Free Information Resources on the Web

Based on my experience in library school, websearching, and working in libraries, I found these free links. Although I admit that this is not completely exhaustive, these links cover a range of areas.

General Resources

Reference, Facts, News:
http://www.refdesk.com/

Internet Public Library:
http://www.ipl.org/

Library Spot:
http://www.libraryspot.com/


Finance

The layman's finance crisis glossary:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7620678.stm


Congress and Senate:
http://thomas.loc.gov/

Congressional votes:
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/

Arts and Humanities

Purdue Online Writing Lab:
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/

Internet Movie Database:
http://www.imdb.com/


Project Guttenberg (E-Books):
http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page

Artcyclopedia:
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy:
http://plato.stanford.edu/


Demography

Census:
http://www.census.gov/

American Fact Finder :
http://factfinder.census.gov/home/saff/main.html?_lang=en

CIA World Factbook:
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/

Science

Chemical Resources:
http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/chemical.html

Howstuffworks:
http://www.howstuffworks.com/

National Institute of Health (Health from A-Z):
http://health.nih.gov/

Tour the Human Body:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/anatomy.html#cat45

Internet Terms and Glossaries

List of Google Operators and Search Terms: http://www.googleguide.com/advanced_operators.html
http://www.googleguide.com/


University of Cal-Berkeley Glossary of Internet terms:
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Glossary.html

The Tech Terms Computer Dictionary:
http://www.techterms.com/