Research

Searching by key word  is available for 3 quotations databases: Bartlett’s, Columbia, and Simpson’s. You can also search the 10th edition of Bartlett’s through author and  concordance  indexes.

A visual search engine that lets you look for pictures. Allows browsing by category or using key word searches.

For ease in finding facts, this site provides access to the Columbia Encyclopedia, the Information Please Almanac, and to an atlas and dictionary.

A resource for students  that brings together diverse groups of quality reference sites; also provides guidance for writing research papers.

This gateway leads to thousands of reference sites, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and more; the “Facts Subject Index” allows browsing by area of interest.

Provides information about rumors, hoaxes, scams, and other “stories” widely circulated on the Internet.

An enormous directory leading to thousands of reference sites covering diverse subjects.