Reference+Links

= **Websites that will help you finish homework faster.** =

=Country Statistics= US govt profiles on all the countries of the world. **Highly Recommended.** Stats, maps, sat images, everything, and a country camparison tool. **Highly Recommended.** Very cool. Compare several countries at once. Country profiles written by the largest library in the world.
 * [|CIA World Fact Book]**
 * Intute World Guide**
 * [|UN CyberSchoolBus]**
 * [|Library of Congress]**

=News= Every newspaper you could ever think of from anywhere English language news from around the world Many different newspapers in Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian & Spanish Probably the most respected news service in the world Probably America's most balanced news source
 * OnlineNewspapers.com**
 * Inkdrop.net**
 * MIT Foriegn language news list**
 * BBC**
 * CNN**

=Free E-books= Google book search. Click the Full text only option, then search.
 * http://books.google.com/advanced_book_search?q=cats**

=Biographies= Easy to use website that has feature sections such as the famous Mums article with Marge Simpson. More simple website with 3,384 bios.
 * [|Bio.com]**
 * [|Who2?]**

=Dictionaries & Encyclopaedias= A visual dictionary/thesaurus that show relationships between words as a web. **Highly recommended.** Columbia Encyclopedia, Oxford’s World Encyclopedia, Encyclopedia of World Biography and Oxford Pocket Dictionary all in one place! **Recommended.** Encyclopaedia, Dictionary, Atlas, Timelines, & Almanac all in one place. **KS3. Recommended.**  **[|How Stuff Works]**  Fantastic multi-media site with answers to nearly anything. **KS3&4.** **Recommended.**
 * **Visuwords****
 * Encyclopedia.com**
 * [|Fact monster]**

Psychology
Website of many resources. Very popular with 1st year university psych students.
 * Psych-web**

English
Searches for any word(s) in any of Shakespeare's works. Type in a word and this site will find words that rhyme. 6 different types of rhyme: beginning & end rhymes, first & last syllable rhymes, double & triple rhymes.
 * Shakespeare Searched**
 * Rhymer.com**

History
Specialises in source materials already available on internet. Covers most period & regions. Amazing collection of information & pictures from King Arthur to Zena. **Highly Recommended.**
 * [|Internet History Source Books]**
 * Encyclopaedia Mythica**

Art & Design
An art dictionary with usage, pronunciation and famous quotes. Huge. Contains over 8,700 artists. You can search by artist, title, or museum. You can browse by medium, nationality, movement, & subject. When you do a search it takes you to the actual painting in the museum. Additionally, there’s an archive of art history articles that are linked to the paintings. **Highly recommended.** Over 2,000 scanned images. Search or browse by artist and subject. Articles on theory and criticism, and a "gallery" that changes regularly. Walk around museums like you’re on Google Earth! When you see a +, you can zoom in on a work. It’s close enough to see cracks in the paint! The click the i button for information, videos, and more. Modern art only. Online image collection of 29,000 items: architecture, design objects, drawings, paintings, film, even performance art. Filter your search by item type & decade. A global graffiti collective. It contains a gallery of graffiti around the world, artist interviews and research about street art. An art history website with a great split screen viewing platform. An online digital art community where artists meet and share ideas. A lot of manga & anime. Popular TV program about art in the 21st century. Great biographies and interviews with artists Symbols and their meaning. Graphical or text search.
 * [|ArtLex]**
 * [|Artcyclopaedia]**
 * The Artchive**
 * Google Art Project**
 * MOMA**
 * Art Crimes**
 * Web Gallery of Art**
 * DeviantArt**
 * Art21**
 * [|Symbols.com]**

Business & Economics
Especially good for diagrams of business concepts.
 * bized.co.uk - reference page**

**Science & Maths**
Free calculators for calculating anything - science, math, engineering, anything Articles about research, careers, news, and maths in daily life. **IB level.**  An online academic quality reference collection of every species known to man.  Built in collaboration with the several of the World's largest Life Sciences Museums. **Highly recommended.** Lots of photos, history & statistics
 * [|Calculator Edge]**
 * +Plus mathematics magazine**
 * [|EOL - Encyclopaedia of Life]**
 * [|Views of the Solar System]**

**Music**
Encyclopaedia of world instruments
 * InstrumentEncyclopaedia**

Languages
Cataloguing the world's 1,6912 known living languages. Combines French grammar & pop culture
 * [|Ethnologue]**
 * Tex's French grammar**

Philosophy & religion
IB. TOK. **Highly Recommended.** Great site covering beliefs, history, personal stories and modern articles about all the World's living religions.
 * [|Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy]**
 * [|BBC - Religion & Ethics]**

=Ask an expert= Can't find the right web page? Ask for help using online chat or e-mail. Don't ask them to answer your homework, they'll only help you if you've already tried. Started in Sheffield University in 1999. You can ask questions or browse the archive of previous questions. **IB ToK.**
 * QLD State Library** OR **Multnoman County Library** OR **National Library Singapore** OR **Oregon Libraries Network**
 * [|Ask a Philosopher]**

=Maps= Amazing collection of maps showing social trends. **Highly Recommended.** Maps & statistics of countries, continents, etc Learn Geography & History at the same time! Make & print your own B & W maps for assignments
 * [|Uni of Texas Map Collection]**
 * [|Altapedia Online]**
 * [|Historical Atlas of the 21st Century]**
 * [|National Geographic Xpedition Maps]**

=Museums & galleries= Includes online pictures of the collection and an amazing //Zoom// feature. Online picture of their collection; searchable by artist, object type, or theme.
 * The National Gallery, UK**
 * [|The Getty Museum, USA]**

=Images= Specialist photographic image search engine for open web.
 * @http://compfight.com/**

Huge stock photo company. Images & video. Good interface, search first and filter your results after.
 * Corbis images**

Probably hugest on internet. Images, video & music. Not as easy to use but more controls.
 * Getty Images**