This is the Stockton Library Service's virtual reference weblinks. Select a topic from the list shown to gain access to a range of websites devoted to the subject of your choice..
Acronyms
An Acronym Database
A database of acronyms
The Acronym Finder
A website devoted to acronyms
Searching for Acronyms
A website to aid the search for acronyms
Stockton Bookmark
Read any good books lately? Read any bad books lately? If you would like to share your reading experiences with others this is the place. Tell us what you have read lately and what you thought about, good, bad or indifferent.
Archives
Locating English Archives
A website to assist in the location of archives in Englisg local repositories
UK Academib Archives Described
A record of archival colections and online seaching aids
Internet Archive
A digital archive of internet sites and other cultutal artifacts in digital form
National Archives
Information about the National Archive
National Register of Archives
To identify the locations of manuscripts and other materials inrepositories in the UK
Marxist Archives
Reference materials on Marxist history including an encyclopaedia of Marxism
Record Societies
Publications of the Englisg Record Societies - 1835- 1972 and the Index Library
Primary Source Repositories
Links to over 5000 websites worldwide describing holdings of primary sources for scholarly research
UNESCO Archive Portal
Links to archives worldwide
Biography
Notable Lives
Links to biographies on the web
Find Famous People Fast
Interesting facts on the famous
Calendars, Days and Times
Bank Holidays of the World
A website devoted to global Bank Holidays
The English Calendar
A website for Students of English History and Literature
Holidays and Celebrations
A website that provides a daybook of holidays and celebrations across the world
Time and Date information
A website that converts and calculates date and time information
Company information
Directory of European Businesses
A website with details of UK and European companies and businesses
Companies House
The Companies House website
Company and Telephone Directories
A website providing international telephone and company directories
Business Finder
A website providing a search facility for service providers and businesses
Concordances
Bible Study tools
A website for anyone studying or researching the various versions of the Bible
Web Concordances
A website for Students of English History and Literature
Conversion tools
Universal Currency Converter
A website providing a currency converter for all of the main currencies
How many
A website providing a dictionary of units of measure
Imperial to Metric conversion
A website providing a conversion facility between Imperial and Metric measurements
Online Conversion
Converts just about anything to just about anything else
Roman Numeral converter
Converts between Roman Numerals and Arabic
Dictionaries and ThesauriAmerican heritage dictionary of the English language
A website that provides access to a dictionary of the American use of English
Brewer's dictionary of phrase and fable
A website that provides access to language reference books, including dictionaries, books of quotations, synonyms, thesaurus, and literary sources.
Cambridge dictionaries online
A website that provides facilities to search for English words, idioms or phrases
Dictionary of the Scots language
A website providing access to the two major works on the Scottish language
Dictionary of South Asia
A website providing access to the twenty-six modern literary languages of South Asia
Online etymological dictionary
A website providing access to the meanings of words in the English language and their derivations
Lewis and Short Latin Dictionary
A website giving access to a Latin, Greek and Italian dictionaries
Liddell, Scott and Jones Greek Lexicon
Search for words in Greek, Latin, Italian and English
Onelook dictionaries
A website providing links to a range of dictionaries by subject
Phobia List
A website providing information and lists of phobias
Rhymezone
A website for finding rhymes, synonyms etc.
Roget's Thesaurus
A website giving access to Roget's Thesaurus
British Slang terms
A website for finding the meaning of English slang words and colloquialisms
Encyclopaedias
The Columbia Encyclopaedia
The Columbia Encyclopaedia (6th edition) website
The Encyclopaedia Britannica
The Encyclopaedia Britannica (1911) 11th edition
Freealty Encyclopaedias
Online Encyclopaedias
Flags
Flags of the world site
Flags of the world website
Government
Constituency Locata
To identify constituencies and MPs
European Governments
European Governments online
UK Parliament
UK Parliament website, parliamentery business etc.
Directgov
UK Public sector organisations amd services
Images
Alltheweb pictures
Website provisding access to a vast amount of images
Altavista
Altavista Image search
Google
Google Image search
Internet Access
CafeIndex
An index of UK internet cafes
Internet Domain Checking
A site for checking web addresses
Internet Cafe Guide
A site for checking internet cafes across the world
UK Online Centres
UK Online centres
Libraries
IFLA - National Libraries of the world
Links to the National Libraries of the world
Irish Libraries
Irish Libraries and related sites
Library History Database
Library History of the British Isles to 1850
Library of Congress
Library of Congress website
Research Libraries
Worldwide research libraries - with a US bias.
School Libraries on the web
A directory of school libraries on the web
UK Public libraries
UK Public library information
UK University and College Libraries
UK Higher Education and Research Libraries
Worldwide Libraries
Library Websites worldwide
Maps
Gazetteer of British place names
Place name index of Great Britain
How far between?
Distances between places 'as the crow flies'
UK and European street maps
UK and European street maps
Periodical Historical Atlas of Europe
Historical Maps of Europe 1AD - 2000AD
Streetmap
London and UK Streetmaps
UK Ordnance Survey Get-a-map
UK Ordnance Survey website
The World of Maps
All kinds of web-based map stuff
World Maps
Online map website
Museums
World museums
Virtual Library museum pages from around the world
Aljazeera
Aljazeera News website
BBC
The BBC website
British Pathe
British Pathe Film Archive 1896-1970
News
Channel 4
Channel 4 News website
CNN
CNN website
Electronic Telegraph
The Telegraph website
Financial Times
The Financial Times website
Google News
News coverage from across the globe
Guardian Unlimited
The Guardian website
ITN
The ITN website
Online Newspapers
Newspapers from across the world
Reuters
Reuters website
Quotations
Bartlett's dictionary of familiar quotations
Bartlett's dictionary of familiar quotations
Quotations page
Quotations page website
Simpson's contemporary quotations
Notable quotations from 1950-1988
Telephone Directories and Postcodes
BT directory enquiries
BT directory enquiries
Postcodes online
Postcodes online
Telephone directories on the web
International telephone directories
Universal Postal Union addressing formats
Worldwide postcodes and address formats
Translation tools
Ask the Oracle
Links to classical Greek and Latin texts
Eurodicautom
European terminology database
Foreignword.com
For translation of words and small text
Language dictionaries
Language/grammar dictionaries and translation service
Omniglot
A guide to writing systems
Romanization tables
ALA - LC Romanization tables
Translating dictionaries
Foreign language for travellers
Translation service
Translating text or a website into European/oriental languages
Translation Wizard
Connects your directly to translation tools
Verbix
Verb conjugations in over 100 languages
Xlation.com
Dictionaries, glossaries and grammars
Travel
Tourism Offices Worldwide Directory
A guide to official tourism information
Traveline
Public transport information
Universities and Colleges
Braintrack
Covers universities worldwide
Weather
BBC weather centre
For world weather conditions
Weatherbase
Weather records and averages worldwide
