Who needs textbooks?
This list, courtesy of studenthacks.org, has everything you’d need to research your paper or study for your next exam.
Almanacs
- AlternaTime
- CIA World Factbook
- Daily Almanacs
- Earth Calendar
- Infoplease.com
- Time and Date
- World Flag Database
- World Time Server
Biographies
- Biographical Dictionary
- Britannica Biographies
- Infoplease Biography Search
- Forbes.com People Tracker
- Twentieth Century Authors
Dictionaries
- Acronym Finder
- American Heritage Dictionary
- British National Corpus
- Encarta World English Dictionary
- Idiom Connection
- Lexicool
- Oxford English Dictionary
- Roget’s Thesaurus
- Rhyming Dictionary
- Synonym Dictionary
Encyclopedias
- Encarta Encyclopedia
- Columbia Encyclopedia
- Encyclopedia Britannica
- Encyclopedia Mythica (Myth/Folklore)
- Encyclopedia Smithsonian
- Artcyclopedia (Artists/Artwork)
- Nolo Legal Encyclopedia
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Mathematics Encyclopedia
- McGraw-Hill Science Encyclopedia
- Hyperhistory Online
- Encyclopedia of Psychology
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
General Research
- Academic Info Reference Desk
- Best Info on the Net Reference
- DeskRef
- Digital Librarian
- Infomine
- KnowPlay
- LibDex
- Librarian’s Index to the Internet
- LibrarySpot
- Martindale’s Reference Desk
- Merlot
- RefDesk.com
- Reference Collection at Bartleby.com
- ReferenceDesk.org
- Research It
- Search-It-All
- Virtual Reference Collection
- Virtual Reference Desk
- Xrefer
- World eBook Library
Journal Article Databases (Free Access from Campus Library)
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- PubMed Central
- Highwire Press
- Google Scholar
- MSN Live Academic
- Sage Publications
- Action BioScience
- Public Library of Science
- Journal of Applied Physiology
- Oaister
- Academic Database List
Literature
- Bartleby.com
- Cliff’s Notes
- Gutenberg Project
- Internet Public Library
- Literary Criticism
- Literature.org
- Norton Anthology of English Literature
- The Pulitzer Prizes
- Shakespeare - The Complete Works
- Sparks Notes - Literature Study Guides
Social & Economic Issues
- DocuTicker
- Pew Internet & American Life Project
- Pew Research Center
- RAND Corporation
- Urban Institute
Statistics
- Statistical Abstract of the United States
- Bureau of Economic Analysis
- U.S. Economy at a Glance
- U.S. Bureau of Criminal Justice Statistics
- Statistical Abstract of the United States
- U.S. Census Bureau
- FedStats
- NetFactual (Internet Statistics)
- Statistics - Government Documents
Style Manuals
- American Heritage Book of English Usage
- A Guide for Writing Research Papers - MLA
- Strunk’s Elements of Style
- Yale Web Style Guide
- APA Cheat Sheets
Yearbooks
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A lot of times when I need to study for something I have trouble because I have homework in another class or just something else I need to take care of. Usually people say you should get the big stuff out of the way first, but I’ve realized that the opposite works much better for me. I can’t concentrate on something big if I have a lot of other things I have to do nagging at me in my head. So, I take care of the homework and little things first. Then I only have the test to study for and no distractions.