This UK website provides tutorials on using the web for education and research. The tutorials cover a wide variety of areas and includes topics in Science, Engineering and Technology; Arts and Humanities; Social Sciences; and Health Sciences. The site also provides a link to the Internet Detective tutorial.
A "free Web-based alternative to PowerPoint, built with Flash. Create and edit high-quality Flash presentations online. You can send presentations via e-mail or publish on your web site or blog."
An online catalog of web applications. It includes mobile apps and iphone apps in addition to web based ones. Searching and browsing options are provided. Sign up for a free account to save useful apps to your own Simple Spark catalog.
This page is a compilation of resources available from the Library of Congress related to African American history. It highlights historical events, people, and documents and provides links to related LOC collections. It also provides a special section for teachers.
An index to sample business plans and profiles for specific types of small businesses. If an entry refers to actual samples it will be in bold print. A link is provided if a plan or profiles is available online. Information is listed alphabetically. A bibliography of books and websites used in compiling the sources is provided. Note - print resources refer to those available in the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, check the online catalog to see if a title is available here.
Access free digital collections of historic newspapers. Available topics include Abraham Lincoln, College Basketball, Holocaust, Immigration, and more.
The mission of the Jewish Women's Archive (JWA) is to uncover, chronicle, and transmit the rich history of American Jewish women. The site provides access to a variety of research resources including The American Jewess magazine archives and a virtual archive containing biographical information, primary source materials, and more.
"... a collaborative project between the University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative (HTI) and the University of Michigan Press." This site provides access to the full-text of volumes of American Poetry prior to 1920. Users can search or browse the materials available.
PubList offers free access (registration required) to publisher and journal information. This site does not provide full-text of articles - just information on the journal.
A search engine provided by Dr. Peter Jasco that allows users to search across multiple free biographical web resources including A&E Biography, Britannica Black History, Nobel Laureates, Women Hall of Fame and more.
This database is from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD's) Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R). Users can access a variety of related datasets including the State of the Cities Data System. In addition the site includes a bibliographic database of research materials, listservs, periodicals and other research resources.
Search or browse over 800 annotated links to social science data related resources on the internet. The site is provided by Data and Information Services Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
This U.S. Census Bureau site provides links to locations of statistical abstracts for state level statistical information. [Some states have the equivalent of statistical abstracts listed instead of or in addition to the statistical abstract information.]
This U.S. Census Bureau site provides a variety of datasets that can be accessed using the site's free DataFerrett application. "is network of online data libraries that the DataFerrett application access the data through. Data topics include, census data, economic data, health data, income and unemployment data, population data, labor data, cancer data, crime and transportation data, family dynamics, vital statistics data, . . . As a user, you have an easy access to all these kinds of data. As a participant in TheDataWeb, you can publish your data to TheDataWeb and, in turn, benefit as a provider to the consumer of data."
This site is sponsored by the U.S. Census Bureau. Use this site to access the DataFerrett statistical tool which can then be used to access a variety of statistical information from the DataWeb. "TheDataWeb is network of online data libraries that the DataFerrett application access the data through. Data topics include, census data, economic data, health data, income and unemployment data, population data, labor data, cancer data, crime and transportation data, family dynamics, vital statistics data, . . . As a user, you have an easy access to all these kinds of data. As a participant in TheDataWeb, you can publish your data to TheDataWeb and, in turn, benefit as a provider to the consumer of data." http://www.thedataweb.org/index.html
Focusing on environmental, social and economic trends of the world this site provides access to data, maps, and other information. Information can be accessed through a variety of methods and is organized into 10 topic areas.
Statistical information provided by the IRS is available on this site. Most information is in Excel format and is divided up into a variety of categories.
Tax assistance for low income taxpayers or English as a Second Language taxpayers who need help with audits, appeals, disputes etc. Click on a state to find information for your area.
This website explores different aspects of U.S. History from approximately 1857-1912. It includes political cartoons, lesson plans, excerpts from Harper's Weekly, biographies, bibliographies, reference lists, and more. [For access to the Harper's Weekly subscription database, please see HarpWeek at the library's A-Z list of databases http://library.cnu.edu/moreresc.html#h]
This is a listing provided by the U.S. Small Business Administration website. It provides a listing of places to look for grants and grant information. This agency "...does not offer grants to start or expand small businesses, though it does offer a wide variety of loan programs. While the SBA does offer some grant programs, these are generally designed to expand and enhance organizations that provide small business management, technical, or financial assistance. These grants generally support non-profit organizations, intermediary lending institutions, and state and local governments."
Access first hand accounts from U.S. war vetrans. It currently covers the following: WWI (1914-1920), WWII (1939-1946), Korean War (1950-1955), Vietnam War (1961-1975), Persian Gulf War (1990-1995), Afghanistan and Iraq Conflicts (2001-). Accounts are also provided by U.S. civilians who participated in the war effort (USO workers, war industry workers, etc.)
This site is provided by the library at Michigan State University. It provides an annotated listing of websites for groups that may be interested in giving assistance to nonprofit organizations.
This site from the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies (NASAA) and it provides "a list of Web sites that reflect the major grant makers to the arts and culture as identified by The Foundation Center."
Access free e-books, poems, short stories, etc. The site also provides study guides, teacher resources, message boards, and reference works. Free registration is required to access most resources.
Register for free basic access to historic documents. Some documents require a premium access membership. Free items include U.S. Milestone Documents, UFO reports, papers of the Continental Congress, etc.
This search engine was developed at the University of California, Berkeley. A list of journals indexed at the site is provided. Links to free full-text articles are provided if available.
This site is provided by the Wall Street Journal. "All users have access to all of Markets Data Center's comprehensive statistics -- and they can use our mutual fund and ETF screeners and get key market data delivered by email (check out these features and others in the WSJ.com Email Signup Center). WSJ.com subscribers can personalize their Markets Data Center home page, sign up for price and volume email alerts and, of course, get full access to news and research."
"The guide introduces educators and students to the National Archives' Archival Research Catalog (ARC). Searching in ARC to learn more about National Archives' historical documents could enrich a classroom activity, a homework assignment, or a research project." Useful for anyone who anticipates the need to use the National Archives for their research, but is not yet familiar with the best way to go about it.
Note the majority of the transcripts are in Persian with a few in English. This Harvard University website provides access to a collection of "personal accounts of 134 individuals who played major roles in or were eyewitnesses to important political events in Iran from the 1920s to the 1980s. Of these, 118 narratives have been digitized and are available to researchers through this database. The collection provides scholars and practitioners the opportunity to listen to and read the personal accounts of many of Iran's former political leaders as they recall the times and events that shaped their lives and the life of their country."
In 1936 the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project joined the Harlem Renaissance, when the WPA commissioned a set of murals designed for the Harlem Hospital Center. In an era where African American visual artists had a particularly difficult time finding work, this project represented a unique opportunity. While the murals fell into disrepair over the decades, they were finally restored to their original glory in the 1990s. Created by the Institute for Research in African American Studies at Columbia University, this site tells the story of these murals, their creators, and the controversy surrounding their subject matter. The site contains a number of video clips that talk about the artwork, along with some nice biographical portraits of the artists, who included Charles Alston, Vertis Hayes, and Georgette Seabrooke. Of course, the murals can also be viewed in their entirety here, and they are simply wonderful to behold. Description from The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2007. http://scout.wisc.edu/
A free database tool provided by Google. It is described as "a place where you can easily submit all types of online and offline content, which we'll make searchable on Google (if your content isn't online yet, we'll put it there)."
BibblyWiki is free software that was created using TiddlyWiki software. It is designed to create bibliographies, organize personal libraries of books and articles, and for taking notes on books and articles.
TiddlyWiki calls itself "a reusable non-linear personal web notebook." Users can download the software. And the site provides hosting space if you'd like to share your wiki with others (http://tiddlyspot.com/).
A site from the makers of the World Public Opinion website. It is a resource for "in-depth information on US public opinion on international issues. The site includes The Digest, which provides comprehensive analyses of polling on various international topics." A search feature is provided or users may browse by issues.
Provides information and analysis on public opion from all over the world. Explore the site through topics or by regions of the world. This site is "a publication of the Program on International Policy Attitudes at the University of Maryland."
"Data, Software and News from the Statistics Community" This Carnegie Melon website was created to distribute datasets and software around the world. A Google search for the site is provided at: http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/search.html .
From the makers of the popular Google search engine: "News archive search provides an easy way to search and explore historical archives. In addition to helping you search, News archive search can automatically create timelines which show selected results from relevant time periods." Once you have searched your key words you can limit the results to a specific time period or newspaper. Note - not all results provide free full-text access. Check CNU Library's Journal Finder to see if we have access to the newspapers/dates you need.
This service from ETS assists in locating tests on a particular topic - it provides information on the availability of the test, the author(s), if it was published in a journal, etc. Some tests can be purchased from ETS. The collection contains more than "25,000 tests and other measurement devices that makes information on standardized tests and research instruments available to researchers, graduate students, and teachers. Collected from the early 1900s to the present, the Test Collection at ETS is the largest such compilation in the world."
This APA website was created to answer questions regarding locating psychological tests. There is a section available for both published and unpublished tests.
"An independent, non-partisan federal institution created by Congress to promote the prevention, management, and peaceful resolution of international conflicts." The institute provides programs such as research grants, fellowships, education programs and publications. The website provides access to information about the various projects and programs of the Institute. It has the full-text of many of the reports, newsletters, etc.
This site was created as a search engine for the internet that focuses on political and policy information sites. Users can search political sites and news, read featured articles, or browse through sites by categories.
"ODS covers all types of official United Nations documentation, beginning in 1993. Older UN documents are, however, added to the system on a daily basis. ODS also provides access to the resolutions of the General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council and the Trusteeship Council from 1946 onwards. The system does not contain press releases, UN sales publications, the United Nations Treaty Series or information brochures issued by the Department of Public Information." A simple search and an advanced search option are provided.
"... combines a unique range of functions in one non governmental, non-profit institution. The Archive is simultaneously a research institute on international affairs, a library and archive of declassified U.S. documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, a public interest law firm defending and expanding public access to government information through the FOIA, and an indexer and publisher of the documents in books, microfiche, and electronic formats." Researchers can access a number of publications and documents online.
"… is an independent, non-partisan organization chartered by Congress to assist federal, state, and local governments in improving their effectiveness, efficiency, and accountability." The website provides information about the Academy's projects, initiatives and Centers. It also provides access to resources such as news releases, congressional testimony, transcripts from lectures, and links to other related sites.
This Digital Collection from the United States Institute of Peace contains primary documents relating to Peace Agreements and Truth Commissions worldwide. "The Institute library hopes that its digital collections will become research and learning tools on peaceful means to end international conflict."
"... a nonpartisan, nonprofit, "consumer advocate" for voters that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics." FactCheck.org monitors TV ads, debates, speeches, etc. for factual accuracy. The service is provided as a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania. Use the site to find out the truth behind the political rhetoric.
"The Library contains a wealth of information, from unclassified current publications to basic references, reports and maps. The Library features our most popular publication, The World Factbook, and our online directory of Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments. It also features numerous documents and articles of historical significance, including those found in Studies in Intelligence."
A site from the C-Span television station. Find information on C-Span series, featured topics of interest, etc. In addition users can access a number of other related C-Span sites such as the American Political Archive, American Presidents, and Capitol Hearings.
"... is the leading professional organization for the study of political science and serves more than 15,000 members in over 80 countries." The Association's web page provides access to resources designed for teachers, career information, information on grants, and opportunities for Graduate students. Some parts of the site may be limited to members.
"The State Board of Elections (SBE) was created in 1946 as a bipartisan agency responsible for ensuring uniformity, fairness, accuracy and purity in all elections in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The agency promotes the proper administration of election laws, campaign finance disclosure compliance, and voter registration processes in Virginia by promulgating rules, regulations, issuing instructions, and providing information to local electoral boards and general registrars. In addition, the agency maintains a centralized database of state-wide voter registration and election related data." Find information on election results, voter registration, and other information relating to voting and the election process, especially in Virginia.
"Rock the Vote is a non-profit, non-partisan organization, founded in 1990 in response to a wave of attacks on freedom of speech and artistic expression." It was designed to get youth involved in politics by using the entertainment community and pop culture to make politics "cool." Rock the Vote aims to increase the voter turnout in the youth category through media campaigns, voter registration drives, and other voter education events. The website provides information to those who want to get involved with the Rock the Vote program and information on issues important to young voters.
"Project Vote Smart, a citizen's organization, has developed a Voter's Self-Defense system to provide you with the necessary tools to self-govern effectively: abundant, accurate, unbiased and relevant information. As a national library of factual information, Project Vote Smart covers your candidates and elected officials in five basic categories: biographical information, issue positions, voting records, campaign finances and interest group ratings." The site provides a variety of resources for voters in a non-partisan format.
"The online home of our nation's premier grassroots citizen organization." The site is designed for those looking for all types of political information including voting, civic participation, and policy issues. The site provides the information and tools to "get involved in the democratic process at the federal, state and local levels. The site includes a Video Archive with Presidential Debate and Public Service Announcement footage which has been converted into streaming media files to be watched with Windows Media Player. Also available are .pdf versions of some of the League's historical documents and images of historical photographs. Additional publications are available either for downloading in .pdf format or for purchase in print format.
The FEC was created in 1975 to "administer and enforce the Federal Election Campaign Act - the statute that governs the financing of federal elections." Find answers to a variety of questions about campaign financing. The site includes a searchable disclosure database as well as other finance reports and data.
This site from the Federal Register provides information about the U.S. Electoral College System. It includes historical election results, answers to questions about the electoral college, resources for teachers and for state officials.
The web page for the Democratic Party provides information about the Party's platform as well as information on contributing to the party and other ways to get involved in the political process.
"Congress.org is a service of Capitol Advantage, a private, non-partisan company that specializes in facilitating civic participation." A free service, Congress.org allows users to find their representatives, research voting records, research current issues of importance and contact Congress. Capitol Hill Basics gives helpful tips on how to write to your Senator or Representative. The Media Guide gives information for locating and contacting national and local media outlets.
"Wex is an ambitious effort to construct a collaboratively-created, public-access law dictionary and encyclopedia. It is sponsored and hosted by the Legal Information Institute at the Cornell Law School (http://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/). " Contributions are made by a group of invited authors. Those who wish to contribute may apply for access.
