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This is a straightforward and exhaustive presentation of English grammar rules and usage examples, followed by computer-graded quizzes and the chance to ask a grammar question. The site also contains writing helps and "grammar goofs." This is an excellent resource.

Created by The University of California to showcase Internet resources of relevance to university level students and faculty, INFOMINE lets you "Search 11,000+ Academically Valuable Resources." The categories (everything from biology to the arts) are keyword, subject, and title searchable.

This is an excellent internet directory for finding people, businesses, and local information. A really useful part is the government section. It allows you to find federal ,state, and county information. You can search for specific offices or find out who your representatives, senators, and governor are. The site also includes shopping sites of all kinds, a sports center, chat, much more.

Similar to a librarian's "Ready Reference Shelf," this site houses dozens of topics from abbreviations to women's studies, each with links to resources on the web. Whether you're looking for airlines, historic documents, or satellite television, this is a good place to start.

The Internet Public Library is a great place to visit. Information is conveniently divided by age groups or research needs. There are interesting hands-on activities for kids, plus an online classroom, an exhibit hall, a reading room with some great tools, and much more.

Formerly The Berkeley Public Library's Index to the Internet, this is an excellent collection of worthwhile sites, annotated, and categorized.

The Library employs multiple search methods to encourage the use of its impressive site and its catalogs as well. The site's feature exhibits tell America's story through documents, photos, movies, and audio. There's an educators' Learning Page and a great Today in History feature in addition to the massive research possibilities.

Is your local library online? Find out by using this online directory of local libraries around the US.

Search 71,618 mailing lists for the information you need, or browse them by topic.

The folks at LookSmart give you quick access to Web resources in many categories, either by search engine, or through their own system of browsing ever-narrower subcategories leading to annotated links. And you can personalize your own news-magazines-hometown-shopping section.

MediaFinder lists information on 90,000 magazines, newspapers, and other print media. Search by subject and get publication, address, and subscription information on the research sources you need.

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This handy online guide containing definitions of hundreds of Internet terms is a great resource for Web users.

The Online Dictionary Fast Finder contains over 49 different dictionaries ranging from medical, scientific, sports, religious, and business to computer/Internet resources.

This site features a form-based way to find various reference resources around the Internet--everything from a ZIP code directory to an acronyms dictionary and back. Among the language tools is a new universal translator. These are great tools that save a lot of time, and we all need more of that!

This is a collection of topics and ideas for research papers. The topics index is searchable and there's also a writing center, research center, and chat. This is a great place to start if you're uncomfortable writing research papers or are having trouble finding a place to start.

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Large and attractive, the Royal Canadian Mint site offers coin information for laymen as well as numismatists. Teachers will find activities for students K-6. Available in English and French.


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