Online Reference Sources
Due to licensing agreements, many of the following resourcesare only available
at UW Baraboo/Sauk County or via the proxy
server. Links with an ( * ) are restricted resources.General Sources
*American Indian History & Culture an expanded version of The American Indian: A Multimedia Encyclopedia. This unique resource gives users fast access to more than a thousand years of culture, legends, and leaders. More than 150 Native American groups are presented through primary source documents, biographies, historical maps, and photographs.
*The Foundation Directory Username and password required. Please contact the library for that information. A directory to the nation's largest 10,000 foundations and approximately 150,000 grants. This extensive grants file features the most recent three years of grants awarded by the top 1,200 funders.
GaleNet:
*Associations Unlimited Contains full contact information for approximately 144,000 international and U.S. national, regional, state, and local, nonprofit membership organizations in all fields.
*Biography and Genealogy Master Index A comprehensive index to nearly 12 million biographical sketches covering both contemporary and historical figures throughout the world.
*Contemporary Authors A bio-bibliographical guide to current writers in fiction, general nonfiction, poetry, journalism, drama, motion pictures, television, etc. for more than 90,000 authors in the U.S. and around the world.
College & career
Web Sites of U.S. Universities, by State A list of regionally-accredited U.S. universities organized by state.
College & University Rankings This site from the University of Illinois pulls together the better-known ranking sites on the web.
Dictionaries & encyclopedias
*Encyclopedia Britannica Online
*Grove Music The online version of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd Edition, which is universally acknowledged as the unsurpassed authority on all aspects of music.
*OED - Oxford English Dictionary The online version of the Oxford English Dictionary, the world's leading authority on the history and development of the English language since 1150.
On-line Dictionaries The ultimate Internet directory of dictionaries, more than 800 dictionaries of over 150 different languages.
Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus Online version of the popular dictionary and thesaurus.
Maps
Altapedia Online Contains full color physical and political maps as well as key facts and statistics on countries of the world.
MapQuest Allows you to create raodmaps of the U.S. Canada, and Europe.
Maps.com from driving directions to US and world maps.
National Atlas Includes a interactive map browser, which allows you to make your own maps and add map layers showing data such as soils, county boundaries, volcanoes, and watersheds, crime patterns, population distribution, and incidence of disease for specific geographic areas.
Visibile Earth - NASA an easy-to-use collection of images and animations of our planet. At present, the database holds 1,610 records and may be searched by keyword or advanced search options or browsed by category and topic.
Writing & Style Guides
OWL: Online Writing Lab at UW Waukesha offers UW-Colleges students the opportunity to e-mail drafts of their writing to the OWL staff and receive feedback from a peer writing tutor.
EasyBib.com will format your citations for you online for free. Just type in your information and then print or email it to yourself in the correct format. MLA and APA style available.
Writing Center at UW Madison has citation guides for APA, Chicago/Turabian, MLA and more.