Research Tools & General Reference

Research Tool – Journal Directory
The Directory of Open Access Journals service offers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals.

Research Tool – Bibliography Formatting
Having trouble formatting your bibliography?  This site will do it for you in the MLA format.

Reference Tool – Thesaurus & Dictionary
Both a thesaurus and a dictionary, the Visual Thesaurus’ interactive display lets you explore and understand language in visual way.

Reference Tool – dictionary, thesaurus, and encyclopedia
This quick reference site provides an easy-to-use dictionary, thesaurus and encyclopedia.

Reference Tool -- Encyclopedia -- Wikipedia

Reference Tool -- Encyclopedia -- Brittannica

General Reference
Refdesk.com provides links to a variety of essential reference tools, including encyclopedias, census information, and genealogy searches.

General Reference – Medical

General Reference – Scholarly Sources
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations.