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* ] {{WS|epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu}} - statistics on European Union countries * ] {{WS|epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu}} - statistics on European Union countries
* ]: - from the ], published between 1988 and 1998, information on some countries may no longer be up to date * ]: - from the ], published between 1988 and 1998, information on some countries may no longer be up to date
* '']'' {{external link|https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.html|(web site)}} - published by the ] of the U.S. * '']'' - published by the ] of the U.S.


==Information and library science== ==Information and library science==
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==Philosophy== ==Philosophy==
* '']'' {{WS|iep.utm.edu}} * '']'' {{WS|iep.utm.edu}}
* '']'' {{External link|http://plato.stanford.edu/|(web site)}} * '']''
* ] {{External link|http://ethics.sandiego.edu/|(web site)}} - Ethics Updates, resources and updates on current literature, both popular and professional, that relates to ethics * ] - Ethics Updates, resources and updates on current literature, both popular and professional, that relates to ethics


==Science, mathematics, medicine & nature== ==Science, mathematics, medicine & nature==
===Agriculture=== ===Agriculture===
* ''California Agriculture'' {{external link|http://californiaagriculture.ucanr.org/|(web site)}} - peer-reviewed journal, reporting research, reviews and news from the ] and its Agriculture and Natural Resources division * ''California Agriculture'' - peer-reviewed journal, reporting research, reviews and news from the ] and its Agriculture and Natural Resources division


===Medicine=== ===Medicine===
* ] {{external link|http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/gquery|(web site)}} - Life Sciences search engine from the ] * ] - Life Sciences search engine from the ]
* Global Health Observatory (GHO) {{external link|http://www.who.int/gho/en/|(web site)}} - portal providing critical data and analyses for key health themes, as well as direct access to the full database, including the ] Statistical Information System (WHOSIS) * Global Health Observatory (GHO) - portal providing critical data and analyses for key health themes, as well as direct access to the full database, including the ] Statistical Information System (WHOSIS)
* ] {{external link|http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/|(web site)}} - comprises more than 19 million citations for biomedical literature from ], life science journals, and online books from the ] * ] - comprises more than 19 million citations for biomedical literature from ], life science journals, and online books from the ]


==Social sciences== ==Social sciences==

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WikiProject Resource Exchange

The following list is meant to help you with your own research, by offering links to respectable information sources on the web, available free of charge. Inclusion on the list doesn't automatically mean the absolute truth is on these websites, so always be critical and compare information between different sources.

The content of the subsections is alphabetically organized.

Please add free online sources if you know some that are missing in this list, but try to keep it relevant and trustworthy.

General resources and link lists

See also: Wikimedia sister projects
  • Wikiversity - sister project that provides information on most academic subjects
  • FindArticles findarticles.com. - from BNET, unlimited access to one of the largest databases of white papers, webcasts, and case studies on the Web
  • Footnote - historic documents through their partnerships with The National Archives, the Library of Congress and other institutions (partly free)
  • Google Scholar scholar.google.com. - provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature
  • Intute intute.ac.uk. - free online service that helps you to find the best web resources for your studies and research, created by a consortium of seven universities in the UK
  • ipl2 ipl.org. - merger of the collections of resources from the Internet Public Library (IPL) and the Librarians' Internet Index (LII) websites, hosted by Drexel University College of Information Science and Technology
  • Refdesk - free and family-friendly web site that indexes and reviews quality, credible, and current web-based resources

Newspapers and news agencies

Biographies

  • Australian Dictionary of Biography adb.online.anu.edu.au. - over 10,000 scholarly biographies of persons who were significant in Australian history
  • Dictionary of Canadian Biography biographi.ca. - biographies devoted to people who have played an significant role in what is now Canada, who died between the years 1000 and 1930 or whose last known date of activity falls within these years
  • Oxford Dictionary of National Biography oxforddnb.com. - collection of more than 57,000 specially written biographies, which describe the lives of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond from the 4th century BC to the 21st century. Login is required to access, and it's not strictly free - however, if you're in the UK, entering your library card number will almost certainly get you in. Many libraries elsewhere in the world also have unrestricted access.

Culture

Sports

  • LA84 Foundation la84foundation.org. - digital resources include academic journals, scholarly books, popular sports magazines of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and an extensive offering of Olympic publications

Geography, places and travel

Information and library science

  • Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) libraryresearch.com. - from EBSCO Publishing, the bibliographic database covers librarianship, classification, and information management, and indexes nearly 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports, and proceedings

Philosophy

Science, mathematics, medicine & nature

Agriculture

  • California Agriculture (web site) - peer-reviewed journal, reporting research, reviews and news from the University of California and its Agriculture and Natural Resources division

Medicine

Social sciences

Anthropology

Economics

History

  • EuroDocs: primary historical documents from Western Europe.
  • Wikibooks: World History: Misplaced Pages cooperative historical information.
  • www.WorldHistoryMaps.info: Collection of world history maps ranging from ancient to modern times.
  • The Historical Atlas of South Asia by Joseph Schwartzberg.
  • Euratlas historical maps of Europe.
  • National, State & Local Newspaper Archives: list of free newspaper archives in the US.
  • http://www.historyguide.org/ The History Guide contains the complete content of three undergraduate courses in European history which will certainly be of use to those of you studying such topics at the college level or in A.P. European history classes. The History Guide contains ninety lectures in European history from ancient Sumer to the fall of Soviet-style communism in 1989. In essence, what is presented here is an online textbook in western civilization, with special reference to the western intellectual tradition.

Law

Political science

Religious studies

Technology & computer science

See also

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