Reference Collection

 

Free Encyclopedias

 

Catholic Encyclopedia

http://www.knight.org/advent/cathan/cathen.htm

Concise Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia

http://www.encyclopedia.com/

 Encarta Concise Encyclopedia

http://encarta.msn.com

Encyclopedia Smithsonian

http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/start.htm

Free Internet Encyclopedia

http://clever.net/cam/encyclopedia.html

Funk & Wagnalls Onling Multimedia Encyclopedia

http://www.funkandwagnalls.com

Let’s Find Out Encyclopedia (Knowledge Adventure

http://www.letsfindout.com

 

 

 

 

 

Almanacs

Information Please

http://www.infoplease.com

 

Infoplease Kids’ Almanac

http://kids.infoplease.com

 

Old Farmer’s Almanac

http://www.almanac.com/

 

 

 

 

 

 

Biographical Reference

A&E’s Biography Database

http://www.biography.com/find/find.html

Academy of Achievement

http://www.achievement.org/mainmenu.html

Classical Music All Stars

http://www.culturefinder.com/egi-bin/dbm/content/music/allstar

CNN Newsmaker Profiles

http://cnn.com/resources/newsmakers/

 

Distinguished Women Past and Present

http://www.teleport.com/-megaines/woindex.html

Faces of Science: African Americans in the Sciences

http://www.lib.lsu.edu/lib/chem/display/faces.html

Gale Group Free Resources

http://www.galegroup.com/library/resrcs/freresrc/index.htm

Great Economists and Their Times

http://www.frbsf.org/econedu/unfrmd.great/greattimes.html

Lives, the Biography Resource

http://members.home.net/klanxner/lives/index.html

National Women’s Hall of Fame

http://www.greatwomen.org/index.html

Nobel Prize Internet Archive

http://nobelprizes.com/nobel/nobel.html

Time Man of the Year Archive

http://cgi.pethfinder.com/time/special/moy/moypast.html

4000 Years of Women in Science

http://crux.astr.us.edu/4000WS/4000WS.html

 

 

Reference Gateways

 

Digital Librarian: Reference

http://www.servtech.com/-mvail/reference.html

DeskRef

http://ansernet.rcls.org/deskref/

 

 

Internet Public Library Youth Division

http://www.ipl.org/youth

Internet Public Library Ready Reference

http://www.ipl.org/ref/RR/

 

Martindale’s Reference Desk

http://www-sci.lib.uci.edu/-martindale/Ref.html

My Virtual Reference Desk

http://www.refdesk.com/

 

New York Times Navigator

http://www.mytimes.com/learning/general/navigator/index.html#ref

Ready Reference Galaxy

http://www.elnet.net/galaxy/Reference.html

Reference Shelf

http://alabanza.com/kabscoff/Inter-Links/reference.html

Research-It!

http://www.iTools.com/research-it/

 

Researchpaper.com

http://www.researchpaper.com

Scholes Library Electronic Reference Desk

http://scholes.alfred.edu/Ref.html

Study Web Reference

http://www.studyWeb.com/refer/toc.htm

THOR Virtual Reference Desk

http://thorplus.lib.purdue.edu/reference/

 

Virtual Reference Desk

http://www.vrd.org/

 

Yahoo Reference

http://dir.yahoo.com/reference/index.html