Quick reference sources
Selected resources for answering basic enquiries.
Abbreviations
- Abbreviations.com - focuses on the sciences but also includes some general sites
Addresses
- Royal Mail - find full addresses from the postcode, and postcodes for addresses
Biographical information
- ISIHighlyCited - a gateway to the most influential scientists and scholars
Business directories
Careers and course information
- Prospects - guide to graduate jobs, careers and postgraduate study
- UCAS- online guide to Higher Education courses - allows searching by course, college or university
Converter
- AskNumbers.com - online conversions between different metrics of length, weight, temperature, pressure, energy, frequency and more
Maps
- Multimap - key features include street-level maps of the United Kingdom, Europe, and the US; road maps of the world; door-to-door travel directions; aerial photographs; and local information
- streetmap.co.uk - provides address searching and street map facilities for the UK
- WorldAtlas.com
- Perry-CastaƱeda Library Map Collection- electronic maps and other cartographic resources
Telephone numbers
Translation services
Travel
- National Rail Enquiries
- raileasy - use to find train times and the cheapest fare
- Reading Travel Information - latest news and journey planner