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Generalities and Reference

• Statistical Abstract of the United States : Published since 1878, it is the authoritative and
  comprehensive summary of statistics on the social,
  political, and economic organization of the United States.
• Open Directory Project
• Librarian’s Index to the Internet
• Infomine :  Internet resources relevant to faculty, students, and research staff at the university level
• RefDesk
• LibrarySpot
• Bartleby (Books online)
• Virginia e-Text (Books online)

Books

• Project Gutenberg:    Free “classic” e-books
• The Online Books Page: Lists over 30,000 free e-books.
• The Internet Public Library Online Texts Collection: Over 50 links to databases of online texts in the public domain, from Aesop's Fables to the Victorian Women’s Writing Project.
• Google Books
• OAISTER: Catalog of digital resources (articles, books, images, movies, etc).

Dictionaries

• Word Reference: Spanish, French, Italian, German, and Russian

Magazines, Newspapers & Publications

• Findarticles (Magazines)
• MagPortal (Magazines)
• Directory of Open Access Journals:  Free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. Includes more than 4000 journals in the directory, with more than 300,000 articles included.
• HighWire Press : More than 6 million full-text articles from over 140 scholarly publishers.
• OAISTER: Catalog of digital resources (articles, books, images, movies, etc).
• San Francisco Chronicle (SF Gate)
• San Jose Mercury News
• New York Times
• Napa Valley Register
  
• Santa Rosa Press Democrat
  
• Lake County Record Bee

Medical

• MayoClinic.com
• National Library of Medicine - National Institutes of Health
• Medscape
• Healthfinder
• eMedicine
• KidsHealth
• Web MD:  Valuable health information, tools for managing your health, and support to those who seek information.
• MedlinePLUS:   Free, high quality health information in English, Spanish, and more than 40 other languages.
• PubMed: Service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 19 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to 1948. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources.

Social Sciences

• Education
• Eric Online digital library of education research and information sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education.
  
• Government Agencies
• California Home Page
• California State Associations of Counties
• U.S. Government's Official Web Portal
• National Institute of Standards (Time)
• ERIC - Educational Resources Information Center
  
• Global Information
• Governments on the WWW
• CIA Factbook
  
  
• Law
• Findlaw
• Internet Legal Resource Guide
• Washburn Law Library
  
  
• Philosophy
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Sciences & Technology

• California Dept. of Water Resources Data Exchange Center
• Nature - International weekly journal of science
• Science Online Magazine
• National Weather Service - California Data
• Internet Guide to Engineering, Math, & Computing
• Mathematics

History and Geography

• MapQuest
• The Smithsonian Institution
• California Historical Society
• Library of Congress American Memory Project:   Contains books, maps, photographs, sound recordings, sheet music, early motion pictures and animation, and much more.
• Documents for the Study of American History

Primary Sources:

• Calisphere: Calisphere is the University of    California's free public gateway to a world of primary sources. More than 150,000 digitized items    — including photographs, documents, newspaper pages, political cartoons, works of art, diaries,   transcribed oral histories, advertising, and other unique cultural artifacts. 
• Library of Congress American Memory Project

 

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