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Z39.50 Library links

• Ocean State Libraries
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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.
   
• 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 -
   
• Hoovers Online - businesses within a country, region, state, or city
   
• 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
   
• 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.
   
• 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.
   
• Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary -
   
• NASA - resources for educators and students.
   
• 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.
   
• 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.
   
• Sweet Search - searches only the 35,000 Web sites chosen by research experts and librarians and teachers when creating the content on findingDulcinea.
   
• Windows to the Universe - non-profit science education website from the National Earth Science Teachers Association.
   
• Wisconsin Ideas - resources for teachers

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