Great Reference sites to help you with your Research
Not sure where to start with your research? Why not try these great reference sites to get you going.
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General Reference Sites
All of these resources provide an excellent overview of general reference material. DK Find Out! Check out the beautiful images and clever way they have presented the information. Ask the Experts Awesome Library - K-12 Education Directory Facts Subject Index - Refdesk Provides 24 resources for reference categories. How Stuff Works Describes the composition, function and appearance of hundreds of items. Internet Public Library A great online library reference Kidinfo A great way to find both fun stuff and information for completing your homework assignments. KidsClick! Web guide and search tool for kids by librarians. LibrarySpot - a virtual library resource center Dictionaries
The following websites provide a range of online dictionaries. Reference Desk: Dictionaries This site gives you a range of online dictionaries for you to choose from. Visuwords This is like a 'dancing dictionary". Have lots of fun while you are learning the meanings of words. OneLook There are 156 dictionaries and 19,317,398 words on this site!!! Newspapers and Journals
Newseum Gives you news from all over the world. Online newspapers.com Gives you thousands of newspapers from all over the world. World-newspapers.com More newspapers from all over the world. Library Spot - Newspapers Australian Newspapers Trove Digitised Newspapers The National Library of Australia has created this amazing database of digitised versions of 216 newspapers from all over the country. The Australian The Age 
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Art Galleries
The National Gallery of London The Louvre Tate Collections (UK) The Guggenheim Museums of Art The National Gallery of Australia The Art Gallery of Western Australia Pica (Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts National Gallery of Art, Washngton Museums The Smithsonian Institute The Natural History Museum (UK) The National Museum of Australia The Western Australian Museum The Western Australian Maritime Museum Exploratorium Libraries The Library of Congress Project Gutenburg (Australia) National Library of Australia State Library of Western Australia British Library Atlases
National Geographic Maps Provides a wealth of resources in many different formats for you to explore the earth's geography. SepiaTown Explore the map and view historical images from around the globe. Upload your own vintage images and share YOUR history. David Rumsey Map Collection The historical map collection has over 69,000 maps and images online. The collection includes rare 16th through 21st century maps of America, North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Pacific and the World. Scribble Maps Easily draw on maps then share them with others. Free Maps Access online mapping, the World Reference Atlas and map game. Atlapedia Online Contains full colour physical maps, political maps as well as key facts and statistics on countries of the world. Free Maps Free interactive maps and puzzles to learn continents, countries, states, capitals, physical features and cultural monuments. d-maps.com Free outline and blank maps. Maps of the world Maps of all the contents. World Atlas Lets you select various countries and continents around the world. World Sunlight Map Watch the sun rise and set all over the world in real time. Mapping tools from Google Google Maps Google Earth Google Moon Worldmapper Worldmapper is a collection of world maps, where territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of interest. This is especially useful for spatial learners. |