Research Links

  • Ask a Librarian - Ask a Librarian is a free online information service provided by Florida libraries. Library staff from public, academic, school, and special libraries throughout Florida answer your questions in real time via email or chat (available only during library hours). The library answers brief, factual questions or provides suggestions to help find the information needed.
  • Awesome Library - Organizes the web with 24,000 carefully reviewed resources, including the top five percent in education. Visitors can enter a door for teachers, teens, parents, librarians or college students. The site provides links by subject including the arts, English, mathematics, science, social studies, health and PE, technology, languages, geography and other pertinent subdivisions. Don't miss the 'Hot topics' links at the bottom of the main page for links to current events and other topics such as bullying.
  • Bartleby - Presents a collection of classic and current full-text reference tools: encyclopedias, gazetteers, almanacs, dictionaries, quotation collections and style guides (MLA, APA, etc.).
  • DeskRef: Sources for Quick Answers is an exceptional general-reference gateway.
  • Florida Government Information Locator - Links to state agencies, statutes, business information, vital statistics, tax information, licensing bodies, genealogical resources, libraries, schools, tourist information, facts about Florida, history and culture of Florida, and many other sources.
  • INFOMINE: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections - INFOMINE is intended for the introduction and use of Internet/Web resources of relevance to faculty, students, and research staff at the university level. It is being offered as a comprehensive showcase, virtual library and reference tool containing highly useful Internet/web resources including databases, electronic journals, electronic books, bulletin boards, listservs, online library card catalogs, articles and directories of researchers, among many other types of information. It is librarian-built: over 20 University of California, California State University, and other university and college librarians have contributed to building INFOMINE.
  • InfoZone is a web site that provides information on the research process and useful links to facilitate in a research project.
  • The Internet Public Library - Contains valuable links to research sites as well as to online texts. Also has a special section just for teens.
  • ITools - Offers a long page of specialized search boxes in areas such as search tools, language tools, research tools, map tools, and Internet tools.
  • KidsConnect - Developed by The American Association of School Librarians, this site has links to web pages recommended by school media specialists as most helpful for K-12 students.
  • Kids OLR - Kids Online Resources contains hundreds of useful links for students of all ages. Search for resources by category/subject area. Each category contains content-rich sites, lesson plans, and interactive tutorials.
  • The librarian's index to the Internet - The mission of Librarians' Index to the Internet is to provide a well-organized point of access for reliable, trustworthy, librarian-selected Internet resources.
  • Merriam Webster Dictionaries and Thesaurus - Merriam-Webster supplies visitors with a dictionary and thesaurus online; there's a Spanish-English section and a medical dictionary.  The free Daily Features include a Crossword, a Word Game, a Learner's Word of the Day, a Podcast as well as a Visual Dictionary, 'an interactive dictionary with an innovative approach.'.  Word for the Wise, 'a popular radio program broadcast on public radio stations nationwide' is also a feature and includes transcripts and audio recordings of current and past productions.  What more could one want from a dictionary!  Happy wording in the tradition of Noah Webster who has been the recognized word guru since 1820!
  • Museums of the world - this may well be the 'motherof museums - the place to start your search for a specific museum or one related to any topic of study. This site will help you find a staggering variety of museum-related educational links, interactive multimedia in the guide to virtual exhibits, as well as museum shops.
  • National Geographic online index (1888-present)
  • Online Sunshine: The Official Guide to the State of Florida Legislature - This is a good site for easy access to information such as who is on what legislative committee, how to reach senators and representatives by e-mail, or information on the legislative process. You can also find House and Senate bills, journals and calendars.
  • Purdue University Library'sQuick Reference - Federal government documents, information technology, dictionaries, thesauri, phone books, maps, science data, and ZIP codes.

  • Research Channel

    ResearchChannel was founded by a consortium of leading research and academic institutions to share the valuable work of their researchers with the public. ResearchChannel is now available to nearly 38 million satellite and cable television subscribers and our Web site is visited by 2 million visitors each year. Remarkable speakers, researchers and scholars present revolutionary thoughts and discoveries on ResearchChannel. The University of Michigan, the George Mason University and the National Science Foundation are just a few of the world-renowned institutions that participate and whose programs are featured. Many medical and technology professionals regard ResearchChannel as a critical source of new information in their fields. Other viewers are excited by the opportunity to delve deeply into topics that have captured their interest. Viewers access programs online via a live webstream and an extensive video-on-demand library. The library houses more than 3,500 full-length programs that are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

  • The Quotation Page - this site contains over 1,500 quotes in twelve eclectic "collections", many drawn from Bartlett's Familiar Quotations and The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.
  • Startspot Network - The StartSpot Network, a division of StartSpot Mediaworks, was founded with the desire to improve people's ability to quickly and easily find the best topical information on the Web.
  • Subject Pathfinders - Looking for a topic for a term paper? This site may help! Subject Pathfinders will not only help you find and narrow your topic, it will help you find background information on your topic as well as identify the various catalogs, databases, and Web sites that will provide in-depth analysis of your topic. The topic ideas were obtained from a number of sources. The reference to call numbers do not refer to EHS Bryan Library, and some of the databases are not those to which we subscribe, but all the other information is good. 
  • The ThinkQuest Library of Entries - This is an interesting portal, a collection of educational web sites designed by participants in the ThinkQuest Contests.  Teachers and students can explore a multitude of topics from Art & Entertainment to Philosophy, Religion & Mythology, to Sports & Recreation, to name a few of the categories.  The index is easy to use as is the search engine that operated on keywords.  Here's your entree to a unique educational resource, the content developed by high school students.