Desk Reference

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• Calculators:
  • Martindale's Calculators includes just about anything you might want.
  • Hugh's Mortgage and Financial Calculators provides pointers to many calculators.
• Chemicals:
  • See Also: Material Safety Data Sheets (below)
  • Chemical Searching  (includes drugs) from CambridgeSoft.
• Dictionary/Thesaurus/Encyclopedia:
  • Encyclopedia Britannica and Webster's Dictionary.
  • Encarta Encyclopedia from Microsoft.
  • OneLook Dictionaries searches multiple dictionaries selectable in areas such as science, technology, religion, medicine, sports, and more.
  • WWWebster Dictionary and thesaurus.  From Merriam-Webster.
  • RefDesk includes links to almanac, atlas, and database tools.
  • Encyclopedia.com
  • Dictionary.com
  • Thesaurus.com
  • FindLaw.com provides law and legal resources including a law library.
  • The Human Languages Page with many, many language and translation references.
  • Online Dictionary of Computing
  • Roget's Thesaurus (try "fast").
  • Roget's Thesaurus from Univ. of Oregon.
  • Roget's Thesaurus from Univ. of Chicago, Humanities.
  • See Also:
    • The See Also section below contains many good pointers.
• Geography:
  • Street Level Maps, Trip Planning, Census, and facts, are available in Travel .
• Government:
  • U.S. Federal Government Agencies  from the LSU Virtual Library.
• Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS):
  • See Also: Chemicals (above)
  • Chemical Fact Sheets
  • Hazardous Materials Page with news and MSDS links.  From the Emergency Response & Research Institute.
  • Hazardous Chemical Database from HordeNet (University Of Akron).
• Postal:
  • Zip Code lookup, including ZIP+4 lookup, and other services from The United States Postal Service. 
• Time:
  • Time Of Day from US Naval Observatory Master Clock.
  • Time Of Day in GMT (subtract 4 hours for Dayton in summer, subtract 5 hours for Dayton in winter).
• Thomas Register Supplier Finder is available from Thomas Publishing. Search the Thomas Register of American Manufacturers database for product and service suppliers in 52,000 categories! This service is FREE to registered users. Registration can be completed on-line.
• Thomas Regional - Local Supplier Finder includes products, services, manufacturers, distributors, trade names, company profiles, local events calendar.  Also included are contacts for Industry and government organizations.  The Ohio Valley covers the Dayton area.
• Weather:  Local and  world references have been moved to Dayton and Ohio.
• See Also:
  • Martindale's Reference Desk contains a multitude of lookup tables and calculators.
  • My Virtual Reference Desk  is a great place to look up something whether it's current events or science or language or some that might be on the Internet.
  • Yahoo:Reference
  • Internet Public Library.

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