Resources: Research
AskOxford.com
Features Ask the Experts, Better Writing, World of Words, Games, Global English, and Foreign Languages. You can select UK or US view.
Atlapedia Online
Atlapedia Online contains full color physical and political maps as well as key facts and statistics on countries of the world.
Dictionary.com
This is far more than a dictionary. There are writing resources, crossword puzzles, and foreign language dictionaries and Roget's Thesaurus.
Encylopedia.com
Encyclopedia.com, the Internet's premiere free encyclopedia, provides users with more than 57,000 frequently updated articles from the Columbia Encyclopedia, Seventh Edition. Each article is enhanced with links to newspaper and magazine articles as well as pictures and maps - all provided by eLibrary.
Fact Monster
This is an atlas, almanac, dictionary, and encyclopedia.
Find It Virginia
This library service is available 24 hours a day at home, at work, or anywhere you connect to the internet. You can find magazine and newspaper articles, encyclopedias and other reference works. A Virginia public library card is the only requirement to use these resources.
The Free Dictionary by Farlex
English, Medical, Legal, Financial, and Computer Dictionaries, Thesaurus, Acronyms, Encyclopedia, a Literature Reference Library, and a Search Engine all in one.
Guiness World Records
The Guiness Book of World Records online, the biggest selling copyright book in history.
How to Do Research on the Internet
A tutorial on how to do research on the Internet
Internet Public Library
As of January 1, 2007, the IPL has moved to Drexel University's College of Information Science and Technology. Now, a consortium of colleges and universities with programs in information science is developing and maintaining the IPL!
Library of Congress
The Library preserves a collection of more than 119 million items, more than two-thirds of which are in media other than books.
The Library Spot
This library resource brings the best library and reference sites together.
MagPortal.com
Find free magazine articles, categorized and searchable.
Merriam-Webster's College Dictionary
"Based on Merriam-Webster's Collegiate(R) Dictionary."
Newslink
Links to newspapers, broadcasters and magazines and JobLink advertising.
The Old Farmer's Almanac
The Farmer's Almanac online
Online Maps
From Holt, Rinehart, and Winston
Quoteland
This site has anything you want to know about quotations, lists by topic, lists by author, how to identify a quote, a reference library, and a user group. You could take students there to have them find quotes they like, explain them, or find quotes from certain authors. Make up a lesson for this site.
Refdesk
Refdesk is only about indexing quality Internet sites and assisting visitors in navigating these sites. At Refdesk that is all that counts and that is all that will ever count. Refdesk is free and family friendly.
S9 Biographical Dictionary
This dictionary covers more than 33,000 notable men and women who have shaped our world from ancient times to the present day.
Word Central
Word Central is the place on the Web where kids can learn how much fun words can be! We've developed this site with input from teachers around the country using a language arts curriculum framework.
Wordsmyth
"Wordsmyth is an innovative and evolving language reference source that meshes the functions of a dictionary and a thesaurus with powerful and flexible search capabilities.
World Atlas.com
Geographical information, including maps, flags, and other useful information.
The World Factbook
Presented by the Central Intelligence Agency.
YourDictionary.com
A free online dictionary and much more.