Recommended Links
GENERAL REFERENCE
- EDsitement
- Google Earth
- High School Ace
- Infoplease Almanac
- Librarians' Internet Index
- Library Spot
- Merriam-Webster Online
- Merriam-Webster Visual Dictionary Online
- The Old Farmer's Almanac
- Smart Pages
- Telephone Directory
- Thesaurus
- Zip Code Lookup
NEWS
- The Baltimore Sun
- CNN
- MSNBC
- National Geographic
- National Public Radio
- The New York Times
- News Central
- News Link
- Newseum - today's front page news from over 400 newspapers
- The Washington Post
- World Newspapers
AMERICAN GOVERNMENT
- U.S. Senate - for senator information
- Project Vote Smart - for voting records
- On the Issues - for voting records
- Capital Advantage - for voting records
- Roll Call Votes - for voting records
- 50 States - for state information
- Infoplease Almanac - for state information
- GovSpot - for state information
- CQ Researcher - for research on issues
- FirstGov - for research on issues
- Stateline - for research on issues
ART
- Artcyclopedia - a guide to great art on the Internet
- Art History - art history resources on the web
- Art History Timeline - from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Art Think
- The Louvre
- National Gallery of Art
- National Museum of African Art
- National Museum of Women in the Arts
- Smithsonian Institution
- The Vatican Museums
IMAGE SOURCES
- Getty Museum Open Content Images
- Google Cultural Institute Links to Art
- Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam
- The British Museum images for common use on Flickr
- National Gallery in Washington, D.C.
- Guggenheim Art catalogues
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art images
CITATION HELP
COPYRIGHT
- Copyright Clearance Center
- Copyright Kids
- United States Copyright Office
- United States Copyright Office: Copyright Basics
HEALTH AND FITNESS
- American Dietetic Association - the nation's largest organization of food and nutrition professionals
- Centers for Disease Control - Department of Health and Human Services
- Fast Food Facts - calories, fat and other nutritional information
- Food and Nutrition Info Center - from the National Agricultural Library of the U.S. Department of Agriculture
- Mayo Clinic - medical and health information
- Medline - a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health
- Nutrition and Your Health - dietary guidelines from the Department of Health and Human Services and the department of Agriculture
- PE Central - sports-related websites
- Stanford Health Library - from Stanford University Medical Center
- UM Medical Reference - from the University of Maryland Medical Center
IMAGES
LIBRARIES
- Baltimore County Public Library
- Enoch Pratt Free Library
- Harford County Public Library
- Library of Congress
- Loyola/Notre Dame Library
- UM Libraries
LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE
- Bartleby - great books online
- Encyclopedia Mythica
- The English Server - an online community of writers, artists, editors and scholars
- Literary Resources on the Net - a collection of English and American Literature websites maintained by Jack Lynch of Rutgers
- Project Gutenberg - a free eBook library
- Shakespeare Illustrate - explores nineteenth-century paintings, criticism and productions of Shakespeare's plays, maintained by Harry Rusche at Emory University
MATHEMATICS
- Famous Problems in Math - a research and educational enterprise of Drexel University
- History of Mathematics - from the School of Mathematics and Statistics at University of St. Andrews, Scotland
- Hot Math - math homework help
- Illuminations - from the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
- Interactivate - interactive courseware for exploration in science and mathematics
- Math Forum
- Math TV - math and Algebra help via video
- Math World
- Problems with a Point - selected by the NCTM as an exemplary website
MYTHOLOGY
- Internet Public Library Pathfinder to Greek Mythology
- Encyclopedia Mythica
- Theoi Greek Mythology: Exploring Mythology in Classical Literature & Art
- The Gutenberg ebook of Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome
- Greek and Roman Myths
- Minneapolis Museum of Art /World Myths and Legends in Art
SCIENCE
- BioTech - life sciences resources and reference tools from the University of Texas
- Chemical Elements - an interactive Periodic Table of the Elements
- General Chemistry Online - from Frostburg University
- National Council for Science and the Environment - National Library for the Environment
- Physics 2000 - a University of Colorado at Boulder website
- The Physics Department
- Web Elements - Periodic Table from the University of Sheffield
- World of Biography
SCIENCE - PRIMARY RESEARCH
- BioMed Central - General Science journal articles from an open access publisher
- Highwire - Free research articles on scientific topics from Stanford University Libraries
- PUBMED - National Center for Biotechnology Information; PUBMED has links to 5,000 journals
- Nature.com - High-impact peer-reviewed research in all fields of science along with news and commentary on trends affecting science, scientists and the wider public. Nature is a weekly distillation of the best in science and the with an international perspective.
- Science Magazine - from 1880 to the present
SOCIAL STUDIES
- American Memory - from the Library of Congress
- American Women - a gateway to Library of Congress resources for the study of women's history and culture in the United States
- Ancient World Cultures - from the University of Evansville
- Country Reports - statistical and cultural information on over 260 countries
- Digital History - hosted by the University of Houston and developed through collaborative partnerships
- EyeWitness - history through the eyes of those who lived it
- FirstGov - the U.S. Government's official web portal
- Middle Ages
- Renaissance
- US National Archives and Records Administration
- World Atlas - maps, flags and geography facts
- The World Factbook - from the Central Intelligence Agency
WORLD LANGUAGES
- Espanole - online resource for students and teachers of Spanish
- French Links
- La Journada - online newspaper of Mexico
- Le Monde - online newspaper of France