NoodleQuest

Free service offers automated search engine strategy development.
http://www.noodletools.com/noodlequest/

Internet Public Library Kidspace: Reference

General reference, including links to dictionaries, encyclopedias, and almanacs.
http://www.ipl.org/kidspace/browse/ref0000

Local Times Around the World

Find out what time it is anywhere in the world.
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/

eLook Reference

Provides information on programming, computers, definitions, and literature.
http://www.elook.org/

Finding Data on the Internet

A journalist teaches other writers how to use the Internet to find facts.
http://www.robertniles.com/data/

Infonation

View and compare statistical data for countries that are a part of the United Nations. Find everything from land size to population, average temperature to crime rates.
http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/infonation/e_infonation.htm

Bartleby.com

Search for famous quotes, classic literature, and nonfictional works. Site also includes dictionary, encyclopedia, and thesaurus.
http://www.bartleby.com/

The Amazing Picture Machine

Index to graphical resources and maps on the internet. Database of all types of images suitable for children.
http://www.ncrtec.org/picture.htm

FactMonster

Includes searchable information related to sports, entertainment, geography, history, biography, education, and health.
http://www.factmonster.com/

Emily Post: Rules of Etiquette

Guide to good manners includes thousands of tips on correspondence, party giving, and conduct in every public or private setting.
http://www.bartleby.com/95/1.html

Simpson's Contemporary Quotations

online database and comprehensive list of world's most notable quotations from 1950-1980.
http://www.bartleby.com/63/

Discover

All about the earth, its people, science, discoveries, and language.
http://www.pitara.com/discover/

TekMom's Search Tools for Students

An easy-to-use, one-page reference desk for students. Includes kids' search engines, encyclopedias, biographies, images, dictionaries, and maps.
http://www.tekmom.com/search/

My Virtual Reference Desk

Links to a variety of resources including news, weather, sports, encyclopedias, facts on file, FAQs, and tutorials.
http://www.refdesk.com/

Ben's Phaster Online Reference Desk

Reference search guide. Research portal covers biography, dictionary, encyclopedia, language translation, thesaurus, world and city maps
http://www.phaster.com/find_info_ref.html

Electronic Text Center

Online archive includes over 45,000 classic texts in 12 languages.
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/

Gary Price Fast Facts

Compilation of quick reference resources, including almanacs, statistics, and fact books.
http://www.freepint.com/gary/handbook.htm

Martindale's Reference Desk

Massive collection of links to reference resources includes language centers, calculators, maps, science tables and important websites of various countries.
http://www.martindalecenter.com/

Info Zone Research Skills Area

Exploration of the research process and links to related sites.
http://www.pembinatrails.ca/infozone

Inter-Lace Webtopics Directory:

This teacher-librarian designed website contains searching tips and a weblinks topic subject list for teachers and students. Contains a high percentage of Australian links.
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~slacey

English Library

Features links to biographies, literature, poetry, and foreign classics. Includes alphabetical index of authors, as well as dictionaries and other reference works.
http://www.davidap.com/library/

Copyright Rights and Wrongs

Students learn the importance and procedures for respecting intellectual property and how to ask permission to use images on the web. Site designed by 5th and 6th grade students for Thinkquest Junior.
http://library.thinkquest.org/J001570/

Research-It

Look up the meaning of a word, find out when a famous person lived, or identify a foreign language at this one-stop research center.
http://www.itools.com/