The
following websites were selected by AU faculty and library subject specialists
to provide “reliable” online sources.
Many
sites were selected to support specific library and classroom assignments.
Choose from the following Subject Areas
(See also Business)
Accounting Resources – This University
of Wisconsin-Madison University Library web site provides extensive links to
accounting resources.
AccountingWeb - AccountingWEB provides accounting
news, information, tools, resources and insight helping CPAs, accountants and
their clients prosper. Users may register for free content or additional
content with a paid subscription.
AICPA – American
Institute of Certified Public Accountants. This professional association for
CPAs provides news, publications, and
AnnualReports.com – A list of
publicly traded companies and their annual and 10K reports. Search by Company
Name, Ticker Symbol, Exchange, Industry, or Sector.
Big Charts - Free access
to charts, reports, indicators and quotes for stocks, mutual funds and major
market indices. Allows creation of charts through interactive commands.
Business Ethics – Links to
articles, cases studies, corporate codes of ethics, professional organizations
and associations, and other resources.
City of
Anderson, SC - Find out about public services and divisions of government, learn
about events and activities, or find a directory of elected officials.
CorpWatch - This
watchdog site includes news, exposes, analysis, and first person accounts of
corporate and globalization issues.
FASB - The mission
of the Financial Accounting Standards Board is to establish and improve
standards of financial accounting and reporting for the guidance and education
of the public, including issuers, auditors, and users of financial
Government Accountability Office (GAO) – Press releases, GAO Highlights, and financial reports of the
U.S. Government. Also contains the 2003 Revision to the Government Auditing
Standards.
Government
Accounting Standards Board The GASB provides
Institute of
Management Accountants (IMA) - An association
dedicated to the educating, certifying, and training management accountants and
corporate financial managers.
Internal Revenue
Service – The IRS, part of the US Dept. of Treasury,
provides tax
Knowledge@Wharton – Contains
research articles on Leadership, health economics, public policy, management,
business ethics, etc.
Rutgers
Accounting Web (RAW) – Great links to accounting resources.
SC.GOV – The official website of the state of
SCIWay – (pronounced
Sky-Way) This state site, also known as the South Carolina Information Highway,
covers many SC topics. Included is a business and industry directory.
South Carolina Association of Certified Public Accountants The SCACPA assists CPAs in
South
Carolina Board of Accountancy – SCBA provides information relevant to the
practice of accounting in
South Carolina
Comptroller General – Provides various state government reports
including the State of South Carolina’s Comprehensive Annual
Financial Report. Also Provides news and information about
Education, Business, Health, Public Education, Environment, and Tourism.
South Carolina
Department of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation – Sometimes
called the LLR, this agency oversees more than two dozen licensing boards
including the Board of Accountancy.
South Carolina
Department of Revenue – SCDOR is responsible
for administering the state tax laws and collecting taxes. Tax guides and
rates, electronic payment system, and details of tax relief policies.
SEC Filings and Forms (Edgar) - The SEC requires all public companies (except foreign companies
and companies with less than $10 million in assets and 500 shareholders) to
file registration statements, periodic reports, and other forms electronically
through EDGAR.
U.S. GAAP – Generally
Accepted Accounting Principles in the
USASpending.gov – An attempt
to make government spending transparent. Look up government grants and
contracts, Users may search by recipient name, DUNS number, city, county, ZIP
code, congressional district, or recipient category (government, higher
education, nonprofits, individuals, for profits, other), or pull up the entire
list of recipients or transactions.
Yahoo! – Finance – Stock
quotes, market news, mortgage rates, etc.
Yahoo! – Finance – Education Center – Dictionaries and Tools, Investing 101, Personal Finance 101
Yahoo! -
Finance and Investment
Yahoo! – Finance and Investment – Accounting and
Auditing
Yahoo! - Loan
Center - Provides useful tips, calculators, and rate
data to help you choose an auto loan, mortgage, or personal loan.
African
American Biographical Database (1790-1950) - Biographies, photographs, illustration.
Circle Association -
A support group for African-American.
Gateway to African-American History - Documents,
articles, and links honoring and acknowledging the accomplishments of
African-Americans.
Museum
of Afro-American History - Dedicated to the preservation and
presentation of African and African American history and culture.
SC
African American History Online - Biographies of African Americans.
(See also History)
Africa South of the Sahara –
Selected internet sources on much of
African Studies Center – Links
to countries, K-12 Resources, languages, etc.
CIA World Factbook - Links to
Country
Reports.org - Countries
profiled from around the world. Here you will find over 6,600 pages and
6,400 related links on over 260 countries! Provides national anthems,
stats, flags, history, and profiles.
Country
Studies Area Handbook Series - Library of Congress - The Country
Studies Series presents a description and analysis of the historical setting
and the social, economic, political, and national security systems and
institutions of countries throughout the world.
Cultural
Profiles Project – This Canadian site provides an overview of the life and
customs in the profiled country. Countries are limited to those likely to
immigrate to
East Asia and Southeast Asia - An Annotated Directory of Internet
Resources
Economist.com
– Country Briefings – News, country profiles, forecasts,
statistics, and more.
LookLex/Encyclopaedia –
Formerly the Encyclopedia of the Orient, covers North Africa and the
Governments
on the WWW - Comprehensive
database of governmental institutions on the World Wide Web: parliaments,
ministries, offices, law courts, embassies, city councils, public broadcasting
corporations, central banks, multi-governmental institutions etc. Also includes
political parties.
History in the News – The Middle East
- History, culture, society, religion,
economics, politics, maps, news and media.
INCORE Conflict Data Service Regional
Internet Guide - These
Guides provide
Infonation - View and
compare the most up-to-date statistical data for the Member States of the United
Nations.
International
Business Culture and Etiquette – Almost 50 countries are discussed.
Latin
American Network Information Center - Lanic - Access to academic
databases and information services, and information on and from
Organization
of American States – Provides
Political
Databases of the Americas – Provides reference materials, primary documents,
comparative studies and statistical data for countries in the
Portals to the World –
This Library of Congress Site provides
REENIC
(Russian and Eastern European Network Information Center) -
Descriptive and statistical information.
Russian Studies Program at
Bucknell - Links – Links to Art, Cities , Cuisine, Feminism , Folklore
Literature , Music , Philosophy , Religion, Theater , Holidays , Humor ,
Russian History , Russian , Language , Russian Business, and Russian Media.
U.S.
Department of State – Features
United
Nations -Includes daily news updates, pictorial
history, and descriptions of UN departments and offices
Western European Studies –
Regional and historical resources.
World
Press Review – World news from the world’s
newspapers.
World
Newspapers – Select a country, then select an
online newspaper.
WWW
Virtual Library – Regional Studies – Links to Asia,
Yahoo! –
Cultures – Food and Drink
(See also Interior Design)
(See also Museums)
AICT – Art Images for College Teaching –
Hundreds of free use images of art from around the world.
Archives
of American Art, the Smithsonian – Access to 14 million items.
AHRC
- Art History Research Center - The AHRC is
the first and foremost tool for art historical research on the internet. It
shares key resources and methods of online research so that art historians can
find the resources relevant to their work.
Art
History Resources on the Web – Links to art by country, historic
period, style, etc.
ArtCyclopedia
– The Fine Art Search Engine – Explore 125,000 works of art by
artist, title, museum, movement, nationality, etc.
ArtLex –
Art Dictionary or words, phrases, concepts. Most entries have active hyperlinks
to more
ArtMagick - ArtMagick
aims to bring hitherto obscure paintings, artists and art movements to a wider
audience, offering
ArtNetWeb -
Dedicated to viewing, discussing and promoting art online.
Art
Renewal Center (ARC International) – Thousands of
works of art, essays, and biographies. Excludes most modern and postmodern art.
Added Sept. 2009 Arts
Council Collection – The largest collection (7,500 works)
of modern and contemporary British Art including many contemporary artists.
ARTSEDGE -
Includes News, teaching materials and professional resources.
ArtsEdNet -
Provides lesson plans and resources for teachers with a specific focus on the
ArtSource – A
starting point for finding websites on art, architecture, ceramics, journals,
museums, etc.
Catalog of American Portraits - A survey of American
portraits in public and private collections across the United States and
abroad. The CAP encompasses portraits of American subjects or by American
artists, generally limited to one-of-a-kind likenesses such as paintings,
sculpture, drawings, miniatures, and silhouettes. National Portrait Gallery
collections are included in this portrait database, as well as portraits
relating to NPG exhibitions. If you wish to search NPG collections only, go to NPG
Collections Search.
Copyright
for Artists FAQ - Answers
to questions frequently asked by painters about copyright.
Added Sept. 2009 Image Urbis: Giuseppe Vasi’s Grand Tour of Rome – A geographic database that provides 240 engravings for
Vasi’s Delle Magnificenze di Roma in
the context of the famous map or Rome by Giambasttista Nolli. Uses may toggle
from 18th century images to modern photos.
Institute:
Arts and Humanities – The gateway to Art, Design, Architecture, and Media
Information on the Internet; arts and humanities database.
Internet Art Resources - Your gateway to
art and artists, galleries and exhibitions. Up-to-date information on current
and future art shows, emerging artists and world-renowned masters in the fine
arts as well as modern artisans working in every imaginable medium, including
wood, glass, metal and stone.
Added Sept. 2009 Joseph
Cornell: Navigating the Imagination – Cornell’s
art is divided into eight themed pages accessed by “Cornell-esque” boxes. With
the goal “to inspire others to pursue uplifting voyages into the imagination”
this site offers lots of interactivity.
Learning About Art: A Multicultural
Approach - Explore the richness and complexity
of the visual arts. Investigate the meaning of art instruction.
Luminarium –
Presents literature, art, and music together. Covers Medieval and Renaissance.
Mark
Harden's Artchive - A virtual art museum with galleries
of Masters' works, theory and criticism, art CD-ROM reviews and art links.
Medieval
Art and Architecture – Concentrates on images and
Public Domain Images –
Free images for reproduction.
Public Domain Pictures –
Free pictures for reproduction.
SAAM: Smithsonian American Art Museum –
User friendly search engine to this museum’s collections. Includes an
interactive Q&A for students via Ask Joan of Art.
SIRIS –
Smithsonian Institution Research Information System. The holdings of the
Smithsonian’s archival, library and specialized research collections can be
found online in the Smithsonian Research Information System (SIRIS). With over
a 1,700,000 records, SIRIS covers a wide variety of topical subjects from Art
& Design, to History & Culture, to Science & Technology. About SIRIS.
Added Nov. 2009 Smarthistory:
A Multimedia Web-Book about Art and Art History -
A multimedia art history resource and adjunct to college art history survey
texts. The site consists of two parts: a database of information about
individual works of art and a substantial offering of videos to download. Users
may browse the database by time period, style, artist, or theme, or use a basic
search engine. At present the site's strength is in the content featured in the
second half of the typical Western art survey course. Site authors plan to add
pre-Renaissance and non-Western art
Smithsonian:
Archives of American Art - Since 1954, the Archives has
collected roughly 16 million letters, photographs, diaries, sketches, scrapbooks,
business records, and other documentation that supports the study of the
history of the visual arts in America. More about AAA
Smithsonian Images -
Digital Photography, Printed Pictures, Historic Images, and E-Cards. Categories
include: Air and Space, American History, Animals, Fireworks, Gems and
Minerals, History of Technology, Marine Life, Military History, Nature, The
Presidency, Transportation,
Smithsonian
Photography Initiative - The Smithsonian Photography
Initiative is devoted to the presentation and study of these photographic
images, viewing photography as an art form, a record keeper, and a
cross-disciplinary medium that encompasses science, history, popular culture,
and more. Beyond offering more information about where to find photography
collections throughout the Smithsonian, our website aims to be an educational
tool, serving anyone who wishes to study, explore, and enjoy photographs of
many kinds. We are also planning an exciting program of exhibitions,
publications, and conferences, which we will soon announce on our website.
Timeline
of Art History – This page is provided by the
Metropolitan Museum of Art and displays representative art objects from the
museum in geographical and chronological arrangement.
Varo
Registry of Women Artists - This site is designed for
educational use by the fine art and commercial art worlds, and the general
public to introduce works by contemporary women artists.
In
addition, we have a library of information for the study of women artists and
links to sites related to women and the arts.
World
Art Treasures – A collection of art slides and
essays based on the Jacques-Edouard Berger Collection. Covers Europe,
WWW
Virtual Library Art History
Yahoo! - Art Museum, Galleries, and
Centers
Yahoo! - Design Arts - Magazines
(See
also Science)
All the Virology on the WWW - We have
collected all the virology related Web sites that might be of interest to our
fellow virologists, and others interested in learning more about viruses.
Additionally, we have created an index to virus pictures on the web, The Big
Picture Book of Viruses, which also functions as a resource for viral taxonomy.
A collection of some of the best Online Virology and Microbiology Course Notes
available can also be found here
ARKive –
A freely accessible online repository of digital images, video and sound clips
of 12,000 animal and plant species from around the globe threatened with
extinction. Background
Biology
Browser –This free web site,
produced by BIOSIS, offering resources for the life sciences
Biology
Links – Internet links provided by Harvard
Dept. of Cellular and Molecular Biology.
CDC Health Topics from A-Z – This site by the Center for Disease
Control provides easy to access and understand health
Cells
Alive – Photos and video clips of biology,
microbiology, immunology, and microscopy.
Entomology Index of Internet Resources – “The directory and search engine of
insect-related resources on the Internet.” Includes large amounts of software,
video and audio information.
Integrated Taxonomic Information System - Here you will find authoritative taxonomic information on
plants, animals, fungi, and microbes of
LUMEN Structure of the Human Body –
Online anatomy modules.
MERCK
Manual of Medical Information - Explains disorders, who is likely to
get them, their symptoms, how they're diagnosed, how they might be prevented,
and how they can be treated; also provides
PubMed -
Access to MEDLINE an index of medical articles.
Added January 2010 Video Lectures Net – The portal to
more than 6,000 lectures and 8,300 videos on all topics - all free - can be
used to supplement the classroom or learn something new of personal interest.
Added
March 2010 Wetlands, Oceans and
Watersheds: US EPA - The Wetlands Web site is a division of
the larger US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) site. The main content addresses
four essential themes: What Are Wetlands? Why Protect Wetlands? How Are
Wetlands Protected and What You Can Do to Protect Our Vital Resources. Of note
are numerous links to resources outside the EPA Web site.
BUSINESS
(See also Accounting)
Ad@Access – More than 7,000
digitized ads published between 1911 and 1955.
AdFreak – Popular
Blog for Adweek Magazine. Lots of video clips and commentaries.
Advertising World – Links to
advertising sites.
AnnualReports.com – A list of
publicly traded companies and their annual and 10K reports. Search by Company
Name, Ticker Symbol, Exchange, Industry, or Sector.
B&E
Datalinks: Econ & Financial Data Sources - Indexes
sources of domestic and international business and economics data on Finance,
Macroeconomics, and Microeconomics. A smaller, easier version of this is
Economagic at http://www.economagic.com
Beige Book
(also known as Summary of Commentary on Current
Economic Conditions by Federal Reserve District)- This title is released eight times per year, about
two weeks prior to scheduled meetings of the Federal Open Market Committee, the
monetary policy body of the Federal Reserve System. Undergraduate students
seeking up-to-date, easily digestible commentary on the economy should
definitely consult the Beige Book.
Big Charts - Free access
to charts, reports, indicators and quotes for stocks, mutual funds and major
market indices.
Bplans.com – Free advice
and
@Brint – Diverse and
comprehensive links on cutting edge topics like ecommerce, MIS research, technology,
reengineering, intellectual property and
Business Ethics – Links to
articles, cases studies, corporate codes of ethics, professional organizations
and associations, and other resources.
Business.gov -
Business.gov guides you through the maze of government rules and regulations
and provides access to services and resources to help you start, grow, and
succeed in business. The Research and
Resources link takes
you to
Catherwood
Library Guide to E-Commerce - Provides links to various aspects of e-commerce
including international commerce, technical
Classic
TvAds – Dozens of classic ads from TV.
Conference
Board - A trusted source for business statistics and
trends, including consumer confidence reports and other economic indicators.
Some content fee based.
CorpWatch - This watchdog
site includes news, exposes, analysis, and first person accounts of corporate
and globalization issues.
Corporate Information - The source
for global corporate information on the leading companies in over 55 countries.
A wide spectrum of reports that analyze, probe, review and profile.
County Business Patterns - Annual series that provides sub national economic data by
industry.
Current Industrial Reports – Provides reports on manufacturing
activity in important commodity areas such as textiles and apparel, chemicals,
primary metals, computer and electronic components, industrial equipment,
aerospace equipment, and consumer goods.
DoingBusiness - This World
Bank site in English and Spanish discusses how to do business in foreign
countries and describes their business environment, laws and regulations, and
economic growth. Accessible by country or topic.
Economic
Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) - Contains
full text of most papers and documents published by ECLAC including its
Statistical Yearbook, Economic Survey of Latin America ad the Caribbean,
Foreign Investment in Latin America and the
Economic Education and the Federal Reserve – Personal finance information.
Economist - Offers
access to many articles of the print magazine.
Economist.com:
Country Briefings - Sixty countries are covered. Each profile
includes a Factsheet, Forecasts, Economic Data (downloadable as a spreadsheet)
and Political Structure/Force and Economic Structure sections. Much of the
Emergence of
Advertising in America: 1850-1920 - Presents over 9,000 images relating to the
early history of advertising in the
eSignal.com – Chart stock
movement from 3 month to 5 year period.
Export.gov - Anyone can
use this site, but registered users have access to additional reports. Topics
include Export Basis, Finding Partners and Trade Leads,
Market Research, Counseling and Advocacy
Services, Export Assistance Services, Trade Events, Export Finances, Shipping Documentation
and Regulation, Pricing Quotes and Negotiations, Help with Trade Problems, and
Buying US Products. An excellent resource for anyone wishing to do business
abroad.
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond - General Information, Economic Research & Data,
Publications, Banking Information, Financial Services, Community Affairs,
Consumer Information, Speeches & News, Educational Resources, Employment
Finance Resources
on the Web - Covers General Finance and the Economy;
Financial Markets; Corporate Finance; Company, Fund, and Investment Research;
Risk Management; and International Finance.
FITA: Web
Resources for International Trade - Keyword search or browse with links to 8,000
plus web sites. Categories include Trade Leads, Business Directories, Direct
Investment, Currencies, International Taxation, Seaports, Translation Services,
Industrial Commodity Codes, International Law, Treaties and International
Conventions, Trade Barriers, Expatriate Resources, International Business
Publications.
Food Marketing
Institute - Find
Forecastcenter.com – Discusses
future trends with links to numerous sources.
Fuld & Company – Lots of
globalEDGE - This web
portal by the Center for International Business Education and Resea4rch at
Industry
Research Desk - This site identifies and then extensively
annotates 17-plus steps in the industry research process. While weak in general
retail, banking and finance
International Business Culture, Customs and Etiquette – Discusses business practices, social customs, intercultural
communication, negotiating practices, giving gifts, how to address individuals,
and acceptable business attire in a wide range of countries.
Knowledge@Wharton – Contains
research articles on Leadership, health economics, public policy, management,
business ethics, etc.
KnowThis.com: Marketing Virtual Library - Links to marketing sites.
Markets Data
Center – From the
Wall Street Journal, this free market research page covers stocks,
international markets, ETFs, Mutual Funds, Bonds, Commodities and Futures,
Currencies, Calendars & Economy, and Earnings.
Microsoft Investor - Personal
finance site.
Morningstar.com - Providers
of news and analyses on markets, stocks, and mutual funds, for the individual
investor. Registration required.
Motley Fool - The Motley
Fool exists to educate, amuse, and enrich the individual investor. To propose
from personal finance to the stock market, the key to investment success is
doing one's homework; and to show that homework can be fun.
NAICS - North American Industry
Classification System – Provides
classification number for business sectors.
National Retail Federation - Industry's largest advocacy organization which advances the
industry through professional seminars, trade conferences, publications and
educational ...Lots of links, reports, data.
National Trade
Database – Detailed
statistical and narrative
Oanda Currency Converters, Universal Currency - Includes currency converters, currency daily table, historical
tables and charts, and forecasts.
RePEc:
Research Papers in Economics - Provides access to over 150,000 working papers,
180,000 articles, and 1,000 books and chapters on economics.
SCIWay – (pronounced
Sky-Way) This state site, also known as the South Carolina Information Highway,
covers many SC topics. Included is a business and industry directory.
SEC Filings and Forms (Edgar) - The SEC requires all public companies (except foreign companies
and companies with less than $10 million in assets and 500 shareholders) to
file registration statements, periodic reports, and other forms electronically
through EDGAR.
South Carolina Department of Commerce – Helpful information about S.C. business.
Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Numbers – Search database for SIC numbers.
Added
March 2010 Summary of Commentary on
Current Economic Conditions by Federal Reserve District
(also known as the Beige Book.) - This title is released eight times per year, about
two weeks prior to scheduled meetings of the Federal Open Market Committee, the
monetary policy body of the Federal Reserve System. Undergraduate students
seeking up-to-date, easily digestible commentary on the economy should
definitely consult the Beige Book.
Added January 2010 Vintage Ad
Browser – 100,000 vintage advertisements to explore going
back to the 1800’s.
Wachowicz's
Web World: Web Sites for Discerning Finance Students - This site
was designed to go along with Wachowicz’s textbook – Fundamentals of
Financial Management – and follows the textbook’s chapters. Aside of the
many links, it also includes exercises downloadable in Excel, quizzes, and
glossaries.
Wall Street Executive Library – Excellent starting point for business research. Categories include News, Company and Industry
Research, Financial Markets Research, Statistics and Economics Research,
Leisure, a “Business Toolkit”, etc.
WWW Virtual Library Labour and Business History - Annotated links to archives, libraries, organizations,
resources, conferences etc worldwide.
Yahoo!
– Social Sciences - Economics
Yahoo! – Social Sciences - Economics – Statistics
and Indicators
Yahoo! -
Finance and Investment
Yahoo! -
Marketing and Advertising
American
Career InfoNet - Find wages and
employment trends, occupational requirements, state by state labor market
conditions, millions of employer contacts nationwide, and the most extensive
career resource library online.
CareerCity -
Search the job database and submit your resume online. Also offers a career
center, resume samples, and interview strategies.
careerbuilder.com -
A job search engine.
CareerJournal.com –
This career service is provided by the Wall Street Journal. Lots of
advice and tools.
Dictionary of Occupational Titles –
Provides the official name and number of every job.
Lifeworks:
Explore Health and Medical Science Careers - The Career
Finder sifts through over 100 job possibilities in health and medical sciences and
creates a list of jobs for you to explore based on your interests and skills.
Monster.com -
Search for jobs. Post your resume.
Occupational
Outlook Handbook - Job descriptions, employment
projections, salary estimates, etc.
Online Sports: Career Center -
Offers sports-related career opportunities and a resume bank for potential
employers.
Quintessential Careers –
Website for multicultural job seekers.
Riley
Guide - Employment Opportunities and Job
Resources on the Internet.
Welcome
to Worldwide Careers – Links to Career sites.
About
- Children’s Books – A good starting point and overall
reference tool.
A to Z Teacher Stuff: Lesson Plans:
Literature Activities – Although a limited number of books
(about a dozen), this site has multiple lesson plans on each book.
Baldwin Library of Historical Children's
Literature – A large collection of full text historical
children’s books from the 1700’s on. Provided by the Department of Special
Collections at the University of Florida's George A. Smathers Library.
Caldecott
Medal - Annual award for best picture book
for children.
Carol Hurst's Children's Literature
Site Reviewed Books - Reviews of great books for kids. Includes
activities to teach particular subjects, curriculum areas, and themes.
Children's
Literature - Site includes sample reviews and
profiles of authors and illustrators.
Children’s Literature Index – K-12 Lesson Ideas for
Literature: An Index to Books and Websites. Also called the Doucette Index.
Type in a title, author, or illustrator and it will try to find lesson ideas on
the web for almost 500 books.
CLWG- Children’s Literature Web Guide - The Children's Literature Web Guide is
an attempt to gather together and categorize the growing number of Internet
resources related to books for Children and Young Adults including award lists.
Dreamhouse
Nursery Bookcase: Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes – Contains texts and advice on reading to
different age groups.
Educator’s Reference Desk – This ERIC site offers
over 3,000 lesson
plans,
a questions archive, links to education sites, resource guides on all topics,
and a link to GEM (Gateway to 21st Century Skills)..
GEM (Gateway to 21st Century Skills) - Provides educators with quick and easy access
to over 40,000 educational resources found on various federal, state,
university, non-profit, and commercial Internet sites.
International
Children’s Digital Library – Online children’s books.
KidLit.com
-The Right Books - Recommendations and reviews by gender,
age, reading level, subject, and keywords.
Mr.Donn.org –
A collection of lesson plans, activities, and powerpoints for teaching
children’s books.
Newbery
Medal - Official site of the children's
literature award.
ReadWriteThink – Lesson plans, standards, web resources,
and student materials
for language arts from the International Reading Association and the National
Council of Teachers of English.
Scholastic.com: Teachers: Lesson Plans – Clinks on subject or reading level, or try a
key word search to find dozens of lesson plans.
Teachers@Random - Includes teacher's guides for educational
books for K-12 from Random House.
Teaching
Books.net - Generating
enthusiasm for books and reading by providing easy access to authors,
illustrators and exceptional book resources — all in one place! Includes
teaching guides.
Welcome
to Seussville - Games, stories, products about the
works of Dr. Seuss.
Yahoo! - Children's Literature
Yahoo! – Literature – Lesson Plans
Young
Adult Book Central – Short book reviews, guides, author
biographies, and interviews.
50 States.com – Colleges and Universities
50 States.com
– Colleges and Universities – South Carolina
Peterson's
College's and Universities -Basic financial and descriptive data.
COSTUME AND FASHION
Clothing and Costume Links – (
Costume
Gallery – A linking page to a dozen or so film and
theater designers.
Costume
Page –Over 2,000 unique links to reference works and
museums, costume history, ethnic and folk costumes, theatrical costume
organizations and events, schools, costume making and sources of supplies and
costumes.
Costumer's
Manifesto – Everything a costumer needs to know at one
site.
Elizabethan
Costume Page – Covers Elizabethan (26th century)
Fabric Links - The Educational
Resource for Fabrics, Apparel, Home Furnishings, and Care.
History
of Costumes - Braun & Schneider - c.1861-1880 – An online
book.
La Couturiere Parisienne
Costume & Fashion -
This site is all about period costume, from the Middle Ages up to the early
20th century. Access 4000 costume pictures through a database, read one of
hundreds of articles, or download some authentic period patterns.
Metropolitan Museum's Costume Institute in NYC – View the
Met’s costume holdings.
Museum of
Costume in Bath, England – A source on English dress from the late 16th
century on.
Regency
Fashion Plates, 1790-1825 – Fashion illustrations from magazines published
between 1790-1825.
UGA Paris Music Hall Collection -More than
6,000 fashion illustrations from the 1920s and 1930s covering more than a dozen
designers.
Victorian
Library and numerous links – Explore the Victorian era through fashions,
holidays, history, decorating and travel.
(See
also Psychology)
Dr. Ivan's Depression Central -
Clearinghouse
for
Internet
Mental Health - Internet
Mental Health is a free encyclopedia of mental health
Mental Health Net. Psychological Self Help (Online
Book)
Psych
Web by Russ Dewey – A multi-purpose site with links.
Self
Help Magazine - Hundreds of articles and links on
self help.
Virginia Tech - Study Skills Self Help
Information
TWU Counseling Center –
Links for students on coping with college and life.
WWW Virtual Library - Psychology
WWW Virtual Library - School Psychology
(Note: This site only works in Internet Explorer)
(See also Sociology)
APBOnline –
The source for police and crime news, information, and entertainment.
Bureau
of Justice Statistics – Offers much of the same statistics
as their publication, Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics.
Criminology
Links
–
Covers Corruption,
Juveniles, Crime Prevention, Libraries, Criminology, Mental Health, Domestic
Violence, News, Drugs, Police, Ethnicity, Prisons, Forensics, Probation &
Parole, Gender & Sexuality, Research & Statistics, Government,
Restorative Justice & Mediation, Human Rights, Social Studies, Justice,
Courts & Law, and Victimology.
DEA
(Drug Enforcement Administration) Homepage -
Department
of Justice Homepage – Access its many agencies and
programs.
Federal
Bureau of Prisons Homepage
– Includes a guide to legal resources concerning FBP issues, an Inmate
Locator, quick facts and statistics, and general
Legal Research Guide –
An introduction to legal research on the web.
NCJRS
– National Criminal Justice Reference Service –
Primary web site for research in criminal justice. Links to articles, book,
government reports, and web sites.
Officer.com -
A commercial web site catering to law enforcement. News, editorials,
employment, shopping, links.
Office for
Victims of Crimes – Part of the U.S. Department of Justice, this
website gathers information pertinent to victims of crimes – statistics,
publications, research, as well as agency names and contact information.
Sourcebook
of Criminal Justice Statistics - Brings
together data from more than 100 sources about many aspects of criminal justice
in the
World
Justice Information Network - A library of international criminal justice links, news and publications.
Zeno’s Forensic Science Page – Links to Forensic Science,
Medicine, Psychiatry/Psychology, and Literature.
Yahoo! – Law - Criminal Justice
Yahoo! –
Sociology - Criminology
DICTIONARIES / ENCYCLOPEDIAS / THESAURI
(Subject-specific dictionaries and encyclopedias may be found
under their subjects.)
American Heritage® Dictionary, Fourth Edition
Infoplease: Encyclopedia, Almanac, Atlas, Biographies,
Dictionary
OneLook – Almost
100 dictionaries, glossaries, thesauri, and word encyclopedias in one.
Reference.com –
Combination Encyclopedia, Dictionary, Thesaurus, Almanac, Atlas, Directory,
etc.
Visual Dictionary Online - From the image to the word and its definition, the Visual
Dictionary Online is an all-in-one reference.
Wikipedia – The
largest encyclopedia in the world. Although created by its users, it has proven
to be a reliable source in many cases.
Yahoo!
Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Thesauri, etc
ADDED August, 2010 - DIGITAL REPOSITORIES
Europeana – Almost 3
million printed books as well as paintings, music, films, photos, audio, maps,
manuscripts, and newspapers from the past 2,000 years of European history.
Content providers include the Rijksmuseum, British Library, and Louvre as well
as over 1,000 other archives in the European Union. Some copyright protected
items are presented in low resolution.
Google
Books - This search engine / repository
finds not only 10 million plus books digitized under the Google Book Project,
but also other online books. Some are public domain. Others are protected by
copyright and provide only partial content. Be sure to limit your search to
Full Text. There is also a magazine section.
Google
Scholar – This search engine scours the web
for scholarly articles. Some are free access. Some require a fee. Some are full
text. Some are not.
Hathi
Trust – This search engine retrieves digital
content from dozens of academic libraries, the Google Book Project and the
Internet Archive. Be sure to limit your search to Full View Only. Present
content amounts to almost 7 million volumes. Participants.
Internet Archive – “A digital library of
Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper
library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the
general public.” The Internet
Archive includes millions of items - texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web
pages - in its collections. It also provides
specialized services for the blind and other persons with disabilities.”
Million Book Project – is a book digitization
project, led by Carnegie Mellon University, including partners in India, China,
and Egypt. This site provides free-to-read access to the books on the web in
many languages
SCIRUS - “The most
comprehensive scientific research tool on the web. With over 370 million
scientific items indexed at last count, it allows researchers to search for not
only journal content but also scientists' homepages, courseware, pre-print
server material, patents and institutional repository and website information.”
Some is free. Some isn’t. Icons will appear next to items available from the
Thrift Library. You may also limit your search to Full Text. Sources.
ADA
Home Page – American with Disabilities Act –
Contains general guide and FAQs.
National
Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped -
Administers a free library program of Braille and recorded materials circulated
to eligible borrowers through a network of cooperating libraries.
South
Carolina State Library – Talking Book Service –
State site for finding and ordering materials in Braille or recorded.
(See also Curriculum
Lab
for
K-12 materials, teacher education, lesson plans, etc.)
Academic
Info - A subject-based directory covering
many educational disciplines.
Almanac of Higher Education –
Statistics and reports on higher education. (Ask for password at desk.)
ARTSEDGE:
National Arts and Education Site - Curriculum guides, resources, and
news.
Association
of American Colleges and Universities (AACU)
Chronicle
of Higher Education - News and job
Education
Index
- Contains a huge list of research and educational resources indexed by
subject & lifestage. Includes games and lifestage-specific chat
groups.
Education
Week - Offers daily news about K-12 education
and schools. Issues include teacher accountability, policy, organizations,
technology, student safety and quality.
Education
World – Access 500,000 K-16 sites. Topics
include Lesson Planning, Administration, Technology Integration, Professional
Development, and School Issues.
Encyclopedia
of Educational Technology - A
collection of short multimedia articles on a variety of topics related to the
fields of instructional design and education and training. The primary
audiences for the EET are students and novice to intermediate practitioners in
these fields, who need a brief overview as a starting point to further research
on specific topics.
ERIC
- Educational Resources Information Center -
Provides free searching for Educational books and articles.
ETS
Homepage – Official site of the Education
Testing Service. Find
FREE
– Federal Resources for Educational Excellence –
Categories include government resources from 40 federal agencies on the topics
of Arts, Educational Technology, Foreign Languages, Health and Safety, Language
Arts, Mathematics, Physical Education, Science, Social Studies, and Vocational
Education.
IIEPassport - Provides
prospective study abroad students with accurate, reliable program information
that is also featured in the Institute of International Education's renowned Academic
Year Abroad and Short-Term Study Abroad print directories.
Additional content such as featured countries and articles is also provided to help
students maximize this life-changing experience.
IPEDSPA
– (IPEDS Peer Analysis System) – Allows statistical comparison of
colleges.
Journal
on Excellence in College Teaching – Full text of the journal from v.1 to
the present.
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators - A categorized list of sites useful for enhancing
curriculum and professional growth. It is updated often to include the best
sites for teaching and learning.
LD Online – Excellent source for
teachers and parents on learning disabilities, learning disorders,
learning differences, attention deficit disorder, ADD, ADHD, dyslexia, etc.
Measuring Up: The National Report Card on Higher Education - Measuring Up 2006 consists of the national report
card for higher education and fifty state report cards. Its purpose is to
provide the public and policymakers with information to assess and improve
postsecondary education in each state. In addition, the site can compare any
state with the best-performing states in each performance category, compare
indicator scores and state grades for any performance category, obtain source
and technical information for indicators and weights, and allow visitors to
download the reports. Further, the Measuring Up Web site has the capacity to
view previous report cards from 2000, 2002, and 2004.
National
Center for Education Statistics (NCES) -
A vast collection of statistics, descriptive data and links.
National
Institute of Child Health and Human Development – The NICHD
provides access to research on all stages of human development, from
preconception to adulthood, to better understand the health of children, adults,
families, and communities.
National Public School Locator -
Searchable by school characteristics, district, location, or name.
PBS
Online - Home of the Public Broadcasting
Service.
PBS
TeacherSource - Makes it easy to locate and use the
best television and Web resources available, including hundreds of ready-to-use
lesson plans.
Petersons – Search for colleges and
universities, graduate programs, online programs, and private schools.
SCICU – South
Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities. Official homepage of South Carolina’s
private colleges and universities.
SCTLC
- South Carolina: Teaching, Learning and Connecting -
Thousands of lesson plans, assessment items and links to curriculum resources.
The unique feature of the site is that all resources support the state’s
standards-based instruction
SKEWL
Sites – Attempts to identify best
educational web sites and direct users to them.
South
Carolina Department of Education - Find news, links to local districts,
statewide test scores and related links.
Study
Abroad Directory – International opportunities for
study, teaching, volunteer, language, jobs, etc.
Study
Guides and Strategies – Preparing to Learn, Studying,
Classroom participation, Learning with Others,
Project Management, Reading Skills, Preparing for Tests, Taking Tests, Writing Basics,
Math and Science, and Webtruth.
Teacher Tube - Instructional
videos site. Many are suitable for college use. If you find a video you see,
you can link to it on the TeacherTube site or embed it into a web page or
blog.
Technology
Resources – Links to internet
field trips, web quests, ideas for spreadsheets, project based learning, one
computer classroom, inspiration resources, music on the web, graphics,
e-portfolios, etc.
U.S.
Chamber of Commerce: Education Report Card - Leaders and Laggards: A
State-by-State Report Card on Educational Effectiveness.
U.S. News Online: Education -
Find colleges, grad schools, national rankings, scholarships, and job
opportunities.
What to Expect Your First Year of
Teaching – Quick answers to common questions.
WI DPI Education Resource List -
Links to instructional material
WWW
Virtual Library- Education
Yahoo! - Arts Humanities Literature
Yahoo! - Children's Literature
Yahoo! - Early Childhood Education
Literature
& Film
- Talks about the latest literature and film
Entertainment
Weekly - Movie Central - Publishes the inside scoop on
Internet
Movie Database Search - Good resource for persons trying to
find specific
TV
GUIDE ENTERTAINMENT NETWORK: Your Daily Guide To Entertainment -
This is an online guide for the other small screen. It has season's new
programs, returning favorites, and update on continuing trends
GENEALOGY
Behind
the Name – Look up the meaning of your first
and middle names.
Genealogy Home
Page
–
Links to genealogy resources on the web.
Last Name Meanings Dictionary – Look up the meaning
of your last name.
ACPASS –
American
FactFinder – U.S. Census Bureau statistics. Your source for population, housing, economic and geographic
data from Census 2000, the 1990 Decennial Census, the 1997 and 2002 ...
City of Anderson, SC – News, Jobs, Boards
Departments, Forms, Maps, Public Records, Directory, Things to Do, Calendar
etc.
Congressional
Directory - Links to all the
representatives for each state
ElectedNet! - Provides
email addresses of elected
officials.
FedStats – Gateway
to statistics from over 100 government agencies.
FirstGov – Official
gateway to federal, state, and local government sties.
Governments
on the WWW - Comprehensive
database of governmental institutions on the World Wide Web: parliaments,
ministries, offices, law courts, embassies, city councils, public broadcasting
corporations, central banks, multi-governmental institutions etc. Includes also
political parties.
GPO Access Online Resources: A-Z Resource List – Government Printing Office Site. Posts many of the
documents produced by U.S. Government.
Paul Hensel's Political Science Page
South Carolina Legislature Online –
Follow the working of the SC Legislature. Access to State Code of Laws and
proposed changes.
State
& Local Sourcebook - This subset to http://www.Governing.com has proved
to be a trustworthy connection to information about management, public policy,
and politics, demographics, education, finance and technology from a state and
local government point of view. Search by Regions, States, Metropolitan Areas,
and Transit Agencies. Lots of links to the federal government, academia, and
research organizations.
Students.gov –
Student’s gateway to the U.S. Government
THOMAS -
US Congress on the Internet.
U.S.
Census Bureau - Census 2000,
1970, 1980, 1990, historical and normalized data. Demographics and mapping
available.
U.S. Department of State – Education, travel, business, and
political
U.S.
Government Documents Ready Reference Collection – Contains U.S. Budget, Code of
Federal Regulations, Congressional Directory, Congressional Record, Federal
Register, Opinions of the Supreme Court, U.S Code, U.S. Government Manual, and
much, much more.
U.S.
House of Representatives - Provides
email and postal addresses of
the representative from your zip code.
USA.gov – The US
Government’s official portal for all government transactions, services, and
information.
White House - Features
statements and press releases by the President as well as documents, an index
of government
WWW Virtual Library – Political Science
Yahoo! U.S. Government - Executive
Branch
Yahoo! U.S. Government - Judicial
Branch
Yahoo! U.S.
Government - Legislative
Yahoo! U.S. Government - States
Yahoo Politics - South Carolina
HEALTHCARE
MANAGEMENT Added
March, 2010
American Hospital Association – Home page of the AHA. This site provides links to Statistics and Studies, Job Opportunities, Resource Center, Health and Hospital Trends, Catalog of Resources, Fast Facts.
American Hospital Directory. Search for Hospitals. Some hospital statistics.
Additional statistics and reports for subscribers.
America's Health Rankings - Sponsored by the United Health Foundation, American Public Health Association, and Partnership for Prevention, America's Health Rankings uses a combination of 44 overlapping measures of personal behavior, community/environment, public/health policies, and clinical care to annually rank the 50 states from healthiest to least healthy. State summaries are one page in length. The site also features additional reports, resources, and links.
Careers in Health Care Management - Healthcare is one of today’s most dynamic and
growing fields, with a wide range of opportunities and challenges. This
Internet resource guide will assist you in exploring a career in the healthcare
management field and provide you with information so that you can make a more
informed career decision.
|
Centers for
Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), formerly Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA).
This US federal
agency administers Medicare, Medicaid, and the Children's
Health Insurance Program. Provides links to Regulations
& Guidance, Medicare, Physician
Fee Schedule Look-Up, Manuals, CMS
Forms, Research
and Statistics. Consumers Guide To Health Reform - Kaiser Health News - Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUPnet). Federal and selected state statistics and trends on
hospital stays and inpatient diagnoses and procedures. |
Healthcare
Management Online – “The online source for the modern Healthcare
Management professional..." This site delivers strategic insights into global
medical issues, offering latest news and interviews from leading healthcare
authorities.
HealthReform.gov - Official US government site provides ongoing news
and information about health care reform. Includes factchecking, videos,
reports, forums and newsroom.
Kaiser
Health News - An editorially independent news
organization dedicated to providing high-quality coverage of health care policy
and politics.
Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics. University of Pennsylvania's center for health services
research, health policy analysis, and health care management executive
education. Contains various useful reports / studies.
Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS). Survey data on the cost and use of health care and
health insurance coverage
National Center for Health Statistics. As the Nation's principal health statistics agency,
NCHS compiles statistical information to guide actions and policies to improve
the health of the American people. Many, many data sets.
National Institute for Health Care Management Foundation – The NIHCM Foundation is a nonprofit,
nonpartisan organization dedicated to improving America's health care system.
It conducts research, policy analysis and educational activities on a range of
health care issues, fosters dialogue between the private health care industry
and government to find workable solutions to health system problems, and also
serves as a clearinghouse for information on health care issues.
Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America. - (PhRMA) Primary trade association for the U.S.
pharmaceutical industry. Provides industry information, policy briefs, and
various reports.
World Health Report - World Health Organization’s annual reports and global databases.
World Bank - Data by Topic - Health, Nutrition and Population.
Similar to the World Health Report, but looks at health from a broader
perspective.
(See also Virtual Tours,
Newspapers, and Primary
Sources)
American Memory from the
Library of Congress - Over five
million historical items from the Library of Congress
American Rhetoric.com – Index
to and growing database of 5000+ full text, audio and video (streaming)
versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates,
interviews, other recorded media events, and a declaration or two including the
100 most significant American political speeches of the 20th century.
AMDOCS (Documents for the
Study of American History) - Over 100 primary text documents on US History arranged by
date.
Best
of History Websites - BOHWS contains annotated links to over
1000 history web sites as well links to hundreds of quality K-12 history lesson
plans, history teacher guides, history activities, history games, history
quizzes, and more throughout its pages.
Biography.com - Magazine and TV channel site with celebrity features and
clips of upcoming shows
Biography
of America - A Biography of America is a
telecourse and video series that presents American history as a living
narrative. This series web site lets you delve further into the topics of the
26 video programs. For each program you'll find an interactive feature related to
the subject or the time period of the program. In addition, you'll find a
listing of key events of the period, a map relevant to the period, the
transcript of the video program, and a "Webography" - a set of
annotated web links. You will most likely want to watch the video program
before using its related web segments, but you can use either independently.
Center for
History and New Media – Offers a
complete virtual course on U.S. History including model syllabi, discussions of
historical methods and evidence, original documents, images, guides for
instructors, and interviews with especially effective teachers. Similar materials are offered for World
History.
Civil
War Maps Collection - The Civil War Map collection of the Geography
and Map Division consists of reconnaissance, sketch, coastal, and
theater-of-war maps which depict troop activities and fortifications during the
Civil War.
De Imperatoribus Romanis: An Online Encyclopedia of Roman Rulers
and Their Families – DIR is an on-line encyclopedia on the rulers of
the Roman Empire from Augustus (27 BC-AD 14) to Constantine XI Palaeologus
(1449-1453). The encyclopedia consists of (1) an index of all the emperors who
ruled during the empire's 1500 years, (2) a growing number of biographical
essays on the individual emperors, (3) family trees ("stemmata") of
important imperial dynasties, (4) an index of significant battles in the
empire's history, (5) a growing number of capsule descriptions and maps of
these battles, and (6) maps of the empire at different times. Wherever
possible, these materials are cross-referenced by live links. These contents
are supplemented by an ancient and medieval atlas, a link to a virtual catalog
of Roman coins, and other recommended links to related sites.
Documenting
the American South - provides Internet
access to texts, images, and audio files related to Southern history,
literature, and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of
the 20th century. Currently DocSouth includes seven thematic collections of
books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews, and
songs.
Early
Modern Women Database - Links to Web
resources useful for the study of women in early modern Europe and the
Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index - Index of publications on
women, sexuality and gender in the Middle Ages. No full text.
Historical Texts Online –Articles, books and links
to historical texts from all regions and time periods. Organized into three
areas - Geographical, Topical, and Resources.
History Guide – Browse by Region, Time
Period or Subject Area for scholarly websites or digital texts.
Added Aug, 2010 historypin – Combination Google map
and historic pictures “pinned” to a particular time and location. See what
Times Square, Paris, and the Panama Canal looked like at different times from
the pictures and stories provided by users.
History Today – This scholarly magazine
provides indexing to its huge archive of articles. Ask at the front desk for a
password.
Holocaust
Encyclopedia - Filled with accurate, readable, and informative
articles on the Holocaust and its aftermath. Bibliographies accompany each
entry, and links within and at the end of articles lead visitors to other
online resources and related readings. The site features a section for teachers
containing age-appropriate lesson plans and curricula. Neither polemical nor
apologist in nature, this resource is one of the best and most reliable
Holocaust sources available on the Internet.
Internet Ancient History Sourcebook - Features sites that focus on the archaeology, art, buildings
monuments and cities, daily life, mythology and religion, and science of the ancient world.
Latin American Network
information Center\-LANIC - Access to
academic databases and information services, and information on and from
Library of Congress- HLAS
Online Home Page - The Handbook
is a bibliography on
Luminarium – This website looks at
history (Medieval, Renaissance, and 17th century) through art, music
and literature.
Map of Early
Modern London – This site maps the streets, sites, and
significant boundaries of late sixteenth-century and early seventeenth-century
London. You will see many of the theatres and landmarks of Shakespeare's time,
and learn about the history and culture of the city in which he lived and
worked.
NARA: U.S. National
Archives & Records Administration - Oversees the management of federal government records,
including presidential diaries, historic correspondence, and a display of
presidential gifts from around the world.
NetSERF: The
Internet Connection for Medieval Resources - NetSERF's goal is to provide those interested in
any aspect of the Middle Ages a single index of all the best medieval resources
available on the Internet.
Official Documents (UK) – This
Online Medieval and Classical Library - The Online Medieval and Classical Library (OMACL) is a
collection of some of the most important literary works of Classical and
Medieval civilization
On-This-Day.com – Type in
a day or date to learn what happened in history.
ORB: The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies – Includes the an Encyclopedia for 40 refereed articles
arranged by time period and topic; the ORB Library Collection containing, among
other things, an alphabetical index of more than 200 primary documents and the
Internet Medieval Source book; Resources for Teaching; and the ORB Reference
Shelf.
Repository of Primary Sources - Listing of
over 5,500 websites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books,
historical photographs, and other primary sources for the research scholar.
Royal
Historical Society Bibliography - The RHS bibliography is an authoritative guide
to what has been written about British and Irish history from the Roman period
to the present day. The Bibliography is hosted by the Institute of Historical
Research, which is part of the University of London. Includes almost a half
million entries and the content of 604 journals. Access
to data from Irish History Online
and from London's Past Online.
Speech and Transcript
Center – Copies of political speeches.
This Day in History – Find out what happened
on a certain day in history. A key word search allows you to find days in
history associated with a person or topic.
Trans-Atlantic
Slave Trade – Information on almost 35,000 slaving voyages
that forcibly embarked over 10 million Africans for transport to the Americas
between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. It offers researchers, students
and the general public a chance to rediscover the reality of one of the largest
forced movements of peoples in world history.
Victorian Web – Links to Literature,
History and Culture regarding the Victorian era.
Vietnam: Yesterday and
Today - This website is primarily for students and teachers working
to understand the Vietnamese Conflict. Its goal is to suggest books, magazine
articles, and websites that will be useful, to provide suggestions for
effective research, and to provide
Wars for Vietnam: 1945–1975 - This
site offers students an opportunity to numerous official documents. Brigham was
the first American scholar given access to the Vietnamese archives on the war
in
WWW Virtual Library -
History - The World Wide Virtual Library
History: Central Catalogue
Expert Village - Thousands
of How-To Videos From Experts! Categories include Automotive & Mechanical,
Beauty & Fashion, Crafts, Food & Drink, Health & Fitness, Hobbies,
Home & Garden, Music, Parenting, Pets, Sports, Other.
HowStuffWorks – Categories
include Auto, Communication, Computer, Electronics, Entertainment , Food &
Recipes, Health, Home & Garden, Money, People, Science, and Travel.
Instructables - A website
specializing in user-created and uploaded do-it- yourself projects, recipes, and hacks which other users can comment on
and rate for quality.
lifehacker – Tips and
Downloads for getting things done. A How To Manual for those who want to know
how to deal with technology and the Millennial
lifestyle.
SuTree - Knowledge
Community: Watch. Learn. Share. - Find how-to videos, video lessons, tutorials,
lectures and Do It Yourself.
wikiHow - A
collaborative writing project to build the world's largest, highest quality
how-to manual. With your edits, we can create a free resource that helps
millions of people by offering solutions to the problems of everyday life. wikiHow currently contains 22,456
articles written, edited, and maintained primarily by volunteers. Please join
us by writing on a topic not yet covered, or editing a page that someone else
has started. Categories include: Arts & Entertainment, Food & Entertaining, Philosophy & Religion, Careers & Education, Health,
Relationships, Cars & Other
Vehicles, Hobbies and Crafts, Sports & Fitness, Communications, Holidays & Traditions, Teenagers,
Computers & Electronics, Home
& Garden, Travel, Family Life,
Personal Care & Style,
Finance & Business, Pets, an
and Other,
(See
also Art)
19th
and 20th Century Architecture and Design -
The Aesthetic Movement -Has links to illustrate the word of architects and
artists from 1870 to 1930.
ABC TV: In the Mind of the Architect - A tour of
Aecportico – Your guide to Architecture,
Engineering and Construction.
AIA
- American Institute of Architects.
AICT - Art images for College Teaching –
Copyright free images. AICT is intended primarily to disseminate images of art and
architectural works in the public domain on a free-access, free-use basis to
all levels of the educational community
ArBITAT -
Architecture and design community. See slideshows of featured buildings, read
articles about architectural projects issues, or find profiles of individual
architects. Also includes news about new construction and exhibitions.
ArchInform -
International architectural database including projects from a wide area of
architects and planners, with emphasis on the 20th century. Find actual or
imagined buildings by architect, town, or key word. Also in German.
Architectural Resources on the Internet – Shows
examples of the work of 12 of the most famous architects.
Architecture
and Interior Design for Twentieth Century America - The Gottscho-Schleisner
Collection is comprised of over 29,000 images primarily of architectural
subjects, including interiors and exteriors of homes, stores, offices,
factories, historic buildings, and other structures. Subjects are concentrated
chiefly in the northeastern
Architecture Link - Online
guide to British buildings and architecture for students and all those
interested in architectural design. Includes book reviews, in-depth building
tours, and suggested sites and organizations.
ArtSource – Art and
architecture resources.
Arts Council Collection - The largest national loan collection of modern and
contemporary British art, with over 7,500 works
ASID – American
Society of Interior Designers. Includes
Building
Concerns: Northern California Resource Directory - committed
to fostering a better understanding of ecologically appropriate designing,
building and development principles and standards.
Building
Green: High Performance Buildings Case Studies - The High
Performance Buildings Database provides case studies of projects ranging from
homes and commercial interiors to large buildings and even whole campuses and
neighborhoods. These may be certified
Built in America - Find
documents about the history of
Casselman Archive of Islamic and Mudejar
Architecture in Spain - This collection contains over four thousand
color slides and black and white photographs of medieval
Castle
Image Archive - Contains castles of the world,
tours, movies, and images.
Cyburbia - Portal for urban planners and others interested in cities
and the built environment. Includes an urbanism wiki, image galleries, an
online resource directory, and Cyburbia forums.
Design Linc –
Accessibility Design and Resources - Bringing you design resource
Ecosustainable
Hub – Links to resources and tools on ecology,
environment and sustainability.
Glass Steel and Stone - Devoted to
the art of architecture around the world, with facts and photos of famous
buildings, towers, and monuments. Find architectural
Getty Art and Architecture Thesaurus - Searchable
database and thesaurus of concepts related to art, architecture, and material
culture. Browse the Getty Vocabularies and find terms for specific styles and
periods, agents, built works, materials, and techniques.
Glossaries
for Interior Decorating – More
than a dozen specialized glossaries – Architectural Styles, Flooring Terms,
Furniture Styles, Leather, Paint, Wallpaper, Window Treatment, etc.
Great Buildings Collection -
Featuring
architecture and architects from
Gothic Overview - A Gothic Overview: Architecture, Garden Design,
& Much More. "Pre-Gothic".
300-600 CE: Goths, Visigoths, Ostragoths, and other "barbaric ...
IIDA – International Interior Design
Association. IIDA advocates for interior design excellence; provides superior
industry
IDEC – Interior Design Educator’s Council.
Dedicated to the advancement of education and research in interior design. IDEC
fosters exchange of
Image Catalogs and Building Registries –
A large collection of architectural image sites.
Imago
Urbis: Giuseppe Vasi’s Grand Tour of Rome -
Giuseppe Vasi’s Grand Tour presents a website that references the work of two
18th century masters of Roman topography: Giambattista Nolli (1701-1756) and
Giuseppe Vasi (1710-1782).
Vasi’s
Grand Tour places the work of these two masters in their cultural context: 18th
century Rome and the Age of the Grand Tour examining the cartographic and
artistic legacy that they inherited. Over two hundred and forty of Vasi’s
topographic prints are presented in detail and in relationship to Nolli’s map.
Vasi’s work and methods are subsequently interpreted through an analysis of
their topographic, artistic, and historic content.
Intute: Arts and Humanities –
Gateway to Art, Design, Architecture, and Media Information on the Internet.
Kitchen and Bath –
This online magazine contains a Designer Corner, Projects, Products, Buyer’s
Guide and more.
LEED -
The LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Green Building Rating
System® is a voluntary, consensus-based national standard for developing
high-performance, sustainable buildings. LEED standards are currently available
or under development for: New commercial construction and major renovation
projects (LEED-NC), Existing building operations (LEED-EB), Commercial
interiors projects (LEED-CI), Core and shell projects (LEED-CS), Homes
(LEED-H), and Neighborhood Development (LEED-ND). Click here for a GSA LEED Cost
Study.
Medieval
Art and Architecture – Concentrates on images in
NCIDQ
-
The National Council for Interior Design Qualification serves to identify to
the public those interior designers who have met the minimum standards for
professional practice by passing the NCIDQ Examination.
Public
Architecture and Design - Creating Community -NPR radio
series examining the changing design of public spaces. Learn about how we view
spaces such as the traditional pub, transit villages, city parks, churches, and
temples. Includes audio recordings in RealAudio format.
RIBA Architectural Links –
(Royal
Sensory Impact - Reporting
on the culture of objects.
Sustainable
Design Resource Guide – Provides an overview of the general
requirements for sustainable design. Describes in detail building materials
suitable for sustainable design. Directs users to sources of materials and
services. Provides additional web links.
VictorianLiving.com - Dedicated
to those who love anything Country and Victorian. Provides information on collecting,
decorating, craft, and more.
Storedesign.tv - Offers
Virtual
History of Architecture - The Chronology of
Architectural Theria, Praxis, and Poisis in the world. Articles on the history of Architecture. Perseus Encyclopedia Subject Index: Architecture,
UNESCO World Heritage List, Architecture Image images and Exhibits, and more.
WBDG –
Worldview Cities -
Perspectives on architecture and urbanism from around the globe. Includes a
multimedia timeline, critical views of architecture in specific cities, and
profiles of emerging architects. From the Architectural League of
WWW Virtual Library Architecture
Yahoo!
– Architecture – Buildings and Structures
Yahoo!
– Architecture – Sustainable Architecture
Yahoo!
– Architecture – Universal Design
Yahoo! Art History – Periods and
movements
INTERNET
SEARCH ENGINES
ACRL–Internet Resources
- Every month since 1998 a new annotated subject guide is added. Examples
include Grant Resources on the Web, Genealogy, Geography, Foreign Language,
Literature and Culture, Fashion and Costume, etc.
BUBL
Link – Formerly the BUlleton Board for Libraries.
This British site covers all academic subject areas and is catalogued according
to the Dewey Decimal Classification System. All items are selected, evaluated,
catalogued and described. With about 11,000 sites selected, BUBL is small but
pithy. An unusual feature is the ability to search for sites by MANY categories
including host country, official Government home pages, Dewey Decimal
Classification, and web page type (bibliographies, biographies, maps, poems,
sound collections, thesauri, etc. There is also a site search engine.
HAKIA
– Automatically subdivides results into kinds of results. Here’s an example of
subcategories for global warming.
Profile
on Global Warming / Natural Causes of
Global Warming / Human Causes of Global
Warming / Consequences of Global Warming / Scientific Evidence / The Skeptics /
Activism / Treaties, Pacts, and Agreements / The Greenhouse Effect / Polar Ice
Caps / Other Causes / Government Response / Possible Solutions / News and
Interviews / Myths and Controversies / Data and Statistics / Blogs and Fan
Sites / Speeches and Quotes / Criticism, Commentary, and Interpretations /
Resources, Archives, and Organizations / Movies and Documentaries
INFOMINE:
Scholarly Internet Resource Collection
–INFOMINE is intended for the introduction and use of Internet/Web resources of
relevance to faculty, students, and research staff at the university level. It
is being offered as a comprehensive showcase, virtual library and reference
tool containing highly useful Internet/Web resources including databases, electronic
journals (0ver 2,400), electronic books, bulletin boards, listservs, online
library card catalogs, articles and directories of researchers, among many
other types of
Internet
Public Library (IPL) – Arranges the internet
like a library with subject collections, ready reference, a reading room, and
special collections. Links to lots of full text books and periodicals.
Librarian’s
Index to the Internet – Very similar to Yahoo, only
made for librarians and library users. Combines an on site search engine with a
subject directory.
(See also Newspapers)
Added
March, 2010 CCJ: Committee of Concerned Journalists - The CCJ
provides a platform for exploring the recent evolution of journalism in the US and
issues facing the profession. The organization's multifaceted Web site includes
not only information about training opportunities, networking, and discussion
venues, but also original content related to current trends/issues and guidance
for those seeking to enter the profession. This site will be valuable to those
who are interested in exploring ethical issues within the profession and
outside influences on and expectations of the profession.
Center for Non-verbal
Studies - The Center's goal is to promote the scientific study of
nonverbal communication, which includes body movement, gesture, facial
expression, adornment and fashion, architecture, mass media, and
consumer-product design. Includes a non-verbal dictionary.
CyberJournalist.Net –
This site focuses on how the internet, media convergence, and new technologies
are changing journalism. Find tips, news and commentary on how the internet is
changing journalism.
FACSNET – (Foundation for
American Communications) Maintains online resources designed to help
journalists find information they need and to understand the subjects upon
which they report.
FactCheck.org – A project of the Pew Foundation, this site
attempts to be a “consumer advocate” for voters by monitoring the factual
accuracy of political ads, debates, speeches, interviews and news releases.
Journalism Resources - Over 40 annotated pages of resources
compiled for support of academic journalism departments and professional journalists.
MCS - The MCS (pronounced 'mix' –
Media and Communication Studies) site is an award-winning portal or
'meta-index' to internet-based resources useful in the academic study of media
and communication.
NewPages: Alternatives in Print and Media - News, information and guides to
independent bookstores, independent publishers, literary periodicals,
alternative periodicals, independent record labels, alternative newsweeklies
and more.
News Center – Links to up to
the minute news resources.
NewsDirectory – Allows you to
browse news links (TV, newspapers, and magazines) by country or subject.
NewsLink – Links to Newspapers, Radio, and TV
NewsWatch.org:
A Consumer’s Guide to the News – A watchdog site for the media.
NPR
- National Public Radio
- Access to top news stories in print and audio.
PBS
Online
- Information and interactive activities
related to public television programming, links to member stations, and
educational resources.
PBS Teachers – Resource site containing standard
based resources for PR-K to 12 grades.
Society
of Professional Journalists: Code of Ethics
- Seek Truth and Report It, Minimize Harm,
Act Independently, Be Accountable,
Speech
and transcript Center – Contains American and international
political speeches. Most of the content is from 2003.
Television
Production: A Free Interactive Course in Studio and Field Production –
Contains over 70 training modules and 800 color illustrations.
WWW Virtual Library - Broadcasting - Web
broadcasting. International Digital Broadcast Systems, Inc.
Yahoo! College and University
Newspapers
(See
also Sports)
AAHPERD – Promoting
healthy life styles through high quality programs.
AAOS
Online –
ASEP
– American Society of Exercise Physiologists –
Professional organization site. Provides useful links to websites and journals,
some of which are in full text.
American
Academy of Kinesiology and Physical Education – Professional organization site to encourage
and promote the study and educational applications of the art and science of
human movement and physical activity.
E-anatomy.org –
Atlas of Human Anatomy. Contains 1,500 slide from normal CT and MRI exams along
with illustrations. (Requires Adobe Flash Player 7).
Exercise
Science Links – A small collection of internet
links.
ExRx (Exercise Prescription
on the Net) - a free resource for the exercise professional, coach, or
fitness enthusiast." ExRx.net consists of over 1,700 pages on such topics as
Exercise Instruction, Weight Training, Kinesiology, Aerobic Conditioning,
Exercise Information, Fitness Testing, Weight Management, Diet and Nutrition,
Exercise and Sports Psychology, Anabolic Steroids, Bodybuilding, and Fitness
Calculators.
GSSI – Gatorade Sports Science
Institute – Contains a respected sports science library.
International Society of
Biomechanics in Sport – Contains useful links.
To provide a forum for the
exchange of ideas for sports biomechanics researchers, coaches and
teachers
To bridge the gap between
researchers and practitioners
To gather and disseminate
information and materials on biomechanics in sports
LUMEN: Structure of the Human Body – Online course on anatomy. Many
excellent illustrations.
MuscleNet -
Provides
National Athletic Trainers Association – Non-profit organization dedicated to improving the health
and well-being of athletes worldwide.
National Institute of Child Health & Human Development – This government site covers all aspects of contraception
and fertility, pregnancy, genetic disorders, and women’s health as related to
reproduction, including menopause.
PE
Central The Web Site for Health and Physical Education -
Dedicated
to providing a variety of resources for
the K-12 physical
educator.
PhysiologyINFO.org – The American Physiological Society explains how
physiology relates to chemistry, pathology, anatomy, etc., and provides links
to Milestones in Physiology, Classic Articles, Research Issues, and current
articles (past year only) of the society’s dozen or so publications.
Virtual Library of Sport - Welcome to the Virtual Library of Sport - the one-stop shop for quality sports
resources on the internet.
Virtual
Sports Injury Clinic – Links to over 100 specific injuries
and conditions, strapping and taping, legal issues, and a “virtual library of
sport.”
WWW
Virtual Library - Medicine
- Features
information on diseases and links to biosciences information.
Yahoo! Physical Education - K12
Association for Hispanic Classical
Theater - The Association for Hispanic Classical Theater sponsors the Walker M. Reid Award
for presentations in English translation
Cervantes Project –
Information about Cervantes life and works.
Electronic Text Collections in Western
European Literature – Full
text of literary works in Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Swedish, Danish,
and many other European languages.
ESL Language Courses - This site is an independent, non-profit effort to foster
the learning of worldwide languages. Courses here are made available through
the private efforts of individuals who are donating their time and resources to
provide quality materials for language learning.
Ethnologue -
SIL International presents Languages of the world and a whole lot more..
French Language Course - This course will help you understand
written French -
Howard University Libraries – French
Connection – Links to government, culture,
education, etc., in French.
Language
Tools – iTools – Dictionaries, thesauruses, crossword
solver, translation engines, etc.
Latin
American Network Information Center - LANIC - Access to
academic databases and information services, and information on and from
Latin
American Pamphlet Digital Collection - This collection of
more than 5,000 pamphlets are valuable primary resources for students and
researchers working on Latin American history. They document the emergence of
the Latin American colonies as independent states, and illuminate many aspects
of their populations' social and cultural life. Many pamphlets are devoted to
boundary disputes, territorial expansion, the description of unexplored
territories and the relationship between Church and State.
Learn
Spanish – A free online tutorial.
Library
of Congress – HLAS (Handbook of Latin American Studies) -
An extensive bibliography on
LinguaWeb - Learning and teaching materials in
French, Spanish, German and Italian.
Projecto Cervates –
Spanish/English site about Cervantes.
Spanish Language Exercises - A series of language exercises for the
purpose of facilitating the learning and teaching of Spanish in the Internet
environment.
TextKit – Online
resource for learning Greek and Latin. Textkit is the Internet's largest
provider of free and fully downloadable Greek and Latin grammars and readers
with 146 free books
WWW Resources for French as a Second
Language - Resources for Students and Teachers.
Yahoo! - Dictionaries - Languages
Greenville
(S.C.) County Library System
Kudzu –
Search up to a dozen university libraries at one stop including Clemson and USC.
University
of South Carolina Library
African American Women Writers of the
19th Century - A digital
collection of some 52 published works by 19th-century black women
writers.
American Writers –
Features top 100 American authors. Biographies, portraits, web links, and some
full text works.
Arts and
Letters Daily – “Ideas, criticism, debate.” This scholarly
service of the Chronicle of Higher Education gathers the “best” that’s out
there for your edification. It will stimulate your mind.
Bartleby.com –
Great books online. Aside of the dozen or so dictionaries, encyclopedias,
quotation collections and other reference books, this site provides the full
text to thousands of pieces of world literature – from Aesop to Virginia Woolf.
Blue
Book of Grammar and Punctuation – The answer to all your grammar
questions.
British Poetry 1780-1910 a Hypertext
archive
- Links to Different British poets
British
Women Romantic Poets Project, 1789-1832 –
A collection of poetry by English and Irish women poets.
CAPA
– Contemporary American Poetry Archive –
A collection of the works of some worthy, but lesser known poets.
Citing Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism,
Guide to Library Research –
Classical Mythology –
Glossary, genealogical trees, The Olympians gods, myths, hymns, images.
Columbia Guide to Online Style - Guide to do a correct online citation in
MLA and Chicago style.
Complete
Works of William Shakespeare – Plays may be read scene by scene.
Documenting
the American South - Documenting
the American South (DocSouth) is a digital publishing initiative
that provides Internet access to texts, images, and audio files related to Southern
history, literature, and culture from the colonial period through the first
decades of the 20th century. Currently DocSouth includes seven thematic
collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history
interviews, and songs.
Added Feb. 2010 English Short Title Catalogue For use by
upper level and graduate researchers as a finding aid. There is no full text.
The (ESTC) is "designed to include a bibliographic record, with
holdings, of every surviving copy of letterpress produced in Great Britain or
any of its dependencies, in any language, worldwide, from 1473 to
1800."
Expansive
Poetry and Music Online Links
- Links to Poetry and Criticism sites
Geoffrey Chaucer Website –
By and about Chaucer. Includes complete text of Canterbury Tales and
information on Middle English.
Gradesaver –
This website provides plot summaries and biographies similar to those found in
Masterplots.
Guide for Writing Research Papers Based
on the MLA – Covers the entire research / writing
process.
Guide
to Grammar and Writing – A good tutorial on grammar rules.
HTI
American Verse Project
- Links to find certain authors
Inspirational
Poetry: A Guide to Internet Resources –
Links to poems, reviews, poets, etc.
IPL
Online Literary Criticism Collection –
Links to find authors and
Irish Literature, Mythology, Folklore,
and Drama – Links to all things Irish with
extensive full text literary works.
Literary
Resources on the Net (Lynch) -
Links to other Literary sources on the net.
Luminarium -
Presents literature, art, and music together. Covers Medieval and Renaissance.
Mr.
William Shakespeare and the Internet – A complete
annotated guide to the scholarly Shakespeare resources available on Internet.
Also includes a timeline, genealogy, biography quiz, the Shakespeare Canon,
Rowe’s Some Acount of the Life &c. of Mr. William Shakespeare, and Charles
and Mary lab’s Tales from Shakespeare.
Online
Medieval and Classical Library
– A collection of literary works.
Purdue University’s Online
Writing Lab
– Tutorial and reference materials on research and writing.
Romantic Circles - Romantic
Circles is a refereed scholarly Website devoted to the study of Romantic-period
literature and culture.
SurLaLune Fairy Tales - A portal to the realm of
fairy tale and folklore studies featuring 27 annotated fairy tales, including
their histories, similar tales across cultures, and over 1,000 illustrations.
Twentieth
Century Poetry in English
– Links to 116 poets.
Victorian Web – Multidiscipline site on all
things Victorian.
Victorian Women Writers Project - The goal of the Victorian
Women Writers Project is to produce highly accurate transcriptions of works by British
women writers of the 19th century including anthologies, novels, political
pamphlets, religious tracts, children's books, and volumes of poetry and verse
drama.
VOS
(Voice of Shuttle) English Literature Page - Links to Literature.
Web Concordances –
A collection of concordances to the some of the works of - Shelly, Coleridge,
Keats, Blake, Wordsworth, and Hopkins.
Wright American Fiction, 1851-1875 - This is a
collection of 19th century American fiction, as listed in Lyle Wright's
bibliography American
Fiction, 1851-1875. There are currently 2,887 volumes included
(1,914 unedited, 973 fully edited and encoded) by 1,450 authors.
Yahoo! Arts Humanities Literature
DOAJ
– Directory of Open Access Journals –
Provides access to free full text articles in over a thousand journals.
Highwire - HighWire Press is the largest archive of free
full-text articles on Earth!
As of 10/15/04, we are assisting in the online publication of 770,015 free full-text articles and 1,972,541 total
articles.
Ingenta –
This index allows users to search article titles by key word. Articles can then
be ordered online for approximately $25.00 or through Interlibrary Loan for
$2.00.
LookSmart’s
FindArticles - A collection of online magazines and
journals. Look up by title or topic.
Magportal.com - Directory
and search engine for finding free magazine articles
PubMed – Over 15 million citations to biomedical articles going
back to the 1950’s. An increasing number of links to full text articles are
included.
National
Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) – Contains an abundance of
resources for mathematics educators at all levels including 500+ lesson plans
with downloadable worksheets, NCTM standards. Includes the Illuminations
feature which describes real life situations in which mathematics can be used,
Curriculum Focal Points which list important math topics for each grade level
as well related ideas, concepts, skills, and procedures.
NUMDAM -
NUMDAM is a collection of more than a dozen mathematics periodicals in full
image format, many going back to vol. 1. New volumes are added five years after
publication. Although the collection consists entirely of French journals, most
have either been translated, or are in the process of being translated, into
English beginning with the latest issues.
(See
also
Art)
National
Museum of Women in the Arts
Sister
Wendy’s American Collection – Based on the book/video (both of
which are in the library’s collection), this site takes users on a tour of six
American museums – The Art Institute of Chicago, Boston Museum of Fine Arts,
Cleveland Museum of Art, Kimbell Art Museum, LA County Museum of Art, and the
New York Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Turning the Pages –
A growing collection of digitized books from antiquity located at the British
Library. Includes the oldest printed book, the original
World
Art Treasures - 100,000 slides
Yahoo! -Art Museums, Galleries, and
Centers
MUSIC
(See also Theater)
American
Choral Music, 1870-1923
This
encyclopedia provided by the Library of Congress in collaboration with the
American Choral Directors Association provides access to significant choral
music in the public domain by the leading American composers of the time. Users
can find digitized items from the collections; special Web presentations on
topics and collections; articles and biographical essays; finding aids to collections;
databases for performing arts resources; and a special Performing Arts Resource
Guide which contains entries for hundreds of Library collections, Web sites,
databases and exhibits. (In the latter, each entry describes the resource and
provides a link to it if there is an online finding aid or Web site available.)
American
Musicological Society – Useful links include:
Graduate
Programs in Musicology
Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology
Resources for
the history of musicology
Web
sites of interest to musicologists
- useful
Current listings of Jobs, Fellowships, Conferences, CFPs in the discipline
AMG All Music Guide – This giant site is designed
to let visitors sample – and buy - music recordings. In doing so it provides
access to the first 30 seconds of hundreds of thousands of recordings, as well
as accompanying notes, biographies, reviews and classical composition
descriptions. Must register to listen, but it’s free.
Aria
Database - The Aria Database is a diverse
collection of information on over 1000 operatic arias. Designed for singers and
non-singers alike, the Database includes translations and aria texts of most
arias as well as a collection of
BMG - Classic World – This
sales catalog is huge and a useful source for identifying composers and
compositions.
Chantez - Vous Francais - Remarques
curieuses sur le français chanté du Moyen Age à la période baroque
Classical MiDI with Words - Featuring
art songs with synchronized lyrics and translations.
Classical Net -
Offers
a comprehensive array of files about the last 900 years in Western art music.
Includes a basic Repertoire List, a Classical CD Buying Guide, a Recommended
Classical CDs List, Composers Works and Data, over 3,000 Reviews & Articles
on CDs, DVDs, and Books, Books & Scores, and more than 4,000 Classical Music
Links.
Ethnology,
Folk Music and World Music - Essentially an online ethnomusicology encyclopedia.
George
F Devine Music Library, Univ. of Tenn. – This
library has compiled a wonderful links page to the Internet. Its music
collection, complete with descriptive
German for Music Lovers - Dictionaries, grammar tools, word order,
and some lyrics.
Gregorian Chant -
Links
and resources from
Added Summer 2010
- Guide
to Medieval and Renaissance Instruments – From the Bagpipe to the
Zink, see, hear, and read about musical instruments.
Historic American Sheet Music
- The Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections
Library at Duke University holds a significant collection of 19th and early
20th century American sheet music. The Historic American Sheet Music Project
provides access to digital images of 3042 pieces from the collection, published
in the United States between 1850 and 1920.
IMSLP / Petrucci Music Library - the free public domain sheet
music library. 16,944 works · 33,277 scores
Instrument
Encyclopedia - A
sampler of some of the world's most interesting musical instruments.
Lied
and Art Songs Text Page – Over 15,000 texts used in lieder and
other classical songs as well as many choral works and other
types of classical vocal pieces, with thousands of translations to English,
French and other languages
MENC
The National Association for Music Education
MHN
K-8 Magazine – A place to buy music for K-8
classes.
MusicSearch.com
- The Internet's Music Search Site – 20,000+ free reviewed links.
Added Summer 2010 - negrospirituals.com - This site is devoted to
traditional African American spirituals, and some information is given about
the early Gospel songs. Includes songs (tunes and lyrics to over 200 titles), singers, composers and history.
Online Opera Scores Prototype - Online opera scores.
Opera Librettos and translations -
Opera
Librettos, Translations, and Related Texts
Public Domain Music – A reference site
to help identify public domain songs and public domain music . . . royalty free
music you can use anywhere and any way you choose . . . performance,
sing-along, film, video, advertising, business, or personal.
Added Summer 2010 -Renaissance
Channel - A channel devoted to the performance
of medieval and renaissance music.
Society for Music Theory –
Organizational site. A variety of resources for those interested in the
fundamentals of music theory, including links to bibliographies and information
about computer-aided instruction, can be found under basic theory.
Themefinder –
Computer database of musical themes. Narrow your search by such things as
interval, scale, pitch, and contour.
University
of Vermont String Pedagogy Notebook –
Essentially a course on a web page, this “notebook” contains links, quicktime
movie clips, essays, lectures, a searchable literature database, and midi
files.
Worldwide Internet Music Resources - Organized by topic by librarians at the Indiana University Music Library
WWW Sites of Interest to Musicologists – Part of the American Musicological Society Web Page, this
list of internet resources includes 32 categories of music and is a good
starting point for finding music information on the internet.
Anderson
Independent Mail – Past 30 days free. Obituaries are
free. Archives begin in 1999. Pay per view.
Atlanta
Journal-Constitution – past 30 days free. Archives begin
in1985. Pay per view. No photos or graphics in archives.
Christian
Science Monitor - Past five days free. Archives begin
in 1980.
ADDED Aug. 2010 - Chronicling
America: Historic American Newspapers – This
Library of Congress site allows you to search and view newspaper pages from
1860-1922 and find information about American newspapers published between
1690-present. The growing number of states represented has passed 20, but does
not yet include SC, GA, or NC. List of Newspapers.
New York Times – Available via Historical New York Times Database
(1851-2005) and Academic OneFile Database (1985- today).
Newspapers by Country –
Find newspapers by country.
Newspapers
Online – Find newspapers from all over the
world.
Post
& Courier -
OPEN CONTENT (Open Content refers to materials
that can be used, or adapted for use, in the classroom. They are usually free
for student and teacher usage as long as the source and/or creator is
acknowledged. The Open Content and Public Domain sections of the Favorites Page
are very similar in both content and concept. As a rough rule of thumb, the web
pages noted below are more likely to contain larger creative works, including
lectures and even online courses, whereas the Public Domain section is more
likely to contain building blocks of free materials.
(See also Public Domain)
Added
2010/02 The Knowledge Bank at OSU, from the Ohio State University – The Knowledge
Bank is a repository containing multiple libraries of free documents and
multimedia files related to nearly all academic disciplines. It goes far beyond
just historical documents and digitized images; new content arrives every day
in the form of presentations, lectures, streaming videos, and journals, along
with technical and research reports by faculty, staff, and students. All
content is free to the public but protected under the Creative Commons License,
which allows authors to retain rights to intellectual property.
Added
2010/02 GMU's Online Resources for Developmental Psychology
This free web
site was originally created to support Developmental Psychology courses at GMU,
but is open to all and is a good way to access many helpful and vetted sites.
Users may search for a word or phrase, or browse either a topical listing or
the table of contents.
History of Philosophy -
A very large, diverse collection of essays addressing many philosophical,
historical, scientific, religious, economic, legal, and political issues.
Stanford
Encyclopedia of Philosophy – Extensive cross-referenced encyclopedia of
philosophy with hyperlinks to additional websites.
Yahoo – Humanities - Philosophy
(See also Primary Sources – General, Historical Magazines and Newspapers,
Social Studies, WWI, WWII &
Cold War),
South Carolina
Ad*Access - A
collection of images from over 7,000 advertisements printed in 
American Civil
War Homepage - A general site on the American Civil War that
includes links to images and photographs from the Civil War as well as links to
important Civil War documents.
American
Memory – From the Library of Congress, the American Memory
project is a collection of digitized documents, maps, photographs, recorded
sound, sheet music, moving pictures and text from the Library of Congress
Americana collections. Click on Browse to search by format. There are over 70
collections included in the project.
Chronology of
U.S. Historical Documents -Primary source documents from American history
starting with
Documenting
the American South - Sponsored by the UNC at
General U.S.
History – Primary Documents - This site contains general U.S. History links,
with a section dedicated to primary resources.
Historical Census Browser - This site
includes data that describes the population and economy of
Library
of Congress-Panoramic Maps - This site contains historical panoramic maps,
which were a popular cartographic form used to depict
Making of
America - A collection of approximately 1,600 full-text
books and 50,000 journal articles from the antebellum period through
reconstruction.
NARA (National
Archives and Records Administration Homepage - Do a
"NAIL digital copies search" to find online images of many
NARA-Presidential Libraries - Links to
on-line presidential libraries that include digital archives from digital
documents, photos, audio and video clips.
The New York
Public Library Digital Library Collection - In
addition to finding aids (guides to archival and manuscript collections), the
NYPL Digital Library Collections contains texts and images from the Schomburg
Center for Research in Black Culture.
Smithsonian Institution: Contributions and Study
Series - Smithsonian Annals of Flight (1964 - 1974);
Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology (1965 - present); to Astrophysics
(1956 - 1974); to Botany (1969 - 2001); to History and Technology (1969 –
present); to Paleobiology (1969 - present); to the Earth Sciences (1969 -
2002); to the Marine Sciences (1977 - present); to Zoology (1969 - present);
Smithsonian Folklife Studies (1980 - 1990); and Smithsonian Studies in Air and
Space (1977 - 1990).
U.S.
Department of Labor. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Valley of the
Shadow: Living the Civil War in Pennsylvania and Virginia -
A project that interweaves the
histories of two communities on either side of the
Women Working,
1800 - 1930 - Focuses on women's role in the
Primary
Sources - Collections of Online Journals and Newspapers
ADDED Aug. 2010 - Chronicling
America: Historic American Newspapers – This
Library of Congress site allows you to search and view newspaper pages from
1860-1922 and find information about American newspapers published between
1690-present. The growing number of states represented has passed 20, but does
not yet include SC, GA, or NC. List of Newspapers.
HarpWeek - Full text
with illustrations of Harper's Weekly from 1857-1865, searchable by keywords,
by literary genre, by occupations and role in society, and browseable by
date.
Historical
Newspapers Online - In addition
to indexing the Times of London (1790-1980) and The New York Times (1851-1922),
this resource enables you to find the full text of every article in every issue
of The Times (of
Internet
Library of Early Journals - A joint project of the Universities of
Birmingham, Leeds,
Making
of America - A collection of approximately 1,600 full-text
books and 50,000 journal articles from the antebellum period through
reconstruction.
Primary
Sources - Social Studies (K-12) - History – Economics –
Geography - Government
Digital
History – Images, maps, recordings, etc.
Edsitement - The
National Endowment for the Humanities maintains this site with links to best
history, language arts and social sciences sites. In addition to primary
sources, there are online lesson plans and other digital learning materials.
Geography-Primary Sources - This
site contains a list of links to historic maps, along with links to more
History
Matters - More than 144 first person narratives of
average Americans in extraordinary times. Strong in the WWI period. A project
of the Center for Social History and the New Media, and
Learning Page (Library of Congress) - Explains
primary sources Includes lesson plans.