AllWords.com
English dictionary with multi-lingual search. Search in German, Dutch, French, Italian, Spanish and English.
AltaVista - Babelfish Translation
AltaVista Babel Fish provides online text and web page language translation.
Dictionary.com
Free online dictionary search, translator, word of the day, crossword puzzles and word games, and vocabulary learning resources for many languages.
Online Dictionary
Free cross-referenced definitions, spelling correction, and word searches from WordNet, Webster's, FOLDOC, and a variety of specialized sources.
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus
Contains 35000 synonyms and over 250000 cross-references in an easy-to-use format.
Thesaurus.com
Roget's Thesaurus of English words and phrases.
Webopedia
Online Computer Dictionary for Computer and Internet Terms and Definitions.
Your Dictionary
Comprehensive authoritative dictionary, thesaurus, glossary and foreign language portal. Every resource needed for language study in more than 300 languages.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
This tenth edition of 1919 contains over 11,000 searchable quotations and was the first new edition of John Bartlett's corpus to be published after his death in 1905.
Biography.com
Read biographies, watch interviews, and video clips at Biography.com.
Encarta Concise Encyclopedia
A free, abbreviated version of the Encarta Online Encyclopedia.
Presidents of the United States
Provides information on Presidents and Presidential candidates, cabinet members, election results, and much more. Includes links to historical documents, inaugural addresses, biographies, and First Ladies.
The World Factbook
US government profiles of countries and territories around the world. Information on geography, people, government, transportation, economy, communications, etc.
Wikipedia
The biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. Over two million articles and still growing.
IU Copyright Management Center
Provides information and education services about copyright, fair use, and infringement. Aimed at the university sector, but has information for all.
Project Vote Smart
Project Vote Smart has compiled information on over 13,000 candidates and elected officials, including President, Congress, Governors, and State Legislators. Information includes biographies, campaign finances, issue positions, performance evaluations by special interest groups, and voting records.
Self-Service Legal Center
Forms for name changes, divorce
U.S. Copyright Office
Provides and an overview of copyright law, federal laws, regulations and other US government publications.
Alcove 9
The Alcove 9--Annotated List of Reference Websites, the ninth 'virtual alcove' of the Main Reading Room of the Library of Congress, is a collection of websites selected and annotated by Humanities and Social Sciences Division subject specialists.
dmoz.org
The DMOZ Open Directory Project is the largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web. It is constructed and maintained by a vast, global community of volunteer editors.
Fact Monster
Online Almanac, Dictionary, Encyclopedia, and Homework Help
INFOMINE
A virtual library relevant to those at the university level. It is Librarian built and contains many useful Internet resources.
Information Please
This site integrates information from various Information Please Almanacs, the Random House Webster's College Dictionary , and The Columbia Encyclopedia into a single reference source.
Internet Public Library
Internet Public Library: PathFinders is a collection of home-grown guides written by Internet Public Library staff which are intended to help you get started doing research on a particular topic, both online and at your local library.
IPL Kidspace
A collection of Web sites for kids. Also has HTML tips and a form for asking questions.
Library Spot
Find the best library and reference resources at LibrarySpot.com, including top dictionaries, encyclopedias, newspapers, maps, quotations and much more.
Martindale's 'The Reference Desk'
Great collection of specialized links - International Art, Business, Science & Technology, etc.
Virtual Reference Desk
This is an excellent reference source maintained by the Purdue University libraries. Provides links to dictionaries, thesauri, area code and zip code books, and much more.
City and County Data Books
This resource provides access to the 1944 through 2000 County and City Data Books.
Fed Stats
This site provides access to a full range of statistics and information produced by more than 70 agencies in the United States.
Nation Master
Country comparisons using graphs, maps. Huge database of world statistics. Reference site contains country statistics, maps, flags, graphs and pie charts.
Old Farmer's Almanac
The online edition of this folksy almanac. Provides long range weather forecasts, gardening advice, rise and set times for sun, moon and planets, and much more.
TerraFly
Maps, topo maps, Aerial views
World Time Server
Correct, current, local -- find the time anywhere in the world.