References

This page collects links to general reference pages, covering dictionaries, style guides, phone books etc.

For links to publishers etc see my page on electronic publishing. For more general links to reference pages see also, Yahoo's References Pages.

Research

Style Guides:

• Strunk (English Usage) the standard reference on style
• The American Heritage Book of English Usage  rather detailed
• A Guide to Grammar and Style (fairly basic with links)

General page on Research Skills:

• Research Skills page (HW)
• PhD Skills (York)

Bibliographies etc:

• Computer Science Bibliographies @ Karlsruhe
• The BUBL Information Service
• Web of Science
• ACM's Digital Library

Help on particular packages

• Advanced LaTeX
• Bibtex
• Advice on Research and Writing

General

Dictionaries:

• LEO German English Dictionary (Austrian Mirror)
• Roget Thesaurus
• German-English Dictionary
• Merriam-Webster Online
• WordNet (Thesaurus)

Encyclopedias:

• Encyclopedia Brittanica (pay service)
• Encyclopedia Brittanica 1911

Phone books:

• UK Yellow Pages
• Elektronisches Telephonbuch (Austrian Yellow Pages)
• Telephonbuch (Deutschland)

Others:

• WWW server list