SEARCHING THE WEB
NEWSPAPERS AND JOURNALS
LOCATING PEOPLE, PLACES, AND BUSINESSES
Anywho Online Directory – Search for people, businesses, or reverse search by phone number
Switchboard – The Yellow Pages Electrified
Superpages – Search by name, map, or distance
Mapquest – Get maps, directions, and more
COMPREHENSIVE GENERAL REFERENCE WEBSITES
Refdesk aims to index, review, and publish quality, credible information-based Web sites and to assist readers in navigating and extracting needed data from these sites
A public service organization and a learning/teaching environment at the University of Michigan School of Information, providing all manner of reference resources and services
Part of Yahoo! Education; website includes various dictionaries, thesauruses, quotations, factbooks, anatomy works, Shakespeare works, conversion calculators, and encyclopedias
Great Books Online: search dozens of reference books, or read fiction, poetry, or plays online
Includes almanacs, atlases, dictionaries, thesauruses, encyclopedias, and business, legal, literature, and medical resources
GENERAL, COMPREHENSIVE REFERENCE FOR CHILDREN
Online almanac, dictionary, encyclopedia, and homework help
DICTIONARIES
THESAURUS
FACTS
MEASUREMENT & CURRENCY CONVERSIONS
PRIMARY SOURCES
American Memory from the Library of Congress
Over five million historical items from the Library of Congress
Featuring 100 milestone documents of American history from the National Archives; includes images of original primary source documents, lesson plans, teacher and student competitions, and educational resource
GRAMMAR
Provides the principal requirements of plain English style and concentrates attention on the rules of usage and principles of composition most commonly violated
The American Heritage Book of English Usage
A practical and authoritative guide to contemporary English
Perdue University’s Online Writing Lab
Handouts and exercises on grammar, spelling, and punctuation, as well as PowerPoint presentations related to grammar and an entire section of handouts and resources for English as a Second Language learners
QUOTATIONS
Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations
The Columbia World of Quotations
LITERARY CRITICISM
The Internet Public Library–Literary Criticism
MISCELLANEOUS