Miscellaneous Resources
Email providers
Some of the more common and/or locally used email providers
- AOL - America Online Mail
- Hotmail
- Comcast (not free)
- Gmail
- SBC email (not free)
- Yahoo email
Databases
Decades in America
Decade by decade reseach of the 1920s through the 2000s from Salem Press Online. Login with your River Falls library card.
Foundations in Wisconsin
Provides searchable profiles of active grantmaking foundations in the state of Wisconsin.
Websites
Ixquick
An anonymous web search engine. When you search with Ixquick search engine, you are searching many popular search engines simultaneously and anonymously. Combined, these engines cover more of the Internet than any one search engine alone.
Snopes.com
Urban Legends Reference Page. Do you see postings on facebook or twitter that seem hard to believe? Do you get annoying emails from your brother-in-law on questionable political or current event topics? Use snopes.com to get the truth on those urban legends.
PolitiFact.com Truth-o-Meter
It is really fun to see which political ads rate as "Pants on Fire". A timely website for any election season.