Almanacs

• The Almanac of Politics and Government (online edition)
  This annual compilation of information about American and world politics includes a
  political calendar, links to selected political documents, and profiles of national
  governments, American branches of government and their agencies, leaders, world
  organizations, and political parties.
• Information Please: On-Line Dictionary, Encyclopedia, & Almanac Resource
  A first stop on the Web for quick facts and statistical information on a wide range of
  topics. Includes an encyclopedia, a dictionary, and several frequently updated almanacs.

Biographies

• The Biographical Dictionary
  More than 28,000 brief entries searchable by name, date, and keyword.
• Biography
  This site from the A&E television network includes over 25,000 short biographies from
  The Cambridge Biographical Encyclopedia, as well as medium-length reviews of recent
  best-selling biographies.

Book Search Services

• AddALL
  Compare prices at 40 bookstores and out-of-print dealers.

Calendars

• The Calendar Zone
  A catalog of calendars, including links to celestial, cultural, geographic, historic, religious,
  traditional, and Y2K calendars.

Colleges & Universities

• U.S. News & World Reports .edu Home Page
  College and graduate school rankings, financial aid information, and college admissions
  insights.
• MIT OpenCourse Ware
  A free and open educational resource for faculty, students, and self-learners around the world. Provides descriptions of MIT cousres and their syllibi as well as other academic resources.
  

Countries

• CIA World Factbook
  A factual and statistical overview of each country in the world, including information on
  geography, economy, government, people, military, communications, transportation and
  transnational issues. Also included are color maps and flags for each country.
• Library of Congress Country Studies
  This collection includes individual portraits of 101 nations with details on history, politics,
  economics, culture, and society. Maps and charts accompany each country study, but
  can only be viewed with the Acrobat Reader. Download it for free from Adobe.

Directories

• AnyWho Directory Service
  Over 90 million entries for people and businesses. Search the directory with any
  combination of name, street name, city, state, and ZIP code. AnyWho returns all
  matching entries.
  • Use AnyWho Reverse Lookup to find a person or business using a telephone number.
  • Use AnyWho Toll-Free to locate toll-free telephone numbers.
• Association Central.com 
  Search this resource for associations, societies, advocacy and affinity groups. Search
  by name, acronym, keyword or browse categories.
  
• SuperPages.com
  Yellow Pages and business white pages for the United States. Includes a mapping feature.
• National Address Server
  Verify the address and find the zip+4 code for addresses anywhere in the United States.
• Scholarly Societies: An Electronic Guide
  Electronic addresses, missions, and relevant information of various scholarly societies
  around the world.
• Telephone Directories on the Web
  Contains links to online telephone, fax and business directories from around the world.
  Some countries only have business phone books, some only have residential directories,
  and some only have fax numbers.
• Yahoo! People Search
  Search by name to locate United States phone numbers and e-mail addresses.

Grants and Funding

• The Foundation Center
  The Foundation Center is an independent clearinghouse for grant information. This site
  contains a wealth of information for grantseekers, including links to grantmakers' Web
  sites, guides to funding research and resources, and details of training and seminars for
  fundseekers. The Center's Online Librarian will respond to requests for factual information
  on foundations, philanthropy, and other fundraising issues.

Quotations

• Familiar Quotations, 9th edition
  A searchable version of John Bartlett's famous reference work placed online by Columbia
  University's Bartleby Project.

Virtual Reference Desks & Ready Reference Collections

• Internet Public Library Ready Reference Collection
  An annotated list of the best ready reference tools on the Internet.
• Michigan Electronic Library Reference Desk
  A wealth of online reference tools.
• Ready Reference Guide
  A large list of full-text sources and data suitable for ready reference.
• RefDesk.com
  A good place to check out what's new on the 'Net, an extensive and well-organized
  Table of Contents page gives quick access to electronic encyclopedias, dictionaries,
  and other ready reference resources.
• Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations Union Catalog
  This catlogue is hosted by a number of different interfaces-the largest, hosted by OCLC, currently contains records for more than ninety-eight thousand electronic thesis and dissertations from more than forty institutions worldwide. You can searcj by title, creator, contributor, or abstract and limit by topic, institution, year, or language.