3. Have been online for a minimum of two years (indicating longevity).
There is one exception to this criteria: The Emily Post Institute does not have the required number of links but remains a good, though abridged, resource.
Category: Words/Language
Listed by Coutts and Richards: Roget’s II The New Thesaurus$15 Located free on the Web:
• Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, 3rd ed. 1995.
http://www.bartleby.com/62
Listed by Coutts and Richards: Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations$33 Surrogates located free on the Web:
• Bartleby.com (online since 1997) http://www.bartleby.com includes
Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations 1950–1988 http://www. bartleby.com/63
Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 1919, http://www.
bartleby.com/100
Columbia World of Quotations, http://www.bartleby.
com/66
• Quoteland (online since 1997), http://www.quoteland.com
• Yahoo! Graduation Speeches (online since 1995), http://dir.
yahoo.com/Education/Graduation/Speeches
Listed by Coutts and Richards: Black’s Law Dictionary$55 Surrogates located free on the Web:
• Nolo’s “Shark Talk” (Everybody’s Legal Dictionary) (online since 1994), http://www.nolo.com/lawcenter/
dictionary/wordindex.cfm
• Nolo’s Legal Encyclopedia, http://www.nolo.com/
lawcenter/ency/index.cfm
Listed by Coutts and Richards: Chicago Manual of Style$35 Surrogates located free on the Web:
• University of Wisconsin, Madison: Writer’s Handbook (online since 1985), http://www.wisc.edu/writing/
Handbook/DocChicago.html
• Chicago Manual of Style FAQ (online since 1991), http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/cmosfaq.
html
Listed by Coutts and Richards: Oxford English Dictionary$950, and Webster’s 3rd International Dictionary$150
Surrogates located free on the Web:
• American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (online since 1997), http://www.bartleby.com/61
• Merriam-Webster Online Language Center (online since 1993), http://www.m-w.com
• Dictionary of Difficult Words (online since 2000), http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/dictionaries/
difficultwords
• Dictionary.com (online since 1995), http://www.
dictionary.com
• OneLook Dictionaries—Search 738 online dictionaries at once (online since 1996), http://www.onelook.com
• Your Dictionary (online since 1999) includes foreign language dictionaries, http://www.yourdictionary.com
• Allwords—With Crossword Solver (online since 1998) http://www.allwords.com
• Acronym Finder (online since 1998), http://www.
acronymfinder.com
Category: General Subject Overviews
Listed by Coutts and Richards: World Book Encyclopedia$950 Surrogates located free on the Web:
• Encarta Online Concise Encyclopedia (online since 1994), http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/artcenter.aspx
• Britannica Concise (online since 1995), http://education.
yahoo.com/reference/encyclopedia
• Columbia Encyclopedia (online since 1997), http://www.
bartleby.com/65
• Encyclopedia.com (online since 1998), http://www.
encyclopedia.com
Note: A discussion of these free encyclopedias can be found on pages 128–129.
Category: Poetry Information
Listed by Coutts and Richards: Columbia Granger’s Index to Poetry$283
Surrogates located free on the Web:
• American Verse Project (online since 1985), http://www.hti.
umich.edu/a/amverse/
• Bartleby Verse (online since 1997), http://www.bartleby.
com/verse
Category: Religion
Listed by Coutts and Richards: Encyclopedia Judaica $1,000 (software version: $200)
Surrogate located free on the Web:
• Jewish Virtual Library (online since 1997), http://www.
us-israel.org/jsource
Listed by Coutts and Richards: Encyclopedia of Religion$35 No surrogate found.
Listed by Coutts and Richards: King James Bible$5 Located free on the Web:
• King James Bible at the Electronic Text Center, Univ. of Virginia (online since 1986), http://etext.lib.virginia.
edu/kjv.browse.html
Listed by Coutts and Richards: New Catholic Encyclopedia
$1,500
Surrogate located free on the Web:
• New Advent Catholic Encyclopedia (online since 1998), http://www.newadvent.org/cathen
Category: Medical
Listed by Coutts and Richards: Merck Manual$35 (1992) Located free on the Web:
• Merck Manual (online since 2000), http://www.merck.
com/pubs/mmanual
Listed by Coutts and Richards: Physician’s Desk Reference$90 Surrogates located free on the Web:
• MayoClinic.com—Drug Information (online since 1997), http://www.mayoclinic.com/findinformation/
druginformation/index.cfm
Note: Many drugs include a link to an image; this is a feature for which the Physician’s Desk Referenceis well known.
• WebMD Drugs and Herbs (online since 1998), http://my.
webmd.com/drugs
• MEDLINEPlus Drug Information (online since 1998), http:// www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginformation.
html Category: Facts
Listed by Coutts and Richards: Famous First Facts$130 Surrogate located free on the Web:
• Famous Firsts Trivia Collection (online since 1999), http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/1-triv.html
Listed by Coutts and Richards: Guinness Book of World Records$15 Surrogate located free on the Web:
• Guinness World Records (online since 1999), http://www.
guinnessworldrecords.com
Listed by Coutts and Richards: Statistical Abstract of the United States$38
Located free on the Web:
• Statistical Abstract (online since 1993), http://www.
census.gov/prod/www/statistical-abstract-us.html
Listed by Coutts and Richards: World Almanac and Book of Facts
$10
Surrogate located free on the Web:
• InfoPlease Almanac (online since 1999), http://www.
infoplease.com Category: Geography
Listed by Coutts and Richards: Columbia Gazetteer of the World
$750
Surrogates located free on the Web:
• Columbia Gazetteer of North America (online since 1997), http://www.bartleby.com/69
• Getty Thesaurus of Geographical Names (online since 1992), http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/
tgn
• United States Census Bureau, U. S. Gazetteer (online since 1993), http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer
• Worldwide Directory of Cities and Towns (online since 1996), http://www.calle.com/world
Listed by Coutts and Richards: Times Atlas of the World$175 Surrogates located free on the Web:
• World Sites Atlas (online since 1999), http://www.
sitesatlas.com/Maps/index.htm
• National Geographic Map Machine (online since 1995), http://plasma.nationalgeographic.com/mapmachine/
index.html For street level maps:
• MSN Maps & Directories (online since 1996), http://map point.msn.com
• National Geographic Map Machine (online since 1995), http://plasma.nationalgeographic.com/mapmachine/
index.html
• Yahoo! Maps (online since 1995), http://maps.yahoo.com Category: Directories
Listed by Coutts and Richards: Encyclopedia of Associations
$150
Surrogates located free on the Web:
• Associations on the Net (online since 1997), http://www.ipl.
org/ref/AON
• Associations Central (online since 1998), http://www.
associationcentral.com
Category: Special Subject Overviews and Handbooks Listed by Coutts and Richards: A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants$56
Surrogate located free on the Web:
• Botany.com (online since 1996), http://www.botany.com Listed by Coutts and Richards: CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics$129
Surrogate located free on the Web:
• Physics and Astronomy Online Education and Reference (online since 1997), http://www.physlink.com/Reference/
Index.cfm
Listed by Coutts and Richards:Dictionary of Art$4,000 Surrogate located free on the Web:
• Artcyclopedia (online since 1998), http://www.art cyclopedia.com
Listed by Coutts and Richards: Emily Post’s Etiquette$26 Surrogates located free on the Web:
• Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home, by Emily Post, 1922. (online since 1999), http://www.bartleby.
com/95
• Emily Post Institute Etiquette Tips (online since 1996), http://www.emilypost.com/etiquette_index.htm
Listed by Coutts and Richards: Garland Encyclopedia of World Music$1,000, and Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians$725
Surrogates located free on the Web:
• University of Michigan Instrument Encyclopedia (online since 1985), http://www.si.umich.edu/chico/
instrument
• Internet Public Library Music History 102: A Guide to Western Composers and Their Music from the Middle Ages to the Present (online since 1997), http://www.ipl.org/
exhibit/mushist
Listed by Coutts and Richards: Guide to Reference Books$200 No surrogate found.
Listed by Coutts and Richards: Joy of Cooking$25 Surrogates located free on the Web:
• Boston Cooking School Cook Book (Fannie Farmer) (online since 1997), http://www.bartleby.com/87
• AllRecipes.com (online since 1998), http://www.allrecipes.
com
• Recipe Source (online since 1999), http://www.recipe source.com
• GourmetSpot (online since 1997), http://www.gourmet spot.com/recipes.htm
Listed by Coutts and Richards: McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology$100
Surrogates located free on the Web:
• Encyclopedia of the Atmospheric Environment (online since 2000), http://www.doc.mmu.ac.uk/
aric/eae/english.html
• Eric Weisstein’s World of Science (online since 1995), http://scienceworld.wolfram.com
• Life Science Dictionary (online since 1985), http://
biotech.icmb.utexas.edu/search/dict-search.html Listed by Coutts and Richards: Peterson’s Field Guides$40 Surrogates located free on the Web:
• Peterson Online (online since 1996), http://www.peterson online.com/birds/month/index.shtml
• Virtual Bird Field Guide (online 1999), http://birding.
about.com/library/fg/blfg.htm
Listed by Coutts and Richards: Robert’s Rules of Order$10 Surrogate located free on the Web:
• Constitution Society (online since 1996), http://www.
constitution.org/rror/rror--00.htm
(Does not include the modifications of the Revision, which is copyright 2000)
Listed by Coutts and Richards: Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy$3,500
Surrogates located free on the Web:
• Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (online since 1993), http://www.utm.edu/research/iep
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (online since 1985), http://plato.stanford.edu/contents.html
Listed by Coutts and Richards: Stateman’s Yearbook$100 Surrogates located free on the Web:
• CIA World Factbook (online since1995), http://www.odci.
gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
• Library of Congress Country Studies (online since 1990), http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html
• World Factbook 2002 (online since 1997), http://www.
bartleby.com/151
Category: Biography
Listed by Coutts and Richards: American National Biography
$3,500, and Dictionary of American Biography$1,500 Surrogates located free on the Web:
• Academy of Achievement (online since 1995), http://www.
achievement.org
• Biography.com (online since 1995), http://www.biography.
com
• Biographical Dictionary (online since 1997), http://www.s9.
com/biography
• Librarians’ Index to the Internet Individual Biography Sites (online since 1998), http://www.lii.org/search?title=
People;query=People;subsearch=People;searchtype=
subject
Category: Business/Career
Listed by Coutts and Richards: Occupational Outlook Handbook$16 Located free on the Web:
• U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Outlook Handbook Online, http://www.bls.gov/oco/home.htm
Listed by Coutts and Richards: Million Dollar Directory$500 No surrogate found.
Listed by Coutts and Richards: Moody’s Manuals$7,000 No surrogate found.
Listed by Coutts and Richards: Rand-McNally Commercial Atlas
& Marketing Guide$400 No surrogate found.
Listed by Coutts and Richards: Standard & Poor’s Corporation Reports$3,000
No surrogate found.