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Art / Biographies / Books & Literatures / Dictionaries & Encyclopedias / General Resources
Government & History / Languages / Math & Computers / MCAS Practice Tests / Mythology
News & Weather / Science & Nature / Science Fair Projects / Social Studies / Space
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Updated November 2008.
Art
Visit world art treasures at the Berger Foundation site.
Search millions of historic photos on this archive of Life Magazine’s pictures. Hosted by Google.
Biographies
Contains full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals. Search for people based on one or more personal facts such as birth and death year, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender, or combine criteria to create a highly-targeted custom search. With the Complete Marquis Who’s Who(R), find quick reference information on an additional 900,000 people.
Biographies about notable African Americans from Biography Resource Center. Enhancing the reference content are full-text periodical articles, websites, and recent update news briefs.
The Multnomah Library has a great biography site!
The Richmond Heights Library also provides great biography links.
Books & Literature
An extensive collection of more than 11,000 critical essays on contemporary authors. Users can search by author name, title of work, nationality, subject/genre, ethnicity, critic name, and more.
Offers full text of plot summaries, literary criticism, author biographies, book reviews, and interviews as well as poems, short stories, and novels.
Dictionaries & Encyclopedias
Visit the Elements of Style online, the writer’s classic reference book.
Factmonster is the place to check if you need to know.
Searchable by subject or keywords within the entry.
Use Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia for students in middle school and up.
The Information Please Almanac, an almanac of facts and figures.
Need a picture? Visit the Internet Picture Dictionary and you’ll find it.
Onelook allows you to look up words in 118 electronic dictionaries all at once!
Use Rhymezone to find rhyming words, synonyms, definitions, and more.
Roget’s Thesaurus online.
Webster’s Dictionary online.
General Resources
Access to EBSCOhost databases. A great starting place for a research project.
General information from books, magazines, and newspapers. Includes maps, pictures and transcripts from TV and radio.
A database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
Find articles on current events, popular culture, business and industry trends, the arts and sciences, sports, hobbies, and more.
Research current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more for students in middle school.
A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, technology, and many general interest topics.
Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for nearly 1,750 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975.
Provides full text for magazines covering general topics appropriate for middle and jr. high school.
Government & History
Find historical information fast!
Lists lots of information about ancient cultures, including a large collection of links to other sites.
Eyewitness to History brings history to life through the eyes of those who lived it. The eyewitness accounts include audio clips.
From Revolution to Reconstruction is a site where you’ll find information on American History from the colonial period until Modern Times.
Contains the text of famous speeches, songs and documents.
Offers full text from reference books, encyclopedias, nonfiction books, and leading history periodicals, more than 61,100 historical documents, biographies of historical figures, historical photos, maps and video.
Search millions of historic photos on this archive of Life Magazine’s pictures. Hosted by Google.
National Geographic Kids has an entire homework help site.
Learn about US courts.
Visit the Massachusetts Government web site.
More information about the U.S. and its political and economic systems.
Visit the White House.
Languages
Contains dictionaries, grammatical help, and other online language resources.
Verb conjugation made easy.
Math & Computers
Ask Dr. Math for homework help!
For those who love math.
Explore the Smithsonian’s holding and exhibits.
MCAS Practice Tests
Take some MCAS practice tests.
Mythology
Search this award-winning encyclopedia of myth and folklore. Also includes an image gallery
Tons of information.
Encyclopedia of mythology.
News & Weather
Beverly’s weekly newspaper online.
Read today’s daily Boston Globe.
News, news, and more news.
One of the Norh Shore’s weekly newspapers.
Weather all the time.
Science & Nature
Visit Amateur Science for science projects and much more.
All the biology help you’ll ever need.
More links to human body sites than you can imagine.
For miscellaneous homework.
For miscellaneous homework help.
The coolest science site around.
Volcano information from Oregon State University.
Periodic table and more.
Science World contains biographies of scientists.
Science Fair Projects
All Science Fair Projects with complete instructions!
A guide to a variety of web site resources.
simple medium, and advanced project ideas.
Social Studies
Great for topographical and other types of maps.
Country information from the United Nations.
Information on each of the 50 states.
Native American culture with links to different sites.
Yahoo country site with links to government, tourism, and other agencies.
Find maps of just about anywhere in the world. Also has some historical maps.
Country profiles, flags of the world and more.
Space
NASA’s site for space information.Nine 8 Planets
TheNine 8 Planets presents a multimedia tour of our galaxy.
Lots of information and pictures about the planets.
