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- FOLDOC - Computing Dictionary – An
online dictionary of computing terms
- Information Please – Online dictionary,
Internet encyclopedia, and almanac reference. Also,
Mapquest is here, great for printing out directions for trips
- Librarians
Guide to the Internet - a searchable, annotated subject directory
of nearly 3,200 Internet resources selected and evaluated by
librarians for their usefulness to users of public libraries
- Internet Reference Links
– From the Cornell University Library. Contains
News Sources, Statistics Sources, U.S. Government, state and local government (NY),
International Government, The Law, Court Decisions, Treaties, copyright, Electronic Text
Resources, Encyclopedias, Directories, Reviews, Style Guides, and other Reference Sites
- Library of Congress - Is the
online resource compiled by the Library of Congress National Digital Library Program. With
the participation of other
libraries and archives, the program provides a gateway to rich primary source
materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. Includes the American Memory collection.
Over one million items from our historical collections are currently available online. In
the coming years, the National Digital Library Program plans to digitize more of the
Library's unique American history collections and make them freely available to teachers,
students, and the general public over the Internet. Special collections to be digitized
include the documents, films, manuscripts, photographs, and sound recordings that tell the
American story. The program is funded by congressional appropriations and private sector donations
- On-line
Books Page - a website that facilitates access to books that are
freely readable over the Internet. It also aims to encourage the
development of such on-line books, for the benefit and edification of
all
- Onelook Dictionary – Searches nearly 600
dictionaries
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- Virtual Libraries – from
George Mason University. Contains government
resources, documents centers, dictionaries, encyclopedias, glossaries, metaphor resources,
poetry resources, education and technology resources, etc.
- The Perseus Project - From Tufts University is an
evolving digital library of resources for the study of the ancient world and beyond.
- Project Gutenberg – An international collection of
e-texts, including classics and light literature.
- Digital Library – online collections from the New
York Public Library. Images and text.
- Bibliomania
- Over 2000 classic texts and Literature Book
Notes, Author Biographies, Book Summaries and Reference Books
- Shoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Images
– online collections and exhibitions from
U. of Pennsylvania
- Biographical Dictionary - This dictionary covers more than 28,000 notable men and women who have
shaped our world from ancient times to the present day
- Virtural Encyclopedia - From RefDesk.com
- Internet Classics Archive - Students can read many
classics from The Odyssey to Plato's Apology, and they can find history on Tacitus and
others.
- The Online Books Page - over 12,000
titles collected in a directory by UPenn.
- Internet
Public Library - A virtual
library with a reference department, exhibits, a section for teens,
and magazines. Includes the Internet Public Library Reading Room - This
"room" contains bookshelves for browsing and searching for entertaining reading,
along with links to sites providing other full texts.
- MEL - The Michigan Electronic
Library. Very complete virtual portal to library resources.
- Digital
Librarian - A librarian’s
choice of the best of the
best sites on the web on almost 100 subjects.
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