GENERAL REFERENCE:

The Columbia Guide to Online Style by Janice R. Walker and Todd Taylor (Columbia UP, 1998) presents a guide to locating, translating, and using the elements of citation for both a humanities style (i.e., MLA and Chicago) and a scientific style (APA and CBE) for electronically-accessed sources.

On-Line English Grammar. Free grammar text on-line by Anthony Hughes.

BARTLEBY LIBRARY. Great Books On-line. Full texts of many great novels, biographies, speeches, and poems.

The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation. Jane Straus' easy-to-use reference guide and online interactive resource.

Research-It! Look up definitions, translate foreign words, bibliographies, quotations, and more.

Freedict.com  Translate English words to a foreign language or from foreign language to English.

How Stuff Works. Need an explanation of how something works? This site will help. Illustrated.

PersonalLogic, Inc. This site provides a decision- tree logic for selection of cars, bikes, pets, careers, grad schools, and some other choices.

Merriam-Webster On-Line - the language center on the Web!

Britannica.com. The Encyclopedia Britannica provides full text articles online.

Are YOU prejudiced? Check out the Implicit Attitudes test from Washington University and Yale U researchers will help you find out. 

Business List of Lists. Do you like lists? Want to know the top 100 corporations, small businesses, or black owned business, or top listing of nearly anything in business?

Flags of the World. Vexillology? At this site anything and everything about flags.

LOCATOR TOOLS:

Lookup ZIP Codes

SWITCHBOARD.COM. Find people and companies - addresses, phone numbers, e-mail addresses, and web sites -- helpful when you pretty much know what you are looking for. Offers free e-mail accounts and a homepage, if you register.

MESA searches multiple databases internationally to locate an e-mail address.

All-in-One Search Page. Here you will find a search engine that can locate anything, anywhere. Literally hundreds of specialized search engines.

google.com. Now, my favorite search engine.

ixquick.com. This is a metasearch engine that simultaneously searches multiple search databases.
metacrawler.com. A metasearch engine that I often use.

TRAVEL AND TOOLS FOR TRAVELERS:

MAPQUEST. Need a map? Find the best car route or print an atlas. Mapquest provides help locating addresses and free maps.

BIZTRAVEL. Another useful resource for travel deals, geared to the traveling Executive. Caution: This site provides online interactive bookings with an agent. Only if you're serious!

PRICELINE.COM. Name your price for an airline ticket. You must travel at your leisure, but if any carrier will accept your bid you can fly anywhere in the world. My students report great prices for air tickets from this site. I have used this and recommend it.

Expedia.com. A a popular source for finding alternative flights and getting the best price.

Hoteldiscount.com -- this award winning site helps you find the lowest hotel rates anywhere.

International Youth Hostel Website. Youth hostels are located around the world and across the U.S. For $10-$20 nightly student travelers have safe dormitory-like accommodations -- back-pack Europe or the U.S. As a young college student I used Hostels to see Europe- it's a great experience!

Amtrack Schedules and Reservations -- from Newport News Station travel the East coast.

The Time Page provided by the U.S. Naval Observatory gives you accurate time for major locations worldwide.

Ecola Newstand links you to nearly every newspaper in the USA and world-wide. A good way to keep up your Spanish or French or simply find out what's happening back home!

SELF-DEVELOPMENT LINKS:

Personality Tests on the WWW. Want to know more about who you are? 21-self administered tests. Also, tests to determine if you are "cut out" to be an entrepreneur.

Personality Tests and Resources. From the library at St. Mary's University a list of links on the subject.

MBA Style Magazine. This website offers advice on buying your interview suit and business clothing, plus more. Check out the section on interview questions and tips. Highly recommended.

Dress for Success - This is a site for the men, although the author does have a book for women. A video is for sale, but the link is added because it highlights useful fundamentals of conservative buiness dress.

Do You Know How Women Should Dress for Business? A list of do's and don't based on the consensus of articles and consultants.

Competitive Salaries. Want to know the attainable salary you can make in your chosen career? This site estimates earnings for nearly every job category. Compare results from this site with those from salary.com. This site provides salary information specific to a location.