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| Ready Reference provides easy access to frequently used reference sources as well as local and national news. This page includes links to encyclopedias, dictionaries and thesauri, fast facts, MLA Style instructions and examples, maps, local and world news, weather, and postal information. |
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Columbia Encyclopedia - Contains nearly 51,000 entries and has more than 80,000 hypertext cross-references
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Encarta - over 4,500 articles on the world of knowledge--from aardvark to Zambia.
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Encyclopedia Mythica - On-line encyclopedia on mythology, folklore, and legend, containing definitions of deities, fabulous creatures and places, as well as images and stories.
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Medical Encyclopedia - The A.D.A.M. Medical Encyclopedia includes over 4,000 articles about diseases, tests, symptoms, injuries, and surgeries. It also contains an extensive library of medical photographs and illustrations. Available in English or Spanish.
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World Book Web - World Book Online Reference Center available through April 30. User ID: budget; Password: booster.
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- American Heritage Dictionary - Includes a dictionary, the Columbia Encyclopedia, thesaurus and quotations.
- Merriam Webster Dictionary - Offers a dicitonary, thesaurus, and word games.
- Roget's Thesaurus - Contains 35,000 synonyms and over 250,000 cross-references in an easy-to-use format.
- Thesaurus.com - Provides acess to a simple translator, word of the day, and word games.
- WordNet - Online lexical reference system whose design is inspired by current psycholinguistic theories of human lexical memory. English nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are organized into synonym sets, each representing one underlying lexical concept.
- Your Dictionary.com - Links to over 1500 dictionaries representing more than 230 languages.
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- Bartleby.com - Offers links to the Columbia Encyclopedia, The World Fact Book 2000, dictionaries, thesauri, English usage guides, and much more.
- Fact Monster - Offers links to ready reference information, and also links to science, mathematics, government, history, people, and sports information.
- Information Please Almanac - Provides access to daily and kids' almanacs, an atlas, a dictionary, and an encyclopedia.
- Library Spot - Extensive list of links to encyclopedias, maps, libraries, and more.
- Old Farmer's Almanac - Offers access to North America's oldest continuously published periodical.
- RefDesk - RefDesk provides links to ready reference information, search engines, news, weather, and chosen subject links.
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- DianaHacker.com - This site gives good examples of citations in MLA format.
- MLA Citation Style - Provides sample citations for a variety of sources.
- MLA Format - Published by Purdue University, this resource, updated to reflect the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (6th ed.) and the MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing (2nd ed.), offers examples for the general format of MLA research papers, in-text citations, endnotes/footnotes, and the Works Cited page.
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- Atlapedia - Contains full color physical maps and political maps, as well as key facts and statistics on countries of the world.
- Free World Maps - Includes but not limited to shaded relief physical maps, political maps, world maps, continent maps, region and country maps.
- Map Resources - List of internet resources courtesy of the University of California at Berkeley's Earth Sciences and Map Library. Includes a search feature to find maps and geographical sites relating to a specific place.
- World Atlas - Facts, flags and maps including every continent, country, dependency, exotic destination, island, major city, ocean, province, state and territory on the planet!
- World Factbook - Reference maps, notes and definitions, country profiles, flags, and more; published by the CIA.
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