Abbreviations and Acronyms Academic ListServs Associations and Societies Awards and Prizes Biographies Book Binding Book Ordering Book Reviews Books, Out of Print Calculators/Converters Calendars, Times, and Dates Citation and Style Guides Citation Guides, Records--Archival Copyright Country Guides Dictionaries Embassies Employment Resources Encyclopedias and Almanacs Financial Aid for Students Genealogy Grants for Researchers How to Guides Library Catalogues Maps Names News Political Leadership Postal Information Publishers Serials Study Guides Telephone Directories Thesauri Theses and Dissertations Universities and Colleges Weather Writing Assistance

 

Abbreviations and Acronyms 

• Acronym Database
• Acronym Finder
• Acronyma
• Acronyms, Abbreviations, Terms
• Biological Journals and Abbreviations
• Journal Abbreviation Sources

 

Academic ListServs

• CataList
• TileNet

 

Associations and Societies

• Internet Public Library: Associations on the Net
• Scholarly Societies Project

 

Awards and Prizes

General

• Booklist Centre
• Lists of Bests
• Literary Prizes and Awards

 

Specialized

• Academy Awards
• AwardWeb (mostly Science Fiction)
• Edgars (Mysteries)
• Emmys
• Giller Prize (Canadian Fiction)
• Golden Globes
• Governor General's Literary Awards
• Nobel Prize
• Oscars
• Pulitzer Prize
• Tony Awards

 

Biographies

• Canadian Who's Who 2006
• Dictionary of American Biography (In Print - 2nd Floor: Ref. E 176 D563)
• Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
• Dictionary of National Biography (British) (In Print - 2nd Floor: Ref. DA 28 D47)
• Internet Public Library: Biographies

 

Book Binding

 

Book Ordering

Canada, English

• Amazon.ca
• Chapters Indigo

 

Canada, French

• Archambault

 

Book Reviews

 

Books, Out of Print

• AddAll
• BookFinder

 

Calculators/Converters

• Currency Converter
• Exchange Rate Converter
• How Many: A Dictionary of Units of Measurement
• Javascript Calculator (scientific)
• MegaConverter
• Online Conversion
• Time Converter
• World Wide Metric

 

Calendars, Times, & Dates

• Calendar Converter
• Calendars through the Ages
• Current Calendar
• Current World Time
• This Day in History

 

Citation and Style Guides

• APA Style, University of Ottawa
• Chicago Manual Style, University of Ottawa
• Citation/Style guides, University of Waterloo
• Citation and style guides, Concordia University
• Comment citer un document électronique, Université Laval
• Comment présenter sa bibliographie, Université du Québec à Montréal
• CSE (Council of Science Editors) format
• How to Cite Statistics Canada Products
• MLA Style, University of Ottawa
• NLM Style, University of Washington
• Style guides (Hacker D. & Fister B., Gustavus Adlophus College)

 

Citation Guides, Records--Archival

 

Copyright

• Access Copyright
• Copyright Act
• Copyright Clearance Centre (U.S.)
• World Intellectual Property Organization

 

Country Guides

• aneki.com
• Country Studies/Area Handbook
• Economist Country Briefings
• Foreign Information by Country
• OECD iLibrary
• Portals to the World
• World FactBook

 

Dictionaries

• Dictionaries [a selection]
• Grand Robert de la langue française
• Lexicool
• Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary
• OED (Oxford English Dictionary) (Licensed for use by members of Laurentian University)
• OneLook Dictionaries: The Fast Finder
• OneLook Reverse Dictionary
• Online Dictionaries [arranged by topic]
• Termium (Licensed for use by members of Laurentian University)
• YourDictionary.com

 

Translation

• babLa (Dictionary vocabulary translation)
• Grand dictionnaire terminologique
• Grand Robert & Collins En Ligne
• Termium (Licensed for use by members of Laurentian University)
• travlang's Translating Dictionaries
• YourDictionary.com

 

Embassies

 

Employment Resources

 

• Career Cruising
• Government of Canada Job Opportunities
• Government of Ontario Job Opportunities
• Jobs available at Canadian universities
• Jobs, Workers, Training and Careers
• Job Site for Students
• LU Placement Center - Job Links
• Occupational Outlook Handbook
• SWAP - Student work abroad program
• Working in Canada
• Workopolis

 

Encyclopedias and Almanacs

• AccessScience (McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology Online) (Licensed for use by members of Laurentian University)
• Canadian Encyclopedia online
• Columbia Encyclopedia
• Encyclopaedia Britannica Online (Licensed for use by members of Laurentian University)
• Encyclopædia Universalis (Licensed for use by members of Laurentian University)
• Europa World Yearbook  (Licensed for use by members of Laurentian University)  
• Information Please Almanac
• International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences  (Licensed for use by members of Laurentian University) 
• Oxford Music Online (includes Grove Music Online)
• Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online (Licensed for use by members of Laurentian University)
• Routledge Reference Resources Online: Religion Resource (Licensed for use by members of Laurentian University)

 

Financial Aid for Students

• BigONLINE [NOTE: Before using, contact Alain Lamothe alamothe@laurentian.ca (675-1151 ext. 3304)]
• Canada Student Loans Program
• Financial Aid for Canadian Students
• NSERC Programs
• Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) Program
• OSAP (Ontario Student Assistance Programme)
• Scholarships Canada
• Student Awards.com

 

Genealogy

General

• Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet
• FamilySearch (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints)
• Genforum
• RootsWeb

Canada

• Canadian Genealogy and History links
• Canadian Genealogy Centre

Ontario

• Genealogical Research (Provincial Archives)
• How to Start your Family History
• Ontario Genealogy: A Beginners Guide
• Sudbury Branch, Ontario Genealogical Society
• Sudbury District, Ontario Genealogy Links
• Sudbury Public Library Genealogy Links

 

Grants for Researchers

• A Grant Seeker's Guide to the Internet
• Charity Village Sources of Funding
• Community of Science Funding Opportunities
• Foundation search [NOTE: Before using, contact Alain Lamothe alamothe@laurentian.ca (675-1151 ext. 3304)]
• Guide for Writing a Funding Proposal
• NSERC (Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada)
• Prospect Research Online [NOTE: For Password contact: Tracy McLeod tmacleod@laurentian.ca (675-1151 ext. 3447)]
• SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada)

 

How to Guides

• Census Returns on Microfilm
• EBSCOHost User Guide
• Guide for Writing a Funding Proposal
• How to Use Boolean Searching on the Internet 
• How to Distinguish Scholarly Journals from other Periodicals
• How to Find Book Reviews
• How to Prepare an Annotated Bibliography
• How to Review a Book
• How to Search PubMed
• How to use the Mental Measurements Yearbook
• Law And Justice Research Tips
• PsycINFO User Guide
• RefWorks Quick Start Guide (pdf file - Adobe Acrobat Reader required)
• Thesis procedures
• Tracing your Ancestors in Canada (pdf file - Adobe Acrobat Reader required)

 

Library Catalogues

• Web Catalogue 
• Canadian Subject Headings on the Web
• Library of Congress Authorities
• Library of Congress Classification System

 

Other Library Catalogues

Sudbury

• Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology(Cambrian College, Collège Boréal)
• Sudbury Public Library

Ontario

• RACER (OCUL Virtual Catalogue)
• University of Toronto
• Watmedia (Provincial Multi-media Catalogue)Material held by Laurentian may be signed out in the Instructional Media Centre. To order items not available at Laurentian, please contact
• LUFilmLibrary@laurentian.ca in the Media Centre. Purolator charges apply.

 

Canada

• Library and Archives Canada -   Amicus
• Library and Archives Canada
• Bibliothèque et Archives nationales Québec
• Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (NRC-CISTI)
• Canadian Library Gateway
• SmartLibrary
• Other Canadian Libraries (Hytelnet)

 

External

• The British Library
• Bibliothèque nationale de France
• Catalogue collectif de France - CCFr
• COPAC(merged online catalogues of 20 of the largest university research libraries in the UK and Ireland)
• European Library
• Library of Congress
• Sudoc - Catalogue(Système universitaire de documentation)
• WorldCat
• Library catalogues on the WWW

 

Maps

• Campus Maps for Canadian Universities
• Census Maps
• Crown Land Use Atlas
• Data and Statistics
• Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
• Historical Atlas of Canada
• National Atlas of Canada
• Official Road Map of Ontario

 

Names

 

News

• ABYZ Newslinks
• Canadian College and University Newspapers
• Canadian Newsstand 
• Globe & Mail (Historical)
• Lexis-Nexis Academic   (includes Quicklaw)
• New York Times (Historical) 
• OnLine Newspapers
• Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature  
• Sudbury Star Online Archives
• World-newspapers.com

 

Political Leadership

• Rulers
• World Political Leaders

 

Postal Information

• Postal Code Lookup
• Canadian Postal Rates
• US Zip Code Look-up

 

Publishers

• ACQ Web's Directory of Publishers and Vendors
• Association of American University Presses member presses
• Publisher's Catalogues

 

Serials

• Digital Librarian's Magazines and Journals
• Ulrichsweb.com  (Licensed for use by members of Laurentian University)
• UMI Serials

 

Study Guides

• Academic series
• Assignment Calculator
• Cliffs Notes
• SparkNotes
• Study Guides and Strategies

 

Telephone Directories

• Canada 411 Phone Directory
• Canada Reverse Lookup
• Canada Yellow Pages
• Government of Canada Electronic Directory
• Ontario government telephone directory
• Telephone Directories on the Web

 

Thesauri

• Canadian Subject Headings on the Web
• Library of Congress Authorities
• Roget's II: The New Thesaurus
• Wordsmyth Educational Dictionary-Thesaurus
• YourDictionary.com

 

Theses and Dissertations

• Theses Canada Portal 
• British 
• Dissertations and Theses (Proquest)
• DART-Europe E-theses Portal

 

Universities and Colleges

 

Weather

• Environment Canada
• Sudbury Weather

 

Writing Assistance

General

• Dartmouth Writing Program
• Guide to Grammar and Writing
• Purdue University's Online Writing Lab  
• University of Wisconsin-Madison Writing Center
• Writing Assistance (Laurentian)
• Writing Center Handouts (University of North Carolina)

Style

• Elements of Style
• See also: Citation Guides