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iTools is strong on language oriented research: dictionaries, rhymes, anagrams, language identifiers, translators. It also has searchable sites for maps, streets, people, stocks, package tracking and email discussion groups.
Google Scholar is a scholarly research site. Google says, "From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations."
MVRHS Social Studies Department
The High School Ace is a noncommercial gateway to excellent free online academic resources for high school students. It features interactive learning activities, an ongoing poetry contest, a reference collection, college information, and subject guides for English, mathematics, social studies, science, world languages, arts, and technology.
Dr. Grammar answers your grammar questions.
Open Courseware Consortium Universities working together to advance education and empower people worldwide through opencourseware. Includes courses from Johs Hopkins, MIT, UMass, UC, Tufts and other universities around the world.
Re:Writing Comprehensive site covering many aspects of writing including tutorials on "Evaluating Online Sources" and "Avoiding Plagiarism". You have to register, but it's free. Their motto is" Good writing comes from Re:Writing".
Refdesk.com is a little bit of everything if you dig deep enough. Keep scrolling down its pages for more and more links.
Roget's Thesaurus Do you desire to avoid ambiguity and imprecision?
Your Dictionary A web of online dictionaries. A list of 800 dictionaries in 160 languages.
Wiktionary A companion to Wikipedia it wants to define (in English) all words in all languages
Wolfram Research for all things mathematical or the Mathematical Atlas Also get Equation Sheets
Bartleby offers several publications to students, researchers and the intellectually curious. They also have sections on verse, fiction and non-fiction.
Virtual Library Museum Pages A list of museums with web sites.
Librarians' Index to the Internet A directory (like Yahoo) of 6000 sites deemed useful by the librarians at the Berkeley, California Public Library. It is a searchable, annotated subject directory of Internet resources selected and evaluated by librarians for their usefulness to users of public libraries. It's meant to be used by both librarians and non-librarians as a reliable and efficient guide to described and evaluated Internet resources.
Ibiblio the public's library and digital archive
The Digital Librarian and the Multnomah County Library in Portland Oregon are both librarian reviewed lists of sites categorized by subjects and suitable for student research.
Internet Directory of Botany
The National Atlas is a U.S. Government site with many maps, some interactive requiring Shockwave.
Google Earth (download and install the small program, Mac version now available, Windows: 2000 and up only). So cool! Go to a city and turn on "buildings" or look at Street Views for some cities.
NASA's Visible Earth has more kinds of images than you might have thought possible. Since you paid for it, it's free with no ads.
National Geographic Maps a lot like Google Earth, Satellite, Street Maps, Physical Maps
Maps of Massachusetts from the Commonwealth includes topographic, bicycle, congressional district, area code and satellite images.
Microsoft Street Views
Expedia is a travel site with a map section featuring driving directions and street directions: easy to navigate.
Mapquest has much the same information and includes airport directions and the unfortunate numerous banner ads.
The Educational Testing Service offers help on the SAT's and a list of Financial Aid sites.
Career Paths helps you narrow your career interests, provides professional insight into individual careers and gives interview, cover letter, and resume tips.
The U. S. Department of Education also has a financial aid section, including an application for FAFSA Free Application for Federal Student Financial Aid
FastWeb uses the Internet to find scholarships for college. It lets you match each student's background, automatically, with eligibility requirements for scholarships from around the country and advise them about scholarship opportunities tailored to their needs. All for free. The site includes an extensive college directory of more than 4,000 schools with information on admissions, financial aid and general information, and easy-to-find information from national experts on admissions, financial aid, money management, career planning, jobs and life after college.
Finaid describes what kinds of loans are available, what scholarships you may be eligible for and even a free scholarship search section. When you fill out the scholarship search section be careful what you click on or you will be receiving magazine subscriptions and "other valuable offers."
MassMentor is the place to start if you are thinking about college in Massachusetts. Lots of general and specific information about colleges in the state. Also check out AICUM,the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities of Massachusetts for more information about admissions and financial aid. For a list of most of the Massachusetts college web sites see 50 states (skip the "Featured Listings" featured = paid). Another site, comprehensive but design impaired, is at MassHome.
American Colleges and Universities
Universities Worldwide, More from the World
College Scholarships.com seems like a good commercial site for general college information
U. S. Government Official Web Sites: Of the government, by the government the Firstgov site by the General Services Administration claims to be the first and only site you need to find information from the U. S. Government. Search by government branch Executive Branch | Legislative Branch | Judicial Branch. Or try Google's U. S. Government search .
GovEngine is a comprehensive directory of Official Federal, State, and Local Government and Court links. This is a great site. This is the most complete collection of state government sites I have found. Better organized than Massachusetts' own site.
A list of the various Governments of the United States.
Thomas Legislative information on the Internet, from the Library of Congress provides information on pending bills and enacted legislation at the Federal level.
The Library of Congress The largest repository of information in the country and a large, informative and interesting web site.
The Massachusetts Cultural Council gives away $15 million each year. Grants are available to four categories of applicants: nonprofit organizations, schools, municipalities and individual artists. .
US Historical Documents from pre-colonial days to the latest State of the Union Address, the University of Oklahoma presents copies of almost every important political document in US history. A related site features information on US flags
In Your Nation you can compare any two countries on a variety of data from numbers of paved airports to inflation to fertility to gender ratio at birth and more. You can also find the top and bottom five countries in each category.
U.S. Patents from 1790 until last week, all the patents with pictures and diagrams.
Search Systems 10,000 Public Record databases by State, searchable, mostly free.
Africana.com The emphasis here seems to be on sub-Saharan Africa, nothing on North Africa. A product ( Microsoft's Encarta Africana ) oriented site, the content ranges from news to recipes to good radio links. They describe themselves as:
The purpose of Africana.com is to promote understanding of black history and culture. We support the educational use of Microsoft Encarta Africana in homes, schools, universities, and corporations. By acting as a center of advanced communication, Africana.com will both sell the encyclopedia and disseminate information about its effective use.
Boston Athenaeum's African Americana Project contains digital images of broadsides, pamphlets, manuscripts and much more relating to the African american Experience in Boston.
Vitalog.com locates ethnic sites.
Also check out the World African Network or Africa Online .
The late Dorothy West, 2 of Oak Bluffs was a member of the literary flowering known as the Harlem Renaissance. Some good sites on this subject are from Encarta and rit
Brazil, the official government version. For a non-government site try the excellent Meu Brazil by Sergio Koreisha.
Hiller Photo, a collection of photos, with a section on parts of Brazil.
The Portugal Homepage features information about the country and culture of Portugal.
Wampanoag The history and culture of the tribe are covered in a variety of educational sites. Plimoth Plantation covers the Wampanoags from pre-Colonial days to today. Other sites are devoted to Wampanoag History, Wampanoags and the Pilgrims and the Aquinnah Constitution .
Project Gutenberg Fine literature digitally re-published. From Shakespeare to Jack London, this site makes available some of the world's finest literature in full text versions. The copyright (if any) has expired so this material is in the public domain.
The Oxford Text Archive works to identify, collect, and preserve high-quality, well-documented electronic texts and linguistic corpora, which it then makes available to others. The Oxford Text Archive holds several thousand electronic texts and linguistic corpora, in a variety of languages. Its holdings include electronic editions of works by individual authors, standard reference works such as the Bible and mono-/bilingual dictionaries, and a range of language corpora.
Perseus Digital library provides ancient texts online. From Aeschylus to Xenophon, from Caesar to Virgil or 500 papyri, this large ( 225 gigabytes) site gives access to the ancient texts.
MIT Classics Select from a list of 441 works of classical literature by 59 different authors, including user-driven commentary and "reader's choice" Web sites. Mainly Greco-Roman works (some Chinese and Persian), all in English translation.
The English Server The EServer (based at the University of Washington) offers over twenty thousand works, covering a wide range of interests. It doesn't provide as many novel-length works as Project Gutenberg but is comprehensive in what it does cover. For example Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter is presented full text, full text with notes or as a downloadable file. The American copy-text used is explained (Project Gutenberg uses the English edition with Anglicized spelling and punctuation.) There is even an essay on "How to get an 'A' on your Scarlet Letter assignment".
The IPL Online Texts Collection contains over 9500 titles that can be browsed by author, by title, or by Dewey Subject Classification. .
Digital Library has 18,000 ebooks; many obscure American works.
University of Pennsylvania books-on-line lists 20,000 free books on the web. Their archive page has dozens of other etext sources including English language sites, foreign languages from Afghan to Yiddish and specialty sites from agriculture to women.
Not a link but the Burgomeister says for more recent works google "burgomeister books" "free ebook download"
Bookyards provides information and more than 14,000 book texts on authors from Samuel Adams to Zarathushtra.
Digital photographs of rare books from a company called Octavio, including most of the Shakespeare Quartos and the First Folio, some of the great books in science, including books by Galileo, Newton, Copernicus, Kepler, Einstein, Darwin and others, Gutenberg ’s Bible of 1455, Harvey's book on the circulation of blood, Galileo’s Siderius Nuncius, the first printing of the Bill of Rights, the Magna Carta and Poor Richard ’s Almanac by Benjaman Franklin.
Government
Healthfinder® is a gateway to selected consumer health and human services information resources provided by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and other organizations serving the public interest.
The mission of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC] is to promote health and quality of life by preventing and controlling disease, injury, and disability
The National Institutes of Health
one of the world's foremost biomedical research centers. An agency of the Department of Health and Human Services, the NIH is the Federal focal point for health research. NIH is the steward of biomedical and behavioral research for the Nation. Its mission is science in pursuit of fundamental knowledge about the nature and behavior of living systems and the application of that knowledge to extend healthy life and reduce the burdens of illness and disability.
NIH's National Library of Medicine search service to access the 9 million citations in MEDLINE and Pre-MEDLINE (with links to participating on-line journals), and other related databases.
NIH's National Cancer Institute's Cancer Net
The most accurate and up-to-date information on cancer and cancer research
Famous Hospitals
The Massachusetts General Hospital aims to provide the highest quality care to individuals and to the community, to advance care through excellence in biomedical research, and to educate future academic and practice leaders of the health care professions.
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
The mission of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute is to provide expert, compassionate care to children and adults with cancer while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure and prevention of cancer and related diseases.
Mayo Clinic
Reliable information for a healthier life.
Johns Hopkins Medicine An access point for patients, health care professionals, prospective students, alumni, donors, businesses, and the media--in short, anyone interested in Johns Hopkins Medicine. This site also offers information about medical specialties, research news, business opportunities, and educational programs at Johns Hopkins. Johns Hopkins Health Information
Medical Organizations
The New England Journal of Medicine
Considered the most prestigious medical journal in the world. The current issue is available on line but you must subscribe to get past issues
American Medical Association
Mostly for physicians but does include the current Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) articles. Specializes sections on HIV/AIDS, Asthma, Migraine, and Women's Health
American Heart Association
The abstracts of Original Articles (reports of original clinical research) and Special Articles (reports of research on health policy) are available on-line, along with the names and institutional affiliations of the authors. If you wish to read an entire article, you can have it sent to you by mail or fax. In addition, the full text of the following features is available on-line: Images in Clinical Medicine, Editorials, Sounding Board articles (opinion pieces), Correspondence, and Book Reviews.
Medical Publications
High Wire Press electronically publishes medical and scientific journal articles. Most print publications delay their on line version for a year, but some are published immediately.
The Merck Manual is the reference book doctors have used for one hundred years. The physicians version is available only as a fee based service but some of the new home edition is on line.
The Merck Manual of Medical Information, Home Edition
The Web version of The Merck Manual--Home Edition contains the entire Section 3 (Heart and Blood Vessel Disorders), Section 17 (Infections), Section 20 (Eye Disorders), and Section 22 (Women's Health Issues), as well as the complete Table of Contents, Preface, Editors and Editorial Board, Consultants, Contributors, A Guide for Readers, and Understanding Medical Terms. All other sections contain a list of section chapters only.
The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy, Seventeenth Edition.
The Merck Manual of Geriatrics.
Free access to Medscape's own collection of over 25,000 full-text articles. In addition, complete access to all medical journals in Dow Jones Interactive Publications Library on a pay-per-view basis. Free but you must register.
Prescription Drug Information
Prescription drug guide from the publishers of the PDR
RxList - The Internet Drug Index
Prescription drug information
Other Medical Sites
WebMD
A Reader's Digest of medical articles
Medicinenet
Doctor produced in-depth medical advice for the consumer. They'd also like to sell you (prescription) drugs at their drug store.
Medicinenet does have a good index of disease and treatment sites
Some good sites on medical quackery are QuackWatch and PseudoScience.
Go Ask Alice Medical questions answered aimed at young adults and their problems. Good advice with a twist of humor added.
Support groups
The Child Abuse Prevention Network -- the World Wide Internet Nerve Center for professionals in the field of child abuse and neglect.
ObGyn Net
A physician reviewed service offering medical professionals, women and industry a home for publishing, accessing information and global interaction. Offered in three sections, each focusing on different segments of the women's health community: Medical Professionals,
Medical Industry and Women.
List and Glossary of medical terms: English
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