Encyclopedias, almanacs, dictionaries, statistics, and other sites for quickly looking up facts.
(Items marked with ** require your library card number and catalog PIN for access from home.)
- WorldAlmanac via FirstSearch **: Includes Funk & Wagnall's New Encylopedia, the World Almanac and Book of Facts, the World Almanac of the U.S.A., the World Almanac of U.S. Politics, and the World Almanac for Kids.
- Infoplease.com: Information Please Almanac, atlases, and more.
- Wikipedia: "The free encyclopedia that anyone can edit."
- OneLook Dictionary Search: Look up words in almost 1000 online dictionaries at the same time.
- IllinoisAtlas.com: A collection of Illinois and U.S. statistical maps.
- World Factbook: The CIA's book of country profiles.
- Countryreports.org: A collection of stastical information related to country's around the world. (Use from home or at the library; in house library use provides greater access to further articles and information.)
- Salem Press Online Database: Milestone Documents in American History, Great Lives from History and Great Events from History. (Use from home or at the library; Bradley card holders can access database from home using library card number.)
- Wolframalpha.com: Enter your question or calculation, and Wolfram|Alpha uses its built-in algorithms and growing collection of data to compute the answer. Based on a new kind of knowledge-based computing.
- Earth Portal: a comprehensive resource for timely, objective, science-based information about the environment. It is a means for the global scientific community to come together to produce the first free, expert-driven, massively scaleable information resource on the environment, and to engage civil society in a public dialogue on the role of environmental issues in human affairs.
