Research Aids

Collaboration Sites

Some outstanding free information, but not at all trustworthy on any controversial subject. If the subject relates to a specific company, person, political party or religion, it may be watched over by zealots. At one time the IP addresses of the US Congress were banned due to all the inaccurate stuff posted to Wikipedia. The "Religion of Peace" has been suspected of having similar problems. Many of these sites are great starting places, but must never be trusted as being authoritative.

Site:	Comments:
Appropedia	the site for collaborative approaches to sustainability,poverty reduction and international development. A lot of good stuff, not just 21st century hippies.
Citizendium
Knol	Google's competition to Wikipedia
WikiBooks	Books in development
WikiPedia	Cooperative Encyclopedia
Wikiversity	Introductory courses
Wiktionary	Cooperative Dictionary

Mixed sites:

Site:	Comments:
Dictionary	To look up a word
Encyclopedia of Life	"This is the very beginning of our exciting journey to document all species of life on Earth."
Information Please	Almanac, Atlas, Dictionary, Encyclopedia.
Internet Public Library	Includes periodicals.
iTools	Good collection of tools with low key seles pitches.
Library Spot	Huge collection of very large sub-sites.
refdesk.com	Many search and referance resources.
Writers' Free Reference	Very wide range of information.
WWW Virtual Library

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