Britannica School is an online, interactive learning resource for pupils and teachers from primary and secondary schools through to undergraduate study. Discover encyclopedia articles, multimedia, primary sources, games, and other learning resources that support student research, classroom exploration, and curriculum standards.

The preeminent Internet publsiher of literature, reference and verse providing students, researchers and the intellectually curious with unlimited access to books and information on the web, free of charge. Included are: Emily Dickinson, Quotations, Lives of the Saints,Poetry Anthologies, Strunk’s Style, Walt Whitman, Bartlett’s Quotations, Robert Frost, Proverbs and Maxims, William Wordsworth, T.S. Eliot, Sigmund Freud and more

Wikipedia Famous Quotations is a collaborative vast reference of quotations from prominent people, books, films, proverbs, etc.

A project of the U.S. Library of Congress, the WDL makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from all countries and cultures.

For nearly a century, we’ve been in the business of helping families, schools, and libraries across the world discover content that is not only accurate and trustworthy, but readable too. And now with the Internet, we’re doing it better than ever.

Wikipedia is a free-access, free-content Internet encyclopedia, supported and hosted by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Those who can access the site can edit most of its articles. Wikipedia is ranked among the ten most popular websites and constitutes the Internet’s largest and most popular general reference work.

Presents the quick facts you’re most likely looking for: birth and death dates, famous roles or creations, thumbnail bios, and notorious trivia. Classic authors, movie stars, famous frauds, kings and queens, mythical gods, cartoon dogs: anyone famous is fair game for Who2.

Scholarpedia is best understood by how it is unlike most wikis, differences arising from Scholarpedia’s academic origins, goals, and audience. The most significant is Scholarpedia’s process of peer-reviewed publication: all articles in Scholarpedia are either in the process of being written by a team of authors, or have already been published and are subject to expert curation.

Encyclopedia aggregator. Sources include Columbia Encyclopedia and Wikipedia.

Diseases, symptoms, injuries, and more with photographs and illustrations.The National Institutes of Health’s Web site for patients and their families and friends. Information about diseases, conditions, and wellness issues in language you can understand. MedlinePlus offers reliable, up-to-date health information, anytime, anywhere, for free.

Digital collection of scientific and cultural texts, images, videos, and sounds. Explore millions of items from a range of Europe’s leading galleries, libraries, archives and museums. Books and manuscripts, photos and paintings, television and film, sculpture and crafts, diaries and maps, sheet music and recordings, they’re all here. No need to travel the continent, either physically or virtually!

Online resources from the Smithsonian Institution.

2,500 western signs and ideograms grouped by graphic characteristics. A unique online encyclopedia that contains everything about symbols, signs, flags and glyphs arranged by categories such as culture, country, religion, and more.

Hundreds of original contributions by philosophy experts and volunteers Provides open access to detailed, scholarly information on key topics and philosophers in all areas of philosophy.

Database of scientific information on and photographs of known species. Global access to knowledge about life on Earth. Our Mission: To increase awareness and understanding of living nature through an Encyclopedia of Life that gathers, generates, and shares knowledge in an open, freely accessible and trusted digital resource.

Premier encyclopedia covering mythology, folklore, and religion.The mythology section covers Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, Middle East, and Oceania. The Folklore section contains general folklore, Arthurian legends, and fascinating folktales from many lands. Also features A Bestiary, legendary heroes, an image gallery, and genealogical tables of various pantheons and prominent houses.

Featuring 20,000 topics and 2,500 images. The longest running tech reference on the planet.

Full and authoritative information on the entire cycle of Catholic interests, action and doctrine. What the Church teaches and has taught; what she has done and is still doing for the highest welfare of mankind; her methods, past and present; her struggles, her triumphs, and the achievements of her members and her effect on science, literature and art.

Featuring 100,000 scholarly articles. Highly respected. Britannica online.

More than a dictionary. It’s a comprehensive reference site with synonyms, sentence examples, quotes, biographies, and an amazing collection of grammar-related articles and education resources for students, teachers, parents and homeschoolers.