Online Resources: Websites, Alphabetical

Primary sources and oral histories of Braddock District in Fairfax County, Virginia.

Monthly electronic newsletter of the Associates for Biblical Research

"Academic Commons is Columbia University's digital repository where current faculty, students, and staff of Columbia and its affiliate institutions can deposit the results of their scholarly work and research. Content in Academic Commons is freely available to the public." Home page

"The American Academy of Achievement is unlike any other organization in the world. For more than 50 years, this unique nonprofit foundation has sparked the imaginations of young people across America and around the globe by bringing them into direct personal contact with the preeminent leaders of our times.." About the Academy

"The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) historical collection consists of almost 100 years of historical records covering subjects that deal with US public education, tenure and academic freedom for K-16 teachers, civil rights, collective bargaining in the public sector and public employee unionism. The collection has documents from the national headquarters; over 30 affiliate locals and state federations of the AFT as well as 70 personal collections." About page

" AgEcon Search is a free, open access repository of full-text scholarly literature in agricultural and applied economics, including:

Working papers
Conference papers
Journal articles" Home page

This site provides links to online versions of various documents (journals, letters, charters, grants, speeches, etc.) related to the history of America. Documents range from 1400-2000. Search by time period.

America's Health RankingsTM is the longest running annual assessment of the nation's health on a state-by-state basis. Over the past 20 years, America's Health RankingsTM has evolved from a source of information for limited audiences to a robust, interactive tool that urges all populations and communities to take action to improve health.

"The American Presidency Project (americanpresidency.org), was established in 1999 as a collaboration between John T. Woolley & Gerhard Peters at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Our archives contain 110,489 documents related to the study of the Presidency." Home page

"Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves. These narratives were collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and assembled and microfilmed in 1941 as the seventeen-volume Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves. This online collection is a joint presentation of the Manuscript and Prints and Photographs Divisions of the Library of Congress and includes more than 200 photographs from the Prints and Photographs Division that are now made available to the public for the first time. Born in Slavery was made possible by a major gift from the Citigroup Foundation." Home Page

The Association of Religion Data Archives (ARDA) strives to democratize access to the best data on religion. Founded as the American Religion Data Archive in 1997 and going online in 1998, the initial archive was targeted at researchers interested in American religion. The targeted audience and the data collection have both greatly expanded since 1998, now including American and international collections.

This site, provided by the U.S. Army, presents the Army's history through photographs, documents (including field manuals), and descriptions of artifacts. The entire site can be searched by keyword. Individual collections can be browsed.

"Open access to 815,059 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics" Home page

"The Avalon Project will mount digital documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government. We do not intend to mount only static text but rather to add value to the text by linking to supporting documents expressly referred to in the body of the text." Statement of Purpose page

"The Avalon Project will no doubt contain controversial documents. Their inclusion does not indicate endorsement of their contents nor sympathy with the ideology, doctrines, or means employed by their authors. They are included for the sake of completeness and balance and because in many cases they are by our definition a supporting document." Statement of Purpose page

The preeminent Internet publisher of literature, reference and verse providing students, researchers and the intellectually curious with unlimited access to books and information on the webb, free of charge. Included are Columbia World of Quotations, American Heritage Dictionary, and Roget's II: The New Thesaurus.

"A selection of 100 recorded oral history interviews chronicling African American life during the age of legal segregation in the American South, from the 1890s to the 1950s." Home page

Helpful tool for doing discourse analysis (or "arc studies") on the biblical text.

Browse and search the modern language Bible translation of your choice.

Free access: 65 journal titles (Biblical studies), "18,000 articles" full-text.

Online program that allows collection and building of citations for bibliographies.

"This site provides basic, advanced, and interactive charting tools; current and historical quotes; industry and market data; news and analysis; and screening tools for stocks listed on major American, Canadian, and other exchanges around the world. BigCharts.com is operated by MarketWatch, a leading multimedia source of financial news and information." From RUSQ Volume 50 Issue 2 Winter 2010.

Every life has a story. Biography.com captures the most gripping, surprising and fascinating stories about famous people. The last fateful day. The decision that changed everything. The moment of cheating death. The biggest break. The defining opportunity. The most shattering failure. The unexpected connection. With over 7,000 biographies and daily features that highlight newsworthy, compelling and surprising points-of-view, we are the digital source for true stories about people that matter. About page

"The Deep Web is the set of web sites and their documents that cannot be accessed via crawler-type search engines such as Google. Deep web content typically lives inside of databases, and is accessed through search forms. Wikipedia has a good article about the Deep Web." Website

"From the 1820s to the Civil War, African Americans assumed prominent roles in the transatlantic struggle to abolish slavery. In contrast to the popular belief that the abolitionist crusade was driven by wealthy whites, some 300 black abolitionists were regularly involved in the antislavery movement, heightening its credibility and broadening its agenda. The Black Abolitionist Digital Archive is a collection of over 800 speeches by antebellum blacks and approximately 1,000 editorials from the period. These important documents provide a portrait of black involvement in the anti-slavery movement; scans of these documents are provided as images and PDF files." Home page

"The Blue Letter Bible now has over 4,000,000 links onsite to over 165,000 pages of concordances, lexicons, dictionaries, commentaries, images, and Bible versions! Our prayer is that you will enjoy the site, in Jesus' name! " Home page

Find a wide range of manuscripts, photographs, and sound recordings relating to Britain's history at this site. Collections include (among many others) illustrated manuscripts, maps of Britain from 800 to 1600, and photographs of Victorian Britain. To see the complete list of collections, click on Collections in the menu at the top of the page. The site is provided by the British Library.

"This is an unparalleled collection of correspondence written and received by the Victorian poets Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Featuring materials from the collection of the Armstrong Browning Library at Baylor University and the holdings of Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, the letters in this collection are browsable and searchable by date, author, and first line of text. The project is funded in part by the Bob and Anna Wright Endowed Fund." Home page

The Buros Institute has supported advancements in testing practice since 1938 by publishing candidly critical reviews to support the informed selection of commercially available tests. Providing audit and accreditation services, psychometric research, consultation, workshops, and contractual oversight, the Buros Institute helps organizations improve the the quality of their proprietary test development and pr

"This collection contains 55,935 issues comprising 494,455 pages and 5,658,224 articles." Home Page

"The California Digital Newspaper Collection is a project of the Center for Bibliographical Studies and Research (CBSR) at the University of California, Riverside." Home Page

"Cambridge University Library contains evidence of some of the greatest ideas and discoveries over two millennia. We want to make our collections accessible to anyone, anywhere in the world with an internet connection and a thirst for knowledge." —Anne Jarvis, University Librarian

"State and local governments find themselves in the midst of the perfect storm. As the baby boomers age and retire, governments face their largest exodus of talent and skills ever. At the same time, the effects of the Great Recession have had lasting and perhaps permanent effects on revenues, while service needs grow and retiree benefits require greater funding." About page

"For decades available only to scholars at Cambridge University Library, the private papers of Charles Darwin, one of the most influential scientists in history, can now be seen by anyone online and free of charge. This is the largest ever publication of Darwin papers and manuscripts, totalling about 20,000 items in over 100,000 electronic images." Home Page

"We are now pleased to host 201 stories by Chekhov, the entire collections translated by Constance Garnett, as scanned and annotated by James Rusk." Author page

The Christian Classics Ethereal Library (CCEL) seeks to build up the church by making classic Christian literature widely available and promoting its use for edification and study by interested Christians, seekers and scholars. The CCEL accomplishes this by selecting, collecting, distributing, and promoting valuable literature through the World Wide Web and other media.

This project of the Library of Congress is digitizing newspapers and making them available online. Includes digitized versions of some papers and information about the publication and holdings of nearly every newspaper published in the United States.

Includes Ante-Nicene, Nicene & Post-Nicene, Nicene & Post-Nicene 2nd series.

Content: Abstracts; Full Text
This site presents up-to-date encyclopedic-type information (government, people, disputes, military, etc.) on many countries, gathered and produced by the CIA. Includes maps, appendices (such as on International Organizations and Groups), and flags, among other features.

"Full profiles provide an instant guide to history, politics and economic background of countries and territories, and background on key institutions. They also include audio and video clips from BBC archives. Select a country, territory or international organisation from the menus below. " Home page

This privately held company is not affiliated with manufacturers of health and nutrition products. It provides independent test results and information to help consumers and healthcare professionals evaluate health, wellness, and nutrition products.

Brought to you by the Library of Congress. Because the original intent was to focus primarily on lesser known areas of the world or regions in which U.S. forces might be deployed, the series is not all-inclusive. At present, 101 countries and regions are covered.

The Office of Justice Programs’ CrimeSolutions.gov uses rigorous research to determine what works in criminal justice, juvenile justice, and crime victim services.

"Challenging times present many opportunities for innovation. The current economic crisis is no exception. The Council of State Governments was founded during the Great Depression and for more than 75 years, CSG has worked hard to provide state leaders with what they need to succeed in difficult times. The members of CSG include every elected and appointed state and territorial official in the United States. Through our committees and task forces, supported by our exceptional team of policy and research specialists, we consider and make recommendations on promising approaches to public policy." About page

Mission statement: "CrossRef's goal is to be a trusted collaborative organization with broad community connections; authoritative and innovative in support of a persistent, sustainable infrastructure for scholarly communication."

Official website of the United States Government

The 1871 diary of Dr. David Livingstone, pioneer missionary to Central Africa is now available in full text/digital format. Made available by the University of California - Los Angeles Digital Library Program.

The statistical highlights of the report provide a quantitative description of the current American education scene. Clearly, from the large number of participants, the number of years that people spend in school, and the large sums expended by educational institutions, it is evident that education is a high priority for the American people.

The library at the University of Virginia offers electronic texts of thousands of books.

"Institutional Repositories (IRs) bring together all of a University's research under one umbrella, with an aim to preserve and provide access to that research." About page

This site contains about 18 electronic journals. Most of the journals are related to science and technology; however, some social science/humanities journals are available such as ALAN (Assembly on Literature for Adolescents) and Women in Literacy and Life Assembly. You can search by journal or keyword.

"The vision of a national digital library has been circulating among librarians, scholars, educators, and private industry representatives since the early 1990s. Efforts led by a range of organizations, including the Library of Congress, HathiTrust, and the Internet Archive, have successfully built resources that provide books, images, historic records, and audiovisual materials to anyone with Internet access. Many universities, public libraries, and other public-spirited organizations have digitized materials, but these digital collections often exist in silos. The DPLA brings these different viewpoints, experiences, and collections together in a single platform and portal, providing open and coherent access to our society’s digitized cultural heritage." About page

Use this site to find collections of documents (such as maps and charters) related to American history. Browse five major categories: General Sources, Topical Sources, Works of the Presidents, Photographs/Illustrations/Cartoons, and the U.S. in Conflict.

Over 8179 scientific and scholarly journals (various subjects and languages) are available through this site. Almost 4039 of the journals are searchable at the article level. You may browse by title, subject, or keyword (click on "search articles" in the column to the left).

Discover Business has helped thousands of startups find their feet, grow their business, and make a name for themselves in markets dominated by big players. We’ve shown entrepreneurs that it is not about how many resources you have, but how resourceful you can get with what you have. When you start small, you are in a unique position to react quickly to changes in the market. About Us page

This site provides access to text, images, and audio files related to Southern culture, history, and literature. Materials span from the colonial period through the 20th century. The materials come from the holdings of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Domestic violence is a type of abuse. It usually involves a spouse or partner, but it can also be a child, elderly relative, or other family member.
Domestic violence may include
•Physical violence that can lead to injuries such as bruises or broken bones
•Sexual violence
•Threats of physical or sexual violence
•Emotional abuse that may lead to depression, anxiety, or social isolation

Doollee is an online database of playwrights and theatre plays. As an ongoing project we aim to list every play written or produced in English since 1956, the year John Osborne's seminal play Look Back in Anger was first performed at the Royal Court in London.

"The Duke Collection of American Indian Oral History online provides access to typescripts of interviews (1967 -1972) conducted with hundreds of Indians in Oklahoma regarding the histories and cultures of their respective nations and tribes. Related are accounts of Indian ceremonies, customs, social conditions, philosophies, and standards of living." Home page

"Duotrope is an award-winning, free resource for fiction writers and poets. We offer:

a fully searchable database of over 4,125 active publishers
statistics on publishers' response times, acceptance-rejection ratios, etc.
the ability to track all your submissions in your own submissions tracker" Home page

Find many journals on a broad range of topics, from energy to musicology, through this site. A green circle next to a journal title indicates that the full text of the journal articles is freely available online.

Medscape from WebMD is a part of WebMD Health Professional Network that includes theHeart.org and eMedicine.com. Visit our corporate website for investor information, corporate management and press releases related to WebMD.

Emily Dickinson Archive makes high-resolution images of Dickinson’s surviving manuscripts available in open access, and provides readers with a website through which they can view images of manuscripts held in multiple libraries and archives. Home Page

The Encyclopedia of ED Stats brings together data from several NCES sources including: The Condition of Education, The Digest of Education Statistics, and Projections of Education Statistics. Search a book's table of contents, by subject area, and through full text and table title word searches.

Encyclopedia of Religion and Society - William H. Swatos, Jr. Editor

"Limited Availability of Full-Text Documents." Check the online site for more information.
"ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) is a collection of references to information (dissertations, journal articles, pamphlets, multimedia, etc.) dealing with education. Some of this information is available in full text through the internet site. The site is sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences of the U.S. Department of Education.

"Welcome to European History Primary Sources (EHPS), an index of scholarly websites that offer online access to digitised primary sources on the history of Europe. The websites listed on EHPS are not only meta-sources but also include invented archives and born digital sources." Home Page

"FamilyFacts.org provides data on the family and religious practice and analysis of their role in maintaining civil society in America." About page

Containing over 5.5 million articles from over 900 journals, this site covers a multitude of subjects, including sports, medicine, and literature. Each title includes a brief description of its subject matter and a link to the title's web page and subscription information. The site contains recent articles (usually no further back than 1998).

"Welcome to the Law Library of FindLaw's Corporate Counsel Center. Here you will find a collection of law articles on a wide variety of topics, arranged by legal practice area. Generally, the articles in this collection are written by attorneys from a business counseling perspective." Home page

"Achieving food security for all is at the heart of FAO's efforts - to make sure people have regular access to enough high-quality food to lead active, healthy lives."

"FAO's mandate is to raise levels of nutrition, improve agricultural productivity, better the lives of rural populations and contribute to the growth of the world economy." About page

The National Agricultural Library's Food and Nutrition Information Center site contains over 1800 links to current and reliable nutrition information.

Sites with ebooks ready to download

"The Library provides free, easy-to-access, online articles to develop yourself, other individuals, groups and organizations (whether the organization is for-profit or nonprofit). Over the past 15 years, the Library has grown to be one of the world's largest well-organized collections of these types of articles and resources." Purpose page

Access over 1,300 medical journals in several languages (primarily English) through this site. You may search by specialty (such as oncology) or journal title.

"GAMEO provides Reliable information on Anabaptist-related (Amish, Mennonite, Hutterite, Brethren in Christ) topics, including history, theology, biography, institutions and local congregations. Secular topics from an Anabaptist perspective and full-text source documents are also included." Home Page

"The Global Resource Directory offers a rich collection of thousands of international business- and trade-related resources, which we have selected for their content and usability and organized into the categories below to facilitate your research." Home page

View art works from Art Museums using Google's amazing tools.

"The core mission of Keeping America Informed, dated to 1813 when Congress determined to make information regarding the work of the three branches of Government available to all Americans. The U.S Government Printing Office (GPO) provides publishing and dissemination services for the official and authentic government publications to Congress, Federal agencies, Federal depository libraries, and the American public." About page

Hands on Health-SC enables the people of South Carolina to learn about health and wellness. This database contains information about diabetes, heart disease, cancer, asthma, stroke, and suicide, among other topics. The partnership of the MUSC Library and the Library of the USC School of Medicine brings expertise in health information management and access. The South Carolina State Library is another major partner.

"The users of HighWire hosted publications include researchers, clinicians, students, and other scholars seeking the best online research from a vast database of full-text scholarly, high-impact materials. The HighWire portal offers advanced searching and browsing capabilities and tools, creating an alternative means to find and make sense of information from over five million full-text articles; create keyword, citation or author alerts; and download citations across all the content HighWire hosts." About page

"The History Engine is an educational tool that gives students the opportunity to learn history by doing the work—researching, writing, and publishing—of a historian. The result is an ever-growing collection of historical articles or "episodes" that paints a wide-ranging portrait of life in the United States throughout its history and that is available to scholars, teachers, and the general public in our online database." Home page

"BodyMaps is an interactive visual search tool that allows users to explore the human body in 3-D. With easy-to-use navigation, users can search multiple layers of the human anatomy, view systems and organs down to their smallest parts, and understand in detail how the human body works." Home page

Articles and links to topics within the Human Resources field of study.

The HTI database contains all hymn tunes printed anywhere in the world with English-language texts up to 1820, and their publication history up to that date.

"IDEALS is the digital repository for research and scholarship - including published and unpublished papers, datasets, video and audio - produced at the University of Illinois. All faculty, staff, and graduate students can deposit into IDEALS. This is a place to find information related to IDEALS, including policies, procedures, guidelines, and help pages." About page

"If Engineering is a headache for you.. Join us ..We will change the way you feel !" About page

Offers data on physical, thermodynamic, mechanical, and other key properties. The full text is available in PDF (full text searchable), including the original index. All entries in the index are hyperlinked to their page numbers.

"Welcome to the portal page of the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)! We at the IMSLP believe that music should be something that is easily accessible for everyone. For this purpose we have created a music library to provide music scores free of charge to anyone with internet access, with several other projects in planning. IMSLP is also entirely collaborative, and all contributions are greatly welcome." Home page

Select from a list of 441 works of classical literature by 59 different authors, including user-driven commentary and "reader's choice" Web sites. Mainly Greco-Roman works (some Chinese and Persian), all in English translation.

This site contains links to the websites of newspapers from around the world. Use the site to see the latest editions of these newspapers. The site has brief information about most of the newspapers listed. You can search by country and state/province.

Find journals on various subjects. Search by subject area or keyword. Not each subject area listed will have journals.

Joyce Papers 2002

This website contains the complete contents of the 12-volume Jewish Encyclopedia, which was originally published between 1901-1906. The Jewish Encyclopedia, which recently became part of the public domain, contains over 15,000 articles and illustrations. This online version contains the unedited contents of the original encyclopedia.

This site offers links to online texts, articles, websites. Under the resource index, check “Second Temple and Talmudic Era” and the associated subgroups. Also browse by item type.

The Holocaust Wing of the Jewish Virtual Library contains articles, original documents, a holocaust glossary, a bibliography, and much more, all covering The Holocaust.

"The Mormon History Association makes its past issues those published two years prior to the current publication freely available. Current issues are available to subscribers only."

This important, interactive Knovel reference contains tables of physical, solvent, and thermodynamic properties. The physical property tables alone include over 21,000 inorganic and organic compounds, and pure substances. The solvent property tables have data for 385 common solvents, and the thermodynamic property tables have data for over 15,000 compounds.

"We are a not-for-profit group that believes everyone should be able to read and understand the laws that govern them, without cost." Home page

"The following are legislative histories that were compiled by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Library Staff throughout the years. These legislative histories were originally researched, collected and bound as paper volumes by DOJ librarians and made available only to DOJ employees through the Department's Main Library collection. Today, they have been digitized and are now available for general use." Home page

"The mission of the Liberty University Digital Commons is capturing, preserving, and freely distributing the scholarship of our community." Home page

From the Smithsonian Institution Libraries, explore the rich variety of topics, images, and materials featured in online exhibitions from libraries, archives, historical societies, and museums around the world.

Since 1947, the World Bank has funded over 12,000 development projects, via traditional loans, interest-free credits, and grants.

" Created in July 1998 (then known as Magazine-Rack.com) by James Hubbs, Magatopia.com is the internet's oldest categorized directory to free online magazines. At Magatopia.com you won't find any so-called online magazines who's only content is an advertisement for their print edition, or a site that never posts new articles, or that charge a fee to view their site. Nor will you find any magazines with graphic adult or hate-based content. We don't do that here."

"On the main page you can see this month's featured selections. Just click on any magazine title to go there. Or click on one of the categories on the left side of the screen to browse through the rest of the site. Magatopia links to over 2500 free magazines!" About page.

These sites cover primary sources (journals) in American history from the 19th century. Major subjects include: education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. You can search by keyword or by browsing journal titles.

An exhibition, sponsored by the Center for History and New Media, that offers primary sources and analysis of the year that the Berlin Wall fell, along with several Communist regimes.

"Maplandia.com provides the searchable world gazetteer based on Google Maps, the most comprehensive online satellite imagery ever available. More than 2 000 000 places all over the world are divided into many geographical categories according to continents, countries and administrative regions." Home page

"The historical map collection has over 31,000 maps and images online. The collection focuses on rare 18th and 19th century North American and South American maps and other cartographic materials. Historic maps of the World, Europe, Asia, and Africa are also represented." Home page

Maps available via the Library of Congress.

"This collection contains digitized copies of audio and video interviews conducted with mathematicians by Eugene Dynkin. It also contains biographical information and photos of these prominent mathematicians. Read the Introduction and Help sections linked on the left of this page for more history and tips on using the collection." Home page

"Spark your curiosity and enrich your scientific and technical research experience. MHEST.com is an innovative online complement to the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, 10th Edition. You'll find regularly updated content including animations, videos, audio interviews, article commentaries, links to related sites, and more." Home page

"MedlinePlus is the National Institutes of Health's Web site for patients and their families and friends. Produced by the National Library of Medicine, it brings you information about diseases, conditions, and wellness issues in language you can understand. MedlinePlus offers reliable, up-to-date health information, anytime, anywhere, for free." About Page

Media: Internet Site
MEDLINE/PubMed is the National Library of Medicine's premier bibliographic database covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences. MEDLINE contains bibliographic citations and author abstracts from more than 4,000 biomedical journals published in the United States and 70 other countries. The file contains over 11 million citations dating back to the mid-1960's. Coverage is worldwide.

"Whether you’re doing research or providing care, you need access to all of the information that can help you do your job. But there’s too much medical content available." Website

"Here you'll find the latest information on social and economic trends in urban America and get seasoned perspectives on what they mean for workers, families, businesses, and neighborhoods." About page

This unique website links viewers to full text ebooks for missionary biographies. Biographical accounts highlight lives of missionaries ranging from the first to the twentieth centuries.

The Multimedia Page connects to slide shows and many pictures from NASA.

Primary sources via the National Archives website. From About Us page: "The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is the nation's record keeper. Of all documents and materials created in the course of business conducted by the United States Federal government, only 1%-3% are so important for legal or historical reasons that they are kept by us forever."

An entity within the Department of Education, NCES is charged by Congress to collect, analyze statistics, and report on education in America.

NCJRS Provides Greater Access to CrimeSolutions.gov Records

"NCpedia is an online encyclopedia. Its purpose is to highlight North Carolina's unique resources, people, and culture to enrich, educate, and inform. As of June 1, 2013, NCpedia included 3,898 entries and 4,677 images!" About page

"The NET Bible [Preface]:

"The NET Bible is a completely new translation of the Bible with 60,932 translators’ notes! It was completed by more than 25 scholars - experts in the original biblical languages - who worked directly from the best currently available Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek texts."

Hymnal.net is a non-profit site that generates no income. We serve to provide an avenue for God’s children to enjoy the hymns from anywhere and at any time. Hymns on this site are either posted with permission or belong to the public domain. A public domain hymn is a hymn that predates copyright laws, and whose copyright has expired. Materials dated 1922 or earlier are usually in the public domain.

"The Archives collections contain material that dates back to the Philharmonic's first concert in 1842, but the first phase of our digitization begins in the middle of this long history. In deciding where to begin with our digitization project, we held a roundtable discussion that included librarians, historians, musicians, conductors, journalists, and students to evaluate the different time periods in the Philharmonic's history and to determine what might provide the most unique source material." About page

Images from the New York Public Library.

Digital sources from the New York State Archives, the New York State Museum, and the New York State Library.

Search Over 26,800,000 Old New York State Historical Newspaper Pages

New social community for nurses worldwide.

License information state by state.

"The Ojibwe People's Dictionary is a searchable, talking Ojibwe-English dictionary that features the voices of Ojibwe speakers. It is also a gateway into the Ojibwe collections at the Minnesota Historical Society. Along with detailed Ojibwe language entries and voices, you will find beautiful cultural items, photographs, and excerpts from relevant historical documents. Whenever possible, we provide examples of documents in the Ojibwe language." Home

American Job Center Network

"The mission of the Ohio Historical Society is to help people connect with Ohio’s past in order to understand the present and create a better future. " About page

Records of nearly 200,000 criminal trials held at London's central criminal court, from 1674 to 1913. Self-described as "largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published."

The full text of more than 20,000 significant works in English is freely-available online at this site. Find everything from Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre to Arthur W. Pink's Gleanings from Paul. The site also contains full and partial archives of certain serials, such as the Annals of the Astronomical Observatory of Harvard College and the San Francisco Chronicle.

About 90 serials (magazines, journals, newspapers) from the mid-1700s to the present are accessible through this site. You may search by journal title.

"Liberty Fund, Inc. is a private, educational foundation established to encourage the study of the ideal of a society of free and responsible individuals. It was founded in 1960 thus making 2010 its 50th Anniversary Year. In celebration of this, a number of conferences and other events have been organized for 2010." About page

"This is a database of all known people of Scotland between 1093 and 1314 mentioned in over 8600 contemporary documents. The People of Medieval Scotland is an outcome of two projects, The Paradox of Medieval Scotland (2007-2010) and The Breaking of Britain (2010-2013), funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)." Home page

The internet site lacks the narrative found in the print. See the Mack Library Reference Collection for an array of guides from Peterson's. 378.1552 P442 2011
Since 1966, Peterson's has helped to connect individuals, educational institutions, and corporations through its critically acclaimed books, Web sites, online products, and admissions services.

"The most comprehensive people search on the web
We dive into the deep web to bring you results you won't find in any other search engine then we use a powerful identity resolution engine to identify the person you are looking for." Website

"The PLANTS Database provides standardized information about the vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories. It includes names, plant symbols, checklists, distributional data, species abstracts, characteristics, images, crop information, automated tools, onward Web links, and references. This information primarily promotes land conservation in the United States and its territories, but academic, educational, and general use is encouraged. PLANTS reduces government spending by minimizing duplication and making information exchange possible across agencies and disciplines." About page

"Database contains 797,579 poems from 78,455 poets." Home page (Home page tab has broken link, but all other tabs work fine)

The Poetry Archive is the world's premier online collection of recordings of poets reading their work. You can enjoy listening here, free of charge, to the voices of contemporary English-language poets and of poets from the past.

The official website of Academy of American Poets, Poets.org offers hundreds of essays and interviews about poetry, biographies of poets, almost 2,000 poems, and audio clips of poems.

"OnlineSearches.com is your gateway to public records. Use our free Public Records Directory to quickly find the public record sources you need. We provide thousands of links to free public record searches in every state and county in the United States.

Use of our links is absolutely free, although some state or county agencies may charge fees for accessing public records. All links indicate whether online public records searches are available for free, as paid services, or not available online. We also attempt to provide contact information for each related agency." Home page

PubMed Central (PMC) is the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.

Puritan books available to be read online.

"Digitized in 2011 as part of the Book Digitization Initiative offered by the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI), the Purple Parrot was a humor magazine published by students at Northwestern from 1921 to 1950. The Purple Parrot contains short stories, poetry, essays, jokes, and a variety of advertisements. Many pieces found in the Parrot are particular to Northwestern, Evanston, or the greater Chicago area, and so are rooted in a deeper sense of regionalism. The Parrot parodied all aspects of life at Northwestern: Greek life, notable faculty members, college romance, and even the Daily Northwestern, NU’s student newspaper (which was lampooned in the Purple Parrot as “The Dilly”)." Home page

Find the current edition of USA and world newspapers through the links at this site. You can search by country and state/province.

Find your next South Carolina hospital or healthcare job on SCHospitalJobs.com! Sponsored by the South Carolina Hospital Association, SCHospitalJobs.com helps you locate jobs in nursing, physical therapy, radiology, orthopedics and much more. Search for healthcare jobs, register for free emailed job alerts, research South Carolina hospitals and learn about South Carolina healthcare licensing and regulations. Best of all, everything is free for all healthcare professionals!

"ScholarsArchive@OSU is Oregon State University's digital service for gathering, indexing, making available and storing the scholarly work of the Oregon State University community. It also includes materials from outside the institution in support of the university's land, sun, sea and space grant missions and other research interests." Home page

Timeline, lesson plans, and activities presenting the science and technology of WWII.

Sponsored by the American Institute of Physics.

SCIway (pronounced sky-way) includes thousands of links to other South Carolina web sites as well as a growing collection of maps, charts, articles, and other resources we've developed. It is organized by subject areas - such as education, history, jobs, real estate, and tourism.

"The Sid Lapidus '59 Collection on Liberty and the American Revolution features more than 150 recently gifted important books, pamphlets and prints representing the major themes of Lapidus' collecting: the intellectual origins of the American Revolution; the Revolution itself; the early years of the republic; the resulting spread of democratic ideas in the Atlantic world; and the effort to abolish the slave trade in both Great Britain and the United States." Home page

“You can hear theologians and religion scholars such as Bernard Anderson, Walter Brueggeman, Martin Buber, Fritz Buri, Eva Burroughs, Gerhard Ebeling, Elisabeth Fiorenza, Carter Heyward, Hans Küng, Nathaniel L. Lacy, Jr., Carl Michalson, Reinhold Niebuhr, Heinrich Ott, Krister Stendahl, Elton Trueblood, Claus Westermann, and Delores Williams.”

Use this site to find statistical information on South Carolina. Data covers areas such as population, business, tourism, government finance, transportation, health, education, criminal justice, climate and geography, agriculture, forestry, fishing, mining, and employment (among others).

In 2000, the National Center for Victims of Crime partnered with the U.S. Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women to create the Stalking Resource Center (SRC). Since its inception, the SRC has trained over 60,000 professionals who work with victims in all 50 states, two US Territories, the District of Columbia, the United Kingdom, and Germany and provided technical assistance to hundreds of communities seeking to enhance their response to stalking. Though the United States has come a long way in how the crime of stalking is addressed and victims are treated, there is still much work to be done. The SRC is committed to continuing its national effort to promote Awareness, Action, and Advocacy through the next decade and beyond. About page

A US government publication, the Statistical Abstract of the US is the premier source for statistical information on every aspect of life in the United States, including population, crime, transportation, industry, business, media, and economics. The online version of the most current Statistical Abstract provides Adobe Acrobat versions of all the tables included in the print edition. Some back years' statistics are available.

"The Supreme Court consists of the Chief Justice of the United States and such number of Associate Justices as may be fixed by Congress. The number of Associate Justices is currently fixed at eight (28 U.S.C. §1). Power to nominate the Justices is vested in the President of the United States and appointments are made with the advice and consent of the Senate. Article III, §1, of the Constitution further provides that "[t]he Judges, both of the supreme and inferior Courts, shall hold their Offices during good Behavior, and shall, at stated Times, receive for their Services, a Compensation, which shall not be diminished during their Continuance in Office." Home page

"The Supreme Court Database is the definitive source for researchers, students, journalists, and citizens interested in the U.S. Supreme Court. The Database contains over two hundred pieces of information about each case decided by the Court between the 1953 and 2008 terms." Home page

At American College of Education, you’ll collaborate on projects, share perspectives, and build professional relationships with faculty and fellow students throughout the program. Our learning management system provides you with access to the online instruction and content that leads to real-life and immediate impact.

The Stanford History Education Group, located at Stanford University's School of Education, engages in projects on how students learn history in high school, middle school, and elementary school classrooms.

Digitized magazines and ideas for teaching tolerance.

"The Portal is a gateway to Texas history materials. You may discover anything from an ancestor's picture in a college yearbook to a rare historical map." Home page

The Texas Slavery Project examines the spread of American slavery into the borderlands between the United States and Mexico in the decades between 1820 and 1850. Includes maps and primary sources.

"The Theodore Roosevelt Center is dedicated to preserving the legacy of America’s 26th president. The Center has undertaken the monumental task of creating a presidential digital library that will serve as a repository for all Roosevelt-related documents, photographs, and ephemera, providing instant access via the internet in a well-organized, comprehensible manner. The Center also hosts an annual Theodore Roosevelt Symposium as well as special Roosevelt-related events, promotes Roosevelt scholarship, and offers student internships." About page

Thomas Register is the proprietary database powering the foundation of ThomasNet.com. The Thomas Register of American Manufacturers, known as the 'big green books' and 'Thomas Registry', was in its heyday, a 34-volume, 3 section buying guide offering instant sourcing information on industrial products and services, along with comprehensive specifications and detailed product information from thousands of manufacturers.

A database of slave-trading voyages, including information about crew and slaves. Also includes summary statistics and secondary sources about the slave trade. Another database includes names of some 67,000 slaves transported in the Middle Passage.

This site provides digital editions of Shakespeare's Quarto, Caxton's Chaucer, the Gutenberg Bible, and Renaissance Festival Books (books about European festivals and ceremonies from 1475-1700). Provided by the British Library.

A library of over 20,700 theological thesis/dissertation titles representing research from as many as 70 different institutions.

"Over 1,000 American and European posters printed from 1893 through the first years of the 20th-century. The collection represents the inception and heyday of magazine, book, and newspaper posters of the last decade of the 19th-century, and well into the 20th-century." Home page

"The core mission of Keeping America Informed, dated to 1813 when Congress determined to make information regarding the work of the three branches of Government available to all Americans. The U.S Government Printing Office (GPO) provides publishing and dissemination services for the official and authentic government publications to Congress, Federal agencies, Federal depository libraries, and the American public." About page

From the Mission statement: "The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is America’s national institution for the documentation, study, and interpretation of Holocaust history, and serves as this country’s memorial to the millions of people murdered during the Holocaust."

This database collects "international statistical data" on "a vast array of themes: agriculture, education, employment, energy, environment, health, human development, industry, information and communication technology." RUSQ, Volume 50, Issue 2, Winter 2010

"The Census Bureau serves as the leading source of quality data about the nation's people and economy. We honor privacy, protect confidentiality, share our expertise globally, and conduct our work openly. We are guided on this mission by our strong and capable workforce, our readiness to innovate, and our abiding commitment to our customers." Mission Statement

This site is maintained by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts on behalf of the Federal Judiciary.

The purpose of this site is to provide information from and about the Judicial Branch of the U.S. Government.

Site News: The whole of the Fortune 500 has recently been added to the US Pages website. More than just a simple list, US Pages allows you to search for all the Fortune 500 corporations in a specific industry, read about them, view business and financial summaries, see how their stocks are doing and find contact details for each.

"The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) was created in 1953 as an independent agency of the federal government to aid, counsel, assist and protect the interests of small business concerns, to preserve free competitive enterprise and to maintain and strengthen the overall economy of our nation." About page

USA.gov is the only official U.S. Government portal to 30 million pages of government information, services, and online transactions. The site offers a powerful search engine that searches every word of every U.S. government document, a topical index, links to state and local government, and options to contact your government.

University of South Carolina Scholar Commons

The mission of the Office on Violence Against Women (OVW), a component of the U.S. Department of Justice, is to provide federal leadership in developing the nation’s capacity to reduce violence against women and administer justice for and strengthen services to victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.

"Started in 1994 as a suite of static Web pages, VoS has now been rebuilt as a database that Old VoS: Dec. 1994 to Oct. 2001serves content dynamically on the Web. Users gain greater flexibility in viewing and searching, while editors are able to work more efficiently and flexibly." Home page

Contains thousands of digital facsimiles of Whitman’s poetry and letters as well as writings about Whitman

The Web MD site has many valuable tips and articles from which to choose.

Videos on a variety of topics related to health and fitness.

"Watch and listen to a story. There are few things more interesting or more pleasurable than to watch someone tell a good story. And one story always leads to another. You know how it is - you listen to someone tell a story and it reminds you of another one. One story leads to another, and together they make a "web" of many connected stories. " About page

"Your weight is a balancing act, and calories are part of that equation. Fad diets may promise you that counting carbs or eating a mountain of grapefruit will make the pounds drop off. But when it comes to weight loss, it's calories that count." Home page

Discover almost a million images of rare books, manuscripts, and other treasures from the Bodleian Libraries and Oxford college libraries.

"The Darrell W. Krueger Library at Winona State University is pleased to make available an online archive of three late 19th century and early 20th century Winona newspapers. This archive includes available issues of the Winona Argus, the Winona Daily Republican and the Winona Republican Herald. The archive includes issues through 1960 and over 150,000 pages of text." Home page

The World Bank is a vital source of financial and technical assistance to developing countries around the world. Our mission is to fight poverty with passion and professionalism for lasting results and to help people help themselves and their environment by providing resources, sharing knowledge, building capacity and forging partnerships in the public and private sectors.

WorldCat connects you to the collections and services of more than 10,000 libraries worldwide

A comprehensive job seeker and workforce skill building resource for South Carolina’s libraries, government agencies, and citizens.

Writer's Web is a free, public-access handbook designed & maintained by University of Richmond students & faculty.