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Answers.com search returns a large page of combined information from Wikipedia, Britannica Concise Encyclopedia, a dictionary, a thesaurus, and many other sources. Users of the Firefox browser can also access Answers.com info by clicking on any word on a page after installing the Answers.com Firefox extension. Wikipedia is a multilingual project to create a complete and accurate "open" content free online encyclopedia. Search for articles with this form: MSN Encarta Search: The Encarta online encyclopedia contains 17,000 articles, multimedia, a talking dictionary, and an interactive world atlas. Unfortunately, Encarta now requires that you be an MSN subscriber for free access to most articles; as of this writing, the price is about $5/month, or $30/year. Reference Search: Bartleby.com Reference allows you to search The Columbia Encyclopedia (6th ed. 2001), The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language (4th ed. 2000), The Encyclopedia of World History (6th ed. 2001), and many other reference works including thesauri, quotations, English usage, history, literature, and more. You can search them all with the single form below. The Internet Archive besides allowing users to see web pages archived as they were years ago with their "Wayback Machine," also has a powerful multisearch engine that indexes a wide variety of text, video, and audio sources: Google Scholar searches many academic journals from a single form: The TIME Magazine Online Archive, now available free, includes over 321,000 articles and over 4,400 covers from every issue of TIME, beginning with the first issue published: March 3, 1923. Find the full-text of over 20,000 free books online with the U. of Pennsylvania Digital Library's The On-Line Books Page search engine. Country Search: Library of Congress Country Studies are on-line versions of books previously published by the Federal Research Division under a program sponsored by the U.S. Army. They contain a wealth of information covering 101 nations of the world. The Internet Public Library is an integrated "subject tree" directory, organized in "library" form. This search is limited to the IPL's Online Text Collection, which contains over 17,000 online books and research reports that can be browsed by author, by title, or by Dewey Decimal Classification. Find the current time in any nation of the world:
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Measuring Worth provides calculators for estimating the value of the US dollar from 1790-present and British pound from 1830-present, and provides historic exchange rates of the dollar with 41 foreign currencies and the dollar-pound exchange rate from 1791-present, the price of gold from 1257-present, and more.The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis offers a Consumer Price Index Calculator to compare prices and see inflation rates from 1913-present. You can also track estimated inflation rates all the way back to 1800 ($1 in 1850 was about $23.31 in 2005).
A scanned edition of the complete 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica is available online, free. It has not been fully proofread and corrected.
The Digital Book Index claims to index 90,000 electronic books, 66,000 of them free, although you must log in each time you use their site. The also have a directory of free reference books online.
The Information Please Almanac online provides an almanac, dictionary, and encyclopedia.
Thesaurus.com serves up easy to use instant words, for when you're feeling redundant.
Biography.com has over 20,000 biographies of historic figures and celebrities.
Research Buzz reports on the Internet research world, providing updates on search engines, new data managing software, browser technology, large compendiums of information, Web directories, and almost anything a reference librarian might find useful.
At Statistical Abstract of the U.S. you can download the US statistical info you want, free, in Adobe .pdf format.
Over 70 US Gov't agencies produce statistics of interest to the public. The Federal Interagency Council on Statistical Policy maintains Federal Statistics Search "to provide easy access to the full range of statistics and information produced by these agencies for public use".
The National Technical Information Service FedWorld site allows you to search or browse for US Gov't technical reports and information from throughout the government.
The US Department of Justice Freedom of Information Act website explains how to get information with a FOIA request, and has links to other federal agencies FOIA websites. You can search for documents previously released under the Freedom of Information Act at their FBI: FOIA Search Page and their CIA: FOIA Search Page.
The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations NDLTD Theses Library provides searchable archives of thousands of papers from over 60 universities, many with A/V features.
World Lecture Hall has links to online course materials for hundreds of college classes.
Speeches.com is an archive of speeches, plus resources and tutorials for speech writers.
The Why Files, at the U. of Wisconsin, explains phenomena, or as they say, "the science behind the news".
SoYouWanna is a bit like Monty Python's "How To Do It" program, only for real, on the Internet. A directory of brief beginners lessons at how to do or understand many things.
The Smithsonian Institute's Encyclopedia Smithsonian is an interface from which you can browse for information alphabetically, or use the search link at the top of the page to search all of the Smithsonian's websites.
Library Research Help from Old Dominion U. provides assistance for writing a term paper, speech, or doing library research for any reason.
ResearchPaper.com is a "collection of topics, ideas, and assistance for school related research projects".
The Academic Info Directory has more links.
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Garbl's Editorial Style Manual
APA Guide for Writing Research Papers
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