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Reference |
General, multi-disciplinary, interdisciplinary reference, large general
e-text collections, also general consumer health science titles. |
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America's National Game: The Albert G. Spalding Collection of Early Baseball Photographs |
New York Public Library |
| Australian Dictionary of Biography |
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| Bloggapedia |
a human-edited, searchable, and subject-browseable blog directory |
| British Museum Collection Database |
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| The Canadian Encyclopedia |
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| Center for Medical Consumers |
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| College & University Rankings |
University of Illinois Libraries |
| Consumer Action |
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| Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care |
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| Europeana |
newest update to the European Union cultural portal |
| FDsys: Federal Digital System |
now in beta, this is the new content management system for GPO Access |
| FinAid! : The SmartStudent [sic] Guide to Financial Aid |
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| Food Timeline |
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| Foundation Center |
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| Global Health Facts |
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| 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 |
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| Jewish Women's Archive: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia |
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| Mayo Clinic |
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| Medical Encyclopedia Index |
University of Maryland Medical Center |
| MDVU: Movement Disorder Virtual University |
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| 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.
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| NetWellness.org |
University of Cincinnati, Ohio State University, Case Western Reserve University |
| OANDA: The Currency Site |
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| O*Net Online |
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Online Resources for Writers |
Amherst College; help writing academic essays |
| Office of Minority Health |
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| PDQ - NCI's Comprehensive Cancer Database |
U.S. National Institutes of Health |
| Population Reference Bureau |
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| 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. |
| VideoLectures.net |
an open access educational repository/portal of high-quality, mainly scientific video lectures. |
| University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections |
a very large e-text archive focusing on the Pacific Northwest, Alaska and Canada |
| Universal Usability: A Universal Design Approach to Web Usability |
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