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Best of the general education and research portals: libraries, academic resources, directories to educational materials, subject and study guides

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• Applied Math and Science Education Repository (AMSER) (US) - educational resources and services built specifically for use by those in Community and Technical Colleges but free for anyone to use: resources (Arts, Educational Technology, Foreign Languages, Health, Language Arts, Maths, Philosophy, Physical Education, Religion, Science, Social studies, Vocational Education

• BUBL Infomation Service (UK) - selected internet resources covering all academic subject areas & catalogued according to Dewey Decimal Classification: generalities, science & mathematics, philosophy & psychology. technology, religion, arts, social sciences, literature & rhetoric, language, geography & history, internet resources by type, countries

• California University (US), Infomine, Scholarly Internet Resource Collections - virtual library of Internet resources for faculty, students, research staff, resources such as databases, electronic journals & books, bulletin boards, mailing lists, online library card catalogs, articles, directories of researchers: bio ag & med sciences, business & economics, cultural diversity, e-journals, govt info, maps & GIS, physical science, maths, social sciences & humanities, visual & performing arts, other search tools, general reference

• DocuSeek (US) - search site for independent documentary, social issue & educational videos available in US & Canada, allows search for videos by grade level, length, filmmaker, key words: search for videos, distributors, associations, journals, reviews

• Heriot Watt University (UK), "How To Find Out" Guides - concise and detailed guides to subjects: accounting, banking & financial info, built environment, business info, chemical & process engineering, chemistry, civil engineering, company info, computing & IT, economics, electrical engineering, govt info, languages & linguistics, legal info, life sciences, maths & statistics, mechanical engineering, offshore & petroleum engineering & marine resources, physics, statistical series, textiles

• Intute (UK) - free online service providing access to resources for education and research, created by a network of UK universities and partners, subject specialists select and evaluate websites and write descriptions, database contains over 118,000 records: Internet catalogue, Internet training, Communication, Science Engineering and Technology, Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences, Health and Life Sciences

• Library of Congress (US) - research arm of congress recognized as US national library, resources for (librarians, archivists, publishers, researchers, teachers, visitors): catalogs (print, multimedia, online resources), copyright office, American memory (historic maps, photos, documents, audio & video), exhibitions (on-line gallery), global gateway (multilingual resources on world culture), Thomas (legislative info current & historical), webcasts, news & events, today in history

• L-Soft, Official Catalog of LISTSERV lists - browse over 50,000 public listserv lists on the internet, search for mailing lists of interest, info about listserv host sites: list information, site info, info for list owners (provide descriptions, list owner's guide, check mailing lists)

• National Academies Press (NAP) (US) - read more than 3000 books online free: Agriculture, Behavioral and Social Sciences, Biology and Life Sciences, Computers and IT, Conflict and Security Issues, Earth Sciences, Education, Energy and Energy Conservation, Engineering and Technology, Environment and Environmental Studies, Food & Nutrition, Health and Medicine, Industry and Labor, Math, Chemistry and Physics, Science (Past and Future), Space and Aeronautics, Transportation and Infrastructure, Policy for Science and Technology

• Open Directory Project (US) - comprehensive human edited directory of the Web, compiled by vast global community of volunteer editors: arts, business, computers, games, health, home, news, recreation, reference, regional, science, shopping, society, sports, world

• Waterloo University (CA), Scholarly Societies Project - currently the largest free Internet-accessible database on scholarly societies across the world allowing database access via several fields, web sites of more than 4,000 scholarly societies (Special Kinds, Special Resources at Websites), societies & scholarly communication (essays), feedback, documentation

• Wikipedia, Free-content Encyclopedia - free encyclopedia that anyone can edit: FAQs, categories, A-Z, portals, ask a question, site news, culture, geography, history, maths, people, science, society, technology, community portal, current events, random article

• Wisconsin University (US), Scout Project - developing better tools & services for finding, filtering & presenting online info & metadata, has access to highly educated content specialists and a world-class array of computer science & library resources: The Scout Report (research & education, general interest, network tools, news), archives, projects, weblog

• WWW Virtual Library - run by loose confederation of volunteers compiling pages of key links for particular areas in which they are expert: agriculture, arts, business & economics, computer science, communications & media, education, engineering, humanities, info & libraries, international affairs, law, natural sciences and mathematics, recreation, regional studies, social & behavioural sciences, society