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| Dictionary.com | the definitive guide - word of the day, writing resources, translators, foreign dictionaries, crossword and word search puzzles, and Ask Dr. Dictionary where you can submit a question about words, grammar, or language |
| Encyclopedia Britannica | brings you links to the best Web sites, leading magazines, related books, and the complete contents of the Encyclopedia Britannica! |
| Encarta Concise Encyclopedia | Encarta's free online encyclopedia with 16,000 abridged reference articles and a world atlas. (Note: All library computers have access to Encarta Encyclopedia on CD-Rom) |
| World Almanac for Kids | Explore the environment, population, inventions, games, sports, states, and much, much more |
| U. S. Gazetteer | search for places or counties by entering the name and state abbreviation (optional), or 5-digit zip code; also links to maps and census data |
| Thesaurus of Geographic Names | 1,000,000 names and other information about places. The TGN includes all continents and nations of the modern political world, as well as historical places. It includes physical features and administrative entities, such as cities and nations. The emphasis in TGN is on places important for art and architecture. |
| U.S. Census Bureau | population statistics and more |
| The Political Graveyard | 81,279 dead politicians, judges and diplomats searchable by name, office held, birth or death date, parts, or where they are buried. This site is, "The Internet's Most Comprehensive Source of U.S. Political Biography, or, The Web Site That Tells Where the Dead Politicians are Buried" |
| Measure 4 Measure | a collection of interactive Web sites that estimate, calculate, evaluate, translate, etc. |
| Yahoo Directory of Quotations | quotations, quotations, quotations |
| Funny Firm- Funny Quotes!!!! | funny quotes alphabetized according to the last name of the author. |
| Word Play | an ENORMOUS list of sites that that deal with words - anagrams, acronyms, homonyms, mnemonics, animated sign language dictionary, translators,... |
| Thesarus.com | look up synonyms here. Site also includes crossword and word search puzzles, a translator, the word of the day, and a dictionary that searches many on-line dictionaries and returns to results. |
| Research Central | a site created by area school, academic, and public libraries to help students do research using library resources and the web. Teachers are welcome to put their assignments on this web page. |
| Best Information on the Net (BIOTN) | hot topics for research papers (gender issues, death penalty, etc.) chosen by librarians at O'Keefe Library, St. Ambrose University, with links to objective information, statistics, articles, and more! |
| Internet Search Engines & Useful Sites | great site by Lake Forest College Library - links to search engines, subject guides to the Internet, virtual libraries, how-to-cite resources, how-to-navigate the web... |
| The Best Search Sites | article by Harry McCracken, from PC World, March 1, compares sites, shows actual search results, shows how to speed-up some major search engines, and gives the ten essential rules of web searching |
| Evaluating Internet Research Sources | Robert Harris, Professor of English at Vanguard University of Southern California, helps students evaluate information on the web |
| Selection Criteria | how to tell if you're looking at a good Web site from the American Library Association |
| Internet Tutorials | University of Albany Libraries
tells you how to use the Internet, research guides, search engines, subject directories, Netscape Navigator & Communicator, and offers some software training |
| My Discover Zone | Web site that goes with our student handbooks. Has planning , goal setting, and study skill activities and more |
| Subject Directories offer a collection of links to Internet resources submitted by site creators or evaluators and organized into subject categories. Most directories offer a search engine mechanism to query the service so we have listed some as both directories and search engines. | |
| Argus Clearinghouse | a collection of Internet resources on specific topics recommended by specialists. There is strong coverage in academic subject areas. Search engine has unusual syntax, so reading the Search Tips is a must |
| B J Pinchbeck's Homework Helper | Beege, a 13 year-old, and his dad have been collecting Web sites since April 1996. Now there are more than 625 terrific links to educational sites sorted by subject |
| Best Information on the Net (BIOTN) | hot topics for research papers (gender issues, death penalty, etc.) chosen by librarians at O'Keefe Library, St. Ambrose University, with links to objective information, statistics, articles, and more! |
| BUBL Link | a subject directory of carefully selected and annotated resources from the University of Strathclyde Library in Glasgow, Scotland |
| Digital Librarian | a librarian's choice of the best of the Web, arranged by subject, Digital Librarian is maintained by Margaret Vail Anderson |
| Infomine | a large subject directory of scholarly Internet resources collectively maintained by libraries of the University of California offering many search and retrieval options |
| Internet Public Library | a large, selective subject directory from the University of Michigan |
| KidsClick! | a subject directory "created by a bunch of librarians" and managed by the Ramapo Catskill Library System |
| Librarians' Index to the Internet | a well-organized, selective, and continually updated subject directory maintained by a large number of indexers in California - "the thinking person's Yahoo" |
| LibrarySpot | a free virtual library resource center for educators and students, librarians and their patrons, families, businesses and just about anyone exploring the Web for valuable research information |
| LookSmart | a nifty treelike interface helps narrow a search making this one of the easiest directories to use, helpful descriptions of each site it does scan, adds search engine features to its directory by providing built-in access to AltaVista. |
| Searchopolis | a search engine/directory designed specifically for education, K-12. Has safe and relevant information based on keywords or complete questions. A reference section includes a dictionary, thesaurus, encyclopedia, calendar, calculators, atlases, and more! |
| Snap | a commercial subject directory of briefly annotated and recommended sites, with fairly good coverage of academic areas; search feature returns the most popular sites first |
| The WWW Virtual Library | the first subject directory on the Web, with a number of comprehensive, well-annotated subject collections maintained by experts around the world |
| Yahoo | Largest subject database on the World Wide Web with broad but unevaluated subject coverage. It does not evaluate for quality or accuracy and misses some high quality sites. Searches only the title and the short descriptive blurb about the site. |
| Yahooligans | Yahoo for younger students. |
| Search Engines are searchable database of Internet files collected by a computer program (called a wanderer, crawler, robot, worm, spider). Indexing is created from the collected files, e.g., title, full text, size, URL, etc. There is no selection criteria for the collection of files. | |
| Alta Vista | a search engine that offers both a Simple and a Power Search with numerous searchable fields including language. It also offers spell checking, and answers questions stated in plain English. But: beware of AltaVista's questionable relevancy ranking. |
| Ask Jeeves | a search engine that lets you ask a question in plain English and view a list of categorized results offered as relevant to your question - no searching rules to learn! |
| Britannica.com | although small, Britannica searches and brings back quality Web sites, magazine articles, related books, and articles from the Encyclopedia Britannica;gives full descriptions and star ratings |
| Dogpile | a metasearch service that integrates several medium and large Web search and index guides into a single service. It also provides a single launching point for stock quotes, usenet articles, weather forecasts, yellow pages, and more. |
| Excite | a search engine known for the currency of its database and its use of concept searching for gathering results. Its feature to "Search for more documents like this one" allows you to locate files related to any of your search results. |
| returns important, relevant hits quickly (pages are cached), with terms matched in close proximity and bolded in the results. Decides importance and value based on pages that link to that page. | |
| Hotbot | a good choice for media, geographic, and date searching. It offers a convenient user fill-in template that easily handles complex searches. |
| Infoseek (Go) | one of the most accurate search engines. Offers unusually good relevancy ranking, sorting of results by date, and recommended and/or reviewed Web sites for certain topics. Retrieves results quickly. Database is relatively small |
| Ixquick | a metasearch service that searches 12 search engines simultaneously and supports a dozen languages and has good search help |
| Lycos | one of the smaller search engine databases on the Internet with 30 million Web pages indexed. Power Search allows you to control the factors of relevancy ranking. |
| Metacrawler | a meta search engine that processes results fast, removes duplicates, and presents results in relevancy ranked order. Simultaneously searches several major search engines and subject directories |
| Northern Light | a search engine that searches
the full text of Web pages and view results by selecting folders which group files into subject, type, source, language, etc. A very large database of 150 million files. Offers Billboard Music Search to search articles from Billboard, music sites on the Web, press releases, music reviews, and job listings |
| Searchopolis | a search engine/directory designed specifically for education, K-12. Has safe and relevant information based on keywords or complete questions. A reference section includes a dictionary, thesaurus, encyclopedia, calendar, calculators, atlases, and more! |
| Webcrawler | |
| Yahoo | Largest subject database on the World Wide Web with broad but unevaluated subject coverage. It does not evaluate for quality or accuracy and misses some high quality sites. Searches only the title and the short descriptive blurb about the site. |
| Yahooligans | Yahoo for younger students. |
| ArtLex | definitions for more than 3,500 terms used in discussing art, pronunciation notes, quotations... |
| Art History Resources on the Web | an amazing number of links to art history resources on the Web by Chris Witcombe, Professor of Art History at Sweet Briar College, VA |
| ArtCyclopedia | a database of 7,500+ great artists searchable by artist's name, titles of works, art museums, movements, medium, subject matter, nationality... |
| The British Museum | founded in 1753, this museum contains world-famous collections of antiquities |
| Carol Jackson Presents Fine Art | find artists and samples of their works by name, nationality and time period |
| The Impressionists | a companion Web site for the recent Biography television series titled “The Impressionists" |
| Louvre Museum | site features the history of the museum, its collection, a virtual tour... |
| Metropolitan Museum of Art | features the collection of this great museum, special exhibitions, educational resources, a timeline of art history, a subject guide to the collection, a daily featured work of art, and some biographical information on artists |
| Mother of All Art and Art History Links Pages | U of M's site with links to art history departments, research resources, resources for visual collections, image collections, online exhibits, art museums and more! |
| National Gallery of Art | a collection searchable by artist, subject, genre, etc., exhibitions, online tours, educational resources and more |
| Smithsonian American Art Museum | links to collections and exhibits, education, a study center, and a calendar |
| WebMuseum, Paris | index to artists and art movements, includes a glossary of painting styles |
| Women Artists | self-portraits and representations of womanhood from the medieval period to the present |
| Computer Knowledge | site with computer tutorials; links to electronic books; explanation of computer acronyms, cookies, HTTP codes, Shareware, Spam, ZIP files, domains, country codes, virus hoaxes, ... |
| Vmyths.com | Vmyths offers a comprehensive A-Z list of popular virus hoaxes and myths, and dispels misconceptions about real viruses. |
| OCLC NetFirst Hot Topics | a monthly selection of links to high-quality Web resources on current events in the news from around the world. |
ENGLISH: (see also the Book Lovers page)
| Free Translation | an easy-to-use site where you can get the "gist" of foreign language text and Web pages. Translates English into Spanish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, or Portuguese and Spanish, French, or German into English. For fee translations also available. |
| International Food Information Council | information on food safety, nutrition and health, links to other agencies... |
| Centers for Disease Control & Prevention | health topics A-Z, prevention guidelines, travel guidelines, data and statistics, links and more by the CDC, an agency of the Department of Health & Human Services, whose mission is to promote health and quality of life by preventing and controlling disease, injury, and disability. |
| Ancient Egypt | Egyptian life, geography, gods and goddesses, and lots more on this site based on the British Museum's collection. Interactive graphics, games to play... |
| Database of Award-Winning Children's Literature | create your own reading list of award-winning books by historical period... Created by Lisa Bartle, reference librarian at California State Univ. |
| Virtual Body | interactive presentations of the brain, digestive system, heart, and skeleton. Requires a free plug in, Macromedia Shockwave Player. |
| CIA World Factbook | everything you ever wanted to know about another country |
| 50 States | everything you ever wanted to know about a state, arranged in convenient ways |
| Flags of All Countries | flags of countries as well as maps and general information on some of the countries. Sponsored by Information Technology Associates. Links to Photius Coutsoukis's site that helps you identify an existing flag. |
| Geography | About.com's geography page features maps, including blank outline maps, atlases, geography quizzes, glossary, census, climate & weather, photos, and LOTS more |
| GovSpot | free portal "for U.S. citizens, students, educators, business people, government employees and anyone exploring the Web for government information, GovSpot simplifies the search for the best government Web sites and documents, facts and figures, news, political information and much more" |
| Michigan Legislature | data and other information from the House of Representatives, Senate, and Legislative Service Bureau - includes Michigan Compiled Laws, Michigan Manual, How a Bill Becomes Law, Citizen's Guide to State Government, Glossary of Legislative Terms... |
| National Basketball Association | official
site of the NBA features news, features, stats & schedules, teams, players, sights and
sounds, chats & mailboxes, global basketball, and the NBA store (Reminder: you may not access chatrooms at school.) |
| National Football League | official site of the NFL features news, standings, teams, players, stats, NFL films, coaches club, TV & radio, NFL shop, coaches club, fans, and more |
| National Hockey League | official site of the NHL features scoreboard, schedule, teams, news, stats, players, history, all leagues, fun & games, stuff for kids, the NHL store... |
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This page last updated 03/09/05