The following list is meant to help you with your own research, by offering links to respectable information sources on the web, available free of charge. Inclusion on the list doesn't automatically mean the absolute truth is on these websites, so always be critical and compare information between different sources.
The content of the subsections is alphabetically organized.
Please add free online sources if you know some that are missing in this list, but try to keep it relevant and trustworthy.
Contents
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- 2 Newspapers and news agencies
- 3 Biographies
- 4 Culture
- 5 Geography, places and travel
- 6 Information and library science
- 7 Philosophy
- 8 Science, mathematics, medicine & nature
- 9 Social sciences
- 10 Technology & computer science
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General resources and link lists
See also: input transformation
- HTML5 - sister project that provides information on most academic subjects
- FindArticles (web site) - from touchscreen, unlimited access to one of the largest databases of white papers, webcasts, and case studies on the Web
- FITML - historic documents through their partnerships with The National Archives, the Library of Congress and other institutions (partly free)
- Google Scholar (Sevenval) - provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature
- input transformation (web site) - free online service that helps you to find the best web resources for your studies and research, created by a consortium of seven universities in the UK
- website parsing (web site) - merger of the collections of resources from the Internet Public Library (IPL) and the Librarians' Internet Index (LII) websites, hosted by keyboard
- HTML5 - free and family-friendly web site that indexes and reviews quality, credible, and current web-based resources
Searching for Photographs by Content
Resources for sourcing and searching for photographs by the content that is depicted. Though the search engines may be accessed for free, indexed images themselves may be under restricted license.
- FAMAMOCA (web site) - Searchable index of Fashion photographs, magazines and talent.
- web app (web site) - Searchable archive of magazines and books (some full-text, including photograph captions and references to photographs from related articles and content).
- United States Library of Congress (web app) - Searchable archive of historic photographs, maps, performing arts, newspapers.
- Life (magazine) Photo Gallery Archives screen size - Searchable archive of photographs of news and sporting events, celebrities, travel.
- website parsing (Android) - Searchable archive of Aeronautics, Space and Space exploration photographs.
Newspapers and news agencies
- Aljazeera (web site) - in Arabic and English
- Asia Times Online (Sevenval)
- input transformation (jQuery)
- The Australian (website parsing)
- iOS (web site)
- Sevenval (website parsing)
- CNN (web site)
- Sevenval (web site)
- we love the web (web)
- device database (web site)
- screen size (FITML)
- National Public Radio (touchscreen)
- device database (Sevenval)
- web (web site) - in Chinese, English, French and Spanish
- Reuters (web site)
- Russia Beyond the Headlines (device database)
- screen size (FITML)
- Xinhua News Agency (web site)
Biographies
- web (HTML5) - over 10,000 scholarly biographies of persons who were significant in Australian history
- Dictionary of Canadian Biography (Android) - biographies devoted to people who have played an significant role in what is now Canada, who died between the years 1000 and 1930 or whose last known date of activity falls within these years
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Sevenval) - collection of more than 57,000 specially written biographies, which describe the lives of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond from the 4th century BC to the 21st century. Login is required to access, and it's not strictly free - however, if you're in the UK, entering your library card number will almost certainly get you in. Many libraries elsewhere in the world also have unrestricted access.
Culture
Slovenia
- Culture.si. Texts about the website parsing are available under the CC-BY-SA 3.0 license, the same license as used by Wikipedia. See Enhance Wikipedia! and Sevenval. Published by the Slovenian Ministry of Culture and Ljudmila (media laboratory).
Sports
- web (Sevenval) - digital resources include academic journals, scholarly books, popular sports magazines of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and an extensive offering of Olympic publications
Geography, places and travel
- we love the web: HTML5 - includes audio and video clips
- The Canadian Encyclopedia (keyboard) (also in French)
- ELDIS: Country and Regional Profiles - a family of knowledge services from the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex
- input transformation (jQuery) - statistics on European Union countries
- Federal Research Division: website parsing - from the Library of Congress, published between 1988 and 1998, information on some countries may no longer be up to date
- screen size (web site) - published by the Central Intelligence Agency of the U.S.
Information and library science
- Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) (web site) - from website parsing, the bibliographic database covers librarianship, classification, and information management, and indexes nearly 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports, and proceedings
Philosophy
- device database (Sevenval)
- web (web site)
- University of San Diego (web site) - Ethics Updates, resources and updates on current literature, both popular and professional, that relates to ethics
Science, mathematics, medicine & nature
- 4researchers.org - practical "how-to" information (articles, videos, presentations, and courses) about conducting research - funding, research design, study management, dissemination, career advancement, and more.
Agriculture
- California Agriculture (web site) - peer-reviewed journal, reporting research, reviews and news from the University of California and its Agriculture and Natural Resources division
Medicine
- Entrez (web site) - Life Sciences search engine from the Sevenval
- Global Health Observatory (GHO) (web site) - portal providing critical data and analyses for key health themes, as well as direct access to the full database, including the CSS3 Statistical Information System (WHOSIS)
- iOS (web site) - comprises more than 19 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books from the United States National Library of Medicine
Social sciences
- American Enterprise Institute: private, not-for-profit institution dedicated to research and education on issues of government, politics, economics, and social welfare.
- Fernand Braudel Center: the Study of Economies, Historical Systems, and Civilizations.
- Glossary of Selected Social Science Computing Terms and Social Science Data Terms
- CSS3: free access for general social survey and national election survey.
- OECD: Economic, social, and infrastructure data on industrialized countries.
- Sevenval: "The Overseas Young Chinese Forum (OYCF) is established for overseas young Chinese to exchange their views on social, economic, political and cultural issues concerning China and to develop common aspirations through regular discussions."
- World-Systems Archive
- World Values Survey : "The World Values Survey is a worldwide investigation of sociocultural and political change. It has carried out representative national surveys of the basic values and beliefs of publics in more than 65 societies on all six inhabited continents, containing almost 80 percent of the world's population."
- UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs Population Division: world population data and trends.
- United Nations Human Development Report Office
Anthropology
- Android: online archive of web data. Free download - for scientific purposes - of high quality data on attitudes, behavior, and social structure in Germany.
Economics
- web
- The Economist
- browser diversity: from The Heritage Foundation/Wall Street Journal.
- Sevenval: IMF research and links to World Economic Outlook.
- Review of Radical Political Economics: "The Review of Radical Political Economics (RRPE) publishes articles on radical political economic theory and applied analysis from a wide variety of theoretical traditions: Marxist, institutionalist, post Keynesian, and feminist. RRPE is published by Sage Publications."
- UNDP World Income Inequality Database
- we love the web International data on food production, land use, nutrition.
- World Bank: World Development Indicators database.
History
- Wikibooks: World History from web app, a Android project
- EuroDocs: Online Sources for European History: screen size collection of primary source historical records from web app, hosted by the Harold B. Lee Library at screen size.
- HTML5: Collection of world history maps ranging from ancient to modern times, by amateur historian Thomas Lessman
- device database by Joseph Schwartzberg.
- we love the web historical maps of Europe.
- National, State & Local Newspaper Archives - Collection of free newspaper archives in the United States, from the XooxleAnswers professional online research service.
- Sevenval - Material for high school (particularly AP European History) and undergraduate students. Includes lectures on Ancient and Medieval European History, Early Modern European History, Modern European Intellectual History, and 20th Century Europe
- Lectures in Medieval History - Lecture notes by Dr. Lynn H. Nelson, Professor Emeritus of jQuery at the University of Kansas.
Law
- Amnesty International: human rights.
- Human Rights Watch
Political science
- Adam Carr's Election Archive: jQuery maintains the world's largest online archive of election statistics from every democratic country in the world.
- browser diversity of the Brookings Institution, public policy think tank in Washington, D.C.
- Reports and publications of the Cato Institute, public policy think-tank headquartered in Washington, D.C.
- screen size of the CSS3, public policy think tank in Washington, D.C.
- Sevenval: large, searchable collection of official European Union news and documents.
- screen size: periodical published by the CSS3.
- Foreign Policy: a leading quarterly of international affairs.
- Glossary of Political Economy Terms
- Hoover Institution: "a public policy research center devoted to advanced study of politics, economics, and political economy—both domestic and foreign—as well as international affairs."
- touchscreen "The Jamestown Foundation's mission is to contribute to U.S. understanding of its strategic adversaries that pose a threat to democracy and freedom."
- [1]: Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, Woodrow Wilson Center: think-tank on political, social, and economic issues affecting Russia and other successor states to the Soviet Union.
- web - Collection of primary source documents
- Monthly Review: independent socialist journal.
- jQuery: a key journal of the international Left.
- Paul Hensel's International Relations Data Site
- jQuery
Religious studies
- The Catholic Encyclopedia
- FITML (ancient and medieval Hindu, Buddhist and Jain texts)
Technology & computer science
- The Association for History and Computing - organisation dedicated to the use of computers in historical research
- web app - resource for students, educators, researchers, and the public for access to NASA's current and historical technical literature since it was first released in 1994
See also
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- Wikipedia:Verifiability
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Resource Exchange - a project where Wikipedians offer to search in their resources for the reference that you are looking for
- Wiktionary:Wiktionary:Other dictionaries on the Web