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

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

General Reference  --  Study Guides
Provides free study guides in a variety of subjects, including language arts, history, math and science.  Also has a college prep section.

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

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

Reference Tool -- Encyclopedia
This encyclopedia provides up-to-date information and is very easy to navigate.

General Reference – Medical
Medical site written by doctors and handy for finding medical and pharmacy terms plus explanations of diseases.

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.