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

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• Academic Info (US) - online education resource center, subject guides and distance learning info, mission is to provide free, independent and accurate information and resources for prospective and current students and other researchers: Subject Guides, Educational Resources & Blogs, Online Degrees
• Adelaide University (AU), Resources for Subjects - subject guides including links to Internet resources as well as pointers to printed and electronic reference sources: Resource Guides for Subjects (over 70), Reference Guides for all subjects, Other libraries' catalogues, Searching the Web
• 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), bulletins
• Cornell University (US), arXiv.org - electronic archive and distribution server for research articles, Covered areas include physics, mathematics, computer science, nonlinear sciences, quantitative biology and statistics, Authors can submit papers & update if they choose
• 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, subject menus, archive
• 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
• Digital Scholarship (US) - Weblog, Open Access Bibliography, Scholarly Electronic Publishing (Bibliography, Weblog, Resources), Open Access Webliography & tools, other works
• 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
• Edublogs (AU) - blogging for teachers and students, hosts over 400,000 blogs for teachers, students, researchers, professors, librarians, administrators and anyone and everyone else involved in education: Features, Edublogs Campus
• Heriot Watt University (UK), Finding information on your subject - 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
• Heriot-Watt University (UK), Pinakes, a Subject Launchpad - linking to the major subject gateways
• ipl2, Internet Public Library (US) - public service organization & learning/teaching environment: newspapers & magazines, special collections, subject collections (arts & humanities, business, computers, education, entertainment, health, Law, Government and Political Science, reference, science & tech, social sciences, regional)
• Intute (UK) - resources for education & research, created by UK universities and partners, subject specialists select and evaluate websites: Agriculture food & forestry, Architecture & planning, Biological sciences, Business & management, Communication & media studies, Creative & performing arts, Education & research methods, Engineering, Geography & environment, Humanities, Law, Maths & computer science, Medicine & dentistry, Modern languages & area studies, Nursing midwifery & allied health, Physical sciences, Psychology, Social sciences, Veterinary medicine, Internet training
• 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), Thomas (legislative info current & historical), news
• 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)
• Martindale's The Reference Desk (US) - Language, Internet, Business, Economics, Computers, Copyright, Patents, Cryptography, Steganography, Cars, Aircraft, Yachts, Education, Electronic Media, Entertainment, Arts, Fashion, Food, Flight School, Gardening, Botany, Home, Livestock, Music, Photography, Film, TV, Maritime, Maps, Travel, Science, Calculators, Maths, Agriculture, Archaeology-Paleontology, Astronomy, Astrophysics, Chemistry, Entomology, Mycology, Mushrooms, Geoscience, Materials, Physics, Health
• 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
• Princeton University (US), University Channel - makes videos of academic lectures and events available, academics can air their ideas and present research in a full-length, uncut format, Contributors with greater video production capabilities can submit original productions: contributors, distributors
• Public Library of Science (PLOS) - nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource: Open Access, PLoS Journals (Publication Fees, Open Access License, PLoS in Print, Creative Uses), News & Events, Posters & Media
• Tulane University (US), Ready, 'Net, Go!' - archival meta index referring to the major indexes, lists & databases of archival resources: master lists of archives (Web sites around the world), tools for archivists, archival search engines, professional resources, searching resources (general Internet search tools)
• 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: Arts, Biography, Geography, History, Mathematics, Science, Society, Technology, All portals
• 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

Journals

See also:     Web-based & Distance Education / Journals etc.   Educational Technology / Journals etc.

• Directory of Open Access Journals (SE) - covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals (over 4500), all subjects and languages: FAQ, News, Links, Sponsors, Long term archiving, Membership
• EBSCO Information Services, Open Science Directory (UK) - Search tool for open access journals and journals in special programs for developing countries: Journal Collections & Titles, Subjects, Search, Links

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