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Need Fast Facts?

ONLINE ENCYCLOPEDIAS


Encyclopedias are great for finding fast facts and background information..
Do you want to use Britannica Online at home?

Grolier Online
Grolier Online
A complete reference library: Encyclopedia Americana, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, The New Book of Knowledge, The New Book of Popular Science, Lands and Peoples, America the Beautiful and Amazing Animals of the World.
Do you want to use Grolier Online at home?

SUBSCRIPTION DATABASES

Visual Thesaurus
Try this amazing interactive dictionary and thesaurus that creates word maps exploring the meaning and relationship of words.
Do you want to use Visual Thesaurus at home?


Need information about a person? This is the best source for award-winning biographies of people past and present from respected reference books.
Do you want to use Gale Biography in Context at home?

WEB SITES

IPL2: Information You Can Trust
The Internet Public Library finds, evaluates, selects, organizes, describes and creates quality information resources. Try it!

Cambridge Dictionaries Online
Look up word definitions in English, French and Spanish. You can also find meanings of idioms. (An idiom is a group of words used together with a meaning that you cannot guess from the meanings of the separate words. For instance, "to lend someone a hand" means to help someone.)

Dictionary
The Merriam-Webster Online dictionary and thesaurus.

World Factbook
The World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 266 world entities. This is a great place to gather data for math projects!

 

UNdata: A World of Information
For international statistics on a broad range of topics.

Statistical Abstract of the U.S.
All the information contained in the book (REF 317.3 STA in the Fay Library) of the same name. This is the standard summary of social, political and economic statistics of the nation.

Search Engines
All search engines are NOT created equal. Try something new!

Encyclopedia Smithsonian
Links to information on a very wide range of topics.

Dewey Browse
A catalog of Web sites for K-12 students arranged by Dewey Decimal number. (Don't be frightened--this is cool!)

 

 

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