Online reference works
- American Mathematical Society + SIAM membership lists
- ART: Grove Art Online
(previously The Grove Dictionary of Art) now accessed using ATHENS passwords
- Astronomy and Astrophysics Encyclopaedia comprehensive reference
work with links to relevant sites, updated quarterly
- Astrophysical subject headings
enlarged 2001 listing, as used by ApJ, AJ, A&A, MNRAS, PASJ and PASP
- Bartleby.com Great books online: the Bible, Shakespeare, Fowler,
Strunk, Gray's Anatomy etc. Also poetry, fiction and non fiction (some scientists) from the Harvard Classics
- Encarta Concise Encyclopedia online
- Encyclopaedia Britannica the complete encyclopaedia plus
related magazine and book sites
- Environmental data link from NERC's home page to 7 NERC data centres
- International Who's Who latest edition, no password needed
for .cam addresses
- Language Dictionaries
- Maps of the world
collection from the University of Texas at Austin
- Maths Subject Classification (AMS) printed copy in information office
- MUSIC: Grove Music
Online (replaces the New Grove Dictionary of Music & Musicians
and the New Grove Dictionary of Opera) now accessed using ATHENS passwords
- OED access to Oxford English Dictionary online - note
licence restrictions, no password needed
- Oxford Dictionary of National
Biography online; available within the cam.ac.uk domain (on a trial
basis) - no password required at this stage
- Ordnance Survey includes 'Get a map' with scales from
1:2000,000 to 1:35,000: note conditions of use
- PACS listing
- PHILOSOPHY: Routledge Encyclopaedia of Philosophy
- ROAD MAPS: Streetmap street and road maps for
mainland Britain; Multimap maps of UK, Europe and the world
- ROGET'S thesaurus 1911 version
with 1991 supplement, available via the Gutenberg Project
- Telephone directories searchable worldwide listing
via teldir UK phone numbers using BT,
10 free searches per day, STD codes
- UK national statistics online official site giving
detailed data on economy, society, etc.
- Websters Dictionary
- Websters Thesaurus
- World Factbook Country profiles prepared
by the CIA, 2003 edition
- World of Learning information on academic
and related institutions worldwide; accessed using ATHENS passwords
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