Libraries
Useful Websites
This page contains links to recommended internet resources grouped by subject.
Art and architecture
- ArchINFORM — "This database includes information over more than 14000 built and unrealized projects from various architects and planners."
- Architecture.com — "One of the world's most extensive built environment portals", run by the RIBA
- Architecture and Building/UNLV Libraries — Selective guide to Internet resources covering topics such as architecture, building, construction, design, real estate, housing, energy and the environment, landscape architecture, etc.
- Artcyclopedia — "Guide to museum-quality fine art on the internet."
- Dictionary of art terms
- Intute: Arts & Humanities — Provides access to 21,000 web resources for education and research, selected and evaluated by a network of subject specialist.
- Librarians Index to the Internet/Architecture & building site
- McGraw-Hill Construction Sweets Network — It is a comprehensive, easy to use online resource for building product information.
- SIBMAS International Directory of Performing Arts Collections and Institutions
- Timeline of Art History — "The Timeline of Art History is a chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of the history of art from around the world."
- World Wide Arts Resources
Atlases and maps
Biography
Business and business-related
Computers and Information Technology
- TechEncyclopedia —Provides definitions for more than 20,000 information technology terms
Currency Exchange and other Conversions
Dictionaries and encyclopedias
Education
- The Educator’s Reference Desk — Provides access to the Resource Collection which links to over 3,000 resources on a variety of educational issues, to the ERIC database, etc.
- The National Science Digital Library (NSDL) — “Provides organized access to high quality resources and tools that support innovations in teaching and learning at all levels of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education.”
Environment
Free books
- Digital Book Index — Provides link to more than 126,000 title records. About 86,000 of these titles are available free, while many others are available at very modest cost.
- eScholarship Editions — Includes more than 1,400 books from academic presses on a range of topics, including art, science, history, music, religion, and fiction.
- FreeBooks4Doctors!
- Hoover Books Online
- The National Academies Press — Provides free online access to more than 3,000 books.
- Project Gutenberg — Provides free online access to more than 15,000 books.
General sources
- British Library Direct — Multidisciplinary database containing 20,000 journals and focusing predominantly on the subjects of science, technology and medicine.
- GuideStar: The National Database of Nonprofit Organizations — Provides detailed information on more than 850,000 nonprofit organizations.
- IGLOO Library — It is “an online repository comprised of several unique governance collections gathered from hundreds of partnering organizations from around the world.” It also includes “a collection of country and regional profiles offering political, demographical and geographical data of independent nations, colonies and dependent territories.”
- INFOMINE: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections
- Infoplease — Provides authoritative answers to all kinds of factual questions.
- InterDok — Locates events and procure published proceedings from thousands of conferences, congresses, meetings & symposia.
- Librarians’ Internet Index — Provides a searchable, browsable collection of over 16,000 high-quality websites selected by librarians.
- The Library of Congress’s Portals to the World — Contains selective links providing authoritative, in-depth information about the nations and other areas of the world.
- Martin Luther King, Jr. (with links to Civil rights Movement)
- RefDesk — A portal for quick facts. Lookup weather, zip codes, stock prices,daily almanac, quotations, grammar, news, etc.
- Repositories of Primary Sources — A listing of over 5,000 websites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary sources for the research scholar.
- Time and date
- The World Factbook
Geography and history
Islamic studies
Law
Lebanese and Middle East
- Clusty It searches several top search engines, groups the results into clusters or topics, and generates an ordered list based on comparative ranking which helps raise the best results to the top.
- Dogpile — It sends search to a customizable list of search engines, directories and specialty search sites just like Metacrawlers, then displays results from each search engine individually.
- iBoogie — In addition to being a meta search engine, it also performs real-time clustering of results, creating a list of categories related to your search terms for easy browsing
- Metacrawler — One of the oldest meta search engines, Metacrawler searches Google, Yahoo, Altavista, Ask Jeeves, About, LookSmart, Overture, FindWhat, etc.
- Mamma — One of the oldest meta search engines, Mamma searches against a variety of major crawlers, directories, and specialty search sites and then displays results in a uniform manner according to relevance.
- See Metacrawlers and Metasearch Engines for more information and a comprehensive list of meta search engines.
News sites and communication arts
- AKHBAAR —Arabic Middle East news directory, where you may link to Annahar newspaper, Assafir, Aljazeera, Arabic CNN, etc.
- HeadlineSpot — A news portal that provides links to thousands of the best U.S. and international news resources
- The Internet Movie Database — Provides information on thousands of films in all genres and from all around the world.
- MiddleEastNews.com — Middle East news and world report directory.
- NewsDirectory — Provides access to thousands of news sources, including more than 3,600 newspapers, 4,800 magazines and hundreds of television stations worldwide, etc.
- World-newspapers.com — Covers world newspapers online and news sites in English and also links to selected magazines.
- WorldNews Network
Pharmacy, medicine and health-related
- Allergy Glossary
- Antibiotic Guide — Provides concise, clinically useful, and up-to-date information about the evaluation and treatment of infectious diseases in adults.
- CDER — FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research.
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) US Department of Health and Human Services’ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
- DOEgenomes.org — Genome programs of the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science.
- DRUGFACTS.com — Facts and Comparisons’ web site which provides drug new update as well as drug information, etc.
- FreeBooks4Doctors!
- FreeMedicalJournals.com
- Healthfinder It links to carefully selected information and Web sites from over 1,500 health-related organizations.
- HIV InSite Provides comprehensive, up-to-date information on HIV/AIDS treatment, prevention, and policy from the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine.
- Index Medicus (IMEMR) Provides access to the health literature published in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region.
- Martindale’s Health Science Guide — Contains links to over 63,600 teaching files, over 138,525 medical cases & grand rounds, 1,370 courses and textbooks, 470 journals, 4,580 databases, etc.
- Mayo Clinic A not-for-profit medical practice dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of virtually every type of complex illness.
- Medi Lexicon — Dictionary of over 200,000 medical, pharmaceutical, biomedical and healthcare acronyms and abbreviations.
- MedNets — Links to medical databases and journals such as ClinicalTrials.gov, Merck manual of diagnosis and therapy.
- MedTerms/MedicineNet.com
- Merck
- Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
- MLANET: user's guide to finding and evaluating heatlh information on the web Provides in addition to a guidelines that help in the evaluation of internet websites, MLA top ten most useful consumer health websites, MLA recommended cancer websites, MLA recommended diabetes websites, MLA recommended heart disease websites.
- National Cancer Institute — The U.S. National Institutes of Health web site which provides access to a wide range of cancer information, including clinical trials, statistics, news releases, etc.
- NOAH New York Online Access to Health
- OncoLink The Web's first cancer resource
- Online Medical Dictionary
- PDRHealth
- PubMed Bookshelf — Searchable biomedical books available through PubMed.
- The Unified Medical Dictionary — An English-Arabic medical dictionary.
- WHO/Health Topics
- Who Named It? — A biographical dictionary of medical eponyms.
- WHO Statistical Information Service (WHOSIS)
Political science and international affairs
Population
Quotations
- Bartleby.com — Provides the best of both contemporary and classic quotations collections such as Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, The Columbia World of Quotations, Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations.
Religion
Sciences
- Abbreviations of Chemical Compounds
- Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology — An inter- and multidisciplinary research institute devoted to basic research in the physical sciences, computation, engineering, biology, behavior, and cognition.
- BiblioAlerts — A British Library Service that enables users to source customised technical information chosen from more than 1,500 reports covering the fields of aquatic science, biological science, engineering, environmental science, linguistics, materials science, neuroscience and sociology
- British Library Direct — Multidisciplinary database containing 20,000 journals and focusses predominantly on the subjects of science, technology and medicine.
- EEVL: The Internet Guide to Engineering, Mathematics and Computing .
- GrayLit Network: A Science Portal of Technical Reports — Allows patrons to search multiple governement databases to retrieve elusive scientific information.
- iCivilEngineer: The Internet for Civil Engineers
- Martindale’s Calculators Online Center — Link to over 18,000 science and math calculators.
- The Math Forum: Internet Mathematics Library
- Science.gov — A gateway to authoritative selected science information provided by U.S. Government agencies. It allows searches across 30 scientific databases and more than 1,700 science Web sites.
- Scirus – for scientific information only —The most comprehensive science-specific search engine on the internet.
- TechXtra — A free service which can help find articles, books, valuable websites, latest industry news and research, technical reports, thesis & dissertations, etc. It cross-searches 31 different collections relevant to engineering, mathematics and computing.
Social Science
- IGLOO Library — “An online repository comprised of several unique governance collections gathered from hundreds of partnering organizations from around the world.”
- National Criminal Justice Reference Service — Provides access to a wealth of information, including statistics, research findings, etc. on crime, juvenile justice, victims of crime, etc.
- The National Science Digital Library (NSDL) — “Provides organized access to high quality resources and tools that support innovations in teaching and learning at all levels of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education.”
- Questia — An online library that provides 24/7 access to a large online collection of books and journal articles in the humanities and social sciences, as well as magazine and newspaper articles
Statistics
Tourism
Weather
Last Updated: June 17, 2008
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