Reference Gateway
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AllReaders.com A search engine that allows readers to choose books by plot, character, setting, style and theme.
Amazon Online bookstore allows you to search by author, title, subject, age, ISBN, or by publication date.
Best Book Buys Bookstore comparison service searches 25 online bookstores.
BookSpot A subject-specific portal to book-related topics and sites.
Follett's Titlewave Titlewave is a collection development tool for school librarians.
New York Times Review of Books Fully searchable by key word, author, and books under review. The archives provides a complete searchable index of the magazine's contents from 1963 to the present. The site currently contains the full text of all pieces published in the Review since 11/96.
OverBooked Overbooked specializes in literary and genre fiction information.
PubList Searches a database of over 150,000 magazines,
journals, newsletters, & other
periodicals. Find FREE in-depth
information on familiar and hard-to-find publications from around the world,
representing thousands of topics.
Top 20 Book Sites This site give the avid reader the top sites in the book field.
Tomfolio.com A good USED book site along with ABE, Alibris and Amazon's Bibliofind. Use Bibliophile.net for bookshops world wide.
AnyWho ATT's directory site includes links to white pages, yellow pages, toll-free, email.
Switchboard provides people, business, business services, and geographic locators with city guides.
SmartPages Includes the Ameritech directory, which services Ohio and the midwest.
TelDir extensive list of online telephone, fax and business directories from around the world.
WordCentral This Merriam Webster site is a comprehensive online dictionary for all ages.
YourDictionary has the widest and deepest set of dictionaries on the web (more than 1500 dictionaries representing more than 230 languages). The translation section is especially helpful.
One Look Look up nearly 3 million words with 675 online dictionaries now indexed.
Thesaurus.com online version of the Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases.
The American HeritageŽ
Dictionary Over 90,000
entries feature 10,000 new words and senses, 70,000 audio word pronunciations,
900 full-page color illustrations, language notes and
word-root appendixes.
Fourth Edition.
Local Library Resources
LibDex Links to over 18,000 libraries worldwide.
Digital Librarian's News Link A great place to start for news links; comprehensive.
AJR NewsLink American Journalism Review provides links to nearly 5,000 newspapers worldwide.
BBC World News British Broadcasting Corporation's site is the best for word news coverage.
CNN Interactive A US-based rival to the BBC.
MegaSources Links to major news and information gateways; comprehensive.
HeadlineSpot A subject-specific portal to news-related topics.
LibrarySpot Encyclopedias Connects to all the major encyclopedias on the internet.
CredoReference Free access to over 50 reference titles containing more than 500,000 entries.
Encyclopedia.com A nice, quick reference encyclopedia that is free; ties in with Electric Library.
Digital Librarian's Movie
Link Alphabetically listing
dozen's of movie sites; comprehensive.
Internet Movie Database
Catalogs all sorts of information on
over 250,000 movies made since the dawn of cinema plus even more on over 900,000
people who helped make them. That 900,000 includes over 500,000 actors and
actresses, nearly 50,000 directors, over 70,000 writers and a wide variety of
other folks from producers to gaffers and everything in between.
Script-o-rama Hundreds of movie and TV scripts available free.
AdCritic Allows surfers to view ads and movie trailers.
Hollywood.com leading movie-related site on the Internet, featuring over one million pages of in-depth movie information, including movie descriptions and reviews, showtime listings, entertainment news, and an extensive multimedia library.
Movie Review Query Engine Over 68,000 movies reviewed from many sources.
Yahoo Music Everything music on the internet available here.
All-In-One Media Directory Search Radio Stations, TV Stations, Daily Newspapers, Weekly Newspapers, and Magazines from one site.
Radio-Locator Allows search of radio stations by location.
PBS The Public Broadcast Service's major gateway site
Online Audio Recordings hear lectures, speeches and readings by James Baldwin, Malcolm X, Desmond Tutu, Margaret Mead, Robert Frost, Carlos Fuentes, and others.
LOC American Memory This Library of Congress project is an extraordinarily rich resource for audio and video materials.
Classical Net Features reviews of more than 1650 CDs, as well as 5500 files and over 3800 links to other classical music web sites.
FolkMusic.org A comprehensive source for folk and acoustic music resources on the World Wide Web.
Ultimate Band List A great place to search for rock artists.
Listen.com Find music from more than 120,000 artists.
Yahoo TV Search for all TV listings by zip code.
TV Guide Covers the TV industry.
CinemaSpot A subject-specific portal to entertainment-related topics and sites.
MegaConverter An ever-growing set of weights, measures and units conversion/calculation modules that allows students to learn about weights and measures.
Intershipper Gather information from eight different shipping
companies so that you can
spot the best rates. (log-in
required)
Measure 4 Measure A gateway to measurement sites by category; comprehensive.
A Dictionary of Units This provides a summary of most of the units of measurement to be found in use around the world today (and a few of historical interest), together with the appropriate conversion factors needed to change them into a 'standard' unit.
USPS The United States Postal Service site.
American Medical Association The AMA homepage.
Ask Dr. Weil Harvard trained physician answers your health questions.
Bioethics.net A comprehensive resource for bioethics.
Blonz Guide to Health Resources A comprehensive listing of health and wellness resources.
Cancer Directory A comprehensive guide to cancer related issues.
HealthWeb This comprehensive resource "provides links to specific, evaluated information resources on the World-Wide Web selected by librarians and information professionals at leading academic medical centers in the Midwest. Selection emphasizes quality information aimed at assisting health care professionals as well as consumers.
HospitalWeb Locate hospitals worldwide; comprehensive.
PubMed A service of the National Library of Medicine that provides access to over 11 million citations from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.
USFDA United States Food and Drug Administration homepage.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
John Bartlett's Collection of
Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs
Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern
Literature, 11th edition.
Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations The Most Notable Quotations: 1950–1988.
Quotation Links Features a comprehensive list of quotation links on the Internet.
Concordance.com Text and fully searchable concordances of hundreds of famous books.
Biography.com Over 20,000 names listed.
Biographical Dictionary The dictionary can be searched by birth years,
death years, positions held,
professions, literary and artistic works,
achievements, and other keywords.
Internet Public Library Biography Section Provides links to every major biographical source; comprehensive.
Time 100 The most important people in the 20th Century, according to Time Magazine.
National Inventors Hall of Fame Search for inventors, famous and obscure, here.
Celebrating Women's History A nice listing of women biographies are here.
APA Format An online style manual of the American Psychological Association.
MLA Format An online style manual of the Modern Language Association.
Strunk's Elements of Style The entire contents of this classic are available here.
Online Writing Lab From Purdue University.
Chicago Manual of Style An online version.
Basic Guide to Essay Writing Provides good information for the beginning essay writer.
Essay Resources Online A comprehensive listing of essay resources.
Internet Citation Guide Yahooligans site that gives guidelines for kids.
Homework Center The best of the homework link compilations.
KidsClick! Don't let the name fool you; this excellent website is appropriate for high school students as well as lower grades.
High School Hub A noncommercial portal to helpful, free online academic resources for high school students.
Homework Help @About.com This site contains many helpful links to many topics.
Discovery Education Homework Helper Includes sections on news, science, history and more.
Schoolwork.ugh homework help with math, science, literature, dictionaries, encyclopedia, poetry, politics, history, art, music, sports, biographies, online books, and more.
JISKHA A comprehensive homework helper site organized by subject.
HomeworkSpot A subject-specific portal to homework-related topics and sites.
Homework Help on the Web A massive amount of helpful links here.
Maps.com Many geographical features available as well as a good source of outline maps.
Map Machine National Geographic Society site offers maps, flags, facts, and profiles for the countries of the world and the U.S. states.
MapQuest One of the better point to point mapping sites.
Odden's Bookmarks Nearly 10,000 links to cartogrpahic resources on the Internet; comprehensive.
Google Earth An instantaneous supplier of earth imagery that allows user to zoom in directly over any place in the US and the world.
World Gazetteer A great site for current population figures for cities, towns and places of all countries.
Digital Librarian's Map Link A great place to start research on maps and mapping.
Alexandria Digital Library Map Images A large collection of links to digital geographic images.
Map Links The University of Texas, Austin provides this impressive links collection.
Surf Report This site links to many helpful map sites that are of help to teachers and students.
InfoMine Maps/GIS An impressive geographical information from the library system at the University of California.
Color Landform Atlas of the United States Vivid landform images for all fifty states.
TopoZone.com All topographic maps for United States can be searched from this site. Links to Trails.com for hiking, biking, paddling and snow trails.
UN World Macro Regions and Components From the UN Map Library, this growing country collection gives the user access to PDF country maps.
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection Over 7000 maps to view.
Online Map Creation Interactively create maps from this site.
Internet Legal Resource Guide A comprehensive portal to legal resources worldwide.
LawGuru.com Search on more than 500 legal search engines and tools.
FindLaw A major legal portal for all levels of information.
Thomas The Library of Congress site that links to all information dealing with the House of Representatives.
FreeAdvice.com A leading law and "legal advice" site for consumers and small business.
Nolo Self-Help Law Termed "law for the little guy", a good site from the self-help press.
CIA World Factbook 2007 A great place to locate up to date country information.
Election Guide Monitors election results and political parties around the world.
EmbassyWeb Provides information about the foreign missions in the US. The International Sites section is helpful.
EPals
Allows users to search for pen pals by age, grade, geography, curriculum,
language
and more.
Federation of American Scientists Keep up to date with a wide array of topics from arms control to chemical and biological weapons. Comprehensive.
Governments on the Internet Provides links to probably every agency in every country that has an internet presence.
OneWorld Monitors free speech issues worldwide.
Human Rights Watch This site provides a comprehensive list of links that deal with human rights.
International Documents Collection This site provides a comprehensive listing of governmental publications worldwide, includes helpful research guides and US state information. Updated daily by Northwestern University.
LibDex Provides links to over 16,000 libraries worldwide.
Minorities at Risk This site tracks ethnopolitical conflicts worldwide. A helpful links page.
Guide to Political Inquiry A subject-based list of directories that facilitate political research on the Internet, not comprehensive, but relevant.
Maps Worldwide The University of Texas, Austin has put together an impressive list of easily downloaded maps from all over the world.
Progress of Nations UNICEF publishes an index that monitors children's welfare worldwide.
Amnesty International Monitors human rights throughout the world.
US Dept. of State International Information Programs A comprehensive site.
Yahoo! World News A daily dose of news from the areas beyond the US boarders.
International Affairs Links A comprehensive treatment from the WWW Virtual Library.
GOVBOT This site is THE resource for finding information about US governmental and military resources. Indexes over 1.5 million sites. Maintained by The Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval .
LOC's State and Local Government This Library of Congress site links to all the major gateways having to do with local and state governments.
Ben's Guide to US Government for Kids A comprehensive and helpful guide offered by the Government Printing Office.
InfoMine Government an impressive collection of governmental information from the library system of the University of California.
Political Resources on the Net A kid-friendly site that allows users to easily navigate to governmental information worldwide.
CCEL.org Christian Classics Ethereal Library from Calvin College in Michigan has extensive links to ancient Christian texts and various versions of the bible; comprehensive.
Christus Rex A great portal to all things Catholic. Also see the Holy See site.
Cults A good place to start research about modern day cults and their danger.
Facets of Religion A comprehensive collection of links featuring all the main religions of the world
World Scripture A comparative anthology of sacred texts that examines major religious themes in light of the major writings of each religion. A great resource for a comparative religion study.
Virtual Religion Index A comprehensive gateway to all religious sites on the Internet from Rutgers University.
World Religions Index A gateway to religions, beliefs, history, arts, and cultures; comprehensive.
Myths and Legends A huge portal to ancient religion sites; comprehensive.
Sports Hot Sheet THE central link to all sports sites and everything else.
KidsClick Sports A good directory of kid-specific sports sites.
Yahoo Sports Offers comprehensive coverage of US sports. Yahoo Sports and CNNSI offer complete world sport coverage.
adrenaline pages offers a link directory of all extreme sports worldwide.
Car Rental Links A good collection of car rental links from Best Fares.
All-Hotels Search for over 60,000 hotels worldwide.
Bed and Breakfast Finder Search over 25,000 B&Bs worldwide.
Museums Around the World Categorized by country/continent.
Travel Channel Provides many helpful links to travel related information.
Hostels.com A gateway to hostel and budget travel.
Travelocity With a powerful search engine, Travelocity allows the user to make reservations and search for travel information in a way unmatched by other sources.
Lonely Planet This Australian travel guide company has a very helpful website for the traveler who like both common and not so common destinations.
Expedia A rival to Travelocity.
Currency Converter A good converter for the majority of the world's currency.
Specialty Travel Index Connects user with over 600 specialty tour operators worldwide.
World Heritage List from UNESCO presented by country.
TravelSpot A subject-specific portal to travel-related topics and sites.
Museums Around the World The most comprehensive listing of museums worldwide. Search by country.
Musee Although not as comprehensive as Museums Around the World, this site is an interactive directory to museums' collections including art, science, history, zoos, archaeology and aquariums, etc. providing links to their educational, entertainment, archive and shopping features. Allows a search for museums by subject.
MuseumSpot A great place to start any museum research. Search by country, state, city, museum name, artist, specialty; this is a comprehensive site.
Yahoo Museums, Galleries, and Centers Provides a good directory of museum related subjects.