Databases
Junior Edition -- For middle school students and their teachers/parents. Articles, pictures, maps, short stories, quizzes, activities. Materials to help students with research & writing skills.

Kids InfoBits -- For K-5 students and their teachers/parents. Articles from children's magazines, pictures, maps, Teacher Toolbox, activities, experiments, poetry & stories by children.

OneFile 1980 to current -- One-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, technology, and many general interest topics. Millions of full-text articles many with images. Updated daily.

SIRS KnowledgeSource -- A combination of databases providing full-text articles from a wide variety of sources for a diverse age range of users. Subject areas include the social sciences, government, sciences, the arts, and others.

Websites
Dead or Alive? -- Tracks whether famous people are alive or have died, with a listing on the main page of people who have died within the last six months.

Everyrule.com -- Website provides users easy access to one of the largest online databases of rules from around the world in subjects such as sports, etiquette and games.

Fuel Economy Guide -- EPA/DOE website features fuel economy data for new and used passenger vehicles back to 1985. Find vehicle-specific air pollutions emissions information and safety ratings as well as information on hybrid and alternative fuel vehicles, the new fuel economy ratings, a fuel cost calculator, and more.

Guinness World Records -- Website from the publishers of the popular Guinness Book of World Records provides users with a searchable and comprehensive database of global records.

Information Please -- Comprehensive and engaging online almanac, from the publishers of the famous Information Please book almanac, provides users with reliable information in a wide range of categories.

Internet 101 -- Find basics about the internet, the web, email, newsgroups, online safety, and other related topics for beginners. 

Internet Public Library -- Groundbreaking and experimental website provides library services to internet users and cited by www.ipl.org as “the first public library of and for the Internet community.”

Old Farmer’s Almanac -- Website for the widely read Old Farmer’s Almanac provides users with much of the information included in the book as well as internet-only information in the subjects of astronomy, gardening, weather, outdoors and food.

Online Conversion -- “Convert just about anything to anything else. Over 5,000 units, and 50,000 conversions.” Browse most popular conversion pages or search by category.

RefDesk -- Website provides internet users access to one convenient and massively comprehensive index of online information and news sources. In their vision statement they cite themselves as “a free and family-friendly web site that indexes and reviews quality, credible, and current web-based resources.”