Online Calculators and Converters

Bob Gorman
Reference Librarian
Winthrop University
June, 2008

Calculators

Calculator.com (http://www.calculator.com)

Includes general and scientific calculators; currency, mortgage, lease and loan calculators; and time, temperature, unit, area, and measurement converters.

Martindale's Calculators Online Center (http://www.martindalecenter.com/Calculators.html)

Includes calculators of mathematics, statistics, chemistry, physics, astronomy, engineering, and science.

Calendars and Dates

CalendarHome.com (http://calendarhome.com/converter/)

Includes a calendar converter for converting the Gregorian calendar to other calendars such as the Julian, Hebrew, Islamic, etc.

Time and Date.com (http://www.timeanddate.com)

Includes a time zone converter, a perpetual calendar, world time search, and much more.

Citations

Landmark's Citation Machine (http://citationmachine.net)

Assists in building a bibliographic citation list in APA or MLA styles.  Users should consult the APA and MLA manuals available in the library for verification of these styles.

Easybib ( http://www.easybib.com )

Helps create bibliographies in MLA style.

Conversion

OnlineConversion.com (http://www.onlineconversion.com)

A comprehensive conversion site that helps users "convert just about anything to anything else."

Language

Google Language Tools (http://www.google.com/language_tools?hl=en)

Use this site for machine-generated translation of text or web sites.

Measurements

Science Made Simple, Inc. (http://www.sciencemadesimple.com/conversions.html)

Convert metric measurements, currency, fractions, etc.

Money

The Salary Calculator (http://www.homefair.com/homefair/calc/salcalc.html)

Compare cost of living in several hundred U.S. cities and towns.

The Universal Currency Converter (http://www.xe.com/ucc)

Convert U.S. and other currencies.

Travel Distances

Rand McNally Maps & Directions (http://www.randmcnally.com/rmc/directions/dirGetMileageInput.jsp?cmty=0)

Provides estimated driving distances between U.S. cities.