The Best Reference Sites
¯ About.com:I've found many answers to some pretty obscure questions right here at About.
¯ Reference.com.Extremely simple to use, very basically laid out.
¯ Refdesk.com.Includes in-depth research links to breaking news, Word of the Day,and Daily Pictures. A fun site with a ton of information.
¯ Encyclopedia.com. As stated on their site, Encyclopedia.com provides users with more than 57,000 frequently updated articles from the Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition.
¯ Encyclopedia Brittanica. One of the world's oldest encyclopedias online.
¯ Encarta.Put together by Microsoft.
¯ I like Encarta because it's very easy to use.
¯ Open Directory Reference. The Open Directory's guide to various reference sites.
¯ WebReference.com. A great resource for webmasters and anyone else who wants to learn how to develop a webpage.
¯ Purdue University Library Quick Reference. A very good site with tons of info; includes resources specific to Purdue University and surrounding areas in Indiana, USA.
¯ Educator's Reference Desk. Probably the best reference site online for teachers. Includes thousands of informative links, lesson plans, and general reference information.
¯ Physician Desk Reference. Look for detailed medical information here.
¯ iTools.com. Excellent site; serves as a gateway to many reference and research links.
¯ Baseball-Reference.com. Everything you ever wanted to know about the sport of baseball.
¯ LibrarySpot.com. An excellent site that has hundreds of reference and research sources indexed all in one site.
¯ The Internet Public Library. An invaluable resource that will pretty much take care of all your reference needs.
¯ FOLDOC - Free Online Dictionary of Computing: extremely detailed computing dictionary; I don't think that there's a computing term out there that's not in FOLDOC.
¯ Librarians Internet Index: One of my absolute favorite sites on the Web. You could spend hours here lost in the vast variety of information and resources.
¯ Utah State University Internet Quick Reference: A really good, concise , and well-organized wealth of information.
¯ Gary Price's List of Lists:From Gary Price, researcher extraordaire, comes this List of Lists, a mind-boggling array of...lists.
¯ Wikipedia: Another of my favorite sites; lots of great information here for practically any subject you can think of.