Reference Websites

Provides links to many art websites, arranged by time period and type of art.

Award winning site that provides virtual studios/galleries where artists share their artwork.

Art search engine which provides links to sites through an artist search, title search, or museum search. Can also browse by artist, medium, subject, etc.

Provides links to a variety of art and architecture resources on the web, including organizations.

Traditional and modern Asian art. Search by country or type of art. Unlike most Asian art sites, this is translated into English.

Official website of the Louvre, featuring information about the collection, including a variety of virtual tours, a history of the Louvre, 3D features, mini sites, in-depth studies, access to magazine, and more.

Provides a searchable database of artworks from permanent collection and a timeline of art history.

The life and works of Michelangelo during his early life, mid years, and final days. It includes links to numerous illustrations and related sites.

A public agency dedicated to supporting excellence in the arts. Includes research reports, grant information, links to funding resources, and access to NEA Arts magazine.

Search the collection by artist, medium, or subject. Also provides online tours of collection by artist, medium, or theme.

This image database was developed to provide free and open online access to hundreds of thousands of images from the original and rare holdings of the NY Public Library.

The nation's first collection of American art. Website provides information about the collection, exhibitions, and capability to search the collections. Replaces National Museum of American Art.

Over 100,000 images that are copyright cleared and free to use for learning, teaching, and research in the UK. Also contains learning and teaching resources.

Contains a number of short videos on artists, works of art, past exhibitions, and the collection.

The largest site for contemporary art, art news, art history, contemporary artist and gallery portfolios, online since 1995. Contains over 170,000 works of contemporary art.

Read the frequent blog postings to keep up with all the resources, services, and events available through Career Services, as well as other career related topics.

This web-based University-wide ethics resource is meant to be a community site to foster and support teaching and learning about ethics, through a discussion forum, blog, links to other relevant resources, and more.

This BU library blog contains frequent posts by library staff that include reviews, interviews, tutorials, events, and much more.

Published four times a year, each issue contains the latest library news, as well as many other items, including a book, journal and video review, recommended websites, electronic tips, and a featured library database.

The newsletter for Alums of BU, keeping them up to date on the latest news, information, and people at the university.

Vision Talk is an online forum that discusses the most pressing contemporary American issues. This blog looks at the debates surrounding topics that divide so many across the nation, by offering a variety of articles from distinguished contributors.

Find out about some of the most unusual plant species and their ingenious survival strategies: Monocotyledons, Dicotyledons, and Pinopsida

Contains articles, tutorials, essays, reports, as well as a forum and wiki. Also has a Life & Earth Sciences Directory with numerous other links to resources.

Cellular and microbiology news, updated hourly. Also contains links to sites.

Complete text of four of Charles Darwin's books at the Literature.org site.

Deals with the biology and psychology of the senses of taste and smell. Mainly links to websites grouped by subject, including research institutes, organizations, and companies.

A collaborative encyclopedia of living organisms; content from databases, scientists, and other sources.

Explains, in plain English, the basics of Molecular Biology.

Provides good educational information about exhibits , as well as topics to explore. You can also search the various "Science Departments" for resources and information.

Dept. of Plant Biology, Southern IL U, Carbondale. Repository of information on parasitic plants, including photographs, species lists, distribution maps. Also provides links to other sites and contact info of specialists.

Search 40 million abstracts from seven of the largest scientific literature databases plus thousands of smaller Open Access databases. Includes thousands full text articles.

History of advertising in the 20th century, 1900-1999.

Customer satisfaction scores by industry, company, and economic sector, as well as local and economic sector. Current and historical scores available.

Contains free downloadable marketing charts and excel spreadsheets. Also contains articles and news. Published daily

Online resources and research related articles relevant to marketing booth for those in the field and students. Resources include guides on doing market research and a marketing glossary.

Mplans.com contains the largest single collection of free sample marketing plans online. In addition to that, it has helpful articles and know-how for managing your business….Mplans.com is owned and operated by Palo Alto Software, Inc. as a free resource to help entrepreneurs plan better businesses.

Free online magazine designed to help businesses develop a social media presence. Information is updated daily. Browse categories, including case studies, how to, research, tools, podcasts, expert interviews, videos, and reviews. Site may also be searched.

Career development resource for Nebraska and the surrounding region. Find jobs or access job resource tools, such as salary wizard, resume and interviewing help, and job search strategies.

CareerOneStop is sponsored by the U. S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration, and contains information on occupations, tools for job searches, and links to job banks.

Describes college majors and careers to which they could lead, as well as listing publications, news, student associations, and potential employers and their websites. Many include videos made by colleges and universities related to the various majors.

Careers are arranged by category, with detailed information, some with related videos and career stories, and links to additional information. City and town section provides detailed descriptions and data form a comprehensive list of locations.

This free resource, which is owned by Dow Jones, provides career advice and information specific to the fields of finance, technology, and sales and marketing.

Provides company information in regard to salaries, work environment, and interview questions. Much of the information is posted by employees.

Quick and easy way to prepare a resume using the forms and formatting options provided. Also includes a resume tutorial, samples, and tips for writing a resume.

Provides advice on internships along with internship listings, which can be searched by job title, state, academic semester, and industry.

Annual handbook of the Bureau of Labor Statistics providing information on hundreds of different types of jobs, the training needed earnings, prospects, etc.

This site was created for the U.S. Dept. of Labor and is a career exploration, job search, and job analysis tool, containing detailed job descriptions.

Information on dozens of professions (primarily related to science, technology, and math), including salary data and professional advice. Draws from nearly 20 professional associations.

This website, from US Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration and the American Association of Community Colleges, has five major categories: Choose a Career, Get Qualified, Take a Course Online, Earn College Credits, and Find a Job.

Career advice, research, and WetFeet Insider Guides based on publicly available information and dozens of in-depth interviews of rank-and-file employees who work for the companies and industries that are covered.

Official site for independent inventors, providing comprehensive information on intellectual property, patents, trademarks, and copyrights. Also has an extensive FAQ section.

This Web site is a handbook created by the Lemelson-MIT Program to address the independent inventor's and aspiring entrepreneur's most frequently asked questions regarding U.S. patents.

Dedicated to protecting the intellectual property interests of small businesses. FAQs and toolkits for various countries are especially helpful.

A Harvard Business School site that provides information about 20th century business leaders by name, company, industry, or era.

Links to many free business resources from company research, to industry research, marketing/demographics, nonprofit resources, business forms, and much more. On the website of the Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County.

Worldwide coverage of business news and financial information. Market Data section covers stocks, interest rates and bonds, mutual funds, exchange traded funds, and commodities. Includes an economic calendar, detailed charts, and much more.

Portals to business, information technology, finance, and risk management resources. Comprehensive site includes articles, market data, news, etc.

A global guide to business and sustainable development (BSD) from the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), a nonprofit group funded by the Canadian government. Contains a wealth of sustainability material geared toward businesses, as well as company case studies.

A large resource of histories of business, business biographies, histories of companies including photographs, timetables of business history.

Provides free access to reports of companies doing business or headquartered in NYC or nearby between 1849 and 1960s.

The official website of the US Department of Commerce, containing comprehensive, up-to-date information regarding businesses and commerce for the whole nation.

From the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, this authoritative, free government resource offers valuable information about consumer spending in the US, along with related items such as consumer characteristics and product types.

Provides objective measures of business regulations and their enforcement across 183 global economies and selected cities at the sub-national and regional level. Includes country economic rankings. Project of World Bank.

Online version of this fact book available from left side of page, navigate by subject. Contains many graphs and tables.

This site explains the strategies and tools that companies can use to translate an aspiration for sustainability into practical, effective solutions. Case studies from around the world are provided.

Search and browse library funding opportunities offered by various programs and services. Funding sources include family foundations, corporations, and professional organizations.

A project of the Urban Institute's Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy, this site provides, among other things, an overview of data on nonprofits, public charity finances, voluntarism, and foundation giving, from a variety of official sources.

Contains many tables related to the North American transportation industry, allowing you to easily compare data among the three countries.

Provides an overview of this office and in depth data relating to the national budget, including historical data.

Information from federal government agencies on seven major industries: agriculture, banking, energy, environment, health and safety, housing, and transportation. Well planned site with access to 29 resources.

The latest news from the top technology companies, as well as reviews of new companies, products, and websites.

An online network designed to connect innovators to companies needing creative solutions for problems, and to investors willing to provide needed capital. Provided by Eureka! Institute/Merwyn Research.

Sponsored by Dun & Bradstreet, this site contains a vast library of articles, videos, podcasts, and blogs that providing up to the date information for small business owners. Topics include starting and running a business, green business, franchises, and business taxes. There is also a Finance Resource Center.

Free sample business plans and marketing plans, as well several marketing calculators. It also has "how to" articles on business plans.

U.S. government official site of Small Business Administration, providing small business owners with information and resources to comply with laws and regulations, and information about government programs and services to help them start, expand and run their businesses.

Maintained by Entrepreneur magazine, this site offers how-to guides, free sample business plans, success stories, as well as collection of free business-planning and productivity tools.

The 4th edition of a guide originally prepared by the Library of Congress, it contains a compilation of business sources for the small business owner. Sources include both subscription databases as well as publicly available websites. Citations include handbooks, guides, dictionaries, and directories. A link to the LOC catalog record and often links to the table of contents are provided.

Information for starting a business includes guides and tools. Also addresses technology and finance, and provides top company lists.

Information on starting or locating a business in Nebraska, including financing, laws, tax, and building and site information.

Small Business Planner and Tools has information and resources for every stage of the business life cycle. There is also a helpful link to local resources.

Comprehensive directory of franchise opportunities containing accurate, up to date information on legitimate franchises.

ChemIDplus is a program of NLM. It allows searches by substance identification, toxicity, physical properties, molecular weight, locator codes and chemical structure.

Chemical information search for CAS numbers, molecular formulas, synonyms, and more.

This list maintained by Indiana University, provides links to many chemistry databases.

Search or browse for compound information across the web.

Chemistry portal with free membership to access journal articles, whitepapers, and the Alchemist newsletter. Contains links to other chemistry sites.

This site contains thousands of general and varied information items about electrochemistry, electrochemical engineering, and electrochemical technology in fourteen sections.

Provides easy access to chemical and physical property data for chemical species through the Internet. The data are from collections maintained by the NIST Standard Reference Data Program and outside contributors.

Search this compound database using a chemical structure as the query. Structures may be sketched or specified in a variety of formats.

Search 40 million abstracts from seven of the largest scientific literature databases plus thousands of smaller Open Access databases. Includes thousands full text articles.

British site providing free access to articles from chemistry related journals, chemistry blogs, and the Chemsoc section which includes hot topics, chemistry timeline, and more.

Provides resources for increasing, strengthening, and enhancing vocabulary., from the basics through uncommon and unusual words.

Provides links to reference material, writing labs, Web search engines, and to writing-related Web sites.

Provides grammar help at sentence, paragraph, and essay/research paper level, and includes quizzes, links to other resources, and a Q & A feature.

Free Online dictionary and thesaurus.

Online dictionary and thesaurus. Includes Spanish-English, and medical terminology. Other features are "Word of the Day," "New Words and Slang," and various word games and top ten word lists.

Covers many topics associated with writing from beginning through advanced. Site developed by Chuck Guilford, professor emeritus at Boise State U and author of Beginning College Writing.

Free resources covering the writing process, APA and MLA citation, plagiarism, professional writing, and resume writing.

Tips for finding and evaluating sources, as well as a citation guide. Based on book Research and Documentation in the Electronic Age, Fifth Edition, by Diana Hacker and Barbara Fister, Gustavus Adolphus College.

Free interactive tool for generating APA, MLA, Turabian, and Chicago style citations.

Provided by Princeton University, WordNet groups nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs into related sets.

Part of The Writing Center, University of Wisconsin – Madison, which contains tools for successful writing, including citation help.

Free tool for collecting, organizing, citing, and sharing research materials, right from your browser. Requires download. (Compatible with Firefox, but soon to be compatible with most other browsers.)

This website contains forums and blogs related to communications, as well as full text articles from the American Communication Journal.

Searchable database that combines The Online Speech Bank and The Top 100 Speeches. It containing 5000+ full text, audio and video (streaming) versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews and other recorded media events.

Computer Mediated Communication magazine covers the latest news in the online world, including information technology, knowledge management, and e-business. Previous issues, available in archive, reported on people, events, technology, public policy, culture, etc. related to human communication and interaction in online environments.

Website of the FCC, the government agency that regulates interstate and international communications by radio, television, wire, satellite and cable.

Columbia University site that contains its current research on communicative behavior and links to its published works.

One stop access to relevant communication sites, supported by Communication Institute for Online Scholarship (CIOS).

Project of University of Minnesota that chronicles the history of media through article archives and a timeline.

This website provides discussion about the cultural, creative, and social significance of television, radio, and emerging platforms for communication.

Compiled by University of Iowa, this site provides links to many famous speeches and speakers.

Annual report on the health and status of American journalism, published by The Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism. Contains data and identifies trends on all the major sectors of journalism.

From the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism, this site allows users to compare companies within or across media sectors.

Links to resources, competitions, and educational opportunities for the graphic artist, as well as archives of 20,000 graphic design works from AIGS competitions. It also includes articles from the online AIGA publication, Journal of Design.

Companion website to Computer Arts magazine, this site Includes step by step tutorials, as well as tips and tricks for web design, typography, 3D, animation, motion graphics and multimedia. Downloads, forums, and reviews of the latest products are some of the other features.

Graphic, animation, and video game designer career information, jobs, and schools. Provides a few free downloads: stock photography, fonts, and Photoshop brushes.

A site dedicated to the exchange of information, news, reviews, and all things revolving around design and publishing. It offers all kinds of resources relating to graphics, layout, design and typography, including free Photoshop tutorials.

This site provides links to other graphic design sites in 16 categories, as well as articles, including "Top News" in graphic design. Graphic Design Tutorials is an especially helpful category.

Searchable, easy to navigate resource sharing site that provides tutorials, downloads, articles, and news related to graphic design, as well as a Resource Directory.

A source of inspiration for filmmakers, animators and designers, this site shares outstanding work from studios, freelancers and students, provides feature stories that give readers a closer look at influential studios and individuals, offers commentary about the creative process, and more.

This site is devoted to typography, offering access to The Typographic Times, and all manner of links to fonts, news, and other resources.

Searchable site providing numerous free tutorials which can also be found by category. Also provides access to forums and free newsletters. Tutorials are submitted by users and rated by others.

A community site dedicated to classifying typefaces and providing public information about them. Each typeface listing includes a clear visual display of upper- and lower-case letters and function keys, along with links to designer, foundry, release year, country of origin, classification, original format, etc.

This is an internationally refereed resource that provides a platform for the dissemination of design thinking and research. Provides many free templates, tutorials, stock photos, and articles, though others require purchase.

This site offers an interactive and fun approach to learning to code. It is divided into six tracks, including Web Fundamentals (html and CSS), JavaScript Fundamentals, and others. An imbedded text editor provides hands on practice and immediate feedback as you work through the lessons. Not compatible with Internet Explorer.

A collection of over 3 million bibliographies of scientific literature in computer science from various sources, covering most aspects of computer science; updated weekly. While some have links to the full text, most are citations.

Provider of technical information, tools, and services for IT professionals developing corporate applications. Contains articles and article archives, a Source Bank and a Tip Bank, free tools and tutorials, and forums.

Contains articles, news, and blogs on all manner of topics related to software development, source code downloads, and information on webinars and events.

Offers over 700 tutorials, as well as tips, guides, and reference sets, to help new and growing website developers learn their trade. Starts with a non-technical introduction and continues through advanced concepts.

From the International Center for the History of Electronic Games, this is an online collection of almost 18,000 video game software and hardware items that are part of the 37,000 items housed in the Strong., a nonprofit institute devoted to the study of play. It is easily navigated through 7 categories of games and provides a picture and information about each.

Primarily aimed at business technology professionals, this site provides breaking news, blogs, analysis on IT trends, a whitepaper library, video reports, and interactive tools. Free access to Information Week Magazine.

Provides research materials in the area of human-centered aspects of technology, particularly in interaction design and human-computer interaction.

This large site is comprised of many smaller technology specific sites organized into five content channels: Developer, Internet News, IT, Personal Technology and Small Business. It includes tutorials, forums, news, hands on advice, internet market research, archived technology publications, and more.

Contains JavaScript and Ajax tutorials, free cut and paste source code, forums, games, and more.

An online magazine covering Web content and development, including coding, design, standards, and best practices. Arranged by topic and searchable, source code is freely available to all.

Find out the latest information and statistics on computer threats such as malware, viruses, and spam. Contains a history of malware through the last five decades.

This site is devoted to good web design and includes free tutorials, articles, RSS feeds, newsletters and other tools.

Not only defines, but explains computer and technology terms. Detailed explanations include examples. Browse by category or search for specific terms.

The definitive reference for Web developers with tutorials on all aspects of Web design and authoring, including JavaScript, DHTML, 3D animation, CSS, RSS, ...

Website devoted to tutorials and training for website developers that includes resources for learning and working with html, xml, scripting, multimedia, web services, and web building.

This site offers a library of resources to assist in managing a Web site using XML, including articles, code samples, and tools and tricks.

This government website contains statistics on many areas related to criminal justice, including corrections, courts and sentencing, crime type, victims, and much more.

A 'selective clearinghouse' of information on 150 programs in criminal justice, crime victim services, and juvenile justice. Contributers include the National Institute of Justice and the Bureau of Justice Statistics.

Search and browse a selection of declassified FBI records on organizations, celebrities, and other individuals who were of legal or political interest to the government.

A government site with information on prison facilities in the U.S., types, locations, inmate programs, and a history of the bureau. Site also contains a table of all federal executions since 1927. There is also an inmate locator.

This is an annual report from the National Center for Education Statistics and the Bureau of Justice Statistics providing the most recent data available on school crime and safety.

This University of Michigan site contains many guides on different types of crime with links to other information. Archived data available for download with free login, though much is restricted.

Statistics, profiles, court data, news and other information related to juvenile justice.

Government site providing free resources on criminal justice topics. Use the extensive A-Z topic index or search the various categories.

Provides statistics and reports on crime in Nebraska, as well as links to law enforcement agencies, information on programs, and FAQs.

Though directed primarily as a resource for law enforcement, it does provide all manner of news and information about police activity, as well as links to other sites.

Hosted by Hindelang Criminal Justice Research Center, University at Albany, and funded by U.S Dept of Justice, Dept. of Statistics, this site brings together data from more than 200 sources. about many aspects of criminal justice in the United States. Organized into seven sections and also searchable by topic.

UCR is a program of the FBI and provide official crime counts for the United States since 1930. It is based on data voluntarily submitted by law enforcement agencies throughout the country and provides a nationwide view of crime.

Focuses on illicit drugs and international crime. Information is arranged by topic, which includes human trafficking, corruption, money laundering, organized crime, piracy, and others.

U.S. government profiles of 267 countries and territories around the world, providing information on geography, people, government, transportation, economy, history, military, and transnational issues.

Library of Congress site which presents a description and analysis of the historical setting and the social, economic, and political systems countries throughout the world. Information originally published 1988-1998, so not be up to date.

Foreign Language Video Instruction is a collection of video clips in which native speakers elaborate on a wide variety of topics about their culture, family, daily life, and more. Each video clip is accompanied by a description of its contents, the country of the speaker, and additional grammar and vocabulary notes. These videos are produced by the ViewPoints Project of the Five Colleges of Ohio consortium.

This is a vast compilation of data from such sources as the CIA World Factbook, UN, and OECD, that allows you to graphically compare nations. You can generate maps and facts and find all manner of statistics.

Project Visa provides visa and travel information for all countries, though not all is verified.

Official website of the Asia Society, which provides information on many aspects of Asian culture and society today.

The Chinese Culture section of this travel site is quite informative.

This site covers 5000 years of classical Chinese art, calligraphy, poetry, history, literature, painting and philosophy

Compiled and maintained by Stanford University, this guide contains links to many resources related to the culture and history of Japan.

Recommended site from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan's Information and Culture website.

This site contains over 3000 slides, 500 photographs, and 50 hours of sounds the digital collection of the University of Wisconsin.

Mostly a travel information site, but the "African People & Culture" section has some useful information.

Provided by Stanford University, this comprehensive site contains resources on all countries and dozens of topics related to Africa. It can be browsed by country, by topic, or searched.

Provides information about Spanish culture and customs. Browse by category or use the search tool.

Features 1200 years of Italian sculpture and 40 centuries of architecture. Details of works of art in both Italian and English.

A Library of Congress exhibit which traces French history from Charlemagne to de Gaulle through artwork.

Links to culture, history, language, and travel. Use the Site Map for best results.

This is the official website of the European Union and provides basic information on how the EU works, and links to EU information on the websites of EU institutions and agencies.

Contains current news articles concerning Germany as well as links to many topics related to culture.

Covers cultural topic such as art, literature, and music of Italy.

History and information on the fine arts, architecture, music, and literature of Spain.

This site is published by the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs and provides information and resources on the people, culture, history, politics, geography and much more, of Switzerland.

Drawn from special collections of libraries in the region, this site provides online access to archival and historical materials related to the culture of the southern and central Appalachian region.

Associated with the University of Texas at Austin, this site provides information to, from, or on Latin America. Browse by country or subject.

Market Data section covers stocks, interest rates and bonds, mutual funds, exchange traded funds, and commodities. Includes an economic calendar, detailed charts, and much more.

National, regional, and international economic data is available on this government website. Its annual Survey of Current Business is also found here. Also check out the Current Releases page for economic indicators.

Business Quest is a free full text peer reviewed online journal for business topics and economic s. It has been published by Richards College of Business, University of West Georgia since 1996.

Provides access to state and substate socioeconomic data from both public and private sources. Search the 10 subject categories or search by provider (ex. Census Bureau). Icons designate which data is free and which is for a fee.

A comprehensive site of free, easily available economic time series data useful for economic research, in particular economic forecasting. There are more than 200,000 time series for which data and custom charts can be retrieved. Contains mostly US data.

Current and archived monthly economic indicators releases. Businesses rely heavily upon these indicators to make decisions every day.

The ESA provides timely economic analysis and disseminates national economic indicators, provided by U.S. Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis. These economic indicators, as well as other reports are available at this site.

Tracks economic freedom of 183 countries around the world based on ten components.

Website of the U.S. Senate Joint Economic Committee containing maps illustrating economic conditions as well as reports and charts.

Provides an overview of economic conditions in the United States and includes 40,000 plus charts, maps, and tables of data at the state, Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA), and county levels. Part of the FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) website.

A collaborative database of working papers, journal articles and software components in the field of economics. All RePEc material is freely available.

This organization represents the interests of presidents and chancellors of all types of U.S. accredited, degree-granting institutions of higher education, providing leadership on key higher education issues, as well as influencing public policy through advocacy, research, and program initiatives.

College InSight provides data for almost 7000 U.S. colleges and universities relating to cost, financial aid, diversity and student success, making it easy to find, compare, and analyze.

Provided by the National Center for Education Statistics, this website is an integrated collection of indicators and analyses organized in broad subject areas.

CHEA is an association of 3,000 degree-granting colleges and universities that recognizes 60 accrediting organizations.

Part of the National Center for Education Statistics website, this publication provides a compilation of statistical information covering the broad field of American education from prekindergarten through graduate school. Archived publications from 1990 also available.

Contains more than 4,400 reviews of educational videos, audio CDs, and software. Written by US and Canadian librarians and faculty.

An affiliate of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, the ICW is devoted to promoting rigorous educational standards. Access its Education Report on Innovation and Education Report on Effectiveness here, as well as an interactive state by state map.

Prepared by the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, this report provides comprehensive and reliable data projecting the size and composition of high school graduating classes across the country through 2022.

U.S. Dept. of Education entity which collects and analyzes all manner of educational data, including indicators and analysis, demographics, and projections.

This site contains information about all aspects of education in Nebraska, including accreditation, standards, budget, curriculum and more, easily found using A-Z Topic List.

Consists of over 300 higher education and associated organization members worldwide. The consortium indexes over 6,600 courses and provides links to the course pages on the member websites.

Provides data on both foreign students studying in the U.S. and U.S. students studying abroad. Online data available back to 2001.

Part of the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) website, providing projections for key education statistics, including enrollment, graduates, teachers, and expenditures in elementary and secondary schools. Includes national data on enrollment and graduates for the past 15 years and projections to the year 2016.

Part of the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) website providing state, county and school district demographic data and maps.

Part of the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) website, this site provides information on elementary, secondary, and post-secondary education characteristics as well as public libraries, assessments, and selected demographics for all states. demographics on up to four states.

"The academy of you" offers thousands of courses in a range of subject areas, from the traditional to topics such as developing iPhone apps. The majority are free, though a few have a fee. You may login through Facebook to connect with others taking the course, or just create your own login.

Contains detailed school enrollment data by age and race.

This government site provides many good links to research, statistics, assessment, etc. related to education.

Use the interactive map to find locations and descriptions of all English language programs offered by AAIEP through universities and other sites.

Student area of this site contains help with grammar, pronunciation, and slang, and includes quizzes.

English as a Second Language (ESL) tools and resources for students, teachers, learners and academics, as well as a grammar glossary and resources focusing on irregular verbs, phrasal verbs and idioms, as well as many tests and quizzes.

Free resources for learning and teaching English, including lessons, games and videos. Some items require a free subscription.

Provides a large collection of English as a Second Language (ESL) tools & resources for students, teachers, learners and academics, and includes a grammar glossary, resources focusing on irregular verbs, phrasal verbs and idioms, as well as many tests and quizzes.

Links to free audio English pronunciation help, handouts, and pages with pictures, sounds, and videos to help with pronunciation.

All materials on ESLgold.com are free of charge and organized by skill and level for quick and easy access. Including help with grammar, listening, reading, pronunciation, etc.

This area of Purdue University's well known Online Writing Lab (OWL) is devoted to ESL resources, including grammar help and workplace writing.

Lessons, tools, and resources for English language learners and teachers. A long page of helpful links can be found by clicking on the link for ESL students under "Resources and Links".

Free access to articles in this journal as well as links to resources and activities for students and teachers of ESL.

This site is maintained by Ohio State University and contains many resources for speaking, reading, writing, and listening to English.

Many links to resources and activities for students and teachers of ESL, maintained by the Internet TESL Journal. Includes grammar, writing, dictionaries, games, podcasts, bilingual quizzes in many languages, and much more.

Hosted at the University of Guelph, this site covers the aquatic plant and animal life in Canada. Research section of this site links to information about dozens of scientists involved aquatic research in Canada.

Use The Nature Conservancy's carbon footprint calculator to estimate how many tons of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases your choices create each year. Other climate change information can be found at this site as well.

Comprehensive website maintained by the World Resources Institute, which is a portal for environment information worldwide. Provides many types of resources including articles, information guides, maps, data sets, and more.

Primarily a site to identify green products and the companies who produce them , it also has links to many environmental resources and organizations, as well as to articles in its online Green Living Magazine.

Provides information about the wild animals and plants of the United States. The site's core content of wildlife information about almost 6,000 individual species is the same data set used to create the printed Audubon Field Guides.

The EnviroLink Network is a non-profit organization which has been providing access to thousands of online environmental resources since 1991. You can locate information by topic, by category, or by using the search feature.

This site publishes both original content and news from over 40 affiliates, on environmental issues. It also publishes articles from a variety of other news streams, including major wire services, freelance & citizen journalists, and research associates from around the world.

Friends of the Earth is part of the world's largest grassroots environmental federation. Contains news and articles about environmental issues and legislation around the world.

A consortium of top research universities in the U.S., U.K., and Canada, gather together the best research news produced by universities in a range of topics, including the environment, health, science, and society.

This site provides information and updates on Greenpeace International's various activities related to global environmental issues. Its reports are also found here and can be searched by category.

Provided by the Environmental Protection Agency, this site provides a variety of environmental information tailored to your community or any other geographic area.

This site posts 2225 Congressional Research Service (CRS) reports on the environmental and related topics. As a part of the Library of Congress, CRS prepares its reports for the U.S. Congress.

This center is part of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado at Boulder and supports research into frozen areas of the earth. Datasets, research, and other information is available.

Search 40 million abstracts from seven of the largest scientific literature databases plus thousands of smaller Open Access databases. Includes thousands full text articles.

From the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, this database provides detailed chemical toxicity data based on animal testing results. Contains detailed study and effect information on 474 chemicals, primarily the data rich pesticide active ingredients.

Focuses on six areas of environmental challenges providing news and information, as well as its publications for download.

This comprehensive government site provides information on all topics related to the environment. Click on the map to get information specific to your area.

Provides free publications, charts & maps, news, and other information related to the environment.

Provides topographic maps and maps with counties superimposed on topography for each state (except Hawaii and Alaska) as well as links to maps for that state at other sites.

The Encyclopedia is a free, expert-reviewed collection of articles written by scholars, professionals, educators, and experts who collaborate and review each other's work.

A government site that contains U.S. maps and data and other geographic resources.

Website with geopolitical data, statistics on human population, Earth, and more.

Created by ESRI, a GIS software developer, this site provides information on geographic information system technology.

This digital collection represents a fraction of the 4.5 million items in the LOC map collection. Search by subject or keyword.

This is a project of the University of Oregon that provides representations of historical events in the form of maps.

Compiled and developed by the Minnesota Population Center, this site provides, free of charge, aggregate census data tables and maps for the United States between 1790 and 2010 at various geographic levels.

Source for population, housing, economic, and geographic data.

The geographic information available from The National Map includes orthoimagery (aerial photographs), elevation, geographic names, hydrography, boundaries, transportation, structures, and land cover.

A catalog of NASA images and animations of Earth. Browse by geographic region or topic.

Access to quick facts and maps of countries and continents around the world, though site contains a lot of advertising.

University of California Berkley maintains this site which provides descriptions of minerals, many of which have links to additional information.

Comprehensive site maintained by experts in the field that provides news and information related to all areas of geology, geology maps for each states, and satellite images of U.S and world countries. Includes a geological dictionary.

Provides access to many papers maps, and reports published by the U.S. Geological Survey.

Part of U.S. Geological Survey website, providing geological research and data, as well as real-time data on earthquakes, volcanoes, and other hazards.

Provides data from geological disciplines such as marine geology, natural hazards, geophysics, geomagnetism, and solar and space environmental data.

Information on and images of over 150 gems.

The federal science agency focusing on geological research and information dissemination.

This site provides free viewing and downloading of the entire USGS collection of over 30,000 photos.

A great source of datasets; does not include data summaries.

The best annual alternative to the Statistical Abstract for basic national-level economic information.

The most comprehensive online directory to Federal statistics.

Covers the 13 main policy areas of this federal agency, each of which has links to documents by year of publication, as well as links to other resources, news, meetings, and events, and includes NCD reports and other publications.

Includes price and spending data in addition to labor statistics.

Comprehensive statistics covering people, business, geography, data, and research.

Excellent data in the areas of Diet, Health, and Safety as well as Food and Nutrition Assistance.

The United States Government Manual is the official handbook of the Federal Government. It can be browsed by categories such as branch of government, quasi-official agencies, international organizations, and so on. It may also be searched by word or phrase.

Formerly known as the Nebraska Data Book. This is the equivalent of the Statistical Abstract for Nebraska.

Nebraska's equivalent to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The official site of the Nebraska Unicameral provides Nebraska bills, laws, reports, and other documents, as well as information about committees, senators, including contact information, and legislative calendar.

Community profiles with a focus on economic development.

Publishes research covering the breadth of Nebraska's economy.

Reports from the valuable Nebraska Rural Poll.

U.S. Census data, mined and distilled for Nebraska.

The goal of AHRQ is to improve the quality and safety of healthcare. Their website provides research findings, reports on clinical and consumer topics, and links to many types of data and surveys.

Website of APHA, the oldest organization of public health professionals in the world, (est. 1872), provides information about APHA as well as some booklets and other resources and information. See the "Programs and Resources" tab.

HIMSS is a non-profit organization focused on technology and management systems for healthcare. Website provides resources and news related to these topics, especially in the Topics and Tools area.

The only organization of its kind, their website provides some free resources, including benchmarking surveys and other online resources in the Institute Resource Center.

This non-profit organization conducts research and policy analysis in the field of healthcare and provides many of its publications for download.

PMC is the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature. Currency and age of material varies by journal.

Provides credible information on health and safety including surveys, reports, statistics, and other information.

Consumer health information provided by University of Nebraska Medical Center. Contact a Health Sciences Librarian from this site to research your condition and provide resources tailored to you.

Includes 220+ reports from state and health institutions that allow users to compare and evaluate health care resources in a particular geographic area.

A portal to information about programs, services, laws, and benefits for disabled persons. Drawn from 22 different federal agencies, state/local government, and nonprofit organizations.

A consortium of top research universities in the U.S., U.K., and Canada, gather together the best research news produced by universities in a range of topics, including the environment, health, science, and society.

Healthcare industry news and management information on topics related to this field. See the Free Reports page and Stories of the Week especially for non-subscriber information.

Health information from the National Library of Medicine. Use search box or search by topic; many free resources available on all areas of health.

NIH is the nation's medical research agency whose website provides health information on a comprehensive list of topics, information on clinical trials, and news about the latest research.

Articles, information, reference materials, and links to a variety of resources are available here for career enhancement and professional development in the healthcare field.

Contains information on the top 200 U.S. prescription and OTC drugs, as well as information on diseases and treatment.

This site provides health information, including prevention, information on obtaining grants, and also about the regulations and policies the department issues.

Allows users to browse and compare cancer statistics from 1999-2008 by state, race, ethnicity, and type. This site is administered by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

This site uses Medicare data to provide comprehensive information and analysis about national, regional, and local markets to better understand the efficiency and effectiveness of the healthcare system. Policymakers, healthcare.

Part of the World Bank website, provides key health, nutrition and population statistics gathered from a variety of international sources. Themes include population dynamics, nutrition, reproductive health, health financing, medical resources and usage, immunization, infectious diseases, HIV/AIDS, DALY, population projections and lending.

This is the nation's principal agency for collecting health statistics, which are used to monitor trends, spot problems, document the health status of the U.S., etc. Use the search box, menus, links, or the A-Z index to locate statistics and health information on a comprehensive list of topics.

This companion website to the PBS television series, is organized into four parts and tracing the history of the slave from the 15th century to the Civil War. Each section links to related resources from the Resource Bank including biographies and historical documents.

Provides links to documents related to the history of America from the 800's on.

Project of University of Tennessee, this award winning site provides hundreds of links, arranged by category, to Civil War resources.

American Memory is a digital record of American history and provides free and open access to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience.

This archive, undertaken at the University of California Santa Barbara, contains over 90,000 documents related to the study of the Presidency.

This Library of Congress project contains over one million pages from newspapers published between 1860 and 1922. Twenty five states, including Nebraska, and the District of Columbia are represented; all 50 states will eventually be represented.

Maintained by the National Archives and Records Administration, the site provides links to digitized primary sources chronicling the life and experiences of JFK. The vast majority of collection is not yet digitized but is a work in progress.

A collection of primary resources in U.S. history and literature—historical documents, literary texts, and works of art—thematically organized with notes and discussion questions.

A project of the Nebraska Library Commission to digitize Nebraska-related historical and cultural heritage materials, and includes photographs, documents, artifacts, papers, manuscripts, maps and audio files.

This project of the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency is long-term, dedicated to identifying, imaging, transcribing, annotating, and publishing all documents written by or to Abraham Lincoln during his entire lifetime (1809-1865) and making them freely available.

Interactive timeline and information on the twelve American Presidents of the 20th century. Includes biographies, events, and links to all the Presidential Libraries.

This project of the University of Iowa contains over 400 biographies of prominent Iowans. It can be browsed by name, by date from the 1600's through present, by topic, and even by contributor.

Graves of thousands famous people can be searched by name, location, date, claim to fame, and so on. Information includes a biography. Primarily a grave registration site, you may also search for the graves of ancestors, if their grave has been registered with the site. Member ship is free.

Online files of 40,000+ hours of spoken word recordings from the G. Robert Vincent Voice Library. Options for Interlibrary Loan are available.

Site dedicated to biographical information about Joan of Arc, her life, trial, and translations of letters and other documents.

Collections of historical documents provided by the library of the Yale School of Law, many containing links to related information or documents.

Search and read high-resolution online versions of some of the Dead Sea Scrolls owned by the Israel Museum of Jerusalem.

This site from the Institute of European History is a free online resource that covers the "transcultural history of Europe" over the past 500 years by investigating intercultural exchange in European history whose impact extended beyond borders.

Links to Western European (mainly primary) historical documents that are transcribed, reproduced in facsimile, or translated. Covers prehistoric to present time.

Contains over 300 narrative histories and over 10,000 events on searchable timelines.

Presented in wall chart form chronologically, by events, people, or history, you may click on an item to read more about it. There is also a map section.

An Israeli American Co-operative Enterprise, this site provides provide educational materials on Jewish history and culture, and includes a comprehensive Holocaust section.

Sponsored by Georgetown University, this site provides free, organized access to electronic resources on medieval studies and can be search by category, subcategory, type of materials, and/or keyword.

Features over 4,000 entries, over 1500 pictures, and over 370 maps, spanning Greek and Roman warfare to the 1991 Gulf War. Most detailed are the Napoleanic Wars, American Civil War, and World War II.

A gateway to historical maps from library collections around the world. Library collections include a range of world maps as well as local maps.

Sources for study of Elizabethan era, including an 88 page Compendium of Common Knowledge, 1558-1603, primary sources, and links to over 100 related sites.

Several hundred images from the British Library are arranged by decade from the 1200s through the 2000s, including maps, charters, speeches, posters, and various other writings. Descriptions and background information are provided.

Official website of the African Union containing information, news, speeches, and documents relating to member nations.

Official site of the ECOWAS containing information on the 15 member states.

Information on NATO policies and activities, arranged in an A-Z and thematic index.

The OAS brings together all 35 independent states of the Americas and constitutes the main political, juridical, and social governmental forum in the Hemisphere. This site provides news, reports, speeches, and other resources.

Information on member ASEAN nations including fact sheets, statistics, and links to official country websites.

This translated website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan includes official statements, policies, and announcements on foreign affairs, economic affairs, regional affairs, and culture.

The English language site for the EU provides up-to-date coverage of European Union affairs, policies, and official documents and publications.

Links provided by University of California Berkeley Library, arranged by subject, document type, EU institutions, etc.

Association of Colleges and Research Libraries (ACRL) site for Western European Studies contains links to resources on western European countries.

U.S. government profiles of 267 countries and territories around the world, providing information on geography, people, government, transportation, economy, history, military, and transnational issues.

Library of Congress site which presents a description and analysis of the historical setting and the social, economic, and political systems countries throughout the world. Information originally published 1988-1998, so not be up to date.

Provides thousands of international business and trade related resources, selected by Michigan State University and organized into four main categories.

This independent research center, affiliated with Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, tracks global and regional trends in organized violence, especially related to terrorism and warfare.

This is a vast compilation of data from such sources as the CIA World Factbook, UN, and OECD. that allows you to graphically compare nations. You can generate maps and facts and find all manner of statistics.

Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin provides this comprehensive collection of downloadable maps from around the world, most are in the public domain, so free to use.

The Atlas integrates data, maps, and graphs to create an interactive website for accessing and analyzing information addressing global change and inequality.

Information about the UN and what it does. Resources include news, documents, maps and more. Top headers at top of page organize things by topic.

The World Bank has 185 member countries and is a source of financial and technical assistance to developing countries. This site provides news, research, and data on these countries.

With support from the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, this site makes available free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world.

The WTO deals with the rules of trade between nations and provides news and information on various trade topics.

U.S. Congressional documents and debates beginning with the Continental Congress in 1774 through 1875 from the Library of Congress. It includes records of the proceedings of the legislative bodies of the U.S. during that time.

Publishes law online and creates materials to help people understand the law, including an Annotated Constitution.

A legal research tool that allows users view federal precedents, non-precedential opinions, and US Supreme Court records. Comprises over 204,000 documents dating back to 1754.

Deals with issues related to fair use and privacy online and with protecting these rights. Divided into six categories found in the "Our Work" area. Content includes whitepapers, news items, blog postings, litigation, press releases, and more.

The Federal Judicial Center is the education and research center of the federal courts. This website contains information about the history of the federal courts, including a biographical directory of the judges, and some of the landmark legislation, as well as access to many government publications.

The professional area of this site lets you search for cases, laws, and articles. Latest legal headlines are also available.

Provides overviews of numerous legal topics, access to full text legal books, and links to state laws.

Authoritative source of news, information and commentary on First Amendment issues. It features daily updates on news related to the First Amendment, detailed information, as well as analysis and special reports.

Provides an up-to-date compilation and analysis of information on members of the US legislature, including their salaries, financial disclosures, trip expense reports, staffs' salaries, etc. The information comes from a variety of free published government resources.

From the University of Ottawa's Faculty of Law, the goal of this site is to be a multilingual information data bank, accessible to all, containing general information relating to the different legal systems and languages in the world. Contains tables, graphs, and charts.

A real time legal news and research service provided by the University of Pittsburg School of Law. Updated daily, the main sections are U.S. Legal News, World Legal News, News Archive, Commentary, Perspectives, and This Day in Law. It is available as a U.S. version, international version, or combined version.

A free resource developed by Fastcase Inc., PLoL which is continuously updated, covering federal law and the laws of all 50 states. Search by case law, statutes, regulations, court rules, constitutions, and legal forms. There is also a user guide and tutorials.

Links to state legislatures and state regulations from the Law Librarians Society of the District of Columbia.

Federal legislative information freely available from the Library of Congress, includes information on bills and resolutions, committee information, treaties, and has the full text of the Congressional Record.

Information about the federal judiciary, including history, jurisdiction, and structure of the courts and includes statistics and resources for professionals, researchers, and jurors, as well as students.

Provides information and news relating to the representatives for each state, committees, legislation, and history of the House.

Information about current and former senators, the various committees, legislation, and history of the Senate.

Site includes recent court opinions, recent court orders, court rules, case handling guides and historical information about the U.S. Supreme Court.

Search and browse the United States Code, which is a consolidation and codification by subject matter of the general and permanent laws of the United States.

Free, independent and non-profit access to worldwide law, a collaboration of several Legal Information Institutes around the world as well as other organizations.

Maintained by the University of Virginia. This site contains a number of seminal, American works by fiction as well as non-fiction writers. Many contain links to secondary sources which provide expository information on that particular piece of fiction.

University of Maryland site featuring a collection of electronic texts and links to texts originally written in or about the Americas from 1492 to approximately 1820. Includes Gateway to Early American Authors on the WEB.

Free access to the full text of Shakespeare's Plays and Poetry

Early Modern Literary Studies is a free online refereed journal whose articles examine English literature, literary culture, and language during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Award winning site containing a collection of English literary works, including Medieval, Renaissance, 17th century, Restoration & 18th century, 19th century literature. Biographical information.

This site contains links to much of Shakespeare's work, as well as criticism, information about his contemporaries, and a Shakespeare timeline which includes genealogical information.

Primarily concerned with the exposure of lesser-known British women writers of the 19th century. The collection represents an array of genres and is provided by Indiana University.

Collection consisting of more than 2,500 television interviews with prominent authors of fiction and nonfiction taped over the last 30 years and donated to Claremont Graduate University.

One on one 30-45 minute interviews with writers originally taped for Don Swaim's radio show. Provided by Ohio University.

Free access to books and information on the web Internet publisher of literature, reference and verse providing free unlimited access to books and information on the web.

This site lets you actually turn the pages of some of the great books of the world and even magnify areas to see the details.

This meta- index for most major e-book sites provides links to more than 165,000 digital books, over 145,000 of which are free. Books come from commercial and non-commercial publishers, as well as universities and private sites.

Full text of hundreds of short stories, , from classics to new, unpublished stories, arranged by category or searchable by title, author, or keyword. Also provides a place for writers to submit their work for publication on the web.

Search and browse e-books formatted in HTML; drawn from Project Gutenberg and other public domain sites.

Complete classic books are available online from almost 40 authors.

Hosted by the University of Pennsylvania and frequently updated, this site lists and provides access to over one million free books on the Web.

Over 33,000 ebooks, whose copyright has expired, which may be downloaded to Kindle or other portable devices.

The Public Domain Review is a not-for-profit project dedicated to showcasing the most interesting and unusual out-of-copyright works available online, with a focus on the unusual and whimsical.

A joint project of University of North Carolina Press and North Carolina Arts Council, this site features the work of contemporary poets. Each entry includes audio clips of the poet reading several poems, the poet's comments on the works, a photograph of the poet and any other graphics that would help a reader understand the poem, texts of the poems, and a critical biography of the poet. Poems are presented in their original languages, as well as in English translation.

Provides biographical information, as well as reviews and criticism on poets of our time, provided by Dept. of English, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

This collection of audio recordings of leading 20th-century poets is from San Francisco State University. This is a work in progress that will eventually contain 4000 hours of recordings from 1954 to present.

Hosted by the University of Toronto, this award winning site contains a chronological history of English poetry, from the early modern English of the Renaissance through postmodern works. Includes information on poetic publications and poets.

Mathematics area of this portal of educational resources and services, funded by the National Science Foundation, is free to use and contains links to resources for all areas of mathematics.

A collection of links to real world applications of computational geometry, as well as some more general geometric pointers. Site maintained by a professor at University of California, Irvine.

An extensive and searchable archive covering famous people and concepts, as well as describing the development of mathematics in various cultures.

Created and maintained by the Mathematical Association of America (MAA), this site provides access to Loci, an online publication of the MAA, Math in the News and This Day in Math features, as well as other math resources.

A collection of short articles at or above the university level designed to provide an introduction to the areas of modern mathematics and pointers to further information. The material is arranged in a hierarchy of disciplines, each with its own index page.

An extensive mathematical resource from Wolfram Research that is updated daily and checked for quality and accuracy. It provides many interactive resources including thousands of downloadable Mathematica notebooks. It also serves as a clearinghouse for new mathematical discoveries that are routinely contributed by researchers.

A free electronic copy of NIST Handbook of Mathematical Functions. Contains notation, properties, applications, and computation.

Free resource for math review material from Algebra to Differential Equations from high school through college to adult learners.

Over 130 online math tutorials from Texas A&M University which are freely available to all, covering mainly algebra but also preparation for the math portions of tests such as the GRE.

This website provides a gallery of famous surfaces in two and three dimensions created using 3D-XplorMath, a mathematics visualization program. There are also notes on these surfaces in PDF format. This is a project of 3DXM Consortium, an international volunteer group of mathematicians.

International peer reviewed journal of theory, technology, and culture. Full text of articles, arranged by category.

Includes over 19,000 links to philosophy resources, categorized by Philosophers and Topics, with options to search by time period or alphabetically. Though no longer maintained, there are still many good links to information.

From the Paideia Project of Boston University, this site provides access to the nearly 1000 papers presented at the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy.

Peer reviewed site of non-profit organization of same name that provides detailed, scholarly information on key topics and philosophers in all areas of philosophy. Search or browse by topic or title; includes a history of philosophy.

This site, from the Philosophy Department of Clarke College, is designed to help first-year philosophy students read the Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, and the death scene from the Phaedo.

Award winning site, this site provides links organized by 14 areas, most useful are the Sites by Topic and Individual Philosophers .

Focused on western philosophical tradition, it Includes a dictionary, a history, and a timeline. Last updated in 2006, but many useful links.

A comprehensive directory of online articles and books by academic philosophers. Site maintained by Institute of Philosophy, University of London and Centre for Consciousness, Australian National University.

Prepared by an academic with the goal of making the texts from nearly 30 philosophers easier to read while leaving intact the main arguments, doctrines, and lines of thought.

Developed by Stanford University, each entry of the SEP is maintained and kept up to date by an expert or group of experts in the field. All entries and updates are refereed by the Editorial Board.

Philosophy links from Voice of the Shuttle portal maintained by Alan Liu of the University of California, arranged by general resources, fields, movements, and philosophers and their works.

Journal of Sport History, which seeks to promote the study of all aspects of sport history, has been published by the North American Society for Sport History since 1974. Available free on LA84 Foundation site: 1974-2009.

Agency responsible for setting standards. National standards and standards for every state are available here, as well as the National Guidelines for Physical Activity and National Guidelines for Physical Health.

This site provides information about developmentally appropriate physical education programs for children and youth.

PELinks4u is a non-profit program of Central Washington University which is published like an online journal. This site provides links to websites of interest to physical education professionals.

Provides resources, facts and tips, and links to information related to physical fitness and sports.

A combination of sites providing sports statistics and resources.

A professional level site and peer reviewed journal for sport research that includes original articles, statistics, and internet resources.

Searchable directory of all manner of sport-related websites, including statistics, coaching and training, sports medicine, sport science, and physical education. It can also be browsed by topic or by sport.

Dedicated to making statistics accessible to individuals interested in sports. Sports Data Resources section contains links to websites categorized by sport.

APSA is the leading professional organization for the study of political science. This site contains many free journal articles, divided by topic. Scroll down to "The Profession" and click on "journal articles."

Provides data from its own surveys on voting, public opinion, and political participation.

Upcoming dates, information and results for elections around the world from the Consortium for Elections and Political Process Strengthening (CEPPS)

Search by country for links to complete and detailed national and local election statistics, as well as to other election resources.

Provides official vote counts for federal elections in the states and territories, from 1920 to present.

The Center is located at Vanderbilt University, and its website is an authoritative source of news, information, and commentary on First Amendment issues, updated daily.

Though this site may not have been updated lately and seems to be privately sponsored, it does provide some historical documents and writings of founding fathers.

University of Virginia nonpartisan institute that seeks to expand understanding of the presidency, policy, and political history. It includes in depth information on each president and his administration, recorded transcripts of six presidents meetings and telephone conversations, policy reports and debates, and more.

From Vanderbilt University Library, resources are categorized by topic. Those that are for VU students only are clearly marked, but most are internet sites.

Original hosted on University of Keele's server, it is now on a commercial site, but still maintained and updated.

Sponsored by the Council of State Governments, this website provides users with access to interactive, customizable and up-to-date comparative performance measurement data for 50 states in six key areas: fiscal and economic, public safety and justice, energy and environment, transportation, health and human services, and education.

Site is maintained by associate professor of political science at Rock Valley College and updated regularly, providing links to various political science resources.

Information on U.S. foreign policy and national interests. Also includes information on foreign countries, diplomacy, arms control, and more.

Maintained by Vanguard University, this site provides over 2000 links to psychology content (including full-text articles) freely available on the Web.

AHP is an international non-profit association formed in 1962 by Abraham Maslow, Carl Rogers, Charlotte Buhler, Rollo May, Virginia Satir and others. This site provides many links to resources in five topic areas and a few streaming videos.

The CASD is affiliated with Binghamton University and is dedicated to disseminating information about autism spectrum disorders in children. This site contains information about autism, its causes, and treatment, as well as links to other resources.

Full texts of historically significant public domain documents from the scholarly literature of psychology, including over 25 books and about 200 articles and chapters. The site also contains links to over 200 relevant works posted at other sites.

There are almost 2000 links in this site maintained and reviewed by William Palya, Jacksonville State University, and others. Also contains original information by respected researchers. Use the categories or search box.

Provided by the Freud Museum in London, this timeline lists significant events in Freud's life and work, as well as significant world events of the time.

A free encyclopedia of mental health information created by a Canadian psychiatrist, Dr. Phillip Long. It includes a long list of disorders with both an American and European description, treatment information, research, and links to other resources.

A video of Dr. Jon Kayne¿s presentation. For the benefit of students and graduates of Bellevue University¿s Clinical Counseling program preparing to take their state licensure exam.

Internet's largest and oldest independent mental health and psychology network run by mental health professionals. Mainly a consumer site, but does have links to many resources. Medication Library has information on hundreds of drugs, also information on clinical trials.

Sponsored by Hanover College Psychology Department, site contains links to known experiments on the internet that are psychologically related.

The oldest psychosynthesis site on the web (1993), this site offers links to resources related to psychosynthesis, which is sometimes used in psychotherapy.

Maintained by Dr. Scott Plous from Wesleyan University, SPN contains thousands of links related to psychological research. Click on Social Psychology Topics for a linked Table of Contents.

A collection of dates and brief descriptions of over 3100 events in the history of psychology from the American Psychological Association Historical Database. Search by date.

CensusScope is an easy-to-use tool for investigating U.S. demographic trends, brought to you by the Social Science Data Analysis Network (SSDAN) at the University of Michigan.

DataPlace is a free online source for extensive housing and demographic data about communities, regions, and the nation, including charts.

The FedStats web site, maintained by the Federal Interagency Council on Statistical Policy, provides clickable maps to obtain state and local data profiles drawn from multiple federal statistical agencies, with links to the original data sources. It also offers links to the web sites of over 70 federal statistical agencies.

The Gapminder World portion of this site shows the World's most important trends through visual representations of data. You can also find Data on over 350 indicators presented in tables. A number of videos on related topics are also available. The Labs portion allows you to sample new features and tools under experimentation for the site.

MetroTrends features up-to-date indicators from numerous national data sources on conditions and trends, such as crime, employment, immigration, etc., in the nation's metropolitan regions, as well as commentary from the Urban Institute.

University of Auckland Business and Economics Information Services maintains this site which provides access to free statistics from official sources on the web, arranged by country, region, or subject.

US Census data, projections, and estimates which allow users to generate community demographic information via ZIP code searching.

Use the Datafinder to search hundreds of indicators in thousands of locations which can then be compiled into a downloadable custom report. Includes charts and mapsUniversity of Auckland Business and Economics Information Services maintains this site which provides access to free statistics from official sources on the web, arranged by country, region, or subject.

The Statistical Abstract of the United States, published since 1878, is the authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States.

Provides a wide range of tables, articles, and data that describe and measure elements of the U.S. tax system. Divided into categories for easy searching.

Statistics and data about the nation's people and economy.

USA Counties features over 6,600 data items for the United States, States, and counties from a variety of sources. Information is from the following general topics: Accommodation and Food Services, Age, Agriculture, Ancestry, Banking, Building Permits, County Business Patterns, Civilian Labor Force, Crime, Earnings, Education, Elections, Employment, Government, Health, Hispanic or Latino, Households, Housing, Income, Manufactures, Nonemployer Statistics, Population, Poverty, Race and Hispanic Origin, Retail Trade, Social Programs, Survey of Business Owners, Taxes, Veterans, Vital Statistics, Water Use, and Wholesale Trade.

Provides over 60 real-time statistical measures categorized under World Population, Government and Economics, Society and Media, Environment, Food, Water, Energy, and Health, which can be seen increasing continuously on counters. Sources are from global organizations, national research firms, and reputable private research firms.

A web search tool that looks specifically for data presented in charts, graphs, and tables. Bills itself as 'Google for Data.'

Generate tuition data reports based on user-selected factors, including type of institution. Data updated annually by the National Center for Education Statistics.

Website provided by Federal Student Aid office of the U.S. Department of Education, that contains the information and forms that students need to apply for federal loans.

A free scholarship database and search site that provides scholarship information at every level, from freshman through adult learner. Also provides information on financial aid, jobs and internships.

Award-winning, free public service site is a comprehensive source of student financial aid information, advice and tools and includes information on loans, scholarships, and other types of aid.

The 1940 census records were released by the US National Archives April 2, 2012. This site provides full access to the 1940 census images, in addition to 1940 census maps and descriptions.

A comprehensive, categorized & cross-referenced list of links that point you to genealogical research sites online. Can be browsed by category and is updated several times a month.

Primarily a grave registration site, you may search for the graves of ancestors, if their grave has been registered with the site. Graves of thousands famous people can be searched by name, location, date, claim to fame, and so on. This information includes a biography. Member ship is free.

This site has links to government agencies that provide free online access to public record information, such as birth and death records, criminal records, federal and state court cases, and more.

Provider of Dept. of Defense information, including over 2 million publications, which can be browsed by 250 subject areas or searched.

The directory is a partnership of Louisiana State University and the Federal Depository Library Program and lists and provides links to current/active/existing U. S. Federal Government agencies as represented in the United States Government Manual.

Allows users to track and search for a federal agency's activities and publications via an open source Federal Register browser.

Maintained by University of California – San Diego, this guide lists acronyms and abbreviations commonly used by the United States federal government. Each acronym is defined and links to the home page (or best alternative) of the identified department, agency, office, program or publication.

GPO is a service of the U.S. Government Printing Office and provides free electronic access to a wealth of important information and documents produced by all three branches of the Federal Government.

The Library of Congress is the nation's oldest federal cultural institution and the largest library in the world. The LOC website features its Digital Collections, which focus especially on its most rare collections and those unavailable anywhere else. They include photographs, manuscripts, maps, sound recordings, motion pictures, books, and more.

U.S. Department of Agriculture maintains this library to provide access to its agricultural information collections. Browse by subject or by NAL Collections, especially the Digital Repository. There are also specialized information Centers that provide access to related publications and news.

The official website of the state of Nebraska provides citizen information and services, including links to all Nebraska agencies, as well as facts and maps. It also contains information from all three branches of the government, including states, bill trackers, and court cases.

A collection of links to mainly U.S government documents and websites provided by UNL Libraries, arranged by category.

Provided by Vanderbilt University, this site contains links to frequently used sites related to government information. Browse by level of government or subject; site is also searchable.

This easy to use website provides a list of locations for all area codes in the USA, Canada and several Caribbean Islands.

Award-winning source of credible, unbiased, and easy-to-understand explanations of how the world actually works. Founded by North Carolina State University Professor Marshall Brain in 1998, the site can be browsed by topic or searched, and includes comprehensive articles, graphics, and videos.

This site provides a handy way of finding the meaning of an acronym using the website search box or a Google search box, if results are not found.

The Internet Archive is a digital library of Internet Archive preserves historical collections that exist in digital format, offering permanent access for researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public. The collections include texts, audio, moving images, and software, as well as archived webpages.

A free online tutorial that helps college students develop Internet research skills , including the critical thinking required and advice on evaluating the quality of web sites.

Recommends internet tools to use for a variety of tasks, divided into five areas: Information, Language, Media, Internet, and Money.

Contains over 2600 instructional videos covering everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history. Videos cover one concept at a time and it aims to be a free virtual school.

This site features links to online exhibitions that have been created by libraries, archives, and historical societies, as well as to museum online exhibitions with a significant focus on library and archival materials. The scope is international and includes: printed books, book illustrations, manuscripts, photographs, printed ephemera, posters, archival sound and video recordings, artist's books, and the book arts (engraving, marbling, and bookbinding, etc.). Keyword-searchable by title, subject, and the name of the sponsoring institution.

This site contains a collection of over 1700 music scores, mainly classical, which are free to download.

The Open Video Project is sponsored by and developed at the Interaction Design Laboratory at the School. It collects and makes available a repository of digitized video content. Search the collection or browse by genre or collection.

Presents multiple points of view on controversial topics. Includes statements made about various topics with statistics and facts concerning each topic.

Refdesk is a free and family-friendly web site that has been indexing and reviewing quality, credible, and current web-based resources. For an overview of the content use the Site Map.

The Smithsonian Institution Libraries is a system of 20 libraries and support services. Its Digital Library contains digital publications, collections and objects including online exhibitions, webcasts, digital editions, bibliographies and fact sheets, as well as finding aids/inventories for collections .

Over 1000 documentary films available for free, covering a wide range of topics from a variety of filmmakers. Collection is searchable or browsable by subject, channel, or alphabetically.

This is basically a yellow and white pages for finding people and businesses. Use the links at the bottom to find information by city, maps, and other categories. Providing this information since 1996.

Part of the larger Vimeo video sharing site; this "school" teaches people how to make better videos, from choosing a camera on through editing systems. The site is organized into Lessons, containing both text and graphics, in four categories. There are also video tutorials submitted by Vimeo users.

An interactive dictionary and thesaurus that creates word maps that illustrate the connection between words and branches out to related words.

University of California, Santa Barbara. Collection of humanities related links, including anthropology, archaeology, architecture, art, art history, classical studies, cultural studies, cyberculture, dance, gender and sexuality studies, history, legal studies, literature, media studies, minority studies, music, philosophy, photography, politics & government, religious studies.

Maintained by Professor Michael C. Kearl, Trinity University, this site is updated daily and contains numerous links to sociological resources, as well as to methodology and statistics resources, and more.

Nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing sociology as a scientific discipline. Website contains information on its latest research, trends in sociology, and various data resources.

A monthly survey of about 50,000 households conducted for over 50 years by the Bureau of the Census for the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Data includes employment, unemployment and other labor stats, available for a variety of demographic indicators such as age, race and educational attainment.

The General Social Survey (GSS) conducts basic scientific research on the structure and development of American society, monitoring societal trends within the United States, and comparing it to other nations. Funded by National Science Foundation and headquartered at the University of Chicago.

Eight social theorists are highlighted in this website by Frank W. Elwell of Rogers State University. Included are bibliographies, PowerPoint lectures, links to primary sources, and other worthwhile Internet materials.

Maintained by Professor Michael C. Kearl, Trinity College, this site focuses on resources related to the sociology of the family, arranged by category.

One of seven projects of the Pew Research Center, this site provides the results from studies of behaviors and attitudes of Americans in key realms of their lives, including family, community, health, finance, work, and leisure.

Named the Number 1 Open Access Repository in the World, the vast majority of the almost 300,000 research papers on this site are free.

Open access peer reviewed online journal that looks at current issues in sociology.

Index of sociological sites, organized by subject matter, sociologist, data archives, etc. From the University of Amsterdam.

Independent guide to sociological resources on the web, organized by category, such as topics, theories, sociologist, etc.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, biographies of 300 women who had a lasting effect on the world, includes a timeline, primary documents, and some multimedia.

Biographies of mainly pre 20th century women scientists, some quite brief, but updated regularly and maintained by Dr. Deborah Crocker, University of Alabama, and Dr. Sethanne Howard, retired from the US Naval Observatory.

A gateway to Library of Congress resources for the study of women's history and culture in the U.S. This is primarily a guide to resources held at the LOC, though some outside links and digitized resources are available.

On-going project at Agnes Scott College to illustrate the achievements of women in the field of mathematics. Search alphabetically, chronologically, or by birth location.

This database provides access to digital collections of primary sources (photos, letters, diaries, artifacts, etc.) that document the history of women in the United States. These diverse collections range from Ancestral Pueblo pottery to interviews with women engineers from the 1970s. Maintained by Middle Tennessee State University Digital Archives.

Biographies of women, including writers, educators, scientists, heads of state, politicians, civil rights crusaders, artists, entertainers, and others. This site has been selected to be archived by the Library of Congress to preserve its content for the future.

Contains a history of the movement, including a detailed timeline, as well as information on today's issues. Sponsored by the National Women's History Project.

(NOW) is the largest organization of feminist activists whose goal is to take action to bring about equality for all women. Website has information about issues and current actions of NOW.

Resource Center portion of site provides information, resources, and educational materials about multicultural women's history.

A comprehensive compilation of information on the status of women in the world. It contains qualitative and quantitative information on over 310 indicators of women's status in 174 countries, compiled by a team from five universities. Also includes maps representing women's situations in the world.

Women's eNews is an award-winning nonprofit news service covering issues of particular concern to women and providing women's perspectives on public policy. The homepage includes a Feature story, highlights from the latest news affecting women, and links to about twenty "Special Series" topics. Other categories are available from the top navigation bar.

Provides access to primary source materials for women's studies within digital archives, selected and reviewed by Women's Studies Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries.

Over 700 links to information-rich, high-quality web sites focusing on women's studies or women's issues, with an emphasis on sites of particular use to an academic women's studies program. Site maintained by the Center for Women and Information Technology at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC).

This site provides access to a wide range of resources in support of Women's Studies, arranged by category. It was developed and is maintained by the Women & Gender Studies Section of the Association of College & Research Libraries.