Free Databases and Search Engines
Evangel University Library Staff
Springfield, MO 65802
April 2015
These freely accessible databases and search engines are arranged by broad subjects for your convenience.
To locate others, try the search string: free [your topic] database(s). Try the search in Google.com, Bing.com and DuckDuckGo.com.
Kidtopia.info http://www.kidtopia.info/ Homeschoolers “… for grades K-3”
Infotopia.info http://www.infotopia.info/ Homeschoolers “…for grades 4-12”
Infotrek.info http://www.infotrek.info/ Homeschoolers “for high school students”
Academic Reference and Research Index http://www.academicindex.net/ Homeschoolers
“for high school and college”
Infotopia: a Google alternative safe search engine http://www.infotopia.info/
Librarytopia.info http://www.librarytopia.info/ Homeschoolers “where librarians
circulate”
Teachertopia.info http://www.teachertopia.info/ Homeschoolers “Resources for
teachers”
References.net http://www.references.net/ “…world’s largest resource for [hand-picked]
references and resources.”
Homeschool Resources www.about.com Make search for Free Stuff for Homeschoolers.
Note its Related Searches on right.
Free Homeschool Resources: Homeschool for free
http://freehomeschoolresources.webs.com
Children’s Library.org
http://www.childrenslibrary.org/icdl/SimpleSearchCategory?ilang=English
Internet Archive Children’s Library https://archive.org/details/iacl Books for children from
around the world.
Donna Young: Printables and Resources for Home, Home School, and Classrooms
http://donnayoung.org/index.htm Lots of resources.
Kathy Schrock’s Guide to Everything http://www.schrockguide.net/ (She is an educational technologist.)
A2Z Home’s Cool Homeschooling from A to Z http://a2zhomeschooling.com/
Web English Teacher (Carla Beard) http://www.webenglishteacher.com/ “Web English Teacher
presents the best of K-12 English Language Arts teaching resources: lesson plans,
videos, e-texts, technology integration, criticism, and classroom activities.
Permission to link is granted to any educational site.”
Great Websites for Kids (Association for Library Service to Children) http://gws.ala.org/ Includes
Animals; The Arts; History & Biography; Literature & Languages; Mathematics and Computers;
Sciences; Social Sciences.
National Science Digital Library https://nsdl.oercommons.org/
Virtual LRC: Virtual Learning Resources Center http://www.virtuallrc.com/ “…indexes … the best
academic information websites selected by teachers and library professionals worldwide”
iSeek Education http://education.iseek.com/iseek/home.page “...a targeted search engine for students,
teachers, administrators, and caregivers.”
Other free sources for homeschoolers may be located by making an online search for: “free things [or stuff, or resources] for homeschoolers [or teachers],” “all things [or stuff, or resources] free for homeschoolers [or teachers],” etc.
JURN.org (England) www.jurn.org Includes academic journals from the Arts, Biomedical, Business,
Ecology, Economics, History, Humanities, Religion, Science.
BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engines) (Germany) http://www.base-search.net/
LibGuides Community: what reference librarians recommend; search by subject
http://libguides.com/community.php?m=i&ref=community.libguides.com
References.net http://www.references.net/ “…world’s largest resource for [hand-picked]
references and resources.”
Internet Public Library http://www.ipl.org/ Contains Librarian’s Index to the Internet
Best Free Reference Databases, 1999-2014. Use your Find Feature to locate subject
databases. http://www.ala.org/rusa/sections/mars/marspubs/marsbestindex
RefSeek Directory http://www.refseek.com/directory/
RefDesk: fact checker for the Internet http://www.refdesk.com/
Library of Congress E-Resources (A-Z) master list of freely accessible databases
http://eresources.loc.gov/search~S9/m?SEARCH=Free. Use your Find Feature to search it for
databases covering specific subjects.
Library of Congress: General Information and Resources http://www.loc.gov/ Note its: Topics; Resources
& Programs; Explore & Discover; Especially For ….. ; Formats, etc.
DMOZ: Open Directory Project http://www.dmoz.org/ Handpicked subject directories. First are general
directories followed by specific directories.
OAIster http://www.oclc.org/oaister.en.html Open access archives/resources.
OpenGrey http://www.opengrey.eu/ Index to European reports, papers, etc.
AGRICOLA (National Agricultural Library, U.S. Department of Agriculture
http://agricola.nal.usda.gov/help/aboutagricola.html
AGORA: Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture (UN Food and Agriculture Organization)
AGRIS: Agricultural Sciences and Technology (FAO) http://agris.fao.org/agris-search/index.do
Food and Agriculture Organization Country Profiles http://www.fao.org/countryprofiles/en/
Includes statistical and graphics tools.
FAOStat http://faostat3.fao.org/home/E Statistical data on food and agriculture worldwide.
National Agricultural Library Thesaurus: Browse by Subject Categories
http://agclass.nal.usda.gov/dne/search_sc.shtml
National Ag Safety Database (NASD) http://www.nasdonline.org/
Production, Supply and Distribution Online (USDA) http://apps.fas.usda.gov/psdonline/psdhome.aspx
USDA data on production, supply and distribution of agricultural commodities for the U.S. and
key producing and consuming countries.
Current Research Information System (USDA) (National Institute of Food and Agriculture)
Data Products/Sets (USDA) (Economic Research Service) http://ers.usda.gov/data-products.aspx
Atlas of Rural and Small-Town America (USDA) (Economic Research Service)
http://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/atlas-of-rural-and-small-town-america.aspx
AgEcon Search http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/ (University of Minn.)
American Museum of Natural History: Anthropology Division
http://www.amnh.org/our-research/anthropology
Anthropology Databases (Smithsonian Institute)
http://anthropology.si.edu/accessinganthropology/onlinedatabases.html
Anthropology Index Online (British Museum of Anthropology) http://aio.anthropology.org.uk/aio/
AnthroBase.com: Searchable, multilingual database of anthropological texts
ARD: the Anthropology Review Database http://wings.buffalo.edu/ARD/ “…name and date of the
review, and the site's URL”
Arachne: central object database http://www.eagle-network.eu/collections/arachne/
Artcyclopedia: The guide to great art online http://www.artcyclopedia.com/
Art History Resources http://arthistoryresources.net/ARTHLinks.html
AskArt: The Artist’s Bluebook; Worldwide Edition http://www.askart.com/AskART/index.aspx
Freely Accessible Arts and Humanities Journals http://tinyurl.com/plhrexu
Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT) ® ;About AAT
· AAT: Frequently Asked Questions
Cultural Objects Name Authority (CONA) ® ;
About CONACONA: Frequently Asked Questions
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN) ®; About TGN
· TGN: Frequently Asked Questions
http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/index.html
Digital Public Library in America http://dp.la/info/
WikiArt: Visual Arts Encyclopedia http://www.wikiart.org/
Web Gallery of Art http://www.wga.hu/index.html
American Fact Finder (U.S. Census Bureau)
http://factfinder.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/index.xhtml
FedStats (U.S. Census Bureau) http://fedstats.sites.usa.gov/
SocioWeb: Your Independent Guide to Sociological Resources on the Internet
SSRN: Social Science Research Network www.ssrn.com/
StudyLight.org http://www.studylight.org/ It has 27 Bible dictionaries. Click Bible Study Tools in top
ribbon.
Christian Classics Ethereal Library www.ccel.org Search for “Bible dictionaries.”
Baker’s Bible Study Tools http://www.biblestudytools.com/library/ It contains: “Bible Versions and Translations; Apocrypha Books; Commentaries; Concordances; Dictionaries; Encyclopedias;
History; Lexicons; Maps & Guides; Classics, Sermons, Hymns, and Authors”
Biblical Weblinks (Tyndale House) https://sites.google.com/site/biblicalweblinks/tyndalehouse
Modern & Ancient Bibles; Ancient Languages & Fonts; Backgrounds for: Greek & Roman, Jewish
& Rabbinic, Egyptian & Coptic, Babylonian & Other Ancient Cultures; Bible Software; Early
Christian Works; Church History; Biblical Theology; Qur’an & Arabic Tools.
Biblos.com http://biblos.com/ Includes: Bible study tools, Original Language Tools (Interlinear, Lexicon, GNT Concordance, Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance, Multilingual), and Reference Materials
(Apocrypha, Measures, Reference Bible, Thesaurus, & Visuals)
CCEL.org, Christian Classics Ethereal Library www.ccel.org . It includes the Church Fathers and lots of
major writers down through the centuries.
Online Bible Study Tools: Search Gateway to Resources http://www.biblestudytools.com/ A Portal.
“ Web's largest library of online Bible study resources. “
Resource Pages for Biblical Studies (Terry Seland, Professor of New Testament Studies,
School of Mission and Theology, Misjonsmarka 12. 4024 Stavanger.
Norway.) http://torreys.org/bible/
STEP: Scripture Tools for Every Person, from Tyndale House, Cambridge http://www.stepbible.org/ “Use
the search box to find Bibles, commentaries, passages, search terms, etc.”
StudyLight.org StudyLight.org. This is recommend for its collection of Bible study tools (in the upper
ribbon).
Biographical Dictionary http://www.s9.com/
Biography (Infoplease) http://www.infoplease.com/people.html
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
http://bioguide.congress.gov/biosearch/biosearch.asp
Encyclopedia of Life http://eol.org/
BioText Search Engine (University of California – Berkeley) http://biosearch.berkeley.edu/
BioLine Journals http://www.bioline.org.br/journals “...open access to quality research journals
published in developing countries.”
BioOne Open Access Journals
http://www.bioone.org/action/showPublications?type=byCategory#OpenAccess
BioMed Search: Biomedical Image Search http://www.biomed-search.com/
BioRxiv: The Preprint Server for Biology www.biorxiv.org/abstracts
Vadlo: Life Sciences Search Engine http://www.vadlo.com/
EnviroNar http://environar.com/environar/ Specializes in locating environment related sources
missed by other search engines.
Index to Organism Names (ION) http://www.organismnames.com/
BioDiversity Heritage Library https://archive.org/details/biodiversity
BioMed Central http://www.biomedcentral.com/ Search over 275 open access journals.
USDA Plants Database http://plants.usda.gov/java/
Plant Information Online http://plantinfo.umn.edu/
Circumpolar Health Bibliographic Database http://www.aina.ucalgary.ca/chbd/
Biology Databases (Wikipedia list) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_biological_databases
Biology Browser (Thomas Reuters) http://www.biologybrowser.org/
Internet Archive.org https://archive.org/ Full text books and journals (mostly pre-1923). Click Texts in
top ribbon and make search for author, title, or subject. Selected volumes may be downloaded
or read online. Use formats listed on left of the selected volume to download. (It includes
Project Gutenberg titles.)
Christian Classics Ethereal Library (CCEL). Browse by Author http://www.ccel.org/index/author/A ;
Browse by Title http://www.ccel.org/index/title/A; Browse by Subject
http://www.ccel.org/index/subject ; Search by Titles & Authors
http://www.ccel.org/search/books
FreeBooks4Doctors http://freebooks4doctors.com/ Free medical books
Free eBooks (Australia) http://www.e-book.com.au/freebooks.htm Especially note the Best Free Digital
Libraries – World tab.
HathiTrust.org http://www.hathitrust.org/ It itself is a Read Only database with the full text of several
million open access books including some recent titles. (But see information about the Digital
Public Library at the end of this paragraph.) Restrict to Full View Only. It has an Advanced
Search which may limit searches to Exact Phrase, etc. and to Title, Author, etc. When a search
has been made, additional limiters appear in the left ribbon. [Digital Public Library of America
http://dp.la/info/ offers a way to download pages of HathiTrust.org public domain books and
journals. Search by author, title, or subject. Select page in a book and download.]
Internet Archive Children’s Library https://archive.org/details/iacl Books for children from
around the world.
Directory of Open Access Books (OAPEN Foundation in cooperation with SemperTool)
Open Library https://openlibrary.org/ Especially note the books with the tag, Read, which may be freely
read without having to borrow them. To borrow other titles, users must register. See its “How it
Works” https://openlibrary.org/borrow/about.
Online Books Page (University of Pennsylvania Library) http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/ Over 2
million books arranged by broad subjects.
eBook Friendly http://ebookfriendly.com/free-public-domain-books-sources/ 25 sources for free public
domain eBooks.
Bartleby.com: Great Books Online http://www.bartleby.com/
Project Gutenberg http://www.gutenberg.org/ While most of its academic quality books are included in
the Internet Archive, HathiTrust.org, etc., above, note its sentence: ”Over 100,000 free ebooks are available through our Partners, Affiliates and Resources.”
BioDiversity Heritage Library https://archive.org/details/biodiversity Includes books, journals, Proceedings, etc.
There are numerous devotional books.
When a title or author is known, and wrote before 1923, many of those can be located on Archive.org www.archive.org and downloaded.
Also many titles have been collected by the Christian Classics Ethereal Library www.ccel.org. A search for any of the following examples may locate Devotional/Thoughtful Christian Writing:
Church Fathers [of by one of their names & also below]
Apostolic Fathers
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers
Medieval
Reformation
Devotions
Please note the various types of literature and ways to engage it suggested on the opening Webpage.
Searches may also be made by Author or Title.
Additional searches may be made for Books of the Bible and for study aids such as Commentaries, Bible Dictionaries, Lexicons, etc.
BizNar http://biznar.com/biznar/ It searches 73 business databases.
EDGARsearch (US Securities and Exchange Commission) Yearly, quarterly, etc. reports from businesses.
http://www.sec.gov/edgar/searchedgar/webusers.htm#.VO8_LKPnbns ; How to search EDGAR
http://www.sec.gov/investor/pubs/edgarguide.htm#.VO8_nKPnbns ; Quick EDGAR tutorial
http://www.sec.gov/edgar/quickedgar.htm#.VO8_xKPnbns .
Free Hoover’s Reports http://www.hoovers.com/terms-conditions/hoovers-free-site.html
Very brief and limited information on companies. Extended reports for pay.
State Master: Where Stats come Alive! http://www.statemaster.com/index.php
Compares states.
Nation Master.com http://www.nationmaster.com/ Compares nations.
World Band Open Data http://data.worldbank.org/ “Free and open access to data about
development in countries around the globe.”
CIA World Factbook https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/ “…provides
information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications,
transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities.”
LawyerTool.com: Simple legal research http://www.lawyertool.com/ “Search over 550 free legal
related databases…”
Doing Business: Measuring business regulations (World Bank)
http://www.doingbusiness.org/law-library/
American States http://www.globalcomputing.com/states.html
PubChem Open Chemistry Database: Structure Search (National Center for Biotechnology
Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine) It has three linked databases: PubChem
Substance, PubChem Compound, and PubChem BioAssay
http://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/search/ Tutorials: PubChem Tutorial (YouTube)
and PubChem Help.
Chemistry Central www.chemistrycentral.com/ “Chemistry Central publishes high-quality peer-
reviewed open access research in chemistry.” Note: it has links to articles in BioMed Central.
SureChEMBL (Open Patent Data) https://www.surechembl.org/search/ “…provides free
access to chemical data extracted from the patent literature … hosted by the
ChEMBL group, based at EMBL-EBI.”
ChemIDPlus (NIH) http://chem.sis.nlm.nih.gov/chemidplus/
ChemIDPlusLite (NIH) http://chem.sis.nlm.nih.gov/chemidplus/chemidlite.jsp
ChemxSeer (Penn State University and National Science Foundation
ChemSpider: Search and share chemistry (The Free Chemical Database)
http://www.chemspider.com/ “Over 32 million structures”
Analytical Sciences Digital Library (ASDL) http://home.asdlib.org/
Child Evangelism Fellowship www.cefonline.com
See also:
“Children’s Ministry” (with quotation marks) online
“Youth Ministry” (with quotation marks) online
Open Access Bible Commentaries Quick Search (Sally Shelton, ORU and Seth Allen, King University)
https://www.google.com/cse/publicurl?cx=018443097211386924752:tvj-ul1hyow#gsc.tab=0
StudyLight.org www.studylight.org It has 93 commentaries, plus concordances, dictionaries, and
encyclopedias. Click Bible Study Tools in the top ribbon.
Internet Archive.org www.archive.org Click Texts. Then make a search, e.g., Matthew
commentary. Any selected commentary can be downloaded or read online using the formats
suggested.
Christian Classics Ethereal Library www.ccel.org Make a search, e.g., Matthew commentary.
IMDb.com http://www.imdb.com/ Information on movies, TV and video games; actors, fictional
characters, and production crew personnel.
European Film Gateway (EFG) http://www.europeanfilmgateway.eu/ . 34 film archives searched.
Media History Digital Library http://mediahistoryproject.org/ Search engine:
Unz.org http://www.unz.org/ Pop and contemporary culture magazines. Ones newer than 1923 may
have contents but no full text due to copyright.
Online Newspapers.com http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/ Worldwide.
New York Times http://spiderbites.nytimes.com/ Includes Free Articles: 1851-1922, 1987 to present,
and Paid Articles: 1923-1986.
IBDB: Internet Broadway Database http://www.ibdb.com/ 18th Century to the present.
Theatre Database http://www.theatredatabase.com/ Ancient theatre to the present; includes
Monologue Archive and 10-Minute Plays.
Dollee.com http://www.doollee.com/ Covers modern playwrights, characters, literary agents,
publishers, and theatre plays in English since 1956.
Film Literature Index, 1976-2001 http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/fli/index.jsp
DLBP Complete Search http://www.dblp.org/search/index.php Papers from conferences and journals.
National Criminal Justice Reference Service https://ncjrs.gov/
Bureau of Justice Statistics http://www.bjs.gov/
National Archive of Criminal Justice Data http://tinyurl.com/kw4sl3a
Crime in the United States (FBI Uniform Crime Reports)
http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s
Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL) www.hsdl.org
Ethnologue: Languages of the World www.ethnologue.com/
MisLinks: Connecting you with missions resources http://www.mislinks.org/ Portal.
Global Mapping International: Strategic Mission Research and Mapping http://www.gmi.org/
NationMaster.com: Compare nations on almost anything http://www.nationmaster.com/
One World – Nations Online: The Nations Online Project. http://www.nationsonline.org/
Society for Cross-Cultural Research http://www.sccr.org/links.html
Intercultural Ministries (Assemblies of God) http://intercultural.ag.org/ For intercultural ministries of
other faith groups, use a search such as: Intercultural Ministry [name of faith group].
Merriam-Webster Dictionary and Thesaurus www.meriam-webster.com/
Dictionary.com http://dictionary.reference.com/
(Examples from the much longer Ca’Foscari University of Venice Theses and Dissertations (85 citations)
http://www.unive.it/nqcontent.cfm?a_id=77801 and similar lists]
Open Access Theses and Dissertations http://oatd.org/ Worldwide.
ABES: Agence Bibliographique de l’Enseignement Súperieur abes – agence bibliographique l’enseignement supérieur (France) http://www.abes.fr/Theses/Mission-nationale theses.
Amicus / National Library of Canada http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/amicus/index-e.html Helps
locate unpublished theses and dissertations.
Australasian Digital Theses Program http://www.caul.edu.au/caul-programs/australasian-digital-theses
Biblioteca Digital Brasileira de Teses e Dissertações (Brazil) http://bdtd.ibict.br/
CRL (Center for Research Libraries Global Resources Network) http://catalog.crl.edu/ Worldwide.
Cybertesis (Chile) http://www.tesis.uchile.cl/ “… full text access to electronic theses published in
universities around the world including Latin America, Europe, and North America.”
DART - Europe E-theses Portal http://www.dart-europe.eu/basic-search.php Europe.
Dissertations reported: Center for Research Libraries http://catalog.crl.edu/ (outside US and Canada);
OpenThesis http://www.openthesis.org/ .
EthOS: Electronic Thesis Online Service (UK) (Great Britain) http://ethos.bl.uk/Home.do User must
register.
Index to Theses (UK & Ireland) http://www.theses.com/ Theses written since 1716.
Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations http://www.ndltd.org/ Worldwide.
OpenThesis.org www.openthesis.org/ Worldwide.
phdData: Universal Index of Doctoral Dissertations in Progress http://www.phddata.org/ Worldwide.
Theses Canada: Library and Archives of Canada
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/thesescanada/index-e.html
Vidyanidhi (India) http://dspace.vidyanidhi.org.in:8080/dspace/
IMDb: Internet Movie Database http://www.imdb.com/ “Authoritative source for movie, TV, video
game and celebrity content … actors, production film personnel and fictional characters.”
IBDB: Internet Broadway Database http://www.ibdb.com/ “Provides records of productions from the
beginnings of New York Theatre in the 18th century until today.”
Folger Shakespeare Library Online Resources
http://www.folger.edu/online-resources#DigitalImageCollection
Theatre Database: an archive of theatre-related information http://www.theatredatabase.com/
“Ancient through 20th Century Theatre as history including playwrights; plus a Monologue
Archive and 10-Minute Plays.” [Click Monologue Archive at bottom of page.]
Dollee.com: the free online guide http://www.doollee.com/ It covers almost 50,000 modern
playwrights, characters, literary agents, publishers and over 170,000 plays.
Performing Arts (Internet Public Library) http://www.ipl.org/div/subject/
Playbill http://www.playbill.com/ Current theatre productions and information.
Musicals 101.com: the cyber encyclopedia of musical theatre, film and television
Theatre History on the Web http://www.videoccasions-nw.com/history/jack.html
Worldwide Arts Resources: Theatre http://wwar.com/categories/Theater/
WWW Virtual Library for Theatre and Drama http://www.vl-theatre.com/
Freely Accessible Arts and Humanities Journals http://tinyurl.com/kdam2yz
EconBiz Find Economic Literature (ZBW) Portal. http://www.econbiz.de/ Tutorial:
http://www.econbiz.de/eb/fileadmin/user_upload/ppt/econbiz_ppt_introduction_04_en.pdf
EDGARsearch (US Securities and Exchange Commission)
http://www.sec.gov/edgar/searchedgar/webusers.htm#.VO8_LKPnbns ; How to search EDGAR
http://www.sec.gov/investor/pubs/edgarguide.htm#.VO8_nKPnbns ; Quick EDGAR tutorial
http://www.sec.gov/edgar/quickedgar.htm#.VO8_xKPnbns .
National Bureau of Economic Research http://www.nber.org/ Use search bar.
Research Papers in Economics http://repec.org/ Finding lists of papers published.
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics http://repec.org/
World Bank Data Catalog http://datacatalog.worldbank.org/
ERIC (National Library of Education) www.eric.ed.gov
Annenberg Media: Teacher Resources and Professional Development across the Curriculum
ETS Test Link http://www.ets.org/test_link/about
History Matters: helps for teachers http://historymatters.gmu.edu/
MERLOT II: Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching
http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm
Wolfram Alpha https://www.wolframalpha.com/ Computational knowledge. Includes lesson plans.
Kathy Schrock’s Guide to Everything http://www.schrockguide.net/ (She is an educational technologist.)
What Works Clearinghouse (National Library of Education) (Institute of Educational Sciences)
Webschoolpro (includes Educator’s Reference Desk) Education resources for parents, students, …
http://resources.webschoolpro.com/the-educators-reference-desk_education-reference_1238.html
Educator’s Reference Desk http://www.eduref.org/ Lesson Plans.
Best Environmental Websites (World Organization) http://www.world.org/weo/environment
EPA – List of Databases and Software http://www.epa.gov/epahome/abcdata.htm PORTAL (No longer
updated.)
GreenFILE (EBSCO) http://tinyurl.com/qgm7nj5
List of Environmental Websites (Wikipedia)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_environmental_websites
NETROnline http://environmental.netronline.com/ “Environmental Records Database Viewer and
Report Generator”
Environmental Health & Safety Freeware http://www.ehsfreeware.com/
Bilingual and Multilingual Dictionaries (Linguist list)
http://linguistlist.org/sp/GetWRListings.cfm?WRAbbrev=Dict
Lexicool http://www.lexicool.com/ “…The directory currently has links to over 8000 dictionaries and
glossaries.” “…resource intended for translators, linguists, language students…”
USA.gov http://www.usa.gov/ Search most government Websites. Portal.
Political Information www.politicalinformation.com/ “Over 5000 websites.” Portal.
Congress.gov www.congress.gov Official record of Congressional activities. (Formerly Thomas.gov)
CIA World Factbook https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/ Covers 267 world
entities.
State Master: Where Stats come Alive! http://www.statemaster.com/index.php Compares states.
Nation Master http://www.nationmaster.com/ Compares countries.
Thomas: Library of Congress. See Congress.gov above
American Presidency Project Archive http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/ Includes the
messages and public papers of the presidents, documents relating to presidential
elections, national party platforms, etc.
Political Database of the Americas http://pdba.georgetown.edu/
Avalon Project (Yale Law School): Documents in Law, History, and Diplomacy
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/default.asp
GPO Access: Multi-Database Search (Full text)
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/search/advanced/advsearchpage.action
Governments Worldwide: http://www.gksoft.com/govt/en/world.html (Germany)
State and Local Government on the Web http://www.statelocalgov.net/
Biblical Words Pronunciation Guide http://netministries.org/Bbasics/bwords.htm
Exegetical Links (Institute of Biblical Greek)
http://www.biblicalgreek.org/links/exegesis.php#Lexical%20Aids
Greek New Testament online www.sblgnt.com Use this to download all or parts of the electronic
edition. Use www.sbl-site.org/educational/BiblicalFonts_SBLGreek.aspx to use SBL
Greek fonts.
Greek New Testament Texts ( New Testament
Gateway: Dr. Mark Goodacre, Duke University)
http://www.ntgateway.com/greek-ntgateway/greek-new-testament-texts/
Library of Ancient Texts Online https://sites.google.com/site/ancienttexts/ A Portal.
Liddell/Scott - A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Version) http://tinyurl.com/yaj5p7w
New Testament Gateway http://www.ntgateway.com/ “ … web directory of internet resources on the
New Testament.”
New Testament Greek Lexicon http://www.biblestudytools.com/lexicons/greek “The New Testament
Greek lexicon based on Thayer's and Smith's Bible Dictionary plus others; this is keyed to the
large Kittel and the "Theological Dictionary of the New Testament." Also included are
pronunciations of each word with alternate pronunciations if available.”
Online Greek Bible (26th edition of the Nestle-AlandText) http://www.greekbible.com
Resources for Learning New Testament Greek www.ntgreek.org
Resources for Studying Greek www.cranfordville.com/Gk-links.htm
Searchable Greek Inscriptions http://epigraphy.packhum.org/inscriptions/
Septuagint (English/Greek LXX translation) (3 sources but different aids) http://www.ccel.org/bible/brenton/ ; http://spindleworks.com/septuagint/septuagint.htm ; http://www.kalvesmaki.com/LXX/
SIL Greek Fonts http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?item_id=GalatiaSIL
Society for Biblical Literature Greek New Testament http://sblgnt.com/
Textual Criticism of the Greek New Testament (Dr. Michael D. Marlowe) www.bible-researcher.com/title.html
Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG) http://www.tlg.uci.edu/ FREE version may be accessed by clicking
Abridged Online TLG . “Founded in 1972 the TLG has collected and digitized most literary texts written in
Greek from Homer to the fall of Byzantium in AD 1453. Its goal is to create a comprehensive digital library of
Greek literature from antiquity to the present era.”
Biblical Words Pronunciation Guide http://netministries.org/Bbasics/bwords.htm
Brown, Driver, and Briggs Gesenius Old Testament Hebrew Lexicon
http://www.biblestudytools.com/lexicons/hebrew/ “… this is keyed to the "Theological Word
Book of the Old Testament."
Early Jewish Literature: Links to Primary Sources
http://www.viceregency.com/STJudaismatAmazon.htm
Early Jewish Writings http://www.earlyjewishwritings.com/ Tanakh; Deuterocanon: Pseudepigrapha : Philo of Alexandria; Flavius Josephus; Talmud
Gesenius. Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon (1846) (Tyndale Archive of Biblical Studies) http://www.tyndalearchive.com/TABS/Gesenius/ It has grammatical and analytical index, and English index.
My Hebrew Dictionary www.dictionary.co.il See List of Tools on left.
iTanakh http://www.itanakh.org/index.htm A Portal with links to many online resources useful in studying Hebrew language and Jewish literature.
Jewish Texts (Bialystoker Synagogue) http://www.bialystoker.org/talmud.htm
SIL Hebrew Font http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?item_id=EzraSIL_Home ” Ezra SIL Hebrew
Unicode Font”
Textual Criticism of the Old Testament (Dr. Michael D. Marlowe)
www.bible-researcher.com/hebrewtext.html
For 70 Hebrew Lexicons which may be read online see https://openlibrary.org/ , type in Hebrew lexicon, make search and scroll down for titles followed by the “Read” symbol.
Hermeneutics: Search online. Also: Christian or Biblical Hermeneutics.
Best History Websites http://www.besthistorysites.net/ Portal.
AMDOCS: Documents for the Study of American history http://www.vlib.us/amdocs/
Historical Text Archives (Don Mabry) http://historicaltextarchive.com/ eBooks, articles, and links.
Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States http://dsl.richmond.edu/historicalatlas/
Perry-Castañeda Library Online Map Collection http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/
History Matters: U.S. History Course on the Web http://historymatters.gmu.edu/
Holocaust Encyclopedia http://www.ushmm.org/learn/holocaust-encyclopedia
Internet History Sourcebooks Project http://legacy.fordham.edu/halsall/index.asp
Library of Anglo-American Culture and History http://aac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/en/history/guide/ “a
subject catalogue of recommended websites for historians.”
Missouri State and Local History
http://web.evangel.edu/Library/OnlineReferences/MissouriLocalHistory.asp
American Memory: Library of Congress http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html ; and Chronicling
America http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/
Documenting the American South: Primary Sources http://docsouth.unc.edu/
American Presidency Project Archive http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/ messages and
public papers of the presidents, presidential elections, party platforms, etc.
Avalon Project (Yale Law School): Documents in Law, History, and Diplomacy
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/default.asp
Discovering American Women’s History Online
http://digital.mtsu.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/women Portal.
HyperHistory Online: Covering 3000 years http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html
Academic Jewish Studies Internet Directory (Univ. of Duisberg) http://www.jewish-studies.com/
RAMBI: The Index of Articles on Jewish Studies http://jnul.huji.ac.il/rambi/about_~1.htm
Top 10 Jewish Studies and Hebrew Websites
http://www.top-site-list.com/topsites/top-hebrew-and-jewish-studies-sites/
Ejournals.org www.e-journals.org 29 subject groups of e-journals.
DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals http://doaj.org/ “indexes and provides access to quality open
access, peer-reviewed journals.”
JURN.org (England) www.jurn.org Includes academic journals from the Arts, Biomedical, Business,
Ecology, Economics, History, Humanities, Religion, & Science.
Internet Archive http://archive.org/index.php For downloadable, pre-1923 journals.
Highwire Free Online Full Text Journals (Stanford Univ.) http://highwire.stanford.edu/lists/freeart.dtl
OJOSE: Online JOurnal Search Engine http://www.ojose.com/ “Where science meets the Web.” Search is
free but the articles may not be. Covers 60 databases.
Theological Journal Search (Sally Shelton, ORU)
https://cse.google.com/cse/home?cx=018443097211386924752:luwi5uy2qbe
BioMedSearch.com http://www.biomedsearch.com/ Includes sports medicine.
PubMed Central (National Institutes of Health’s National Library of Medicine)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/
JURN.org www.jurn.org Index to full text Academic Open Access journals
BASE (Bielefeld University Library Academic Search Engine) http://www.base-search.net/ “…one of
the world's most voluminous search engines especially for academic open access
web resources.”
For free databases associated with a sport or activity use the search string: free database (plus
the named sport or activity).
FindLaw http://www.findlaw.com/
LawyerTool.com: Simple legal research http://www.lawyertool.com/ “Search over 550 free legal
related databases…”
Legal Research on the Web (Duke University) https://law.duke.edu/lib/researchguides/intresearch/
WashLaw: Free Legal Services on the Web (Washburn University) http://www.washlaw.edu/
World Legal Information Institute: Free, independent and non-profit access to worldwide law
Global Health and Human Rights Law http://www.globalhealthrights.org/
Literature Network http://www.online-literature.com/
C18 Bibliographies Online (Jack Lynch) http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/C18/biblio/ Authors from
"long eighteenth century (ca. 1660-1830)."
Voice of the Shuttle (Alan Liu, UC Santa Barbara) http://vos.ucsb.edu/ Note links in left ribbon: Classical
Studies; Literature (in English); Literatures (Other than English). Portal.
Romantics (English Literature by Period (in English)) http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2750 (for
similar lists for other time periods see Voice of the Shuttle Literature (in English) above.)
World Map Collections (State University Libraries of Florida) http://palmm.fcla.edu/map/
Global Mapping International: Strategic Mission Research and Mapping http://www.gmi.org/
Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection (UT-Austin) http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/
Bible Maps and Charts http://gods-word-first.org/bible-maps.html
Math Forum @ Drexel: People Learning Math Together http://mathforum.org/ Math helps Pre-K to
College
WolframAlpha.org (Computational Knowledge Engine) https://www.wolframalpha.com/
Eric Weisstein's World of Science: A Wolfram Web Resource (Math and Science)
(http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/)
MathEduc Database http://www.zentralblatt-math.org/matheduc/ All levels up to college.
MathGuide (Lower Saxony State- and University Library, Göttingen (Germany)). www.mathguide.de/
MathSearch http://www.math.niu.edu/~rusin/known-math/index/mathsearch.html
Vifamath (Virtuelle fachbibliothek MathematikJ) http://vifamath.de/?L=1 Mathematics Research Portal.
ZMATH Online Database (Zentralblatt Math) http://www.zentralblatt-math.org/MIRROR/zmath/en/
MathWebSearch http://search.mathweb.org/ “Content-based search engine for mathematical
formulae.”
RXList-The internet Drug Index http://www.rxlist.com/script/main/hp.asp Same information as PDR.
Ongoing Research: Clinical Trials http://clinicaltrials.gov and Field Trials http://tinyurl.com/qfdj5bt
MedNar http://mednar.com/mednar/ Searches and aggregates 60 medical databases.
PubMed Central (National Institutes of Health) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/ Free biomedical and
life sciences articles from MedLine.
PubMed: citations and abstracts for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and
online books http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed ; Full text hotlinks to PubMed Central
above.
MedlinePlus: Trusted Health Information for You http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/
WebMD http://www.webmd.com/
National Library of Medicine Databases
http://wwwcf2.nlm.nih.gov/nlm_eresources/eresources/search_database.cfm
GoPubMed http://www.gopubmed.com/web/gopubmed/www/GoPubMed/Search/index.html Gene
ontology searching
POPLINE: Family Planning and Reproductive Health (Johns Hopkins/USAID) http://www.popline.org/
SafetyLit: Injury Prevention Literature http://www.safetylit.org/
Air University Library Index to Military Periodicals http://dtic.mil/dtic/aulimp/
Military Public Records http://publicrecords.searchsystems.net/United-States/Military/
Military History Online http://www.militaryhistoryonline.com/search.aspx Goes back to Greek and
Persian Wars.
See Cross-Cultural Resources above
Hymnary: a comprehensive index of hymns and hymnals http://www.hymnary.org/
Hymn Tune Index to 1820 (Nicholas Temperley) http://hymntune.library.illinois.edu/
MusicRef (Brigham Young University) http://atom.lib.byu.edu/musref/f/+category~Electronic+Journal+
Over 240 freely accessible music journals.
Scholarly Societies Project: Music (University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada)
http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/society/music_soc.html
WWW Sites of Interest to Musicologists (American Musicological Society)
http://www.ams-net.org/www-musicology.php
IMSLP/Petrucci Muisic Library http://imslp.org/wiki/Main_Page Public domain sheet music.
Freely Accessible Music, Film and Performing Arts Online Resources (Library of Congress E-Resources)
International Inventory of Musical Sources (RISM: Répertoire International des Sources Musicales)
https://opac.rism.info/metaopac/start.do?View=rism&Language=en
Online Resources for Music Scholars (Harvard University Library)
http://hcl.harvard.edu/research/guides/biblio/onmusic/hclweb (Includes search engine). (Some
are flagged for Harvard researchers only.)
Internet Resources for Music, Theatre and Dance (Library of Congress: Performing Arts Reading Room)
http://www.loc.gov/rr/perform/new.internet.resources.html
Occupational Outlook Handbook and Career OneStop http://www.bls.gov/ooh/
O*Net (Occupational Information Network) http://www.onetonline.org/
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy http://plato.stanford.edu/
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy: a peer-reviewed academic source (Fieser)
Philosophy around the Web (Dr. Peter J. King) http://users.ox.ac.uk/~worc0337/phil_index.html Portal.
Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names (Kemerling) http://www.philosophypages.com/dy/
PhilPapers: philosophical research online http://philpapers.org/
Noesis: Philosophical Research Online http://noesis.evansville.edu/ It “…is affiliated with InPhO, the
Indiana Philosophy Ontology Project offering a variety of tools for students, researchers,
programmers and scholars.” https://inpho.cogs.indiana.edu/
Philosophy Web Resources: Hippias Search Engine http://people.brandeis.edu/~teuber/hippias.html
(Brandeis University)
Philosophy Pages http://www.philosophypages.com/links.htm Portal.
Some Texts of Early Modern Philosophy http://www.earlymoderntexts.com/
Timeline of Western Philosophers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Western_philosophers
History of Philosophy Timelines
http://wadsworth.cengage.com/philosophy_d/special_features/timeline/timeline.html
Physics Tutorials http://www.physicstutorials.org/pt/index.php; AND: Online Concept Tutorials
http://www.wwnorton.com/college/physics/om/_content/_index/tutorials.shtml
Learn Physics Today http://library.thinkquest.org/10796/ Users must download aids & data.
An online textbook and tutorial for introductory physics...
CERN Preprint Server (European Laboratory for Particle Physics ) http://preprints.cern.ch/
Searchable preprints (full text)
e-Print Archive (Los Alamos National Laboratory) http://xxx.lanl.gov/
Searchable index and abstracts to high-energy physics papers and full-text preprints
Eric's Treasure Trove of Physics www.treasure-trove.com/physics/
Searchable encyclopedia of physics.
Mathematical Physics Preprint Archive (Dept. of Mathematics, Univ. of Texas at Austin) (Full text)
http://www.ma.utexas.edu/mp_arc/ Research papers in mathematical physics, from 1991-
NASA Astrophysics Data System http://adswww.harvard.edu/
Includes astronomy and astrophysics, instrumentation, and physics and geophysics…
Nuclear Sciences References WWW Retrieval System
http://nsdl.org/resource/2200/20080718094758741T
Publications in low and intermediate energy nuclear physics research from 1910 to the present.
PhysDoc: Physics Documents in Europe (Univ. Oldenburg) (Many full text)
http://de.physnet.net/PhysNet/doc_europe.html Links to collections (some full text) of
preprints, technical reports, annual reports, and similar publications from European universities
and laboratories.
Physical Reference Data http://www.nist.gov/pml/data/ Search for thermodynamic data for over 5,000
chemical compounds and on ion-energetics data for over 10,000 chemical compounds, NIST's
Chemistry WebBook is available for searching. Can be searched by name, chemical formula, or
CAS (Chemical Abstracts Service) registry number. Information is given on enthalpy of ormation,
heat capacity, entropy, ionization, etc.
Encyclopedia of Psychology http://www.psychology.org/
PsychSpider http://www.zpid.de/PsychSpider.php?lang=EN Search multiple sources
Psycline: Your Guide to Psychology and Social Science Journals on the Web http://www.psycline.org/
“An index of more than 2,000 psychology and social science journals on the web.”
PubPsych (Leibniz Institute for Psychology Information) http://www.pubpsych.eu/
PsychIn Professional Directory http://www.psychinnovations.com/category/categories/directory
PsychDirectory http://www.psychdirectory.com/directory/psychology_search_engine.php “Psychology
search engine.”
Web-Based Reference Tools: Social Science Network (Scott Plous, Wesleyan University)
http://www.socialpsychology.org/tools.htm
Social Psychology Web Search Box (Social Psychology Network)
http://www.socialpsychology.org/addsearch.htm (Over 60 databases from 15 agencies.)
Psychology’s Feminist Voices http://www.feministvoices.com/
Psychology Search (Christopher Germann) http://www.psychology-search.com/
Quote Investigator http://quoteinvestigator.com/
Quotation Sites http://www.refseek.com/directory/quotations.html
marks) online) (Also, Bible Study Tools above)
Theology on the Web (Rob Bradshaw) http://www.theologyontheweb.org.uk/ This has links for:
BiblicalStudies.org.uk; TheologicalStudies.org.uk; EarlyChurch.org.uk/,
MedievalChurch.org.uk; BiblicalArchaeology.org.uk. Portal.
Biblindex http://www.biblindex.mom.fr/ (User must register.) “A corpus of about 400,000 biblical
references is available on this site.” “The ultimate goal of BIBLINDEX is to permit the
identification of biblical quotations in all Jewish and Christian literature of Late Antiquity and
the Middle Ages.” [Besides Church Fathers, includes Late Antiquity through the Middle Ages]
Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity http://www.csc.org.il/db/db.aspx?db=SB Dating
from “… the sixteenth century in Renaissance Europe…, Syriac studies … [in] scholarly publications … related to the history, culture and religious life of Syriac-speaking Christians …”
Hebrew Roots of Christianity Global Network http://www.hebroots.com/
Index theologicus (IxTheo) (Zeitschrifteninhaltsdienst Theologie der Universitätsbibliothek Tübingen)
http://www.ixtheo.de/cgi-bin/ixtheo/maskeeng.pl?db=ixtheo . It is updated nightly. NOTE: it
has a “Scripture references” limiter for Expert Search.
Ingenta: Home of Scholarly Research www.ingentaconnect.com Index to academic journals. A finding
list. Full text articles for a fee.
Internet Archive http://archive.org/index.php Older theology and religion books full text. Click Text
and search. Portal.
National Library of Israel http://web.nli.org.il/sites/NLI/English/Pages/default.aspx
OpenDOAR http://www.opendoar.org/ “The Directory of [Academic]Open Access Repositories”
[Compare with Registry of Open Access Repositories below.]
Princeton Digital Collections http://diglib.ptsem.edu/ “… digitized library resources …” Note the
limiters on the left.
Princeton Theological Commons http://commons.ptsem.edu/ “ … a digital library of … books and journals on theology and religion…” Note the limiters on the left.
Registry of Open Access Repositories http://roar.eprints.org/ Locates subject repositories. [Compare
with OpenDOAR above.]
STEP: Scripture Tools for Every Person, from Tyndale House, Cambridge http://www.stepbible.org/
Theological Resources on the Internet (Oral Roberts University)
http://webapps.oru.edu/new_php/library/Elites/theologicalresources.html A Portal.
Universal Digital Library http://www.ulib.org/index.html
Virtual Religion Index http://virtualreligion.net/vri/
WorldCat (Open) www.worldcat.org This has millions of book and journal title records from
libraries worldwide. WorldCat Local can be limited (at the bottom of the search pages) to Chinese, Czech, Dutch, French, German, or Spanish. Tutorials:
http://www.oclc.org/support/services/worldcat-local/training.en.html
Biblical Bibliography of Lausanne (BiBIL) (University of Lausanne)
https://bibil.unil.ch/bibil/public/default.action?replay=true Languages available: Français, English, Deutsch. It offers Simple, Advanced and Categories Search.
Bibliothèque St Étienne de Jérusalem - École Biblique et Archéologique Française
http://biblio.ebaf.info/ Languages available: English and French. A chart (in French) of subjects covered: http://www.ebaf.info/wp-content/uploads/biblio/fr-classement.pdf . Its catalog: http://www.ebaf.edu/?page_id=1107⟨=en Tyndale House states: “The Ecole
Biblique … has been cataloguing all the articles printed in journals for decades … and they are free.”
BIBP: Base d’Information Bibliographique en Patristique (French language source)
http://www4.bibl.ulaval.ca/bd/bibp/english.html “… patristic Christianity.” For English or other languages, use the E-mail address rene-michel.roberge@ftsr.ulaval.ca or write to Laboratoire BIBP, Faculté de théologie et de sciences religieuses, Université Laval. Québec. Qc. Canada. G1K 7P4. The BIBP works implicitly on patristic nomenclature.”
Ephemerides Theologica Lovanienses (ETL): Louvain Journal of Theology and Canon Law
http://poj.peeters-leuven.be/content.php?url=journal.php&code=ETL Langauges available: English, French & German. “ Issues 1 (April) and 4 (December) contain articles, book reviews and chronicles in various languages (English, French, German). Issue 2-3 (September) represents the annual Elenchus Bibliographicus, an extensive bibliography of books and articles that appeared during the preceding year. Scroll down to see the years available.
WorldCat (Open) www.worldcat.org This has millions of book and journal title records from
libraries worldwide. WorldCat Local can be limited (at the bottom of the search pages) to Chinese, Czech, Dutch, French, German, or Spanish. Tutorials:
http://www.oclc.org/support/services/worldcat-local/training.en.html
Analytical Sciences Digital Library http://home.asdlib.org/ Includes 4 sites.
Science Search Engine: SciSeek http://sciseek.com/ Oldest science search engine. (May load slowly.)
Highwire Free Online Full Text Journals (Stanford Univ.) http://highwire.stanford.edu/lists/freeart.dtl
J-Stage Japan Science and Technology Free Open Access Journals
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/result?item1=4&word1=free+open+access
arXiv.org (Cornell University Library preprint service) http://arxiv.org/
Science.gov: Your gateway to U.S. Government Science http://www.science.gov/ (Over 60 databases
from 15 agencies)
Freely Accessible Science Journals http://tinyurl.com/p8euu38
National Science Digital Library https://nsdl.oercommons.org/
SciTech Connect (U.S. Department of Energy) http://www.osti.gov/scitech/ “Your connection to
science, technology and engineering research information.”
SciCentral (Guy Orgambide) http://www.scicentral.com/ “Gateway to the best science news
sources.”Open Science Directory to 13,000+ journals http://www.opensciencedirectory.net/
World Wide Science Search Engine: Global Science Gateway (World Wide Science Alliance)
SciELO: Scientific Electronic Library Online (Spanish & Portuguese) http://scielo.br/
Strategian (Kevin Engle) www.strategian.com “…quality information in all fields of science.”
Web Sites of Interest to Social Workers (Linda Grobman. New Social Worker Magazine)
http://www.socialworker.com/Social_Work_Web_Links/
Useful Sites for Social Workers (Wayne State University. School of Social Work, Center for Social Work
Research)
http://research.socialwork.wayne.edu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=415&Itemid=100
Social Science Data Archives (Dr. Albert Benschop. Social & Behavioral Studies. University of Amsterdam)
http://www.sociosite.net/databases.php
SocioWeb: Your Independent Guide to Sociological Resources on the Internet www.socioweb.com
Social Science Research Network www.ssrn.com/
Statistics for Teachers: http://tinyurl.com/78ufaos
American Fact Finder (U.S. Census Bureau) http://factfinder.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/index.xhtml
STATS: Because numbers count http://www.stats.org/ Facts behind the news.
FedStats (U.S. Census Bureau) (Federal statistics). See also its: Data Tools and Apps
http://www.census.gov/data/data-tools.html
Statistical Sites on the World Wide Web (BLS) http://www.bls.gov/bls/other.htm
Google: freely downloadable Public Data http://www.google.com/publicdata/directory
Statistics and Numeric Data http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/guides/statistics-and-numeric-data
(University of Aukland).
OFFSTATS - Official Statistics on the Webhttp://www.offstats.auckland.ac.nz/ By subject, country and
region.
ERsys http://www.ersys.com/index.htm Data on metropolitan areas
Pew Research Center http://www.pewresearch.org/
Digest of Education Statistics (National Center for Education Statistics)
http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/
Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics (U.S. Department of Justice)
http://www.albany.edu/sourcebook/
ARDA (Association of Religion Data Archives) http://thearda.com/ “Worldwide”
United Nations Statistics Division http://unstats.un.org/unsd/default.htm infot
WHO Statistical Information System (WHOIS) www.who.int/whois/en/ Statistics on health worldwide
Worldometers http://www.worldometers.info/ Current statistics for many subjects.
World Bank Open Data http://data.worldbank.org “Free and open access to data about development in
countries around the globe.”
World Christian Database (Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary) http://thearda.com/ “Worldwide”
Zanran: Search the Web for Data and Statistics http://www.zanran.com/q/ Helps finding
‘semi-structured’ numerical data on the Web; “the ‘Google’ for data.”
Citations Style for Research Papers (Robert Delaney. Long Island University.)
http://www2.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/workshop/citation.htm Notice its links to additional
sources.
Science.gov: Your gateway to U.S. Government Science http://www.science.gov/ (Over 60 databases
from 15 agencies)
Free Technology for Teachers (Richard Byrne) http://www.freetech4teachers.com/
Tech for Teachers http://techforteachers.com/ (select month, categories, or tags on left)
SafetyLit: Injury Prevention Literature http://www.safetylit.org/
Theatre, See Drama above
Baker’s Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology
http://www.biblestudytools.com/dictionaries/bakers-evangelical-dictionary/
Computer-Assisted Theology (Humbul edition) (UK) http://users.ox.ac.uk/~ctitext2/theology/ Includes non-Christian theologies. (Updated in 2004)
Consortium of Pentecostal Archives https://pentecostalarchives.org/index.cfm?
Index Theologicus (University of Tubingen)
http://www.ixtheo.de/cgi-bin/ixtheo/maskeeng.pl?db=ixtheo “This allegro database contains document descriptions from more than 600 periodicals and from Festschriften and congress publications. It is updated every night…” May limit by Scripture Reference.
Internet Theology Resources: By School of Theology Major Areas (College of St. Benedicts & St. John’s University) http://www.users.csbsju.edu/~eknuth/itr/index.html
Online Books and Resources for Theology: Well-known online libraries for theology
http://www.dennisjowers.com/theology_resources.html It also includes “More Obscure Online
Libraries & Databases for Theology” and “Miscellaneous Resources.”
Online Christian Library of Virtual Theological Resources: A Leading Worldwide Christian Internet
Community Learning Resource http://www.ntslibrary.com/Online-Library-Research-Tools.htm
Pentecostal-Charismatic Theological Inquiry international http://www.pctii.org/ ”… global database which is designed for research specialists--graduate students (Th.D. and Ph.D.), professors and independent research scholars with accredited, terminal degrees.” Must join to access full database.
Religion Online: Full texts by recognized religious scholars http://www.religion-online.org/ “Topics include Old and New Testament, Theology, Ethics, History and Sociology of Religion, Communication and Cultural Studies, Pastoral Care, Counseling, Homiletics, Worship, Missions and Religious Education.”
Society for Biblical Studies: an international community of scholars working within the Pentecostal and Charismatic traditions http://www.sps-usa.org/
Theological Journals Search http://www.google.com/cse/home?cx=018443097211386924752%3Aluwi5uy2qbe “A Google
custom search engine that searches over 350 open-access theological journals.” (Sally Shelton,
ORU Library)
Theological Studies (UK) http://www.theologicalstudies.org.uk/
Theology (Michael Fraser) http://users.ox.ac.uk/~ctitext2/theology/ A Portal.
Virtual Religion Index: Philosophy and Theology (Rutgers University) http://virtualreligion.net/vri/phil.html A Portal. (Updated 2008)
Tutorials [Use search string: tutorial [named subject, or type of math problem, i.e., tutorial quadratic equations]
Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL): Online Writing Laboratory (Purdue)http://owl.english.purdue.edu/
Research and Documentation Online (Diana Hacker and Barbara Fister)
http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/resdoc5e/
Sources: Their Use and Acknowledgement (Dartmouth College) (http://www.dartmouth.edu/~sources/)
Son of Citation Machine http://www.citationmachine.net/ “Citation Machine automatically generates
citations in MLA, APA, Chicago, and Turabian.”
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