Examples of Useful and Reliable web sources
1. AFA e-Newsletter (Alzheimer's Foundation of America
newsletter)
2. American Memory-the Library of Congress historical digital
collection
3. Bartleby.com Great Books Online a collection of free e-
books including fictions, nonfictions, references, and verses.
4 Chronicling America-search and view pages form
American newspapers from 1880-1922
5. Cyber Bullying-a free collection of e-books from ebrary plus additional
reports and documents to help better understand, prevent and take action against
this growing concern
6 Drug information websites:
a National Library of Medicine's MedinePlus
b. Drugs.com
c. PDRhealth
7. Global Gateway World Culture &
Resources (from the Library of Congress)
8.Google Books
9. Googlescholar.com
10. History sites with primary documents
a AMDOCS Documents for the study of American history
b. Avalon Project. Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy
(Yale Lew School)
c. Internet Modern History Sourcebook Colonial Latin America
d. Teacher Oz's Kingdom of History
11. Illinois Digital Archives the Ilincis State Library working with libraries, museums, and
historical societies in illinois provides this collection of matenals related to Illinois history.
12. Internet Archive - a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital
form.
13. Internet Archive for CARLI digitized resources
14. Internet Public Library
15. ip12-a merger of Librarians Intemet Index and Internet Public
Library Special interest may include the "Literary Criticisms page
which can be found after dicking on the Special Collections" link
16. Librarians' Internet Index
17.Making of America - a digital library
of primary sources
of America social history
18.Maps- form the university of Texas at Austin collection
includes
historical and thematic maps.
19.NationMaster- a massive central data source and handy
way to geographically compare nations. it is a vast
compilation of data form such a sources as the CIA World
Facebook UN and OECD.
20.Nursing Sites:
a. AHRQ(www.ahrq.gov)
b. National Guidelines Clearinghouse(www.guideline.gov)
c.PubMed(www.nim,nin.gov)
21.Project Gutenberg - the first and the largest collection of free electronic books with currently over 20.000 e-books
available.
22.Shmoop- literature,Us history and poetry information written primarily by PhD and masters students from top
universities like Stanford, Berkeley, Harvard, and Yale.
23.StateMaster- a unique statistical data base which allows you to research and compare of multitude of different
data on US stats using various primary sources such as the US census Bureau, the FBI and the national center for
educational statistics, it uses visualization technology like pie charts, maps,graph's and scotter plots to provide data.
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Thankies!
