No more running to the library or fishing through stacks of paper on your desk to find reference materials. These tools are not directly related to management, but belong on your desktop.  

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Americom Long Distance Area Decoder. Enter a name and find the area code.

AT&T Tollfree 800 Directory. Who ya gonna call--free?

Awesome Library. The Awesome Library more than 20 encyclopedias

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. Keyword search for sources of phrases, quotes, and proverbs.

Big Book Directory. 16 million businesses maps and directions available by name or category, including the Yelloe Pages

Biographies. Biography megasite

Country Studies/Area Handbook Project . Most books in the series deal with a particular foreign country, describing and analyzing its political, economic, social, and national security systems and institutions, and examining the interrelationships of those systems and the ways they are shaped by cultural factors. 85 countries

Equity Analytics Ltd. Interesting history of Dow Jones and its current use. Extensive financial links on stocks/bonds, glossaries, software, etc.

Gazeteers and Maps (good collection)

Glossary of Financial Terms. If you want to know why rectabular excrusions won't transmogrify--you won't find it here.

Logos Multilingual Dictionary. Enter word in one language and database presents the word in multiple other languages, includes speech sound, and links to related information.

Martindale's Reference Desk. Truly massive gateway collection of links by category, particularly science and business. You can get lost in here!

Med World Search. Keyword, phrase, and Boolean search for medical terms. Locates webpages and articles related to thesaurus search.

OneLook Dictionary. 166 dictionaries combined for better search capacity.

Ready Reference Collection. Internet Public Library has links by category to reference collections (thesauri, dictionaries, encyclopedias, etc.), arts & humanities, business & economics, education, science, computers, entertainment, health, law, and social science. Browse by category or alphabetically.

Roget's Thesaurus. Use keyword to find extensive list of synonyms.

Switchboard. Find people, businesses, or e-mail addresses.

U.S. Gazetteer. The US Census Bureau provides a searchable index on city name/state or zip code. Information covers population, size, zip codes, and zoomable map with customized options for layering (e.g., highways, voting zones, etc.)

Webster's Hypertext Dictionary.

World Factbook. CIA-based information on hundreds of countries. Provides .gif pictures and detailed information on geography, demographics, government, economy, transportation, communication, and defense.

Virtual Reference Desk. Newspapers, facts, encyclopedia, weather, quick references.

Virtual Reference Sites. These Sites contain over 2,500 of the most popular information reference locations and tools on the Web. The tools include Calculators, Dictionaries, Directories, Facts, Zip Codes, Maps, Books, Languages, Calendars, Sports, Jobs, Weather, Music, Autos, Travel, Populations, Events, White & Yellow Pages, Health, Humor, - plus many many more helpful tools to assist you. Business related references include Access Business Online, Better Business Bureau, Bigbook Business Directory, Biz Resource Site, Business Smarts, Business Week, Dow Jones, Entrepreneurial Edge, Entrepreneur's Guide to Internet, Inc 500, Online Law, Promo Magazine, Small Business Advisor, Thomas Register, and more.