Beyond Help
Z39.50 Library links
- Ocean State Libraries
- HELIN
Links to free Reference Databases
- About.com - a valuable resource
for content that helps you to solve the large and small needs of everyday
life.
- AccuWeather.com -
- Atlapedia Online - full color
physical maps, political maps as well as key facts and statistics on
countries of the world.
- Bartleby.com - the classics of
literature, nonfiction, and reference free of charge.
- Biography.com - from the A & E
Television Networks.
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CIA World Fact Book - information on the history, people, government,
economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and
transnational issues for 266 world entities.
- CNN.com -
- Dictionary of Canadian
Biography Online - presents persons who died between the years 1000 and
1930 or whose last known date of activity falls within these years.
- Discovery Channel -
- Discovery Kids - learn
about and develop a variety of adventures and explorations. Visit fan sites,
watch video, play games, solve puzzles, and much more from the Discovery
Channel.
- Fact Monster - facts and more,
maintained by Pearson Education.
- History Channel -
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Hoovers Online - businesses within a country, region, state, or city
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HowStuffWorks -
award-winning source of credible, unbiased, and easy-to-understand
explanations of how the world actually works.
- Internet Archive - All -
non-profit digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in
digital form with free access for researchers, historians, scholars, and the
general public.
- Internet Archive - Audio
- Internet Archive - Live
Music Archive
- Internet Archive -
Moving Images
- Internet Archive - Texts
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Internet Public Library - your online library, hosted by Drexel
University's College of Information Science & Technology and a consortium of
colleges and universities with programs in information science.
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KidsClick - web sources
for kids by librarians, published by the School of Library and Information
Science (SLIS) at Kent State University.
- KidsHealth - information about
health, behavior, and development from before birth through the teen years
from the nonprofit Nemours Center for Children's Health Media.
- Library of Congress -
Americas Story from Americas Library
- discover what Abraham Lincoln had in his pockets on the night he was
assassinated. Or read about other "Amazing Americans" such as
Buffalo Bill Cody and his "Wild West" show; the heroism of Harriet Tubman,
who helped many slaves escape bondage; the music of jazz great Duke
Ellington; or the inventions of Thomas Edison.
- MarcoPolo/Thinkfinity
- Classroom-ready lesson plans and other online learning materials, site
maintained by Verizon.
- Mayo Clinic - physicians,
scientists and researchers from Mayo Clinic share their health expertise.
- MedlinePlus - from the U.S.
National Library of Medicine, includes a school health page.
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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary -
- NASA - resources for educators and
students.
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National Geographic - current events and news stories about animals,
geography, the Earth, and more.
- NOLO - Free legal information, law
books, legal software, and legal forms, plus lawyer directory.
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Project Gutenberg -
download over 33,000 free ebooks to read on your PC, iPad, Kindle, Sony
Reader, iPhone, Android or other portable device.
- SportQuest
- links to sport and fitness web sites in Canada and around the world.
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Sweet Search - searches
only the 35,000 Web sites chosen by research experts and librarians and
teachers when creating the content on findingDulcinea.
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Windows to the Universe -
non-profit science education website from the National Earth Science
Teachers Association.
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Wisconsin Ideas -
resources for teachers
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