Information Packages

FREE ONLINE RESOURCES FOR YOU: E-BOOKS, E-JOURNALS, NEW SEARCH ENGINES AND INTERNET SITES TO LOCATE FREE FULL TEXT RESOURCES: REVISED NOV 13, 2006

PART I: E-BOOKS or E-DOCUMENTS: CAN READ THE FULL TEXT OF THESE E-BOOKS or E-DOCUMENTS:

SECRETS OF RESEARCHING FREE MATERIALS ON THE INTERNET (FREE, FULL TEXT WEB COLLECTIONS):
http://www.suffolk.edu/sawlib/webcollect.htm#other

ONLINE BOOKS:
The Online Books Page is a searchable and browseable collection of over 25,000 English language works in various formats that are all free for personal, noncommercial use. One can search by Author and Title.
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/lists.html

E-BOOKS:
Includes 2000 Classic texts and Study Guides to the most read books.
http://www.bibliomania.com
Other E-BOOKS listed at: http://www.resourceshelf.com/category/resources/e-books/

CALIFORNIA DIGITAL LIBRARY: HUNDREDS OF FREE E-BOOKS OFFERED:
http://texts.cdlib.org/escholarship/

DIGITAL BOOK INDEX: The Digital Book Index a database of over 80,000 fiction and nonfiction e-books from over 1,800 publishers. Many categories of books are listed, including reference, history, children's, and African American studies. One needs to register to use the service, but registration is absolutely free and takes just seconds.
http://www.digitalbookindex.com/about.htm

The TEXTBOOK REVOLUTION
(Provides free online textbooks in many subject areas, an amazing site!)
http://www.textbookrevolution.org

Digital Librarian: A Librarians Choice of the Best of the Web:
(Includes all Subject Fields)
http://www.digital-librarian.com/

Digitized Resources for Literature and Literary Criticism:
http://www.digital-librarian.com/literature.html

PROJECT GUTENBERG:
18,000 FREE EBOOKS: These books can be downloaded for free
http://www.gutenberg.org/

IIP PUBLICATIONS:
Free Publications on a number of different issues.
http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/

FOREIGN PRESS CENTER
Includes CONGRESSIONAL RESEARCH SERVICE REPORTS on the Middle East, Egypt, global affairs and hot topics of the day.
http://fpc.state.gov

DOCUTICKER:
A Search Engine to the latest NGO Reports and Think Tank Documents
http://www.docuticker.com

ELDIS:
Full text links to NGO reports, especially those that deal with Africa and the Middle East.
http:/www.eldis.org

BOOKS ON BUSINESS FROM THE SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION:
The Small Business Administration offers free E-Books and Publications on How to Start your Own Business, How to Finance a Business, How to Manage Your Business, How to Market, How to Write a Basic Business Plan,, etc. Although these resources are primarily meant for U.S. Citizens, nonetheless, there are a lot of useful ideas and suggestions that will easily apply to any international business or company.
http://www.sba.gov

AMERICAN AND ENGLISH LITERATURE: THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF ENGLISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE:
Considered the most important work of literary history and criticism ever published, the Cambridge History contains over 11,000 pages, with essay topics ranging from poetry, fiction, drama and essays to history, theology and political writing. The set encompasses a wide selection of writing, on even non-English works.
http://www.bartleby.com/cambridge/

PART II: FREE, ONLINE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE USA:
http://info-pedia.americancorners.or.kr/ENG/index_eng.html

PART III: FREE E-JOURNALS:

ELECTRONIC JOURNALS AND OTHER WEB BAED RESOURCES CATEGORIZED BY SUBJECT AREA:
http://ejw.i8.com/

ELECTRONIC JOURNALS:
http://usinfo.state.gov/journals/journals.htm

ARABIC LANGUAGE EDITIONS OF ELECTRONIC JOURNALS:
http://usinfo.state.gov/journals/journalsarab.htm

ACCESS TO E-JOURNALS:
FreeFullText.com provides direct links to over 7000 scholarly periodicals which allow some or all of their online content to be viewed by ANYONE with Internet access for free


WEB JOURNAL OF CURRENT LEGAL ISSUES: http://webjcli.ncl.ac.uk/admin/wjclidex.html

FREE E-JOURNALS ARRANGED BY SUBJECTS AND THEMES:
Includes access to the best web sites and free E-Journals in over 40 different academic disciplines.
http://ejw.i8.com/

UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON LIBRARIES: SCHOLARLY JOURNALS DISTRIBUTED VIA THE WORLD WIDE WEB;
This directory provides links to established Web-based scholarly journals that offer access to English language article files without requiring user registration or fees.
http://info.lib.uh.edu/wj/webjour.html

INTERNET PUBLIC LIBRARY:
Access To E-journals By Topic And Subject
http://www.ipl.org/div/serials/

SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH NETWORK (SSRN)
http://www.ssrn.com/

RePEc ECONOMICS WORKING PAPERS:
http://repec.org/

VOICE OF THE SHUTTLE: ACCESS TO THE BEST ACADEMIC WEB SITES AND EJOURNALS IN THE HUMANITIES, POPULAR CULTURE, MEDIA STUDIES AND WORLD LITERATURE, INCLUDING ENGLISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE:
An Outstanding Five Star Resource!
http://vos.ucsb.edu/

PART IV: LINKS TO FREE ONLINE DISTANCE LEARNING AND QUALITY EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS

MERLOT:
MERLOT stands for Multi Media Educational Resources for Learning and Online Teaching.) Resources submitted by professional educators from a variety of institutions.
http://www.merlot.org/Home.p
See especially the’s new section for the latest educational resources:
http://www.merlot.org/home/WhatsNew.po

MIT’S OPEN COURSE SOFTWARE: FREE FULL ACCESS TO ONLINE COURSES AT MIT, THE MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY.
Includes links to Lecture Notes from Professors, Student Projects, Syllabus of each Course, Reading Assignments and tests. An amazing full-text resource!
http://ocw.mit.edu

RESOURCES FOR BUSINESS:

BUSINESS RESEARCH SEARCH ENGINE:
http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=002776323165742539942%3Asy6ljfnnvtg

BUSINESS RESEARCH SEARCH ENGINE SEARCHES 16 SITES, INCLUDING:
http://www.library.ohiou.edu/subjects/businessblog/
http://blog.fastcompany.com/
http://www.library.ohiou.edu/subjects/businessblog
http://www.ia-blog.com
http://www.blogspotting.net

ALSO TRY:
A subject specific search tool for BUSINESS RESEARCH that covers 25 business or business related sites:
http://rollyo.com/businessresearch/basic_biz_research/

RESOURCES FOR SCIENTISTS:

BIODIRECTORY:
Free Online Resources in Biology, Chemistry, and Medicine.
http://www.biodirectory.com/

BioWizard:

A free subject portal with many interesting features.


COLLECTIONS OF FREE MEDICAL JOURNALS:
Provides free access to over 1,450 Medical Journals.
http://freemedicaljournals.com

PUBLIC LIBRARY OF SCIENCE:
“PLoS is a nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource.” Includes access to E-Journals in all fields and to the latest research reports.
www.plos.org

BIOMEDCENTRAL: The research articles in all journals published by BioMed Central are 'Open Access'. They are available online without charge. A number of journals require an institutional or a personal subscription to view other content, such as reviews or reports. Free trial subscriptions to these journals are available.
http://www.biomedcentral.com/browse/bysubject

NATIONAL SCIENCE DIGITAL LIBRARY: http://nsdl.org/
Covers Education, Mathematics, Technology, Education, Health, Social Studies, Chemistry
http://nsdl.org/browse/?GEM_cat=true

PUBMED:
A FREE DIGITAL ARCHIVE OF LIFE SCIENCES AND BIOMEDICAL JOURNALS: from the U.S. National Institutes of Health. An Outstanding Resource.
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/

SCIENCE DIRECT:
Contains 4000 E-Books in the Sciences and access to some free journal articles. Articles available free of charge are highlighted in blue:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=BrowseListURL&_type=all&_auth=y&_btn=Y&_
acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_
userid=10&md5=5c2ba95356d2e928fa0a0f1d2a95c8b2

SCIRUS:
A new SEARCH ENGINE for locating articles on Scientific, Technical or Environmental issues:
www.scirus.com

U.S. NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE – MEDLINE PLUS Medline Plus combines access to medical reference tools (encyclopedia, dictionary, directories, etc.) with pharmaceutical information, the latest research findings and links to resources on a wide range of health topics. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/

PART V: LOCATING FREE ARTICLES: THESE RESOURCES WILL ALLOW YOU TO LOCATE FULL-TEXT ARTICLES ON A VARIETY OF SUBJECTS:

OPEN-JOURNAL PROJECT:
Free Access to 3,500 PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS AND PROFESSIONAL AND INDUSTRY JOURNALS
http://www.openj-gate.com

FIND ARTICLES:
Search through articles from over 300 sources, dating back to 1998 and view them, in full-text format, for free.
http://www.findarticles.com/

MAGPORTAL:http://www.magportal.com and HIGH BEAM http://www.highbeam.com

ESCHOLARSHIP REPOSITORY, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
Contains thousands of full text documents in all subjects! A real find!
http://repositories.cdlib.org/escholarship/

What EJOURNALS are indexed in what database?
Use the database in the "Tools" section of this site to look up a magazine or journal by title or ISSN and find out what databases index that journal and what databases include full text. Use the "Resource Comparison” to find out the overlap between two electronic collections and what titles are unique to each
http://cufts.lib.sfu.ca

PART VI: NEW SEARCH ENGINES AND TOOLS AND VIRTUAL REFERENCE SHELVES:

ASK.COM:
Good starting place for research: images, news, maps, local search, reference tools, blogs…
http://www.ask.com

A-9: Search across the web tools: movies, people, books, yellow pages, Wikipedia. Affiliated with Amazon.com
http://www.a9.com/

BEYOND GOOGLE: BETTER SEARCH RESOURCES, EVALUATED BY EXPERTS IN MANY FIELDS.
http://oedb.org/library/college-basics/research-beyond-google
Also see:http://oedb.org/

CLUSTY:
Sorts search results into folders
http://clusty.com

INTERNET PUBLIC LIBRARY:
In-depth subject coverage in a directory format. Content largely generated by information science students.
http://www.ipl.org

LIBRARIANS’ INTERNET INDEX:
In-depth subject coverage in a directory format. Librarians' Internet Index (LII) is a publicly-funded website and weekly newsletter serving California, Washington State, the nation, and the world.
http://www.lii.org

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS VIRTUAL REFERENCE SHELF:
WEB SITES IN ALL SUBJECT AREAS
http://www.loc.gov/rr/askalib/virtualref.html

MeL: MICHIGAN LIBRARY ONLINE:
http://web.mel.org/viewtopic.jsp?id=53

NOODLETOOLS: INFORMATION LITERACY SEARCH STRATEGIES
http://www.noodletools.com/debbie/literacies/information/5locate/adviceengine

SCIRUS:
a new SEARCH ENGINE for locating articles on Scientific, Technical or Environmental issues:
www.scirus.com

TECHNORAT:
Searches the blogosphere
http://www.technorati.com/

VIRTUAL LEARNING RESOURCE CENTER:
http://www.virtuallrc.com/

ZOOMINFO:
Biographical and company history site
. http://www.zoominfo.com

PART VIII: OTHER FREE RESOURCES IN ALL AREAS:

AMERICAN MEMORY PROJECT:
Free and Digitized Resources on all aspects of American History and Culture and Literature from the Library of Congress Significant collections on the African-American experience, for example, and collections on Literature.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html

FOUNDATION CENTER
Information and resources on foundations and charities. Founded in 1956, the Center is the nation's leading authority on philanthropy and is dedicated to serving grant seekers, grant makers, researchers, policymakers, the media, and the general public.
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/
U.S. NETWORK FOR EDUCATION INFORMATION
Information especially useful for international students
http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/edlite-index.html

WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE: EARTH TRENDS
Earth Trends is a comprehensive online database, maintained by the World Resources Institute, focusing on the environmental, social, and economic trends that shape our world.
http://earthtrends.wri.org/

OTHER FREE ONLINE RESOURCES:
http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00006597/01/OADeveloping.pdf

OTHER OPEN ACCESS REPOSITORIES:

http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla72/papers/151-Oliver_Swain-en.pdf

FINALLY, FOR THOSE OF YOU WANTING TO LEARN MORE ABOUT INTERNET BASICS TRY THESE SITES:

http://www.eldis.org/internetguide/index.htm