I looked for a list of reference and educational sources on the internet, and
After going through hundreds of sites, I've winnowed the list to about 150. If I had to only pick a few they'd be Wikipedia (and its associated sites), Google (also for its associated sites), The New York Times (for its archives), the Internet Archive, WolframAlpha, JSTOR, SSRN, NASA, FindLaw, How Stuff Works, Khan Academy, and Open Culture. (For non-reference/education, but just general interest I'd have to add MetaFilter.)
The full list, below, avoids sites behind a paywall or requiring registration (though sometimes that's necessary for full content). Here's the full list:
- Wikipedia / Wiktionary / Wikiquote / Wikisource / Wikibooks / Wikiversity / Wikispecies / Alphabets / IPA / Math Symbols / Constants
- Martindale's The Reference Desk / Internet Archive
- Google Translate / Bing Translate
- Encyclopedia Britannica / Encyclopedia.com / infoplease
- Merriam-Webster Online (same link for Merriam-Webster's thesaurus)
- Dictionary.com / Thesaurus.com (same site, different links)
- Oxford Online Dictionary / Bartelby.com -- quotes, references, thesaurus, etc.
- Chicago Manual of Style (basic, nonsubscription) / Citation Machine
- Guide to Punctuation -- U.K. English / Grammarbook.com -- U.S. English
- Yahoo! Answers / Answers.com / Ask.com
- How Stuff Works / About.com
- Snopes -- analyzes urban legends / FactCheck.org -- analyzes political rumors
- White House / U.S. Senate / U.S. House / Democrats / Republicans
- Brookings / Rand / Pew / Tax Policy Center / Hoover / Cato
- FindLaw / LexisWeb / Supreme Court / LII -- Historical Cases
- U.S. Newspapers and Magazines / International News Sources
- The New York Times / The Times (London)
- TimesMachine -- NYT 89+ yrs ago / Wayback Machine -- internet archive
- AncientWeb.com / Ancient History Encyclopedia
- eHistory.com / World History Timelines (Google image search)
- Google Maps / MapQuest / National Geographic Maps
- CIA -The World Factbook -- demographics, politics, culture, history of countries
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy / Logical Fallacies
- WolframAlpha -- a "computational knowledge engine"
- Wolfram Mathworld -- math encyclopedia / Dr. Math -- basic math to calculus
- RapidTables.com -- electronics, engineering, science resource / Useful Charts
- Physical Constant List / NIST Physical Constants
- Dynamic Periodic Table / Web Elements -- online periodic table
- Chemistry on the Internet -- numerous links / General Chemistry online
- Google Sky / Atlas of the Universe / Skyview Cafe / Astronomylinks
- NASA / Hubble Site / CERN / Fermilab / Physics arXiv
- FDA / NIH / NSF / CDC / WHO
- MedlinePlus -- NIH's encyclopedia / Multi-Media Medical Encyclopedia
- Drugs.com -- PDR for "consumers" / PDR.net -- for physicians
- Inner Body -- images of body systems / Muscle Atlas / Brain Atlas
- AllPsych -- general psych resource / DSM-IV / DSM-IV-TR
- SSRN -- social science & law academic articles / JSTOR -- academic journals
- Nature.com -- numerous publications / Lancet / JAMA -- American Medical Assoc. / MMWR -- CDC weekly report / New England Journal of Medicine
- Wellcome Trust / Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- Human Family Tree -- Smithsonian (simplistic) / Human Family Tree -- images
- Tree of Life Web Project / Tree of Life -- image / Phylogenic Trees
- ID'ing Trees / Botanical classification / Insects.org / Marine Life
- AnyWho.com -- people locator / WhoIs -- domain/IP locator / Zip Codes
- U.S. Census -- detailed demographic data / EDGAR -- SEC corporate filings etc.
- National Archives -- government docs etc. / Library of Congress
- Smithsonian / British Museum
- Louvre / The Met / MoMA / Tate / Museum of Online Museums
- Art Cyclopedia / Timeline of Art History
- Poetry Encyclopedia / Sparknotes / Course Hero -- note sharing site
- Skeptics Annotated Bible (also Quran, Book of Mormon) / BibleGateway.com / Quran (with link to the Haddith) / Talmud (Babylonian) / Vedas (with links to the Bhagavad Gita, Upanishads, etc.) / Analects / Tao te Ching / I Ching
- Star Wars Universe (Wookieepedia) / Star Trek Universe / Star Trek Translator / Lord of the Rings / Tolkien's languages / Best short Sci Fi
- Google Books / Project Gutenberg -- vast resource of books online
- Codecademy / Google Code Univ. / lynda.com (requires registration) / W3Schools / Mozilla P2PU / W3.org -- www consortium full standards, etc.
- Khan Academy / TED / ScienceRay
- Open Culture -- many free courses and books / Udacity -- great online courses / Consera-- great online courses / edX -- MIT, Harvard, and Berkeley online courses
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