INFORMATION RESOURCES
Library
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Web links by Subject - Reference Tools
Encyclopedias
- Encyclopedia Britannica
- This link is available to Estrella Mountain students only.
- Embryonic Life Sciences Encyclopedia
- This
link is available
to Estrella Mountain
students only.
Dictionaries
American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
- One-Look Dictionary
- Searches multiple dictionaries simultaneously.
On-line Dictionaries Roget's II: The New Thesaurus
Other Foreign Language Resources on the Web
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
ILC Glossary of Internet Terms
Dictionary of Quotations (19ll) Simpson's Contemporary Quotations
- Grove's Dictionary of Art
- Contains over 41,000 articles and 30,000 links to searchable images.
- Handspeak: Sign Language Dictionary Online
- Provides links to video instruction in signing approximately 3000 works.
Directories
- CIA World Fact Book
- Information and statistics about regions and countries.
US Postal Service: Zip Codes, Postage Rates, etc.
- AnyWho Toll-Free Listing Searc
- Search engine for locating toll-free telephone numbers.
- Consumer World: Consumer Resources
- Over 1500 links containing useful consumer information
Atlases
- Driving
Direction
- Enter your starting address and your destination address for a door-to-door map.
Miscellaneous Reference Tools
- Books In Print
- A searchable database of books available for purchase in the United States.
- ERIC
- Provides full text ERIC documents from 1996 to the present and indexes and abstracts of all ERIC documents from 1966 to the present.
- Information Please
- Based on the Information Please Almanac, this searchable database provides quick access to facts and statistical information.
- CollegeNet
- A searchable database of over 2,000 colleges which includes scholarship and financial aid information.
- CollegeSource
- Provides access to over 7,500 college catalogs. This database requires Adobe Acrobat Reader to be installed on your computer.
- Chambers's Book of Days
- The original 1879 edition of the reference work is available on this web site.
- Nobel Prize Archive
- This web site contains a wealth of information about Nobel Prize, including biographies of the winners.
- Yahoo Reference
- Reference sources include almanacs, bibliographies, encyclopedias, quotation dictionaries and much more.
- Internet Public Library Reference Center
- Reference subject links to sources from the arts to the sciences.
- FirstSearch
- Provides access to a variety of periodical and bibliographic databases.
- Galenet
- Literary database of biographical and critical information on thousands of authors.
- Congressional Quarterly Library
- Two databases are available from this link. CQ Weekly provides current legislative news and analysis. CQ Researcher provides pro and con coverage of current and controversial issues.