Reference Resources

Reference Databases

Britannica Online
Electronic version of Encyclopedia Britannica. (Tutorial on how to Search)
Bartleby.com
"Great books online"

College Source
A collectioni of college and university catalogs for over 40,000 institutions

FedStats
Search for statistics in many subject areas collected by 100 U.S. Government departments and agencies.

FirstGov
A starting point for finding information published by the U.S. Federal Government on the Internet

How Stuff Works Explains how common technologies, natural processes and organizations work.

Infoplease Almanac Facts, statistics and information on a vast range of subject areas

Marketline Business Information Center

MedlinePlus
Health reference resource from the National Institutes of Health

Merriam-Webster Dictionary
Online Collegiate dictionary

Naxos Music Library
Streaming music in a wide variety of genres

Grove Music Online
The online version of the premier music reference work

Standard and Poor's Netadvantage
Database of a wide variety of business, financial and economic information

Wikipedia
Free, open content encyclopedia containing 300,000 articles (still growing). Note: Because articles are written by volunteers, reliability of content cannot be guaranteed. See Wikipedia's own disclaimer

WorldAlmanac Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia and four world almancs. (Tutorial on how to search)

WordIQ.com
Reference resource which combines a dictionary, thesaurus and encyclopedia

The WWW Virtual Library
An encyclopedic collection of high quality sites on a wide range of topics.

 

 

 

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