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Oxford
English Dictionary @ CHASS
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, University
of Toronto.
Full text of the Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989. Keyword
searchable on various fields. U of T community only.
Merriam-Webster's
Collegiate Dictionary
Merriam-Webster Online - Dictionary, Thesaurus,
etc.
Bartlett's
Familiar Quotations
Project Bartleby, University of Columbia
1901 edition; can be browsed or searched.
Roget's
Thesaurus
University of Chicago.
Micra Inc. v. 1.02 of Roget's Thesaurus; hypertext, supplemented in 1991
Acronym
Search
Part of the BlueSparks Network
Collection of over 6,000 acronyms.
Human Languages
Page
Willamette University.
Large, multilingual collection of dictionaries, glossaries, and other
language tools.
Quick Facts, Look-ups, Handbooks
Advice
on Writing at the University of Toronto
A handbook that answers the most common questions of U of T students about
doing academic writing.
W. Strunk,
Jr. Elements of Style
Project Bartleby, Columbia University.
1918 edition.
CIA
World Factbook
Central Intelligence Agency, USA.
Basic political, social, geographic, and economic information for countries
worldwide.
Argus
Clearinghouse
Argus Associates, Inc.
Subject guides to Internet-based resources.
Peterson's
Education Center
The online site for Peterson's Guides to the academic community. An excellent
source of online information about US and Canadian graduate and undergraduate
programs. Arranged alphabetically, by discipline, and by geographical
location.
Canadian Resources
Canadiana:
The Canadian Resource Page
Stewart Clamen, Carnegie-Mellon University
Extensive list of Canadian resources available on the internet, organized
by broad subject category.
Canadian
Geographical Names
Natural Resources Canada.
Source of over 500,000 geographical names in Canada, maintained by the
Geographical Names Board of Canada (GNBC). Includes basic locational information
and maps.
Science
and Health
Community of Science
The Community of Science is an on-line
inventory of researchers, inventions, funding opportunities, and facilities
at leading U.S. and Canadian universities, and other R & D organizations,
including the University
of Toronto.
Merck Manual
16th edition, 1992, Merck & Co., Inc.
Medical manual, covering symptoms, common clinical procedures, laboratory
tests, therapies and clinical pharmacology for disorders in internal medicine,
obstetrics, gynecology, pediatrics, psychiatry, and other medical disciplines.
Access to the full text is free, but requires registration.
Periodic Table of the Elements
Canadian
Official Time
National Research Council
Canada's atomic clock.
Travel, Weather,
Transport
Metropolitan
Toronto Subway Map
Pierre David, Paris, France.
Metro Toronto is one of 27 city subway maps available through the Subway
Navigator. The service provides subway maps, lists of subway
stations, and computes shortest subway routes for all cities listed.
Environment
Canada
includes Public Weather Forecasts
Local
Times Around the World
timeanddate.com.
Current local times, for over 130 cities around the world. This site also
has other time and date related resources such as a calendar generator
and meeting planner.
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