Research Tools
Almanacs | Dictionaries | Encyclopedias | Finding People | Free Email | Web Spaces | Maps & Atlases
Almanacs
Infoplease 
General information on all topics.
The Guinness Book of World Records 
Collects, confirms, accredits and presents world record data
The Old Farmers Almanac 
Weather, wisdom, food, outdoor and gardening.
The World Factbook 
Facts published by the CIA giving country information including flags of the world, chiefs of state, history and maps.
Dictionaries:
The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th ed.
An English language dictionary, featuring over 200,000 entries including pronunciation and definitions.
Dictionary.com 
A simple search goes to multiple sources searching Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary and others. Links on its home page lead to even more English dictionaries, non-English dictionaries, and other language resources.
Merriam-Webster Dictionary & Thesaurus can be accessed via the Database page. You have to log in and click on Britannica Online and then on the Merriam-Webster Dictionary & Thesaurus to use this online resource.
Alta Vista Babelfish
A multi-language translator for many European languages and a Chinese, Korean and Japanese.
Encyclopedias:
Wikipedia: 
an open entry encyclopedia with over a million articles that can be edited or contributed to.
Encarta: a digital multimedia encyclopedia published and updated frequently by Microsoft Corporation, it includes a dictionary, thesaurus and world atlas.
Britannica Online: 
This encyclopedia is available on the Library Database page. It is a complete encyclopedia of signed, scholarly articles and includes a Merriam-Webster dictionary and thesaurus.
Finding People:
Biographical Dictionary (http://www.s9.com/ )
An open directory listing of personalities with search ability by birth or death, professions, works and names.
Switchboard
A commercial digital directory which can be used to find a business or person by name, phone number or area.
Infobel World Telephone Directories
A telephone and business directory, electronically published, which includes International search capability.
Yahoo People Search
A free search of telephone white pages information
Lycos People Search (www.whowhere.com)
Includes a reverse phone number search
Hotmail
MailCity
NetAddress
Yahoo! Mail
Web Space
AngelFire
Nettaxi
Yahoo! Geocities
Maps & Directions:
The small print: Inclusion on this list does not constitute an endorsement. Evergreen Valley College is not responsible for the email accounts or web pages offered by any outside organization.