sites for Homework & research projects

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• Internet Public Library

• Librarians’ Index to the Internet

• Digital Librarian

• Ready Reference Using the Internet

• The Library Spot

• Virtual Reference Desk at the Library of Congress

• Quick Reference Links

• IMSA
  (Illinois Math and Science Academy)

• University of Chicago Library

• High School Hub –
  Reference Sources for High school students

• Academic Research

• World Wide Web Virtual Library

• Virtual Reference Desk

• World Fact Book

• Yahoo Reference

• Teens and Libraries worldwide

• World Newspapers

• United States Newspapers Online

• Roget’s Thesaurus

• All You Can Read
  (Newspapers,Magazines,Reference)

• United States Zipcodes

• Internet Sources by Dewey Decimal Numbers

• United Nations

• United States Census Bureau

• FastFacts

• Merriam-Webster Online
  Dictionary

• Old Farmer’s Almanac

• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

• Library of Congress

• Computer Literacy

• Research Buzz

• Online Dictionary

• United States Printing Office
  All sorts of information on many topics published by the U.S. government

• Virtual Illinois Catalog
  Search over 600 Illinois Libraries

• http://www.thesmokinggun.com/

• http://www.refdesk.com/

• http://www.reporter.org/desktop/

• http://factfinder.census.gov/home/saff/main.html?_lang=en

• http://www.resourceshelf.com/

• http://www.npr.org/

• http://www.findarticles.com/

• http://ethics.acusd.edu/index.asp

• http://highschoolace.com/ace/ace.cfm

• http://www.state-of-entropy.com/  Web Graphics Tutorial

• Virtual Reference Shelf:  http://www.loc.gov/rr/askalib/virtualref.html

• Statistical Databases: http://www.loc.gov/rr/main/alcove9/statdata.html

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• http://www.teacheroz.com/fashionhistory.htm

• http://www.costumegallery.com/

• http://www.costumes.org/

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• Nutrient Data Laboratory

• Food timeline

• The Kitchen Link

• www.epicurious.com

• www.foodnetwork.com

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• Internet Public Library Literary Criticism

• The Book Spot

• A Literary Index

• Literary Resources on the Web

• Literature Criticism

• WEB English Teacher

• American Authors on the Web

• Great Books/Literature Resources

• PAL: Perspectives in American Literature. A research and Reference guide

• ClassicReader: Online Books

• Web Concordances

• Medieval Studies

• http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/new-for-you/top-sellers/-/books/283155/ref%3Dpd%5Fs%5Ftb%5Fh/002-4971479-0708066 - Amazon.com Best-seller list

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Citation Makers (Help with Citing Sources)

• http://oslis.k12.or.us/secondary/howto/cited/

• http://wizard.imsa.edu/cite/index_html

• http://www.noodletools.com

• http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/cgos/idx_basic.html

• http://www.mla.com

• http://www.lib.duke.edu/libguide/citing.htm

• http://www.easybib.com

• http://www.liunet.edu/cwis/cwp/library/workshop/citmla.htm

• http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/citex.html

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Writing Tools and Assistants

• Elements of Style

• English Online: Writers' Window

• Teen Space @ The Internet Public Library: A+ Research and Writing

• Paradigm Online Writing Assistant

• Writes of Passage

• http://owl.english.purdue.edu/  Purdue Writing Lab.

• http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/getwriting

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Dictionaries, Thesaurus, Phrase and Grammar Tools

• http://dictionary.reference.com/

• http://www.yourdictionary.com

• http://thesaurus.reference.com

• Wordsmyth: Dictionary and Thesaurus

• Acronym Finder

• Purdue Online Writing Guide

• Grammar Bytes

• Guide to Grammar

• Guide to writing Research Papers

• Phrase Finder

• Quoteland

• Quotations

• Help with Copyright and Plagiarism: To Copy or not to copy

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• Free Books Online

• http://www.gutenberg.org/

• Internet Public Library Online Literary Criticism Collection

• American Authors

• The Academy of American Poets

• Poetry and Literature Center of the Library of Congress

• Poetry 180: A poem a day for American high schools

• Modern American Poetry

• Modern British Poetry

• The Oxford Book of English Verse

• British Poetry 1780-1910

• The Literary Gothic

• English Renaissance Studies

• Shakespeare’s Globe

• http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/AmeLit.html

• http://www.bartleby.com/cambridge/

• http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/hypertex.html  (American literature)

• http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/oal/oaltoc.htm (American Literature)

• http://vos.ucsb.edu/about.asp  (Voice of the Shuttle - Humanities resources)

• http://www.imagesonline.bl.uk/britishlibrary/ (Images of manuscripts, books, etc. from the British Library.)

• http://renaissance.dm.net/compendium/ (Life in Elizabethan England.)

• http://labyrinth.georgetown.edu/  Medieval Studies Resources

• http://www.Fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html Medieval Studies

• http://the-orb.net/  Medieval Studies

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• http://www.pantheon.org/mythica.html

• Classical Greek and Roman Worlds

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Music

• Music Topics

• All Music Guide

• Sheet Music Collections

• Folk Music, Ballads Popular Songs in American History

• Chicago Jazz Archive

• Jewelry Museum

• http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/

• http://www.gramophone.co.uk/

• http://www.ibdb.com/default.asp (Official Broadway database)

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Movies

• Internet Movie Database

• http://www.metacritic.com/

• http://film.guardian.co.uk/

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Drawing and Painting

•  http://www2.evansville.edu/studiochalkboard

•  http://www2.evansville.edu/studiochalkboard/draw.html

•  http://www2.evansville.edu/studiochalkboard/paint.html

•  http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/d/drawing.html

•  http://www.talentteacher.com/

• http://artswork.asu.edu/arts/index.htm

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Art Museums

• Art Encyclopedia

• Art History Resources on the Web

• Metropolitan Museum

• National Portrait Gallery

• Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York): Timeline of Art History

• Smithsonian

• American Art Museum

• Louvre Museum

• National Gallery of Art

• Prado Museum Madrid

• Hermitage Museum, St.Petersburg Russia

• Van Gogh Museum, Holland

• J.Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

• Uffizi Gallery, Florence

• Theater History on the Web

• http://www.artic.edu/ (Art Institute of Chicago)

• http://www.moma.org/   (MOMA (Museum of Modern Art, New York)

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• Dictionaries

• Today’s Front Page Newspapers-Foreign Language

• Quia

• Jim Becker’s Foreign Language Links

• France2 News etc.

• ARTFL Project: French-English Dictionary

• Verb Conjugation

• Official Eiffel Tower Site

• City of Paris

• Elysee Palace : Residence of French President

• Tennessee Bob's Famous French Links

• Chateau de Versailles

• French Embassy in the United States

• French Culture

• Daily news from Germany

• German Dictionary Online

• Study Spanish

• Online version of daily newspaper from Madrid

• Prado Museum Chronology of Spanish History

• Spanish, Spanish/English, and English/Spanish dictionaries:  Diccionario Anaya de la Lengua

• Spain: People and Culture

• Spain: A Country Study

• Spain: Tourism Office

• Spanish Culture

• Museums in Spain

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• Math Forum

• Webmath Instant Solutions to Math Problems

• History of Mathematics

• Math.com

• Calculus

• Math in Daily Life

• Geometry Webpage

• http://www.webmath.com/

• http://www.webmath.com/index.html

• http://www.martindalecenter.com/Calculators.html

STATISTICS

• FedStats

• U.S. Census Bureau

• Illinois Statistical Abstract

• http://www.martindalecenter.com/Calculators.html

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• Health Information Pathfinders

• Diseases and Conditions

• Merck Manual

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

• Complete Home Medical Guide – Columbia University

• Learn CPR

• Food Finder (Fast Food Facts)

• Get It Straight: Facts About Drugs

• National Library of Medicine (World's largest Medical Library)

• Merck Source

• NOAH: New York Online Access to Health

• Nutrition Information

• Discovery Health

• Family Doctor

• Health for Consumers

• Mayo Clinic

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• 24 Hour Fitness

• Accufitness (Calorie Burned Calculator)

• Fitness Coach (Animation Excercises)

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• Periodical Table of the Elements

• The Chemical Scoreboard: Environmental Defense Fund

• Chemom Resources

• Chemistry Resources

• AP Chemistry Resources

• Ask the Experts: Chemistry

• http://www.chemicool.com/

• http://www.techweb.com/encyclopedia/

• http://www.chemrefer.com/

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Biology

• The Biology Place

• The Biology Project: Cell Biology

• Cells Alive!

• The Biology Project: Human Biology

• Human Anatomy Online

• Food Labeling and Nutrition

• Nutrition Analysis Tools

• Animal Planet

• Endangered Species

• http://biotech.icmb.utexas.edu/search/dict-search.html

• National Biological Information Center: http://www.nbii.gov/index.html

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Physics

• Physics around the world

• Amusement Park Physics

• Visual Physics

• How Things Work

• http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/physics/

• http://www.haydenplanetarium.org/hp/vo/ava/index.html (Astrophysics Visualization Archive)

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Earth Science

• Minerals and Gemstones

• Nine Planets Tour of the Solar System

• Sky Watching Center

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Physical Science

• Theater of Electricity

• The Exploratorium

• Frank Potter’s Science Gems

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• POTUS: Presidents of the United States

• Documents in Law, History, Diplomacy (Avalon Project)

• The History Net

• Digital U.S. History :

• American Speeches (Audio and Video)

• HyperHistory/World History Online

• The Best History Web Sites

• The History Channel

• American Family Immigration History Center

• Resources for the Medieval World

• FACTS.COM 1940 to present

• World History Chronology

• 18th Century America Archives

• United States Civil War Center

• Civil War Music

• Digital Library and Archives of American Civil War Resources

• Civil War Women

• Dakota State University: The American Civil War

• The History Place: The U.S. Civil War

• American Memory: Band Music from the Civil War Era

• American Memory: Civil War Maps

• American Memory: Civil War Photographs

• http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/

• http://bensguide.gpo.gov/

• http://www.teachersdomain.org/special/civil/ Civil Rights Collection

• http://www.sasi.group.shef.ac.uk/worldmapper/ -the world as you've never seen it before.

• http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/index.html  Reports on National Security, foreign policy, and related topics.

• Middle East Culture and History

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• Portals to the World from Library of Congress

• University of Texas Map Collection

• Maps And Geography of the World

• CIA World Factbook

• Country Studies- Library of Congress

• Background Notes on Countries – U.S. State Department

• Atlapedia – Country Data

• Your Nation – Compare 2 Nations

• http://maps.google.com/

• http://plasma.nationalgeographic.com/mapmachine/ maps

• http://www.multimap.com/

• http://www.topozone.com/default.asp topographical maps.

• http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/

• Middle East History and Culture

Environmental Topics

Endangered Species

World Resources Institute

Renewable Resource Data Center

Encyclopedia of the Atmospheric Environment

Environmental Protection Agency

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        U.S. Congress

• Federal Citizen Information Center

• U.S. Federal Government Information

• U.S. Government Spot

• Government Printing Office

• U.S. Documents 1995-present

• U.S. Documents –Original, Handwritten Form

• U.S. Federal Government Agencies Database

• United States Counties

• United States National Archives and Records

• U.S. Government Resources

• Project Vote Smart

• CNN Allpolitics

• Politics.com

• Open Secrets: The Online Source for Money in Politics Data

• U.S. Government Manual

• Government Regulations

• Official Federal Government Web Sites

• Uncle Sam (searches millions of U.S. Government documents)

• State and Local Governments

• http://thomas.loc.gov/

• http://www.lib.purdue.edu/eresources/readyref/index.html

• http://bensguide.gpo.gov/

• http://www.firstgov.gov/

• http://www.bcpl.net/~j1m5path/wwwgovdirectory.html

• Statistics: http://www.census.gov/prod/www/abs/statab.html

• http://www.fbiarchive.com/ FBI Files.

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• State of Illinois

• Illinois General Assembly

• Illinois Governor

• Attorney General

• Secretary Of State

• Illinois Supreme Court

• Find-It! Illinois

• Illinois State Compiled Statutes

• http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/perlist.html

• http://www.igpa.uillinois.edu/abstract/

• Illinois Dept. of Revenue: Tax Forms/Publications: http://tax.illinois.gov/taxforms/index.htm

State and Local Government Links

Websites of individual states and territories:

http://firstgov.gov/Agencies/State_and_Territories.shtml

http://www.govengine.com

State Tax Forms

http://www.taxadmin.org/fta/link/forms.html

International & Foreign Governments Links

• Foreign Governments:

• http://www.library.northwestern.edu/govpub/resource/internat/foreign.html

International Government Organizations:

http://www.library.northwestern.edu/govpub/resource/internat/igo.html

Official Document System of the United Nations:

http://documents.un.org/welcome.asp?language=E

UN Library:       http://www.un.org/Depts/dhl/

Voting records of UN and the Security Council, full text resolutions, speeches, etc.

United Nations Pulse: Weblog for just-released UN online information, major reports, publications, documents. (Created and maintained by Reference Librarians at the UN Library.)

http://unhq-appspub-01.un.org/lib/dhlrefweblog.nsf

Blog on global news, politics, economics by editors, journalists and researches:  http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/

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• FedStats

• U.S. Census Bureau

• Illinois Statistical Abstract

• http://www.martindalecenter.com/Calculators.html

• http://www.loc.gov/rr/ElectronicResources/subjects.php?subjectID=73&Submit=Select  Links to Labor Statistics, County and City statistics, Historical Statistics, and more.

• http://www.loc.gov/rr/main/alcove9/statdata.html Statistics on crime, education, medical,agriculture,historical,government, etc.

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• Hoovers Online

• Yahoo! Finance

• Investor Guide

• MSN Money Central

• 1040.com Tax Information for Everyone

• CEO Express

• CI : Corporate Information

• CNN Money

• Better Business Bureau

• Bureau of Economic Analysis (U.S. Department of Commerce)

• Census Bureau Economic Programs (U.S. Census Bureau)

• How to Write a Business Plan

• Small Business Administration

• Financial Times Newspapers

• Nightly Business Report

• New York Stock Exchange

• Fortune 500

• BizWeb: Business Guide to the Web

• Legal Pad

• BigCharts: Charting a World of Investment Information

• Hoover’s Online

• Investing Basics

• Consumer Law

• Consumer Education for Teens

• Cornell Law School

• Consumer Education Center

• http://www.fool.com/

• http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/home.htm

• http://www.stretcher.com/index.cfm  - the Dollar Stretcher

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• Health Information Pathfinders

• Mental Health Net

• Mental Health and Psychology Resources Online

• The Keirsey Temprament Sorter 11

• Teen Central.Net

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