• How to Choose a Search Engine or Directory
• A Virtual Library of Useful URLs Arranged by Dewey Decimal Classification
• Searchedu.com  
  Search over 20 million university and education pages indexed and ranked in order of popularity
• A Research Guide for Students

• Merriam-Webster Online
• Encarta World English Dictionary
• A Web of On-Line Dictionaries  
  This website indexes on-line dictionaries (in many languages), thesauruses, and such like containing words and phrases.
• Online Language Translators

• Dealing with 9/11 tragedy: Internet resources
• September 11th & Beyond

• Education Index
  The Education Index Web site provides a guide to "the most useful education-related sites on the Web." The links can be browsed by subject such as astronomy, chemistry, geology, and physics (among many others), or by life stage, from prenatal and infant all the way to college and continuing education. 

• Encarta Encyclopedia
• Encyclopaedia Britannica Search the oldest and largest general reference in the English language, with more than 70,000 articles.
• EncyberPedia
  The Living Encyclopedia
• Information Please
  • Encyclopedia Search gives you access to more than 57,000 articles from the Columbia Encyclopedia, Fifth Edition.
  • Dictionary Search gives you access to more than 125,000 complete, precisely defined entries.
• How Stuff Works

American Memory is a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. The site offers more than 5 million items from more than 90 historical collections.

• Atlapedia Online
  Contains full color physical and political maps as well as key facts and statistics on countries of the world.

• The Internet School Library Media Center's Index to Internet Sites: Children's and Young Adults' Authors & Illustrators. The ISLMC is a meta-site designed to foster easy access to curriculum related sites for teachers, school librarians, parents and students.
• Classical Authors Directory
• Links to Literature on the Web
• Volunteer State Book Award -- Info

• Elections
  For easy access to election results, check out http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/romans/polsci/elections.html

• U.S. Government Printing Office publications, including:
  • The United States Government Manual -- 2000 / 2001
  • Code of Federal Regulations
  • Congressional Record
  • Federal Register
  • Public Laws
  • Commerce Business Daily
  • Other databases or search multiple governmental databases
  • Locate Federal depository libraries
• U.S. Occupational Outlook Handbook

• The Television News Archive collection at Vanderbilt University is the world's most extensive and complete archive of television news.

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