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Links to good reference sources are listed on this page. Also, go to the dictionary lookup or the miscellaneous "fun" tools at the bottom of this page. To submit content for this page, see submissions.




The Internet Public Library
http://www.ipl.org
"The first public library of and for the Internet community."

Questia
http://www.questia.com
"Questia is the first online library that provides 24/7 access to the world's largest online collection of books and journal articles in the humanities and social sciences, plus magazine and newspaper articles."

Internet Archive
http://www.archive.org/index.php
"The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that was founded to build an 'Internet Library' with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format."

Librarian's Internet Index
http://lii.org
"Librarians' Internet Index (LII) is a publicly-funded website and weekly newsletter serving California, Washington state, the nation, and the world, including tens of thousands of entries, maintained by our librarians, and organized into 14 main topics and nearly 300 related topics."

Virtual Library
http://vlib.org
"The WWW Virtual Library (VL) is the oldest catalogue of the Web."

Evaluation of Information Resources
http://www.vuw.ac.nz/staff/alastair_smith/evaln/evaln.htm
"This page contains pointers to criteria for evaluating information resources, particularly those on the Internet. It is intended to be particularly useful to librarians and others who are selecting sites to include in an information resource guide, or informing users as to the qualities they should use in evaluating Internet information."






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