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Catalogs
SMCM catalog-- includes books, videos, scores, electronic resources, and more. Tip: Choose from the "format" menu to limit your results.
WorldCat -- lets you search the collections of libraries in your community and thousands more around the world.
Books Online
Project Gutenberg -- the first and largest single collection of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today
100,000+ digital books, texts and documents free and 40,000+ for a fee.
The Universal Digital Library: Million Book Project Collection -- hosted at Carnegie Mellon University, designed to preserve the world's literary and cultural heritage.
Turning the Pages - 15 digitized books from the British Library, including Notebook by William Blake and Sketches by Leonardo da Vinci. Mimics the way a researcher would examine a book.
Databases
AgeLine -- provided by AARP
AGRICOLA -- United States Department of Agriculture National Agriculture Library (no fulltext).
BioMed Central -- Electronic journals in the biological and medical sciences.
BioOne-- Electronic bioscience journals. (provides searching, abstracts, and some article access).
Brooklyn Daily Eagle online, 1841-1902
Daoist Studies (public web access) -- The Daoist Studies website contains scholarly information about Daoism, including books on Daoism, conferences, scholars, a bibliography and general resources for learning about Daoism.
Documenting the American South -- Primary resources for the study of southern history, literature, and culture. UNC, Chapel Hill
ERIC -- Bibliographic records of education literature plus a growing collection of full text, Includes many ERIC Documents.
ERIC Digests-- short reports (1,000 - 1,500 words) on topics of prime current interest in education .. produced by the 16 subject-specialized ERIC Clearinghouses, and reviewed by experts and content specialists in the field.
Find-Articles at BNET.com -- the go-to place for management
Front for the Mathematics ArXiv -- UC Davis front end for the mathematics arXiv maintained at Cornell University
HighWire Press -- one of the two largest archives of free full-text science on Earth! at Stanford University
Index of Articles on Jewish Studies (RAMBI) --a selective bibliography of articles in the various fields of Jewish studies and in the study of Eretz Israel.
Ingenta -- tables of contents of over 17,000 journals and magazines covering all subjects. Some abstracting.
MagPortal.com- search for magazine articles from free sources online
Medline/PubMed -- (National Library of Medicine) citations to articles from all types of medical journals; specialized databases such as AIDSLINE and TOXLINE
National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) -- federally funded resource offering justice and substance abuse information to support research, policy, and program development worldwide.
Open Science Directory -- search tool for open source journals and journals in special programs for developing countries. Each program has its own website and/or search engine
Public Library of Science -- Full text science research articles
PubMed Central -- Full text life science research articles
ResearchIndex (Formerly CiteSeer) -- citations and documents in the sciences
Scirus -- "Scirus is the most comprehensive science-specific search engine on the Internet. Driven by the latest search engine technology, Scirus searches over 250 million science-specific Web pages.."
