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General Reference

reference: Book, etc. of r. one intended to be, or suitable for being, referred to or consulted. The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary.

General Resources

• Encyclopaedias
  General encyclopaedic works

• Dictionaries
  Glossaries, lexicons, thesauri, quotations

• Biographical Sources
  Who's Who, dictionaries of biography

• Geographical Sources
  Gazeteers, atlases, countries, regions, landforms

• Statistics
  International organizations, national sources

• Almanacs and Yearbooks
  Current and historical

• Directories and Indexes
  People, organizations, publications

Subject Guides

Notable sites