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Encyclopedias & Almanacs

Catholic Encyclopedia: A source for historical and biographical research.

Information Please: Easy-to-use reference materials on just about every subject, plus definitions, articles, photographs, and maps.


Old Farmer's Almanac: First published in 1792. Useful information for people in all walks of life.

Biography

A&E's Biography Database: Over 20,000 brief profiles with links to web sites.
Biographical Dictionary: 27,000 "notable men and women who have shaped our world from ancient times to the present day."
National Women's Hall of Fame: Short biographies of women who have been inducted into the Hall of Fame.
Biography.com: A database of 25,000 people - past and present
Time 100: The most important People of the 20th Century: Leaders & Revolutionaries, artists & entertainers, builders & titans, scientists & thinkers, and heroes & icons.
Biographies: Historical people in American History.
Island of Freedom: Biographies of nearly 100 theologians, philosophers, poets, composers, and artists.
MTV: Includes bios of bands and singers.
National Baseball Hall of Fame: Hall of famer biographies.
Centurions: From the BBC, this site provides biographies of significant people in the arts from the 20th century.
Internet Public Media Center Biographies: Find artists & Architects, Authors, Entertainers, Musicians & Composers, Politicians & Rulers, and Scientists & Inventors.
PBS-History: Contains biographies of dozens of men and women whose lives have shaped the course of history.

Nobel Prize Internet Archive: Biographies of Nobel Laureates.
PBS Online: In-depth information for over 53 famous people from history.
Time Man of the Year Archive: "For each of the last 70 years, TIME has presented a Man of the Year--the single person (man, woman or even idea) who, for better or worse, has most influenced events in the preceding year."
Lives: Links to thousands of biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, diaries, letters, narratives, oral histories and more. Individual lives of the famous, the infamous, and the not so famous. Group biographies about people who share a common profession, historical era or geography.
People Index: Very short biographies of people in world history. Especially useful is the click-able timeline.
Who's Who in American History: Civil War to the Present: Search for famous Americans by name, era, or occupation. There is also a photo gallery.
Current Biography Excerpts: H. W. Wilson provides online excerpts of athlete biographies from its current Biography Yearbook.
Top North American Athletes of the Century: From ESPN, biographies of their choices for the 100 best athletes of the 20th century.
Hollywood.com: Biographies of celebrities in movies and TV are included.
Gallery of Achievers: Biographies of achievers of all fields from around the world.

Language Arts Resources

Reviews and Literary Criticism

Gale Index: Gale's Literary Index is a master index to the major literature products published by Gale Group, Inc.
Glossary of Poetic Terms: "A unique guide for the study of poetry"
Internet Movie Database: A searchable site of movie reviews.
Internet Public Media Center Literary Criticism Collection: "4241 critical and biographical websites about authors and their works."
PAL: Perspectives in American Literature, A Research and Reference Guide: An ongoing online project by Paul P. Reuben, Department of English, California State University Stanislaus.
Pilot-Search: A Literary Search Engine: A specialized search engine for literary web sites.
SparksNotes: Online book study guides

Writing Tools

Grammar Bytes: Includes an index of grammar terms, interactive exercises, handouts, and grammar rules.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Grammar Handbook: Explains and illustrates basic rules.
Modern Language Association: For questions about documentation, check Frequently Asked Questions about MLA Style.
Purdue Online Writing Lab: Resources to help you become a better writer.
Wordsmyth: the Educational Dictionary-Thesaurus: An American English dictionary with an integrated thesaurus, "contains 50,000 headwords, and very precisely defined and hyperlinked synonyms."

Eduhound--Paraphrasing the Right Way: Learn to borrow a source without plagiarizing by creating your own rendtion of essential information and ideas expressed by someone else, presented in a new form.."

Quotes

Annabelle's Quotation Guide: Locate a quotation by topic or keyword.
Bartlett's Quotations: The 19th edition (1919) of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Quotations Page: Search by keyword, phrase, or author.
Word a Day: Web site for the mailing list, "A. Word. A. Day."

Social Science

Presidents
American Presidents Life Portraits
Grolier presents the American Presidency

History of the White House: Biographies of presidents and first ladies.
Lists of U.S. Presidents: Information (including trivia) about all of the presidents.

POTUS (Presidents of the United States): "In this resource you will find background information, election results, cabinet members, notable events, and some points of interest on each of the presidents."

Federal Government
C-Span.org: Congressional Information Center

First Gov: ". . . the first-ever government website to provide . . . one-stop access to all online U.S. Federal Government resources."

Country Information
CIA World Factbook: Reliable information about the countries of the world.

Media Center of Congress Country Studies: 100 detailed reports about the political, economic and social institutions of a country.

National Geographic Index: Online index to the National Geographic Magazines

State Department Background Notes: Background information about countries provided by the U.S. State Department

Maps & Flags

Flags of All Countries
Maps of the States: Outline maps of the 50 states
Map Machine
Outline Maps (Houghton Mifflin)
UN Cartographic Maps: More than 100 General Maps are currently available. Maps are in PDF format

States Information
Statistical Abstracts of the United States: Information about population, infant mortality rates, doctors, crime rate, poverty levels, education, and more.

All Fifty American States Home Page: Connect to the home page of each state in the Union.
State of Illinois: Links to the Illinois State Legislature

The Internet Public Media Center's Stately Knowledge: Facts about the states and Washington D.C.

The National Atlas of the United States: Create your own interactive map.

Travel

Fodor's Travel Guides
Travel Warnings & Consular Information Sheets: Travel warnings issued by the State Department

Science

Earth Sciences

Earthrise: Photos of the earth from space.
EPA Student Center: Learn about the environment.
NASA Homepage
Nine Planets: A multimedia tour of the solar system.
Ocean Planet Home Page: ". . . Over 99 percent of living space on earth is ocean"
Virtual Solar System: A web site from National Geographic.
Volcano World: "The Web's Premier Source of Volcano Info"
Welcome to the Planets: "This is a collection of many of the best images from NASA's planetary exploration program."
Windows to the Universe: A graphics intensive web site about the Earth and Space sciences.

Physical Science


Atoms Family
The Laws List: A mini-dictionary for physics & astronomy.
Particle Adventure.org: An interactive tour of quarks, neutrinos, antimatter, extra dimensions, dark matter, accelerators, and particle detectors.
Physlink: Physics and astronomy online reference and education.

Chemistry

Chemical Element.com: "An Online, Interactive Periodic Table of the Elements."
Chemicool Periodic Table: An award-winning site.
Yahoo's directory of Chemistry Web Sites

Anatomy & Biology


Animal Diversity Web
Animal Omnibus: A list of web sources indexed by the name of the animal.
Animal Planet: From the Discovery Channel.
Cells Alive!: An award-winning site rich with images and animations.
Human Anatomy Online
Human Genome Project: Information about the U.S. and worldwide Human Genome Project.
MIT Biology Hypertextbook: "This hypertextbook is designed to . . . give you additional tools to learn introductory molecular biology."
Tree of Life: "The Tree of Life is a collection of about 2000 World Wide Web pages containing information about the diversity of life. These pages are authored by biologists from around the world."
Wildflowers in Bloom: "A pictoral resource of wildflower information" from the Texas Agricultural Extension Service.

More web links to help you with your assignments!

Homework Center: Check out this web page from the Multnomah County Media Center in Oregon. There are a great number of good web links organized by subject (from African-American Studies to Wars & World History).

High School Ace: The High School Ace: The Academic Homepage for High School Students, is a noncommercial portal to excellent free online academic resources for high school students.

Answers Unlimited...Ask a Librarian Live Online: Answers Unlimited is a pilot project of the North Suburban Media Center System (NSLS). This service lets you ask questions and get answers in real time.

Illinois State Media Center: Illinois State Media Center great information resources from FIND-IT! ILLINOIS provided by Jesse White, Secretary of State and State Librarian. Welcome to Lincoln-Way North -- Home of the Griffins Welcome to Lincoln-Way North -- Home of the Griffins