Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries annually selects a number of academically oriented web sites as particularly valuable for academic research. On this page are gathered the majority of CHOICE Outstanding selected sites from the most recent three years from all disciplines.
FYI: Across the library's web site a
indicates an outstanding site, while a blue star
indicates a Highly Recommended web site; finally a
gray-orange abstract icon indicates a CHOICE Recommended web site.
| Subject Area :: Reference | Description |
|---|---|
| Reference | General, multi-disciplinary, interdisciplinary reference, large general e-text collections, also general consumer health science titles. |
| Academic Earth: Video Lectures from the World's Top Scholars | |
| CareerOneStop | sponsored by the US Department of Labor |
| Dictionary of Canadian Biography | |
| Disabled Sports USA | |
| Drug Information Portal | National Library of Medicine |
| Eurostat | a statistical unit of the EU whose mission is to provide the European Union with a high-quality statistical information service. |
| FedFlix | A resource with a wide variety of content and broad appeal; a joint venture between the National Technical Information Service [NTIS] and Public.Resource.Org. FedFlix features more than 3,300 films created by the US government over the pat 70 years on a range of topics from the space program to WW II to the war on drugs. |
| HighWire Press | Stanford University |
| Holocaust Encyclopedia | United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; a source that is first-rate in every way. |
| Journal TOCs | Institute for Computer Based Learning, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland; tables of content from more than 14,000 journals; also MyTOCs (an RSS feed) and RefWorks software
support features are available. |
| Mendeley Research Networks | A type of research management software that was designed by a group of researchers and open source developers from the UK and Germany. This site provides a free, open source environment for researchers worldwide to collaborate, share, and store research ideas, citations, and related works. |
| National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine | National Institutes of Health.gov |
| OFFSTATS: Official Statistics on the Web | |
| Open Books Page | U. Penn libraries; lists and links over 35,000 free books on the web |
| Online Writing Lab at Purdue (OWL) | |
| PSNet : Patient Safety Network | From the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; .gov |
| Research 101 | U Washington |
| UNData.org | |
| Vanderbilt Television News Archive | |
 Zotero: The Next Generation Research Tool |
FireFox extension to
help collect, manage, and cite research; from George Mason University; |
| Subject Area :: Business and Economics | Description |
|---|---|
| Business and Economics | Most aspects of business and economics. |
| ABI/InForm Database | restricted to UTPB students |
| Entrepreneurship Corner | From the Stanford Technology Ventures Program; a wonderful free collection of more than 1,600 videos and podcasts related to entrepreneurship. |
| Everything International | Developed and maintained by Lloyd C. Russow, Graduate Dean, Professor of International Business and Marketing, Philadelphia University |
| FDIC: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation |
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| The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco |
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| globalEDGE [sic] | Broad College of Business, Michigan State |
| Inc.com | High quality, reliable articles on a wide variety of business topics; however, fairly heavy advertising |
| Liber8: An Economic Information Portal | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis |
| PewInternet : The Internet & American Life | Pew Research Center |
| Resources for Economists on the Internet | |
| World Bank Open Data | For the first time allows Web access to the Bank's vast collection of economic, social, population, and development data with no restrictions at no cost. |
| Subject Area :: Education | Description |
|---|---|
| Education | All aspects of education |
| BioEd Online: Biology Teacher Resources | |
| Child Care & Early Education Research Connections | |
| Dr. Mac's Amazing Behavior Management Advice Site | |
| ED.gov | |
| EduHound: Your Educational Technology Resource | |
| International Children's Library : A Library for the World's Children | Project of the University of Maryland and the Internet Archive, with funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services; One of the goals was to build an international collection that would appeal to children ages 3-13 (all over the world) and at the same time provide quality literature. It would also provide a platform for researchers in their quest to study international children's literature and digital media. These goals have been met and then some. |
| Lost Opportunity: A 50 State Report on the Opportunity to Learn in America | Schott Foundation of Public Education developed this site; its mission is To develop and strengthen a broad-based and representative movement to achieve fully resourced, quality preK-12 public education....The study's conclusions--the primary one being that the "report's data indicate, that nationally, students from historically disadvantaged groups have just a 51 percent Opportunity to Learn, when compared to White, non-Latino students".... |
| National Council of Teachers of Mathematics | subdivided into elementary, middle and high school, along with higher education and professional development |
| Teachable Moment | |
| Teachers: Bringing the Power of Primary Sources into the Classroom | Library of Congress |
| Web English Teacher | |
| Subject Area :: Humanities | Description |
|---|---|
| Humanities and Fine Arts | Art, Communications, History, Language and Literatures, Music. Many aspects of the humanities should also examine Education and Social Science web sites |
| Aesopica: | Aesop's Fables in English, Latin & Greek |
| African-American Archaeology, History and Cultures | University of Illinois |
| African Studies Internet Resources | Columbia University |
| American Variety Stage and Popular Entertainment 1870-1920 | Library of Congress; 334 English- and Yiddish-language playscripts, 146 theater playbills ; 143 photographs and so on |
| ArtsJournal : Daily Art News | Begun in 1999, the ArtsJournal site provides a digest of arts and cultural journalism in the English-speaking world, with links to stories in more than 200 free access newspapers, magazines, and publications....Available topics from the site's home page includes issues, dance, ideas, media, music, people, publishing, theater, and visual. |
| BlackPast.org: Remembered & Reclaimed | Online Reference Guide to African American History; U Washington |
| Bibliography of the History of Art—International Bibliography of Art | As of April 2010, the Getty has made the
BHA available for free. Searchable through basic or advanced mode (via keywords, subject, artist, author, title, etc.), the database is the most comprehensive tool for Western art history research.
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| Carlyle Letters Online | Duke and Edinburgh Universities |
| Center for History and New Media | |
| The Center for Public Integrity : Investigative Journalism in the Public Interest | The site makes the most of its freedom from time and space limitations, so the wealth of information here can be daunting and sometimes hard to follow. But those who acquaint themselves with the pathways will be rewarded with an astonishing amount of high-quality information and with resources not easily available otherwise. The center also offers a blog with RSS feed The Paper Trail |
| Citizen Media Law Project : Legal Resources for Citizen Media | Citizen journalists, from the lone blogger to local amateur news sites now have a legal champion. Affiliated with the Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet and Society and the Center for Citizen Media at Arizona State University, .... [this authoritative site] focuses exclusively on issues relevant to citizen journalism and positions itself as an advocate by maintaining a database of legal threats to citizen Web-based journalistic projects. |
| Cold War International History Project | Wilson Center |
| Core77.com: Design Magazine & Resource | |
| The Correspondence of William Henry Fox Talbot | Nearly 10,000 letters to and from the inventor of photography |
| CPANDA: Cultural Policy and the Arts National Data Archive | |
| Dante Dartmouth Project | searchable, full-text resource; it combines modern technology with 700 years of commentary about Dante's Divine Comedy |
| Dickens Project | University of California |
| Digital Mozart Edition | Must click an agreement which states: I agree to use this web site only for personal study and not to make copies except for my personal use under Fair Use principles of Copyright law |
| Duke Collection of American Indian Oral History | University of Oklahoma; beginning in 1996 Doris Duke funded seven American Indian Oral History projects, including this one based at the University of Oklahoma. |
| Early Americas Digital Archive, 1492-c. 1802 | Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities |
| Ethics Update | |
| Europa Film Treasures | |
| Folkstreams.net: A National Preserve of Documentary Film about American Roots Culture | Site includes transcriptions, study and teaching guides, suggested readings and links to related web sites |
| France in America=La France en Amerique | Library of Congress |
| George Grantham Bain Collection | Files of one of America's earliest news picture agencies, Library of Congress |
| German Studies | Berkeley |
| Giza Archives Project | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
| Greek Mythology Links | |
| Hear Here: The Royal Philharmonic Society Classic FM | Music |
| The Hannah Arendt Papers at the Library of Congress | the featured items were selected for their importance and general interest. Prominent among them are papers pertaining to the Eichmann trial. The collection is well organized, meticulously indexed, and reasonably easy to use....In the excellent intellectual biography that introduces the site, Jerome Kohn, Director of the Hannah Arendt Center at New School University, emphasizes the "effort to understand totalitarianism" that defined Arendt's career and "continued to the end of her life." |
| Hector Berlioz Website | Music |
| Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930 | Harvard |
| International Children's Library : A Library for the World's Children | Project of the University of Maryland and the Internet Archive, with funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services; One of the goals was to build an international collection that would appeal to children ages 3-13 (all over the world) and at the same time provide quality literature. It would also provide a platform for researchers in their quest to study international children's literature and digital media. These goals have been met and then some. |
| Internet Medieval Sourcebook | |
| Internet Moving Images Archive | |
| Literature & Culture of the American 1950s | |
| A New Nation Votes: American Election Returns 1776-1825 | Tufts University and The American Antiquarian Society |
| Oxford Language Dictionaries | use restricted to currently enrolled UTPB students |
| PAL: Perspectives in American Literature | sub-titled: A Research and Reference Guide--an Ongoing Project |
| Papers of the War Department, 1784-1800 | |
| The Paris Review : the Interviews | Index of archives subdivided alphabetically and chronologically |
| Performing Arts in America, 1875-1923 | New York Public Library |
| Poetry Archive | Recordings of poets reading their own works |
| Raid on Deerfield: The Many Stories of 1704 |
29 February 1704 raid on Deerfield, Massachusetts by 300 French and Native
allies |
| Reading Women Writers and African Literatures | Specializes in Francophone African literature South of the Sahara |
| The Silent Era | Silent Films |
| Speech Accent Archive | |
| TEAMS Middle English Texts: | sub-titled: The Camelot Project, Arthurian Texts, Images, Bibliographies and Basic Information; University of Rochester |
| TERMIUM Plus | Buried within the hierarchy of the Canadian government's complex Web site is a trove of linguistic information--a searchable database of terms with English, French, and Spanish equivalents....Alongside the translations, the lexicon provides information on sources (dictionaries, trade publications, Web sites, and more), definitions, grammatical gender, the subject area covered, and observations on usage with examples. |
| Tibetan & Himalayan Digital Library | |
| The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database | |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture: A Multi-media Archive | University of Virginia; National Endowment for the Humanities; National Endowment for the Arts |
| The Vietnam Center and Archive | Texas Tech |
| Web English Teacher | |
| Walt Whitman Archive | University of Nebraska, outstanding in terms of quality, comprehensiveness, ease of navigation, and currency--and it sets a high standard for all digital archiving sites. |
| William Faulkner on the Web | comprehensive, accessible site |
| Women Romantic-Era Writers | |
| WWW-Virtual Library: American Indians: Index of Native American Resources on the Internet | |
| Zora Neale Hurston Plays at the Library of Congress | Selection of 10 plays written between 1925 and 1944 |
| Subject Area :: Sciences | Description |
|---|---|
| Sciences | Biology, Chemistry, Computer Sciences & Mathematics, Engineering, Geology, History of Science |
| arXiv.org: e-Print archive | Cornell; Open access to 548,406 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, and Statistics |
| BioEdOnline: Biology Teacher Resources | |
| Canyon Cultures, and Environmental Change: An Introduction to the Land Use History of the Colorado Plateau | Sponsored by NASA, USGS, LUNHA and Northern Arizona University; site is engaging, informative and well-organized |
| ChemIDplus | |
| Cosmic Evolution: From Big Bang to Humankind | Tufts University |
| Digital Library in Earth System Education | |
| Einstein Light | requires Flash plug-in |
| Energy Information Administration | Official energy statistics from the U.S. government |
| Global Change Master Directory | NASA |
| HighWire Press | Stanford University |
| HTML Code Tutorial | subtitled: The Power of Code and the Knowledge to Use It |
| International Energy Agency |
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| Intute: Science, Engineering & Technology: Earth Sciences | |
| Math Forum @ Drexel: Ask Dr. Math | |
| MathVids.com | Aggregates and organizes video lessons, lectures, and tutorials for middle to high school and university students, teachers or anyone wishing to learn, relearn, or find help. |
| Microbial Life-- Educational Resources | Science Education Research Center, Carleton College |
| Multi-Repository Mathematics Collections | U Michigan, digital repository of math books from the 19th or early 20th centuries |
| NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies | |
| NASA Homepage | |
| NASA Images | |
| National Climatic Data Center | NOAA.gov |
| National Council of Teachers of Mathematics | subdivided into elementary, middle and high school, along with higher education and professional development |
| Natural Resources Defense Council | highly respected, large, non-profit environmental organization; its Web site is crisp, clean, and clearly organized which makes it very easy to navigate. There are more than 300 videos on YouTube and multiple blogs; much of the material is available in a parallel Spanish version. Maintained by a large staff of scientists, lawyers, and policy specialists, there is a need for the NRDC Web site to function as a fund-raising tool. |
| NOAA Paleoclimatology | |
| NOVA: The Elegant Universe | PBS; eleven dimensions, parallel universes, and a world made out of strings |
| NSDL: The National Science Digital Library | supports all levels of education and research in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics |
| Odonata Central | Zoology |
| Periodic Table of Elements | |
| Periodic Table of Videos | |
| Physics to Go | a product of the American Physical Society, and a unit of the ComPADRE Digital Library; For everyone interested in learning about the physical universe; an excellent resource for exploration |
| PhysOrg.com | Popular, UK-based Web site offers comprehensive daily coverage of science-, technology-, and medical-related news. Chief editor John Benson and a team of seven full-time staff and six professional writers use sources from major news services, universities, and private research centers to create and maintain this resource. |
| Primate Info Net | National Primate Research Center, U Wisconsin |
| ScienceResearch.com | A Web search engine (currently in beta) produced by Deep Web Technologies Inc. (creator of Scitopia.org, Mednar.com and Biznar.com) is designed to search across and federate more than 300 science-related public and commercial Web collections |
| SIMBAD Astronomical Database | Provides basic data, cross-identifications, bibliography and measurements for astronomical objects outside the solar system |
| Transistorized!: The History of the Invention of the Transistor | PBS |
| USDA Animal Welfare Information Center | |
| US Environmental Protection Agency | In the past 18 months, the EPA has improved the appearance and usability of its site. The new home page features relevant, current information and provides the public with quick access to many popular environmental subjects. |
| VassarStats: Statistical Computation Web Site | |
| W3 Schools | |
| Water Resources of the United States | USGS |
| The Why Files | In existence since 1996, The Why Files, supported by the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is an award-winning, informative, educational, and entertaining Web site that looks at the science behind the headlines. Unlike many instantaneous news sites, The Why Files, through its In the News articles, takes an in-depth, well-researched approach to analyzing issues pertaining to science, math, technology, health, and the environment. |
| Subject Area :: Social Sciences | Description |
|---|---|
| Social Sciences | Anthropology, Criminology, Law, Political Science, Psychology, Social Work, Sociology, and related areas. Many areas in the social sciences should also examine Education and Humanities web sites. |
| American Presidency Project | Originally UC-Santa Barbara, now a stand-alone site containing 86,419 documents related to the study of the Presidency |
| Annenberg Public Policy Center | |
| Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History | |
| ASIL Guide to Electronic Resources for International Law | Concise, accurate, reliable place to begin research on international law. The web site is supported by the American Society of International Law, and is maintained and updated regularly. Navigation is straightforward using the table of contents. Because the guide is text-based and includes few graphics, pages load quickly |
| The Center for Public Integrity : Investigative Journalism in the Public Interest | The site makes the most of its freedom from time and space limitations, so the wealth of information here can be daunting and sometimes hard to follow. But those who acquaint themselves with the pathways will be rewarded with an astonishing amount of high-quality information and with resources not easily available otherwise. The center also offers a blog with RSS feed The Paper Trail |
| Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science (CSISS): Spatial Resources for the Social Sciences | This superb Web site offers one-stop shopping for anyone who wishes to learn about the fundamentals of and the advances in the use of geographic information systems (GIS) in the human sciences. The site offers everything from syllabi to standards for courses to examples of "Best Practices" in the use of GIS, serves as a repository for papers given at various workshops and meetings throughout the world, and offers digital versions of classic monographs and articles on human geography and spatial analysis |
| DigitalCommons@ILR | Created by Catherwood Library at Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR). both a traditional institutional repository and a subject-oriented collection of workplace-related information. It contains....authoritative gray literature and born-digital research published by faculty, researchers, and analysts from Cornell and other institutions. |
| ECAI: Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative | Historical anthropology |
| Eugenics Archive | Image archive on the American Eugenics Movement; supported by the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory |
| Everything International | Developed and maintained by Lloyd C. Russow, Philadelphia University |
| HEARTH: Home Economics Archive: Research, Tradition, History | Cornell; core collection of digitized books published between 1850 and 1925 |
| Institute for Policy Research | Northwestern University |
| Latin American Network Information Center | University of Texas |
| Legal Threats Database | Citizen Media Law Project; the database contains lawsuits, cease & desist letters, subpoenas, and other legal threats directed at those who engage in online speech |
| LLRX.com: Law and Technology Resources for Legal Professional | |
| National Anthropological and Human Studies Film Archives | part of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History |
| National Conference of State Legislatures | |
| National Indian Law Library | Provided by the Native American Rights Fund |
| National Mental Health Information Center | |
| Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life | Pew Research Center |
| PewInternet : The Internet & American Life | Pew Research Center |
| Presidential Timeline of the Twentieth Century | |
| ProPublica: Journalism in the Public Interest | |
| PsychScholar: A Collection of Web Resources... | |
| The ReDistricting Game | Project of the USC Annenberg Center for Communications; the project is intended to educate and empower citizens on the issue of redistricting. |
| Social Psychology Network | Wesleyan University |
| St. Thomas School of Law Diplomacy Monitor | |
| Terrorism | A Navy Department Library Research Guide |
| The Torture Archive | Part of the National Security Archive at George Washington University; provides access to over 83,000 pages of primary documents concerning the detention and interrogation of individuals by the US government. |
| UNHCR: The UN Refugee Agency | |
| United States Courts | Considered by many to be one of the most valuable legal resources available, the US Federal Judiciary's Web site features new enhancements that have made a great resource even better. One of the new features is an e-mail delivery service; subscriptions are free and require only basic information from users. |
| Vanderbilt Television News Archive | |
| Web Guide to U.S. Supreme Court Research | LLRX.com |
| Page Updated: 21 December 2010 | Page Created: 6 July 2009 |