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Best Free Reference Websites

National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS)

Nursing Resources

Project Management

Statistical Resources

Computer Science:

Dictionaries:

  • Great Books Online
    This site of online works includes: the American Heritage Dictionary, with 70,000 audio files of word pronunciations; Roget's Thesaurus; Gray's Anatomy and the Oxford Shakespeare.

  • Encarta
    World English Dictionary. Hear the pronunciation.

  • your Dictionary.com
    A large collection of dictionaries from a wide range of disciplines and languages

Directories:

  • Acronym Finder
    The web's largest database of acronyms where you'll find definitions for acronyms, abbreviations and initialisms.

  • Altavista, the search co.
    Babel Fish. AltaVista's translation site allows translation from and to many foreign languages.

  • CIA World FactBook
    US government profiles of countries and non-self-governing territories around the world.

  • Portals to the World
    This geographic guide to the world offers selective resources to over fifty countries.

  • Scholarly Societies Project
    This is a collection of scholarly organizations from around the world and their web sites.

English:

Government:

History:

  • America's Story
    Amazing stories and facts about all that's America from the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. Much of what you see on America's Library will be those non-book items, and many of those materials are found only in the collections of the Library of Congress.

  • Art History
    A timeline from 20000 B.C.; information continues to be added.
  • Biography.com
    Short biographies (three to 5 paragraphs) by the A&E channel. Includes contemporary, historic, literary and political figures.

  • Colorado's Main Streets
    is a website that brings together a series of virtual walking tours created by the historical societies or history museums from 5 Colorado communities, Denver, Littleton, Loveland, Sterling, and Westminister.

  • The History Channel
    You will find historical information ranging from Great Speeches (in audio) to facts about This Day in History.

  • HyperHistory Online navigates through 3000 years of world history with timelines of civilizations (plus maps), people, and events.

  • Library of Congress Photos
    The Library of Congress has loaded 3100 of their most popular photos (most are public domain) on Flickr.

  • Making of America
    is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. MOA is a collaborative effort between the University of Michigan and Cornell University.

  • The Man in the Arena
    Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt

  • National Geographic: History & Culture online:
    pictures, old maps, wallpapers, ancient Egypt, India, Pearl Harbor, Underground Railroad, more...
  • US National Archives & Records Administration
    an independent Federal agency, is America's national recordkeeper. Researchers, genealogists, and others can now search for records ranging from the details of battles to immigration information remotely and free of charge.

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