Reference and Research

Online Databases

Government Information

College, Higher Education. and Financial Aid

Medical and Health Information

General Reference Sites:

Background Checks

• On Demand Court Records
• Oklahoma State Courts
• Oklahoma Department of Corrections Offender Lookup
• Oklahoma Sex and Violent Crime Offender Registry

Citing Internet Resources

• Online! Citation Styles Index
• American Psychological Association

 

Online Encyclopedias:

• Encyclopedia.com from elibrary offers 5000 or so free articles, with plenty of ads asking you to subscribe to the premium service. Still, it’s useful.
• Wikipedia.org is an encyclopedia created by internet users. All facts should be double-checked against another source for veracity.

Dictionary.com has a lot of ads, but is incredibly useful for finding word spellings and definitions quickly.

Quotations–Bartleby.com offers a number of quotation collections, including Bartlett’s and Columbia.

Telephone Directories

• The Ultimates offers a meta search of white pages, yellow pages, and even email addresses.
• Switchboard is clean, easy to use, and popular with our reference librarians.
• Whitepages also offers a cool reverse lookup feature for phone numbers & addresses.

Translation Services

• Google offers language tools including translations

Ready Reference Collections of others:

• Bartleby.com offers some really useful full-text reference tools, including encyclopedias, thesaurii, writing style guides, and more.
• Refdesk.com–Huge collection of resources on any imaginable topic, as well as front ends to many popular search engines. Maintained by Bob Drudge.