REFERENCE WEB SITES
GENERAL SITES
* Also useful for elementary students
* Activities for ESL Student contains the Daily Page for ESL students, bilingual quizzes in many languages, flash card, and selected ESL/EFL links.
Bartleby’s has quotations from Bartlett’s, Columbia, Simpson’s, as well as Strunk’s Elements of Style, American Heritage Dictionary, King James Bible, Oxford Shakespeare, World Factbook and Columbia Gazette.
* Dewey Browse has Web sites arranged by subject according to the Dewey Decimal System (500's - Science and Math).
Electronic Reference Desk contains dictionaries, encyclopedias, how to cite sources, and much, much more. (temporarily unavailable)
IdiomSite contains idioms, which are a manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a language Find out why you say what you say!
Infoplease has more than enough up-to-date resources for anyone. This has almanacs, conversion tools, a perpetual calendar, the periodic table, atlases, dictionaries, and encyclopedias. This Day In History and Biography Of The Day could make the reader ready for any trivia contest.
ITools contains several encyclopedias, several biographical resources, several quotations sources; it will search periodicals and newspapers on different topics. Maps and a law encyclopedia are several unique features of this reference site.
KnowItNow is a live online reference service provided by the State Library of Ohio. Chat with a librarian to get the answers you're looking for, 24-hours a day, 7 days a week.
LibrarySpot’s reference desk alone contains 33 links and this site takes you to zip codes as well as an acronym dictionary. Various libraries are the source of much more information. College Rankings and the Web Of Poetry are additional links. This is "designed to break through the information overload of the Web and bring the best library and reference sites together."
OneLook has a total of 970 dictionary sites so it is a great place to go for foreign language dictionaries, rhyming dictionaries, idioms, and believe it or not, the Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary.
Quotations: The Yale Dictionary includes links to a variety of quotation Web sites collected by Fred R. Shapiro. The section of author quotations is especially valuable.
Refdesk describes itself as the "single best source for facts," which is free and family friendly. In addition to many reference tools, this has current events, site of the day, thought of the day, word of the day, two thesauruses, and crosswords.
Virtual Library is a clearly organized site of encyclopedias, dictionaries, biographical sources, geographical sources, statistics, almanacs and yearbooks, directories and indexes and the arts. There are full text articles from over 300 magazines from 1998 to the present.
