General reference

Online resources

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Links to biographical articles on over 470,000 individuals. Full text articles, abstracts and photographs are available from periodicals, feature articles, interviews, essays, performance reviews, speeches and obituaries. For more information, check out the Biography Reference Bank tutorial.

Searches multiple EBSCOhost resources with one search. Place a check mark on all the Online resources to search all Online resources at once. Searches magazine and newspapers, NoveList, Searchasaurus and more.

Una versión española de las bases de datos de EBSCOhost. el Clic en esta conexión para conseguir acceso a todas las bases de datos de anfitrión de EBSCO. Coloque una marca en todas las bases de datos para buscar todas bases de datos inmediatamente.

A variety of reference sources for elementary and middle school students including magazines, timelines and almanacs. For more information, check out the Facts for Learning tutorial.

Contains over 25,000 articles on various topics.

History Reference Center is a comprehensive full text history reference database designed for secondary schools, public libraries, junior/community colleges, and undergraduate research. For more information, check out the History Reference Center tutorial.

Definitions and translations from over 100 full-text dictionaries on foreign languages, art, history, literature, science, and more. For more information, check out the Oxford Reference Online tutorial.

Full-text articles and graphics from newspapers and magazines for elementary and middle school students. For more information, check out the SIRS Discoverer tutorial.

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Websites

"The world's largest and most accurate human-edited dictionary of acronyms, abbreviations, and initialisms." The site has more than 475,000 entries for everything form business to slang to science.

Census information for the United States, Pennsylvania, Lycoming County – right down to your street.

How to do just about anything -- from playing a kazoo, to fixing your car, to kissing on a date.

The gateway to statistics from over 100 U.S. federal agencies.

Reference includes basic research tools such as almanacs, dictionaries and encyclopedias.

A publicly-funded website and weekly newsletter. The site is searchable and browse-able for the best of the web. There are tens of thousands of entries maintained by their librarians and organized into 14 main topics and nearly 300 related topics.

Refdesk.com 

Statistical Abstract of the U.S.

The national data book contains a collection of statistics on social and economic conditions in the United States.

Everything you need to know from the U.S. House of Representative and the U.S. Senate.

Got an email with an offer that's too good to be true? Check it out on this site. The entries include descriptions of the legend's origin, its status, and an evaluation.