What are your favorite websites for online research and schoolwork?

[astroview]

I usually look as several webpages as I write a paper:


dictionary.com
US Census
CIA World Factbook

I have an institutional subscription to these through my university, so its not open to everyone:
Encyclopædia Britannica
Oxford English Dictionary
jstor (really useful!)

What do you guys use? I'm curious because it would make me more efficient.

edit, lets not forget lexis-nexis, I use the academic version
LEXIS®-NEXIS® Academic Universe Home Page

 

[dcdomain]

Check the bottom of this page: http://members.nbci.com/dcdomain/r4/network/links.htm

 

[Scrapster]

schoolsucks.com

 

[John]

cnn.com
msnbc.com

 

[fake]

SparkNotes

 

[Rakkis]

The California Digital Library. http://www.cdlib.org/collections/

You need to belong to an institution that has access to it. (ie. University of California)

 

[pdiddy]

it depends on what you are researching

 

[pdiddy]

but i like 37.com

 

[astroview]

bump

 

[Ladi]

If you're doing anything with law, FindLaw is definitely your friend.

~Ladi

 

[Azraele]

Depends on what I'm researching. A good rule of thumb, though, is not to trust just any site because you don't know whether the info on it is good or not. Sites you can trust are educational sites, sites devoted to research and learning, and government sites.

For me, nothing beats research like a library.

 

[axelfox]

www.anandtech.com