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Student Resources

Research & Writing tools:

Bartleby

Bartleby.com
The preeminent Internet publisher of literature, reference, and verse providing students, researchers, and the intellectually curious with unlimited access to books and information on the web free of charge.

Brooklyn Public Library

www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/
No amount of online research can compare with research done with actual books, periodicals and other reference material. The Brooklyn Public Library's website allows you to find local branch information and search their library catalog to see which branch has books you need.

Your Dictionary

www.yourdictionary.com
YourDictionary is a free online English dictionary and much more. The free dictionary search gives you definitions, thesaurus entries, spelling, pronunciation, and etymology results for your word. Alternatively, you can browse the dictionary alphabetically or by related terms to find meanings and synonyms. In addition, YourDictionary provides resources to help you find the best dictionary and translation sites for French, Spanish, Italian, German and hundreds of other languages.

Encyclopedia.com

Encyclopedia.com
The Internet's premiere free encyclopedia, provides users with more than 57,000 frequently updated articles from the Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Each article is enhanced with links to newspaper and magazine articles as well as pictures and maps - all provided by HighBeam Research.

Encylopedia Mythica

www.pantheon.org/
This free encyclopedia includes entries on mythology, folklore, legends, and more. It contains thousands of definitions of gods and goddesses, supernatural beings and legendary creatures from all over the world.

Guide for Writing Research Papers

http://webster.commnet.edu/mla/index.shtml
A guide for writing research papers based on Modern Language Association (MLA) format.

Guinness World Records

www.guinnessworldrecords.com/default.aspx
Guinness World Records^TM has become a household name and the global leader in world records. No other enterprise collects, confirms, accredits and presents world record data with the same investment in comprehensiveness and authenticity.

InfoPlease

www.infoplease.com
Information Please has been providing authoritative answers to all kinds of factual questions since 1938-first as a popular radio quiz show, then starting in 1947 as an annual almanac, and since 1998 on the Internet at www.infoplease.com.

Library of Congress

http://www.loc.gov/index.html
The Library of Congress is the nation's oldest federal cultural institution and serves as the research arm of Congress. It is also the largest library in the world, with millions of books, recordings, photographs, maps and manuscripts in its collections.

RefDesk

http://www.refdesk.com/
Since 1995, refdesk indexes quality, credible and timely resources that are free and family-friendly.

The Seven Steps of the Research Process

http://www.library.cornell.edu/olinuris/ref/research/skill1.htm
Seven steps outline a simple and effective strategy for finding information for a research paper and documenting the sources you find.

News & Information tools:

ABCNews.com News Summary

http://abcnews.go.com/newssummary
A news summary of World, US, Investigative, Political, Health, Business, Entertainment, Sports and Science headlines.

CNN

CNN.com
CNN.com is among the world's leaders in online news and information delivery.

Google News

http://news.google.com
Google News is a computer-generated news site that aggregates headlines from more than 4,500 English-language news sources worldwide. Articles are selected and ranked by computers that evaluate, among other things, how often and on what sites a story appears online. As a result, stories are sorted without regard to political viewpoint or ideology and you can choose from a wide variety of perspectives on any given story.