Academic Info
This is a good general academic site.
Best Information on the net
From St. Ambrose University, presents selected links for "Resources by Major" and "Hot Paper Topics".
Internet Archive “The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that was founded to build an Internet library, with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format.” This site includes the Wayback Machine, great Internet sites of the past.
Internet Public Library (IPL)
The Internet Public Library is hosted by the School of Information (i.e. Library Science) of the University of Michigan.
How Stuff Works
Marshall Brain "Have you ever wondered how the engine in your car works or what makes the inside of your refrigerator cold?" presents his articles here.
Intute
“Intute ... is created by a network of UK universities and partners. Subject specialists select and evaluate the websites in our database and write high quality descriptions of the resources.” Superior!
iTools
iTools organizes “tools”, Search Tools, Language Tools, Research Tools, and so on.
Martindale's "The Reference Desk"
"The Reference Desk" is a quality, comprehensive site that includes a number of "Enjoy, Have Fun" links.
RefDesk.com
Formerly My Virtual Reference Desk (MVRD); a large, comprehensive reference center!
The Smoking Gun® The Smoking Gun® "...exclusive documents--cool, confidential, quirky--that can't be found elsewhere on the Web."
Snopes.com Rumor has It Always Always Always check Snopes.com before you even start to believe anything you get sent to you over the Internet!
Virtual Reference Shelf
From the Library of Congress - quality links!
WikipediA; The Free Encyclopedia
A free-content encyclopedia that anyone can edit!
The WWW Virtual Library (WWW VL)
The WWW Virtual Library was established by the people at CERN (European Laboratory for Particle Physics) who also started the World Wide Web WWW. The Virtual Library is organized by subject fields, some correspond to academic disciplines. Typically discipline sites are maintained by a university faculty.
Daniel Hanne
dhanne@csupomona.edu
October 2009
