Alibris - over 60 million used, new, and out-of-print books, movies and music!
Amazon - world's biggest bookstore.
Barnes & Noble - bookstore
Bookfinder - ultimate resource for book shoppers.
FunBrain - Interactive Educational Games for all grade levels and subject areas.
Google Book Search - full text of thousands of books out of copyright or with permission granted by the publisher or rights holder.
Great Books Online - covers standard Reference, Verse, Fiction and Nonfiction books.
Homework Central - academic branches of study http://www.homeworkcentral.com/indexhc.html
Kids Click - search by subject, titles and descriptions for age specific quality resources.
Library Thing - world's largest Book Club. Find people with similar tastes.
Newstrawler - search for articles from the archives of online journals, magazines, national & international newspapers, web references and web based news sources. (a subscription is required for some articles).
Rare Books - search engine for locating used and rare books.
NYPL Digital Gallery - search more than 275,000 historical images and photographs for downloading.
Primary Source Material - documents and historical photographs and images from American history.
Virtual Reference Desk

Almanac of Politics and Government - comprehensive reference tool for political and government information.
Information Please Home Page
The Farmers Almanac
Today in History - search the archive by date or subject to discover events in history that occurred on that day.

Atlases & Maps

Country Studies - on-line versions of books previously published in hard copy by the U.S. Department of the Army as part of the Country Studies/Area Handbook Series.
Google Maps
MapMaker - create maps of the U.S. by climate, environmental aspects, history, transportation, boundaries, agriculture, biology and water.
MapQuest
National Atlas of the United States- color map layers depicting state boundaries, federal lands, parkways, rivers, volcanoes, seismic events, urban areas, roads, railroads and airports.
World Gazetteer - provides data on the current population of cities, towns and regions all over the globe.
World Map Connection - physical, state and political maps, maps of places in the news and other geographic information.

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Concise Oxford Dictionary - uses the English language, includes quote of the week, word games, language and writing tips, jargon buster and more.
Dictionaries - word of the day, crossword puzzles, foreign languages, quotations and more.
Dictionary of Library and Information Science - glossary of terms from library & information science.
Legal Lexicon - Law Dictionary with thousands of definitions & explanations of legal terms, phrases & concepts.
Online Dictionaries - specialized dictionaries from foreign language to advertising, travel and more.
Roget's Thesaurus
Webster's Dictionary
World Wide Words - focuses on the history of the English language and the development of new words.

Directories & Indexes

Glossarist - comprehensive directory with over 4,500 glossaries including arts and culture, animation, cartoons, architecture, film, dance, fine arts and five other categories.
The Ultimate Information Directory
Unbound Bible - online searchable database with 24 versions of the Bible.

Encyclopedias

Bartleby - includes: the Columbia Encyclopedia, American Heritage Dictionary, Roget's Thesaurus, Simpson's Contemporary Quotations and the American Heritage Book of English.
Columbia Encyclopedia - over 51,000 entries, 17,000 biographies, hypertext cross references, maps, speeches.
Groliers Encyclopedias - (RHS) Home Access to Grolier's (password required)
Encyclopedia Britannica - version 4.0 of Netscape is needed to access Encyclopedia Britannica.
Encarta Abridged Encyclopedia
Museum of Hoaxes - includes a chronology of numerous hoaxes from the year 750 to the present.
Virtual Encyclopedia

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Newspapers
LexisNexis - Includes major U.S. and international newspapers; magazines, wire services and news transcripts.
Newspaper Links - quick links to newspaper websites around the world.
Online Newspapers - indexes 10,000 newspapers from around the world
Boston Globe
Christian Science Monitor
Chicago Tribune
The London Times
The New York Times
Minneapolis Star-Tribune
St. Paul Pioneer Press
Washington Post - Timespace

Television
AE - Arts and Entertainment
CNN - Cable News Network
C-SPAN - U.S. Congress coverage
Discovery Channel
History Channel
MediaScrape - Internet TV News Network
PBS - Public Broadcasting System

Podcast Library

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All in One Quotation Site - includes quotations, phrases, cliches and much more.
Bartlett, John. 1901. Familiar Quotations
Biographies on A&E - search over 25,000 of the greatest lives, past and present.
Kierkegaard Quotations - those involved in Kierkegaard research/studies/publications.
Newsmaker Bios - biographical information on newsmakers from ABC News.
Nobel Prize Winners
Timeline of Nobel Winners - divided by category of Physics, Medicine, Economics, Chemistry, Literature & Peace. Phrase Finder - meanings and origins of phrases, sayings, cliches and quotes.

Speeches

American Rhetoric Online - a database of 5000+ full text, audio and video (streaming) versions of speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews, and other recorded media events.
Archives of American Public Addresses - search by name, title and date from colonial times to current events.
Churchill Iron Curtain Speech - multi-media presentation of Churchill's "Sinews of Peace" speech delivered at Westminster College in Missouri.
Great Speeches Collection - from Susan B. Anthony to Lincoln to FDR to Reagan to Clinton and more.
History and Politics Outloud - searchable archive of politically significant audio materials.
Inaugural Addresses - Inaugural speeches of all presidents from Washington to Clinton.
Social Justice Speeches - from Bella Abzug to Elie Wiesel
Women Speeches from Around the World - sponsored by Sweet Briar College.

Statistics

American Factfinder - provides facts and information about your community, your economy, and your society. You can find quick reports or build your own statistical query.
Bureau of Justice Statistics Publications - alphabetical list of all statistical reports dealing with all aspects of crime.
Criminal Justice Statistics - over 100 sources on all aspects of criminal justice in the U.S.
Climate Statistics - select a state and generate a graph of temperature and precipitation data for a range of years.
Crime Mapping Research Center - combines GIS technology with the spatial analysis of crime.
Federal Government Statistics - easy access to full range of government statistics from 70 government agencies.
Foreign Labor Statistics - employment, consumer price index and manufacturing labor cost figures of 17 countries.
Historical U.S. Statistics- searchable file of all censuses from 1790 to 1970. You can create your own sets to view.
International Statistical Center - statistical links by country or topic, providing social, economic and general data.
Kids Count - data measures the educational, social, economic and physical well-being of children in the U.S.
National Center for Education Statistics
National Population Projections
State & Metro Data Book - compare states & metropolitan areas on topics from banking, births, wages & welfare.
State Health Facts - provides health related data and facts on all 50 states from the Kaiser Family Foundation.
Statistical Abstract of the United States - statistics on social and economic conditions in the U.S.
Traffic Fatality Analysis - data and reports on all automobile crashes involving fatalities on public highways.
United Nations Statistics Division
United Nations World Population - population statistics for regions and nations around the world.
Vital Statistics of the United States - detailed vital statistics data, including natality, mortality, marriage and divorce.

Trivia

Trivial Pursuit - a selection of over 4,800 questions for answering via the web.
Monthly Calendar Trivia Questions - this site asks a question and then links to another web site where the student has to find the answer. (Grades 4-8)
Scavenger Hunts - Internet scavenger hunts for various grade levels.