References (Online)

Many excellent reference resources are available online. Follow the links below to use these "virtual" reference materials.

General Reference

Reference.Bartleby.com Searches more than twenty references at once.

Research-It   Includes many references, such as dictionaries, biographical and geographical references, and translators.

xrefer  Searches encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, books of quotations, and a number of subject-specific titles.

• Information Please  Search for answers in Information Please almanac, and encyclopedia, and dictionary.
• Fact Monster  Almanac designed for students.

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• Biographical Dictionary  Search by names, birth years, death years, positions held, professions, literary and

  
  artistic works, miscellaneous achievements, and other keywords.

• Lives, The Biography Resource  Links to thousands of biographies.
• People Information about more than 30,000 historical and contemporary people.

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• Calculators On-Line Calculators for a wide variety of applications.

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• Calendar Zone Links to many different types of calendars.

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• OneLook Dictionaries Search 49 dictionaries at one time or select any one of several specialized dictionaries.
• Semantic Rhyming Dictionary  Good resource for writing poetry.
• WordNet 1.5 Search Online dictionary to find words with same or opposite meanings or that are more general or more specific.

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• BigBook (U.S. Yellow Pages)  Search for a business and see its location on a map.
• Switchboard  Free nationwide directory of homes and businesses. Provides address (including 9-digit zipcode) and telephone number.

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Britannica  Free online encyclopedia.

Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Free online version of this one-volume encyclopedia.

Encarta Free Concise Encyclopedia  This free version contains basic information.

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• Background Notes  Information about countries.
• CIA World Factbook 2001  Information about countries
• Map Machine Atlas  Map resource from National Geographic.
• Times Around the World  Find out the current time in any of the world's countries.

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• Bartlett's Familiar Quotations  Search for quotations by key word or by author.
• Creative Quotations  Searchable in many ways; date, nationality, occupation, key word, and more.

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• ARTFL Project: Roget's Thesaurus Search Form  Easy-to-use form for locating synonyms.

Last Updated:  Dec. 26, 2002

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