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Ask An Expert  and Other Answers To Your Questions

• Ask a Librarian (Palomar College)
• Answers.com
• About.com
• Ask a Scientist (Howard Hughes Medical Institute)
• Ask Dr. Math
• eHow
• HowStuffWorks

Biographies

• Biographical Dictionary
• Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• Biographies (Historical)
• Biographies (Scientists)
• Biography (A&E Television Network)
• Black Scientists & Inventors
• Distinguished Women of Past and Present
• Eric Weisstein’s World of Scientific Biography
• Find A Grave
• 4000 Years of Women in Science
• Gallery of Achievers
• HistoryMakers
• National Inventors Hall of Fame
• Nobel Prize Laureates
• Presidents of the United States
• Scientists, Inventors, Explorers
• Time Magazine’s List of 100 Influential People

Search also specific subjects for biographies of persons by discipline.

Books, Journals, and Other Media

• Palomar College Library Catalog (Palomar College Library collection; no password required)
• eBook Collection (EBSCOHost) at Palomar (Palomar College only - passwords required off-campus)
• Title Source III (Palomar College only - passwords required off-campus)
• Palomar College Bookstore
• Amazon.com
• Barnes&Noble
• Bibliofind (old, used, and rare books)
• Bookfinder (find and compare prices on books)
• BookTV.org
• California State Library, California State Publications
• Children's Literature Web Guide (University of Calgary)
• Directory of Publishers
• Great Books Online (Bartleby.com)
• International Children's Digital Library
• Isbn.nu (find the best prices for books)
• LibriVox (free audio books of materials in public domain)
• Making of America: 19th Century Books and Periodicals (digital full-text)
• The On-line Books Page
• Pastpaper.com (old issues of magazines, newspapers, books, and ephemera)
• Publishers' Catalogues Home Page
• Religious and Sacred Texts (Internet Sacred Text Archive)
• Textbooks
  • eFollett: New and Used College Textbooks
  • Textbooks.com
  • BIGWORDS.com
  • Cheaptextbooks.org
• WorldCat

View also the online catalogs of other libraries. 

Dictionaries & Thesauri (English-language)

• Acronym Finder
• Cliche Finder
• Dictionary of Slang
• Dictionary.com
• Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
• Oxford Dictionaries Online
• Oxford English Dictionary (Palomar College only - passwords required off-campus)
• Rap Dictionary
• Roget's II: The New Thesaurus
• Thesaurus.com
• Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
• Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
• yourDictionary.com

Dictionaries (Foreign-language and Translators)

• WordReference.com (English to French, German, Spanish, and Italian)
• Google Language Tools
• Yahoo Translation (Babel Fish)
• ARTFL: French-English Dictionary and Conjugator
• ARTFL: Dictionnaires d'autrefois (French dictionaries of 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th Centuries)
• Latin Dictionary and Grammar Aid
• R-O Matic Italian/English Dictionary
• Travlang

Dictionaries (Topical)

• BABEL: A Glossary of Computer Oriented Abbreviations & Acronyms
• Biographical Dictionary
• Botanical Glossary
• Center for Nonverbal Studies (Nonverbal Dictionary)
• Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names
• Duhaime's Law Dictionary
• Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
• Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing
• Glossary of Poetic Terms
• Medical Dictionaries

Directories

• Zip Code Lookup and Address Information (USPS)

Encyclopedias and Almanacs

• InfoPlease
• Encyclopedia Britannica
• Funk & Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia (Palomar College only - passwords required off-campus)
• Gale Virtual Reference Library (Palomar College only- passwords required off-campus)
• Encyclopedia of the Orient
• Spartacus Internet Encyclopedia [of History]
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Tech Encyclopedia
• Webopaedia
• Wikipedia

General Interest

• Federal Citizen Information Center
• Festival Finder
• Festivals.com
• Holidays: Religious and Secular
• Howtocleananything.com
• Internet Public Library
• Martindale's Reference Desk
• National Consumers League
• PolicyArchive.org (online archive public policy research)
• PollingReport.com
• ProCon.org (Pros and Cons of controversial issues)
• States & Capitals
• Wayback Machine (web page archive)
• WWW Virtual Library

Maps & Geographic

Quotations

• Bartlett's Quotations
• Famous Quotes and Famous Sayings (Great-Quotes.com)

Standards

• Calendar Zone
• Dictionary of Units
• Federal Reserve Fund Rates & Forecasts
• U.S. Naval Observatory Master Clock
• Universal Currency Converter
• Time & Date

Statistics

• American Fact Finder (Census Bureau)
• Bureau of Justice Statistics (Federal)
• Criminal Justice Statistics Center (California)
• FedStats
• Global Statistics
• Historical Census Data Browser (1790+)
• The Modern Language Association Language Map (comparative linguistic statistics)
• National Center for Education Statistics
• National Center for Health Statistics
• National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)
• NumbersUSA (population and immigration statistics)
• Occupational Outlook Quarterly
• The Population Finder (2010 Census)
• Statistical Abstract of the United States (Census Bureau)
• Statistical Assessment Service (STATS)
• World Fact Book (CIA)

Search also: Subject Links for resources in specific disciplines, or Online Databases for periodical articles. For additional research assistance, please Ask a Librarian.