Reference

Reference

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 H&F Libraries and Information Service provide you with free access to a number of subscribed electronic resources – visit our Online Reference Library and login to access a range of reference website.

Biography
Biographies of over 25,000 famous people

Dictionary
On-line thesaurus and dictionary

Macmillan Dictionary

Encyclopedia
On-line encyclopaedia, dictionary, thesaurus and almanac

Wikipedia
Free content encyclopaedia that anyone can edit

Ancestry
H&F Libraries and Information Service provide you with free access to Ancestry at Fulham Library

Family Search
Family history search

National Archives

Contemporary Writers
Profiles of some of the UK and Commonwealth's most important living writers

E-Books Directory
Access to free e-books

Project Gutenberg
30,000 free e-books to read on your PC

Burke's Peerage
UK and Ireland's titled and landed families

British History Online
Digital library containing some of the core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles

About.com
U.S.-based gateway to education subjects 

The Internet Public Library
U.S.-based virtual reference library

Maps

Bing Maps 
Detailed mapping service with world wide coverage

Google Maps
Detailed mapping service with world wide coverage and Street View

Ordnance Survey Maps

Up My Street
"Find my nearest” information service

Telephone Directories and Postcodes

Infobel
Links to white and yellow pages sites

International white and yellow pages

Yellow Pages

UK Webstart
Gateway to telephone directories and postcodes

Royal Mail postcode finder

Golden Pages
Eire residential and business phone book search

192
People and business numbers plus electoral and phone tracker services – registration and fee required for some searches

Switch Board
American Yellow Pages with zip codes and map directions


 

Page last updated: 13/09/2011