E-REFERCES
Almanacs
The Guinness Worlds Records site contains “selection of records found in the Guinness World Records database.”
This is the online version of the Time Almanac. It is a comprehensive reference source that “allows searching along with the contents of an encyclopedia, a dictionary, an atlas, and several almanacs containing statistics, facts, and historical records.”
Encyclopedias
Encyclopedia.com gives free access to nearly 200,000 reference entries from sources you can cite. Plus, more than 50,000 topic summaries feature related pictures, videos, topic summaries, and newspaper and magazine articles from around the world. Encyclopedia.com also provides innovative tools that allow you to rate and sort the reference content you find to be the most useful.
An online version of the widely-used Encyclopedia Britannica. It contains more than 120,000 articles, thousands of images and videos, online dictionary and many more.