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LexisNexis, a member of the Reed Elsevier Group, is a vast database of legal information and news. Lexis is the legal section; Nexis is the business news section. There is also a version for Academic settings which includes newspaper articles from small papers that are hard to find in other sources. The website describes both products and how to subscribe to each or both together. - [Read more]

This is a handy and simple to use time zone converter. Users choose the place they are interested in and the converter instantly tells the time in that location and whether or not that zone uses daylight savings time. Other searches on this website are to a travel zone with listings of hotels in different cities around the world, world time, and a time zone list. - [Read more]

Produced by the Centre for Digital Library Research at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland, this website is a directory of internet sites arranged by subject. Also on the website are descriptions of other Centre projects. - [Read more]

Citebase Search began in 2005 and is located at the University of Southhampton in the UK. Citebase searches for citations in the fields of physics, math, information science, and biomedical articles published in the UK. Searches are by author, citation, or an identifier (keyword). The homepage cautions that Citebase is in an experimental stage and not yet complete or authoritative. - [Read more]

CSA recently joined with ProQuest, both worldwide information companies, to publish, in print and online, 100 full-text databases and journals in the natural sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities, and technology. Their products are used widely in academic libraries and other research organizations and are ordered on subscription. Each of the databases is fully described on the website. - [Read more]

Find Articles, located in San Francisco, is a LookSmart product. Find Articles provides free access to millions of articles searchable by specific journal, author, or subject. The article are from leading academic, industry, and general interest publications. Archives date back to 1984. Users can also find a list of all the publications covered on the website. - [Read more]

Founded in 1998 in Great Britain, Ingenta now also has offices in the U.S. IngentaConnect is a collection of over 30,000 publications including more than 10,000 available online. Libraries and research organizations subscribe, and their clients can search for articles on any topic. For libraries, there are also ways of linking Ingenta data with the library's own online catalogs and resources. - [Read more]

Scopus, an Elsevier product, is a subscription-only abstract and citation database of research literature and quality web sources. It includes journal publications, conference proceedings, scientific web pages, patents, and an alert service. It also has smart tools to track, visualize, and analyze research. On the website, users can get a free trial and view a demo. - [Read more]

Reference.com is a multi-source dictionary search service provided by Lexico Publishing Group. On it, users can search for words, use a thesaurus, use the encyclopedia, and other tools for free. There are also premium services such as audio pronunciation with the dictionary and word games. - [Read more]

The website, begun in the early 1990s by a California reference librarian, is subtitled "Websites You Can Trust." It is a publicly-funded website and a weekly newsletter is updated every Thursday with the addition of dozens of new high-quality websites. To date, there are over 20,000 entries in 14 subject areas, divided into 300 related topics. The website is free and users may suggest good sites. - [Read more]

Infomine is a virtual library of internet resources relevant to faculty, students, and researchers at the university level. It contains resources such as databases, electronic journals, and articles. Infomine is librarian built and is maintained by the University of California, Riverside. Users can search by subject area and also by General Reference for sources such as encyclopedias. - [Read more]