This site
provides links to many indices, resources, references
Lingoz Participatory Online Dictionary
An online community building the world's largest dictionary.
You can look up more than 4,500,000 terms, vote for definitions, post comments
or add your own terms, definitions and glossaries, and meet people from all
over the globe interested in translation and language.
Encyclopedia.com - FREE online Encyclopedias and Dictionaries
Make research projects easier with our FREE online library of educational resources like Oxford Dictionaries, Encyclopedia Britannica and millions of articles.
The perfect
thing those “tip of your tongue” moments – type in a concept and get back a
list of words and phrases related to that concept. You can use this to answer basic questions,
generate a list of words in the same category, et cetera.
The Educator's Reference Desk: Resource Guides
The Educator's Reference Desk builds on over a quarter century of experience providing high-quality resources and services to the education community. From the Information Institute of Syracuse, the people who created AskERIC, the Gateway to Educational Materials, and the Virtual Reference Desk, the Educator's Reference Desk brings you the resources you have come to depend on.
KidSpace
The KidSpace
section of the Internet Library allows searching by category or by inputting
key words, and is kid-friendly.
An index to pre-vetted websites, the site’s motto is “websites you can trust”.
Find definitions to over 2 million words and terms.
A big step up from Wikipedia in terms of consistent validity of contents, this site is peer reviewed, with articles from scholars who are highly respected in the areas about which they submit content.
Smithsonian Institution Archives
Search all
Smithsonian Archives, library and research collection catalogs here.
Collections contain manuscripts, photographs, sculptures, paintings, books and
serials, etc.
This is the doorway to the Library of Congress, online.
This site provides a dictionary, thesaurus, and encyclopedia, plus a multilingual dictionary and online translator. There are links to games, a word of the day, a crossword solver, and other goodies. You can also download Wordz
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