REFERENCE AND RESEARCH
- Allexperts
- Ask one of the over 4,000 experts a question or volunteer to be an expert in your field.
- Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
- The original 1901 edition. Searchable by keyword or author.
- Britannica.com
- Britannica offers its once for-a-fee service free, with the complete
Encyclopedia Britannica, and links to the best magazine articles, books and
web sites. The site also offers daily news and is one of the best
sites on the Internet for information on specific subjects through quality
web sites.
- Columbia Encyclopedia
- The latest edition of this single-volume encyclopedia is available online.
- The Columbia
Grangers World of Poetry Online
- This online version of the reference work allows you to search
alphabetically or by keyword for poetry by title, first line, last line,
author or subject.
- EasyBib
- This site offers free bibliographic formatting in either MLA or APA
formats.
- Encarta Encyclopedia
- This site, offered by Microsoft, offers free access to an abridged set of
encyclopedia articles, world maps and the Encarta World English Dictionary.
- Free Internet Access to
Public Records
- A collection of over 1700 sources for public records.
- Frequently Requested Tables
- Presented by the Census Bureau, these tables from the Statistical Abstract cover
subjects from child abuse to bond yields.
- Guinness World Records
- Searchable site containing the famous world records. Browse by
category or enjoy the daily WOW!
- How Stuff Works
- Detailed explanations and illustrations of how things like computers, phones,
thermometers and compasses work.
- InfoPlease
- Find answers in online almanacs, encyclopedias and dictionaries, plus the site is
searchable in general.
- Learn2
- Instructions on how to do virtually anything from change a diaper to avoid junk mail.
- List of Lists
- This huge collection of links to lists from a variety of sources offers
quick access to detailed information.
- Merriam-Webster Online
- This site features an online dictionary and thesaurus, plus word of the
day and word games.
- Online Conversion
- This site offers conversion from one measurement to another with over 5000
units and 50,000 conversions. The list includes length/distance,
temperature, speed, volume, weight/mass, computer, date/time, cooking, angles,
area, power, energy, density, force, pressure, astronomical, numbers, finance,
clothing, light, torque, viscosity, frequency, acceleration, and flow rate.
- Popnet
- Source for global population information.
- Quotations @
About.com
- Links and related articles, covering authors, orators, and specific
subjects.
- The Quotations Page
- Great quotation search where you can search for any word and pull up quotations which
contain it.
- Refdesk
- Nice directory of informational sites online.
- Roget’s II The New Thesaurus
- This 1995 edition is now available online.
- Search Systems
- This site is a large collection of free public records databases.
Search nationwide or by specific state, Canadian searches are also
available.
- Thomas Register
- Search the Thomas Register by product or manufacturer.
- Word IQ
- A site that offers tools to help users find definitions and information on
words. It also has an encyclopedia, and ways to search the Web and articles.
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