Reference Resources

http://www.academicinfo.net
"Academic Info aims to be the premier educational gateway to online college and research level Internet resources. Even though the target audience is the college and university community, the subject guides will prove useful to high school and general users as well. There is no attempt to create an online community with chat rooms, personals, and a dorm store. Academic Info is the "white pages" to the academic community."

http://www.ala.org/ala/rusa/rusaourassoc/rusasections/mars/marspubs/MARSBESTIndex.htm
Best Free Reference Web Sites. Combined Index, 1999-2006
RUSA Machine-Assisted Reference Section (MARS)
This is an index of the web sites included in the 1999-2006 annual lists issued by the Mars Best of Free Reference Web Sites Committee of the Machine-Assisted Reference Section (MARS) of the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) of ALA to recognize outstanding reference sites on the World Wide Web.

http://www.bartleby.com/reference/
"Bartleby.com combines the best of contemporary and classic reference works, verse, fiction, and nonfiction into the most comprehensive public reference library ever published on the web."

http://library.sau.edu/bestinfo/Online/onlindex.htm
“Best Information on the Net.” O'Keefe Library, St. Ambrose University

http://www.britannica.com
Encyclopedia Britannica on subscription, other resources are free.

http://www.digitalbookindex.org/
It currently lists over 138,000 titles, more than 97,000 of them free.

http://encarta.msn.com/
MSN Encarta : Online Encyclopedia, Dictionary, Atlas, and Homework
Online home of the Encarta encyclopedia, world atlas, dictionary, thesaurus, multimedia collection, and homework tools.

http://www.encyclopedia.com
"Encyclopedia.com was created by Infonautics Corporation to provide Internet users with a simple, one-stop research site. Composed of high-quality articles from the Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, the site links more than 50,000 diverse articles to the resources available on Infonautics' popular online research."

http://www.infoplease.com
Information Please publications online.

http://infomine.ucr.edu/
INFOMINE is a virtual library of Internet resources relevant to faculty, students, and research staff at the university level. It contains useful Internet resources such as databases, electronic journals, electronic books, bulletin boards, mailing lists, online library card catalogs, articles, directories of researchers, and many other types of information.

http://www.ipl.org/ref/RR/static/ref00.00.00.html
The Internet Public Library's directory of online resources.

http://lii.org
"Librarians' Index to the Internet, Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE. The Librarians' Index to the Internet is a searchable, annotated subject directory of more than 7,800 Internet resources selected and evaluated by librarians for their usefulness to users of public libraries. It's meant to be used by both librarians and non-librarians as a reliable and efficient guide to described and evaluated Internet resources."

http://www.loc.gov/rr/askalib/virtualref.html
Library of Congress’ Virtual Reference Shelf. Selected Web resources compiled by the Library of congress.

http://libraryspot.com
"Libraryspot is a library and reference portal to more than 5,000 libraries around the world. Search this free virtual library resource center for reference tools, periodicals and online texts, library information, encyclopedias, dictionaries, quotations, etc. "

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/
“The Online Books Page is a website that facilitates access to books that are freely readable over the Internet. It also aims to encourage the development of such online books, for the benefit and edification of all.”

http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page
Project Gutenberg. A library of 17000 free ebooks whose copyright has expired in the USA Book listings, offers search engine, newsletter, and articles.

http://www.refdesk.com/toc.html
Refdesk indexes quality Internet sites based on stated selection criterion.

http://www.robertniles.com/data/
“You've cast your lines into the sea of sources, but still aren't finding the information you need. That's what happens when you don't know the right place to look. Scroll down to the links below and your days of coming up empty while reporting are over. You'll soon be checking facts and downloading reputable data on everything from public safety to campaign contributions ... you name it. Robert Niles, a journalist and statistician, created this annotated directory of web sites dealing with data and statistics. It is arranged by subject. He earned a master's degree in journalism from Indiana University and a bachelor's degree from Northwestern University's Honors Program in Mathematical Methods in the Social Sciences.

http://www.virtuallrc.com/
The mission of the Virtual Learning Resources Center is to index thousands of the best academic information websites, selected by teachers and library professionals worldwide, in order to provide to students and teachers current, valid information for school and university academic projects!
The Virtual LRC is both a dedicated index of over 10,000 web pages maintained by a real human being, as well as a meta-search engine that includes in its results information gleaned from many of the best research portals and university and public library Internet subject guides recommended by teachers and librarians.

http://webster.com/
Merriam-Webster Online’s Dictionary, Thesaurus, Spanish-English Dictionary and Medical Dictionary.