Academic Links Page
Encyclopedias and General Reference Resources
Dictionaries
Newspapers, Magazines, and Media
Quotations
Ask an Expert
Addresses, E-mail, and Telephone Numbers
Biographies
Collections
e-Texts
Miscellaneous

Academic Link Pages

ACR Study Web - categorized study resources 
http://www.studyweb.com/

AskERIC Virtual Library - internet-based question-answering service developed by the ERIC Clearinghouse on Information and Technology.
http://ericir.syr.edu

B.J. Pinchbeck’s Homework Helper
www.bjpinchbeck.com

CBE Other Educational Sites
http://www.uct.ac.za/projects/cbe/cbeothe3.html

Classroom Connect  
http://www.classroom.com/home.asp

Community Learning Network
http://www.cln.org

Desk Reference - a quick way to find basic information, compiled originally by reference librarians from questions they were commonly asked; includes calculators, indices, lists, directories, maps, calendars, catalogs.
http://www.rcls.org/deskref

Desk Top Reference Agent
http://www.ll.mit.edu/Deskref/

Educational Hotlinks at Franklin Institute
http://sln.fi.edu/tfi/hotlists/hotlists.html

The Informant - free service to keep up-to-date with information on up to three sets of keywords. Enter keyword sets, choose Lycos, AltaVista or Excite as the search engine to use, and the number of days between searches (between 3 and 60). The Informant will e-mail search results  
http://informant.dartmouth.edu/

Internet Public Library
http://www.ipl.org/

Learner - an Annenburg/CPB project
http://www.learner.org

KidsClick!  - an excellent collection of links by librarians for students.   Although it is well categorized and easy to use, it focuses on sites for elementary school students.  Each of the links to sites has a description of the site and a suitable age range so it is easy to avoid the really elementary sites.  Try the grade 7 and up sites; there are also some suitable sites erroneously ranked for grades 3-6.   
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/kidsclick!/

Martindale's "The Reference Desk"
http://www-sci.lib.uci.edu:80/~martindale/Ref.html

My Virtual Reference Desk  
http://www.refdesk.com/toc.html

The New York Public Library - find biographical, historical, literary, performing arts information and more.
http://www.nypl.org/

Online Educational Resources
http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/OER

Online Electronic School  
http://www.electronic-school.com

The Smithsonian Learning Center   
http://www.si.edu/newstart.htm

Voice of the Shuttle - academic site for humanities research
http://vos.ucsb.edu/

World Lecture Hall - annotated links to online resources divided by subject areas (some of the information is just description of college courses, however, but some descriptions include class notes)
http://www.utexas.edu/world/lecture/

World Wide Web Virtual Library  
http://www.w3.org/pub/DataSources/bySubject/Overview.html

Encyclopedias and General Reference Resources

Atlapedia Online - key information on geography, climate, people, religion, language, history and economy of every country of the world
http://www.atlapedia.com/index.html

CIA World Fact Book - great resource, socioeconomic, population, maps on every country in the world
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html

Compton's Encyclopedia Online - complete encyclopedia with good cross-references, pictures, tables, maps, and sound files.
http://www.optonline.com/content/Learning/cmpt/Encyclopedia/

Encyberpedia - links to many web encyclopedias
http://www.encyberpedia.com/ency.htm

Encyclopedia Brittanica: have to subscribe at a cost, but you can do a sample search
http://www.eb.com/

Infoplease.com - an encyclopedia, almanac, and dictionary all in one, this is a terrific site for recent developments as the site is continually updated.
http://www.infoplease.com/

Dictionaries

Dictionary  - an online dictionary plus more: links to dictionaries in other languages, help on grammar and lanaguage, online games and a translator for translating text or web pages from various languages into English 
http://www.dictionary.com

Foreign Language for Travellers  
http://www.travlang.com/languages/indextext.html

J.B.’s Dictionary-Index
http://www.yi.com/home/BerensJean-Claude/dict.htm

The List of Dictionaries  
http://math-www.uni-paderborn.de/HTML/Dictionaries.html

Merriam-Webster Online - Webster's Dictionary and thesaurus online with features and games as well.  
http://www.m-w.com

OneLook Dictionaries - 58 specialized and general dictionaries at one source  
http://www.onelook.com/

Roget’s Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases - easy to use page with puzzles, words of the day, and the standard thesaurus entries and categories
http://www.thesaurus.com/

Newspapers, Magazines and Media

American Journalism Review - access to online newspapers around the country and around the world, to radio and television stations web sites, and to online versions of magazines worldwide. Easy to use site.
http://www.ajr.org

National Public Radio
http://www.npr.org/   

CNN
http://www.cnn.com

MSNBC
http://www.msnbc.com

BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/

E-zine Search - over 600 free online magazines
http://www.site-city.com/members/e-zine-master/

Quotations

All-in-One Quotation Search Page - meta-search engine that allows you to check several quotation search engines at one site to find your quotation or your source. You will still have to enter your search information for each search engine (which you can do easily with block and copy) but at least it is all on one page.  
http://quotations.about.com/arts/books/quotations/library/blsearch.htm

Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations -1901 edition  
http://www.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/bartlett/

The Quotations Page
http://www.starlingtech.com/quotes/

Ask an Expert

Ask an Expert  in various fields, such as science, medicine and health, computing, economics, college, literature and more
http://njnie.dl.stevens-tech.edu/curriculum/aska.html

Houghton Mifflin’s Ask an Expert
http://www.hmco.com/hmco/school/links/expert/exp_1.html

Pitsco’s Launch to Ask an Expert - wide variety of topics
http://www.askanexpert.com/

Addresses, E-mail, and Telephone Numbers

Directories on the Internet - links to lots of directories
http://www.harbour.sfu.ca/belzberg/select/directo.htm

Finding E-mail Addresses of individuals
http://www.ex.ac.uk/~RDavies/lib/address.html

Finding People on the Internet 
http://www.nova.edu/Inter-Links/phone.html

555-1212
http://www.555-1212.com/

How Far Is It? - distances from one US city or town to another, with links for driving directions
http://www.indo.com/distance/

Switchboard
http://www.switchboard.com

Whowhere - email addresses  
http://www.whowhere.com/

Biographies

Biographical Dictionary: Notable Citizens of Planet Earth Biographical Dictionary - 18,000 entries
http:// s9.com / biography

Biography - 15,000 biographies 
http://www.biography.com/find/find.html

E-Texts

Etext Archives -links to electronic text including online periodicals etc.
http://www.etext.org/

Online Books Page - from Carnegie Mellon University - links to over 8000 books online, searchable by author and title.  Links to other online hypertexts.   
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/books.html

Collections

Encyclopedia Mythica- mythology, folklore, and myticism from various cultures
http://www.pantheon.org

Myths and Legends - complete list by locale, with many links
http://pubpages.unh.edu/~cbsiren/myth.html

Miscellaneous

The Nobel Prize
http://www.nobel.se/