The Ohio State University: OARDC Library

Reference Tools

• Dictionaries/Thesaurus
• Encyclopedias
• Agriculture Web Locators
• Telephone Directories
• ZIP and Area Code Directories
• Organizations
• Book and Journal Information
• Maps and Directions
• Weather
• Calculation and Conversion
• Statistics
• Ohio Information
• Libraries

• Dictionaries/Thesaurus

  • Oxford Reference Online: Over 100 dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press.
  • Oxford English Dictionary
  • Merriam Webster 10th Collegiate Dictionary
  • American Heritage Dictionary
  • Roget's II: The New Thesaurus
  • Online Dictionaries
  • Integrated Taxonomic Information System
  • IndexFungorum: The CABI Bioscience and CBS Database of Fungal Names
  • CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics

• Encyclopedias

  • Columbia Encyclopedia
  • Access Science

• Agriculture Web Locators

  • AgNIC: Guide to quality agricultural information on the Internet as selected by the National Agricultural Library, Land-Grant Universities, and other institutions.
  • e-Answers: Reliable, research-based information on a wide range of Extension or Outreach-oriented subjects. From this source you can access the knowledge of Land Grant universities around the nation. Search E-answers for information on a variety of topics, including
  • Agricultural and Applied Plant Science Information: Plant Management Network Partner Institution Search.
  • Science.gov: Gateway to authoritative selected science information provided by U.S. Government agencies, including research and development results.
  • OSU Plant Facts: An integrated search tool for horticultural information.
  • Biology Browser: An interactive portal designed by BIOSIS to connect life sciences researchers with free, useful resources and other like-min

• Telephone Directories

  • CSREES Directories: USDA CSREES directory.
  • BigBook: Businesses.
  • Switchboard: People and businesses.
  • AnyWho Directories: People, businesses, reverse lookup, toll free.

• ZIP and Area Code Directories

  • U.S. ZIP Codes: Official USPS site.
  • Canadian Postal Codes
  • Area Codes: Find telephone area codes for U.S. and international city codes.
  • World Time Zones
  • The Official U.S. Time

• Organizations

  • Professional Agriculture Organizations
  • College and University Home Pages
  • State Agricultural Sites: Links to colleges of agriculture, extension and related state agriculture sites.
  • County Extension Offices
  • Congressional Universe: U.S. legislative information
  • ARS Research Locations

• Book and Journal Information

  • Books in Print Online
  • Directory of Open Access Journals
  • Journal Citation Reports (ISI)
  • Journal Title Abbreviations
  • Journals indexed in AGRICOLA: NAL catalog.
  • Publisher Websites
  • Quality Indicators of Research

• Maps and Directions

  • US Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System
  • MapQuest
  • Maps on Us
  • National Atlas of the U.S.
  • Tiger Mapping Service: U.S. Census Bureau digital map database.
  • U.S. Gazetteer: Identify places to view with the Tiger Map Server and obtain census data.
  • Global Gazetteer
  • OhioLINK LANDSAT 7 Satellite Image Server: Provides satellite imagery of the state of Ohio.
  • Ohio Soils Information: Ohio Department of Natural Resources.

• Weather

  • National Climatic Data Center
  • Midwest Regional Climate Center
  • UM Weather
  • OSU Weather Server
  • OARDC Weather System
  • Complete Sun and Moon Data for One Day: U.S. Naval Observatory. Provides the times of sunrise, sunset, moonrise, moonset, transits of the Sun and Moon, and the beginning and end of civil twilight, along with information on the Moon's phase.
  • Freeze/Frost Data: Climatography of the U.S., no.20. PDF format.
  • NCDC: U.S. Climate Normals
  • Ohio Freeze / Frost Occurrence Data: PDF format.
  • Last Frost of Spring and First Frost of Fall for Wooster: OARDC Weather System.

• Calculation and Conversion

  • Fundamental Physical Constants (CODATA): NIST reference.
  • MegaConverter 2
  • NIST Guide to SI Units
  • Universal Currency Converter

• Statistics

  • USDA: Economics, Statistics, and Market Information System: Cornell University.
  • NASS: Census of Agriculture: USDA. From 1992 onward. 1840-1950 available as PDFs.
  • AgCensus: Cornell University. U.S. Census of Agriculture 1987, 1992, 1997.
  • NASS: Agricultural Chemical Use Database: Annual summaries published by the USDA. PDF format.
  • National Agricultural Statistics Service: USDA.
  • Ohio Agricultural Statistics Service
  • Online Horticultural Datase (Ohio): OSU. Dept. of Hort. and Crop Science.
  • Statistical Abstract of the U.S.: Authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States.
  • LexisNexis Statistical Home Page: U.S. statistical information.
  • Information Please: "...a free, one-stop reference site that offers millions of up-to-the-minute facts and statistics covering just about everything."
  • FAOSTAT: FAO statistical databases.

• Ohio Information

  • Exurban Change Program: OSU. Analyzes economic, social, agricultural and land use change throughout Ohio’s townships, regions, and exurban/rural landscapes.
  • State of Ohio
  • State Library of Ohio
  • Ohio Department of Agriculture
  • Ohio Laws, Rules, and Constitution
  • City of Wooster
  • Ohioline

• Libraries

  • College of Wooster, Andrews Library: Also included in OhioLINK
  • Wayne County Public Library
  • OhioLINK
  • National Agricultural Library
  • WorldCat.org