General Reference Links

The Texas Department of State Health Services Medical and Research Library staff have identified several general reference web sites. This is not a comprehensive list and should not be interpreted as an endorsement of any product or endorsement of the information's accuracy. The library staff make an ongoing effort to keep the links up-to-date. We would appreciate you contacting us at library@dshs.texas.gov if you experience any difficulties or if you would like to recommend additional links.

If you have a reference question and would like assistance from a librarian, please contact us at (512) 776-7559 or library@dshs.texas.gov.

Address and Telephone Directories
Dictionaries, Grammar, Acronyms, Quotations, Thesauri, and Other Writing Aids
Maps, Travel, and Weather
Other
Reference Links
Search Engines

Address and Telephone Directories 

• HHS Employee Directory (U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services)
• HHS Employee Database Search (Texas Health and Human Services Commission Directory - HHS employees only)
• Infospace
• Texas Education Directory (Texas Education Agency) (Texas school directory)
• Texas Area Codes (Texas Public Utility Commission)
• ZIP Code Lookup (U.S. Postal Service)

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Dictionaries, Grammar, Acronyms, Quotations, Thesauri, and Other Writing Aids

• Bartleby.com (Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, Roget's International Thesaurus, Strunk's Elements of Style, Post's Etiquette, and more)
• Citing Medicine: The NLM Style Guide for Authors, Editors, and Publishers
• CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (Carnegie Mellon Univ.)
• Finding applicable journals to publish articles (Jane - Journal/Author Name Estimator)
• Instructions for Authors in the Health Sciences (University of Toledo, Mulford Health Science Library)
• Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary (National Library of Medicine)
• Merriam-Webster Online (Dictionary (with audio pronunciations) & Thesaurus)
• Online Writing Lab (Purdue University)
• Quote Search
• Thesaurus.com (online version of Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases)
• yourDictionary.com

Maps, Travel, and Weather

• CDC Travelers' Health (National Center for Infectious Diseases)
• CIA World Factbook (Central Intelligence Agency)
• Google Maps
• National Geographic MapMachine
• National Weather Service
• Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection (Univ. of Texas at Austin)

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Other

• Internal Revenue Service
• Petersons' Guides to Schools (K-12 to postgraduate)
• North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS) (U.S. Census Bureau)

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Reference Links

• Virtual Reference Shelf (Library of Congress)
• WWW Virtual Library

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Search Engines

• Ask
• Bing
• Dogpile
• Google
• Yahoo

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External links to other sites are intended to be informational and do not have the endorsement of the Texas Department of State Health Services. These sites may also not be accessible to people with disabilities.