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Google Book Search...Finding books with Google Book Search is as easy as finding websites with Google Web Search; just enter the keyword or phrase you're looking for into the Google Book Search box. For example, when you search for "rock climbing" or for a phrase like "one small step for man," we'll find all the books whose contents match your search terms. Click on a book title and you'll see basic info about the book just like you'd see in a card catalog. You might also see a few snippets - sentences of your search term in context. If a publisher or author has given us permission, you'll see a full page and be able to browse within the book to see more pages. If the book is out of copyright, you'll see a full page and you can page forward or back to see the full book. Clicking on "Search within this book," allows you to perform more searches within the book you've selected. You can click on any of the "Buy this Book" links to go straight to an online bookstore where you can buy the book. In many cases, you can also click "Find this book in a library" to find a local library where you can borrow it.

Virtual Reference Desk - a collection of useful reference sources - Dictionaries, Thesauri, Acronyms, Almanacs
World Rulers: Heads of State and Prime Ministers- all Heads of State and Chiefs of Government of the countries of the world
Acronym Finder - The web’s most comprehensive dictionary of acronyms, abbreviations, and initialisms. 380,000+ definitions!

All About Explorers | Everything you've ever wanted to know about every explorer who ever lived...and more!A spoof site. None of the facts are true. Give it to kids as a primary resource, but ask them to cross-reference with other tools. See what results you get!
Allexperts.com - Ask any question! Allexperts.com is the oldest & largest free Q&A service on the Internet
Answers.com - Our super-encyclopedia gives you quick facts— not hundreds of search engine links. Not Just a Website Enjoy the power of Answers.com in any program. 1-Click AnswersTM (Beta) brings you instant information about any word on your screen,
Bibliodyssey is: Books, Illustrations, Science, History, Visual Materia Obscura, and Eclectic Bookart. In short, its an interesting and beautifully enjoyable exploration of all things bookish.

BookYards.com! Our goal is to be “The Library To The World”, in which books, education materials, information, and content will be provided freely to anyone who has an internet connection.
Citation Machine - an interactive Web tool designed to assist teachers and students in producing reference citations for crediting information from other people...makes it so easy that it becomes a habit, not a laborious task

Digital Book Index provides links to more than 140,000 full-text digital books from more than 1800 commercial and non-commercial publishers, universities, and various private sites. More than 100,000 of these books, texts, and documents are available free, while many others are available at very modest cost.

Digital Librarian: a librarian’s choice of the best of the Web.
Directory of Open Access Journals covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. We aim to cover all subjects and languages. There are now 2463 journals in the directory. Currently 724 journals are searchable at article level. As of today 120486 articles are included in the DOAJ service
Dr Web’s Domain - all things library, and life

EasyBib is similar to other bibliography-generating programs... What sets this site apart from the other programs is that it has a fairly exhaustive list of source types to choose from: e-mail, cartoon, lecture, dictionary, advertisement…72 options in all.
eHow - Clear Instructions on How To Do (just about) Everything
factmonster.com - launched in August 2000 by Information Please. Fact Monster and its Homework Center have received national recognition for their unbeatable reference materials, fun facts and features, and individualized homework help...It’s a funky, cartoon-style web site.

Free Information Society is a nice little site chock full of, you guessed it, free information. There are tons of miniature biographies, loads of sound clips, and pictures galore for just about any subject you can think of. Categories include technology, history, and of course, “art & fun.”

gamingineducation » home...Great wiki on gaming for learning

Google Alerts is a handy web research tool. If there is topic that you or your students frequently search for, consider creating a Google Alert for that topic. You can create a Google Alert using any combination of search terms. Each time new content matching those search terms is indexed, the content or link (depending on your selection), is delivered to your choice of email or RSS reader.

Google Maps...just keeps adding great features, yet it still doesn't feel bloated in the least. The service offers driving directions, satellite views, street views, business and restaurant locators, user-created maps, public transit routes—the list goes on.

A Guide to Gracious Criticism...An important skill in high school, college and in the work force is that of giving solid, instructive criticism. Although it is written for college students, this handout explaining instructive criticism is equally applicable to high school students. The material covers rules to follow and questions to consider when doing peer writing reviews.
Hard to Find 800 Numbers...site organizes companies alphabetically and displays phone numbers and hours of operation.

Howjsay.com (as in, “How do you say…”) is a free online pronunciation dictionary. Just type in a word and listen to its pronunciation. It’s ideal for students tackling a difficult reading assignment, and at the very least is much easier than the hieroglyphic pronunciation guide in written dictionaries. Now you can finally hear those unpronounceable terms from biology in English.

How To Study Less by Learning Things Once... guidance and tips

ibiblio.org...Home to one of the largest “collections of collections” on the Internet, is a conservancy of freely available information, including software, music, literature, art, history, science, politics, and cultural studies.

Internet Archive...This nonprofit site provides free access to a ton of great content, from live Dead shows to Washington Irving's Sketch Book. The site's showcase remains, however, the Wayback Machine, which hosts snapshots of Web sites throughout time—over 85 billion of them.

Instructables...The coolest site on the Web for how-tos.
Instructifeature: Using Online Tools for Student Research

Librarian Chick has a great list of resources covering everything from Books to classroom management to reference/research and test taking preperation.

LibrarySpot...A free virtual library resource centre for educators and students, librarians and their patrons, families, businesses and just about anyone exploring the Web for valuable research information.
Literary Agents E-mail addresses - A list of literary agents’ e-mail address, along with names and web page addresses if they are available
Neat New Stuff on the Net - Weekly Reviews of New Sites by Marylaine Block A valuable place to find internet resources
News of the Weird - Proof that true stories are weirder than made-up stories... the most widely-read bizarre-but-all-true news feature in the United States indeed, the gold standard of weird-news reporting.

Newspaper Archive is the largest online historical database of newspapers. Over 70million pages of newspapers from 1759 to present

New York Daily News - You can get a free subscription to the Daily News electronic edition for your classroom that’s accessible to you and your students Sunday-Friday, 24 hours a day. Your students can perfect their research skills, fulfill some of their technology and other standards, and sharpen primary document analysis skills by taking advantage of this service. To sign up, visit www.NYdailynews.com/nie and follow the instructions.

NoodleTools provides innovative software that teaches students and supports teachers and librarians throughout the entire research process.

OneLook...a search engine for words and phrases: If you have a word for which you’d like a definition or translation, we’ll quickly shuttle you to the web-based dictionaries that define or translate that word.
Onlinenewspapers - Thousands of online newspapers from around the world.

OpenCulture:Free Audio Books: Download Great Books for Free

Open Source Shakespeare ...Access the complete works of William Shakespeare - all his plays, sonnets and other poetry - with a lot of interesting tools to aid in serious studies of the Bard's works. Each of the works is completely searchable. In addition, the site offers a concordance which allows users to trace all uses Shakespeare made of any particular word. Users can also view sonnets individually, or choose any two to examine side by side.
Project Gutenberg - the Internet’s oldest producer of FREE electronic books (eBooks or eTexts).
Refdesk.com - We tried to count the number of reference resources on the front page of Refdesk.com but gave up after we hit 100. Need a dictionary? Flight tracker? Phone book? Stock charts? Atomic clock? Canadian postal code lookup? They’re all here.

ResearchChannel is a nonprofit media and technology organization that connects a global audience with the research and academic institutions whose developments, insights and discoveries affect our lives and futures. The over 27,000 programs shown on ResearchChannel reflect the wide variety of subjects currently being studied around the world.

Schoolr is a very useful education ‘mashup’. It combines (all on 1 page) the ability to search: Google, Wikipedia, Dictionary (standard and ‘Urban’), Acronyms, Thesaurus, Encyclopedia and a Book Summary Search. The page also includes a Citation Builder, language translator, and a Unit Converter.

Social Explorer provides easy access to demographic information about the United States, from 1940 to 2000.

StudySphere provides fast, easy and free access to a wide variety of research-quality child-safe websites organized for education online from home, school, study abroad and home school.

Suite101.com is an eclectic online magazine featuring a heady blend of fresh opinions, candid recommendations and savvy commentary from more than 200 expert writers (and growing) committed to getting, grabbing, and growing a readership of connoisseurs, devotees, enthusiasts

The New York Times Newsroom Navigator... the Newsroom Navigator has been used by New York Times reporters and editors as the starting point for their forays onto the Web. Its primary intent is to give the news staff a solid starting point for a wide range of journalistic functions without forcing all of them to spend time wandering around to find a useful set of links of their own. The list is by its nature highly selective and constantly changing.
The Quotations Page - over 20,000 quotations online from over 2400 authors, and more are added daily

ThinkExist is a Quotation Search Engine and Directory with over 90,000 quotations by over 9,000 authors in the English language.

Universal Digital Library - Access to over 1.5 million books online

Visual Wikipedia has a great concept and layout that could meet the needs of a variety of learning styles. Visual Wikipedia shows students connections between topics through web diagrams and videos. Visual Wikipedia takes Wikipedia entries and then shows a connections chart or web of related topics. In addition to the web of connections there is a video (often many videos) connected to each topic.
Webresources Your Guide To The Internet - On this site are links to all the resources for the Web ,Home Computing with Online Learning, Business Tools,Movie, Shopping Online, Internet links , web design tools , freeware , music , mp3 ,freebies,games,email postcards,home & garden ideas.
Wellington Academy - Homework help sites, encyclopedias, outstanding reference tools for term papers, and personalized assistance for parents whose children have special needs. Plus the complete texts of Shakespeare, Chaucer, and more than 10,000 additional classics --
WordIQ.com - a comprehensive and searchable reference tool on the web. We offer search results from a diverse array of dictionary, encyclopedia, thesaurus, and other valuable references. Our website is completely free with minimal amounts of advertising

World eBook Library - Combined collections create world class Internet public access to over 75,000 free eBooks and eDocuments
Writers’ Free Reference - An extensive list of free reference web pages on the Internet useful to writers and anyone looking for free information, including Maps Encyclopedia Newspapers Quotes Copyright Free Webpages E-mail Lookup Zip Codes Library Art Resources Free On-line Books