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Databases

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Subject Links

We collected Intenet links and grouped them by subject to help you with your homework.

English

Landmarks MLA Citations Machine
http://citationmachine.net

A Guide for Writing Research Papers
http://www.ccc.commnet.edu/mla/index.shtml

Duke University's Guide to Citations http://www.lib.duke.edu/libguide/cite/works_cited.htm

IPL Literary Criticism
http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit

Common Errors in English
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors

Shakespeare Criticism
http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/criticism.htm

Complete Works of Shakespeare
http://www-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/works.html

Shakespeare Resource Center
http://www.bardweb.net/globe.html

Electronic Shakespeare
http://www.wfu.edu/~tedforrl/shakespeare/index.html

Shakespeare Mystery: Who, in fact, was he? http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shakespeare

The Internet Poetry Archive: Contemporary Poets
http://www.ibiblio.org/dykki/poetry
http://www.poets.org

Literary Criticism from Bookspot
http://www.bookspot.com/litcrit.htm

Voice of the Shuttle, Humanities Research
http://vos.ucsb.edu/index.asp

Sparknotes, Literature Study Guides
http://www.sparknotes.com/home/english

Current Events

Now
http://www.pbs.org/now/index.html

NYTimes News Summaries
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/students/pop

PBS Online News Hour
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/home.html

CNN Education with Student News
http://www.cnn.com/EDUCATION

BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/default.stm

Newslink (newspaper and radio news by state)
http://newslink.org

CBS News
http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/home/main100.shtml

NBC News
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3037881/site/newsweek

Biology and Science

The University of Arizona: The Biology Project
http://www.biology.arizona.edu
Interactive resource for learning biology.

Online Biology Book by M.J. Farabee
http://www.emc.maricopa.edu/faculty/farabee/BIOBK/BioBookTOC.html

Biology Century
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/biologycentury

Biology Online
http://www.biology-online.org/tutorials/home.htm

The Why Files, Science Behind the News
http://whyfiles.org

National Air and Space
http://www.nasm.si.edu

Secret Life of the Brain
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/brain/index.html

Insectclopedia
http://www.insectclopedia.com

Reference Desk

Best Free Reference Websites 2006
http://www.ala.org/ala/rusa/rusaourassoc/rusasections/mars/marspubs/marsbestref2006.htm

Reference Desk
http://refdesk.com

Merriam-Webster Online
http://www.m-w.com/home.htm

U.S. Census Bureau
http://www.census.gov

Xpeditions, maps for printing
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/atlas/index.html

World Atlases
http://www.graphicmaps.com/aatlas/world.htm

Fact Monster
http://www.factmonster.com

Associations
http://www.ipl.org/div/aon

Acronym Database
http://www.ucc.ie/cgi-bin/acronym/acro.html

Infoplease
http://www.infoplease.com

Encyclopedia Smithsonian
http://www.si.edu/resource/faq

One Look Dictionary
http://www.onelook.com

Encyclopedia MYTHICA
http://www.pantheon.org/information/about.html

The Quotations Page
http://www.quotationspage.com

Internet Public Library
http://www.ipl.org

World History

U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
http://www.ushmm.org

The Holocaust: A Learning Site
http://www.ushmm.org/outreach/tc.htm

The Victorian Web
http://www.victorianweb.org/vn/victor4.html

Today in History
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/today.html

Government

Political Parties from the Social Science Information Gateway
http://sosig.esrc.bris.ac.uk/politics/political_parties

United Nations
http://www.un.org

Project Vote Smart
http://www.vote-smart.org

On the Issues, every political leader on every issue
http://www.issues2000.org/default.htm

Political Information Search Engine
http://www.politicalinformation.com

THOMAS, Legislative Information
http://thomas.loc.gov

The U.S. Government's Official Web Portal http://www.firstgov.gov/Government/State_Local.shtml

Fair Vote: The Center for Voting and Democracy
http://www.fairvote.org

Congresslink
http://www.congresslink.org

U.S. History

History... It's Happening
http://www.epnet.com/flashPromo/historyhappenings/index.html

Biography of America
http://www.learner.org/biographyofamerica

Library of Congress, American Memory
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html

Library of Congress, America's Story
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/about/welcome.html

American Indians Virtual Library
http://www.hanksville.org/NAresources

September 11th Archive
http://september11.archive.org

Temperance and Prohibition
http://prohibition.osu.edu

University of Oklahoma, Chronology of U.S. Historical Documents
http://www.law.ou.edu/hist

TeacherOz, 20th and 21st Century America
http://www.teacheroz.com/20thcent.htm#immigration

National Archives
http://www.archives.gov/index.html

Math

Ask Dr. Math
http://mathforum.org/dr.math

Gizmo Interactive Math
http://www.explorelearning.com/index.cfm?method=cResource.dsp

ResourceCatalog Regents Math Review
http://regentsprep.org/Regents/math/math-a.cfm

Mr. Hoffman Math Page
http://schools.spsd.sk.ca/mount/hoffman

Trigonometry
http://www.ies.co.jp/math/java/trig/index.html

Virtual Calculus
http://archives.math.utk.edu/visual.calculus

Tests

Regents Review
http://www.nysedregents.org/testing/hsregents.html
Study former Regents exams

Examination Schedules for New York State Assessment Tests and Regents Tests
http://www.emsc.nysed.gov/ciai/testing/sched.html

Environmental

Envirofacts Data Warehouse
www.epa.gov/enviro

Terms of Environment: Glossary, Abbreviations and Acronyms
www.epa.gov/ocepaterms

National Library for the Environment
www.cnie.org/NLE

Planet Ark
www.planetark.org

USGS: Science for a Changing World
www.usgs.gov