Ready Reference

Sometimes all you need is a quick answer.  This group of resources provides speedy help.

• Research-It!
• Virtual Reference Desk
• Martindale's Reference Desk
• InterNet Desk Reference
• Biographies

Almanacs

• Information Please
• Infoplease Kid's Almanac
• Old Farmer's Almanac
• Baseball Almanac
• Olympic Almanac
• MPR'S The Writer's Almanac
• Uncle Sam's Reference Shelf

Atlases, Maps, and Gazetters

• CIA'S World Factbook

• World Maps
• Mapquest
• City Net - Excite Travel
• 50 States and Capitals
• Flags of all Countries
• Flags of the World
• United Nations Homepage

Dictionaries

• Dictionary Online
• Medical and Science Dictionaries
• Biographical Dictionary
• Merriam Webster
• Medline Plus

Encyclopdias

• Encyclopedia Online
• Encyclopedia Britannica
• Encyclopedia Smithsonian
• Free Internet Encyclopedia
• Encyclopedia Mythica

Handbooks for Literature and Writing

• Glossary of Literary Terms and Rhetorical Devices
• Glossary of Poetic Terms
• Bartlett's Familiar Quotations

Newspapers

Remeber to check with your school Media Specialist to learn which online databases, such as NEWSBANK, EBSCOhost, Electric Library, and Infotrac, are available to you free from home.

• USA Today
• New York Times
• Wall Street Journal
• Capital
• Sun
• Washington Post
• WORLDWIDE: Total News
• WORLDWIDE: Dejanews
• WORLDWIDE: Ecola - News Directory
• Reuters
• YAHOO! Full Coverage World
• YAHOO! Newspapers International

Reference

• Internet Public Library Reference
• YAHOO! Reference
• Robert's Rules of Order

Statistical Resources

• Statisitical Abstract of the US
• US Census

Thesaurus

•   Roget's Thesaurus

Weather

• Weather Channel

Zip Codes

• USPS Zip Code

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