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Links below last updated 01/08/25
Find the perfect royalty-free image for your next project from the world's best photo library of creative stock photos, vector art illustrations, and stock photography
Experience some of the greatest exhibitions, photographic galleries & collections that Getty Images has to offer
Google Arts & Culture: Art Movements
Google Arts & Culture: Museum Collections
Walk through some online exhibitions from a variety of art museums across the world
Beautiful, free images and photos that you can download and use for any project
Digital Public Library of America (DPLA): Exhibitions
Here are stories of national significance drawn from source materials in libraries, archives, and museums across the United States
Digital Public Library of America (DPLA): Primary Resource Sets
Primary source collections exploring topics in history, literature, and culture developed by educators — complete with teaching guides for class use
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
A unique and extensive index of diverse open access journals from around the world, driven by a growing community, and is committed to ensuring quality content is freely available online for everyone
A dynamic, continuously updated, rigorously fact-checked information source for students, teachers, and lifelong learners
Provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature; note that access to full articles may not be available
Preserving 18+ million digitized items in the Digital Library, the trust offers reading access to the fullest extent allowable by U.S. and international copyright law, text and data mining tools for the entire corpus, and other emerging services based on the combined collection
Pulls from more than 36 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books; operated by the National Library of Medicine
Over 5,500 audio files of K-12 literature along with print resources & activities
Serve as an introductory starting point for those interested in the field of molecular modeling
The definitive reference source on metropolitan Chicago and its history; it includes over 1,400 entries--articles, photos, maps, broadsides and newspapers--tracing Chicago's development from the 17th century to the present
This digital repository for the Illinois State Library features over 2,000 photographs, slides, glass negatives, oral histories, letters, federal government documents, posters, postcards, videos, and newspapers that concentrate on the state of Illinois
Chart created by the Ad Fontes Media Group that shows where media sources rank in terms of reliability and political bias
Travel to the past via first-hand accounts from letters, diaries, and rare books in the Newberry's collections. Witness the Chicago Fire, join the Lewis and Clark expedition, and marvel at the World's Fair through manuscripts transcribed by the Newberry's online volunteers!
Serves as an award-winning non-biased information source used by over 20 million people; information is presented with at least two sides to the issue with sources cited
The World Factbook provides basic intelligence on the history, people, government, economy, energy, geography, environment, communications, transportation, military, terrorism, and transnational issues for 266 world entities
Catholic Commentary: Biblia Clerus
Provides free access to the Vatican Library’s digitized collections: manuscripts, incunabula, archival materials and inventories as well as graphic materials, coins and medals, printed materials (special projects)
Read newspapers, some in their original language, from all around the world; searchable by map