Member Recommended Sites

Library of Congress -- search this first for a book -- it connects to the LC and hundreds of academic libraries. Amazing and free!
Library and Information Science (Library of Congress) Expanded on above
Xrefer A site of links to other reference sources. Good for specialized dictionaries and encyclopedias like art, science, law, quotations. You put in your search term and they tell you where on their list of a hundred reference links there is information about that term. Or you can restrict your search to one category. Very useful. Our link here is for the religion resources.

 

Purdue University's Virtual Reference Desk- Look it up here
University of Virginia Portico another list of reference databases for everything

Chicago Public Library (or try your own local library!)
Government Resource Sites A gateway to federal and local government sites. Official stats and links in vast databases.

Great Books OnLine Outstanding reference source for free classics, dictionaries, and poetry from Bartleby.Com.
Writers' Free Reference Site A set of links to numerous useful sites for writers.
HighBeam Library Research some free research capacity
iTools An interface fill-in screen for multiple research questions. Uses Google, Bartleby, others.
 

Dictionaries

AskOxford A dictionary from the Oxford English Dictionary Compact version.
Your Dictionary An online dictionary in multiple languages. Includes grammar, thesaurus, other simple reference lookups. Not as sophisticated as XREFER above.

Merriam Webster Dictionary Or use their unabridged with its million + entries.
Cambridge Dictionary of Idioms for phrases and expressions

Computer Aids

Virus Scares and Internet Hoaxes exposed or Symantec Antivirus Research Center Check these two before you panic from someone's email saying there's a virus afoot.
www.re-route.com  Re-route your email when you change addresses via this service: it will forward (for a fee) your email if you change from one email address to a new one.
Word Processing - Online Conversion Service $Fee based. They will translate your oddball word processing files into something more common to keep your production department happy. You upload your files, they fix them, send them back.

 

 
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People Reference

 

AnyWho
From AT&T and one of the best, containing over 90 million US listings. It also has a reverse lookup where you can locate a person or business from their telephone number.

InfoSpace Very good resource for locating government numbers.

Who-Where Phone Numbers & Addresses - find email (sometimes) plus mailing addresses

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Christian Resources

Christian Literature Resources Numerous links and files developed by Institute for Christian Leadership. Not recently updated.
Christianity Online The many publications of Christianity Today Inc. Best for original content, news, and updated facts.
Barna Research fairly recent survey and demographic research, much of it free on the site.
Theological Libraries Some top seminary libraries in the US and Canada (some broken links). Try the Yale library first or for Vanderbilt, use http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/divinity/

Wheaton College Library  --can't be beat for popular Christian books and evangelical resources. Alternate address: http://library.wheaton.edu
Wheaton College Billy Graham Center Archives -- unique research files on Christian missions, evangelism, evangelical leaders, and historical issues related to the evangelical movement.

C.S. Lewis Site for Lewis information, with Doug Gresham's input

ECPA Organization of Christian publishers

CBA Trade association of Christian Booksellers

Christian Classics Ethereal Library  Based at Calvin College, this site includes public domain Christian classics, hymns (and hymnbooks), and a vast array of sources. See also a similar site at the University of Pennsylvania which has a large number of texts of Christian books, some in the last 25 years: The On-Line Books Page

Biblical Text Resources

OnLine Concordance Several translations (English) from Bible Gateway.
Computerized Bibles on your desktop. E-Sword is free for your own download and offers all the usual older translations plus ESV and The Message, plus Greek and Hebrew (older texts). No NRSV, NIV, or NLT. For those you'll have to buy QuickVerse or one of the other commercial products.
Online RSV at U of Michigan (not NRSV). For NRSV try Oremus.
Online TNIV for checking TNIV citations. Online NIV from the International Bible Society offers NIV.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 
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Writer and Editor Resources

BookWire -- publishing industry resources, connected to Bowker. Costs $.

Authorlink! About Writers, Writing, Editors, Literary Agents. Fee-based general market. Posts manuscripts similar to ECPA First Edition and Writer's Edge. Some agent info.

Writer's Edge Manuscript Service information and Book Information Forms on line, publisher lists, frequently asked questions, database of screened manuscripts. A fee-based service to screen manuscripts for mainly religious publishers, but a free website.
ECPA's First Edition Manuscript posting on the web site for the evangelical publishers organization. Fee-based for writers. Free to publishers in the ECPA.
Writer Beware - a branch of the Science Fiction Writers organization. This page posts info on agent scams, vanity press delusions, and other parasites on the writing biz.
Ohio State  or University of Georgia Chicago Style Manual citation formats and other references.
The Slot -- A web site for copy editors
Common Errors in English.

Columbia University guide to citations -- how to cite web sites, books etc.

 

 
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Poetry Resources

 

Gerard Manley Hopkins

www.poets.org
"perhaps the most impressive and well-funded poetry-oriented site." [Books, April 2000]
www.poems.com
useful service to find poem sources in print. Includes news and reports of poetry publications.
www.amateurpoetry.com
The site offers advice, listings, and publishing tips. Useful site to find other sites.

Great Books OnLine Outstanding reference source for free classics, dictionaries, and poetry from Bartleby. See also the on-line books in the Penn and Calvin websites (above).

 
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Publisher Addresses

For online sources, you can try the directory Vanderbilt University provides, which covers the larger publishers. But quite a few Christian firms are missing. So try the ECPA site, which provides web addresses for your target company if it's a member of the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association. Here are your URL addresses:

ECPA

Vanderbilt    See also their list of email addresses for publishers. These lists include overseas publishers.

And of course you will have Literary Marketplace and Books in Print. Sally Stuart's Christian Writer's Market Guide is the best annual directory of addresses and personnel for publishers in the Christian market.  It comes out fresh every spring from Shaw/WaterBrook or you can find publisher web sites from her listing on her web site.

Here's a link to many Christian publishers' writer guidelines, in case you want to compare your company's to others: Writer's Digest

 
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Search Engines:

 

Google   Recent studies have found this one has the best method of searching, so you may prefer to try it first.  :

Or try first those search engines which use all the other searchers. We recommend:

Internet Oracle
Northern Light
Profusion
SavvySearch

DogPile
Mamma

Yahoo

 
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