REFERENCE AND HOMEWORK RESOURCE

HANDY READY REFERENCE SITES:
 

www.m-w.com/netdict.htm	Dictionary and thesaurus online
www.encyclopedia.com	More than 17,000 articles from The Concise Columbia Encyclopedia, Third Edition.  Short entries to check facts quickly, but also gives related web sites and links to the Electric Library
www.s9.com/biography/  or www.biography.com	Two biographical sources online
www.cc.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/bartlett/	Access to Barlett's Familiar Quotations
www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/diction.html	Links to more than 800 dictionaries in 160 different languages.  Includes a translation option
www.infoplease.com	A shortened version of Information Please Almanac
www.healthatoz.com	One of the most comprehensive databases of health and medical info on the Net.  Designed for both health professionals and consumers.
http://dictionaries.travlang.com/	Hundreds of language to language translating dictionaries

GENERAL REFERENCE SITES:
 

www.refdesk.com	Wide variety of popular reference links
www.beaucoup.com/1refeng.html	Extensive list of reference sites covering a wide range of topics
www.iTools.com/research-it/research-it.html	More links to useful reference tools
www.about.com	Similar to Yahoo, this site organizes lots of different subjects on the Internet
www.nytimes.com/learning/general/navigator/index.html	Links to hundreds of useful sites compiled for the reporters at the New York Tims

HOMEWORK HELPER SITES:
 
 

www.multnomah.lib.or.us/lib/homework	Well organized list of sites that cover frequently used curriculum areas
www.studyweb.com	Subject categories designed to "focus the web for education"
www.internetschoolhouse.com	This image map leads to helpful sites for all major school subjects
www.bjpinchbeck.com	B.J. Pinchbeck's Homework Helper.  An award-winning site maintained by a teenager and his dad, organized for homework and research assistance
www.researchpaper.com	Helps with the process of writing a paper. Also gives samples of well-written papers
www.homeworkheaven.com	Lists of curriculum-related web sites arranged by grade level

    If you have any other sites you'd like to see added to this list, please e-mail Jennifer Long.