Ready Reference Websites

(compilation courtesy of MVCC librarians)  

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Local Information

•   EPodunk: Oneida County: http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=22488

General statistics on the county plus quick links to addresses, statistics, maps, organizations, and more.

•   Map of Rome: from MapQuest  

  •   Utica and Rome bus schedules: http://www.centro.org  

News

Broadcast media  

•   WKTV: http://www.wktv.com/  

•   WUTR: http://cnyhomepage.com/  

•   WTVH: http://www.wtvh.com/

•   News 10 Now:  http://www.news10now.com/content/top_stories/?SecID=1

•   CNN:  http://www.cnn.com/

•   MSNBC: http://www.msnbc.com/

•   Podcast directory:  http://www.podcastdirectory.com/

Print/Online media

•   Utica Observer-Dispatch:  http://www.uticaod.com/

•   Rome Daily Sentinel:  http://www.romesentinel.com/

•   Oneida Dispatch:  http://www.oneidadispatch.com/site/news.cfm?brd=1709

Weather

•   National Weather Service: http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?zoneid=NYZ009

Enter your city or click on the map for your local forecast.

•   The Weather Channel:  http://www.weather.com/weather/local/13502

Enter your city or zip code for your local forecast.

Writing and Citing Help 

 Nuts and Bolts of College Writing: http://nutsandbolts.washcoll.edu/  

•   MLA style home page: http://www.mla.org/

•   APA style home page: http://www.apastyle.org/elecref.html

•   NoodleBib Express:  http://www.noodletools.com/noodlebib/express.php  

A citation generator.

Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

•   AllRefer.com: http://reference.allrefer.com/

Includes articles from the Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, c2003, as well as from other reference sources, and a gazetteer of North and Central America and Mexico.

•   Answers.com:  http://www.answers.com/  

Fast facts taken from 180 reference titles, plus articles written by Answers.com editors and articles from Wikipedia and WikiAnswers.

•   Biography.com Search Bios: http://www.biography.com/search/

Brief biographies, searchable by name or keyword, of over 25,000 people, past and present.

•   Encyclopedia Smithsonian: http://www.si.edu/Encyclopedia_SI/start.htm

Answers to frequently asked question on a wide range of topics, arranged by subject.

•   Highbeam Encyclopedia: http://encyclopedia.com/

Contains over 57,000 frequently updated articles from the Columbia Encyclopedia,  6^th edition, with links to newspaper and magazine articles, pictures, and maps via Highbeam Research .

    The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy http://www.utm.edu/research/iep  

•   Roget's Thesaurus:  http://www.thesaurus.com/

•   The Skeptic's Dictionary:  http://skepdic.com/contents.html  

Includes articles on the occult, pseudoscience, cryptozoology, UFOs, and other topics in popular culture.

Maps, Directories, and Almanacs

•   Allmovie Guide: http://allmovie.com/

Information on movies searchable by title and person.

•   Almanac Search Page from the Information Please Almanac:

  http://www.infoplease.com/almanacs.html

Look up fast facts about the world, biography, business, society and culture, arts and entertainment and much more!

•   AnyWho Directory of Toll-Free Phone Numbers:  http://www.anywho.com/tf.html

•   Associations on the Net:  http://www.ipl.org/div/aon

 The IPL Associations on the Net (AON) includes more than 1100 Internet sites providing information about a wide variety of professional and trade associations, cultural and art organizations, political parties and advocacy groups, labor unions, academic societies, and research institutions.

•   CIA- The World Factbook : http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook

Provides profiles of the individual nations of the world, with links to maps, flags and more.

•   Mapquest:  http://www.mapquest.com/

•   Oneida County (N.Y.) Government:  http://ocgov.net  

Look up information on the County Legislature, elected officials, County departments, the County Executive, and more.

•   The Original Farmer's Almanac:  http://www.almanac.com/

Online version of North America's oldest continuously published periodical covering weather, gardening, astronomy, advice and more.

•   USPS Zip Code Lookup:  http://zip4.usps.com/zip4/welcome.jsp

Other Reference Sources

•   Based on the Book: http://www.mcpl.lib.mo.us/readers/movies/

Searchable compilation of over 1,200 books, novels, and short stories that have been made into movies.

•   Dead or Alive:  http://www.deadoraliveinfo.com/dead.nsf/pages-nf/main

Find out whether a famous person is alive or dead, and what celebrities have birthdays or died on this date.

•   Ethnologue: Languages of the World: http://www.ethnologue.com/web.asp

A huge amount of information on languages, searchable by country, name, language family, and language code.

•   50states.com:  http://www.50states.com/

Click on the state and find links to facts, statistics, and more.

•   How Stuff Works:  http://www.howstuffworks.com/

Provides "easy-to-understand explanations of how the world actually works". 

•   Kelley Blue Book: http://www.kbb.com/  
Provides pricing for new cars, used car value, motorcycle information, automotive advice, and more.

•   Measure 4 Measure: http://www.wolinskyweb.net/measure.htm#house

Provides links to many web sites that measure, calculate, estimate, and translate.

•   New York Statistical Yearbook: http://www.rockinst.org/nys_statistics

Statistical information on New York State economics, elections, demographics, public safety, housing, education, health, energy, government finance, and more, presented by the Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government.

•   Occupational Outlook Handbook: http://www.bls.gov/oco/  
  From the US Dept. of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics; lists the following: the training and education needed, earnings, expected job prospects, what workers do on the job, working conditions

•   Statistical Abstract: http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/

Provides an authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States.

•   Time Zone Converter:  http://www.timezoneconverter.com/cgi-bin/tzc.tzc

Tells you what time it is in another country or part of the United States.

•   The Universal Currency Converter:  http://www.xe.com/ucc

Find out how much a certain amount of money is worth in another country's currency.

•   WorldCat.org:  http://www.worldcat.org/

Search for books, articles, and audiovisual materials in the holdings of over 10,000 libraries worldwide.