Basic References Health & Medical
Arts & Humanities History
Biographies and People Homework Helpers
Business & Finance Home and Family
English Reading & Writing Laws
Foreign Languages Oklahoma
Geography & Social Studies Science, Math & Technology
Government General References

Basic References

Acronym and abbreviations - Find out what most acronyms mean.
Calendar - Find the monthly calendar for any month. 
Elements of Style - English grammar information and help.
GTE SuperPagesŪ - A yellow page directory with several search options.
MegaConverter - Weights, measures, and units conversion/calculation modules.
OneLook Dictionaries (Specialty Dictionaries) - Search a frequently updated database of words, terms, names and acronyms.
Perry-Castaņeda Library Map Collection - Maps of the World.
Roget's Thesaurus - To find other word that mean the same
Universal Currency Converter - Converts over 50 international currencies.
Web Site information - Whois - Search for a Web address, NIC handle, host IP, or lastname, firstname
WWWebster Dictionary - Find the definition or check the spelling for almost any word.
Yahoo Maps - Maps and driving directions for the U.S.
Zip Code Lookup - Zip codes from the Postal Service

Arts & Humanities

alt.music.lyrics - The web site of the alt.music.lyrics newsgroup with ability to search and browse the messages.
American Music Conference - is a national non-profit educational association dedicated  to promoting music, music making and music education.
ArtsEdge - The mission of ARTSEDGE is to help artists, teachers, and students gain access to and/or share information, resources, and ideas that support the arts as a core subject area in the K-12 curriculum.
Clipart Directory - List of dozens of web sites dedicated to clipart.
EDSITEment - brings together the best of the humanities on the web. It is a constantly growing collection of the most valuable online resources for teaching English, history, art history, and foreign languages
Exploratorium - A hands-on museum of science, art, and human perception in San Francisco. Their site provides interactive online exhibits and exhibitions, activities, science news, and publications.
Gini's Over the Rainbow page - 500,000 FREE!!! Cool Graphics: Clip Art, Backgrounds, Animations, Icons and links to other sites.
Internet Public Library Youth Division - A great source of information of all types.
University of Houston's - links provide access to indexes, abstracts, bibliographies, and table of contents that will help you find journal, magazine, and newspaper articles; research papers; preprints; proceedings and transactions; book chapters; and similar materials.
Lyrics Library - Lyrics sorted by artist and style and links to other lyrics sites.
Museums - A comprehensive directory of on-line museums and museum related resources from Oxford University.
Music Education Online - A music education resource for students, parents and teachers.
The Arts - By the Oklahoma State Department of Education,  this site features suggestions for implementing and/or integrating the arts in the core curriculum and the Priority Academic Student Skills, Oklahoma's state mandated curriculum.

Biographies and People

AnyWho - AnyWho is a free directory service with residential, business, and government white and yellow pages listings. Listings feature name,telephone number, address, FAX, e-mail, home page, and toll-free numbers.
Internet Public Library Youth Division - A great source of information of all types.
JFK - The Sixth Floor Museum - The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza examines the life, times, death and legacy of President John F. Kennedy.
Nobel Prize Internet Archive - The Nobel Prize Internet Archive contains up-to-date information of all latest and past Nobel Prize laureates.
Notable Citizens of Planet Earth - This dictionary includes more than 27,000 notable men and women who have shaped our world from ancient times to the present day.

Business & Finance

AnyWho - AnyWho is a free directory service with residential, business, and government white and yellow pages listings. Listings feature name,telephone number, address, FAX, e-mail, home page, and toll-free numbers.
GTE SuperPagesŪ - A yellow page directory with several search options.
Hoover's Online - Free business information about companies.  A more detailed profile is available for members.
Universal Currency Converter - Converts over 50 international currencies.

English Reading & Writing

Acronyms - Find out what most acronyms mean.
Alphabet Super Highway - The Alphabet Superhighway is a resource for teachers to find materials and ideas for teaching almost any part of the elementary or secondary curriculum and a place for students to browse for ideas and materials for in-depth information on topics of interest.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations - A searchable copy of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, passages, phrases and proverbs traced to their sources.  This 9th edition was published in 1901.
Elements of Style English grammar information and help.
Guide to Grammar and Writing - A Guide to Grammar to Writing.  From basic problems in subject-verb agreement and the use of articles to exercises in parallel structures and help with argumentative essays, and a way to submit questions about grammar and writing.
Internet Public Library Youth Division - A great source of information of all types.
Kerrie DeGood Quotes - Quotes by category.
Phonics Tool Kit - Developed by Oklahoma Superintendent Sandy Garrett's Phonics Task Force this is primarily a resource for teachers.
Roget's Thesaurus - A searchable thesaurus that doesn't make suggestions for misspelled words.
The Wall - a virtual anthology featuring the work of outstanding Oklahoma student writers.
WWWebster Dictionary - Search for definitions, usage and spelling.  They give a lot of suggestions for misspelled words. When I searched for "fisics", I got "physics" along with 252 other words in alphabetical order.
WWWebster Thesaurus - A lot like the dictionary but it comes up with fewer suggestions for misspelled words.  They only gave 71 suggestions for "fisics" including the correct spelling.

Foreign Languages

EDSITEment - brings together the best of the humanities on the web. It is a constantly growing collection of the most valuable online resources for teaching English, history, art history, and foreign languages.
ODE Languages Sites - This is the Oklahoma State Department of Education Languages site.  From here you can go to the WWW Links page for dozens of links to many languages including Sign Language, Native American, and all the usual foreign languages you expect to find.

Geography & Social Studies

3D Atlas Online - Links for every country, timely world news, the coolest free downloads, and our own Geographic Glossary.
50 States and Capitals - A great source of information on all 50 States and the US Territories.
Atlapedia Online - Atlapedia Online contains full color physical and political maps as well as key facts and statistics on countries of the world.
E-Conflict World Encyclopedia - Information about countries of the World Economy, Defense, Geography, Government, People National Anthems, Maps, Flags, News and Weather.
Global Statistics - A website containing statistical information on countries, provinces and cities. Also present are charts listing global data.   
Internet Public Library Youth Division - A great source of information of all types.
Land Record Reference - Explains land descriptions both past and present as well as most other land records.
National Geographic Society - Explore National Geographic Online
Perry-Castaņeda Library Map Collection - University of Texas at Austin site for maps around the world.
Social Studies - Oklahoma State Department of Education Social Studies site with links divided into the following categories. U.S. History, World History, Current Events, Government, Geography, Oklahoma Resources and Teacher Resources.
U.S. Gazetteer - Census Bureau information on Incorporated towns and cities in the US. 
Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) - information about almost 2 million physical and cultural geographic features in the United States
GEOnet Names Server (GNS) provides access to the National Imagery and Mapping Agency's (NIMA) database of foreign geographic feature names
Yahoo Maps - Maps and driving directions for the U.S.

Government

Government information is at the Government page of ArdNet.

Health and Medical

Institute on Community Integration - Minnesota University Affiliated Program on Developmental Disabilities.
Internet Public Library Youth Division - A great source of information of all types.
National Library of Medicine - The world's largest medical library. It collects materials in all major areas of the health sciences and to a lesser degree in such areas as chemistry, physics, botany and zoology.
National Institutes of Health (NIH) - One of the world's foremost medical research centers. An agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the NIH is the Federal focal point for health research.
New England Journal of Medicine - Access to searches and abstracts of articles or, with a subscription, the complete articles.
PubMed - National Library or Medicine's search service to access the 9 million citations in MEDLINE and Pre-MEDLINE (with links to participating on-line journals), and other related databases.

History

American and British History Resources - A wealth of informative sites broken down by type, time period and more.
American Civil War Homepage - gathers together links to the most useful identified electronic files about the American Civil War (1861-1865).
American Women's History - provides citations to print and Internet reference sources, as well as to selected large primary source collections.
EDSITEment - brings together the best of the humanities on the web. It is a constantly growing collection of the most valuable online resources for teaching English, history, art history, and foreign languages.
Gateway to World History - A collection of resources to support the study and teaching of world history and history in general
History of the Cherokee - History, images, maps, genealogy, books, magazine information and links.
History of the World - Go to the continent to get a brief history of that region.
Internet Public Library Youth Division - A great source of information of all types.
Mr. Figueroa's History Help Page - Designed to help students in the elementary, middle, & high school with their study of history.
Virtual Library Museums - A comprehensive directory of on-line museums and museum related resources from Oxford University.

Homework Helpers

B.J. Pinchbeck's Homework Helper - A great site for homework help.  It's even more impressive when you realize it's by a 12 year old and his father.
Classroom Connect - Home to the latest information to help K-12 educators make the most of the Internet in elementary, middle, and secondary schools around the world.
Electronic Prodigy - The Electronic Prodigy-With over 500 links, the most complete reference on the net for all of your homework needs.
Homework Heaven - Divided into three groups, homework help is provided in every subject imaginable.  They also have sections for teacher and parents.
Homework help from Infoseek - Another excellent starting place to find help for any homework question.  Great for students, teachers and parents.
Infoplease Kids' Almanac - The largest free reference site just for kids! Get homework help & find facts on thousands of subjects, including sports, entertainment, geography, history,biography,education and health.
KidsConnect - K-12 students fill out a form and ask a question.   A volunteer school librarian will get back to you in usually two school days. You will be given suggestions of good Web sites and other resources to look into for help on your project.
Kids on the Web - a good place for kids and parents to start their exploration of the internet.
Kids Web - Kid's Web goal is to present students with a subset of the Web that is very simple to navigate, and contains information targeted at the K-12 level
Looney Bin - Study tips, Assignment Essay and report guidelines, Test and Exam study tips and a guide to what employers look for!
ResearchPaper.com - Term Paper? Visit the Web's best site for term paper topics and ideas, plus writing assistance for term papers and research reports.
Study Web - Search or browse a collection of over 92,000 Research Quality URLs that are categorized and reviewed.

Home and Family

Consumer Information Center, Pueblo, CO - Consumer Information Center - catalog of free and low-cost federal publications of consumer interest
Consumer ReportsŪ Online - Online version of the magazine.  Access to valuable free information and with a paid subscription, even more information.
Consumer World - Consumer World has over 1800 links to everything 'consumer' on the Internet.
FamilyEducation Network - Information, help and support for parents, educators and students.  Also addresses current events and how they affect our children.
Genealogy Home Page - A list of links to sites that will help you get started finding your roots.
Geneology - Indian Territory in the Civil War Message Board 
Homebuyer's Fair - They provide a variety of information for those about to buy or move.  They asked for more information than I was willing to provide, so I don't know how useful the information is that they provide.
Kelley Blue Book - New and used auto pricing
SOAR Searchable Online Archive of Recipes - Browse or search an archive of over 30,000 recipes collected from a wide variety of Usenet newsgroups and mailing lists. Includes a wide variety of ethnic foods, and many recipes for those on restricted diets such as diabetic or fat-free diets
Virtual Garden - A premier online gardening community, offers a Plant Encyclopedia, garden articles and info on: horticulture, landscape, design, organic gardening, potted plants and much more.

Laws of Oklahoma & the United States

Oklahoma Constitution - Browse the Oklahoma State Constitution, one of the longest state constitutions in the US.
Oklahoma Constitution Search - Search the Oklahoma State Constitution, one of the longest state constitutions in the US.
Oklahoma Legal Research System - By the State Attorney General, this site gives you access to the Constitution, Statutes, Court Decisions, Agency Rules and Agency Decisions.
Constitution of the United States of America - A transcription of the Constitution in its original form. Items in hypertext have since been amended or superseded.
Federal Judiciary - Clearing house for information on the Federal Judiciary: news and information, publications and directories, documents for public review, and answers to frequently asked questions.
FindLaw Internet Legal Resources - Thousands of legal sites, cases, codes, forms, law reviews, law schools, bar associations, law firms, experts, CLE courses, and much more.
Internet Law Library - The law resources of the Internet organized by subject and jurisdiction -- including United States federal, state, territorial, and local law, the laws of other nations, international law and treaties, attorney directories, law school libraries, and law book reviews and publishers.
Internet Public Library Youth Division - A great source of information of all types.
Legal Information Institute - Cornell Law Schools informative site. 

Oklahoma

Official Oklahoma Government Information Server - Your starting point for information about Oklahoma.
Oklahoma Tax Commission - Information and forms for individuals and businesses in Oklahoma.
Oklahoma Tourism & Recreation - Information about enjoying Oklahoma.
Oklahoma State Agencies - Address, phone numbers and links to state agencies.
Surf-Oklahoma - Your state reference source from the Oklahoma Department of Libraries
Vital Records Information - A list of County Vital Records Offices to obtain marriage, divorce, probate, civil court & land records. Contact the County Clerk in the county in which the event occurred.

Science, Math & Technology

AAAE Archives of American Aerospace Exploration - Virtual Library for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine
American Institute of Physics - The largest organization of physicists in North America. You will find online journals and thousands of pages of free and useful information.
Athena Project - An excellent site for Earth and Space Science information for K-12.
Black Hole Gang - Meet the Black Hole Gang, a group of four kids (and their dog, Newton) who are crazy about science.  A fun way to learn but not a good place to start if you are looking for the answer to a specific question.
Cells Alive - A lot of neat graphics. Learn about bacteria, viruses, parasites, cancer cells. How live immune cells attack and kill microbes.
Chemical Elements.com - An Interactive Periodic Table - An up-to-date periodic table with detailed but easy to understand information.
BABEL - Computer Related Abbreviations and Acronyms - Strong on telling you what the acronym stands for but weak on definitions.  Has a list of country domains in the appendix.
Cornell Theory Center Math and Science Gateway - provides links to resources in mathematics and science for educators and students in grades 9-12
Daily Planet (Weather) - By the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. A listing of weather and internet resources are here to demonstrate their work.
Discover Magazine - An online version of the science news magazine.
Domain Name Information - a little information on internet country codes
Exploratorium - A hands-on museum of science, art, and human perception in San Francisco. Their site provides interactive online exhibits and exhibitions, activities, science news, and publications.
Knowledge Connections - A site directory with short explanations for each site.
Museum of Paleontology - The University of California, Berkely's museum with many virtual displays.
Internet in the Classroom - NASA's Quest Project to help bring the internet into the classroom. 
Internet Public Library Youth Division - A great source of information of all types.
Learning Web - A portion of the USGS web dedicated to K-12 education, exploration, and life-long learning. Learn how Biology, Geology, Hydrology, and Geography can help us understand our changing world.
Math Forum A comprehensive resource for math education on the Internet. Some features include a K-12 math expert service, an extensive database of math sites, online resources for teaching and learning math, plus much more. (For homework help on a specific problem, go to Search Dr. Math)
MegaConverter - Weights, measures, and units conversion/calculation modules.
Museum of Science - The Museum of Science and The Computer Museum join to present some interesting exhibits.
NASA - NASA is deeply committed to spreading the unique knowledge that flows from its aeronautics and space research.
NASA Glenn Learning Technologies Project - For K-12
NASA StarChild Project: A Learning Center for Young Astronomers
Ocean Planet at the Smithsonian - This electronic online companion exhibition contains all of the text and most of the panel designs and images found in the traveling exhibition.
Scientific American - Scientific American has tracked key changes in technology for the past 150 years, we are now participating in the radical transformation driven by computer technology.
The Smithsonian Institution - 140 million artifacts and specimens are in its trust for "the increase and diffusion of knowledge".
Smithsonian Magazine - Smithsonian Magazine - This beautifully produced site exploring science, nature, the arts, history, and the environment features powerful searching, award-winning images, video, audio, and informative hot links.
Students for the Exploration and Development of Space - SEDS is an independent, student-based organization which promotes the exploration and development of space. SEDS believes in a space-faring civilization and that focussing the enthusiasm of young people is the key to our future in space.
Web Site information - Whois - Search for a Web address, NIC handle, host IP, or lastname, firstname

General References

Allexperts.com
Get advice from professionals in medicine, law, politics and many other topics.
Ardmore Public Library - Search the online catalog, reserve books, or perform searches on Searchbank or Firstsearch.  You will need to have a library card and request access to reserve books or to use Searchbank and Firstsearch but it's worth it.
Ask The Experts! - A directory of links to people who have volunteered their time to answer questions and webpages that provide information.
Holidays and Seasons - Calendars organized by semester with holidays listed.  For the best of this site, click on the holiday and get a wealth of information about that holiday
InfoSpace - You'll find yellow pages, white pages, classifieds, shopping sites, finance information, government data, chat rooms, and much more.
Internet Movie Database - The ultimate online movie database covering over 180,000 titles and 500,000 people with facts, trivia, reviews and multimedia links from the earliest films to the latest releases.
Internet Public Library - Includes directories of online texts, newspapers, magazines, reference materials; plus special sections for youth and teens.
IPL Reference Center - The reference center for the Internet Public Library
Library of Congress - Information resources and tools include The Library Today internet magazine, Using the Library (catalogs, collections, research services), THOMAS (U.S. legislative information), American Memory (historical collections), Exhibitions on-line, forms and data from the Copyright Office, the Library's Bicentennial (1800-2000) and general information.
My Virtual Reference Desk - A lot of links in a lot of categories.  Check it out to find a link to just about anything.
OneLook Dictionaries (Specialty Dictionaries) - The best place to look up a word or term in an Internet dictionary or glossary. Free search access to a frequently updated database of words, terms, names, acronyms vs. Internet links to on-line dictionaries or glossaries.
Research-It - lets you find anything on the internet.  Language, Library, Geographical, Financial, Shipping and Internet categories.

Last updated July 04, 2007

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