Two great tools to manage your bookmarks:
- Backflip, which lets you store, categorize, and share your bookmarks online;
- Compass, which excels at managing your bookmarks hierarchically, allows you to add metadata, checks for dead links, duplicates, etc.
Reference Desk
- refdesk.com, Research-It!, LibrarySpot.com, Power Reporting, and NYTimes Navigator are good general reference portals.
- dictionary.com, yourDictionary.com, and OneLook Dictionaries provide access to hundreds of dictionaries.
- Roget's Thesaurus
- Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (complete 9th ed., 1901)
- The Elements of Style (complete 1918 ed. by William Strunk, Jr.)
- Information Please includes dictionaries, encyclopedia, atlas, and almanac. Yahoo! Reference also includes quotations and Gray's Anatomy
- The World Fact Book
- Biography.com, Lives, the Biography Resource, and Biographical Dictionary cover thousands of biographies.
- ConvertIt converts measurements, currencies, timezones, etc. For currencies, try also Currency converter.
- Translate text or a webpage with Systran.
- for health care information, drkoop.com, Health Watch, healthfinder, Mayo Clinic, MEDLINE Plus, and WebMD. Also the Merck Manual Home Edition.
- for drug information, Merck-Medco.com.
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Technology Newsletters
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Technology Publications
- Online
- eContent (formerly Database)
- Information Today
- The Information Advisor newsletter
- WIRED
- Brill's Content, which covers media issues in general but devotes a considerable chunk of space to the web and electronic content.
- Information Highways
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