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Dictionaries	General Bookshelf Reference	Misc.
Encyclopedias	Periodicals

Dictionaries

Dictionary.com
An invaluable guide to dictionaries and reference materials on the internet plus a lot more stuff. You can type in any word in the English language and get the definition.
http://www.dictionary.com/

Merriam-Webster Online
Both the online Dictionary and the Thesaurus are available on the same page. Plus other cool stuff like words of the day and some word games.
http://www.m-w.com/home.htm

List of Dictionaries
This site is a great place to go if you are looking for that specific dictionary. It contains links to just about every type of dictionary you can think of, foreign language, computing, medicine, acronyms and much more.
http://www-math.uni-paderborn.de/dictionaries/Dictionaries.html

Encyclopedias

Encyclopedia Britannica On-Line
What was once for pay is now for free. The best Encyclopedia in the world is now On-Line and free.
http://www.britannica.com/

Funk and Wagnall's Encyclopedia
A free, fully searchable, online encyclopedia with dictionary, current events and multimedia index.
http://www.funkandwagnalls.com/

Encyclopedia Smithsonian
This site contains information on a wide variety of topics, searchable by subject, and put out by one of the finest museum on the planet. How could it be bad?
http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/

Encyclopedia.Com
This site contains over 17,000 articles from the Concise Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia. Its short entries are perfect for those of us who do not have all day to find the facts we are looking for.
http://www.encyclopedia.com/

General Bookshelf Reference

Information Please
An online almanac offering a huge amount of information from the print reference database, housing millions of useful and interesting facts on a wide range of topics. Includes a dictionary, encyclopedia and much more.
http://www.infoplease.com

CIA World Fact Book
Who knows more about foreign countries then the CIA? This is where to go to find out relevant information about any country in the world.
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html

UCSD Reference Shelf
The University of California at San Diego brings you this rather large collection of reference materials available on the Internet.
http://sshl.ucsd.edu/refshelf/

Periodicals

New York Times Online
The world's foremost newspaper comes to you in an online version. The membership is free. If you need to find out about current events it doesn't get much better than the New York Times.
http://www.nytimes.com/

The Washington Post
This is Woodward and Bernstein's old paper coming at you in an online version.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/

The Cleveland Plain Dealer
Our local paper now has an online version. The PD doesn't have the reputation of the NY Times or Washington Post, but it is our local paper and certainly finds its way into our classrooms more then any other paper.
http://www.cleveland.com/

Time Magazine
This site contains articles from the U.S. and International versions of Time Magazine. Includes a searchable archive.
http://www.pathfinder.com/time/

U.S. News and World Report
Online Version of the popular news magazine. http://www.usnews.com/usnews/home.htm

Misc.
Research-It
This site is a very large collection of online resources. Search for dictionaries, track down quotations, translate foreign words and much, much more.
http://www.iTools.com/research-it/research-it.html

Dejanews
Newsgroups can be a great place to find information, but sorting through them can be a pain. This is a great site that helps one to examine newsgroups for postings and information.
http://www.deja.com/