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.
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| 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 | ![]() |
| America's National Game: The Albert G. Spalding Collection of Early Baseball Photographs |
New York Public Library |
| Australian Dictionary of Biography | |
| Bloggapedia | a human-edited, searchable, and subject-browsable blog directory |
| British Museum Collection Database | |
| The Canadian Encyclopedia | |
| College & University Rankings | University of Illinois Libraries |
| Consumer Action | |
| Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care | |
| Food Timeline | |
| Foundation Center | |
| Global Health Facts | |
| Health News Review | sub-titled: Grades for
Health News Reporting |
| HealthVideo.com | developed by the NBC Digital Health Network; reliable consumer information |
| InteliHealth | Aetna Insurance Company with Harvard Medical School |
| Intute: Health & Life Sciences | |
| Mayo Clinic | |
| Medical Encyclopedia Index | University of Maryland Medical Center |
| MDVU: Movement Disorder Virtual University | |
| NetWellness.org | University of Cincinnati, Ohio State University, Case Western Reserve University |
| OANDA: The Currency Site | |
| O*Net Online | |
| Online Resources for Writers | Amherst College; help writing academic essays |
| Office of Minority Health | |
| PDQ - NCI's Comprehensive Cancer Database |
U.S. National Institutes of Health |
| Population Reference Bureau | |
| Quintessential Careers | 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 | 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. |
| Universal Usability: A Universal Design Approach to Web Usability | |
| Subject Area :: Business and Economics | Description |
|---|---|
| Business and Economics | Most aspects of business and economics. |
| AdCouncil.org | Marketing |
| Baker Library Research Guides | Harvard School of Business Library |
| Business.gov | .gov |
| Center for Global Development | subtitled: Independent research and practical ideas for global prosperity |
| Federation of Tax Administrators | |
| Gallup Poll.com | |
| Globalization 101 | |
| International Monetary Fund: Country Information | |
| International Trade Centre | |
| National Retail Federation | |
| Trendwatching.com | |
| U.S. Department of the Treasury | |
| Yale Center for the Study of Globalization | |