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Science

Highwire: Library of the Sciences and Medicine
http://highwire.stanford.edu/
Biological Sciences, Physical Sciences, Medical Sciences and Social Sciences

BioMed Central
http://www.biomedcentral.com/
Biology; medicine

FreeMedicalJournals.com
http://www.freemedicaljournals.com/
Medicine

PubMed Central
http://www.pubmedcentral.gov
Life sciences

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
http://www.cdc.gov/publications.htm
Health

arXiv.org e-Print Archive
http://arxiv.org/
Physics, Mathematics, Nonlinear Sciences and Computer Science

The NASA Astrophysics Data System
http://adswww.harvard.edu/
Physics, Astrophysics, and Instrumentation

National Environmental Publications Information System
http://www.epa.gov/clariton/
Environment

EnergyFiles
http://www.osti.gov/energyfiles/ 
Energy science and technology, with an emphasis on the physical sciences

GrayLIT Network
http://graylit.osti.gov/
Federal technical reports

CiteSeer Scientific Literature Digital Library
http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/cs
many scientific subjects and topics

Scirus: for scientific information only
http://www.scirus.com/
many scientific subjects and topics

The Information Bridge, Department of Energy (DOE)
http://www.osti.gov/bridge/
Physics, chemistry, materials, biology, environmental sciences, energy technologies, engineering, computer and information science, renewable energy, and other topics.

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Literature

The Online Medieval & Classical Library
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/OMACL/
literary works of Classical and Medieval civilization

Bodleian Library: Western Manuscripts to c.1500
http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/medieval/browse.htm
images of Western manuscripts from the eleventh to the seventeenth centuries

Gutenberg Bible (British Library)
http://prodigi.bl.uk/gutenbg/default.asp
digital images of two editions of the Gutenberg Bible

Electronic Text Center
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/uvaonline.html
access to humanities texts and images

Bartleby.com
http://www.bartleby.com
"Great Books" online; The Harvard Classics, An American Anthology, 1787-1900, King James Bible, Strunk’s Elements of Style, and many works of poetry and literature

Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts
http://www.infomotions.com/alex/
public domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy

The Celebration of Women Writers
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/
contributions of women writers throughout history

Complete Works of William Shakespeare
http://the-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/works.html
Shakespeare’s plays and poetry

Poetry.com: The International Library of Poetry
http://www.poetry.com
Poetry

Wright’s American Fiction, 1851-1875
http://www.letrs.indiana.edu/web/w/wright2/
19th century American fiction

African American Women Writers of the 19th Century
http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/writers_aa19/toc.html
published works by 19th-century black women writers

American Verse Project: University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative
http://www.hti.umich.edu/a/amverse/
a collection of volumes of American poetry from before 1920

Project Gutenberg
http://promo.net/pg/
classic books from the start of the 20th century and previous centuries, from authors such as Shakespeare, Poe, Dante, Doyle, Burroughs, Carroll, and thousands of others.

Folklore and Mythology Electronics Texts
http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/folktexts.html
folktales and myths from around the world

Marxists.org Internet Archive
http://www.marxists.org/
writings on Marxism and Marxist history, as well as an Encyclopedia of Marxism

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United States History and Culture

American Memory
http://memory.loc.gov
historical collections related to arts, sciences, humanities, history, social sciences and business. Documents include: books, manuscripts, sheet music, maps, motion pictures, photos and prints, and sound recording.

Making of America (Cornell University site)
http://library5.library.cornell.edu/moa/
Making of America (University of Michigan site)
http://www.hti.umich.edu/m/moagrp/
primary material from American social history from antebellum through reconstruction; education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology

National Archives and Records Administration
http://www.archives.gov/exhibit_hall/index.html
cornerstone documents of the United States, such as the Declaration of Independence

Avalon Project at Yale University
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm
documents in law, history, and diplomacy, including treaties, international agreements, trials, important Presidential papers, and more

United States Historical Census Data Browser
http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/collections/stats/histcensus/
data describe the people and the economy of the US for each state and county from 1790 to 1960

Douglass. Archives of American Public Address
http://douglassarchives.org/
archive of American oratory

Historic American Sheet Music
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/sheetmusic/
selected sheetmusic from between 1850 and 1920

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United States Government Documents

GPO Access
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/databases.html
U.S. Government documents

Thomas, Legislative Information on the Internet
http://thomas.loc.gov/
U.S. Government legislation information

FindLaw
http://www.findlaw.com
Federal case law

Federal Judiciary U.S. Courts
http://www.uscourts.gov/
information on federal courts plus links to U.S. Supreme Court cases, U.S. Courts of Appeals, U.S. District Courts, and U.S. Bankruptcy Courts.

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Massachusetts Government Documents

Statutes. General Laws of Massachusetts
http://www.mass.gov/legis/laws/mgl/index.htm
searchable unofficial version of the General Laws of Massachusetts

Session Laws
http://www.mass.gov/legis/laws/seslaw97/index.htm
Session laws or the Massachusetts Acts and Resolves from 1997 to the present

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International

Library of Congress. Country Studies Area Handbooks
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html
over 100 countries are profiled

Global Legal Information Network (GLIN)
http://www.loc.gov/law/glin/
database of laws, regulations, and other legal sources of other countries

Canada’s Digital Collections
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/E/subject.asp
an important source of Canadian content on the Internet

 

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General Sources

The Internet Public Library
http://www.ipl.org/
Business & Economics; Computers & Internet; Education; Entertainment & Leisure; Health & Medical Sciences; Arts & Humanities; Law, Government & Political Science; Regional & Country Information; Reference; Science & Technology and Social Sciences.

Digital Library Federation -- Public Access Collections
http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/b/bib/bib-idx?c=dlfcoll
A clearinghouse that links publically available collections that have been digitized by member institutions of the Digital Library Federation. The collections may be browsed by collection, institution, or by simple or advanced searching.

eScholarship Editions: publically-accessible titles
http://content.cdlib.org/search?sort=title&relation=escholarship.cdlib.org&style=eschol&rights=Public
The eScholarship Editions collection includes more than 500 publically-accessible books.

Directory of Open Access Journals
http://www.doaj.org/
This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals covering several subjects and languages. There are more than 1,200 journals in the directory, and more than 300 of these journals are searchable on article level.

The Internet Archive Wayback Machine
http://www.archive.org/web/web.php
Plug in a URL and get a archived history of that Web site.

NewspaperLinks: A gateway to Your Local Newspaper
http://www.newspaperlinks.com/home.cfm
A newspaper portal sponsored by the Newspaper Association of America. Links to U.S., Canadian and international, and some college newspapers.

FindArticles
http://www.findarticles.com/PI/index.jhtml
including, but not limited to business, health, society, entertainment and sports

Online Books Page
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/
facilitates access to books that are freely readable over the Internet

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Other

AskERIC
http://ericir.syr.edu/
Education

UNESDOC
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/ulis/index.html
UNESCO full text documents

The World Bank Group - Documents and Reports
http://www-wds.worldbank.org/
Economic environment, role of the state, transition economies, labor, infrastructure, health, the environment, and poverty concerning developing countries

Sacred Texts
http://www.sacred-texts.com/index.htm
Religion, mythology, and the occult

 

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