General Reference Center
Current Hot Topics & IssuesAmerican Youth - Monitoring the Future -
ongoing study of the behaviors, attitudes, and values of American secondary school students, college students, and young adults. Violence
in the Media - a review of practices in marketing violence to children
in movies, music, games, etc. (.pdf)
WikiLeaks Ready ReferenceAlibris - over 60 million used, new, and out-of-print books, movies and music!
Amazon - world's biggest bookstore. Barnes & Noble - bookstore Bookfinder - ultimate resource for book shoppers. FunBrain - Interactive Educational Games for all grade levels and subject areas. Google Book Search - full text of thousands of books out of copyright or with permission granted by the publisher or rights holder. Great Books Online - covers standard Reference, Verse, Fiction and Nonfiction books. Homework Central - academic branches of study http://www.homeworkcentral.com/indexhc.html Kids Click - search by subject, titles and descriptions for age specific quality resources. Library Thing - world's largest Book Club. Find people with similar tastes. Newstrawler - search for articles from the archives of online journals, magazines, national & international newspapers, web references and web based news sources. (a subscription is required for some articles). Rare Books - search engine for locating used and rare books. NYPL Digital Gallery - search more than 275,000 historical images and photographs for downloading. Almanacs
Atlases & Maps
Google Maps MapMaker - create maps of the U.S. by climate, environmental aspects, history, transportation, boundaries, agriculture, biology and water. MapQuest National Atlas of the United States- color map layers depicting state boundaries, federal lands, parkways, rivers, volcanoes, seismic events, urban areas, roads, railroads and airports. World Gazetteer - provides data on the current population of cities, towns and regions all over the globe. World Map Connection - physical, state and political maps, maps of places in the news and other geographic information.
Dictionaries - word of the day, crossword puzzles, foreign languages, quotations and more. Dictionary of Library and Information Science - glossary of terms from library & information science. Legal Lexicon - Law Dictionary with thousands of definitions & explanations of legal terms, phrases & concepts. Online Dictionaries - specialized dictionaries from foreign language to advertising, travel and more. Roget's Thesaurus Webster's Dictionary World Wide Words - focuses on the history of the English language and the development of new words. Directories & Indexes
The Ultimate Information Directory Unbound Bible - online searchable database with 24 versions of the Bible.
Columbia Encyclopedia - over 51,000 entries, 17,000 biographies, hypertext cross references, maps, speeches. Encyclopedia Britannica (password required) Museum of Hoaxes - includes a chronology of numerous hoaxes from the year 750 to the present. Virtual Encyclopedia
Magazines
AE - Arts and Entertainment CNN - Cable News Network C-SPAN - U.S. Congress coverage Discovery Channel History Channel PBS - Public Broadcasting System Quotations and Biographical Sources
Bartlett, John. 1901. Familiar Quotations Biographies on A&E - search over 25,000 of the greatest lives, past and present. Kierkegaard Quotations - those involved in Kierkegaard research/studies/publications. Nobel Prize Winners Timeline of Nobel Winners - divided by category of Physics, Medicine, Economics, Chemistry, Literature & Peace. American Rhetoric Online - a database of 5000+ full text, audio and video (streaming) versions of speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews, and other recorded media events.
Bureau of Justice Statistics Publications - alphabetical list of all statistical reports dealing with all aspects of crime. Criminal Justice Statistics - over 100 sources on all aspects of criminal justice in the U.S. Climate Statistics - select a state and generate a graph of temperature and precipitation data for a range of years. Crime Mapping Research Center - combines GIS technology with the spatial analysis of crime. Federal Government Statistics - easy access to full range of government statistics from 70 government agencies. Foreign Labor Statistics - employment, consumer price index and manufacturing labor cost figures of 17 countries. Historical U.S. Statistics- searchable file of all censuses from 1790 to 1970. You can create your own sets to view. National Center for Education Statistics National Population Projections State & Metro Data Book - compare states & metropolitan areas on topics from banking, births, wages & welfare. State Health Facts - provides health related data and facts on all 50 states from the Kaiser Family Foundation. Statistical Abstract of the United States - statistics on social and economic conditions in the U.S. Traffic Fatality Analysis - data and reports on all automobile crashes involving fatalities on public highways. United Nations Statistics Division Vital Statistics of the United States - detailed vital statistics data, including natality, mortality, marriage and divorce.
Scavenger Hunts - Internet education scavenger hunts for various grade levels. |
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