Free Scholarly Web Resources
A RALC Workshop
May 5, 2006
The address of this web page is
http://www.people.vcu.edu/~dream/ralcfree.html


Selective Web Directories-Broadest Scope
( *** starred sites lead to the most scholarly/academic content)

The Librarians' Internet Index
("Websites You Can Trust")
http://lii.org
     "New This Week" mailing list
      LII Selection Criteria

InfoMine***
("over 100,000" university level research and educational tools on the Internet)
http://infomine.ucr.edu/
    Infomine Alert Service
    Search Tips
   InfoMine Content Analysis
   Scope
   Library of Congress Classification Browse

The Resource Discovery Network (RDN)/Intute  ***
(gateway to SOSIG, EEVL, and others below)
http://www.rdn.ac.uk/
   About the RDN
   Changes coming in mid-2006  (The new RDN service will be called Intute.)
   The Resource Finder (searches most RDN services)
   Internet Resources Newsletter
   Virtual Training Suite

Pinakes Subject Launchpad ***
(linking to the major subject gateways)
http://www.hw.ac.uk/libWWW/irn/pinakes/pinakes.html

Academic Info: ***
("Your Gateway to Quality Educational Resources")
http://www.academicinfo.net/index.html
     About Academic Info

BUBL LINK Catalogue  ***
(BUlletin Board for Libraries)
Selected Internet resources covering all academic subject areas
http://bubl.ac.uk/
     BUBL FAQ

DMOZ: The Open Directory Project
http://dmoz.org/
     About the Open Directory
      The Google Directory

The Scout Report Archives
http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/archives/

The WWW Virtual Library
http://vlib.org/
    About the WWW Virtual Library

Subject Directories That Identify Quality Web Sites
http://www.accd.edu/sac/lrc/john/sudirect.htm

C&RL News: Internet Reviews Archive
http://www.bowdoin.edu/~samato/IRA/
     More up-to-date  (through April, 2006)
    http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/crlnews/internetresourcesdate.htm

The Webby Awards
http://www.webbyawards.com/webbys/current.php
 


Narrower in Scope

SOSIG : Social Sciences Information Gateway ***
(over 50,000 Social Science Web pages)
http://www.sosig.ac.uk/
   Advanced Search
   Subjects Within SOSIG
   Customizing SOSIG
   What's New
   Social Science Grapevine
   Training Materials and Support

BIOME***
(quality Internet resources in the health and life sciences)
http://biome.ac.uk/
      What's New
     Biomes Collection Policy
     Resource Evaluation for BIOME
 

EEVL***
(Engineering, Mathematics, and Computing)
http://www.eevl.ac.uk/
    News

The StartSpot Network
http://www.startspot.com/network/
    About Us

Best of the Best Business Web Sites
http://www.ala.org/ala/rusa/rusaourassoc/rusasections/
brass/brassprotools/bestofthebestbus/bestbestbusiness.htm


Quality Health Information

Hardin Meta-Directory of Internet Health Sources
http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md/

HealthWeb
http://www.healthweb.org/
    About Us

OMNI Health Sciences Resources ***
http://omni.ac.uk/

Evaluating Health-Related Web Pages
http://www.library.vcu.edu/tml/bibs/evalhealthweb.html


Especially for Teachers & Students

KidsClick!
(web search for kids by librarians)
http://www.kidsclick.org/
    Advanced Search
    Kidsclick! Project Background
    Selection Criteria

The Awesome Library
http://www.awesomelibrary.org/
    About the Awesome Library

Best of History Websites ***
http://www.besthistorysites.net/index.shtml
      Teaching History With Technology  Newsletter
      About This Site

New York Times Student Navigator
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/navigator/students.html

Education Index
http://www.educationindex.com/


Scholarly Search Engines

Google Scholar ***
(includes subscription journal site content)
http://scholar.google.com
Library links in "preferences"
http://scholar.google.com/scholar_preferences?
Author searching in advanced search
http://scholar.google.com/advanced_scholar_search?
 

Google Uncle Sam
(government publications-federal, state, and local)
http://www.google.com/unclesam

Scirus ***
(over 250 million science-specific Web pages)
http://www.scirus.com/srsapp/

PubMedCentral ***
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/


Online Books

Google Book Search
(free full-text for public domain--samples of copyrighted books)
http://books.google.com/

Electronic Books
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/books/etext.html

Online Books Page
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/

Bartleby
http://www.bartleby.com/


Odds and Ends

Public Library of Science ***
http://www.plos.org/

Directory of Open Access Journals ****
(over 2,200 journals)
http://www.doaj.org/

Answers.com
(searches reference book sites rather than the open web)
http://answers.com

Alexa Web Search
(the most popular pages on any topic)
http://www.alexa.com/
  About the Alexa Traffic Rankings

Scholarly Societies Project ***
http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/society/webpages.html


And Don't Forget...

Find It Virginia ***
(free InfoTrac , etc for any Virginia public library cardholder)
http://www.finditva.com/cgi-bin/main.cgi


The Opposite End of the Spectrum

Useless Pages from Google
http://directory.google.com/Top/Recreation/Humor/Useless_Pages/

Google's Worst of the Web
http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Internet/On_the_Web/Worst_of_the_Web/
 



Page compiled by Dan Ream
for RALC  in May, 2006.