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)
• Times Style Guide
• Hints on writing style for Usenet (old Usenet posting; quite to the point)

General page on Research Skills:

• Communication skills (portal)
• PhD Skills (York Univ)
• Author Guide for ACM submissions
• Research Skills page (Heriot-Watt Univ)

Bibliographies etc:

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

Finding and classifying papers

• Citeseer
• ACM Portal
• Web of Science
• Citation Index
• The ACM Computing Classification System

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)
• Canoo Net (German page: Rechtschreibung etc)
• Duden (German)

Encyclopedias:

• Europeana
• Encyclopedia Britannica (pay service)
• Encyclopedia Britannica 1911
• Zedler's Universal Lexicon (1731-54)

Phone books:

• UK Yellow Pages
• Elektronisches Telephonbuch (Austrian Yellow Pages)
• Telephonbuch (Deutschland)
• 11880 (Auskunft Dtld)

Others:

• WWW server list