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Multi-source / Multi-subject Web sites

These sites have links to just about everything

RefDesk.com 
Refdesk is a free and family-friendly web site that indexes and reviews quality, credible, and current web-based resources. This site is what we would like our site's virtual reference page to be, but don't have the time to create.

Virtual Reference Shelf
Selected Web resources compiled by the Library of Congress. Includes a link to the Library's "Ask A Librarian" service. 

Librarians’ Internet Index
A publicly-funded Web site and weekly newsletter serving California, Washington state, the nation, and the world with over 20,000 entries organized into 14 main topics and nearly 300 related topics.

Atlases & Encyclopedias

HighBeam™ Encyclopedia
The Internet's premiere free encyclopedia. Search or browse over 57,000 articles from the Columbia Encyclopedia and over 35 million articles from newspapers, magazines, journals, and transcripts at HighBeam Research.

How Stuff Works
The leading source of credible, unbiased, and easy-to-understand explanations of how the world actually works.

InfoPeople Chart of Web Search Tools
12 tools to search the Web.

InfoPlease
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.

Internet Public Library
A web-based learning/teaching environment.

Wikipedia
The free encyclopedia that anyone can edit.

Connexions
Is an environment for collaboratively developing, freely sharing, and rapidly publishing scholarly content on the Web. The Content Commons contains educational materials for everyone - from children to college students to professions - organized in small modules that are easily connected into larger collections or courses. All content is free to use and reuse.

 

Directories & Phone Listings

U.S Postal Service ZIP Code Lookup
Find zip codes and address information from the United States Postal Service.

The Ultimates
Contains a collection of White Pages, Yellow Pages and trip planners. You can also search by phone number.

 

Newspapers & Magazines

GALE's Reference Center Gold
Search for magazine articles using this periodical database. (Access from outside the library requires a library card number)

Lassen County Times
On-line news and information for Lassen County, California and surrounding areas.

Sacramento Bee
Daily news and information covering Northern California from Californa's capitol city, combining much of The Sacramento Bee newspaper with additional material available only on sacbee.com.

Reno Gazzette-Journal
Daily news covering Northern Nevada from the Reno, Carson City, Tahoe area.

San Francisco Chronicle
Daily news covering the San Francisco Bay area and central California.

Examiner.com
Online national and local news with coverage for 24 U.S. cities.

New York Times
National and international news from the leading newspaper of America's largest city.

Christian Science Monitor
An international daily newspaper covering international and U.S. news and features, published Monday through Friday.

The Economist
Analysis of world business and current affairs, providing authoritative insight and opinion on international news, world politics, business, finance, science and technology, as well as overviews of cultural trends and regular industry, business and country surveys.

 
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