From Wendy Boswell,
Your Guide to Web Search.
FREE Newsletter. Sign Up Now!

Yahoo Education has a plethora of great reference materials available for pretty much anything you want to look up. Here are just a few of the great resources that Yahoo Education has to offer.

Yahoo Education Overview

• Yahoo Thesaurus:"Containing 260,000 synonyms and cross-references in an easy-to-use format, this online thesaurus features succinct word definitions and an innovative hyperlinked category index."
• World Factbook: "The U.S. government's complete geographical handbook, featuring 267 full-color maps and flags of all nations. Each country profile tracks such demographics as population, ethnicity and literacy rates, as well as political, geographical and economic data."
• Spanish-English Dictionary: "Featuring American English and Latin American Spanish, it contains 70,000 entries, with more than 120,000 meanings. Nuevamente revisado e actualizado para el siglo 21, The American Heritage Spanish Dictionary, Second Edition es indispensable para estudiantes, turistas y gente de negocios."
• Bartlett's Familiar Quotations: "This tenth edition of 1919 contains over 11,000 searchable quotations and was the first new edition of John Bartlett's corpus to be published after his death in 1905-the new editor, however, choosing more to supplement than revise the work of the first name in quotations."
• The Oxford Shakespeare: "The 1914 Oxford edition of the Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Edited by W. J. Craig, ranks among the most authoritative published this century. The 37 plays, 154 sonnets and miscellaneous verse constitute the literary cornerstone of Western civilization."
• Gray's Anatomy: "The Bartleby.com edition of Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body features 1,247 vibrant engravings - many in color - from the classic 1918 publication, as well as a subject index with 13,000 entries ranging from the Antrum of Highmore to the Zonule of Zinn."
• Conversion Calculator: Convert from and to, choosing which measurement you'd like to go by.
• K-12 Schools - School Search and Facts: Find information about any K-12 school, read a rotating list of special articles, or check out the Parent Resource Center.
• Homework Help with Cliffs Notes and Math Help: Searchable Cliffs Notes and math help - wish they'd had this site when I was in high school!
• Test Prep Center: Take practice tests of the SAT, GMAT, and more. Excellent resource for practice before the real thing.
• Yahoo Dictionary: "n online searchable dictionary with over 200,000 entries, 70,000 audio word pronunciations, and 900 full-page color illustrations."
• Reference in the Yahoo! Directory. Huge, extensive variety of reference information. Includes patents, phone numbers, libraries, Ask an Expert, country profiles...even parliamentary procedures.
• U.S. Government in the Yahoo! Directory. This particular directory has many sub-directories neatly categorized. Check out the government's three branches, Homeland Security, Law, Civic Participation, and then be sure to visit the sites that are listed within this directory; such as Ben's Guide To US Government for Kids.
• Regional Info. Yahoo's regional directory includes all fifty states, world regions (such as the Middle East, Antarctica, and the Caribbean), and countries; as well as geography links and various web directories.
• Yahoo! Social Science. As an English major, I'm especially fond of this site. Check out books, anthropology links, social research, gerontology, humanities, and many, many more.