Top Ten Websites for Research
10 Places to Start:
Project Gutenberg, as the oldest producer of ebooks on the Internet, provides access to 16,000 titles.
This is a theological library of online texts of the Christian tradition, compiled by a researcher at Calvin College.
From the University of Michigan School of Information, the IPL contains
a wide range and variety of websites, with access to Subject
Collections, Ready Reference, and magazines and newspapers.
The PloS provides open access to worldwide scientific and medical research, and includes its own PloS journals.
This site, from the O'Keefe Library at St. Ambrose University, provides
a selective directory of Internet resources, focusing on ethical and
social service subjects, and includes sections on "Hot Paper Topics" and
"Resources by Major."
Originating from the University of California at Riverside, the site
has access to important educational and research tools, with over100,000
links.
This is a literary site with free access to selected ebooks of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry, as well as to reference works.
From the Library of Congress special collections, this site provides
full-text access to primary and archival materials relating to United
States history and culture.
Compiled by the Documents Center at the University of Michigan Library,
the site has hundreds of statistical files, mainly from government
sources, on such topics as demographics, consumers, education, foreign
trade, health, and science.
This New York Public Library site provides access to digital
collections of primary sources and printed materials, including books,
photographs, manuscripts, and maps.
