Recommended Websites: General Reference

Search Engines

• Ask
• Dogpile
• Goodsearch
• Google
• Icerocket: "real-time" social search
• Oregon Media Directory | Search Local Oregon News
  
• Scirus: science websites & journal articles
• Wolfram|Alpha: computational knowledge engine
• Yahoo

Directories

• Infography: subject listing of both print & web resources.
• IPL2: Internet Public Library and Librarians' Index to the Internet

Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, etc.

• Acronym Server: searchable list of abbreviations
• Artcyclopedia: guide to museum-quality fine art on the Internet
• American Sign Language Dictionary
• Biographical Dictionary
• Biography.com:biographical information published by A&E Television Networks
• Britannica Online
• Encyclopaedia of the Orient: North Africa & the Middle East
• Encyclopedia Mythica: deities, fabulous creatures and places of myth
• Infoplease.com: encyclopedia, almanacs and dictionary.
• Merriam-Webster Dictionary
• OED: Oxford English Dictionary
• OneLook Dictionaries: simultaneous searching of more than 600 online dictionaries.
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Robert's Rules of Order
• Roget's Thesaurus, 1911
• Thesaurus(Ask.com)
• US Zip Codes
• YourDictionary.com: multiple dictionaries in multiple languages.

Online Media

• Documentary Heaven: provides a vast collection of documentaries spanning across every genre

Public Domian, Opensource, and Creative Commons

• Internet Archive
• Open Clip Art Library
• Search Creative Commons