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Search Engines

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Directories & Library Info

Unlike general search engines, directories attempt to categorize the Internet by grouping sites by subject and scope.

Art/Music

  • Jazz Archive - Hamilton College Jazz Archive holds a collection of videotaped interviews, currently numbering 300+ entries, with jazz musicians, arrangers, writers and critics.
  • MusREF - a guide to more than 7,400 print and internet resources including an extensive list of traditional reference tools, including some 7,400 entries (1,800-plus annotated) for bibliographies, discographies, specialized dictionaries, catalogs, and other indexes.
  • Wisconsin Art & Artist Archive - preeminent single source for information on Wisconsin art and artists and is supported by the Museum of Wisconsin Art Wisconsin Art Archive and Research Library containing over 8500 artist and art related topics.

Business

Career

Cultural/Social

  • NORML - a destination site for news, information, health and legal issues, and legislative reports and updates on marijuana use.
  • Internet Broadway Database - archive is the official database for Broadway theatre information. IBDB provides records of productions from the beginnings of New York theatre until today.
  • Occupy Wall Street - the unofficial site of the movement started in New York City in September 2011 and has spread to more than 1500 cities worldwide.
  • Open Folklore - is a new scholarly resource that will make a greater number and variety of useful resources, both published and unpublished, available for the field of folklore studies and the communities with which folklore scholars partner.
  • Playbill Vault - comprehensive database of Broadway history from Playbill Inc.

Education

  • UW Colleges
  • UW Transfer Information System (TIS) 
  • Guide to Colleges and Universities
  • Academic Earth - Six top-rated universities and their scholars provide more than 1,500 videos of courses and individual guest lectures that take place in the classroom.
  • College.gov - Developed by the US Dept. of Education, this site is intended to be the go-to source for information and resources about planning, preparing and paying for postsecondary education.
  • College Majors 101
  • Education Pays - statistics from the Bureau of Labor Statistics that showcase how education pays in higher earnings and lower unemployment rates.
  • FastWeb - provides general college preparation information as well as a service to match students with relevant scholarship opportunities.
  • National Center for Education Statistics - As part of the US Dept. of Education, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education in the U.S. and other nations.
  • TED talks - a clearinghouse that offers free knowledge and inspiration from the world's most inspired thinkers, and also a community of curious souls to engage with ideas and each other.
  • U.S. Dept. of Education FAFSA
  • Veterans Wisconsin Education Portal - a one-stop shop to help veterans make the transition from military service to college life.

Environment

Global

  • HumanTrafficking.org - an archive describing the nature of the problems of labor and sexual exploitation of humans, broken out by country.
  • NGO Database - a convenient source of ready-reference information on over 650 nongovernmental organizations (NGOs)--organizations worldwide that are not part of any government, such as nonprofit associations and groups affiliated with the UN or EU.
  • World Resources Report - The World Resources Report (WRR) provides policymakers around the world - government, civil society, and business - with analysis and insight about major environmental and development issues. It is the product of a unique 20-year partnership among the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the World Bank and the World Resources Institute.

Government Information 

Health/Medical

  • Flu.gov
  • Influenza Encyclopedia - a rich collection of primary source documents, images, and narratives that detail the impact of the American influenza epidemic of 1918-1919 on 50 cities in the United States.
  • The Medical Heritage Library - a digital collection of materials compiled by many of the world's leading medical libraries. The collection, which consists of digitized rare medical books, presently has about 14,000 titles and offers thorough, authoritative, and up-to-date information.
  • Medline Plus - Authoritative consumer medical information presented by the US National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health.
  • Medscape - a rich portal to a wealth of authoritative medical information produced by WebMD.
  • National Center for Health Statistics - is the largest US provider of health-related statistics.
  • Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services - a landing site for students in social work, public health, counseling/mental health, behavioral health policy, and the health professions.
  • USDA Food Safety - easy-to-use site for students and consumers desiring detailed current information on food production and safety topics.

Historical Resources

  • JFK Presidential Library - To help mark the 50th anniversary of the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy, the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation has assembled the nation’s largest online digitized presidential archive, providing unprecedented global access to the most important papers, records, photographs and recordings of President John F. Kennedy’s thousand days in office.
  • New York Heritage Digital Collection - research portal for students, educators, historians, genealogists, and others who are interested in the Empire State's history.
  • UWM Archives
  • National Security Archives - Independent nongovernmental research institute collects and publishes declassified documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act.
  • U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) - The world's leading online authority on the Holocaust.
  • Vision of Britain - brings together historical surveys of Britain to create a record of how the country and its localities have changed.
  • Wisconsin Historical Society

 Images & Videos

  • A/V Geeks - A collection of over 20,000 celluloid and historic filmstrips.
  • FedFlix - features more than 3,300 films created by the US government over the past 70 years on a range of topics--from the space program and employment discrimination to WWII and the war on drugs.
  • Frontline - streamed video of public television's flagship public affairs series.
  • Learning Objects @ WISC-online - a digital library of Web-based learning resources called "learning objects." The digital library of objects has been developed primarily by faculty from the Wisconsin Technical College System (WTCS) and produced by multimedia technicians who create the learning objects.
  • Learners TV - a comprehensive site providing thousands of downloadable video lectures.
  • Prelinger Archive - a collection of over 60,000 ephemeral films.
  • Realia Project
  • Smithsonian Institution - Collections Search Center
  • SnagFilms - A collection of over 1,000 documentary films. Searchable by subject or alphabetically.
  • WISC-online Learning Objects - developed by faculty from Wisconsin Technical Colleges, these animated learning objects cover a variety of topics including business, science, languages, etc.

 Language and Literature 

Libraries

Local libraries

Other library resources

Local Resources

Mathematics/Computer Science

  • C Programming - includes step-by-step beginner tutorials for C and C++ as well as advanced tutorials.
  • MAA Podcast Center - Mathematical Association of America's podcasts, along with the supplementary material, provide an excellent introduction to specific mathematical topics for students and faculty.

Newspapers & Magazines

For access to our paid subscription databases of newspaper collection, click here.

Political Science/Law

  • CourtListener -this open source site is a simple, easy-to-use, comprehensive, updated daily, and reliable resources for all types of legal research.
  • Patchwork Nation - is a reporting project of the Jefferson Institute that aims to explore what is happening in the United States by examining different kinds of communities over time.
  • FBI Records: The Vault - an relatively easy-to-use public access site developed in response to the Freedom of Information Act.

Science

  • Anatomy Videos - Produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institute of Health, these animated videos show the anatomy of body parts and organ systems and how diseases on conditions affect them.
  • The Cell: An Image Library - a freely accessible, easy-to-search, public repository of reviewed and annotated images, videos, and animations of cells from a variety of organisms, showcasing cell architecture, intracellular functionalities, and both normal and abnormal processes.
  • Chemistry World Podcasts - Free podcast versions of selections from the monthly Chemistry World magazine produced by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC).
  • ChemSpider - This free chemistry search engine provides access to over 20 million unique chemical structures and their associated properties.
  • General Chemistry Online
  • Human Body Maps - a free, interactive anatomy program that provides access to high-quality medical images.
  • National Geologic Map Database - A cooperative project of the Association of American State Geologists and the US Geological Survey (USGS), it indexes maps and geospatial data on geology, geophysics, marine geology, geologic resources, and hazards for the US and its territories published from the 1880s to the present.
  • Physics Flash Animations - A CHOICE recommended resource, this site provides more than 80 Flash animations from different areas of physics. Topics covered are typical of a one-year course in physics in high school or college. Some of the categories are classical mechanics, optics, electricity and magnetism, quantum mechanics, and sound.
  • VisionLearning - is a new educational resource for faculty and students. Funded by the National Science Foundation, Visionlearning provides high-quality science learning modules that have been shown to be more effective than traditional textbooks in teaching science.
  • Wisconsin Geological Survey - information about the geology, mineral resources, water resources, soil, and biology of Wisconsin.
  • WebElements - the periodic table on the web.
  • WorldMap - Build your own mapping portal and publish it to the world or to just a few collaborators. WorldMap is open source software.

State of Wisconsin Information 

Statistics

Technology

  • Mashable - News source for social and digital media, technology and web culture. Known for its early and consistent reporting on what's what on the web.

 

 

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