• Books and publishing
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• Travel, maps, currency
• Directories
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• Other listings

• Amazon - the UK site
• Amazon - the US site
• alapage.com - French Internet bookshop

For out-of-print books:

• Advanced Book Exchange
• Alibris
• BookFinder
• UKBookworld.com (limited to British booksellers)

For publishers' websites:

• Publishers' catalogues (from Northern Lights)

For patents and standards:

• Patent information on the internet, list maintained by the European Patent Office
• World Standards Services Network

For guides to publishing styles and citation of electronic references:

• Citation guide to electronic references, maintained by IFLA

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• NISS information for education

• UK Online the government website
• EUROPA the European Union website

• BBC News
• This Is London

For weather:

• the Met Office

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• All-in-one UK Timetable
• Transport for London
• Railtrack timetables
• Deutsche Bahn European train timetable
• The European Railway Server including links to timetables
• Multimap.com for maps in UK, and worldwide
• The Universal Currency Converter

• Telephone Directories on the Web
• Postcodes Online
• Yellow Pages (UK)

• Time Out
• Art Guide

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• Jobs for the UK academic community

More extensive lists of reference sources are kept at:

• Google web directory
• Yahoo directory

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Last modified 19 July 2006