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