Get the Facts at Yahoo! Reference
Yahoo! has collected several reference books into one site for easy research and fact-checking.
The Yahoo! Education site (http://education.yahoo.com) contains information about schools of every level across the United States. You can look up local elementary and high schools, read reviews by parents and students, or find degree programs at universities. As part of the mix, Yahoo! has put together a collection of publicly available reference sources called Yahoo! Research to help students with their own research.
Yahoo! Reference is available directly at http://reference.yahoo.com, or by typing reference! into any Yahoo! search form. At this site, you’ll find a collection of reference books, from a dictionary and thesaurus to classics such as Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations and The Columbia Encyclopedia. Yahoo! makes these books available online for free, saving you the cost of purchasing each of these books yourself. But be aware that Yahoo! includes advertising on each page. Luckily, the advertising is clearly marked with the word Advertising, so you won’t confuse a Shakespeare sonnet with an ad for The Gap.
The Collection
Yahoo! Reference provides a single entry point for a collection of publicly available resources. Here’s a look at the reference sources available:
- The American Heritage® Dictionary, Fourth Edition
The dictionary gives you more than just a definition. It also provides an audio (WAV file) pronunciation guide and a link to a thesaurus ...
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