General Resources
Free Rice: Learn English vocabulary or study other subjects; for every question answered correctly, rice will be donated to a country in need.
Questia: Online library and encyclopedia; view free previews of books.
English Resources
The OWL at Purdue University: Purdue's Online Writing Lab is an excellent resource for general writing help, information about specific kinds of academic writing, grammar and mechanics (click on "general writing") and conventions such as the MLA format required by several subject areas in college and high school.
MLA Formatting Guide from the OWL at Purdue: this is the format required for research papers at OCSI.
Project Gutenberg: Legally download free eBooks of works which are in the public domain (no longer copyrighted).
Bible Resources
Bible Gateway: Search the Bible online and read it in a variety of translations.
ヨハネによる福音書 を日本語で読む
Biblos: Contains a variety of Bible resources. You can read the Bible online, find commentary on a particular passage, read devotionals, or search Bible dictionaries, encyclopedias, and atlases. Biblos also hosts a library of books that are considered Christian classics.
CCEL: Another home to many different Bible resources. Click on "study" for a side-by-side view of a Bible passage on one side of the screen and commentary, sermons, or other writing about that passage on the other side of the screen. Click "read"to access CCEL's extensive library of theology and other Christian classics.
History Resources
History World
History.com
PBS History
CIA World Factbook
Bible History
BBC History
History Today
Historical Text Archive
Smithsonian History
Historynet.com
Bridging World History - Audio glossary where you can listen to sound clips of terms to learn their pronunciation
News Resources
BBC
NHK World
Japan Today
Asahi Shimbun
The Japan Times
The Chicago Times
The New York Times
