Recommended Websites

Bartleby.com
Encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, style books, quotation books, gazeteers, fact books, anthologies in the public domain, this site is a rich source of ready reference answers.

Britannica
More than 25,000 short entries with a tab for additional content that provides basic bibliographic information is offered by the free version of the encyclopedia. 

Digital Public Library of America
The Digital Public Library of America brings together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world.

Google Scholar
​A simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources including articles, books, and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, universities, and other web sites. 

Infoplease
A comprehensive reference source that combines the contents of an encyclopedia, a dictionary, an atlas, and several almanacs loaded with statistics, facts, and historical records. A single search engine allows you to search all these sources at once.

ipl2
The Internet Public Library (ipl2) is a website library, full of links evaluated by librarians and experts.

Parallax News
A free, daily email brief that will send you a brief with the day’s top debate broken down into multiple perspectives.

Sweet Search
A search engine for students that helps them find outstanding information, faster. It enables them to determine the most relevant results from a list of credible resources, and makes it much easier for them to find primary sources.