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English Style Guides
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- AGU - How to Cite an AGU Article
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- American Heritage Book of English Usage
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- The Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr.
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- CiteSeer: Scientific Literature Digital Library
- Energy Citations Database
- Find Articles.com
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Online Citation Style Guides
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- Citation Style Guides for Internet and Electronic Sources
- Citing Internet Sources
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- How do I document sources from the Web? (MLA)
- Online! Citation Styles
Open Access Journals / Information
- DOAJ - Directory of Open Access Journals
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- Open Access Bibliography
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- Bibliofind (See also: Out-of-print Books)
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- Techstreet.com
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- ASTM International Directory of Testing Labs
- Aviation System Standards
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- International Comparisons Database
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- NIST Publications by Operating Units
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- Preferred Metric Units For General Use by the Federal Government
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- Virtual Technical Reports Center
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- Advanced Book Exchange (Abebooks)
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- Canada Theses Portal
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- M.I.T. Theses
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Translation Resources
- See also: Dictionaries
- Babel Fish
- Free Translation Services
- Google Language Tools
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- Translation Wizard
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