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http://www.bartleby.com/65/
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2001-05 Columbia University Press. Over 50,000 entries from one of the most reputable sources on the Internet.
Use the drop-down menu next to the search box to search by entry instead of full-text. |
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http://www.worldbookonline.com/
A subscription database, accessible to anyone at school and accessible from home with a Dedham Public Library card.
Look for "Advanced Search" under the main page search box.
In "Advanced Search," you can look specifically for an article in the encyclopedia, a map, and sometimes a special report on your subject.
To search for something very specific, you can combine terms with AND, OR, NOT.
Current edition of World Book Encyclopedia , plus much additional material, including an atlas, and the intermediate Spanish edition of the Student Discovery Encyclopedia .
Many articles in the Encyclopedia include links to full-text articles in magazines and newspapers and also links to web sites.
Special features include "Behind the Headlines" focusing on recent current events.
Need a map? Check the online "Atlas" with links to articles in the encyclopedia. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Be sure to read the criticism of the site posted at the site : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Criticisms
Wikipedia is an encyclopedia published on the Internet by thousands of Internet users worldwide. There are many useful articles, especially on very recent topics and popular culture, but it is not "vetted" by experts. It can be authored and edited by anyone with access to the Internet, so its information, while often useful, will vary widely in quality.
Evaluations of Wikipedia can be found at http://lii.org/ > type "Wikipedia" in the search box..
See also " Active Reading: Learning to Think Like Fact Checkers " and "Tell It Like It Is" a lesson on the reliability of online information that focuses on Wikipedia at Daily Lesson Plan at http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/archive.html . Type "Wikipedia" in the search box. |
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http://www.refdesk.com/
Since 1995, " indexes and reviews quality, credible, and current web-based resources."
Facts Encyclopedia links to 7,500+ sites in 73 subject areas.
Link to Refdesk Site Map for more.
Check links to Fast Facts for almanacs, dictionaries, electronic texts, encyclopedias, grammar and style sites, libraries of data, magazines, news sources, quotations, statistics and more.
Quick Reference/Research is an A to Z sets of links to the sites reviewed here-they run the gamut from the American Film Institute's "List of 100 greatest films," to homework help sites and opinion polls to the "Ultimate Band List," a collection of music sites. |
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http://www.ipl.org/div/subject/browse/ref00.00.00/
A collection of some of the best reference sites on the Internet. From the University of Michigan 's School of Information .
Includes Almanacs, Census Data, Experts, Grammar, Trivia, and more. |
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http://lii.org/search/file/reference
Calculators, statistics, world records, and lots more.
Browse or search by broad subject category to find quality sites on your topic. |
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http://www.loc.gov/rr/askalib/virtualref.html
Organized into about thirty broad subject categories such as Arts and Music, Business, Science, and Statistics .
Also visit Alcove 9: An Annotated List of Reference Websites. |
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http://www.infoplease.com/
Includes the Infoplease Almanac , a biography database, a dictionary, an atlas with individual country maps, and articles from the Columbia Encyclopedia.
Just a few of the facts you can find at this site:
Dictionary definitions
Synonyms
Historical Facts
Biographies
Country and State Maps
Year-by-year chronologies of important events 1900 to date. |
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http://www.bartleby.com/reference/
Recent and searchable editions of Columbia Encyclopedia , The World Factbook , Roget's II: the New Thesaurus , the American Heritage Dictionary , New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy and other reference works.
Also includes older reference titles such as Bullfinch's Mythology , Harvard Classics and Harvard Shelf of Fiction , and a 1918 ed. of Gray's Anatomy.
See also the main site at Bartleby.com for Great Books Online including "poems, novels, plays, essays, and other works in the public domain, as well as close to 100,000 quotations." |
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http://www.freepint.com/gary/handbook.htm
Links to fast facts and statistics on all sorts of topics.
Scroll down the first few pages to get to an alphabetical "Subject Guide" as well as "Additional Helpful Resources."
Once you've got a good source from these pages, the next step is often to check to see if it can be further updated elsewhere. |
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