Almanacs, Encyclopedias and General Information
Britannica Online Public Library Edition within library 
Britannica Online Public Library Edition outside library
Reference information from pre-kindergarten through university. Complete text of Encyclopedia Britannica, the Britannica Concise Encyclopedia, Compton’s by Britannica®, and Britannica Elementary Encyclopedia. Also contains Merriam Webster dictionaries, Gateway to the Classics, Discover America, Important People, and Big Events, a world atlas, timelines, video and audio clips, a student center that offers help on research papers, book reviews, and magazine articles.
EBSCO
Search for magazines, journal and newspaper articles, many with with full-text.
Funk
and Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
Provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.
Bartleby.com 
Multiple reference sources including encyclopedias, dictionaries, quotations, language and writing sources.
FastFacts
Contains links to almanacs, factbooks, statistical reports and other reference tools.
Information Please Almanac
Search or browse numerous topical almanacs.
Old Farmer's Almanac
Venerable source of such subjects as astronomy, food, gardening, weather and more...
World Factbook
Online version of a CIA publication, provides detailed information on each country of the world.
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Bibliographies/Citation style Guides
APA, MLA, Turabian,& Chicago Citation Styles (Long Island Univ.)
Citation guidelines for research papers.
Cambridge Rindge and Latin School Research Guide
Guide for starting a research paper. Includes the "big six" steps to research.
Citing Sources from Duke University Libraries
Examples using the 4 most common citation styles.
Concordia University Libraries Citation and Style Guides
Models for MLA, APA, and other citation styles.
Sources and Citations at Dartmouth College
This document provides a broad overview of the practice of citing sources. Itcovers a wide range of scenarios relating to citing sources and plagiarism.
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Currency
Currency Converter - Yahoo! Finance
View exchange rates for top currencies and convert currencies from over 100 countries.
XE.com Universal Currency Converter
Convert currencies using current rates.
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Dictionaries, Thesauri, etc.
Acronym Finder
Defines over 500,000 acronyms, abbreviations and initialisms.
Dictionary.com
Online dictionary & thesaurus. Includes foreign language tools.
MerriamWebsterOnline
Online dictionary and thesaurus.
Online Slang Dictionary
A dictionary of American slang.
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Foreign Language Links
Byki Online Library Edition
See Transparent Language Online.
Babel Fish Translation (Yahoo)
Translate a block of text or a web page to and from over ten languages.
CNN en Espanol
News from CNN in Spanish
Google Language Tools
Translate a block of text or a web page to and from over ten languages. You can also find websites written in your choice of over 30 languages or located in your choice of over 30 countries.
Resources for English as a Second Language (ESL)
UsingEnglish.com provides such resources for ESL as tests, English language reference (idioms, irregular verbs, etc.), discussion forums and more...
Transparent
Language Online
Transparent Language Online is a language learning system that uses flashcards
to teach you foreign language words or phrases. Many languages have additional
learning tools such as an essential skills course, language reference
information, and blogs written in the language. Transparent Language Online
also has courses for native speakers of other languages who want to learn
to speak English. It's personalized to allow you to track your progress and
refresh your memory about items you may have forgotten.
YAHOO en Español
Spanish version of Yahoo subject directory and search engine.
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Law
General Law
Cornell Legal Information Institute
Iintended for lawyers and non-lawyers, this is a good source of legal information. The Legal Information Institute (LII) is a research and electronic publishing activity of the Cornell Law School.
Findlaw
A comprehensive legal site with resources arranged by subject. Includes easy access to U.S. Supreme Court Opinions and the U.S. Code.
Lawyer Directory from Martindale
Nationwide directory of attorneys and law firms.
NOLO
Free legal information, as well as a law store.
State Legal Sources on the Web (University of Michigan)
Find codes, bills, laws, etc. for every state.
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New Hampshire Law
NH Family Law & Divorce Law
A resource on divorce and family law for non-lawyers. Provides information on child custody and support, visitation law, divorce and more...
NH Legal Advice & Referral Center (LARC)
A private, nonprofit law firm that provides free legal services to eligible low-income people anywhere in New Hampshire.
NH Legal Services
Use the blue Get Legal Assistance button tolink to such areas of legal concern as housing, domestic violence, criminal law. You can get published information including court forms, downloadable pamphlets and links to other sites.
NH Revised Statutes Online
Searchable full-text of New Hampshire statutes
NH Public Defender
Provides information about the Public Defender Office in New Hampshire.
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Libraries/Library Catalogs/Library Science
Library,
Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA)
Indexes more than 500 core journals, more than 50 priority journals, and 125
selective journals, as well as books, research reports and proceedings. Subject
coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics,
online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in
the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s.
Directory of NH Libraries
List by the NH State Library containing contact information & online catalogs for NH libraries.
WorldCat
OCLC catalog of books, web resources, and other material worldwide. Most are not held by Nashua Public Library, but many can be obtained through Inter-Library Loan (see or contact the Reference Desk).
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Maps & Driving Directions
Mapquest
Printable directions from point A to point B, with maps.
Google Maps
Find a map or driving directions.
Yahoo Maps
Find a map or driving directions.
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Nashua and New Hampshire Websites
City of Nashua
Official website of the City of Nashua, NH.
State of New Hampshire
Provides a multitude of information about New Hampshire.
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Quotations
Bartelby.com
Find quotation sources through keyword searches of reference works, poetry, & literature.
Dictionary of Quotations
"Famous and inspiring" quotations organized by subject and author.
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Science
Access Science
Access Science contains the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology as well as videos, animations, and photos, articles from Science News, and print and video biographies of scientists.
GreenFILE
Offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to
the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest
titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable
agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides
indexing and abstracts for more than 384,000 records, as well as Open Access
full text for more than 4,700 records.
NASA Images
NASA
Images is a service of Internet Archive ( www.archive.org ),
a non-profit library, to offer public access to NASA's images, videos and
audio collections
Physics Central
Physics Central, a
website published by the American Physical Society, helps high school
and college physics students to learn about new research in the world
of physics.
Physics Information from the American Physical
Society (available
in library only)
A database of Physics periodicals published by the American Physical Society.
Science.gov
A gateway to science information provided by U.S. Government agencies. Search by subject or keyword.
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Search Engines
AltaVista
Ask.com
Allows searching using natural language questions.
Excite!
Google
A favorite, giving quick, accurate results.
Yahoo
Subject Directories (Find information by topic)
About.com
IPL2: Information You Can Trust
Search by topic or click on the Ask an IPL Librarian button to send a question (available 24/7). This site was developed and is maintained by
universities with programs in information science
Infomine (University of California Irvine)
Scholarly internet resource collections.
iTools!
Yahoo
MetaSearch Engines (Find information from multiple search engines)
Dogpile
MetaCrawler
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Social Sciences
CountryWatch
A current and comprehensive source of socio-demographic, cultural, historical, economic, political, environmental and corporate information, along with news, analysis, maps, data and statistics on all of the 192 countries of the world.
Daily Life through History
A rich, authoritative database covering the history of daily life throughout history and across many cultures throughout the world. Organized by time period, region and topic, Daily Life Online combines information from numerous reference works, monographs, and primary documents and is a great resource for students from middle school all the way through college.
Opposing Viewpoints in Context
Covers today’s hottest social issues, from offshore drilling to climate change, health care to immigration. This information helps you analyze and organize data for research, writing assignments, debates, and presentations. It includes pro/con viewpoint essays, topic overviews, primary source documents, biographies of social activists and reformers, articles, tables, graphs, podcasts, and more. Teachers can search the material by national and state curriculum standards, grade, and discipline.
Points of View Reference Center
Points of View Reference Center is designed to provide an understanding
of the full scope of controversial subjects. High school and college
students can use Points of View as a guide to debate, developing arguments,
writing position papers, and to develop critical thinking skills.
This database also includes thousands
of magazine and newspapers articles, news transcripts,
primary source documents, and images for further background
information on the controversial subjects.
Aluka
A digital library of scholarly resources
from and about Africa.
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Telephone Directories
Reference USA
Directory of U.S. business information (including contact names and estimated sales), residential telephone numbers and addresses, and U.S. and Canadian high-tech companies (CorpTech).
AnyWho
Free telephone directory with white pages, yellow pages and reverse lookups.
Infobel
Free telephone directory with white pages, yellow pages, and reverse searching. You can search international listings and search in foreign languages.
Internet 800 Directory
Directory of free toll free, 800, 888, 877, and 866 listings of businesses by company, number and type of industry.
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Time and Weather
Time.gov
Find the official U.S.. time in any of the U.S. time zones.
Weather.com
Find detailed forecasts by city, zip code or place.
Zip Codes
U.S. Postal Service Zip Code Lookup
Search by address, city, company or zip code.
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