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MeL's Reference Desk is designed to point you to trustworthy online resources on a wide variety of topics.
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Best Free Reference Sites from the American Library Assocation

2009 list from the Machine-Assisted Reference Section Committee of the Reference and User Services Association of the American Library Association.

Internet Public Library

Provides library services to Internet users. Materials are selected on the merits of a particular site in relation to the needs of the users.

Librarians' Internet Index

Established by librarians to provide librarian-vetted Internet resources on a broad collection of Internet resources browseable by subject and accessible via search engine.

About.com

One of the largest producers of original content on the Web with hand-crafted, original articles, recipes, product reviews, videos, tutorials and other practical applications to problem solving.

ALA - Best of the Web Archives

Searchable sites included in the 1999-2006 annual lists issued by ALA to recognize outstanding reference sites on the web.

Answers.com

Combines traditional and new media to provide the most up-to-date, accurate definitions and explanations available.

Google Reference

Google has chosen the top reference sites for easy access by subject. Google Reference is based on the Open Directory and maintained by a vast, global community of volunteer editors.

Google Scholar

Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature.

GovFresh - Government 2.0

GovFresh is a live feed of official news from U.S. Government Twitter, YouTube, RSS, Facebook, Flickr accounts and more, all in one place.

Infoplease: all the knowledge you need

Since 1998 the online content of Information Please has been distinguished by it's basis of time-tested reference tools geared toward providing the best educational data on the web.

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