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Web Sites of the Week - Best Free Reference Web Sites of 2011
Check back each week for a new list of interesting and informative Web Sites selected by the Charleston County Public Library.

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This is an annual series initiated by the Machine-Assisted Reference Section of the Reference and Users Services Association (RUSA) of the American Library Asssociation to recognize outstanding reference sites on the Web.

Biodiversity Heritage Library – a consortium of 12 natural history and botanical libraries.

Cornell Lab of Ornithology – premier reference site for study and identification of birds

Google Translate

International Business Statistics Databases from Michigan State University.

National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine from the National Institutes of Health

Plant Information Online from the University of Minnesota Libraries

ProCon.org
– Pros and cons of controversial issues

Public Library of Science

TED: Ideas Worth Spreading – from the TED conferences