Dear Seabury students,

Listed below are the kinds of reference sources and information access tools you should be able to use competently by the time you graduate, accompanied by authoritative examples. (This is a working list which will be updated periodically.)

Economics and Civics References
• AMEX Stock Exchange
• Thomas: Legislative Information on the Internet

Electronic Full-text Sources
• Internet/World Wide Web
• Magazines on microfilm (Time, Newsweek, U. S. News 1960-2000)
• InfoTrac

General References
• Encyclopedias
  • World Book Encyclopedia
  • Encyclopedia Britannica online and in print

Historical References
• Dictionaries
• Primary Documents
  • American Memory at the Library of Congress
  • CARRIE
• Historical atlases
  • Hammond Atlas of the Twentieth Century

Language References
• to be listed later...

Literary References
• Authors
  • N. Y. Times Book Review from 1980 to the present.
  • The Scribner Writers Series, Gale Group
  • Authors and Artists for Young Adults, 37 volumes, Gale Group
  • Twain's Authors Series, Gale Group
  • Complete Works of Shakespeare. Searchable, from MIT.
• Writing
  • Oxford English Dictionary online and in print
  • Roget's Thesaurus online and in print
  • Bartlett's Familiar Quotations online and in print

Religion and Philosophy References
• Anchor Bible Dictionary
• Cruden's Concordance to the Bible
• Encyclopedia of Religion

Scientific References
• American Medical Association Encyclopedia of Medicine
• Periodicals, Journals
  • American Academy of Family Physicians
  • Scientific American
• PubMed
• more later...

Statistical and Mathematical References, Almanacs
• Statistical Abstract of the United States online and in print
• Information Please Almanac
• World Almanac
• Charts