Knowledge: reference tools
Links
- Finding Data on the Internet
http://www.robertniles.com/data/ - A journalist teaches other writers how to use the Internet to find facts.
- Infonation
http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/infonation/e_infonation.htm - View and compare statistical data for countries that are a part of the United Nations. Find everything from land size to population, average temperature to crime rates.
- Bartleby.com
http://www.bartleby.com/ - Search for famous quotes, classic literature, and nonfictional works. Site also includes dictionary, encyclopedia, and thesaurus.
- The Amazing Picture Machine
http://www.ncrtec.org/picture.htm - Index to graphical resources and maps on the internet. Database of all types of images suitable for children.
- FactMonster
http://www.factmonster.com/ - Includes searchable information related to sports, entertainment, geography, history, biography, education, and health.
- Emily Post: Rules of Etiquette
http://www.bartleby.com/95/1.html - Guide to good manners includes thousands of tips on correspondence, party giving, and conduct in every public or private setting.
- Simpson's Contemporary Quotations
http://www.bartleby.com/63/ - online database and comprehensive list of world's most notable quotations from 1950-1980.
- TekMom's Search Tools for Students
http://www.tekmom.com/search/ - An easy-to-use, one-page reference desk for students. Includes kids' search engines, encyclopedias, biographies, images, dictionaries, and maps.
- My Virtual Reference Desk
http://www.refdesk.com/ - Links to a variety of resources including news, weather, sports, encyclopedias, facts on file, FAQs, and tutorials.
- Ben's Phaster Online Reference Desk
http://www.phaster.com/find_info_ref.html - Reference search guide. Research portal covers biography, dictionary, encyclopedia, language translation, thesaurus, world and city maps
- Electronic Text Center
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/ - Online archive includes over 45,000 classic texts in 12 languages.
- NoodleQuest
http://www.noodletools.com/noodlequest/ - Free service offers automated search engine strategy development.
- Gary Price Fast Facts
http://www.freepint.com/gary/handbook.htm - Compilation of quick reference resources, including almanacs, statistics, and fact books.
- Internet Public Library Kidspace: Reference
http://www.ipl.org/kidspace/browse/ref0000 - General reference, including links to dictionaries, encyclopedias, and almanacs.
- Martindale's Reference Desk
http://www.martindalecenter.com/ - Massive collection of links to reference resources includes language centers, calculators, maps, science tables and important websites of various countries.
- Info Zone Research Skills Area
http://www.pembinatrails.ca/infozone - Exploration of the research process and links to related sites.
- Inter-Lace Webtopics Directory:
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~slacey - This teacher-librarian designed website contains searching tips and a weblinks topic subject list for teachers and students. Contains a high percentage of Australian links.
- eLook
http://www.elook.org/ - Provides information on programming, computers, definitions, and literature.
- Research-It
http://www.itools.com/ - Look up the meaning of a word, find out when a famous person lived, or identify a foreign language at this one-stop research center.
- Online Reference Center
http://reference.aol.com/references - Offers an encyclopedia, dictionary, thesaurus, math tools, writing reference and more.
- Time and Date
http://www.timeanddate.com/ - Lots of time and date related information, such as yearly and monthly calendars, counters, countdown, and the world clock which shows the current time in cities all over the world.
- NoodleTools
http://www.noodletools.com/ - A suite of interactive tools designed to aid students with their online research, from selecting a search engine and finding some relevant sources, to citing those sources.
- English Library
http://www.englishlibrary.net/ - Features links to biographies, literature, poetry, and foreign classics. Includes alphabetical index of authors, as well as dictionaries and other reference works.
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