Physical Sciences & Engineering Library
Useful Electronic Reference Sources
Business & Industry
- Academic Universe/Lexis-Nexis
- Hoover's Online
- Metal Prices
- NAICS (North American Industry Classification System)
- Parts/Supply Catalogs:
- Grainger General Catalog
- McMaster-Carr
- Sweet's
- Thomas Global Register
- Thomas Register of American Manufacturers
- SIC Index (Standard Industrial Classification)
- Wall Street Journal (1985-present)
- Wall Street Journal (1889-1985)
General Reference (Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, etc.)
- Dictionaries:
- American Heritage Dictionary, 4th ed.
- dictionary.net
- Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary
- OED, Oxford English Dictionary
- Webster's Unabridged, 3rd ed.
- Your Dictionary.com
- Encyclopedias:
- Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.
- How Far Is It?
- How Stuff Works
- Information Please Almanacs
- Martindale's "The Reference Desk"
- Signs & Symbols
- Statistical Abstracts of the United States
- Telephone Directories on the Web
- Thesauri:
- Roget's Thesaurus, 3rd ed.
- Visual Thesaurus
- Used Car Price Guides:
- World Almanac
- World Factbook
Science & Engineering Reference
- ChemFinder
- Conversion of Units
- CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics
- eFunda, Engineering Fundamentals
- Fundamental Physical Constants
- The Integrator
- International Critical Tables of Numerical Data, Physics, Chemistry and Technology
- International System of Units (SI)
- Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology
- knovel Critical Tables
- Measure 4 Measure
- MSDS (Materials Safety Data Sheets), via ChemQuik
- Nobel Prizes
- OnlineConversion
- Periodic Table of the Elements
- Smithsonian Physical Tables
- Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry
- Units of Measurement
- WebElements