Base - BASE is one of the world's most voluminous search engines especially for academic web resources. BASE provides more than 120 million documents from more than 6,000 sources. You can access the full texts of about 60% of the indexed documents for free (Open Access). BASE is operated by Bielefeld University Library.
Churchill Archives - The Churchill Archive for Schools provides an expanding range of classroom-ready resources specially written and developed by leading history educators to support the teaching of History at secondary level.
Free Research Databases -A listing of databases free on the web for anyone. All of the databases listed below were selected by CSULB subject librarians. All are accessible free on the web, no CSULB login required.
New York Public Library - Digital Gallery- Collection of nearly 750,000 digitized items, including prints, photographs, maps, manuscripts, streaming video, and more.
OASIS - "OASIS offers users worldwide the ability to search a range of OER materials including textbooks, courses and corresponding materials, interactive simulations, public domain books, audiobooks, modules, open access books, videos and podcasts on a variety of topics - from anthropology to zoology. OASIS also is the only tool that allows users to limit searches by creative commons licenses or by faculty review."
Pew Research - a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the world. It conducts public opinion polling, demographic research, media content analysis and other empirical social science research
Public Domain Review - search a collection of images, books, films, and audio
Refseek - a web search engine that aims to make academic information easily accessible, searching more than one billion documents, including web pages, books, encyclopedias, journals, and newspapers.
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