E-CONTENT
E-BOOKS
5. Bibliomania Offers more than 2,000 free classic texts, plus research works. In HTML format, readable by your web browser.
Featuring completely free books from a variety of different authors, collected here for you to read online or offline. This site is regularly updated with new freeware stories.
Over 20,000 free books available online. The Internet Public Library's Mission Statement says: " The Internet Public Library (IPL), is a public service organization and learning/teaching environment at the University of Michigan School of Information. The IPL Online Texts Collection contains over 20,000 titles that can be browsed by author, by title, or by Dewey Decimal Classification". For questions about the online texts collection, or how to search, please see their help page.
8. Project Gutenberg : Project Gutenberg is the oldest producer of free e-books on the Internet. It is the first and largest single collection of free electronic books, or e-books. The collection consists of more than 20,000 e-books.
9 Read Print site : It is very useful for historians and lovers of literature, as this site contains mainly the classics. It offers thousands of free books for students, teachers, and the classic enthusiast
E-RESOURCES FOR LIBRARIANS
BOOKS/AUDIO BOOKS
Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts - About 14,000 classic public domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy
Alibris - Over 60 million used, new, and out-of-print books
Audiobooks - Download 2 free audio books every day
AudioBooksForFree - A collection of free children, fiction and non-fiction audiobooks
Baen Free Library - A number of Baen Books in electronic format
Bartleby - Unlimited access to books and information online free of charged
Bibliomania - Thousands of free e-books, poems, articles, short stories and plays
BigWords - Price comparison to find the lowest textbook prices
Blue Rectangle - Quick book reviews by real people on video
BookBurro - Find the lowest price for that book, or see if it is available at your library
Bookbyte - Sell a used college textbook or buy a new or used college textbook at a great price
BookFinder- Find over 125 million books for sale—new, used, rare, out-of-print, and textbooks
BookFinder4U - Compare book prices at over 130 bookstores for the best price
BookLamp - A service that matches readers to books through an analysis of writing styles
BooksInMyPhone -Formatted ebooks that you can read from any java enable mobile phone
BooksShouldBeFree - Free MP3 audio books you can browse by category
Bookyards - Free books, education materials, information, and content
ChestofBooks - Free online books on various topics
Classic Short Stories - Dedicated to the short story and to those interested in reading light prose
Creative Commons Books - A list of works consisting of over 35,000 words that are or have been commercially available in hardcopy and have an ISBN
DailyLit - Too busy for books? Read them by email and RSS
Digital Book Index - Provides links to more than 128,000 title records
DirectTextbooks - Buy and sell your textbooks, search by ISBN and compare competitors prices
eBook Hood - An online library of electronic books available in various ebook formats
eCampus - Buy and sell your new and used books and textbooks
Etext Center - Over 2,100 publicly-available ebooks
Fairy Tales Collection - A collection of the world's fairy tales
FeedBooks - Made with e-paper devices in mind (Sony PRS-500 & iRex iLiad), Feedbooks is a complete experience for mobile reading
FreeBookSpot - The online source of free downloadable ebooks
Free Classic AudioBooks - Free audio books in either mp3 format or m4b audio book format
Free Curricula Center - Develop and share textbooks, instructor guides, and other educational materials
Free Management Library - Complete, highly integrated library for nonprofits and for-profits
FullBooks - Thousands of full text free books
GetCheapBooks - Buy cheap books & cheap textbooks
Getfreeebooks - A site where you can legally download free books
Global Text Project - Open content electronic textbooks
Gnooks - Discover new writers you will like
Google Book Search - Search the full text of books and discover new ones
GRE Audio Books - Study for the GRE Literature test with these free audio books
HowTo - Access free books, with no registration, no fees, no catch
Ink Textbooks - Free textbooks and supplemental content from professors and students from around the globe
Internet Book List - A comprehensive and easily accessible database of books
ISBNspy - Compare book prices online when you're on the go using this mobile accesible site
LearnOutLoud - Over 10,000 educational audio books, MP3 downloads, podcasts, and videos
Library2Go - Download best selling digital audio titles 24/7
Library Connection - Downloadable audio book catalog
LibriVox - Free audiobooks from the public domain
LiteralSystems - Free human-recorded audiobooks
Litsum - Free literature summaries
LookyBook - View, talk about, and buy from a diverse and rapidly expanding collection of picture books
ManyBooks.net - Free eBooks for your PDA, iPhone, or eBook reader
My Book Buyer - Sell used text books and ship them for free
New Free Books - Links to free, legal, complete eBooks still covered by copyright
OCLC FictionFinder - Provides access to 2.8 million works of fiction
Online Magical Library - A number of ebooks about magic in many cultures
Open Text Book - A registry of open textbooks and text book material
O'Reilly Open Books Project- A number of Open Books with various forms of "open" copyright
Page By Page Books - Hundreds of classic books you can read right now, all absolutely free
PaperBackSwap - The source for free paperback books
Paper Portitude - From the Grimm fairy tales, to the poems of Robert Frost, find your favorite classics here
Planet eBook - Free classic literature to download and share
PlanetPDF - Free PDF eBooks Archive
Podiobooks - Free serialized audio books, delivered on your schedule
Project Gutenberg - The oldest producer of free ebooks on the Internet
PublicLiterature.org - Explore and utilize this collection of public domain books,poetry, tutorials and audio
Rare Book Room - Some of the world's greatest and rarest books, photographed at high resolution
Read Print - Thousands of free books for students, teachers, and the classic enthusiast
Sell Back Your Book - Enter the ISBN of the books you wish to sell and get top price for them
Squashed Writers - All the books you ought to have read in their own words, but magically Squashed into half-hour short stories
Swaptree - Trade your books, DVDs, music or video games for thousands of items that you want for free
SwitchPlanet - Trade books, movies, games and music
Textbooks - Find the best deals on college textbooks, other books, music and movies
Textbook Revolution - Textbooks and select educational resources of all kinds
Textbook Superstore - Buy and sell textbooks online
The Assayer - One of the web's largest catalogs of free books where users can submit reviews
The Book Page - Provides free on-line classic and not-so-well known books, articles and more
The Dusty Library - Public domain books, poems and short stories
The Free Physics Textbook - This site publishes a free physics textbook in a number of different languages
The National Academies Press - Read more than 3,000 books online for free
The Online Books Page - Listing over 25,000 free books on the Web
The Open Library - A project that aims to provide universal access to all knowledge
Universal Digital Library - Access to over 1.5 million books online
WhatsOnMyBookshelf - Trade and discover new books to read
What Should I Read Next - Enter a book you like and this site will suggest what you could read next
Whichbook - Gives readers an enjoyable and intuitive way to find books to match their mood
Wikibooks - A collection of open-content textbooks
World eBook Library - Combined collections create world class Internet public access to over 75,000 free eBooks and eDocuments
Yudu - Read and publish magazines, newspapers, eBooks and more online for free
CLASS MANAGEMENT/WORKSHEETS
4Teachers - Integrate technology into your classroom with free online tools and resources
Apple Learning Interchange - A social network for educators with content ranging from simple lesson ideas to in-depth curriculum units for K-12
A to Z Teacher Stuff - Lesson plans, teacher tips, forums for teachers, teaching materials, printable worksheets and more
Book A Lesson - Great services to enhance your lesson experience
Centre - A free student information system for public and non-public schools
Chalksite - A central point for teachers, students and parents to access grades and more
ClassNotesOnline - Teachers can keep students and parents up to date on daily work, assignments, homework, and grades
Class Set-Up - Virtual layout tool that helps you design customized and effective classrooms
CyberSmart - Free student curriculum that helps educators safely harness the Internet’s potential
DIGIcation - Class management, free to first 1,000 users at your school
Eclipse Crossword - An easy and free way to create crossword puzzles in seconds
Engrade - A free online gradebook that allows teachers to manage their classes online
Free Educational Teaching Resources - Free games and educational software by Adrian Bruce
Free Printable Worksheets - Alphabet, math, science, handwriting, Spanish and more
Ggradebook - An open source application for tracking student grades for teachers
GNota - A gradebook software used to manage students and automate score calculations
Gradefix - Organizes and prioritizes all of your homework
HomeSchooler Network - Cver 5,000 innovative lessons, activities, and inspirational articles to help you in your homeschooling life
HomeworkStation - Teachers can post homework assignments online for free without any programming
HotChalk - An Internet Community for teachers, students and parents with over 3,000 free lesson plans
I Love That Teaching Idea! - Practical, teacher-created ideas and resources that you can use in your classroom immediately
LAMS - Design, manage and deliver online collaborative learning activities
Literacy Center Education Network - Serving aproximately 1.5 million free lessons a day to children in more than two hundred countries
Moodle - A course management system for educators who want to create quality online courses
OpenGrade - Software for teachers to keep track of grades
Palm Software for Educators - A list of Palm OS software for educators
Pics4Learning - Copyright-friendly images and lesson plans for education
Primary Resources - Free teaching resources, lesson plans, ideas and worksheets for primary and elementary teachers
Rubrician - Links to rubrics for educators, teachers, parents, students and evaluators
Schoolzone Resources - Educational resources, events, articles, downloads and more
SCHOOPY - Classroom organizer, school homepages, useful resources, and more
SimpleSeating - Makes seating charts easier than ever
Teachbits - A listing of free resources for teachers by teachers
teAchnology - Resources for teachers dedicated to improving the education of today's students
Teacher's-Pet - Free software that can transform any text into a fun classroom activity
TeachersFirst - a rich collection of lessons, units and web resources
Textmapping - Free resources for educators
The Educator's Reference Desk - A catalog of educational resources and lesson plans for educators
Timesavers for Teachers - Classroom management forms, report card comments, practical teacher tools, worksheets and teacher resources
TrackStar - Collect Web sites, add annotations for your students, and you have interactive, online lessons
Udutu - A web-based tool which allows users to create highly interactive online courses
Yahoo! for Teachers - A place for educators to find, create, and share standards-based classroom materials
COLLABORATION/SOCIAL NETWORKING
4shared - Upload, download and share music, books, video and more with 5 BG of free space
Blackboard Scholar - A social bookmarking service customized for education
CentralDesktop - Shared workspaces and Web conferencing that let you collaborate anytime
CollectivX - Social networking for groups of all types and sizes
Connotea - Free social reference management for researchers, clinicians and scientists
Edmodo - A microblogging platform where teachers and students can exchange notes, links, files, alerts, assignments, etc.
Eduforge - An open access environment designed for the sharing of ideas, research outcomes, open content and open source software for education
eHow - More than 100,000 articles that are professionally written with clear and concise directions on how to do things
Elgg - A free social networking site for education based on the open source Elgg social networking platform
eloops - Online calendar, data backup, project management, and social networking
ePals - Communicate with classrooms in 182 countries, and collaborate with teachers around the world
First Tutors - Search to find UK private tutors in your area
Gimao - Group knowledge and information management
GroupLoop - Simple web-based software to organize your group
Groupvine - Groups made easy, fun and simple
Imagination Cubed - Collaborative drawing tool
Instructables - A community for sharing and learning tips and instructions
iPeer - Develop and deliver peer evaluations, review and release student comments, build rubrics and progress report forms online, etc
Jotspot - Create and share documents, spreadsheets, calendars and more
Jottit - Create simple websites and collaboritive blogs that are easy to edit and share
KnowledgeForge - A digital open knowledge community that provides the facilities and tools to create everything from textbooks to maps
Labmeeting - Scientists can upload, search, organize, and retrieve their research papers and recommend them to colleagues
MindMeister Basic - Hold online real-time brainstorming sessions with friends and colleagues
OneBigU - Earn money for answering questions posed by other users or donate that money to support a good cause
Qipit - Copy and share documents with your camera phone or digital camera
Sakai - An online collaboration and learning environment for education
Scribd - Upload your documents, share them with others and explore an expanding library of documents submitted by others
SpringNote - Collaborate, share files, and create pages with numerous templates and 2 GB free storage
Squidoo - A community where you can share your expertise and learn from others
Tapped In - Where teachers, librarians, administrators, university faculty, students, and researchers gather to learn, collaborate, share, and support
Thinkature - Free unlimited workspaces for real-time collaboration online
ThinkFold - Groups can collaborate on ideas, documents, presentations and plans
Tutor Hunt - Connecting private tutors and students for free
Versionate - Create, edit content and share documents with others
Wikiversity - Students and teachers are invited to join the project as collaborators in teaching, learning, and research
wis.dm - A social web application for college students and recent graduates, that enables members to promote, learn, share and engage
Wridea - Collaborative brainstorm sessions and a place to get your ideas organized
ZedZone - A powerful website for communication, sharing files, and/or collaboration for any community or group
Zoho - Create, aggregate, and share content with this intensive collection of productivity and collabration applications
COLLEGE/STUDENT LOANS
5 Caps - Provides free college course and dormitory reviews
Accredited Online College Degrees - Earn a degree in elementary education from an accredited school online
BabyMint - Save towards a child's college tuition or for other major life events without incurring out-of-pocket expenses
Business Schools - Worldwide business schools directory
CampusBooks - Comparison shop for textbooks to find the lowest prices on any book in print
Campus Compare - Compare colleges to find the perfect match
Campus Explorer- Find the perfect school for you, search by feild of study, location or degree
Chegg - Buy or sell used college books
College Budget - A worksheet that will help you develop a printable college budget
CollegeBoard - SAT registration, college admissions, and scholarships
College-Cram - Interactive Flash learning modules that help students learn
College Degree - Find the best colleges that offer online courses and degrees
CollegeNET - A search engine that helps you find the ideal college
College Planning Calculator - Estimate college costs and compare payment options
CollegeView - Free resources to those hunting for colleges and financial aid
Comprehensive Degree Directory - A comprehensive directory of degree programs and prospective career information
College Student Finance Articles - A directory of articles and information on financial aid for students
Direct Textbook - Check textbook prices on your phone via Twitter
Education Search - Find schools by location, or area of interest
EdSoup - Stop searching for the right colleges… let them find you
ePrep - Provides students and parents with expert advice in Test Prep and College Planning
eStudentLoan - Compare student loans and apply online
FinAid - Financial aid and scholarship guide for parents and students
iHaveThatBook - A social networking site where college students can sell, trade or buy books, chat, and socialize
MatchCollege - A free website that provides in-depth statistical information regarding colleges, universities and trade schools
Medical Assistant Schools - A searchable database of nationally accredited Medical Assistant schools in the US
NoteMesh - College students in the same classes can share notes with each other
NSLDS - The National Student Loan Data System is the U.S. Department of Education's central database for student aid
Peterson's - Prepare for your test, find the right school, explore financial aid, advance your career
RN to MSN - A directory of nationally accredited programs offered by more than 470 schools
RN to BSN - An easily searchable database of RN to BSN degree programs
Sallie Mae - The nation's leading provider of student loans
SimpleTuition - Find and compare student loans
Talbot's Student Planning - Listings of colleges, universities, as well as financial aid information
TuitionU - A community of students, parents, teachers, and professionals that have conversations regarding all aspects of higher education
Upromise - Learn how to earn, save, and pay for college
Viewpoints Education Reviews - The inside scoop on what you should and should not expect when searching for the right college
COMPUTERS AND TECHNOLOGY
DotWhat!? - A database of file extension information for Windows, Linux and Mac operating systems
File Extensions - Detailed explanations of each file type and the way they are used today
Free PC Tech - Windows XP tips and tricks
FreeSoftwareBooks - Links to free software books online
FreeTechBooks - Online computer science and engineering books and lecture notes
Help With PCs - Learn about your PC and its programs
Intelligentedu - Free computer training, education and tutorial resources
Internet Archive Wayback Machine - Over 100 terabytes and 10 billion web pages archived from 1996 to the present
Optimize Guides - Free, comprehensive guides for the Windows 2000, XP and Vista operating systems
PC Tips Box - Tips and tricks for PC, Linux, Mac, PDA, iPhone, mobile, etc
Programming Ebooks - A listing of freely available programming related ebooks
Simplehelp - Helping beginner-to-intermediate computer users learn how to do various things with their computers
Tech Books for Free - Free programming and computer science books
Tech Cheat Sheet - Technology and programming related cheat sheets and quick reference guides
TECHtionary - Animated tutorials about technology
The ACM Classic Books Series - A list of free classic computer science books
The How-To Geek - Computer help, tips and advice
Tweako - Users submit articles, links to guides, tutorials, service reviews, new software, and general information
Webopedia - Computer and Internet terms and definitions
WhatIs.com - Definitions, computer terms, tech glossaries and cheat sheets
CULTURE, ARTS AND MUSIC
Abasoft - Free online music flash games and lessons for all ages
AICT - Provides a rich database of images of art and architectural works in the public domain on a free-access, free-use basis
Art on the Web - 1,200+ links on art and architecture
ArtsEdge - Provides free resources and materials for teachers, students, and arts-based instruction for theater, music, visual arts and dance
Berklee Shares - Free music lessons that you can download and share
CENSUS of Antique Works of Art - An interdisciplinary research database containing documentation centering on the reception of antiquity
Classical Music Navigator - Search by composer, notable works, geographical location, style, form of music or glossary
CraftPOP - Popular homemade arts, crafts, hobbies, ideas, and other DIY resources
Creativity Portal - Coaches, artists, writers, and professionals sharing their expertise to inspire creative exploration and expression
Dolmetsch Music Dictionary - Translations, explanations, definitions and comments on musical terms and words
Drawspace - Brenda Hoddinott, artist and art educator, shares drawing tutorials
Essentials of Music - Information about classical music
Exploratorium - The museum of science, art and human perception
Figure Drawing Ebooks - A library of free rare and valuable figure drawing books in PDF format
Freebyte Music Zone - A list of free music resources, music software, online music lessons, sheet music and more
Great Buildings - The leading architecture reference site on the web with 3D models, photographs and architectural drawings, commentaries, etc
Incredible Art Department - Art lessons, resources, galleries and much more
Music Education Magic - News, information and resources for music educators and their students
Musictheory.net - Free online music tutorials, utilities and downloads
Mutopia - Sheet music editions of classical music for free download
OnClassical - Quality classical music recordings in WAV format
OnlyPencil Tutorials - Tips and techniques for pencil drawing
Royalty Free Music - Features collections of royalty-free music for individuals to freely use in personal projects and production
Songfacts - Learn song trivia and find out the meaning behind the lyrics
Take Lessons - Find a local instructor that teaches music, singing, acting or dance
Words of Art - A dictionary of art words, terms and phrases
DICTIONARY/THESAURUS
AllWords- Dictionary that allows you to search for words containing certain letters, words ending with and words starting with
Alpha Dictionary - Online dictionaries for nearly 300 different languages
American Sign Language Browser - An animated American Sign Language dictionary
Answers.com - Online dictionary, encyclopedia and much more
AskOxford - Free Oxford dictionary resources online
Dictionarist - A talking dictionary which can provide translations with pronunciation and sound in over a dozen languages
Dictionary.hm - Just start typing and the search results will automatically appear
Double-Tongued Dictionary - A lexicon of fringe English, focusing on slang, jargon and new words
Drill Dictionary - A free multilanguage dictionary, text reader and vocabulary building tool
Howjsay - An English pronouncing dictionary with instant sound
HyperDictionary - One search returns results from video, medical, dream, computing, current and vintage dictionaries
JaLingo - A free OS independent dictionary application
Kids Open Dictionary Builder - A free, open simple dictionary for students to use that anyone can contribute to
LookWAYup- Combines a multilingual dictionary, thesaurus, translation, and other handy tools
Memidex - A dictionary/thesaurus including extensive cross-referencing, complete inflections, and frequent updates
Merriam-Webster Online - Dictionary and word games and more
MetaGlossary - Defines over 2,000,000 terms, phrases and acronyms
ObjectGraph Dictionary - Search for definitions and terms in classic dictionaries, computer terms, table of elements and thesaurus
OneLook Dictionary Search - Search web-based dictionaries for definitions or translations
Online Etymology Dictionary - Explanations of what our words meant and how they sounded years ago
Pseudodictionary - Slang, webspeak, colloquialisms
StarDict - A cross-platform and international dictionary software
The Free Dictionary - Free dictionaries, thesaurus, encyclopedias and more
Visual Dictionary - Explore the 15 major themes to access more than 6,000 images
Visuwords - Look up words to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts
Wiktionary - A multilingual dictionary with definitions, etymologies, pronunciations, synonyms, antonyms and translations
WordIQ - Offers search results from a diverse array of dictionary, encyclopedia, thesaurus, and other valuable resources
WordNet 3.0 - This vocabulary helper offers word definitions, antonyms, hyponyms, synonyms, holonyms, attributes, and more
ZebraWords - Dictionary, thesaurus, translations and more
FOREIGN LANGUAGE
American Sign Language Browser - Learn ASL by watching animated demonstrations
bab.la - A free collaborative dictionary, language quizzes and a language forum featuring user-generated content
Babylon Box - Translate to French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish and other languages
BBC Languages - Learn a bit at a time in your own time
BEOLINGUS - German, Spanish, Portuguese and English translation and dictionary tool
busuu - A new concept of language learning through native speaking communities
Dictionarist - A free online multilingual and talking dictionary service which can provide translation in
eduFire - A community of people teaching and learning languages through a combination of video, voice and text chat
Fonetiks - Online pronunciation guides to 9 varieties of the English language and 9 other languages
Free Online Translation - Free text, email and website translation tools
French Assistant - Free French language lessons with audio
FSI Language Courses - Public domain language courses developed by the US government
italki - Language exchange and learning community
Language Learning Library - A comprehensive selection of free language learning tutorials
Lingro - A multilingual dictionary and language learning site
Livemocha - An online language-learning community that offers interactive lessons
Selingua - German, Spanish, French and Swedish vocabulary training
Teach2000 XP - A private teacher to help you memorize a foreign language
Textkit - Learn Ancient Greek and Latin
Word2Word - Lessons to help learn one language from another
WordReference - Online translation dictionaries
GPA CALCULATORS
GPA Calculator - Calculate your GPA with this tool from College of Liberal Arts
IU - GPA Calculator - Calculate your GPA for the current semester
UofK - GPA Calculator - General marking system, GPA definitions, sample GPA calculation and more
GRAPHS/PRINTABLES/PRESENTATION
authorSTREAM - Online PowerPoint presentations and slideshow sharing
Awesome Powerpoint Tutorials - Tutorials on how to create text-FX, transparencies, DVD's etc. with PowerPoint
Create A Graph - Quickly create graphs and charts
Empressr - Create, share and store Flash-based presentations online
e-Tutor Graphic Calculator - Graph one or more equations
FooPlot - Online plotting utility
Gliffy - Create all types of diagrams, flow charts, floor plans, wireframes and more online
Incompetech - Free online graph, grid, and lined paper printouts in PDF format
Microsoft Photo Story - Create slideshows with special effects using your digital photos
PDF Pad - Print graph paper free from your computer
PowerPoint Templates for Teachers - PowerPoint resources for educators
Preezo - Create professional quality presentations
PrintFree - Print free graphs, calendars, forms, cards and more
Project Draw - Create custom flowcharts, diagrams and graphs online and share them, export them, or convert to PDF or image
Slideshare - Share your presentations privately or publicly
Spresent - A free Web-based alternative to PowerPoint
ThinkFree - Create graphs, spreadsheets and presentation files online
yEd - Quickly and effectively generate drawings and to apply automatic layouts to a range of different diagrams and networks
Zoho Show - Online tool to create, edit, publish, and show presentations
HIGHLIGHTERS/WEB ANNOTATION
Highlighter - This Firefox extension allows you to highlight text on a webpage
i-Lighter - The yellow highlighter for the web
Jotcloud - Sticky notes for the Web
MyStickies - Put sticky notes on Web pages
Scrapbook - A Firefox extension, which helps you to save Web pages and highlight text
Wired-Marker - A permanent indelible highlighter that you use on Web pages
Wizlite - Highlight text on any page on the Internet and share it
HISTORY/GEOGRAPHY
50 States - Detailed information about the 50 states and their capitals
A Journey to a New Land - A site exploring the first peopling of the New World funded by the Virtual Museum of Canada
American Memory - Free and open access to a wide variety of digital records about American history from The Library of Congress
Atlapedia Online - Full color physical maps, political maps, key facts and statistics on countries of the world
Capitals of the 50 States - Using Google Maps API, this map shows the location for each state capital
CountryReports - Cultural, historical, and statistical country information
Digital History - An online history textbook
Footnote - Discover, interact and share millions sources from a repository of the world's greatest archives of historical documents
Geosense - Test your knowledge of world geography alone or against another online player
History and Politics Out Loud - A database of multimedia documenting and delivering authoritative audio relevant to American history and politics
HyperHistory - A collection of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented for educational use
JetPunk - Fun and interactive geography quizzes
Journey of Mankind - A virtual global journey of modern man over the last 160,000 years
Internet History Sourcebooks Project - A collection of online resources that are organized by subject, everything from accounting to social sciences
MacroHistory - Prehistory to the 21st century with timelines, maps, book summaries etc
Maps of War - Maps and animations of timelines pertaining to war
NBL Map Center - 200,000 historic maps and 5,000 atlases documenting the evolution of the printed map
Perseus Digital Library - An evolving library documenting the history, literature and culture of the Greco-Roman world
PolicyMap - An online Geographic Information System that enables users to create custom tables, charts and maps
Seterra - A challenging geography program with 70 different exercises
TerraClues - An online game using Google technology in which you must find hidden markers placed on the world map by solving a series of clues
UNEP/GRID-Adrenal Maps and Graphics Library - Search and explore vast amounts of global and regional data through an interactive interface
World Atlas - Maps, flags, geography facts, currency conversion, world clocks and more
World Freedom Atlas - A visualization showing the level or human rights, democracy and good governance within countries
World History Sources - Reviews describe online primary–source archives, evaluate resources, and provide classroom suggestions
HOME LIBRARY
BookBump - An easy-to-use book manager
eLibPro - Manage your book collection in a nice and easy way
GuruLib - Catalog your books, DVDs, music CDs, games and software
lib.rario.us - A place to catalog your media collection, whether it be books, DVDs, CDs
LibraryThing - Catalog your books online and connect with people who read the same things
Shelfari - Create virtual shelves to show off your book collection
KIDS/YOUNG ADULT
Ask Dr. Universe - Science questions and answers for kids of all ages
Ask for Kids - A fast, easy and kid-friendly way for kids to search online
Brain Games - Free access to games scaled to your learning level
Cackleberries - A safe place for kids to play educational games online
Childsplay - A suite of educational games for young children with additional plugins
Creating Music - An online creative music environment for children of all ages
Discovery Kids - Videos, games and more for kids
DSOkids - The Dallas Symphony Orchestra's magical doorway to a world of musical fun and learning
e-Learning for Kids - Free and unlimited use of best-in-class courseware
Fact Monster - Atlas, almanac, dictionary, encyclopedia and much more from Information Please
Funschool - Fun and educational activities and games for kids
GameGoo - Educational spelling and reading games
GCompris - An educational software that offers over 50 games and activities for children ages 2 to 10
KidPad - A collaborative story authoring tool for children
KidsClick - A search tool for kids by librarians
Kids Health Galaxy - An interactive overview of what happens in a hospital
KidsVid - An instructional web site that helps teachers and students use video production in the classroom
Memoryplay - A fun customizable memory card game
National Geographic Kids - Games, videos, photos, stories and more for kids
National Geographic Little Kids - Games, videos, photos, stories and more for younger children
Owl & Mouse - Educational maps, software, games and activities
PBS Kids Go - Fun games and challenges for children
Play Music - Learn about symphonies and compose your own music
Scholastic - Helping children around the world read and learn
Sebran's ABC - Software that teaches letters, numbers, simple math, and rudiments of reading
SFSKIDS - A fun site for kids to learn about music from The San Franciso Symphony
SmartTutor Freebies - Free educational games and activities for children
SpellingCity - Online spelling games that make practicing for tests fun
Story Plant - Grow your own story from the story plant
Teen Ink - A monthly print magazine, website and book series all written by teens
The Young Writers Society - Community forums for young writers
LECTURES/SPEECHES/PODCASTS
Academic Earth - Thousands of video lectures from the world's top scholars
American Rhetoric - Top 100 speeches of the 20th century by rank
EdTechTalk - A webcasting network of educators discussing educational technology
Education Podcast Network - A wide range of podcast programming to help educators looking for content to teach with and about
EduFeeds - A collection of RSS and Atom feeds from around the Higher Education community
Fora TV - An on demand multimedia portal delivering spoken words on global issues
Free Academic Podcasts - 145 podcasts for your educational pleasure
Free University Lectures - Computer science, mathematics, and physics lectures
Internet TV Search Engine - Search for webcasts and lectures online
Lecturefox - A collection of free university lectures on physics, mathematics and computer sciences
Lectures Archive - Lectures catalogued according to discipline, theoretician and topic
listeningtowords - Find, listen and discuss free lectures from around the Web
MIT World - A vast video archive of lectures
PoducateMe - Practical solutions for podcasting in education
Pulse-Project - Audio and video lectures for both general and specialised audiences, delivered by eminent academics
Scitalks - A very large collection of science lectures on video
Ted Talks - Talks from the Technology Entertainment Design conventions
University Channel - A collection of public affairs lectures, panels and events from academic institutions all over the world
webcast.berkeley - Every semester, UC Berkeley webcasts select courses and events for live viewing and on-demand replay over the Internet
WGBH Forum Network - Archived Webcasts of Free Public Lectures
World Lecture Hall - Free online course materials from around the world
MATHEMATICS/CALCULATORS
A Catalog of Mathematics Resources on WWW - An extensive list of resources, directories, newsgroups and software found on the Internet
Algebasics - Free algebra lessons
AllMath - Math reference, flash cards, metric converter, games and more
Answer Checker - Free Program for TI-83 and TI-83+ calculators
Calculator - Calculate anything anywhere - online, pda, wap and cellphone calculators
Calcoolate - Calculator and conversion tool
Convertalot - Measurement converters and online calculators for all occasions
ConvertPlus - Online weights and measurement conversion tool
Cramster - A global online study community
CuriousMath - Fun and fascinating math tricks and trivia
Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics - Explains the first uses of various words used in mathematics
eTutor Graphing Calculator - Graph mathematical equations
Free Online Textbooks for College Level Mathematics and Physics - Textbooks, lecture notes, tutorials, and videos
GeoGebra - A dynamic mathematics software that joins geometry, algebra and calculus
Glossary of Mathematical Terms - An extensive resource
Google Calculator - Use Google to evaluate mathematical expressions
GridX - A small, simple mental math game
Inner Algebra - How to do algebra in your head
Instacalc - Fast and powerful calculation, unit conversion, analysis and charting tools
Interactive Mathematics Miscellany and Puzzles - Nearly 800 Java applets for teachers, parents and students who seek engaging mathematics
Literal Math - A text editor with math notation and hypertext capabilities
Math.com - Resources, dictionaries, test prep and many more math learning tools
Math and Reading Help for Kids - Your guide to math, reading, homework help, tutoring and earning a high school diploma
Math Expressions - Offers online math tutoring using videos, study tips and practice questions
Mathematics Tutorials and Problems (with applets) - Free mathematics tutorials to help you explore and gain deep understanding of math topics
MathSearch - Search a collection of over 200,000 documents on English-language mathematics and statistics servers across the Web
Mathway - A step-by-step math problem solver
Mathwords - An interactive math dictionary
MathWorld - An extensive mathematics resource
Miscellaneous Mathematical Utilities - This page contains links to several javascript mathematical utilities
Nick's Mathematical Puzzles - More than 150 free math puzzles of varying difficulty
Numbernut - If you are looking for math information, this site is for you!
Online Conversion - Convert just about anything to anything else
Plus Magazine - Articles from the top mathematicians and science writers on topics as diverse as art, medicine, cosmology and sport
Purplemath - Practical algebra lessons
QuickMath - An automated service for answering common math problems over the Internet
Some Printable Paper Rulers - Disposable paper rulers
Spotter - Helps students check their answers to math and science questions
Table of Mathematical Symbols - From Wikipedia
Textbooks, Lecture Notes and Tutorials in Mathematics - A list of links to useful mathematical textbooks available for free on the Internet
Thinking Blocks - An interactive math tool designed to help students learn how to solve multistep word problems
The Math Forum - Online resource for improving math learning, teaching, and communication
TuxMathScrabble - A fun game like Scrabble but with numbers instead of letters
Visual Calculus - Tutorials, quizzes and interactive modules
MEMORIZATION
BrainFlips - Create and share flashcards with audio, text, images and video
BuildYourMemory - Offers tips and tricks to help you build memorization skills
FlashcardExchange - The world's largest flashcard library
Memorise.org - Free online memory training
Memory Master - Training course to help you improve your memory
Memory Techniques and Mnemonics - Articles to help you to improve the power of your memory
Study Guides and Strategies - Excellent study guides that are collaboratively maintained across institutional and national boundaries
The Memory Page - Dedicated to helping people improve their memor
NOTES/WRITING
100 Words - This is an exercise in disciplined creativity in which you must write exactly 100 words at a time
AyeNotes - Quickly take notes online and access them everywhere
BibMe - A free bibliography maker that auto-fills
Carmen- Easy bibliography and research tools
Creative Writing Prompts - Inspiring ideas for writers, bloggers and poets
CutePDF Writer - Create professional quality PDF documents
EasyBib - A free automatic bibliography composer
Essay Punch - An interactive writing tutorial
EverNote - Quickly create, capture and organize any type of note
FruitNotes - An easy-to-use online notebook to create, organize and share your notes online
Go2PDF - Convert any document into PDF format instantly
Google Docs & Spreadsheets - Create and import basic documents and spreadsheets
Google Notebook - Clip and collect information as you browse the web
Great Source iwrite - Everything educators, students, and parents need to make the writing process work
Helium - Write, read, rate and earn revenue
Jotcloud - Sticky notes for the web
Lightning Bug - Helping you write a story from beginning to end
My Notes Tiddlywiki - A note-taking and organizational software
mynoteIT - Organize your school life
NaNoWriMo - National Novel Writing Month
Notecentric - A web based note taking application
Notepad++ - A free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages
OttoBib - Free and easy automatic bibliography generation
Paradigm Online Writing Assitant - Resources, advice, articles, writing tools, free blog, forums and more
PocketMod - The ultimate note card
PrimoPDF - Convert to PDF from any application by simply 'printing' to the PrimoPDF printer
Protagonize - An interactive fiction and collaborative story writing community
SlapAStory - Write, submit, read and discuss short stories online
SnapBits - Securely store, search, sort and easily retrieve “Bits” of information
Stikkit - Organize notes and data — share, collaborate and comment on ideas
Stickies - Digital sticky notes that can be attached to a web site, document, folder or the desktop
Study Stickies - Better understand and remember books (both printed and online), videos, podcasts, online documents, etc
SyncNotes - Synchronize your notes and access them online or with your mobile
TextWrangler - A powerful general purpose text editor
Tinderbox - A personal content assistant that helps you visualize, analyze and share your notes
UberNote - Quickly store, manage and access your content from anywhere
WEbook.com - An online publishing platform that allows writers, editors, reviewers, illustrators and others to join forces
WordCounter - Use this to see what words you overuse to keep from writing redundantly or repetitively
Word Count Tool - Free online tool to count the number of words - just copy and paste
Wordie - Lets you make lists of words and phrases that you like or hate
Word Spy - Devoted to lexpionage, the sleuthing of new words and phrases
Write Street - Ultimate tools and resources for great writers and artists
Writer's Digest - Devoted to helping writers develop their craft and hone their publishing acumen since 1920
Writer's Resource Center - News, articles, information and opportunities for writers
Writing Career - Expert adivce on career training, education and changing careers aimed at writers
Writing.com - Create an online writing portfolio with numerous writing tools, email services, and the chance to meet and bond with fresh creative minds
Writing Fun - Using text organizers to help students with the writing process
yWriter - Free stroy writing software
ONLINE LEARNING
AcademicInfo - Online degrees, online schools and student resources
ArsDigita University Curriculum- The curriculum was modeled on the undergraduate CS program at MIT
Adult Learn - An aggregator of educational institutions in a diverse array of concentrations
BBC Learning - Online learning, support and advice
Buddy School - Online tutors in all subjects, thousands of private teachers around the globe
Claroline - An Open Source eLearning platform that allows teachers to build online courses and collaborative activities on the Web
Connexions - View and share educational material that can be organized as courses, books, reports, etc.
Critical Thinking Web - Over 100 free online tutorials on critical thinking, logic, scientific reasoning, creativity, and other aspects of thinking skills
Curriki - Free user-created, open source curricula
dokeos - Build e-courses using templates, Word and Powerpoint documents
E-Learning Community - A social online learning network
Engineering Degrees Online - Get your Engineering Degree online
FREE - Federal Resources for Educational Excellence
Free-Ed - Free education on the Internet - no books to buy or hidden fees
FunBrain - Fun games for your brain
Free Book Notes - A guide to free book notes, summaries, literature notes, and study guides for over 1600 books, plays, and poems
Games for the Brain - Play neverending quiz, memory & brain games to train your thinking
GCFLearnFree - The freedom to learn what you want, when you want, absolutely free
HippoCampus - Online multimedia and course materials that can help you with your homework and studies
Howtopedia - A collaborative platform for practical knowledge and simple technologies
Infobarrel - Community contributed information and how-to guides
Intaractives - strategies, content, and activities that can enhance and improve students' skills in a variety of curricular areas
Internet Archive - Universal access to human knowledge
ItrainOnline- A selection of the best and most relevant computer and Internet training resources for development and social change
Knol - A site that hosts many knols — units of knowledge — written about various subjects
Learning Objects Repository - Access a wealth of teaching and learning materials
OEDb - The Online Education Database is your guide to online colleges, continuing education, distance learning, and more
Online Colleges and Universities - Links to higher education, certificates and graduate degree programs online
Online Schools - Information and tips to guide you in choosing an online school
Qoolsqool - A free and open educational resource for educators, students, and self-learners around the world
Quizlet - An online tool for learning vocabulary
ResourceShelf - Dedicated librarians and researchers share the results of their web searches for resources and information
Skillwise - Factsheets, worksheets, quizzes and games to help improve your skills
SoYouWanna - Teaches you how to do all the things nobody taught you in school
STARTDL Puzzles - more than 36 different educational puzzles including Anagrams, Word and Number Games, Trivia
The Learning Toolbox - Learning resources for parents, teachers and secondary students with learning disabilities and ADHD
Thinkfinity - Thousands of lesson plans, educational games and activities from Verizon
ThinkQuest - A world-renowned resource for educational sites and web-based lessons created for students, by students
Tutorom - Create your own courses, access thousands of lessons, share advertising revenues
typeonline - Online touch typing course for motivated individuals looking to develop keyboard skills
WebQuest - A WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented lesson format in which most of the information comes from the web
Wisc - Free access to an online learning object repository
OPEN SOURCE/OPENCOURSEWARE
Directory of Open Access - Open access scientific and scholarly journals that use a quality control system to guarantee the content
Free/Open Source Research Community - A research directory of papers on open source and free software
Harvard University Library OCP - Online access to historical resources from Harvard's renowned libraries, archives, and museums
JHSPHOpenCourseWare - The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's OpenCourseWare project
MERLOT - Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (Creative Commons)
MIT's OpenCourseWare - A free and open educational resource for educators, students, and self-learners around the world
OER Commons - A teaching and learning network of shared materials, from K-12 through college, from algebra to zoology, open to everyone
OpenCourseWare Consortium - Universities working together to advance education and empower people worldwide
OpenCourseWare Finder - Search through a collection of open educational materials
Open Learning Initiative - A collection of openly available and free online courses and course materials that enact instruction for an entire course
OpenLearn LearningSpace - Free and open educational resources for learners and educators around the world
Open Source Education Foundation - Enhancing K-12 education using technologies and concepts of the Open Source and Free Software movement
Open Source Initiative - A non-profit corporation formed to educate about and advocate for the benefits of open source
Open Source Living - An archive of Open Source software, applications and references
Notre Dame OpenCourseWare - Open access to the materials used in a variety of courses
The Open Letter Project - An online collection of open historical letters, contemporary letters and users can write their own
Tufts OpenCourseWare - Tufts' initial course offerings demonstrate the University's strength in the life sciences
UCIrvine OpenCourseWare - University-level educational materials, including syllabi, lecture notes, assignments and exams
Utah State OpenCourseWare - A collection of educational material used in USU's formal campus courses
ORGANIZATION/BRAINSTORMING
Backpack - Collect, organize, and get things done
bubbl.us - Free brainstorming web application with colorful mind maps that you can embed on your web site
CmapTools - Construct, navigate, share and criticize knowledge models represented as concept maps
CollegeRuled - Your class schedule, class message boards, lists, notes and more
Elf - This service will send you email reminders about your library loans and holds
Foldera - All about organizing your work
FreeMind - Free mind mapping software
Google Sets - Automatically create sets of items from a few examples
iOutliner - Organize your ideas
Mapul - Create completely organic looking mind maps
Mayomi - Visually organize thoughts, facts and ideas
Mind42 - A browser based online mind mapping application
Mindomo - Create, edit mind maps, and share them with your colleagues or your friends
RecallPlus Lite - A study-based mind mapping software that tests students on their notes
Schedulizer - A tool to help college students plan their academic schedule
Spinscape - A collaborative mind mapping software that offers a new way of gathering and managing information
SproutLiner - Manage your projects and ideas
The Idea Lottery - An idea generating tool to help you discover new connections and solutions
Treepad Lite - A personal databas, PIM, organizer, notes manager, text editor and search engine
View Your Mind - A visual thinking and planning tool
VUE - A content mapping application to help organize, contextualize, and access digital information
WiseMapping - Create, edit and access your mindmaps from anywhere over the Web
POETRY/QUOTES
Dictionary of Poetic Terms - Ever wonder the exact definition of a term used to define some aspect of poetry or verse?
Kalliope - A unique poetry workshop based on original exercises for poets young and old
LitQuotes - This literary reference site features quotations from the great works of literature
Online Rhyming Dictionary - for poetry and songwriting
PoemHunter - Search for poems, lyrics, music, and quotations
Poetiv - An archive of 15,000+ Poems by 150+ Poets
Poetry 180 - A poem a day for American high schools from the Library of Congress
Poetry Archive - Online collection of recordings of poets reading their work
Poetry Collections - Links to poetry available online
Poetry Magic - A resource about the theory and craft of writing poetry
Poetry Portal - One of the most complete resources available on the Internet
Poetry Resources - A collection of online poetry resources
Poets.org - The Academy of American Poets
Post Poetry - A community with thousands of amateur and professional poets alike
Quotefolio - Quotes, sayings, proverbs and adages
RhymeZone - Rhyming dictionary and thesaurus
Shadow Poetry - A world of poetry at your fingertips
The Poet Sanctuary - A safe and enjoyable haven for fans of poetry
QUIZZES/TEST TAKING
ACT Test Prep - A site for students with information and links to free resources
ClassTools - Create interactive educational games and quizzes
Cramberry - Cramberry tracks your progress to help with the flash cards that give you trouble
ETS - Information about tests with resources for educators, students and parents
ExamProfessor - Offer online exams, tests, quizzes, drills and practice
ExamToolkits - A complete resource for gaining information on your next exam
Learning Vocabulary Fun - Test preparation and vocabulary building made fun
Number2 - Free SAT, ACT and GRE test prepation and vocabulary builder
QuizMaster Manager - An Open Source project that lets users create, edit and manage quizzes
QuizMD - The open collection of practice exam questions created by and for medical students
SAT Preparation - A quiz and study guide for the SAT
Test Prep Review - A free resource center for test preparation and new exams
REFERENCE/RESEARCH
A Research Guide for Students - All the necessary tools for students to conduct research and to present their findings
Abreviations.com - The world's largest directory and search engine for acronyms, abbreviations and initialisms online
AccessMyLibrary - Free access to millions of articles from top publications available at your library
Acronym Finder - Find out what any acronym, abbreviation, or initialism stands for
AllBiographies- Search or browse through thousands of biographies on people in a variety of subjects
Arts & Letters Daily - A regularly updated listing of articles, books, essays and ideas from The Chronicle of Higher Education
Axioma Search - Interactively increase the relevancy and context of your searches
BookRags - Over 4 million pages of literature summaries, biographies, literary criticism, essays, encyclopedias, and eBooks
Citizendium - An open wiki project aimed at creating an enormous, free, and reliable encyclopedia
Cliche Finder- A searchable database of clichés
ClichéSite - The largest collection of clichés, phrases and sayings with definitions and explanations
Common Errors In English - An extensive list of common errors made in (American) English
Complore - A social research tool
Confusing Words - A collection of words that are troublesome to readers and writers
Cooperative Research - Conduct grassroots-level research and investigations on any issue
Daily Grammar- Free grammar lessons emailed to you Monday through Friday, with a quiz on Saturday
Dr. Grammar FAQ - Answers to questions previously asked of Dr. Grammar that may provide help with your grammar questions
edocr- A knowledge exchange where users can upload, convert and share documents
English Club- Many resources for English educators and students
eyePlorer - Visualize facts as well as the relationships between facts
Factbites - What do you get if you cross a search engine with an encyclopedia?
Find Articles - Free access to millions of articles from thousands of top publications
Free/Open Source Research Community - A research community in which information will be freely exchanged
FreeLunch - Free economic, demographic & financial data
Glossary of Linguistic Terms - An extensive living glossary of linguistic terms
Google Directory - The web organized by topic into categories
Google Scholar - Broadly search for scholarly literature
Greek Gods Family Tree - A unique tree graphing the genealogies of the Greek Gods
HighBeam Encyclopedia - Search or browse over 57,000 articles from the Columbia Encyclopedia
ibiblio - Conservancy of free information, including software, music, literature, art, history, science, politics, and cultural studies
INFOMINE - A virtual library of resources relevant to faculty, students, and research staff at the university level
Infoplease - Free online reference, research and homework help
Internet Public Library - The first public library of and for the Internet community
Intute - Web resources for education and research
Jim Kalb's Palindrome Connection - A collection of palindromes and links to similar resources
JournalistExpress - News and research portal for reporters
KartOO - A metasearch engine with visual display interfaces
LEO APA Documentation - General guidelines for APA Reference Page Citations
LEO MLA Documentation - The system of documentation used in the fine arts and humanities
Library Research Guides - Informs you how to use a variety of print and electronic resources
LibWorm - A search engine, a professional development tool, and a current awareness tool for people who work in libraries
LocalCensus - Free statistical information about the United States of America and all of its cities, zip codes, and counties
LoveToKnow Classic Encyclopedia - Based on the 1911 Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica
Mendeley - Organize, sync, share and discover research papers
Mythography - Presents resources and reference material about mythology including lexicons that explain Greek, Roman, and Celtic terms.
Nexplore - A visually engaging, interactive search engine with a multi-media interface
Newspaper Index - Free access to newspapers from all over the world
NoodleTools - Software that teaches students and supports teachers and librarians throughout the entire research process
Open-Site - A free Internet encyclopedia that is edited by volunteers, freely available under the GNU Free Documentation License
Paper of Record - Building the world's largest searchable archive of historical newspapers with over 21 million images collected so far
Quintura Search - A visual map of tags or hints contextually related to your search query
refbase - Web-based, platform-independent, multi-user interface for managing scientific literature & citations
Refdesk - Reference, facts, news, search and resources
Research Channel - Direct access to the work of researchers who are helping to understand our world and shape our futures
Research Matters - Explore Harvard research discoveries as they occur
Schoolr - Many types of reference and research tools in one handy location
Silva Rhetoricae - Helping beginners, as well as experts, make sense of rhetoric
Symbols.net - Directory of signs, glyphs, flags and symbols and their meanings
Symbols.com - A searchable index containing more than 1,600 articles about 2,500 Western signs
Teachers' Domain - Multimedia resources for the classroom and professional development
The Elements of Style - A classic reference book for students and conscientious writers
The Free Library - A free, searchable archive that provides access to a daily-updated collection of 4 million articles from classic works of literature and leading periodicals
The OWL Family of Sites - Handouts on writing, research, grammar, and MLA and APA, free consultations and more
The Phrase Finder - A reference guide pertaining to the meanings and origins of phrases
ThinkExist - Finding quotations was never this easy
Tools for Reading, Writing, & Thinking - To help students engage in rigorous thinking
Viewzi - A visual search engine that provides fun, effective, and entertaining results
Webgrammar - Free writing tips and grammar advice
Wikibooks - A collection of free content textbooks that you can edit
Wikiquote - A free online compendium of quotations from notable people and creative works in every language
Wikisource - The free library that anyone can edit
World Digital Library - Multilingual site that provides significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world
wURLdBook - Navigate, collect, categorize, annotate, clip, archive, find, publish RSS and share information with others
Ziipa - A search engine that delivers great content in a visual way that is simple to use
Zotero - A Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources
SCIENCES/SPACE
Amazing Space - Promotes the science and majestic beauty of the universe for use in the classroom
AmphibiaWeb - An online system that allows free access to information on amphibian biology and conservation
Animal Diversity Web - An online database of animal natural history, distribution, classification, and conservation biology
Animal Photos - Creative Commons photos of animals that can be used for web sites, school projects and presentations
Animal Search - A family-safe search engine for animal related web sites
arXiv.org - E-prints in physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance and statistics
AstroWeb - Astronomy resources on the Internet
Bassett Collection of Stereoscopic Images of Human Anatomy - 3D images of human anatomy
BEYOND - Confronting the big questions of existence raised by scientific advances and facilitating new research initiatives
Brain Maps- A collection of annotated, scanned images of serial sections of both primate and non-primate brains
Celestia - A free space simulation that lets you explore our universe in three dimensions
Charles Darwin Online - The complete works of Charles Darwin online
Eisnteins Archives Online - Online access to Albert Einstein’s scientific and non-scientific manuscripts
EOL - Encyclopedia of Life is a site with a goal to document all species of life on Earth
Exploring Life's Origins - A timeline of life's evolution
eMolecules - A genuine cheminformatics system that searches for molecules using chemical structure
Encyclopedia of Astrobiology, Astronomy, and Spaceflight - An Alphabetical Guide to the Living Universe
Encylcopedia of Life - An ongoing collaborative to document all species of life on Earth
FreeScience.info - Provides more than 1000 free scientific books
Free High School Science Texts - Free science and mathematics textbooks for Grades 10 to 12
Hubblesite - Discoveries from the Hubble satellite, take a monthly tour of the night sky, and more educational cosmic revelations
Light and Matter- Educational materials for physics and astronomy
MedlinePlus - Interactive health education resources from the Patient Education Institute
NASA - Informative site for kids, students, educators, and researchers
NatureServe Explorer - An authoritative source for information on more than 70,000 plants, animals, and ecosystems of the United States and Canada
Nearby Stars Database - A complete and accurate source of scientific data about all stellar systems within 25 parsecs
Neave Plantetarium - An acurate, real-time plantetarium you can interact with through your browser
NOVA - Video, podcasts, and plenty of information from PBS
NSDL - An online library for education and research in science, technology, engineering, mathematics
PhET - Free physics, chemistry, biology, earth science and math simulations
Physics Flash Animation - 88 Flash animations for illustrating physics content
Physlets - Flexible Jave applets designed for science education
PhysLink - Physics and astronomy online
Places and Spaces - Maps designed to help understand, navigate and manage physical places and abstract information spaces
Robert Krampf's Science Education Company - Free science videos and experiments
SABER - An online, searchable database of astronomy education research
Science Toys - Use common household materials to make toys that demonstrate fascinating scientific principles
Scientific Commons - The largest communication medium for scientific knowledge products which is freely accessible to the public
Scirus - A comprehensive science-specific search engine
SciSeek - Science search engine and directory
SolStation - Information and software for those interested in astronomy, writing, education, or entertainments related to science or speculative fiction
Spacestation42 - Free spacecraft, rockets, satellites, and planet paper models
Stellarium - An open source planetarium for your computer
The Biology Project - An interactive online resource for learning biology developed at The University of Arizona
The ChemCollective - Online resources for teaching and learning chemistry
The Fever of 57 - Informational site with free site content for classrooms
The Internet Stellar Database - All the dirt on your favorite stars
The Vega Science Trust - Broadcasts science programs online for freedge.
Tree of Life Web Project - A collaborative effort of biologists from around the world
Understanding Evolution - Your one-stop source for information on evolution
Vega - An independent broadcaster of informed scientific visual and audio media
Virtual Microscope - A NASA funded project that provides simulated scientific instrumentation for students and researchers
Visible Body - A complete and fully interactive, 3D human anatomy model
WebElements Periodic Table - Award-winning, clickable periodic table
WebMD - Award winning authority on health and medicine information
World Wind - Zoom from satellite altitude into any place on Earth
VIDEO TUTORIALS
5min Life Videopia - Share your knowledge and watch short video solutions for practical questions
BrainPOP - A wide variety of animated movies and interactive educational content
Butterscotch - A video site about technology with computer tips and tutorials
Expert Villiage - Thousands of how-to and instructional videos from renowned experts
Graspr - An online video community that offers high quality instructional content on a wide range of topics
SchoolTube - Safe, effective video production and online video sharing
ScienceHack - A unique video search engine for science videos
Sclipo - A social utility for sharing knowledge and skills through video and webcam
SuTree - An index of free video lessons, video tutorials, lectures and how to guides
TeacherTube - An online community for sharing educational and instructional videos
TrickLife - A how-to video site that provides tutorials submitted by its members
VideoJug - Professionally-produced, high definition video content that covers every conceivable topic
Vidpedia - The free video encyclopedia that anyone can edit
ViewDo - A free online “how-to” video library that allows you to download the content to portable devices
5. E-RESOURCES FOR LIBRARIANS
BOOKS/AUDIO BOOKS
Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts - About 14,000 classic public domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy
Alibris - Over 60 million used, new, and out-of-print books
Audiobooks - Download 2 free audio books every day
AudioBooksForFree - A collection of free children, fiction and non-fiction audiobooks
Baen Free Library - A number of Baen Books in electronic format
Bartleby - Unlimited access to books and information online free of charged
Bibliomania - Thousands of free e-books, poems, articles, short stories and plays
BigWords - Price comparison to find the lowest textbook prices
Blue Rectangle - Quick book reviews by real people on video
BookBurro - Find the lowest price for that book, or see if it is available at your library
Bookbyte - Sell a used college textbook or buy a new or used college textbook at a great price
BookFinder- Find over 125 million books for sale—new, used, rare, out-of-print, and textbooks
BookFinder4U - Compare book prices at over 130 bookstores for the best price
BookLamp - A service that matches readers to books through an analysis of writing styles
BooksInMyPhone -Formatted ebooks that you can read from any java enable mobile phone
BooksShouldBeFree - Free MP3 audio books you can browse by category
Bookyards - Free books, education materials, information, and content
ChestofBooks - Free online books on various topics
Classic Short Stories - Dedicated to the short story and to those interested in reading light prose
Creative Commons Books - A list of works consisting of over 35,000 words that are or have been commercially available in hardcopy and have an ISBN
DailyLit - Too busy for books? Read them by email and RSS
Digital Book Index - Provides links to more than 128,000 title records
DirectTextbooks - Buy and sell your textbooks, search by ISBN and compare competitors prices
eBook Hood - An online library of electronic books available in various ebook formats
eCampus - Buy and sell your new and used books and textbooks
Etext Center - Over 2,100 publicly-available ebooks
Fairy Tales Collection - A collection of the world's fairy tales
FeedBooks - Made with e-paper devices in mind (Sony PRS-500 & iRex iLiad), Feedbooks is a complete experience for mobile reading
FreeBookSpot - The online source of free downloadable ebooks
Free Classic AudioBooks - Free audio books in either mp3 format or m4b audio book format
Free Curricula Center - Develop and share textbooks, instructor guides, and other educational materials
Free Management Library - Complete, highly integrated library for nonprofits and for-profits
FullBooks - Thousands of full text free books
GetCheapBooks - Buy cheap books & cheap textbooks
Getfreeebooks - A site where you can legally download free books
Global Text Project - Open content electronic textbooks
Gnooks - Discover new writers you will like
Google Book Search - Search the full text of books and discover new ones
GRE Audio Books - Study for the GRE Literature test with these free audio books
HowTo - Access free books, with no registration, no fees, no catch
Ink Textbooks - Free textbooks and supplemental content from professors and students from around the globe
Internet Book List - A comprehensive and easily accessible database of books
ISBNspy - Compare book prices online when you're on the go using this mobile accesible site
LearnOutLoud - Over 10,000 educational audio books, MP3 downloads, podcasts, and videos
Library2Go - Download best selling digital audio titles 24/7
Library Connection - Downloadable audio book catalog
LibriVox - Free audiobooks from the public domain
LiteralSystems - Free human-recorded audiobooks
Litsum - Free literature summaries
LookyBook - View, talk about, and buy from a diverse and rapidly expanding collection of picture books
ManyBooks.net - Free eBooks for your PDA, iPhone, or eBook reader
My Book Buyer - Sell used text books and ship them for free
New Free Books - Links to free, legal, complete eBooks still covered by copyright
OCLC FictionFinder - Provides access to 2.8 million works of fiction
Online Magical Library - A number of ebooks about magic in many cultures
Open Text Book - A registry of open textbooks and text book material
O'Reilly Open Books Project- A number of Open Books with various forms of "open" copyright
Page By Page Books - Hundreds of classic books you can read right now, all absolutely free
PaperBackSwap - The source for free paperback books
Paper Portitude - From the Grimm fairy tales, to the poems of Robert Frost, find your favorite classics here
Planet eBook - Free classic literature to download and share
PlanetPDF - Free PDF eBooks Archive
Podiobooks - Free serialized audio books, delivered on your schedule
Project Gutenberg - The oldest producer of free ebooks on the Internet
PublicLiterature.org - Explore and utilize this collection of public domain books,poetry, tutorials and audio
Rare Book Room - Some of the world's greatest and rarest books, photographed at high resolution
Read Print - Thousands of free books for students, teachers, and the classic enthusiast
Sell Back Your Book - Enter the ISBN of the books you wish to sell and get top price for them
Squashed Writers - All the books you ought to have read in their own words, but magically Squashed into half-hour short stories
Swaptree - Trade your books, DVDs, music or video games for thousands of items that you want for free
SwitchPlanet - Trade books, movies, games and music
Textbooks - Find the best deals on college textbooks, other books, music and movies
Textbook Revolution - Textbooks and select educational resources of all kinds
Textbook Superstore - Buy and sell textbooks online
The Assayer - One of the web's largest catalogs of free books where users can submit reviews
The Book Page - Provides free on-line classic and not-so-well known books, articles and more
The Dusty Library - Public domain books, poems and short stories
The Free Physics Textbook - This site publishes a free physics textbook in a number of different languages
The National Academies Press - Read more than 3,000 books online for free
The Online Books Page - Listing over 25,000 free books on the Web
The Open Library - A project that aims to provide universal access to all knowledge
Universal Digital Library - Access to over 1.5 million books online
WhatsOnMyBookshelf - Trade and discover new books to read
What Should I Read Next - Enter a book you like and this site will suggest what you could read next
Whichbook - Gives readers an enjoyable and intuitive way to find books to match their mood
Wikibooks - A collection of open-content textbooks
World eBook Library - Combined collections create world class Internet public access to over 75,000 free eBooks and eDocuments
Yudu - Read and publish magazines, newspapers, eBooks and more online for free
CLASS MANAGEMENT/WORKSHEETS
4Teachers - Integrate technology into your classroom with free online tools and resources
Apple Learning Interchange - A social network for educators with content ranging from simple lesson ideas to in-depth curriculum units for K-12
A to Z Teacher Stuff - Lesson plans, teacher tips, forums for teachers, teaching materials, printable worksheets and more
Book A Lesson - Great services to enhance your lesson experience
Centre - A free student information system for public and non-public schools
Chalksite - A central point for teachers, students and parents to access grades and more
ClassNotesOnline - Teachers can keep students and parents up to date on daily work, assignments, homework, and grades
Class Set-Up - Virtual layout tool that helps you design customized and effective classrooms
CyberSmart - Free student curriculum that helps educators safely harness the Internet’s potential
DIGIcation - Class management, free to first 1,000 users at your school
Eclipse Crossword - An easy and free way to create crossword puzzles in seconds
Engrade - A free online gradebook that allows teachers to manage their classes online
Free Educational Teaching Resources - Free games and educational software by Adrian Bruce
Free Printable Worksheets - Alphabet, math, science, handwriting, Spanish and more
Ggradebook - An open source application for tracking student grades for teachers
GNota - A gradebook software used to manage students and automate score calculations
Gradefix - Organizes and prioritizes all of your homework
HomeSchooler Network - Cver 5,000 innovative lessons, activities, and inspirational articles to help you in your homeschooling life
HomeworkStation - Teachers can post homework assignments online for free without any programming
HotChalk - An Internet Community for teachers, students and parents with over 3,000 free lesson plans
I Love That Teaching Idea! - Practical, teacher-created ideas and resources that you can use in your classroom immediately
LAMS - Design, manage and deliver online collaborative learning activities
Literacy Center Education Network - Serving aproximately 1.5 million free lessons a day to children in more than two hundred countries
Moodle - A course management system for educators who want to create quality online courses
OpenGrade - Software for teachers to keep track of grades
Palm Software for Educators - A list of Palm OS software for educators
Pics4Learning - Copyright-friendly images and lesson plans for education
Primary Resources - Free teaching resources, lesson plans, ideas and worksheets for primary and elementary teachers
Rubrician - Links to rubrics for educators, teachers, parents, students and evaluators
Schoolzone Resources - Educational resources, events, articles, downloads and more
SCHOOPY - Classroom organizer, school homepages, useful resources, and more
SimpleSeating - Makes seating charts easier than ever
Teachbits - A listing of free resources for teachers by teachers
teAchnology - Resources for teachers dedicated to improving the education of today's students
Teacher's-Pet - Free software that can transform any text into a fun classroom activity
TeachersFirst - a rich collection of lessons, units and web resources
Textmapping - Free resources for educators
The Educator's Reference Desk - A catalog of educational resources and lesson plans for educators
Timesavers for Teachers - Classroom management forms, report card comments, practical teacher tools, worksheets and teacher resources
TrackStar - Collect Web sites, add annotations for your students, and you have interactive, online lessons
Udutu - A web-based tool which allows users to create highly interactive online courses
Yahoo! for Teachers - A place for educators to find, create, and share standards-based classroom materials
COLLABORATION/SOCIAL NETWORKING
4shared - Upload, download and share music, books, video and more with 5 BG of free space
Blackboard Scholar - A social bookmarking service customized for education
CentralDesktop - Shared workspaces and Web conferencing that let you collaborate anytime
CollectivX - Social networking for groups of all types and sizes
Connotea - Free social reference management for researchers, clinicians and scientists
Edmodo - A microblogging platform where teachers and students can exchange notes, links, files, alerts, assignments, etc.
Eduforge - An open access environment designed for the sharing of ideas, research outcomes, open content and open source software for education
eHow - More than 100,000 articles that are professionally written with clear and concise directions on how to do things
Elgg - A free social networking site for education based on the open source Elgg social networking platform
eloops - Online calendar, data backup, project management, and social networking
ePals - Communicate with classrooms in 182 countries, and collaborate with teachers around the world
First Tutors - Search to find UK private tutors in your area
Gimao - Group knowledge and information management
GroupLoop - Simple web-based software to organize your group
Groupvine - Groups made easy, fun and simple
Imagination Cubed - Collaborative drawing tool
Instructables - A community for sharing and learning tips and instructions
iPeer - Develop and deliver peer evaluations, review and release student comments, build rubrics and progress report forms online, etc
Jotspot - Create and share documents, spreadsheets, calendars and more
Jottit - Create simple websites and collaboritive blogs that are easy to edit and share
KnowledgeForge - A digital open knowledge community that provides the facilities and tools to create everything from textbooks to maps
Labmeeting - Scientists can upload, search, organize, and retrieve their research papers and recommend them to colleagues
MindMeister Basic - Hold online real-time brainstorming sessions with friends and colleagues
OneBigU - Earn money for answering questions posed by other users or donate that money to support a good cause
Qipit - Copy and share documents with your camera phone or digital camera
Sakai - An online collaboration and learning environment for education
Scribd - Upload your documents, share them with others and explore an expanding library of documents submitted by others
SpringNote - Collaborate, share files, and create pages with numerous templates and 2 GB free storage
Squidoo - A community where you can share your expertise and learn from others
Tapped In - Where teachers, librarians, administrators, university faculty, students, and researchers gather to learn, collaborate, share, and support
Thinkature - Free unlimited workspaces for real-time collaboration online
ThinkFold - Groups can collaborate on ideas, documents, presentations and plans
Tutor Hunt - Connecting private tutors and students for free
Versionate - Create, edit content and share documents with others
Wikiversity - Students and teachers are invited to join the project as collaborators in teaching, learning, and research
wis.dm - A social web application for college students and recent graduates, that enables members to promote, learn, share and engage
Wridea - Collaborative brainstorm sessions and a place to get your ideas organized
ZedZone - A powerful website for communication, sharing files, and/or collaboration for any community or group
Zoho - Create, aggregate, and share content with this intensive collection of productivity and collabration applications
COLLEGE/STUDENT LOANS
5 Caps - Provides free college course and dormitory reviews
Accredited Online College Degrees - Earn a degree in elementary education from an accredited school online
BabyMint - Save towards a child's college tuition or for other major life events without incurring out-of-pocket expenses
Business Schools - Worldwide business schools directory
CampusBooks - Comparison shop for textbooks to find the lowest prices on any book in print
Campus Compare - Compare colleges to find the perfect match
Campus Explorer- Find the perfect school for you, search by feild of study, location or degree
Chegg - Buy or sell used college books
College Budget - A worksheet that will help you develop a printable college budget
CollegeBoard - SAT registration, college admissions, and scholarships
College-Cram - Interactive Flash learning modules that help students learn
College Degree - Find the best colleges that offer online courses and degrees
CollegeNET - A search engine that helps you find the ideal college
College Planning Calculator - Estimate college costs and compare payment options
CollegeView - Free resources to those hunting for colleges and financial aid
Comprehensive Degree Directory - A comprehensive directory of degree programs and prospective career information
College Student Finance Articles - A directory of articles and information on financial aid for students
Direct Textbook - Check textbook prices on your phone via Twitter
Education Search - Find schools by location, or area of interest
EdSoup - Stop searching for the right colleges… let them find you
ePrep - Provides students and parents with expert advice in Test Prep and College Planning
eStudentLoan - Compare student loans and apply online
FinAid - Financial aid and scholarship guide for parents and students
iHaveThatBook - A social networking site where college students can sell, trade or buy books, chat, and socialize
MatchCollege - A free website that provides in-depth statistical information regarding colleges, universities and trade schools
Medical Assistant Schools - A searchable database of nationally accredited Medical Assistant schools in the US
NoteMesh - College students in the same classes can share notes with each other
NSLDS - The National Student Loan Data System is the U.S. Department of Education's central database for student aid
Peterson's - Prepare for your test, find the right school, explore financial aid, advance your career
RN to MSN - A directory of nationally accredited programs offered by more than 470 schools
RN to BSN - An easily searchable database of RN to BSN degree programs
Sallie Mae - The nation's leading provider of student loans
SimpleTuition - Find and compare student loans
Talbot's Student Planning - Listings of colleges, universities, as well as financial aid information
TuitionU - A community of students, parents, teachers, and professionals that have conversations regarding all aspects of higher education
Upromise - Learn how to earn, save, and pay for college
Viewpoints Education Reviews - The inside scoop on what you should and should not expect when searching for the right college
COMPUTERS AND TECHNOLOGY
DotWhat!? - A database of file extension information for Windows, Linux and Mac operating systems
File Extensions - Detailed explanations of each file type and the way they are used today
Free PC Tech - Windows XP tips and tricks
FreeSoftwareBooks - Links to free software books online
FreeTechBooks - Online computer science and engineering books and lecture notes
Help With PCs - Learn about your PC and its programs
Intelligentedu - Free computer training, education and tutorial resources
Internet Archive Wayback Machine - Over 100 terabytes and 10 billion web pages archived from 1996 to the present
Optimize Guides - Free, comprehensive guides for the Windows 2000, XP and Vista operating systems
PC Tips Box - Tips and tricks for PC, Linux, Mac, PDA, iPhone, mobile, etc
Programming Ebooks - A listing of freely available programming related ebooks
Simplehelp - Helping beginner-to-intermediate computer users learn how to do various things with their computers
Tech Books for Free - Free programming and computer science books
Tech Cheat Sheet - Technology and programming related cheat sheets and quick reference guides
TECHtionary - Animated tutorials about technology
The ACM Classic Books Series - A list of free classic computer science books
The How-To Geek - Computer help, tips and advice
Tweako - Users submit articles, links to guides, tutorials, service reviews, new software, and general information
Webopedia - Computer and Internet terms and definitions
WhatIs.com - Definitions, computer terms, tech glossaries and cheat sheets
CULTURE, ARTS AND MUSIC
Abasoft - Free online music flash games and lessons for all ages
AICT - Provides a rich database of images of art and architectural works in the public domain on a free-access, free-use basis
Art on the Web - 1,200+ links on art and architecture
ArtsEdge - Provides free resources and materials for teachers, students, and arts-based instruction for theater, music, visual arts and dance
Berklee Shares - Free music lessons that you can download and share
CENSUS of Antique Works of Art - An interdisciplinary research database containing documentation centering on the reception of antiquity
Classical Music Navigator - Search by composer, notable works, geographical location, style, form of music or glossary
CraftPOP - Popular homemade arts, crafts, hobbies, ideas, and other DIY resources
Creativity Portal - Coaches, artists, writers, and professionals sharing their expertise to inspire creative exploration and expression
Dolmetsch Music Dictionary - Translations, explanations, definitions and comments on musical terms and words
Drawspace - Brenda Hoddinott, artist and art educator, shares drawing tutorials
Essentials of Music - Information about classical music
Exploratorium - The museum of science, art and human perception
Figure Drawing Ebooks - A library of free rare and valuable figure drawing books in PDF format
Freebyte Music Zone - A list of free music resources, music software, online music lessons, sheet music and more
Great Buildings - The leading architecture reference site on the web with 3D models, photographs and architectural drawings, commentaries, etc
Incredible Art Department - Art lessons, resources, galleries and much more
Music Education Magic - News, information and resources for music educators and their students
Musictheory.net - Free online music tutorials, utilities and downloads
Mutopia - Sheet music editions of classical music for free download
OnClassical - Quality classical music recordings in WAV format
OnlyPencil Tutorials - Tips and techniques for pencil drawing
Royalty Free Music - Features collections of royalty-free music for individuals to freely use in personal projects and production
Songfacts - Learn song trivia and find out the meaning behind the lyrics
Take Lessons - Find a local instructor that teaches music, singing, acting or dance
Words of Art - A dictionary of art words, terms and phrases
DICTIONARY/THESAURUS
AllWords- Dictionary that allows you to search for words containing certain letters, words ending with and words starting with
Alpha Dictionary - Online dictionaries for nearly 300 different languages
American Sign Language Browser - An animated American Sign Language dictionary
Answers.com - Online dictionary, encyclopedia and much more
AskOxford - Free Oxford dictionary resources online
Dictionarist - A talking dictionary which can provide translations with pronunciation and sound in over a dozen languages
Dictionary.hm - Just start typing and the search results will automatically appear
Double-Tongued Dictionary - A lexicon of fringe English, focusing on slang, jargon and new words
Drill Dictionary - A free multilanguage dictionary, text reader and vocabulary building tool
Howjsay - An English pronouncing dictionary with instant sound
HyperDictionary - One search returns results from video, medical, dream, computing, current and vintage dictionaries
JaLingo - A free OS independent dictionary application
Kids Open Dictionary Builder - A free, open simple dictionary for students to use that anyone can contribute to
LookWAYup- Combines a multilingual dictionary, thesaurus, translation, and other handy tools
Memidex - A dictionary/thesaurus including extensive cross-referencing, complete inflections, and frequent updates
Merriam-Webster Online - Dictionary and word games and more
MetaGlossary - Defines over 2,000,000 terms, phrases and acronyms
ObjectGraph Dictionary - Search for definitions and terms in classic dictionaries, computer terms, table of elements and thesaurus
OneLook Dictionary Search - Search web-based dictionaries for definitions or translations
Online Etymology Dictionary - Explanations of what our words meant and how they sounded years ago
Pseudodictionary - Slang, webspeak, colloquialisms
StarDict - A cross-platform and international dictionary software
The Free Dictionary - Free dictionaries, thesaurus, encyclopedias and more
Visual Dictionary - Explore the 15 major themes to access more than 6,000 images
Visuwords - Look up words to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts
Wiktionary - A multilingual dictionary with definitions, etymologies, pronunciations, synonyms, antonyms and translations
WordIQ - Offers search results from a diverse array of dictionary, encyclopedia, thesaurus, and other valuable resources
WordNet 3.0 - This vocabulary helper offers word definitions, antonyms, hyponyms, synonyms, holonyms, attributes, and more
ZebraWords - Dictionary, thesaurus, translations and more
FOREIGN LANGUAGE
American Sign Language Browser - Learn ASL by watching animated demonstrations
bab.la - A free collaborative dictionary, language quizzes and a language forum featuring user-generated content
Babylon Box - Translate to French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish and other languages
BBC Languages - Learn a bit at a time in your own time
BEOLINGUS - German, Spanish, Portuguese and English translation and dictionary tool
busuu - A new concept of language learning through native speaking communities
Dictionarist - A free online multilingual and talking dictionary service which can provide translation in
eduFire - A community of people teaching and learning languages through a combination of video, voice and text chat
Fonetiks - Online pronunciation guides to 9 varieties of the English language and 9 other languages
Free Online Translation - Free text, email and website translation tools
French Assistant - Free French language lessons with audio
FSI Language Courses - Public domain language courses developed by the US government
italki - Language exchange and learning community
Language Learning Library - A comprehensive selection of free language learning tutorials
Lingro - A multilingual dictionary and language learning site
Livemocha - An online language-learning community that offers interactive lessons
Selingua - German, Spanish, French and Swedish vocabulary training
Teach2000 XP - A private teacher to help you memorize a foreign language
Textkit - Learn Ancient Greek and Latin
Word2Word - Lessons to help learn one language from another
WordReference - Online translation dictionaries
GPA CALCULATORS
GPA Calculator - Calculate your GPA with this tool from College of Liberal Arts
IU - GPA Calculator - Calculate your GPA for the current semester
UofK - GPA Calculator - General marking system, GPA definitions, sample GPA calculation and more
GRAPHS/PRINTABLES/PRESENTATION
authorSTREAM - Online PowerPoint presentations and slideshow sharing
Awesome Powerpoint Tutorials - Tutorials on how to create text-FX, transparencies, DVD's etc. with PowerPoint
Create A Graph - Quickly create graphs and charts
Empressr - Create, share and store Flash-based presentations online
e-Tutor Graphic Calculator - Graph one or more equations
FooPlot - Online plotting utility
Gliffy - Create all types of diagrams, flow charts, floor plans, wireframes and more online
Incompetech - Free online graph, grid, and lined paper printouts in PDF format
Microsoft Photo Story - Create slideshows with special effects using your digital photos
PDF Pad - Print graph paper free from your computer
PowerPoint Templates for Teachers - PowerPoint resources for educators
Preezo - Create professional quality presentations
PrintFree - Print free graphs, calendars, forms, cards and more
Project Draw - Create custom flowcharts, diagrams and graphs online and share them, export them, or convert to PDF or image
Slideshare - Share your presentations privately or publicly
Spresent - A free Web-based alternative to PowerPoint
ThinkFree - Create graphs, spreadsheets and presentation files online
yEd - Quickly and effectively generate drawings and to apply automatic layouts to a range of different diagrams and networks
Zoho Show - Online tool to create, edit, publish, and show presentations
HIGHLIGHTERS/WEB ANNOTATION
Highlighter - This Firefox extension allows you to highlight text on a webpage
i-Lighter - The yellow highlighter for the web
Jotcloud - Sticky notes for the Web
MyStickies - Put sticky notes on Web pages
Scrapbook - A Firefox extension, which helps you to save Web pages and highlight text
Wired-Marker - A permanent indelible highlighter that you use on Web pages
Wizlite - Highlight text on any page on the Internet and share it
HISTORY/GEOGRAPHY
50 States - Detailed information about the 50 states and their capitals
A Journey to a New Land - A site exploring the first peopling of the New World funded by the Virtual Museum of Canada
American Memory - Free and open access to a wide variety of digital records about American history from The Library of Congress
Atlapedia Online - Full color physical maps, political maps, key facts and statistics on countries of the world
Capitals of the 50 States - Using Google Maps API, this map shows the location for each state capital
CountryReports - Cultural, historical, and statistical country information
Digital History - An online history textbook
Footnote - Discover, interact and share millions sources from a repository of the world's greatest archives of historical documents
Geosense - Test your knowledge of world geography alone or against another online player
History and Politics Out Loud - A database of multimedia documenting and delivering authoritative audio relevant to American history and politics
HyperHistory - A collection of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented for educational use
JetPunk - Fun and interactive geography quizzes
Journey of Mankind - A virtual global journey of modern man over the last 160,000 years
Internet History Sourcebooks Project - A collection of online resources that are organized by subject, everything from accounting to social sciences
MacroHistory - Prehistory to the 21st century with timelines, maps, book summaries etc
Maps of War - Maps and animations of timelines pertaining to war
NBL Map Center - 200,000 historic maps and 5,000 atlases documenting the evolution of the printed map
Perseus Digital Library - An evolving library documenting the history, literature and culture of the Greco-Roman world
PolicyMap - An online Geographic Information System that enables users to create custom tables, charts and maps
Seterra - A challenging geography program with 70 different exercises
TerraClues - An online game using Google technology in which you must find hidden markers placed on the world map by solving a series of clues
UNEP/GRID-Adrenal Maps and Graphics Library - Search and explore vast amounts of global and regional data through an interactive interface
World Atlas - Maps, flags, geography facts, currency conversion, world clocks and more
World Freedom Atlas - A visualization showing the level or human rights, democracy and good governance within countries
World History Sources - Reviews describe online primary–source archives, evaluate resources, and provide classroom suggestions
HOME LIBRARY
BookBump - An easy-to-use book manager
eLibPro - Manage your book collection in a nice and easy way
GuruLib - Catalog your books, DVDs, music CDs, games and software
lib.rario.us - A place to catalog your media collection, whether it be books, DVDs, CDs
LibraryThing - Catalog your books online and connect with people who read the same things
Shelfari - Create virtual shelves to show off your book collection
KIDS/YOUNG ADULT
Ask Dr. Universe - Science questions and answers for kids of all ages
Ask for Kids - A fast, easy and kid-friendly way for kids to search online
Brain Games - Free access to games scaled to your learning level
Cackleberries - A safe place for kids to play educational games online
Childsplay - A suite of educational games for young children with additional plugins
Creating Music - An online creative music environment for children of all ages
Discovery Kids - Videos, games and more for kids
DSOkids - The Dallas Symphony Orchestra's magical doorway to a world of musical fun and learning
e-Learning for Kids - Free and unlimited use of best-in-class courseware
Fact Monster - Atlas, almanac, dictionary, encyclopedia and much more from Information Please
Funschool - Fun and educational activities and games for kids
GameGoo - Educational spelling and reading games
GCompris - An educational software that offers over 50 games and activities for children ages 2 to 10
KidPad - A collaborative story authoring tool for children
KidsClick - A search tool for kids by librarians
Kids Health Galaxy - An interactive overview of what happens in a hospital
KidsVid - An instructional web site that helps teachers and students use video production in the classroom
Memoryplay - A fun customizable memory card game
National Geographic Kids - Games, videos, photos, stories and more for kids
National Geographic Little Kids - Games, videos, photos, stories and more for younger children
Owl & Mouse - Educational maps, software, games and activities
PBS Kids Go - Fun games and challenges for children
Play Music - Learn about symphonies and compose your own music
Scholastic - Helping children around the world read and learn
Sebran's ABC - Software that teaches letters, numbers, simple math, and rudiments of reading
SFSKIDS - A fun site for kids to learn about music from The San Franciso Symphony
SmartTutor Freebies - Free educational games and activities for children
SpellingCity - Online spelling games that make practicing for tests fun
Story Plant - Grow your own story from the story plant
Teen Ink - A monthly print magazine, website and book series all written by teens
The Young Writers Society - Community forums for young writers
LECTURES/SPEECHES/PODCASTS
Academic Earth - Thousands of video lectures from the world's top scholars
American Rhetoric - Top 100 speeches of the 20th century by rank
EdTechTalk - A webcasting network of educators discussing educational technology
Education Podcast Network - A wide range of podcast programming to help educators looking for content to teach with and about
EduFeeds - A collection of RSS and Atom feeds from around the Higher Education community
Fora TV - An on demand multimedia portal delivering spoken words on global issues
Free Academic Podcasts - 145 podcasts for your educational pleasure
Free University Lectures - Computer science, mathematics, and physics lectures
Internet TV Search Engine - Search for webcasts and lectures online
Lecturefox - A collection of free university lectures on physics, mathematics and computer sciences
Lectures Archive - Lectures catalogued according to discipline, theoretician and topic
listeningtowords - Find, listen and discuss free lectures from around the Web
MIT World - A vast video archive of lectures
PoducateMe - Practical solutions for podcasting in education
Pulse-Project - Audio and video lectures for both general and specialised audiences, delivered by eminent academics
Scitalks - A very large collection of science lectures on video
Ted Talks - Talks from the Technology Entertainment Design conventions
University Channel - A collection of public affairs lectures, panels and events from academic institutions all over the world
webcast.berkeley - Every semester, UC Berkeley webcasts select courses and events for live viewing and on-demand replay over the Internet
WGBH Forum Network - Archived Webcasts of Free Public Lectures
World Lecture Hall - Free online course materials from around the world
MATHEMATICS/CALCULATORS
A Catalog of Mathematics Resources on WWW - An extensive list of resources, directories, newsgroups and software found on the Internet
Algebasics - Free algebra lessons
AllMath - Math reference, flash cards, metric converter, games and more
Answer Checker - Free Program for TI-83 and TI-83+ calculators
Calculator - Calculate anything anywhere - online, pda, wap and cellphone calculators
Calcoolate - Calculator and conversion tool
Convertalot - Measurement converters and online calculators for all occasions
ConvertPlus - Online weights and measurement conversion tool
Cramster - A global online study community
CuriousMath - Fun and fascinating math tricks and trivia
Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics - Explains the first uses of various words used in mathematics
eTutor Graphing Calculator - Graph mathematical equations
Free Online Textbooks for College Level Mathematics and Physics - Textbooks, lecture notes, tutorials, and videos
GeoGebra - A dynamic mathematics software that joins geometry, algebra and calculus
Glossary of Mathematical Terms - An extensive resource
Google Calculator - Use Google to evaluate mathematical expressions
GridX - A small, simple mental math game
Inner Algebra - How to do algebra in your head
Instacalc - Fast and powerful calculation, unit conversion, analysis and charting tools
Interactive Mathematics Miscellany and Puzzles - Nearly 800 Java applets for teachers, parents and students who seek engaging mathematics
Literal Math - A text editor with math notation and hypertext capabilities
Math.com - Resources, dictionaries, test prep and many more math learning tools
Math and Reading Help for Kids - Your guide to math, reading, homework help, tutoring and earning a high school diploma
Math Expressions - Offers online math tutoring using videos, study tips and practice questions
Mathematics Tutorials and Problems (with applets) - Free mathematics tutorials to help you explore and gain deep understanding of math topics
MathSearch - Search a collection of over 200,000 documents on English-language mathematics and statistics servers across the Web
Mathway - A step-by-step math problem solver
Mathwords - An interactive math dictionary
MathWorld - An extensive mathematics resource
Miscellaneous Mathematical Utilities - This page contains links to several javascript mathematical utilities
Nick's Mathematical Puzzles - More than 150 free math puzzles of varying difficulty
Numbernut - If you are looking for math information, this site is for you!
Online Conversion - Convert just about anything to anything else
Plus Magazine - Articles from the top mathematicians and science writers on topics as diverse as art, medicine, cosmology and sport
Purplemath - Practical algebra lessons
QuickMath - An automated service for answering common math problems over the Internet
Some Printable Paper Rulers - Disposable paper rulers
Spotter - Helps students check their answers to math and science questions
Table of Mathematical Symbols - From Wikipedia
Textbooks, Lecture Notes and Tutorials in Mathematics - A list of links to useful mathematical textbooks available for free on the Internet
Thinking Blocks - An interactive math tool designed to help students learn how to solve multistep word problems
The Math Forum - Online resource for improving math learning, teaching, and communication
TuxMathScrabble - A fun game like Scrabble but with numbers instead of letters
Visual Calculus - Tutorials, quizzes and interactive modules
MEMORIZATION
BrainFlips - Create and share flashcards with audio, text, images and video
BuildYourMemory - Offers tips and tricks to help you build memorization skills
FlashcardExchange - The world's largest flashcard library
Memorise.org - Free online memory training
Memory Master - Training course to help you improve your memory
Memory Techniques and Mnemonics - Articles to help you to improve the power of your memory
Study Guides and Strategies - Excellent study guides that are collaboratively maintained across institutional and national boundaries
The Memory Page - Dedicated to helping people improve their memor
NOTES/WRITING
100 Words - This is an exercise in disciplined creativity in which you must write exactly 100 words at a time
AyeNotes - Quickly take notes online and access them everywhere
BibMe - A free bibliography maker that auto-fills
Carmen- Easy bibliography and research tools
Creative Writing Prompts - Inspiring ideas for writers, bloggers and poets
CutePDF Writer - Create professional quality PDF documents
EasyBib - A free automatic bibliography composer
Essay Punch - An interactive writing tutorial
EverNote - Quickly create, capture and organize any type of note
FruitNotes - An easy-to-use online notebook to create, organize and share your notes online
Go2PDF - Convert any document into PDF format instantly
Google Docs & Spreadsheets - Create and import basic documents and spreadsheets
Google Notebook - Clip and collect information as you browse the web
Great Source iwrite - Everything educators, students, and parents need to make the writing process work
Helium - Write, read, rate and earn revenue
Jotcloud - Sticky notes for the web
Lightning Bug - Helping you write a story from beginning to end
My Notes Tiddlywiki - A note-taking and organizational software
mynoteIT - Organize your school life
NaNoWriMo - National Novel Writing Month
Notecentric - A web based note taking application
Notepad++ - A free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages
OttoBib - Free and easy automatic bibliography generation
Paradigm Online Writing Assitant - Resources, advice, articles, writing tools, free blog, forums and more
PocketMod - The ultimate note card
PrimoPDF - Convert to PDF from any application by simply 'printing' to the PrimoPDF printer
Protagonize - An interactive fiction and collaborative story writing community
SlapAStory - Write, submit, read and discuss short stories online
SnapBits - Securely store, search, sort and easily retrieve “Bits” of information
Stikkit - Organize notes and data — share, collaborate and comment on ideas
Stickies - Digital sticky notes that can be attached to a web site, document, folder or the desktop
Study Stickies - Better understand and remember books (both printed and online), videos, podcasts, online documents, etc
SyncNotes - Synchronize your notes and access them online or with your mobile
TextWrangler - A powerful general purpose text editor
Tinderbox - A personal content assistant that helps you visualize, analyze and share your notes
UberNote - Quickly store, manage and access your content from anywhere
WEbook.com - An online publishing platform that allows writers, editors, reviewers, illustrators and others to join forces
WordCounter - Use this to see what words you overuse to keep from writing redundantly or repetitively
Word Count Tool - Free online tool to count the number of words - just copy and paste
Wordie - Lets you make lists of words and phrases that you like or hate
Word Spy - Devoted to lexpionage, the sleuthing of new words and phrases
Write Street - Ultimate tools and resources for great writers and artists
Writer's Digest - Devoted to helping writers develop their craft and hone their publishing acumen since 1920
Writer's Resource Center - News, articles, information and opportunities for writers
Writing Career - Expert adivce on career training, education and changing careers aimed at writers
Writing.com - Create an online writing portfolio with numerous writing tools, email services, and the chance to meet and bond with fresh creative minds
Writing Fun - Using text organizers to help students with the writing process
yWriter - Free stroy writing software
ONLINE LEARNING
AcademicInfo - Online degrees, online schools and student resources
ArsDigita University Curriculum- The curriculum was modeled on the undergraduate CS program at MIT
Adult Learn - An aggregator of educational institutions in a diverse array of concentrations
BBC Learning - Online learning, support and advice
Buddy School - Online tutors in all subjects, thousands of private teachers around the globe
Claroline - An Open Source eLearning platform that allows teachers to build online courses and collaborative activities on the Web
Connexions - View and share educational material that can be organized as courses, books, reports, etc.
Critical Thinking Web - Over 100 free online tutorials on critical thinking, logic, scientific reasoning, creativity, and other aspects of thinking skills
Curriki - Free user-created, open source curricula
dokeos - Build e-courses using templates, Word and Powerpoint documents
E-Learning Community - A social online learning network
Engineering Degrees Online - Get your Engineering Degree online
FREE - Federal Resources for Educational Excellence
Free-Ed - Free education on the Internet - no books to buy or hidden fees
FunBrain - Fun games for your brain
Free Book Notes - A guide to free book notes, summaries, literature notes, and study guides for over 1600 books, plays, and poems
Games for the Brain - Play neverending quiz, memory & brain games to train your thinking
GCFLearnFree - The freedom to learn what you want, when you want, absolutely free
HippoCampus - Online multimedia and course materials that can help you with your homework and studies
Howtopedia - A collaborative platform for practical knowledge and simple technologies
Infobarrel - Community contributed information and how-to guides
Intaractives - strategies, content, and activities that can enhance and improve students' skills in a variety of curricular areas
Internet Archive - Universal access to human knowledge
ItrainOnline- A selection of the best and most relevant computer and Internet training resources for development and social change
Knol - A site that hosts many knols — units of knowledge — written about various subjects
Learning Objects Repository - Access a wealth of teaching and learning materials
OEDb - The Online Education Database is your guide to online colleges, continuing education, distance learning, and more
Online Colleges and Universities - Links to higher education, certificates and graduate degree programs online
Online Schools - Information and tips to guide you in choosing an online school
Qoolsqool - A free and open educational resource for educators, students, and self-learners around the world
Quizlet - An online tool for learning vocabulary
ResourceShelf - Dedicated librarians and researchers share the results of their web searches for resources and information
Skillwise - Factsheets, worksheets, quizzes and games to help improve your skills
SoYouWanna - Teaches you how to do all the things nobody taught you in school
STARTDL Puzzles - more than 36 different educational puzzles including Anagrams, Word and Number Games, Trivia
The Learning Toolbox - Learning resources for parents, teachers and secondary students with learning disabilities and ADHD
Thinkfinity - Thousands of lesson plans, educational games and activities from Verizon
ThinkQuest - A world-renowned resource for educational sites and web-based lessons created for students, by students
Tutorom - Create your own courses, access thousands of lessons, share advertising revenues
typeonline - Online touch typing course for motivated individuals looking to develop keyboard skills
WebQuest - A WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented lesson format in which most of the information comes from the web
Wisc - Free access to an online learning object repository
OPEN SOURCE/OPENCOURSEWARE
Directory of Open Access - Open access scientific and scholarly journals that use a quality control system to guarantee the content
Free/Open Source Research Community - A research directory of papers on open source and free software
Harvard University Library OCP - Online access to historical resources from Harvard's renowned libraries, archives, and museums
JHSPHOpenCourseWare - The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's OpenCourseWare project
MERLOT - Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (Creative Commons)
MIT's OpenCourseWare - A free and open educational resource for educators, students, and self-learners around the world
OER Commons - A teaching and learning network of shared materials, from K-12 through college, from algebra to zoology, open to everyone
OpenCourseWare Consortium - Universities working together to advance education and empower people worldwide
OpenCourseWare Finder - Search through a collection of open educational materials
Open Learning Initiative - A collection of openly available and free online courses and course materials that enact instruction for an entire course
OpenLearn LearningSpace - Free and open educational resources for learners and educators around the world
Open Source Education Foundation - Enhancing K-12 education using technologies and concepts of the Open Source and Free Software movement
Open Source Initiative - A non-profit corporation formed to educate about and advocate for the benefits of open source
Open Source Living - An archive of Open Source software, applications and references
Notre Dame OpenCourseWare - Open access to the materials used in a variety of courses
The Open Letter Project - An online collection of open historical letters, contemporary letters and users can write their own
Tufts OpenCourseWare - Tufts' initial course offerings demonstrate the University's strength in the life sciences
UCIrvine OpenCourseWare - University-level educational materials, including syllabi, lecture notes, assignments and exams
Utah State OpenCourseWare - A collection of educational material used in USU's formal campus courses
ORGANIZATION/BRAINSTORMING
Backpack - Collect, organize, and get things done
bubbl.us - Free brainstorming web application with colorful mind maps that you can embed on your web site
CmapTools - Construct, navigate, share and criticize knowledge models represented as concept maps
CollegeRuled - Your class schedule, class message boards, lists, notes and more
Elf - This service will send you email reminders about your library loans and holds
Foldera - All about organizing your work
FreeMind - Free mind mapping software
Google Sets - Automatically create sets of items from a few examples
iOutliner - Organize your ideas
Mapul - Create completely organic looking mind maps
Mayomi - Visually organize thoughts, facts and ideas
Mind42 - A browser based online mind mapping application
Mindomo - Create, edit mind maps, and share them with your colleagues or your friends
RecallPlus Lite - A study-based mind mapping software that tests students on their notes
Schedulizer - A tool to help college students plan their academic schedule
Spinscape - A collaborative mind mapping software that offers a new way of gathering and managing information
SproutLiner - Manage your projects and ideas
The Idea Lottery - An idea generating tool to help you discover new connections and solutions
Treepad Lite - A personal databas, PIM, organizer, notes manager, text editor and search engine
View Your Mind - A visual thinking and planning tool
VUE - A content mapping application to help organize, contextualize, and access digital information
WiseMapping - Create, edit and access your mindmaps from anywhere over the Web
POETRY/QUOTES
Dictionary of Poetic Terms - Ever wonder the exact definition of a term used to define some aspect of poetry or verse?
Kalliope - A unique poetry workshop based on original exercises for poets young and old
LitQuotes - This literary reference site features quotations from the great works of literature
Online Rhyming Dictionary - for poetry and songwriting
PoemHunter - Search for poems, lyrics, music, and quotations
Poetiv - An archive of 15,000+ Poems by 150+ Poets
Poetry 180 - A poem a day for American high schools from the Library of Congress
Poetry Archive - Online collection of recordings of poets reading their work
Poetry Collections - Links to poetry available online
Poetry Magic - A resource about the theory and craft of writing poetry
Poetry Portal - One of the most complete resources available on the Internet
Poetry Resources - A collection of online poetry resources
Poets.org - The Academy of American Poets
Post Poetry - A community with thousands of amateur and professional poets alike
Quotefolio - Quotes, sayings, proverbs and adages
RhymeZone - Rhyming dictionary and thesaurus
Shadow Poetry - A world of poetry at your fingertips
The Poet Sanctuary - A safe and enjoyable haven for fans of poetry
QUIZZES/TEST TAKING
ACT Test Prep - A site for students with information and links to free resources
ClassTools - Create interactive educational games and quizzes
Cramberry - Cramberry tracks your progress to help with the flash cards that give you trouble
ETS - Information about tests with resources for educators, students and parents
ExamProfessor - Offer online exams, tests, quizzes, drills and practice
ExamToolkits - A complete resource for gaining information on your next exam
Learning Vocabulary Fun - Test preparation and vocabulary building made fun
Number2 - Free SAT, ACT and GRE test prepation and vocabulary builder
QuizMaster Manager - An Open Source project that lets users create, edit and manage quizzes
QuizMD - The open collection of practice exam questions created by and for medical students
SAT Preparation - A quiz and study guide for the SAT
Test Prep Review - A free resource center for test preparation and new exams
REFERENCE/RESEARCH
A Research Guide for Students - All the necessary tools for students to conduct research and to present their findings
Abreviations.com - The world's largest directory and search engine for acronyms, abbreviations and initialisms online
AccessMyLibrary - Free access to millions of articles from top publications available at your library
Acronym Finder - Find out what any acronym, abbreviation, or initialism stands for
AllBiographies- Search or browse through thousands of biographies on people in a variety of subjects
Arts & Letters Daily - A regularly updated listing of articles, books, essays and ideas from The Chronicle of Higher Education
Axioma Search - Interactively increase the relevancy and context of your searches
BookRags - Over 4 million pages of literature summaries, biographies, literary criticism, essays, encyclopedias, and eBooks
Citizendium - An open wiki project aimed at creating an enormous, free, and reliable encyclopedia
Cliche Finder- A searchable database of clichés
ClichéSite - The largest collection of clichés, phrases and sayings with definitions and explanations
Common Errors In English - An extensive list of common errors made in (American) English
Complore - A social research tool
Confusing Words - A collection of words that are troublesome to readers and writers
Cooperative Research - Conduct grassroots-level research and investigations on any issue
Daily Grammar- Free grammar lessons emailed to you Monday through Friday, with a quiz on Saturday
Dr. Grammar FAQ - Answers to questions previously asked of Dr. Grammar that may provide help with your grammar questions
edocr- A knowledge exchange where users can upload, convert and share documents
English Club- Many resources for English educators and students
eyePlorer - Visualize facts as well as the relationships between facts
Factbites - What do you get if you cross a search engine with an encyclopedia?
Find Articles - Free access to millions of articles from thousands of top publications
Free/Open Source Research Community - A research community in which information will be freely exchanged
FreeLunch - Free economic, demographic & financial data
Glossary of Linguistic Terms - An extensive living glossary of linguistic terms
Google Directory - The web organized by topic into categories
Google Scholar - Broadly search for scholarly literature
Greek Gods Family Tree - A unique tree graphing the genealogies of the Greek Gods
HighBeam Encyclopedia - Search or browse over 57,000 articles from the Columbia Encyclopedia
ibiblio - Conservancy of free information, including software, music, literature, art, history, science, politics, and cultural studies
INFOMINE - A virtual library of resources relevant to faculty, students, and research staff at the university level
Infoplease - Free online reference, research and homework help
Internet Public Library - The first public library of and for the Internet community
Intute - Web resources for education and research
Jim Kalb's Palindrome Connection - A collection of palindromes and links to similar resources
JournalistExpress - News and research portal for reporters
KartOO - A metasearch engine with visual display interfaces
LEO APA Documentation - General guidelines for APA Reference Page Citations
LEO MLA Documentation - The system of documentation used in the fine arts and humanities
Library Research Guides - Informs you how to use a variety of print and electronic resources
LibWorm - A search engine, a professional development tool, and a current awareness tool for people who work in libraries
LocalCensus - Free statistical information about the United States of America and all of its cities, zip codes, and counties
LoveToKnow Classic Encyclopedia - Based on the 1911 Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica
Mendeley - Organize, sync, share and discover research papers
Mythography - Presents resources and reference material about mythology including lexicons that explain Greek, Roman, and Celtic terms.
Nexplore - A visually engaging, interactive search engine with a multi-media interface
Newspaper Index - Free access to newspapers from all over the world
NoodleTools - Software that teaches students and supports teachers and librarians throughout the entire research process
Open-Site - A free Internet encyclopedia that is edited by volunteers, freely available under the GNU Free Documentation License
Paper of Record - Building the world's largest searchable archive of historical newspapers with over 21 million images collected so far
Quintura Search - A visual map of tags or hints contextually related to your search query
refbase - Web-based, platform-independent, multi-user interface for managing scientific literature & citations
Refdesk - Reference, facts, news, search and resources
Research Channel - Direct access to the work of researchers who are helping to understand our world and shape our futures
Research Matters - Explore Harvard research discoveries as they occur
Schoolr - Many types of reference and research tools in one handy location
Silva Rhetoricae - Helping beginners, as well as experts, make sense of rhetoric
Symbols.net - Directory of signs, glyphs, flags and symbols and their meanings
Symbols.com - A searchable index containing more than 1,600 articles about 2,500 Western signs
Teachers' Domain - Multimedia resources for the classroom and professional development
The Elements of Style - A classic reference book for students and conscientious writers
The Free Library - A free, searchable archive that provides access to a daily-updated collection of 4 million articles from classic works of literature and leading periodicals
The OWL Family of Sites - Handouts on writing, research, grammar, and MLA and APA, free consultations and more
The Phrase Finder - A reference guide pertaining to the meanings and origins of phrases
ThinkExist - Finding quotations was never this easy
Tools for Reading, Writing, & Thinking - To help students engage in rigorous thinking
Viewzi - A visual search engine that provides fun, effective, and entertaining results
Webgrammar - Free writing tips and grammar advice
Wikibooks - A collection of free content textbooks that you can edit
Wikiquote - A free online compendium of quotations from notable people and creative works in every language
Wikisource - The free library that anyone can edit
World Digital Library - Multilingual site that provides significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world
wURLdBook - Navigate, collect, categorize, annotate, clip, archive, find, publish RSS and share information with others
Ziipa - A search engine that delivers great content in a visual way that is simple to use
Zotero - A Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources
SCIENCES/SPACE
Amazing Space - Promotes the science and majestic beauty of the universe for use in the classroom
AmphibiaWeb - An online system that allows free access to information on amphibian biology and conservation
Animal Diversity Web - An online database of animal natural history, distribution, classification, and conservation biology
Animal Photos - Creative Commons photos of animals that can be used for web sites, school projects and presentations
Animal Search - A family-safe search engine for animal related web sites
arXiv.org - E-prints in physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance and statistics
AstroWeb - Astronomy resources on the Internet
Bassett Collection of Stereoscopic Images of Human Anatomy - 3D images of human anatomy
BEYOND - Confronting the big questions of existence raised by scientific advances and facilitating new research initiatives
Brain Maps- A collection of annotated, scanned images of serial sections of both primate and non-primate brains
Celestia - A free space simulation that lets you explore our universe in three dimensions
Charles Darwin Online - The complete works of Charles Darwin online
Eisnteins Archives Online - Online access to Albert Einstein’s scientific and non-scientific manuscripts
EOL - Encyclopedia of Life is a site with a goal to document all species of life on Earth
Exploring Life's Origins - A timeline of life's evolution
eMolecules - A genuine cheminformatics system that searches for molecules using chemical structure
Encyclopedia of Astrobiology, Astronomy, and Spaceflight - An Alphabetical Guide to the Living Universe
Encylcopedia of Life - An ongoing collaborative to document all species of life on Earth
FreeScience.info - Provides more than 1000 free scientific books
Free High School Science Texts - Free science and mathematics textbooks for Grades 10 to 12
Hubblesite - Discoveries from the Hubble satellite, take a monthly tour of the night sky, and more educational cosmic revelations
Light and Matter- Educational materials for physics and astronomy
MedlinePlus - Interactive health education resources from the Patient Education Institute
NASA - Informative site for kids, students, educators, and researchers
NatureServe Explorer - An authoritative source for information on more than 70,000 plants, animals, and ecosystems of the United States and Canada
Nearby Stars Database - A complete and accurate source of scientific data about all stellar systems within 25 parsecs
Neave Plantetarium - An acurate, real-time plantetarium you can interact with through your browser
NOVA - Video, podcasts, and plenty of information from PBS
NSDL - An online library for education and research in science, technology, engineering, mathematics
PhET - Free physics, chemistry, biology, earth science and math simulations
Physics Flash Animation - 88 Flash animations for illustrating physics content
Physlets - Flexible Jave applets designed for science education
PhysLink - Physics and astronomy online
Places and Spaces - Maps designed to help understand, navigate and manage physical places and abstract information spaces
Robert Krampf's Science Education Company - Free science videos and experiments
SABER - An online, searchable database of astronomy education research
Science Toys - Use common household materials to make toys that demonstrate fascinating scientific principles
Scientific Commons - The largest communication medium for scientific knowledge products which is freely accessible to the public
Scirus - A comprehensive science-specific search engine
SciSeek - Science search engine and directory
SolStation - Information and software for those interested in astronomy, writing, education, or entertainments related to science or speculative fiction
Spacestation42 - Free spacecraft, rockets, satellites, and planet paper models
Stellarium - An open source planetarium for your computer
The Biology Project - An interactive online resource for learning biology developed at The University of Arizona
The ChemCollective - Online resources for teaching and learning chemistry
The Fever of 57 - Informational site with free site content for classrooms
The Internet Stellar Database - All the dirt on your favorite stars
The Vega Science Trust - Broadcasts science programs online for freedge.
Tree of Life Web Project - A collaborative effort of biologists from around the world
Understanding Evolution - Your one-stop source for information on evolution
Vega - An independent broadcaster of informed scientific visual and audio media
Virtual Microscope - A NASA funded project that provides simulated scientific instrumentation for students and researchers
Visible Body - A complete and fully interactive, 3D human anatomy model
WebElements Periodic Table - Award-winning, clickable periodic table
WebMD - Award winning authority on health and medicine information
World Wind - Zoom from satellite altitude into any place on Earth
VIDEO TUTORIALS
5min Life Videopia - Share your knowledge and watch short video solutions for practical questions
BrainPOP - A wide variety of animated movies and interactive educational content
Butterscotch - A video site about technology with computer tips and tutorials
Expert Villiage - Thousands of how-to and instructional videos from renowned experts
Graspr - An online video community that offers high quality instructional content on a wide range of topics
SchoolTube - Safe, effective video production and online video sharing
ScienceHack - A unique video search engine for science videos
Sclipo - A social utility for sharing knowledge and skills through video and webcam
SuTree - An index of free video lessons, video tutorials, lectures and how to guides
TeacherTube - An online community for sharing educational and instructional videos
TrickLife - A how-to video site that provides tutorials submitted by its members
VideoJug - Professionally-produced, high definition video content that covers every conceivable topic
Vidpedia - The free video encyclopedia that anyone can edit
ViewDo - A free online “how-to” video library that allows you to download the content to portable devices
E-LEARNING PORTALS
Khan Academy
Establishment:2006
Website: https://www.khanacademy.org/
About: Khan Academy is a non-profit educational organization created by educator Salman Khan with an aim of providing a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere. It produces short lectures via YouTube videos. All resources are free of cost to anyone around the world and its videos are translated into 36 languages including English as their main language. As of 2015, it has more than 5,000 courses. In 2012, the founder of the Khan Academy was listed among the Time 100 Most Influential People. Recently in 2015, it partnered with Disney & Pixar Animation Studios to launch Pixar in a Box on Khan Academy. They also partnered with NASA, The Museum of Modern Art, The California Academy of Sciences, and MIT to offer specialized content.
Subjects covered:
Mathematics
Science
Computer Programming
History
Arts
Economics
Finance
Physics
Astronomy
Cosmology, etc.
2.Tata Interactive Systems
Establishment: 1990
Website:www.tatainteractive.com
About: Tata Interactive (TIS) has 25 years of experience in custom learning solutions and is one of the most reputed leaders as well in the same field. It is one of the top E-learning companies in India to provide all kind of online education at one place. With a team of over 350 multi-disciplinary specialists, it has won 100 international awards and was featured as the top 20 training outsourcing companies globally for the last 7 years.
Subjects covered:
Law
Humanities
Criminal forensics
Medicine
Healthcare Instructional design.
3.Coursera
Establishment: 2012
Website:https://www.coursera.org/
About:Coursera is a private equity for profit educational Technology Company founded by computer science professors Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller of Stanford University that offers massive open online courses. It offers all its courses accessible for free. But in 2014, it blocked their courses for users in Cuba, Iran and Sudan. Since 2013, it started offering 5 courses with college credit approved by the American Council of Education-Algebra from the University of California, Pre-Calculus from the University of California, Introduction to Genetics and Evolution from Duke University, Bioelectricity: A Quantitative Approach from Duke University and Calculus: Single Variable from the University of Pennsylvania.
Subjects covered:
Arts and Humanities
Business
Computer Science
Data Science
Life Sciences
Math and Logic
Personal Development
Physical Science and Engineering
Social Sciences
Language Learning
4.W3 Schools
Establishment: 1998
Website:https://www.w3schools.com/
About:W3 Schools is one of the popular websites for learning technologies online run by Refsnes Data, a software development and consulting company in Norway. It has structured tutorials and playgrounds that offer a decent learning experience in the web programming field. It is completely free developers resource.
Subjects covered:
HTML
CSS
JavaScript
Bootstrap
SQL
PHP
ASP
XML
5.Codecademy
Establishment: 2011
Website:https://www.codecademy.com
About: Coacademy is an online interactive platform founded by Zach Sims and Ryan Bubinski that offers free coding classes in 12 different programming languages. As of January 2014, it had over 24 million users who had completed over 100 million exercises. In 2013, it launched their 1st iOS app called Hour of Code that focuses on the basics of programming including the same content of the website. It received Skillies Technology Award in 2015.
Subjects covered:
Python
Java
PHP
JavaScript (jQuery, AngularJS, React.js)
Ruby
SQL
Sass
HTML and CSS.
6.Ask IITians
Establishment: 2007 (main domain called Transweb)
Website:http://www.askiitians.com/
About: Aditya Singhal and Nishant Sinha of IIT Delhi founded askIITians, to cater primarily to students of India and Middle East who are preparing for engineering entrance exams like IIT-JEE or AIEEE. It is one of the parts of main online tutoring and educational website called Transweb Educational Services.
Subjects covered:
IIT JEE
Medical
Engineering etc.
7.Tutor
Establishment:1998
Website:http://www.tutor.com/
About:Tutor.com is a fully online tutoring service that provides one-to-one learning solutions for students and professionals. They have completed 11 million one-to-one sessions and cover more than 30 subjects. They have received many awards like Parents Choice Gold Award, Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Program for the New York Region, 25 Best Small Companies for Women by Working Mother, etc.
Subjects covered:
SAT/Test prep
AP Support
Social Studies
Science
Math
English
8.Open Yale Courses
Establishment: 2007
Website:http://oyc.yale.edu/
About:Open Yale Courses is a project of Yale University that provides free access to a selection of introductory courses. It has now 42 courses that are funded by William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. All recorded lectures of Yale University is accessible without any registration in the video, audio, and text transcript formats.
Subjects covered:
Astronomy
Biomedical Engineering
Chemistry
Economics
Geology and Geophysics
History of Arts
Music
Psychology
Religious Studies
Political Science
Physics, etc.
9.edX
Establishment: 2012
Website:ht://www.edx.org/
About:edX is a massive open online course (MOOC) provider that was created by The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University. It has more than 7 million students taking more than 700 courses online as of 2016. It is the only leading MOOC provider that is a nonprofit and open source. The Open edX is the open-source platform that powers its edX courses for free.
Subjects covered:
Architecture
Art & Culture
Biology & Life Sciences
Chemistry
Communication
Computer Science
Data Analysis & Statistics
Design
Economics & Finance
Education & Teacher Training
Electronics
Engineering
Environmental Studies
Ethics
Food & Nutrition
Health & Safety
History
Humanities
Language
Law
Literature
Math
Medicine
Music
Philosophy & Ethics
Physics
Science
Social Sciences
10.Apna Course
Establishment:2013
Website:http://www.apnacourse.com
About:Apna Circle is an E-Learning platform that provides in-demand video courses delivered by their top Instructors. All provided courses are targeted towards working professionals who wants to enhance their skills to advance their career. It is a product of Spearhead EduOnline Pvt Ltd. It received the Startup of the Year Award by Silicon India in 2014 and is recognized as the best E-Learning Companies in India by the World Education Congress in 2014.
Subjects covered:
Banking and Finance
Project and Ops Management
IT and Security
Sales and Marketing
Law
OB and HR Management
Personal Development
Statistics and Data Analysis
Language (French, Sanskrit, Japanese), etc.
11.Investoo
Establishment:2013
Website:http://www.investoo.com/
About:Investoo is the biggest online trading school in the world with 350+ video lessons and 20, 000+ active members. Their trading team has years of experience in trading the market and also have in popular sites like Investopedia.com, IBTimes, MoneyWeek.com. Investoo isfree of cost online tool to practice forex trading.
Subjects covered:
Forex
Binary Options
Forex Strategies
Price Action
Elliot Wave Theory, etc.
12.WizIQ
Establishment: 2007
Website:http://www.wiziq.com/
About:WizIQ is one of the largest cloud-based education platform in the world founded by Harman Singh. It has offices in North America: Palo Alto, Apex and Toronto; India: Gurgaon, Mohali and Hyderabad with over 400, 000 educators and 4 million + learners across 200 countries.
13.Money Week
Establishment:2000
Website:http://moneyweek.com/video-tutorial/
About:A most popular weekly investment magazine of the UK, MoneyWeek designed MoneyWeek videos to help an individual a better investor and to give a better understanding of the markets for both beginners and experienced investors. They have added over 150 financial videos covers investment stories, ideas, concepts, and themes.
Subjects covered:
Bonds
Central Banks
Derivatives
Financial crime
Tax
Trading & investments
Personal finance, etc.
100+ ALTERNATE SEARCH ENGINES
E-Book & PDF Search Engine
Pdf Searcher is a pdf and ebook search engine. You can search and download every ebook or pdf for free!
PDFGeni is a dedicated pdf search engine for PDF ebooks, sheets, forms and documents.
Data-Sheet is a pdf ebook datasheet manual search engine where you can search any ebook datasheet pdf files and download.
PDF Database is a new search engine which uses a unique algorithm to search for pdf and doc files from all over the web quickly and efficiently.
PDF Search Engine is a book search engine search on sites, forums, message boards for pdf files.
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Who-sells-it.com (The catalog search engine) – Who-sells-it.com is an automated search engine for product catalogues. You can find products and product information within the catalogs and brochues.
AddAll – AddALL is a free service that searches for the best deal in books anywhere on-line.
BookFinder – A one-stop ecommerce search engine that searches over 150 million books for sale—new, used, rare, out-of-print, and textbooks. .
Boocu – Access thousands of eBooks and other digital products.
Brupt – Brupt.com is based on Google Custom Search Engine, it uses Filetype parameters offered by Google to filter the information and show the pages according.
CCEbook – A free ebook search engine, find rapidshare/mihd/ebooks by search.
ComicSeeker – Search the Internet’s most popular online comic book stores and auctions.
DocJax – DocJax.com is a search engine for documents, which allow you to search documents and e-book from everywhere, preview them and even download them for free.
Docstoc – All documents on docstoc can be easily searched, previewed and downloaded for free.
Ebook-Search-Engine – Ebook-Search-Engine.com was established to make finding an free ebook on the internet alot easier by providing visitors with the best quality free ebook sites and pages on the web.
Ebookee – Free download ebooks search engine.
Flazx – This is a well organized and searchable eBook Directory..
FeedBooks – A universal e-reading platform compatible with all mobile devices where you can download thousands of free e-books.
Gigle.ws – A PDF search engine with 1 150 000+ items indexed.
Google Books – Find the perfect book for your purposes and discover new ones that interest you.
Issuu – Collect, share and publish in a format designed to make your documents look their very best.
LazyLibrary – LazyLibrary, where you can find books on any topic without having to worry about high page counts..
Myplick – Myplick is a free service that lets you share, embed and discover presentations and slide shows online.
Printfu – Search engine for free ebooks.
PDFster – PDFster.net is a meta search engine for PDF documents.
PDFSe – User can search for an ebook by entering a book title,author name or topic
PDF-Search.org – A book search engine search on sites, forums, message boards for pdf, word, power point files.
Scribd – Scribd is a social publishing site, where tens of millions of people share original writings and documents.
Search-PDF-Books – PDF search engine for free PDF books.
The-Manuals – Search engine for free manual online.
TooDoc – Through this search engine, you’ll be able to search the web for PDF files, and nothing else. .
Yudu – Explore the Library to find magazines, newspapers, eBooks and more. Over 1 million publications read each month..
Audio/Music Search Engine
BeeMP3 is a music search engine for locating an mp3-audio files over the Internet. Today they have 800 000 mp3 files in our search database and approximately 10 000 files are added daily.
Mp3Realm is an evolving search engine focused distinctively on audio in Mp3 format. Mp3Realm allows you to search for your favorite songs and clips, and filter them out by file duration. Your searches can be based on artist, title, genre or album. Mp3Realm also index’s lyrics, so you can sing along to your favorite songs.
WuZAM’s powerful engine allows users to search for free music downloads from all over the internet. Unlike P2P programs, you don’t have to wait for users to upload the file to you. Many of the free music downloads found on WuZAM are stored on high speed servers so your free mp3 downloads are quick and flawless.
SkreemR is a search engine for locating audio files on the web. SkreemR currently indexes over 6 million mp3 files from over 100,000 web sites.
FindSounds.com, a free site where you can search the Web for sound effects and musical instrument samples.
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AirMP3 – AirMP3 is a music search engine. It searches for free mp3 downloads on several music sites, and lists all results on a single page.
CaptainCrawl – A very massive music blog search engine.
DesMP3 – Listens the music that you want all is in DesMp3! Search in 500 million results.
Dilandau – In Dilandau.com you can listen and download all your MP3 music.
Dorble – Dorble is another application that lets you search, listen and download music you like to your computer for free.
Gig-Listing – Gig Listing is an independent web search engine for live music events. You can look for music events, bands or venues by typing a few keywords in a text box.
HuntMyMusic – HuntMyMusic is primarily a music search engine that provides a convenient way for users to find, preview, and download songs.
Liveplasma – Liveplasma is a new way to broaden your cultural horizons according to your taste in music.
MP3Raid – Mp3Raid.com is dedicated to provide its visitors the best mp3 search engine on the net.
Mix Turtle – Web-based music search tool Mix Turtle creates playlists of songs you find online.
MP3-Search Engine – A comprehensive MP3 search engine.
Muscorch – Music Score Search Engine, searching for free music score in various formats.
MusicBiatch – MusicBiatch is a music search engine designed for locating an audio files in various file sharing and uploading sites.
Musgle – To see Musgle in action just type a song title, or the artist name, or both in a search bar and hit ‘Enter’ – you will be redirected to the Google page with relevant search results
Midomi – Midomi is the ultimate music search tool because it is powered by your voice.
MP3Search.Mobi – Your free music search engine.
MP3Fountain – Download Hip-Hop mp3. Download Hip-Hop music.
MP3Series – The Ultimate Audio Search Engine
OOnly – Free MP3 search engine.
SharingMusics – Audio, mp3 and music search engine.
Songza – Songza lets you listen to any song or band. Search for it.
SeekMP3 – SeekMp3 is worth a try. SeekMp3 is an Mp3 search engine, pure and simple. Music is pulled from all over the web—blogs, music sites, personal websites, etc.
SeekASong – Mp3s and lyrics search engine.
Woonz – Woonz crawls the internet for audio tracks and then provides the information here for you to listen, download, or find out more about audio that you are interested in.
RapidShare Search Engine
Rapidshare-search-engine.com – Find any file on rapidshare.
Rapidshare1.com is a Rapidshare search engine search on sites, forums, message boards for Rapidshare file links.
FilesPump.com is a search engine designed to search files in various file sharing and uploading sites. FilesPump is a "multi-hoster" search engine, and currently lists 16 different popular file hosters. As a file sharing search engine FilesPump.com finds files matching your search criteria among the files that has been seen recently in uploading sites by their search spider.
Search RapidShare and Megaupload files easy and fast. Over 3 millions files stored in database.
RSFind.com, a powerful free rapidshare search engine, and one of the best search engines for rapid share.
Front Address – Search softwares, ebooks, games, photos, documents, audio and videos etc located on RapidShare.
FilesTube – FilesTube.com is a search engine designed to search files
in various file sharing and uploading sites,like rapidshare, megaupload, mediafire.FileOnFire – This site gives users the chance to get a rapid share and mega upload search engine that has more than 19,000,000 files.
MegaDownload – MegaDownload.net – megaupload.com and rapidshare.comsearch engine.
MegaRapidSearch – MegaRapidSearch helps you to find anything on RapidShare.
Rapidsharesearch – Search Rapidshare with their Fast Online Search Engine. All files are automatically checked to insure what you’re looking for is there
Rapid4Shared – Rapid4shared.com search engine that provides results from a hand-selected list of sites.
RSearch – Rapidshare search engine with simple interface.
RapidShareData – RapidshareData.com is a test files search project objected torapidshare.com.
RapidShareSearcher – A massive RapidShare search engine! With thousands of links, theres nothing you won’t be able to find!
RapidAll – RapidAll Rapidshare Download Search is a website that search files on the website hosts which have been upload by Rapidshare members for sharing with their friends, family or at forum sites.
RapidSearch.In – Free Search Engine for Rapidshare, Badongo, Sendspace, MediaFire and 4Shared Files.
RapidZearch – RapidZearch.com is a search engine to search on sites, forums, message boards for shared file links.
Rapidshare-Provider – Rapidshare search engine.
RarDir – A powerful RapidShare search engine.
Rapid TvPHP – A Rapidshare library with 1069578 files in their database.
ShareMiner – Using ShareMiner.com you can search Rapidshare, Megaupload and many other uploading sites and file hosting services.
ShareMiner – Using ShareMiner.com you can search Rapidshare with an easy to use interface.
TotMe – World’s Best Rapidshare Search Engine! 1,256,339 Rapidshare Link Available To Search!
ENTRANCE EXAMS , COURSES AND CAREER GUIDANCE
JagranJosh is a website that offers educational information on Banking, Civil Services, MBA Entrance, SSC, etc. and is known for simplifying test preparation. It is also a rich repository of CBSE, JEE, IAS-PCS, SSC study materials. Students can prepare well for their exams by downloading Previous Year’s Question Papers or they can ask or answer questions on their interactive forum. Current affairs and general knowledge quiz provide information in a fun way.
2) Shiksha.com
Shiksha.com provides complete guidance for MBA, MS, Engineering, Fashion designing and a variety of courses available in various colleges of India. It also has a forum that allows students to post career-related questions and receive answers from experts through a community known as Shiksha Cafe. The website also offers guidance and mock tests to prepare for courses abroad. It has a list of courses offered abroad, countries offering these courses and application process for the same. View here
3) Aglasem.com
Aglasem(next semester in Hindi) is a student’s guidance portal that offers study material, class notes, sample papers and more for students of CBSE and ICSE board. The website also offers guidance for national, state and college level entrance exams and also provides admission updates, preparation, query solving. Aglasem also provides recruitment updates and aids in the preparation of Government jobs, bank jobs, teacher eligibility test, railways recruitment etc.
This is an exclusive website that caters to commerce, accounts and finance students by providing innovative online coaching facility. The website offers guidance for professional courses like CA, CS, ICWA and also has many useful articles on subjects like Audit, Income Tax, Corporate Law, Accounts, etc. The interactive CCI forum is extremely useful to students to get expert answers to their questions directly from the experts.
Meritnation offers study materials designed specifically for the students of Class 1 to 12. Its Smart study feature offers videos, study materials, and textbook solutions for students. The website acts as a platform for live classes and online coaching for students of classes 4-12. The website’s Homework Help is popular for providing solutions for queries and doubts. MeritNation’s mobile app for Android and iOS users is available for download.
lndiastudychannel.com offers guidance to students on the selection of suitable college, course, school, etc. The website provides previous years question papers and has useful articles and practice tests that can help them prepare for the tests and improve their skills. Their active discussion forum provides answers and also aims at improving English Language skills of students.
7) Pagalguy.com
Pagalguy.com focuses on the field of MBA, Banking, UPSC, Engineering, and SSC. The website provides guidance on competitive exams, courses and entrance exams. Students can prepare for CAT, JEE, SSC and IBPS exams with PaGaLGuY’s free learning app – Prepathon. It also has a forum where students can post queries and receive answers from the experts.
Minglebox.com provides complete information on various exams like CAT, MAT, CLAT, GRE, GMAT, etc. It also offers information on a range of topics including Study in India, study abroad, Distance education, college admissions and more. You can download ebooks and study materials for free and also take free mock tests to evaluate and improve your skills.
Education observer features mock tests, recruitment exam guides, admissions, scholarships etc. and also provide news related to career and job search. Education observers’ interactive forum is a great platform to ask questions and receive expert answers.
10) Admission News
Admission News provides information regarding entrance exams, application dates, admission notices, scholarships and various career avenues. The website offers dedicated career counseling service and career-related info in fields like library science, fashion technology, biotechnology, engineering, law etc.
11) StudyNation 360
StudyNation has a wealth of information on courses provided abroad and aims to facilitate application and admissions to foreign institutes. It provides a range of information on exam and admission preparation. The website also offers support for securing education loans and promises to bridge the gap between universities and students.
12) India Education
This website features up to date news related to education and provides information on career choices, distance education, guidelines for online education etc. Students can download ebooks, find updated information on entrance tests, and receive expert answers on Ask an expert discussion forum.
13) Indiaedu
Indiaedu offers complete guidance on education, career choices etc and has extensive information on entrance exams, distance education, and education loan. The website also has a comprehensive list of career courses in countries like the US, UK, Australia and Canada.
14) Dimdima
Dimdima is an online children’s magazine that makes learning fun. It features information on topics related to sports, ecology, science etc. This unique website caters to school students; craft and activities, book buzz, poetry corner and more add to the fun quotient.
15) Youngbuzz
Youngbuzz offers online career counseling and academic guidance which are of great help to a student who has to make the crucial decision of which career path to choose. The website’s “Online Career Counseling Test” has helped many young aspirants narrow down their career preference. YoungBuzz has a wealth of information about entrance tests, and the best colleges and universities in India and abroad.
This website provides students with statistical information on literacy rate, educational infrastructure, distance education, research, and development within India’s education arena.
17) Room 108
Room 108 features a range of educational games for students on subjects like Science, Maths, English and Social Studies. It also offers puzzles, worksheets and stories for fun learning. Primary school teachers find the website as an excellent source for creating assignments.
18) Indiaedunews
Indiaedunews is a unique website that helps students make informed decisions by providing the latest information on the education sector in both India and abroad. Students can find a wealth of information on important institutions, courses offered, career options and entrance exams. The website also offers career counseling, information on vocation and distance education and online tests.
19) edHelper.com
edHelper is yet another website that offers a range of interactive educational materials for primary school teachers. It features bulletin board ideas, handwriting, cursive writing, social studies, geography, and other subjects including science, maths, English and social studies. edHelper also has downloadable coloring pages, puzzles, worksheets and stories for fun learning.
20) Kids Web India
Kids Web India features nursery rhymes, jokes, games, tongue twisters, stories, poems and riddles for kids. It has an exclusive Parents and Teachers desk and mothers corner that provides useful and exclusive information.
21) eSiksha
eSiksa offers valuable information regarding career opportunities and academics in India and abroad. Students can also find mock test papers, career and distance education guidance, astrological analysis, relax zone, quiz zone and more.
22) Scholastic
Scholastic is a website well known for its unique educational tools that give children access to a great number of books, easily downloadable videos and a variety of games.
23) Indiabix.com
IndiaBix is a great website for students who want to improve their Quantitative Aptitude, Verbal Ability, and Reasoning skills. The website also provides placement papers, body language tips, HR and technical interview tips and much more. 39. Britannica Britannica is a great website for children who are looking to improve their knowledge in areas such as Science & Technology, Arts & Entertainment, History & Society, Travel & Geography, and much more.
24) Britannica
Britannica is a great website for children who are looking to improve their knowledge in areas such as Science & Technology, Arts & Entertainment, History & Society, Travel & Geography, and much more.
Enchanted learning is a website created exclusively for children and is aimed at maximizing their learning abilities and creativity. The website covers a range of topics including geography, astronomy, inventors, explorers and more. It also has Coloring Pages, Games, and more that can be used by teachers for assignments or to supplement their lesson plans.
26) Coursera
Coursera is keen to make education accessible to everyone. It offers free courses online from world’s top-class universities such as the University of Michigan, Princeton University, etc. Lectures are in series in the form of 15-minute long clips.
27) Udacity
Udacity, founded by 4 Stanford roboticists is a free education website which is free for brainy types. It offers 11 courses related to science and maths and is free of prerequisites, deadlines, quizzes and other school stuffs which are irritating.
28) Open culture
Open culture offers an amazing collection of 400 courses online for free from Ivy League Universities such as UCLA, Stanford, Oxford and Columbia University. It offers a complete range of courses from science and art to economics and maths.
29) Learnist
Learnist, an interactive medium providing educational contents and teaching materials which are grouped into boards
30) Mentormob
MentorMob is just as similar to YouTube as in this users can create learning playlists from top rated websites. It is also a community where members can share and rank each other’s learning playlists.
31) Memrise
Memrise, an education website providing stress-free learning based on 3 pillars namely science, community and fun. This is based on scientific methods to implant new information.
32) edX.org
edX offers free courses mainly designed for interactive learning via web, provided by Harvard, Barkley, MIT, Georgetown, University of Washington, Boston University, Kyoto University, Karolinska Institute and many more.
33) Scitable
Scitable, a free personal learning tool and science library focused on genetic- the study of evolution, variation and the rich density of living organisms.
34) Open2study
Open2study offers free and high-quality education online. With this, you can study the subjects with its real value. These subjects are provided by Australian Institutions and are taught by experts and academics.
Open YALE Courses offers free and open access to various introductory courses which are taught by scholars and notable teachers at Yale University. And moreover, all lectures are available in audio, video and in text transcript formats.
Academic Earth offers a wide range of academic options to student from traditional to current day studies and also provides online degree courses from economics and accounting to engineering. In addition to this, it also has collaboration with many reputed colleges like Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Oxford, Stanford University and so on…
37) archive.org
Internet Archive is one of the finest websites providing free and accessible knowledge making your learning process easier. It is a genuine website that stores the original education material from several top rated websites.
38) bigthink.com
With Big Think, students can create their own distinct ideology as it offers several options on one subject. The articles in it were written by the experts which are further refined by the website’s editorial team there by providing authentic material to the students.
39) brightstorm.com
Brightstorm is one of the best platforms for high school scholars for reference. They offer help in every subjects from science to mathematics, history and various other subjects. They have arranged the topics in such a way that you can crack the competitive exams devoid of too much effort.
As compared to other websites, CosmoLearning not only provides academic learning to students but also provides skill-based learning. Students can refer the provided material or else can enrol themselves in any of the 58 courses. This website includes mainly 3 options: courses, educational materials and documentaries and the subjects are divided into 2 sections namely academic and extra-curricular subjects.
WEBSITES THAT ARE HELPFUL IN DAY TO DAY WORK
1. Screenr.com: This website helps you Record movies on your computer and send them straight to YouTube.
2. Bounceapp.com: For capturing full length screenshots of a web pages.
3.Goo.gl : Shorten long URLs and convert URLs into QR codes.
4. untiny.me: Find the original URLs that's hiding behind a short URLs.
5. localti.me: Know more than just the local time of a city
6.copypastecharacter.com: Copy-paste special characters that are not on your keyboard.
7. topsy.com :A better search engine for twitter.
8. fb.me/AppStore -Search iOS apps without launching iTunes.
9. iconfinder.com -The best place to find icons of all sizes.
10. office.com -Download templates, clipart and images for your Office documents.
11. woorank.com -everything you wanted to know about a website.
12. virustotal.com -Scan any suspicious file or email attachment for viruses.
13. wolframalpha.com - Gets answers directly without searching .
14.printwhatyoulike.com - Print web pages without the clutter.
15. joliprint.com -Reformats news articles and blog content as a newspaper.
16. isnsfw.com- When you wish to share a NSFW page but with a warning.
17. eggtimer.com - A simple online timer for your daily needs.
18. coralcdn.org -If a site is down due to heavy traffic, try accessing it through coral CDN.
19. random.org- Pick random numbers, flip coins, and more.
20. mywot.com -Check the trust level of any website .
21. viewer.zoho.com -Preview PDFs and Presentations directly in the browser.
22. tubemogul.com -Simultaneously upload videos to YouTube and other video sites.
23. truveo.com- The best place for searching web videos.
24. scr.im - Share your email address online without worrying about spam.
25. spypig.com - Now get read receipts for your email.
26. sizeasy.com -Visualize and compare the size of any product.
27. whatfontis.com -quickly determine the font name from an image.
28. fontsquirrel.com -A good collection of fonts free for personal and commercial use.
29. regex.info -Find data hidden in your photographs
30. tineye.com -This is like an online version of Google Googles.
31. iwantmyname.com - Helps you search domains across allTLDs.
32. tabbloid.com -Your favorite blogs delivered as PDFs.
33. join.me - Share your screen with anyone over the web.
34. onlineocr.net -Recognize text from scanned PDFs and images “ see other OCR tools.
35. flightstats.com -Track flight status at airports worldwide.
36. wetransfer.com -For sharing really big files online.
37. pastebin.com -A temporary online clipboard for your text and code snippets.
38.polishmywriting.com -Check your writing for spelling or grammatical errors.
39.awesomehighlighter.com - Easily highlight the important parts of a web page.
40. typewith.me -Work on the same document with multiple people.
41.whichdateworks.com-Planning an event? Find a date that works for all.
42. everytimezone.com -A less confusing view of the world time zones.
43. warrick.cs.odu.edu -You'll need this when your bookmarked web pages are deleted.
44. gtmetrix.com -The perfect tool for measuring your site performance online.
45. imo.im -Chat with your buddies on Skype,Facebook, GoogleTalk, etc from one place.
46.translate.google.com - Translate web pages,PDFs and Office documents.
47. youtube.com/leanback - Sit back and enjoy YouTube videos in full-screen mode.
48. similarsites.com -Discover new sites that are similar to what you like already.
49. wordle.net -Quick summarize long pieces of text with tag clouds.
50. bubbl.us -Create mind-maps, brainstorm ideas in the browser.
51. kuler.adobe.com -Get color ideas, also extract colors from photographs.
52. followupthen.com -Setup quick reminders via email itself.
53. lmgtfy.com -When your friends are too lazy to use Google on their own.
54. tempalias.com -Generate temporary email aliases, better than disposable