Online Reference Tools:

Tools on this page are categorized as General Encyclopedias, Specialized Encyclopedias, Dictionaries,   Atlases, Computer Reference,  Search Engines, Composite Information Sources , (web-based resources that include a wide array of information sources), Libraries, and Virtual Libraries.

General Encyclopedias
 

Britannica Online	Britannica's Lives	Encarta
Encyberpedia	E-Conflict: World Encyclopedia and Simulation	Free Internet Encyclopedia
Hyper History	Knowledge Adventure	My Virtual Encyclopedia
Internet Law Library	Let's Find Out

Specialized Encyclopedias
 

Baseball Encyclopedia	Catholic Encyclopedia	Encyclopedia Mythica
Encyclopedia of the Orient	Eric's Treasure Trove of Science	Guitar Chord Encyclopedia
Home Improvement Encyclopedia	HyperHistory	International Financial Encyclopedia
The Skeptics Guide	Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy	Time Life Plant Encyclopedia

Dictionaries

Acronyms and Abbreviations	Acronym Expander	Acronyms Gopher
American Sign Language	Ask Dr. Dictionary	Biographical Dictionary
BritSpeak: English	Concise Oxford Dictionary	Dictionary of American English
Easton's Bible Dictionary	Foreign Language Dictionaries	Index of Online Dictionaries
Law Dictionary	LawGuru
	Medical & Law Dictionaries	Merriam-Webster
MPIP Medical Dictionary	NASA Thesaurus	Oxford English Dictionary
Sign Language Dictionary	Social Science Glossary	Thesaurus
Web of Online Dictionaries	Webster's	Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 edition
Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus	World-Wide Words	WWLIA Legal Dictionary

Atlases

3-D Atlas

Atlapedia

Encarta World Atlas

Computer Reference

AVP Virus Encyclopedia	BABEL: A glossary of computer related acronyms	Computer Society
Computer Virus Myths	Computing Dictionary	Current Internet Hoaxes
FOLDOC: Free Online Dictionary of Computing	Glossary of Telecommunications Terms	Microsoft Education Resources
Microsoft Home	Netlingo	PC Webopaedia
SoftSeek: Microsoft Word Technical Dictionary	Tech WEB	Urban Legends Archive
Urban Legends Combat Kit	Urban Legends & Folklore; from The Mining Company	Urban Legends Reference Page

Search Engines
Choosing the Right Search Engine
 

Ahoy	Aliweb	All4One
All in One	AltaVista	AOL Netfind
Ask Jeeves	Britannica Guide	Cyber411
DejaNews	Dogpile	EuroSeek
Excite	FIDO! Family Internet Directory Online	Galaxy
Google	Go To...	Highway61
HotBot	Inference Find	Infoseek
Internet Sleuth	LookSmart	Lycos
Magellan	Mamma	MathSearch
MetaCrawler	MetaFind	Northern Light
OpenText	People Search	PlanetSearch
PointCom	Profusion	Reference
Savvy Search	SEARCH	SearchBrowse
	Searchopolis
Study WEB	Ultraseek	Webcrawler
Webseer	Yahoo	Yahooligans

Composite Information Sources
 

Contacting Congress	Discovery Channel Online	Education Index
ERIC
How Stuff Works	Infoplease	Internet Book  Information Center
Kathy Schrock's  Guide for Educators	PBS Online	Peter Milbury's School  Librarian Web Pages
School Library Hotspots	Tennessee State  Department of Education	Virtual Yellow Pages
WebGator

Libraries
 
 

ETSU Library	Hodges Library: UTK	Jackson State Library
Kingsport Public Library	Library of Congress	Milligan College Library
Paul Meek Library: UT, Martin	Stephens-Burnett Library Carson-Newman College	Tennessee State Library and Archives
Tusculum College Library	University of North Carolina at Asheville Library	Walters State Community College Library

Virtual Libraries
 

Links for Classroom Use

Civil War	John Grisham
Mythology	Night by Elie Wiesel