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American Psychological Association’s Citing Electronic Information
http://www.apastyle.org/elecref.html
Information regarding citing electronic media.


The Bluebook
http://www.law.cornell.edu/citation/
Online version of The Bluebook with more up-to-date revisions.


Columbia University’s Online Guide to Legal Citation
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/cgos/idx_basic.html
Research guide to legal citations.


Dictionaries on the Web
http://www.iki.fi/hezu/dict.html


Dictionary.com
http://www.dictionary.com


Duhaime’s Law Dictionary
http://www.duhaime.org/diction.htm


International Law Dictionary and Directory
http://august1.com/pubs/dict


Merriam-Webster OnLine
http://www.m-w.com/dictionary


YourDictionary.com
http://www.yourdictionary.com
Multiple language dictionaries, thesauruses, translation service, and glossaries.


Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
http://www.bartleby.com/65/
Online encyclopedia containing 51,000 entries and more than 80,000 hypertext cross-references.


Encyclopedia Britannica Online
http://search.eb.com


MSN Encarta Online
http://encarta.msn.com/


Nolo: Legal Encyclopedia
http://www.nolo.com/lawcenter/ency/index.cfm


Altavista Translator
http://babelfish.altavista.com

Free2Professional Translation
http://www.freetranslation.com


American Association of Law Libraries
http://www.aallnet.org


Association of Research Libraries
http://arl.cni.org


Civnet: National Libraries Worldwide
http://www.civnet.org/web/index.php?page=Helpful_Links&&sublink=Library_Links


Gabriel: Gateway to Europe’s Libraries
http://www.bl.uk/gabriel/en/services.html


Hollis Catalog
http://hollis.harvard.edu


Hytelnet - Archive of Telnet Sites
http://www.lights.com/hytelnet/


International Federation of Library Associations: Electronic Collections
http://www.ifla.org/II/index.htm


LIBCAT: A Guide to Library Resources on the Internet
http://www.metronet.lib.mn.us/lc/lc1.cfm


The Library Index
http://www.libdex.com/


Libraries and Archives of Canada
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/index-e.html


Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov
This extremely versatile site features the American Memory and the American Treasures projects which provide documents, photographs, motion pictures and sound recordings from the Library's collections and exhibits. It also provides search capabilities for the library catalog, direct access to THOMAS (full text of U.S. House and Senate documents), the Global Legal Information Network, the U.S. Copyright Office, as well as links to other internet research sources.


Library Spot
http://www.libraryspot.com


Northeren California Association of Law Libraries
http://www.nocall.org


Xrefer: Digital Reference Library
http://www.xrefer.com


BloomsburyMagazine.com: Research Centre
http://www.bloomsburymagazine.com/ARC/arc_home.asp


Gavel 2 Gavel
http://www.re-quest.net/g2g/


Indexmaster
http://www.indexmaster.com


Information Please
http://www.infoplease.com


Law Library Resource Exchange
http://www.llrx.com


Law Links
http://lawlinks.com


LexNotes
http://www.lexnotes.com/index.shtml


Refdesk.com
http://www.refdesk.com/


Research Libraries Group: Eureka Search
http://www.rlg.org/eureka.html


Virtual Chase
http://www.virtualchase.com


AALL: Legal Publisher’s List
http://www.aallnet.org/committee/criv/resources/tools/list/


Bartleby
http://www.bartleby.com/
Full-text classics, nonfiction, verses and reference resources online.


Biography.com
http://biography.com


CIA: World Factbook
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
The World Factbook is prepared by the Central Intelligence Agency for the use of U.S. government officials, providing national-level information on countries, territories, and dependencies.


Justist: Books Online
http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/lawbooks/index.htm


Stare Decisis and Techniques of Legal Reasoning and Legal Argument
http://legalresearch.org/docs/perell.html
Research guide to how to look up the law and how a lawyer should deal with the authorities that he or she finds. (Focused on the Canadaian perspective)

This page was last updated: 08/26/2005
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