MISCELLANEOUS RESOURCES

• Encyclopedia of Arkansas is a free, authoritative source of information about the rich history geography, and culture of Arkansas. 

• Traveler Resources is a program where the Arkansas State Library pays to provide a statewide collection of digital resources. 

GOVERNMENT WEBSITES

• Bureau of Labor Statistics - contains information and data sets on labor market activity, working conditions and the economy. 

• CIA World Fact Book -  provides information on the history, people and society, government, economy, energy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational
  issues for 267 world entities. 

• Congress.gov  - is the official website for federal U.S. legislative information including committee hearings and reports, congressional and senate communications, members and legislation.  

• Data.gov - access to over 250,000 datasets on a variety of topics including agriculture, education, science, finance and public safety. 

• ERIC - digital library of education research and information sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences.

• Healthfinder.gov - contains information on over 120 health and wellness topics from several government agencies including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

• Library of Congress - provides access to a variety of digital collections for primary source documents, images, recordings and video.

• National Institute of Health - provides information on science and healthcare topics.

• Pub Med - comprises more than 36 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books.

• US Census Bureau - provides access to datasets, publications and infographics on population related information including geography, economics, business and social structures. 

IMAGE AND AUDIO RESOURCES

• Bensound makes a wide variety of music available under the Creative Commons licenses.

• Creative Commons is a tool that allows openly licensed and public domain images to be discovered and used by everyone.

• Data Gif Maker by Google uset data to create custom gifs/infographics

• ​Free Music Archive offers free downloads under Creative Commons and other licenses.

• Pexels provides shared free stock videos for download.

• Pixabay is a vibrant community of creatives, sharing copyright free images and videos.

• Purple Planet provides royalty free music for download. 

• Slides Carnival provides many templates for slide presentations

• Sound Bible has a royalty free sound effects section that allows free downloads under Creative Commons licenses.

• Twisted Wave online audio editing tool (similar to Audacity) can work on Chromebooks with no downloading required

• Unsplash over 1 million high resolution images free to use under the Unsplash license.

• Videvo provides free stock video and audio (music & effects).