Biographical Information: Based on the television series Biography, this site provides biographies of 20,000 people from the past as well as the present. Also presents opportunities to play biographical games, and to keep current with biographies available in bookstores and on the television series.

Britannica.com: Britannica.com bring you leading magazines, related books, and the complete Encyclopædia Britannica online. This is an excellent source of news, sports, and weather, as well as a place to explore technology, the arts, business, and world politics.

Essential Links: This site literally links you to every reference site you could need. In addition to sports, news, health, and government, there are many additional resources.

InfoPlease.com: Combining the contents of an encyclopedia, a dictionary, and several up-to-the minute almanacs loaded with statistics, facts, and historical records, Information Please places the resources of an entire reference information center at your fingertips. Their staff of editors and researchers continuously updates and refines this enormous body of information – as well as adding new discoveries and identifying trends – to bring you the most reliable and authoritative information. They will keep you up-to-date.

Library of Congress: Collections and services for researchers, libraries, and the public.

Literary Resources on the Net: This set of pages is a collection of links to sites on the Internet dealing especially with English and American literature, excluding most single electronic texts, and is limited to collections of information useful to academics.

Martindale's, "The Reference Desk": "The Reference Desk" is a quick, easy-to-use, reference site that provides access to data in many different subject areas, such as language dictionaries, calculators, science databases, journals and reprints, and an elaborate Health Science Centers.

My Virtual Reference Desk: Fast, easy, comprehensive content. A one-stop site for all type of reference material from daily newspapers to dictionaries, thesauri, population reports, maps, weather, etc.

Research Papers Handbook: Tips on how to find a topic, do research online, and write a research paper. No freebies here; it's real work.

The World Factbook: Annually updated reference work prepared by the U.S. Intelligence Agency.

Yahoo Reference : From this site you can access many reference sites, including acronyms, abbreviations, dictionaries, encyclopedias, journals, etc.