Open Source Gateway

*ONLINE EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT*

• http://www.ocwconsortium.org/
• http://www.ocwconsortium.org/en/courses/ocwsites
• http://ocw.tufts.edu -Tuft University
• http://ocw.upm.es -Univesidad Politechnica, Madrid
• http://www.open.edu/openlearn/
• http://ocw.usu.edu/ -Utah State University
• http://open.umich.edu/ -University of Michigan
• http://ocw.nd.edu/ -Nore Dame University

*ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS*

• www.ehow.com
• www.whatis.com
• www.howstuffwork.com
• www.webopedia.com
• www.plagtracker.com
• www.answers.com

*SEARCH SITES*

■ About.com (www.about.com)

■ AllTheWeb (www.alltheweb.com)

■ AltaVista (www.altavista.com)

■ Ask Jeeves! (www.askjeeves.com)

■ Excite (www.excite.com)

■ HotBot (www.hotbot.com)

■ LookSmart (www.looksmart.com)

■ Lycos (www.lycos.com)

■ Open Directory (www.dmoz.org)

■ Webcrawler (www.webcrawler.com)

■ Aol (www.aol.com)

■ Dogpile (www.dogpile.com)

■ 10pht (www.10pht.com)

*SEARCHING FOR PEOPLE*

■ AnyWho (www.anywho.com)

■ InfoSpace (www.infospace.com)

■ Switchboard (www.switchboard.com)

■ WhitePages.com (www.whitepages.com)

■ WhoWhere (www.whowhere.lycos.com)

*SEARCHING FOR THE LATEST NEWS*

■ ABC News (www.abcnews.com)

■ CBS News (www.cbsnews.com)

■ CNN (www.cnn.com)

■ Fox News (www.foxnews.com)

■ MSNBC (www.msnbc.com)

■ New York Times (www.nytimes.com)

■ USA Today (www.usatoday.com)

*SEARCHING FOR SPORTS HEADLINES AND SCORES*

■ CBS SportsLine (www.sportsline.com)

■ CNN/Sports Illustrated (sportsillustrated.cnn.com)

■ ESPN.com (espn.go.com)

■ FOXSports (foxsports.lycos.com)

■ NBC Sports (www.nbcsports.com)

■ The Sporting News (www.sportingnews.com)

*SEARCHING FOR MEDICAL INFORMATION*

■ healthAtoZ.com (www.healthatoz.com)

■ kidsDoctor (www.kidsdoctor.com)

■ MedExplorer (www.medexplorer.com)

■ MedicineNet (www.medicinenet.com)

■ National Library of Medicine(www.nlm.nih.gov)

■ Planet Wellness (www.planetwellness.com)

■ WebMD Health (my.webmd.com)

*JOURNALS*

• http://www.indexcopernicus.com - Multidisciplinary
• http://www.ajol.info/ - African Journal Online
• www.africanjournalseries.com - African Journals Online (AJOL)
• www.devconsortservices.com.ng
• www.doaj.org - Directory of open access journal
• www.sabinet.co.za - South African Journals.
• www.oajse.com - Open Access Journal Search Engine
• http://www.dovepress.com - Free Scientific & Medical Materials
• http://www.copernicus.org - Access & Publication

ACADEMIC SEARCH/WEB RESEARCH TOOLS/REFERENCE MANAGERS

• http://academic.research.microsoft.com - Multidisciplinary
• http://www.scirus.com
• www.scholar.google.com
• http://dbis.uni-trier.de - Digital Bibliography Library Browser
• http://academic.live.com - Live Search Academic
• http://www.science.gov/ - USA government for Science
• http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/index - Computing & Information Sciences
• http://www.mendeley.com/ - academic social network/collaboration
• http://www.worldcat.org/ - Multidisciplinary
• http://libserver.cedefop.europa.eu - Voc & Tech Education
• http://inspirehep.net/ - Stanford physics information retrieval system
• www.ssrn.com/ - Social Science Research Network