Acronym Finder
A searchable database of more than 5 million common acronyms and abbreviations, which can be filtered by categories like military and government or slang and pop culture
Amortization Table Calculator
Create an amortization table in three easy steps.
Chicago Manual of Style
Great aid for all your grammar and usage questions. If your institution or organization does not have a subscription, they offer a free 30-day trial for individual users.
Data.census.gov
Data.census.gov replaces American FactFinder (AFF) as the new platform to access data and digital content from the US Census Bureau.
Data USA
Search, map, compare, visualize, and download US data
The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)
The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) is an all-digital library that aggregates metadata — or information describing an item — and thumbnails for millions of photographs, manuscripts, books, sounds, moving images, and more from libraries, archives, and museums across the United States.
FindArtInfo.com Auction Results Database
Excellent resource for those times when you are trying to estimate the value of a prospect’s art collection. The database contains more than 3.5 million art prices. Paid registration required to access many areas.
The Internet Movie Database (IMDb)
IMDb is an excellent movie reference source. Searchable by film and actor name, as well as director and crew. Subscription-based IMDbPro provides industry trade news and contacts, as well as information about talent representation and in-development titles not available on IMDb.
Library of Congress (LOC)
View maps, photographs, diaries, newspapers, hear personal accounts of events, listen to sound recordings, and watch historic films in the LOC’s digital collections; search its online catalog; browse its research guides by subject or research center; and more.
NADA Boat Price Guide
Search by manufacturer or type for prices and values for all boat types.
Peterson’s College Search
Free access to information – including size, tuition, majors, athletics, and student life – on more than 4,000 colleges and universities
Quotations at Bartleby.com
Search for quotations from the King James Bible, Shakespeare, Bartlett’s and other sources. Indexes by author, title, and subject.
Robert Hickey’s Online Guide to Forms of Address
How to address everyone from abbesses to yacht club officers.
Smithsonian Collections Search Center
Online catalog containing most of Smithsonian’s major collections from their museums, archives, libraries, and research units
Timeanddate.com Calendars
Create a calendar for any year. You can also choose a calendar by country to view holiday and observance dates relevant to the selected country for that year.
The Wayback Machine from the Internet Archive
This site can be an absolute lifesaver at those times when you need to capture a bio or news item that has been deleted from a website. Webpages from as long ago as 1996 (ancient in terms of the web’s short history!) are archived here.
Wolfram|Alpha
Wolfram|Alpha’s goal is to make “all the world’s systematic knowledge computable.” Examples of topics to search for in Wolfram|Alpha include: current and historical stock prices or custom reports comparing the performance of multiple stocks, calorie and nutritional value of foods, distances between cities, and all kinds of calculations.
YachtWorld.com
Another searchable database useful in determining the value of a boat