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. |
| Dictionary of Canadian Biography | |
| Disabled Sports USA | |
| Drug Information Portal | National Library of Medicine |
| HighWire Press | Stanford University |
| 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) | |
| 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 |
| Everything International | Developed and maintained by Lloyd C. Russow, Graduate Dean, Professor of International Business and Marketing, Philadelphia University |
| 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 | |
| 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: Everything for Education K-12 | |
| 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 |
| BlackPast.org: Remembered & Reclaimed | Online Reference Guide to African American History; U Washington |
| Carlyle Letters Online | Duke and Edinburgh Universities |
| Center for History and New Media | |
| Center for Public Integrity: Investigative Journalism in the Public Interest | Communications |
| 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 | |
| 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 |
| Early Americas Digital Archive, 1492-c. 1802 | Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities |
| Ethics Update | |
| 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 | |
| Hector Berlioz Website | Music |
| Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930 | Harvard |
| Internet Medieval Sourcebook | |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Royal Historical Society Bibliography | In association with Irish History Online and London's Past Online |
| 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 |
| Tibetan & Himalayan Digital Library | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 |
| Intute: Science, Engineering & Technology: Earth Sciences | |
| Math Forum @ Drexel: Ask Dr. Math | |
| Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics | |
| 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 | |
| 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 |
| 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 | |
| Primate Info Net | National Primate Research Center, U Wisconsin |
| 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 |
| VassarStats: Statistical Computation Web Site | |
| W3 Schools | |
| Water Resources of the United States | USGS |
| 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 | |
| Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science (CSISS): Spatial Resources for the Social Sciences | |
| ECAI: Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative | Historical anthropology |
| EISIL: Electronic Information System for International Law | American Society of International Law |
| 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 |
| National Conference of State Legislatures | |
| 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 | |
| PsychScholar: A Collection of Web Resources... | |
| Social Psychology Network | Wesleyan University |
| St. Thomas School of Law Diplomacy Monitor | |
| Terrorism | A Navy Department Library Research Guide |
| UNHCR: The UN Refugee Agency | |
| Vanderbilt Television News Archive | |
| Web Guide to U.S. Supreme Court Research | LLRX.com |
| Page Updated: 10 September 2009 | Page Created: 6 July 2009 |