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| This is a straightforward and exhaustive presentation of English
grammar rules and usage examples, followed by computer-graded quizzes
and the chance to ask a grammar question. The site also contains writing
helps and "grammar goofs." This is an excellent resource. |
| Created by The University of California to showcase Internet resources
of relevance to university level students and faculty, INFOMINE lets you
"Search 11,000+ Academically Valuable Resources." The
categories (everything from biology to the arts) are keyword, subject,
and title searchable. |
| This is an excellent internet directory for finding people,
businesses, and local information. A really useful part is the
government section. It allows you to find federal ,state, and county
information. You can search for specific offices or find out who your
representatives, senators, and governor are. The site also includes
shopping sites of all kinds, a sports center, chat, much more. |
| Similar to a librarian's "Ready Reference Shelf," this site
houses dozens of topics from abbreviations to women's studies, each with
links to resources on the web. Whether you're looking for airlines,
historic documents, or satellite television, this is a good place to
start. |
| The Internet Public Library is a great place to visit. Information is
conveniently divided by age groups or research needs. There are
interesting hands-on activities for kids, plus an online classroom, an
exhibit hall, a reading room with some great tools, and much more. |
| Formerly The Berkeley Public Library's Index to the Internet, this is
an excellent collection of worthwhile sites, annotated, and categorized. |
| The Library employs multiple search methods to encourage the use of
its impressive site and its catalogs as well. The site's feature
exhibits tell America's story through documents, photos, movies, and
audio. There's an educators' Learning Page and a great Today in History
feature in addition to the massive research possibilities. |
| Is your local library online? Find out by using this online directory
of local libraries around the US. |
| Search 71,618 mailing lists for the information you need, or browse
them by topic. |
| The folks at LookSmart give you quick access to Web resources in many
categories, either by search engine, or through their own system of
browsing ever-narrower subcategories leading to annotated links. And you
can personalize your own news-magazines-hometown-shopping section. |
| MediaFinder lists information on 90,000 magazines, newspapers, and
other print media. Search by subject and get publication, address, and
subscription information on the research sources you need. |
| This handy online guide containing definitions of hundreds of Internet
terms is a great resource for Web users. |
| The Online Dictionary Fast Finder contains over 49 different
dictionaries ranging from medical, scientific, sports, religious, and
business to computer/Internet resources. |
| This site features a form-based way to find various reference
resources around the Internet--everything from a ZIP code directory to
an acronyms dictionary and back. Among the language tools is a new
universal translator. These are great tools that save a lot of time, and
we all need more of that! |
| This is a collection of topics and ideas for research papers. The
topics index is searchable and there's also a writing center, research
center, and chat. This is a great place to start if you're uncomfortable
writing research papers or are having trouble finding a place to start.
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| Large and attractive, the Royal Canadian Mint site offers coin
information for laymen as well as numismatists. Teachers will find
activities for students K-6. Available in English and French. |
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