Infoplease is a comprehensive reference source that combines the contents of an encyclopedia, a dictionary, an atlas, and several almanacs loaded with statistics, facts, and historical records. A single search engine allows you to search all these sources at once.

 

Atlapedia Online contains full color physical maps, political maps as well as key facts and statistics on countries of the world.

 

MLA (Modern Language Association) style is most commonly used to write papers and cite sources within the liberal arts and humanities.

 

Search over 25,000 of the greatest lives, past and present.

 

The Catholic Encyclopedia, as its name implies, proposes to give its readers full and authoritative information on the entire cycle ofCatholic interests, action and doctrine.

 

An online dictionary.

 

More than 42,000 articles on the world of knowledge--from aardvark to zither.

 

Links to many useful homework resources.

 

a free virtual library resource center for educators and students, librarians and their patrons, families, businesses and just about anyone exploring the Web for valuable research information.

 

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The IPL was founded by a class at the University of Michigan's School of Information, and Michigan SI students almost exclusively generated its content and managed the online reference service. On January 1, 2007, the IPL moved to Drexel University's College of Information Science and Technology. Now, a consortium of colleges and universities with programs in information science is developing and maintaining the IPL!