Credo Reference a custom website where digital content from Lancashire's library service and Credo Reference can be easily searched and cross referenced. It provides users with a multitude of resources, from non-fiction eBooks, images, and easily accessible Topic Pages on a large range of subjects. Credo offers the best path for Lancashire library's members to access information that is both reliable and high in quality. It also gives tips on how to get the best out of your web searching. This is a subscription site but We've Paid So You Don't Have To, so you just need your library membership number to login.
Oxford Reference Online is the online version of all the Oxford University Press "Dictionaries of" and "Companions to" and is fully cross-searchable. This is a subscription site but We've Paid So You Don't Have To, so you just need your library membership number to login.
The "OED", Oxford English Dictionary is the ultimate dictionary of English. In 'paper form', it has over 25,000 pages covering 600,000 words, 3 million quotations, over 1000 years of English. It includes the Historical Thesuarus traces the development of the language. This online subscription version is constantly updated. We've paid so you don't have to, login using your Lancashire Library membership.
With up-to-date online dictionaries, thesauruses, and language reference content based on the largest language research programme in the world, Oxford Dictionaries Pro is an extensive, integrated, smart-linked English language resource. It offers quick search access to definitions of words, phrases, and idioms, with expert guidance on style and usage, grammar, and spelling; plus specialist guides for legal and technical writing. We've paid so you don't have to, login using your Lancashire Library membership.
The World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials (books, journals, manuscripts, maps, images, sound and video recordings) from countries and cultures around the world
This site enables you to easily convert a very large range of you units of length, speed, volume etc. into other units for the same subjects.
A site maintained by the Office of National Statistics which allows you to print or download statistics for local areas on a wide range of subjects including population, crime, health and housing.
Daft Logic have created a distance calculator using Google Maps.You can use the Distance Calculator to find out the distance between two or more points anywhere on the earth. Click once on the map to place the first marker and then click again to position
Check time zone information, the world clock, perpetual calendar, create a calendar for any year.
IPL2 is a merger of the resources from the Internet Public Library (IPL) and the Librarians' Internet Index (LII) websites. It is a vast collection of links to online information organised into subject collections. It also features a convenient service called Ask an IPL Librarian in which the IPL's dedicated online volunteer staff answers reference questions for visitors of the IPL.
Free online reference management for researchers. When you bookmark a link online with Connotea it will, wherever possible, recognise the reference and automatically add in the bibliographic information for you. You can also collaborate and share with others.
CiteULike is a free service to help you to store, organise and share the scholarly papers you are reading. When you see a paper on the web that interests you, you can click one button and have it added to your personal library.
This web site allows you to make your own calendar, has links to other calendar sites and a calendar converter so that you can convert the Gregorian calendar to the Islamic, Hebrew, Baha'i calendars etc.
The United Nations Statistical Division (UNSD) has pooled together data from numerous databases into one database for its 192 member states. All 33 databases that serve the site are fully searchable.
AccessMyLibrary provides free access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through US and Canadian libraries. A valid email address and local american library are required to register.
AcaWiki is like "Wikipedia for academic research" designed to increase the impact of scholars, students, and bloggers by enabling them to share summaries and discuss academic papers online. AcaWiki turns research hidden in academic journals into something
This web sites lists the longest, tallest, fastest, largest etc. It covers all kinds of areas and subjects from the intriguing to the truly bizarre.
This search engine from Google is designed to help you find appropriate scholarly research, articles from academic publications and books. There will be access to the full-text of journal articles that are published on open access. Other journal references may include an abstract or just a citation.
Yahoo Answers is essentially a question and answer service. Questions on any subject can be posted for answer by any other members of the online community. Previous questions and answers can also be searched. As with Wikipedia, although this could be seen as a very democratic process questions might be raised about the credibility and authority of the answers.
Simple English Wikipedia is a selection of subjects and articles from Wikipedia which have been written using simple English words and grammar. Writing in Simple English means that simple words are used, it does not mean that the information is simplified. This site is particularly useful for children, adults who are learning English and people who wish to avoid confusing jargon.