Virtual Reference
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
The Acronym Finder
A website devoted to acronyms
Archives
Locating English
Archives
A website to assist in the location of archives in English 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
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
A website providing a conversion facility between Imperial and Metric measurements
Converts just about anything to just about anything else
Converts between Roman Numerals and Arabic
Dictionaries and Thesauri
American 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.
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 AsiaA 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
A website providing links to a range of dictionaries by subject
A website providing information and lists of phobias
A website for finding rhymes, synonyms etc.
A website giving access to Roget's Thesaurus
A website for finding the meaning of English slang words and colloquialisms
Encyclopaedias 
The Columbia Encyclopaedia (6th edition) website
The Encyclopaedia Britannica (1911) 11th edition
Online Encyclopaedias 
Flags
Flags of the world website
Government
European Governments online
UK Parliament website, parliamentery business etc.
UK Public sector organisations amd services
Images 
Website provisding access to a vast amount of images
Altavista Image search
Google Image search
Internet Access 
An index of UK internet cafes
A site for checking web addresses
A site for checking internet cafes across the world
UK Online centres
Libraries
Irish Libraries and related sites
Library History of the British Isles to 1850
Library of CongressLibrary of Congress website
Worldwide research libraries - with a US bias.
A directory of school libraries on the web
UK Public library information
UK University and College Libraries
UK Higher Education and Research Libraries
Library Websites worldwide
Maps
Place name index of Great Britain
Distances between places 'as the crow flies' 
UK and European street maps
Periodical Historical Atlas of Europe
Historical Maps of Europe 1AD - 2000AD
London and UK Streetmaps
UK Ordnance Survey website
All kinds of web-based map stuff
Online map website
Museums 
Virtual Library museum pages from around the world
Aljazeera News website
The BBC website
British Pathe Film Archive 1896-1970
News
Channel 4 News website
CNN website 
The Financial Times website
News coverage from across the globe
The Guardian website
The ITN website
Newspapers from across the world
Reuters website 
Quotations
Bartlett's dictionary of familiar quotations
Bartlett's dictionary of familiar quotations
Quotations page website
Simpson's contemporary quotations
Notable quotations from 1950-1988
Telephone Directories and Postcodes
BT directory enquiries
Postcodes online
Telephone directories on the web
International telephone directories
Universal Postal Union addressing formats
Worldwide postcodes and address formats
Translation tools
Links to classical Greek and Latin texts
For translation of words and small text
Language/grammar dictionaries and translation service
A guide to writing systems
ALA - LC Romanization tables
Foreign language for travellers
Translating text or a website into European/oriental languages
Connects your directly to translation tools
Verb conjugations in over 100 languages
Dictionaries, glossaries and grammars
Travel
Tourism Offices Worldwide Directory
A guide to official tourism information
Public transport information
Universities and Colleges
Covers universities worldwide
Weather
Weather records and averages worldwide