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On the Web
- Librarians also Help on Web - Article from Central Michigan Life detailing the virtual reference services from the Park Library of Central Michigan University.
- Smithsonian American Art Museum - Art information specialists at the National Museum of American Art, using print and electronic reference sources, provide assistance with art reference questions at this site.
- Kentucky Virtual Library - Online catalogs and databases, online tutorial and help with internet-based research, a virtual reference desk, and access to Kentuckiana digitized collections, serving Kentuckians and supporting the Kentucky Commonwealth Virtual University.
- Digital Reference Services Bibliography - List of more than 400 references to articles about online or virtual reference services by Bernie Sloan from the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois.
- Dictionary.com - Free online dictionary search, translator, word of the day, crossword puzzles and word games, and vocabulary learning resources for many languages.
- Best Information on the Net - Internet resources selected by librarians at St. Ambrose University in Davenport, Iowa. Includes a reference desk, a hot paper topics file, sites for many academic disciplines, and internet training resources.
- Virtual Reference Desk - Includes a list of electronic resources recommended by Central Michigan University library staff for reference assistance.
- Virtual Reference - Extensive database on consumer information from Duke University Libraries.
- University of Tennessee-Martin Andy Holt Virtual Library - Focus is on the humanities and fine arts, with access to local and world library catalogs, electronic journals, databases, virtual reference desk, digitized documents, and departmental resources. Partners with the physical Paul Meek Library to provide face to face services.
- QuestionPoint - Subscription-based collaborative reference service developed by the Library of Congress and OCLC.
Wikipedia Articles
- Gale Virtual Reference Library - Gale Virtual Reference Library is an electronic database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
- Virtual reference - ==Virtual Reference Services==
- Cave Automatic Virtual Environment - A Cave Automatic Virtual Environment (better known by the recursive acronym CAVE) is an immersive virtual reality environment where projectors are directed to three, four, five or six of the walls of a room-sized cube. The name is also a reference to the allegory of the Cave in Plato’s Republic where a philosopher contemplates perception, reality and illusion.
- Virtual ground - Virtual ground (sometimes called virtual earth) is an important concept found in electronic circuit designs. It identifies a point in a circuit as being held close to the circuit's ground or reference level electric potential.
- Virtual device - A virtual device in Unix is a file such as :/dev/null or :/dev/urandom, that is treated as a device, as far as user level software is concerned, but is generated by the kernel without reference to hardware.