General Reference Source:

Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia - Free Service from Electric Library

Information Please Almanac - Encyclopedia, a dictionary, atlas, with statistics, facts, and historical records.

QL Virtual Reference Desk - Subject list of great web sites created by local librarians

Noodlelinks - Database of academic bibliographies

Statistical Abstract of the US - The national data book

Your Dictionary.com - The global language resource - dictionaries in all languages, translation, etc.

Gale's Literary Index - citations for Gale's literary criticism series, CLC, NCLC, PC, SC, SC, etc.

High School Hub - A nice collection of reference tools, subjects, college info, etc. for students

Style Manuals:

MLA Style - The official site of Modern Language Association for documenting resources

MLA Style - Michael Harvey's Nuts and Bolts of College Writing

MLA Style - University of Wisconsin writing center

Noodletools - creates an MLA based works cited or bibliography page including formatting and punctuation

APA Style - Official site for American Psychological Association style resources

APA Style - University of Wisconsin writing center

Articles: (many of the following require user name and password)

BigChalk.com - Reference books, magazines, newspapers, newswire, TV/Radio transcripts, maps, and pictures in full text provided by the Illinois State Board of Education. http://www.bigchalk.com/bc/illinois/school

News Illinois Provides local news on topics, people, and organizations pertinent to Illinois http://infoweb.newsbank.com/

Sirs Knowledge Source has subject & keyword searching for full-text for magazine and newspaper articles. Contains Government Reporter, Renaissance, Today's News, Maps of the World, World Almanac, Supreme Court Decisions and more. http://sks.sirs.com

OCLC First Search contains online databases with subject & keyword searching for magazine and journal articles and is provided by the Illinois State Library. http://newfirstsearch.oclc.org/FSIP
** Enter individual data bases most frequently used at school

ABI Inform - U.S. & international articles on business & management

Article1st - OCLC Index of articles from nearly 12,500 journals

ECO - Electronic Collections Online has full text articles from scholarly journals

ERIC - Journal articles & reports on educational topics

ERIC/AE - Home page and website

GPO - Abstracts of U.S. government publications

Health Academic - Health & wellness information for consumers, students, & professionals

Medline - Index of articles from national and international medical journals

Papersfirst - An index of papers presented at conferences world wide

PerAbs * - Index & full text articles from general & academic journals

WilsonSelectPlus * - Abstracts & full text articles in science, humanities, & business

World Almanac - Fundamental reference resources - Book of Facts Almanac for Kids

WorldCat & NetFirst* - OCLC catalog of books, web resources with descriptions and site addresses, & other material worldwide

Magazine/Journal Titles - Check here to see if a magazine is indexed or appears full text in any First Search Data Base http://www2.oclc.org/oclc/fs/fstitle/index.asp

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