Ready Reference Guide: General Online Reference

CIA The World Factbook provides basic intelligence on the history, people, government, economy, energy, geography, communications, transportation, military, terrorism, and transnational issues for 266 world entities.

Infoplease is a reference and learning site, combining the contents of an encyclopedia, a dictionary, an atlas and several almanacs loaded with statistics, facts, and historical records

Covers astronomical events, weather conditions and forecasts, recipes, and gardening tips.

"a unique nonprofit foundation that brings students into direct personal contact with pre-eminent leaders. Under the “Achiever Gallery” section of the site, biographies, profiles, and interviews are featured on the organization with leaders from the arts, business, public service, science and exploration, and sports"

Provides access to over 340,000 biographies of artists.

A biographical directory of all members of the U.S. Congress since 1774.

This site offers biographical information about individual composers.

National Women's Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, New York. Provides biographical information on distinguished American women.

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Bartleby.com provides the best works of fiction from a wide range of classic authors.

The primary aim of DOAB is to increase discoverability of open access books.

Discover 37,146,400 images, texts, videos, and sounds from across the United States

Bartleby's.he most comprehensive and well-researched anthology of all time comprises both the 50-volume “5-foot shelf of books” and the 20-volume Shelf of Fiction. Together they cover every major literary figure, philosopher, religion, folklore and historical subject through the twentieth century.

Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more

More than 5,800 Open Access ebooks from 75+ publishers, including Brill, Cornell University Press, De Gruyter, and University of California Press, are now available at no cost to libraries or users.

1000 free audio books, 800 free ebooks, 200 free textbooks

Project Gutenberg is a library of over 60,000 free eBooks. Choose among free epub and Kindle eBooks, download them or read them online. You will find the world’s great literature here, with focus on older works for which U.S. copyright has expired

A collection of really good online calculators

World calendars

Convert just about anything to anything else.
Thousands of units, and millions of conversions.

Make sure you check the rating for any article (only use if a B or better)--use for references and links outside of Wikipedia.

By Encyclopedia Britannica

Your Dictionary

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University of North Carolina. How to use quotations effectively and correctly

Bartleby.com

Use for locations worldwide

Contains current times around the world