RefDesk
the single best
source for facts on the Net; a one-stop site for
all things Internet: news, weather, sports,
reference, encyclopedia, facts on file,
dictionaries and encyclopedias, tutorials,
search engines, Windows Operating Systems
Resources, free stuff, games and much more.
SimplyExplained
a centralized
resource of simple explanations, provided
directly from experts in their relevant fields.
AskERIC
The Educational
Resources Information Center (ERIC), a national
information system funded by the U.S. Department
of Education.
Ask Jeeves Kids
Every kid should
have his own butler to help search the
(carefully screened) Internet.
Biography Resource
Center
Search for people
by personal facts such as birth and death year,
nationality, ethnicity, occupation, or gender.
Cool4Kids
This kids-only
search engine draws on the Kids and Teens Open
Directory Project. With 17,549 links and
counting.
FindArticles
A useful free
search engine indexing published articles from
more than 300 sources.
GPO Access
All about the
government. Access to multiple databases for
statistics, publications, history, and more.
HighWire
Search over 12
million fully indexed articles in over 4,500
Medline journals; the abstracts, at least, are
often free. About 360 of the site's journals
offer free content (often in back issues) as
well.
Hoover's Online
This paid
subscription service makes more than 6,000
business publications available through Factiva,
a Dow Jones & Reuters company. You can search by
keyword, company name, and symbol, among other
options.
IncyWincy
The Incy Wincy
Spider crawls through the Invisible Web (as
found on the Open Directory Project).
JSTOR
Academic
researchers, salivate. This archival collection
contains full-image, full-run academic journals
on everything from Botany to Business. You'll
need to log on through an academic institution.
LexisNexis
Academic
A for-pay,
full-text database of news, business, legal, and
government information.
Mergent Online
An integration of
databases, such as Moody's Industrial Manual,
EDGAR (Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and
Retrieval) filings, and Company Data Direct
(U.S. and international).
NatureServe
Explorer
What is Mustela
nigripes, and will it be around much longer?
Check here for searchable plant, animal, and
ecological-community information for the U.S.
and Canada.
The On-Line
Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences
This is a weird
one. Enter a series of numbers and this site
will tell you the rationale behind it. We tried
"8 5 4 9 1 7 6 3 2 0"—the digits in alphabetical
order. It got the right answer.
Philosophy
Research Base
There's a little
bit of everything philosophical here, but the
heart is a search engine that finds books on
philosophical topics in partnership with
Amazon.com.
PublicLibraries.com
Find your public,
state, university, presidential, or national
library online.
PubMed
This service of
the National Library of Medicine provides access
to over 12 million Medline citations, going back
to the mid-1960s.
O'Reilly Network
Safari Bookshelf
Electronic
versions of hundreds of technical books from the
venerable IT publisher, covering more than 20
categories, from Business Reference to XML.
S&P NetAdvantage
A great place to
seek out information on investment trends,
markets, and companies in play. But you'll need
a log-on just to access the site.
SearchEBooks.com
A full-text index
of e-books. Enter "For this relief much thanks"
and you're instantly given a link citing Hamlet,
Act I scene 1.
SpeechBot
An HP Invent
search-bot site that indexes 15,590 hours of
broadcasts over the Web, both audio and
transcripts.
10K Wizard
Search the SEC's
EDGAR for real-time SEC filings.
Volunteer Match
"Get out. Do
good." The logo says it all. You can search by
area, interest, and schedule.
World News
Connection
A for-pay
foreign-news aggregation service maintained by
the U.S. Department of Commerce. Want the latest
on Ugandan cattle rustling? This is the place.
Yahooligans!
One of the best
kids-oriented search sites and a swell portal
for youngsters as well.
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