census/math.htm
How to Do Your Own Conversions http://oakroadsystems.com/math/convert.htm
QUOTATIONS
REFERENCE SITES (AND WEB DIRECTORIES)
Infomine
http://brimstone.ucr.edu
Martindale's
Reference Desk http://www.martindalecenter.com
STATISTICS
Federal Statistics http://www.fedstats.gov
THESAURUS
TIME ZONES
World Time Server http://www.worldtimeserver.com
ZIP CODES
Last modified July 31, 2003
PUBLISHER LIST IN THE SHELL: Your own editorial system has a directory of publishers. It's in Local Non-Daily/Book/PublishersList.
Conversions Super-site http://www.onlineconversion.com
The mother of all conversion sites.
Converts ounces, drams, oil barrels–you name it–into any measurement you choose.
Figure out what 45 mph is in kilometers, how many pints
are in a hogshead or one of the many other units used on this site. Also
shows you how the calculation was done.
A quick way to look up “What is X percent of Y?” or “X is what percent of Y?”
Plug in two numbers and NewsEngin will show you the percentage
of increase or decrease between them.
Sergey and Anna's site makes it easy to figure out how many seconds
or minutes or lunar months or years or whatever are in a span of time.
Day of Week Finder http://www.earth.com/calendar
Find the day of the week a date fell on in any year.
An alternative to the perpetual calendar above.
This calendar gives the dates of Easter, Mother's Day
and other movable holidays from 1990 to 2010.
Animal groups http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/help/faq/animals/names.htm
What do you call a collection of crows? (A murder) A group of jellyfish? (A smack) Those terms and many more are offered on this site.
Search hundreds of dictionaries simultaneously with OneLook.
Slang, technical, medical, foreign language...dictionaries of all ilks
are included here.
Has more than 600 dictionaries with 150 languages, as
well as links to specialized English dictionaries for homophones, synonyms,
thesauri, rhyming words, etc.
Type in a keyword and you'll get a full definition and
a pronunciation guide, plus a thesaurus link. If you misspell a word,
the dictionary gives you a list of words with similar spellings.
Britannica http://www.britannica.com
The old workhorse has gone high tech with a mega-Web of entries, graphics and Internet links. We also have a print version in the library.
I can't vouch for the accuracy of entries on this site
- how am I supposed to know how lava lamps work? - but it might help you
visualize what makes toilets or lungs or ice skating rinks tick.
Ask Dr. Math http://mathforum.org/dr.math
The Dr. Math site is designed for kids but includes very grown-up mind bogglers like compound interest and annual percentage rates. .
Twenty tips for covering budgets, from a Providence Journal-Bulletin reporter.
Knight Ridder’s CAR site shows you how to adjust for inflation and how to calculate annual growth rates.
Robert Niles, a senior producer at latimes.com, offers a very non-scary math tutorial for reporters.
Doig, an Arizona State University journalism professor,
provides formulas and other math help on his Census 2000 Web site.
Learn how to convert units of measurement all by yourself.
Yahoo
Directory Quotations http://dir.yahoo.com/Reference/Quotations
Yahoo has links to quote sites of all shapes and sizes.
Barbara's
News Researcher's Page http://www.gate.net/~barbara/index.html
An incredible compilation of useful Web sites.
Has a huge selection of online reference sources (full-text
books, foreign language dictionaries, almanacs, calendars, maps, grammar
guides and more) put together by librarians at the University of California.
Includes links to calculators, dictionaries and databases
for nearly every subject under the sun.
International Statistics http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/webdirec.html#A
An amazing directory of Web sites on everything from Abortion to Zimbabwe. This is an especially good place to find statistics and government reports.
The whole enchilada for those seeking statistics provided on the Web by the U.S. government. If you’d rather search for statistics available from a specific agency, go to http://www.fedstats.gov/agencies.
Roget's Thesaurus
http://www.thesaurus.com
Plug in a keyword and find synonyms for it.
World Clock http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock
Search World Clock to find out what time it is in larger cities around the world (i.e., it has Richmond, but not Fredericksburg). Also lists sunrise and sunset times for that city.
An alternative to the World Clock.
Zip Code Finder http://www.usps.com/zip4
