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Acronym Finder
http://bioinformatics.org/textknowledge/acronym.php

Checklist of North American Birds
http://www.aou.org/checklist/index.php3

Encyclopaedia Britannica
http://www.Britannica.com  

The Galton Library: human gene names
http://www.gene.ucl.ac.uk

GPO's Copyright Law of United States; 252 pp
http://www.copyright.gov/title17/circ92.pdf

Index Medicus 
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/tsd/serials/lji.html

LBSN-List of Bacterial Names with Standing in Nomenclature
http://www.bacterio.cict.fr/  

Mammal Species of the World (MSW)
http://www.nmnh.si.edu/msw/

Merriam-Webster Collegiate 10th dictionaries
http://www.m-w.com

Northern Light: good, all-purpose search engine for locating people and addresses, in particular http://www.nimr.mrc.ac.uk/intro.htm  

Online thesaurus of geographic names
http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/tgn/

Source of online classics including reference works for editors (Strunk, Fowler's) and 3rd edition of American Heritage Dictionary, 2000 edition of Columbia Encyclopedia, and 1996 edition of Roget's Thesaurus
www.bartleby.com  

Physicians Desk Reference
http://www.pdr.net

Stedman's Medical Dictionary
http://www.stedmans.com/

Uniform Requirements
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/uniform_requirements.html

Virus taxonomy: classification and nomenclature of viruses: seventh report of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ICTVdb/Ictv/index.htm

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