Reference

J.F. Hicks Library
Virginia Intermont College
1013 Moore Street
Bristol, Virginia 24201

phone 276-466-7960

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The J.F. Hicks Library provides access to a number of reference sources through its print collection (searchable at http://library.acaweb.org) and databases. Other reference sources are listed below.

Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, and Almanacs

Information Please
http://www.infoplease.com/

Merriam-Webster Online
http://www.merriamwebster.com/

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
http://plato.stanford.edu/contents.html

Wikipedia
http://www.wikipedia.org/

Government Resources

FedStats: The Gateway to Statistics From Over 100 U.S. Federal Agencies
http://www.fedstats.gov/

PubMed
http://www.pubmed.gov/

Thomas: Legislative Information on the Internet
http://thomas.loc.gov/

Tennessee.gov: The Official Web Site of the State of Tennessee
http://www.tennessee.gov/

USA.gov: The U.S. Government's Official Web Portal
http://www.usa.gov/

USDA National Agriculture Library
http://agricola.nal.usda.gov/

Virginia.gov: The Official Commonwealth of Virginia Home Page
http://www.virginia.gov/

General Internet Resources

INFOMINE: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections
http://infomine.ucr.edu/

Librarians' Index to the Internet
http://lii.org/

Refdesk
http://www.refdesk.com/

The Straight Dope
http://www.straightdope.com/