REFERENCE LINKS
An Internet Hotlist on REFERENCE LINKS
created by Marilyn Abramowitz
Mineola High School Library
Introduction
| Dictionaries, Thesauruses, Translations, Grammar & Writing
| Almanacs & Encyclopedias
| Reference & Homework Help
| Miscellaneous Topics
| Hoaxes, Urban Legends, Virus Myths, etc.
| News (Papers, Magazines, Radio, TV, Film, Video)
Introduction
You will find these links helpful for research. Use them along with the library's print REFERENCE sources, online databases, and topic-related Research Hotlists (www.kn.att.com/wired/fil/pages/listmhslibrma.html). *New links will be added to this site, so check back often.
The Internet Resources
Dictionaries, Thesauruses, Translations, Grammar & Writing
- *Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary and Thesaurus -
- *Roget's Thesaurus, dictionary, translator, writing resources+ -
- Alpha Dictionary - 992 online English dictionaries, 24 language translation dictionaries, vocabulary practice, crossword puzzles + more
- American Sign Language Dictionary -
- Dictionary Link - Guide to online dictionary & translation services. Includes thesauruses & encyclopedia links.
- English Pronouncing Dictionary - with Instant Sound
- Guide to Grammar & Writing -
- Merriam-Webster Visual Dictionary -
- Phrase Finder - List of the meanings & origins of over 1,000 phrases, sayings, quotes & cliches
- Reverse Dictionary - Describe a concept & receive a list of words & phrases related to it.
- Rhyming Dictionary -
- The Photographic Dictionary - A photographer submits a picture, and it's matched to the word that best defines it.(There are just 600 entries so far).
- The Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL) - over 200 free resources including: Writing, Research, Grammar and Mechanics, Style Guides + more
- TravLang - Free downloadable language dictionaries
- Visuwords Online Graphical Dictionary - Look up words to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts. Produce diagrams reminiscent of a neural net. Learn how words associate.
- Wordage - tool for word exploration and discovery - combines a dictionary, a thesaurus, spell checking, and natural searching to find words that are related to the word(s) you search
- Wordnik - Search for a word and you will get a definition, examples of the word in a sentence, recorded pronunciations and more.
- Wordsmyth - Dictionary with integrated thesaurus. Searchable by exact or approximate spellings. Includes a children's dictionary (elem grades). *Registration is free & is encouraged for users to access all the features.
- Yahoo's Babel Fish - Translate a block of text
- Your Dictionary - Includes: foreign language, rhyming, glossaries, synonyms, grammar guides + much more
- iTools - Topic guides, dictionaries & encyclopedias, language translators, news resources, people finder, search engines & subject directories + much more
Almanacs & Encyclopedias
Reference & Homework Help
Miscellaneous Topics
- AllSports - All sports info
- Bartleby: Great Books Online -
- Bartlett's Familiar Quotations -
- Cramer-Krasselt Cultural Dictionary - serves to define terms constantly being used to describe major events like the economy, technology, politics, and the environment
- How Stuff Works -
- Internet Broadway Database - Info on theatre, including about the original & revivals, characters, actors, summaries, etc.
- Internet Movie Database - Info on films, including plot summaries, characters, actors, directors, etc.
- Library Of Congress's Channel on YouTube - millions of recordings dating from the earliest Edison films to the present - films and audio files from the Library's collection as well as concerts, lectures, talks and videos of other events happening at the Library now and in the past
- Library of Congress - Includes American Memory (history in words, sounds & pics), America's library, Thomas database (legislative info), & more
- MapQuest -
- NYPL Digital Gallery - open access to over 700,000 images digitized from the The New York Public Library's vast collections, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints, photographs and more
- Occultopedia - An encyclopedia of the occult, unexplained, myths, astrology, conspiracies, shipwrecks, UFOs + much more
- RESEARCH HOTLISTS -
- Statistical Resources -
- The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Fallacies
- The Quotations Page -
- Zipcode Finder -
Hoaxes, Urban Legends, Virus Myths, etc.
News (Papers, Magazines, Radio, TV, Film, Video)
- *CNN Student News - Geared for secondary school students, this offshoot of CNN not only posts the latest news but also supplements articles with maps, transcripts, videos, classroom activities, quizzes, one-sheet backgrounders on newsy topics, and links to related articles.
- ABC TV News -
- Anton Newspapers - Community newspapers including: Mineola American, Great Neck Record, Westbury Times and several others
- C-SPAN - provides public access to the political process
- CBS TV News -
- CNN News -
- Editorials/Opinions -
- FOX TV News -
- FindArticles - News
- Independent Lens - digital stories from PBS
- LIFE Photo Archive - hundreds of historic photos by era, subject, etc.
- Link TV - Television Without Borders - Global and national news, documentaries, diverse cultural programs, etc.
- MSNBC News -
- My Virtual Newspaper - US & world newspapers, wire services + more
- New York Daily News -
- New York Post -
- New York Times Article Archive - 1851 - present
- News Archive Search from Google - easy way to search and explore historical archives & can automatically create timelines which show selected results from relevant time periods
- News Directory -
- News Links - News sources, papers, features, etc.
- News only Search Engine -
- NewsTrawler - Search for articles from archives of hundreds of online news sources, newspapers, magazines, & journals worldwide
- Newsday -
- Newseum - Interactive museum of news
- Newspaper Links -
- Old Magazine Articles -
- PBS Video - thousands of full-length episodes from the network's top series, along with complete seasons of current shows and full back-catalogs of classic series
- SnagFilms - watch full-length documentary films for free - on topics such as campus life, environment, health, history, international, life and culture, music and arts, politics, science and nature, sports and hobbies, and women's issues
- The New York Times -
- WCBS Newsradio -
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Content by Marilyn Abramowitz, mabramowitz@mineola.k12.ny.us
http://www.kn.att.com/wired/fil/pages/listreferencma.html
Last revised Fri Nov 20 10:29:18 US/Pacific 2009
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