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General Reference

Citation and Style Guides

• Introduction to Basic Legal Citation
• Bluebook Abbreviations of Law Review Titles
• ALWD Citation Manual/Resources
• Strunk's Elements of Style

Dictionaries

• Lawyers.com Glossary
• The 'Lectric Law Library's Legal Lexicon's Lyceum
• Merriam-Webster Online
• Your Dictionary.com
• LawGuru.com Legal Dictionary

Quotations

• Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.
• Simpson's Contemporary Quotations
• The Quotations Page

Directories

• United States Government Manual
• FindLaw Lawyer Directory (formerly LawOffice.com)
• Martindale-Hubbell
• County Court Resources
• MU Phone & E-mail Directory
• Anywho
• Switchboard
• Telephone Directories on the Web
• ZIP Code Look-Up and Address Information

Maps

• Mapquest
• Google Maps

Encyclopedias

• Internet Public Library-- Encyclopedias

Almanacs

• Information Please
• The Old Farmer's Almanac

Statistics and Numerical Data

• U.S. Census
• FedStats
• Statistical Resources on the Web
• StatUSA
• Bureau of Justice Statistics
• Bureau of Labor Statistics
• Federal Court Statistics

Calculators and Converters

• Currency Converter
• Kiplinger's Financial Calculators
• Calculators & Converters
• The Salary Calculator

Miscellaneous

• Kelley Blue Book
• NADA Guides
• The World Factbook
• Common Weights and Measures
• 10,000 Year Calendar

Web Portals

Legal

• LawCrawler
• LawRunner
• FindForms

Government Documents

• GPO Access Pathway Indexer

General

• AltaVista
• Ask Jeeves
• Google
• Yahoo
• AlltheWeb

Meta-Search Services

• Go2Net/Metacrawler
• Ixquick
• Dogpile
• Mamma

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