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Choice Highly Recommended Academic Web Sites

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 Highly Recommended selected sites from the most recent three years from all disciplines.

FYI: Across the library's web site a gold star or  Choice logo indicates an outstanding site, while a blue star star  indicates a Highly Recommended web site; finally a gray orange abstract icon gray-orange abstract icon indicates a CHOICE  Recommended web site.

Subject Area :: ReferenceDescription
Reference General, multi-disciplinary, interdisciplinary reference, large general e-text collections, also general consumer health science titles.
America's National Game: The Albert G. Spalding Collection of Early Baseball Photographs blue star  New York Public Library
Australian Dictionary of Biography blue star 
Bloggapedia blue star a human-edited, searchable, and subject-browseable blog directory
British Museum Collection Database blue star 
The Canadian Encyclopedia blue star 
Center for Medical Consumers blue star 
College & University Rankings blue star University of Illinois Libraries
Consumer Action blue star 
Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care blue star 
Europeana blue star newest update to the European Union cultural portal
FDsys: Federal Digital System blue star now in beta, this is the new content management system for GPO Access
FinAid! : The SmartStudent [sic] Guide to Financial Aid blue star 
Food Timeline blue star 
Foundation Center blue star 
Global Health Facts blue star 
Health News Review blue star sub-titled: Grades for Health News Reporting
HealthVideo.com blue star developed by the NBC Digital Health Network; reliable consumer information
InteliHealth blue star Aetna Insurance Company with Harvard Medical School
Intute: Health & Life Sciences blue star 
Jewish Women's Archive: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia blue star 
Mayo Clinic blue star 
Medical Encyclopedia Index blue star University of Maryland Medical Center
MDVU: Movement Disorder Virtual University blue star 
National Film Board of Canada The Web site of the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), Canada's public film producer and distributor, recently introduced a free online screening room with "over 700 full-length films, trailers and clips." Users now may stream hundreds of NFB films (including archived ones) in high-definition, e-mail them to others, or embed film links in blogs and social networking sites. The NFB owns all material on the site and makes it available in both English and French. blue star 
NetWellness.org blue star University of Cincinnati, Ohio State University, Case Western Reserve University
OANDA: The Currency Site blue star 
O*Net Online blue star 
Online Resources for Writers blue star Amherst College; help writing academic essays
Office of Minority Health blue star 
PDQ - NCI's Comprehensive Cancer Database blue star  U.S. National Institutes of Health
Population Reference Bureau blue star 
Quintessential Careers  blue star Provides more than 4,000 pages of valuable career resources for college and graduate-level students; includes a variety of informative tutorials, college planning advice, a job database and links to a wide range of career sites. The sites main drawback is the ads that litter the interface and distract from actual content.
TED: Ideas Worth Spreading blue star An annual Technology, Entertainment, Design TED conference, whose organizers challenge a primary speaker to give the talk of their lives in 20 minutes or less. More than 200 talks are available at this site; past speakers include Al Gore, Billy Graham, Jane Goodall, and Nicholas Negroponte.
VideoLectures.net blue star an open access educational repository/portal of high-quality, mainly scientific video lectures.
University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections blue star a very large e-text archive focusing on the Pacific Northwest, Alaska and Canada
Universal Usability: A Universal Design Approach to Web Usability blue star 
Subject Area :: Business and EconomicsDescription
Business and Economics Most aspects of business and economics.
AdCouncil.org blue star Marketing
Baker Library Research Guides blue star Harvard School of Business Library
Business.gov blue star .gov
Center for Global Development blue star subtitled: Independent research and practical ideas for global prosperity
Federation of Tax Administrators blue star 
Gallup Poll.com blue star 
Globalization 101 blue star 
International Monetary Fund: Country Information blue star 
International Trade Centre blue star 
National Retail Federation blue star 
NYSSCPA.org blue star The New York Society of Certified Public Accountants' Web site features a Professional Resources page that is freely available to nonmembers and leads to many accounting resources.
Trendwatching.com blue star 
U.S. Department of the Treasury blue star 
Yale Center for the Study of Globalization blue star 
Subject Area :: EducationDescription
Education All aspects of education
ADL Curriculum Connections: Anti-Bias Lesson Plans and Resources for K-12 Education blue star Anti-Defamation League
Baldwin Library of Children's Literature Digital Collection blue star 
Children's Defense Fund blue star 
Connexions: Sharing Knowledge and Building Communities blue star a place to view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks called modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports, etc. Anyone may view or contribute
Digital Video Library blue star Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics: Videos to Enhance Understanding and Teaching K-12 Learning Goals
Doing What Works [in Education] blue star Research-based educational practice; a .gov site
Encyclopedia of Educational Technology blue star 
Environmental Literacy Council blue star 
EXPLO.TV: Webcasts, Video Clips, and Podcasts from the Exploratorium blue star The Museum of Science, Art and Human Perception
MERLOT: Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching  blue star 
National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science blue star 
National Institute for Early Education Research blue star 
New Teachers Home Page blue star 
Open Yale Courses blue star 
PBS Teachers: Resources for the Classroom blue star 
Teacher Lingo blue star 
Teaching Tolerance blue star subtitled: An educational community to connect teachers from every level.
Understanding Science blue star Launched in January 2009, Understanding Science, a free-access Internet resource funded by the National Science Foundation, is a great site for gaining a better understanding of all kinds of science. Produced by the University of California's Museum of Paleontology at Berkeley, content is created, monitored, and assessed by a Teacher Advisory Board and a Project Advisory Board, both staffed by highly qualified professionals. The site contains three main sections: Understanding Science 101 (with eight subsections discussing various aspects of science), For Teachers (grouped by grade level from K-16), and Resource Library (containing FAQs, tips/guides, and links to other sources).  FYI: content for grades 13-16 in the For Teachers section is not currently as strong as for the lower grades.
Subject Area :: HumanitiesDescription
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
1916 Rising: Personalities & Perspectives blue star 
Abraham Lincoln: A Resource Guide blue star 
African American Women Writers of the 19th Century blue star Schomburg Library - NYPL
All About Jazz blue star 
American Social History Online blue star  CUNY, Center for Media and Learning
American Women Through Time blue star 
Beowulf: A New Translation for Oral Delivery blue star 
British Newspapers 1800-1900 blue star  Originally part of the British Museum's Collect Britain: Penny Illustrated Papers exhibit; the exhibit was rewritten as part of this new site. More difficult to navigate than the original, the site still contains unparalleled access to 19th century British newspapers.
The Cabinet Papers, 1915-1977 (UK) blue star 
Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts blue star UCLA
A Celebration of Women Writers blue star 
Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative blue star UCLA and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers blue star Library of Congress
Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson blue star U Michigan
Connie Martinson Talks Books blue star Claremont College's Digital Library
Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project blue star Preservation of wax, resin and other types of recording cylinders
Dante Dartmouth Project blue star 
Design Addict blue star 
Digital Egypt for Universities blue star 
Digital Library of Georgia blue star 
Digital Roman Forum blue star 
Europa Film Treasures blue star 
Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index blue star 
GAMEO: Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online blue star 
Gathering the Jewels=Casglu'r Tlysau: The Website for Welsh Cultural History blue star 
Gilbert and Sullivan Archive blue star 
Global Music Archive blue star Vanderbilt
H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online blue star 
International Center of Photography blue star 
Internet Moving Images Archive blue star 
Intute: Arts & Humanities blue star 
J.S. Bach: Texts of the Complete Vocal Works with English Translation and Commentary blue star California Learning Resources Network
John Locke Bibliography blue star 
Joseph Cornell: Navigating the Imagination blue star American artists (1903-1972) celebrated for his boxes, collages and films
Latin American Pamphlet Digital Collection blue star Harvard
LiTGloss blue star Buffalo
Medieval Text Compendium blue star Harvard
Museum of Jewish Heritage blue star 
Native American Heritage blue star Smithsonian
New Chaucer Society blue star 
Performing Arts Encyclopedia blue star Explore music, theater, and dance at the Library of Congress
Rossetti Archive blue star 
Smithsonian American Art Museum: George Catlin's Indian Gallery blue star 
Society of Professional Journalists: Code of Ethics blue star 
Video Gallery: Getty Art Museum blue star 
Voting America: United States Politics, 1840-2008 blue star 
Women Working, 1800-1830 blue star Harvard
WWW Sites of Interest to Musicologists blue star American Musicological Society
Subject Area :: SciencesDescription
Sciences Biology, Chemistry, Computer Sciences & Mathematics, Engineering, Geology, History of Science
American Nuclear Society blue star 
Astronomy Center blue star 
Astronomy Online blue star 
Atomic Structure and the Periodic Table blue star 
Audubon's Birds of America at the University of Pittsburgh blue star 
Biological Control: A Guide to Natural Enemies in North Americablue star Cornell
BoogieJack.com blue star by Dennis Gaskill, web site displays clear navaigation and readability, offering basic instruction on HTML, CSS, graphics, JavaScript tricks, and tips for search engine optimization.
The BrainWeb & Brain Information blue star Columbia
Center for International Earth Science Information Network blue star Columbia
Climate Change: The Discovery of Global Warming blue star 
comPADRE blue star Association of Physics Teachers
Complete Works of Charles Darwin blue star 
Conus Biodiversity Website blue star 
Cosmic Journey: A History of Scientific Cosmology blue star AIP
Earth Revealed blue star 
Ecological Internet blue star 
Energy Files blue star 
Energy Information Administration: Country Analysis Briefs blue star 
EPA Office of Water blue star 
Expeditions & Discoveries: Sponsored Exploration and Scientific Discovery in the Modern Age blue star Harvard
Global Library of Women's Medicine blue star 
HubbleSite blue star 
IEEE History Center blue star 
Intute: Health & Life Sciences blue star 
Intute: Science, Engineering, & Technology: Geography blue star 
Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation blue star 
Longevity Records: Life Spans of Mammals, Birds, Amphibians, Reptiles, and Fish blue star Max Planck Society
Macaulay Library: Sound and Video Catalogue blue star Animal behavior
MedEdPORTAL The Association of American Colleges, in conjunction with the American Dental Education Association, offers MedEdPORTAL, a free, online, peer-reviewed publication service for medicine and dentistry. The Web site is fully stocked with teaching resources such as tutorials, simulation cases, lab guides, videos, podcasts, and assessment tools.
Mineralogy Database blue star 
Molecule of the Month blue star 
Nature Online Video Streaming Archive blue star Sponsored by the journal Nature, this is a fund of well-made, informative, and educational videos that feature summaries of research as detailed by the scientists who conducted the work. As of January 2010, there are 35 productions available.
NIH Stem Cell Information blue star  In addition to information on stem cell research also links to articles in PubMed.gov, other useful resources, and abstracts of relevant scientific literature dating back to 2002.
NASA Technical Reports Server blue star 
National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science blue star 
National Wildlife Health Center blue star 
Native Plant Information Network blue star 
NOAA's National Weather Service: Storm Prediction Center blue star 
Number Theory Web blue star 
Office of Scientific and Technical Information blue star a .gov site containing scientific reports and information, as well as news related to the field of energy.
Physiology Info.org blue star 
Plant Evolution Timeline blue star 
PLoS: Public Library of Science blue star 
Profiles of Science: The Roslind Franklin Papers blue star 
Science.gov blue star 
TRIP: Turning Research into Practice: Evidence-Based Medicine Database blue star 
UNEP: Atlas of Our Changing Environment blue star 
USGS: Biological Resources blue star 
VIPEr: Virtual Inorganic Pedagogical Electronic Resources blue star 
WikiSKY blue star Astronomy
Wilderness.net blue star the sites purpose is to educate its users about wilderness in the US and the value of public land preservation; sponsored by the University of Montana's Wilderness Institute, the Arthur Carhart National Wilderness Training Center, and the Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute.
World Food Situation blue star 
Subject Area :: Social SciencesDescription
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 President: an Online Resource blue star Miller Center of Public Affairs, Univ. of Virginia
ANES: American National Election Studies blue star 
Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders blue star 
Backgrounder--Council on Foreign Relations blue star 
Catherwood Digital Collections: Labor Studies blue star Cornell
Classics in the History of Psychology blue star 
Country Reports on Terrorism blue star 
CRS Annotated Constitution blue star Cornell University Law School
DHS: US Department of Homeland Security blue star 
European Social Survey blue star 
Federal Judicial Center blue star 
First Amendment Center blue star 
Gallup.com blue star 
The Gay Peoples Union Collection blue star Univ. of Wisconsin
Global Distribution of Poverty blue star Columbia U, SEDAC: Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center
Global Gateway: World Culture & Resources blue star Library of Congress
Globalex: Global Law blue star Hauser Global Law School program at NYU's school of law
Globalization 101 blue star Levin Institute
Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System Online blue star 
History of Psychology blue star University of Dayton
IDEA: International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance blue star 
International Security Resources blue star 
Intute: Social Sciences blue star 
Labordoc blue star International Labour Organization
Linus Pauling and the International Peace Movement blue star Oregon State
MAPLight.org: Money and Politics: Illuminating the Connection blue star non-profit which aims to illuminate the connections between campaign donations and legislative votes
Men's Bibliography blue star sub-titled: A Comprehensive Bibliography of Writing on Men, Masculinities, Gender, and Sexualities
Metavid: The Open Video Archive of the US Congress blue star archive of televised proceedings
MIT Center for International Studies blue star 
OpenSecrets.org blue star Center for Responsive Politics; formerly Capital Eye, which is now the blog associated with this site
Polling Report.com blue star sub-titled: An independent, nonpartisan resource on trends in American public opinion
SIPRI : Stockholm International Peace Research Institute blue star SIPRIM is typical of a research institution's Web site, offering information on its parent institute's publications and research projects. The current yearbook is presented with sample sections available for download. Some of the older yearbooks are available in full text. Several databases, available free of charge, include considerable primary data on the arms industry, arms transfers, military expenditures, and multilateral peace operations. This material is available for download, so users may create spreadsheets and arrange data based on individual needs. Quite a few of SIPRI's publications are available free of charge for full-text download.
Tracked in America.org blue star  this site in association with various civil rights organizations, explores US government "tracking" of its citizens from about 1900 forward. Readily accessible, easy to navigate, also has enhancements such as lesson plans geared to grades 9-12.
UN Audiovisual Library of International Law blue star 
U.S. "Tiananmen Papers" blue star 
Vincent Ferraro's Resources for the Study of International Relations and Foreign Policy blue star Mount Hoyoke; Vincent Ferraro is a Professor in International Politics
Visual Anthropology.net blue star 
Voting America: United States Politics, 1840-2008 blue star 
World Food Situation blue star UN
Yale Center for the Study of Globalization blue star 
Page Updated: 8 January 2010 Page Created: 6 July 2009

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