Iott Resource Center

Internet Sites - Reference Tools

Almanacs
Information Please
Old Farmers Almanac
Baseball Almanac
Celebrity almanac

Calculators
Financenter 122 calculators for every purpose

Directories
Switchboard: The people & Business Directory
InfoSpace: The Ultimate Directory
AT&T

Encyclopedias
Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia
The Catholic Encyclopedia
Spartacus - great for history and world affairs
Bullfinch’s Mythology
Encyclopedia of Mythica -myths and gods and goddesses from ancient Rome and Greece Roman and Greek gods
Factmonster from Info Please - online dictionary, encyclopedia, almanac and atlas

Government
Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments
CIA World Factbook
Federal Consumer Information Center
U.S. Census Bureau
First Gov- this site allows you to reach every online resource offered by the federal government
Ohio Facts and symbols
Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles
Online Ohio Driving manual and study guide

News Sources
CNN News - allows searching of its archives
USA Today - archives of the national newspaper
Online News hour- public TV news
Newspapers online- links to newspapers worldwide
Television News Archive - archive of television news since 1968 from Vanderbilt University

Statistics
U.S. Census Bureau
Bureau of Labor Statistics- get information on how much people earn, the consumer price index, consumer spending and much more; Click on the link for "Other Statistics" to get statistics on health, justice and education
InfoNation - compare statistics from up to seven United Nations member countries. The statistics page has four sections: geography, economy, population and society.
International Database - this site provides statistical tables of demographic and socioeconomic facts for 227 countries
Your Nation - this is another useful site to compare country data collected from the CIA World Fact book

Writing Tools
MLA Examples
Bartlett’s quotations
Elements of Style
Grammar and Style Notes
Bibliographic Citation Formats
The Seven Steps of the Research Process
How to critically analyze Information Sources
How to Evaluate a Webpage
MLA Citation Examples

Dictionaries
Merrian Webster Dictionary
Multi-lingual Dictionaries