Refrences and Books: The book, that I find very useful, is found at wikibooks (en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX), but many other books are found at amazon for people who prefer a paper edition. Latex reference manual (http://cs.wlu.edu/~necaise/refs/latex2e/) A list of common symbols (http://web.ift.uib.no/Fysisk/Teori/KURS/WRK/TeX/symALL.html) Sites: CTAN (http://www.ctan.org/) contains many, and I mean many, styles that are useful to people writing latex documents. You can even browse the styles by subject (http://texcatalogue.sarovar.org/bytopic.html). The latex project homepage (http://www.latex-project.org/) TeX Users Group (http://www.tug.org/) PracTeX Journal (http://www.tug.org/pracjourn/) Beamer style --- used for making presentations (http://latex-beamer.sourceforge.net/) Editors: Vim Emacs Gedit --- get the latex plugin (http://live.gnome.org/Gedit/LaTeXPlugin) IDEs: Kile (http://kile.sourceforge.net/) TeXnicCenter (http://www.toolscenter.org/) Vim Latex (http://vim-latex.sourceforge.net/) TeX Eclipse (http://texlipse.sourceforge.net/) Emacs (http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html) Bibtex: Overview of bibtex (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BibTeX) Bibliography styles (http://amath.colorado.edu/documentation/LaTeX/reference/faq/bibstyles.pdf) Amazon page to bibtex (http://keijisaito.info/lead2amazon/e/) CiteULike (http://www.citeulike.org/) Bibtex Managers: Jabref (http://jabref.sourceforge.net/) Kbibtex (http://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~fischer/kbibtex/index.html) Gnome Refrencer (http://icculus.org/referencer/index.html) Online Compilers: Online equation compiler (http://www.texify.com/) Online latex compiler (http://dev.baywifi.com/latex/) Styles: A list of styles for some journals (http://www.lecb.ncifcrf.gov/~toms/latex.html) Generating Graphics: Inkscape can export to eps Gnuplot xFig Other: lyX --- a wysiwyg editor that uses latex as its backend (http://www.lyx.org/) Comparison of Word and Latex in scientific writing (http://openwetware.org/wiki/Word_vs._LaTeX) Latex font catalog (http://www.tug.dk/FontCatalogue/) The beauty of latex (http://nitens.org/taraborelli/latex) Tex showcase (http://www.tug.org/texshowcase/) Make your own document class (http://www.tug.org/pracjourn/2006-4/flynn/flynn.pdf)