Learning Internet Resources

URL: http://www.geocities.com/sxm418/lir.htm

 

 

How is this page different? 

LIR lists more than 100 digital resources (all of them carefully selected), including many open access ones, to help you learn / research almost any topic to the degree that satisfies you from any computer with an Internet connection. The page is enhanced by innovative web design for the easiest and most efficient experience.

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I welcome any suggestions very much.  Also, once you find the page useful, please link to it from your web site (if you have the option) or at least tell others about it; you'll be allowing others to suggest needed revisions.

Sherif Masoud

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 Technical Reports     Definitions

 Theses and Dissertations     Definitions

 

Books                                                                             

Amazon.com Books  The earth's biggest selection of books and more

The Ohio eBook Project  Digital books for members

                                                                                                                                                                       

Free Books                                                                                            

THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES PRESS  Read more than 3,000 books online FREE!

The Online Books Page  Listing over 20,000 free books on the Web

Wikibooks  A collection of open-content textbooks that anyone can edit

eScholarship Editions  Includes more than 1,400 books [select books are available to the public]

                                                                                                                                                                       

Free Course Materials                                                    

MITOPENCOURSEWARE  A free and open educational resource for faculty, students, and self-learners

Connexions  Over 2,500 modules and almost 100 courses, developed by authors across the globe, in many fields

World Lecture Hall  Links to pages created by faculty worldwide to deliver course materials in any language

EduCommons  Utah State University Open Courseware

                                                                                                                                                                       

Databases                                                                      

Science.gov  A unified search of the US government’s vast stores of scientific and technical information

FirstGov.gov  A rich treasure of online information, services and resources

Air University Library Index to Military Periodicals  Search the subject index to articles, news items, and more

ingenta connect  Search the most comprehensive collection of academic and professional publications

British Library Direct  Search a vast collection of journals and view bibliographic details and some free abstracts

ScienceDirect  The world's largest electronic collection of STM full text and bibliographic information

Springer LINK  The premier electronic data source from Springer for researchers in many fields

Scholarly Societies Project Search Page  Search for scholarly societies

Genamics JournalSeek  A search engine for journals (title, description, journal homepage...etc.)

MInd: The Meetings Index  Locate future conferences, congresses, meetings, and symposia

AllConferences.com advanced search  Search for conferences (I recommend searching by title)

Blogwise - Blog directory  A directory of blogs around the world

TILE.NET LISTS  The reference guide to email discussion lists

                                                                                                                                                                       

Directories

Librarians' Index to the Internet

HighWire Press elected web portals for scientists  A selection of available web portals useful to scientists

Resource Discovery Network Links to more than 100,000 resources aimed at Internet users in UK education

East Carolina University Pirate Source  Disciplinary lists  of valuable websites and more

Google Directory  

Yahoo! Directory  

About.com  Expert guidance from real people searching the Internet for information, goods, and services

LookSmart's Directory  Hand-picked web sites organized into categories

THE BRITISH LIBRARY Periodicals Guide to Resources  British Library resources, Internet resources, and more

University of Kentucky List of Libraries and Archives on the Web

University of Kentucky Subject Guide to World Wide Web Resources

                                                                                                                                                                       

Reference Guides

Merriam-Webster Online  A dictionary of the words most frequently used in English

Answers.com  An ad-supported reference search service, which displays concise answers from over 100 sources

How Stuff Works

Wikipedia  The Free Encyclopedia

How Everyday Things Are Made  covers over 40 different items, including almost 4 hours of video

Creative Commons  Browse featured directories of works published by authors who want you to share or reuse

Google Guide

LOC Research Centers  Including valuable resources in business, law, science & technology, and more

TAFE NSW Learning Gateway Provides a wealth of vocational education & training

Boston University Libraries Reference Shelf  Links to archival sources, associations, employment, and more

KSL Reference Weblog-Sciecne/Technology  Information on newly released resources

Google Earth - Home Combines satellite imagery, maps and more to present the world's geographic information

multimap.com  Online maps to everywhere

US Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Outlook Handbook  Info. on specific occupations and industries 

Google Groups  Create, search, and browse groups to discuss and share ideas

Study Skills and more

Stanford Center for Teaching and Learning Downloadable Handouts on Learning Skills

Learn How to Start a Research Project - COATES Library

Study Guides and Strategies

Study Tips & Test-Taking Strategies 

Purdue's Online Writing Lab  Contains free materials and resources on writing and other research skills

U of Manitoba Guides to Writing Academic Papers

MindTools  Essential skills for an excellent career

                                                                                                                                                                       

Subject Guides                                                               

EEVL Xtra  Find articles, key websites, news, eprints, and more on Engineering, Math, and Computing

Trade Pages  Global guides to several trades, including links to case studies, journals, software, and more

Environment Web Directory

Office of Scientific & Technical Information  A wealth of research material

                                                                                                                                                                       

Free Journal Articles                                                     

DIRECTORY OF OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS  Covers free, full text scientific and scholarly journals

HighWire Press List of the Earth's Largest Free Full-Text Science Archives

PubMed  Search the comprehensive literature database of life sciences and biomedical information

arXiv.org  e-Print archive  Over 100 000 e-prints in physics, 10 000 in math, and 1 000 in computer science

Cogprints  Contains self-archive papers in any area of Psychology, Computer Science, Biology, and more

Research Papers in Economics (RePEc)

E-PRINT Network  Pre-publication drafts of journal articles (preprints), scholarly papers,...etc.

Japan Science and Technology Information Aggregator  Free, full text journal articles

Scientific Electronic Library Online Brazil  Free, full text journal articles

                                                                                                                                                                       

Libraries                                                                       

The Library of Congress  Including resources for kids, families, researchers, teachers, and more

LOC Gateway to Library Catalogs  

LibDex  The library index (18, 000 libraries worldwide)

CURL  Catalog of the Consortium of University Research Libraries—UK and Ireland

Hollis  Harvard OnLine Library Information System

Penn State Libraries

OhioLINK  A consortium of Ohio’s college and university libraries and the State Library of Ohio

University of Cincinnati Engineering Library

American University in Cairo Libraries

Center for Research Libraries Catalog  Search more than 600, 000 titles

                                                                                                                                                                       

Digital Libraries                                                             

Digital Library Federation list of digital libraries  A list of links to many digital libraries with free material 

DLF Search Engine  Use this form to find digital resources from all DLF institution libraries

SHERPA archives list  A list of free e-print collections at many UK universities

EPrints.org  Dedicated to opening access to the refereed research literature online

MIT's digital repository  Research in digital form, including preprints, conference papers, and more

University of Toronto T-Space  Collections of scholarly materials

Cream of Science  showcase of Dutch prominent research

The Digital Repository at Texas A&M University

DIRECTORY OF OPEN ACCESS REPOSITORIES  A list of open access research archives (under construction)

                                                                                                                                                                       

Patents                                                                           

University of Cincinnati ENGINEERING LIBRARY RESOURCES FOR PATENTS

Queen's University Engineering and Science Library - Patents  Includes links to few databases and search tools

                                                                                                                                                                       

General Search Engines                                                  

Google  Search for documents (html, doc, pdf, ppt), images, groups, products (froogle), and more

Yahoo!Search  Search for documents (html, doc, pdf, ppt), images, videos, and more

                                                                                                                                                                       

Specialized Search Engines                                            

OAIster search service  Find digital resources from many institutions

Scirus  A search engine that fetches only scientific websites  

CiteSeer  A search engine for scientific literature

Google Scholar  A search engine specifically for scholarly literature

CitebaseSearch

Google Print  Search the full text of books (and discover new ones)

Yahoo!Search Creative Commons  Search for content published by authors who want you to share & reuse

BASE  Search for scholarly internet resources

Google Special Searches  Search within specific topics

Yahoo!Search Subscriptions  Search access restricted content

EEVL's Ejournal Search Engines - Engineering

More scientifically specialized search engines from Google

                                                                                                                                                                       

Technical Reports                                                           

University at Buffalo Technical Reports Page  Includes links to sources of open access technical reports

GrayLIT Network  Search for technical report information generated through federally funded projects

Information Bridge  Presents DOE full-text technical reports in physics, chemistry, materials, biology, and more

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

                                                                                                                                                                       

Theses and Dissertations                                               

Finding theses and dissertations

Digital Dissertations  Search all dissertations in the most recent two years

Electronic Thesis  Search for dissertations and theses from many institutions

Australian Digital Theses Program  A free, full text database of theses produced at Australian Universities

Canadian Theses

Electronic Theses and Dissertations from OhioLINK member universities

Edinburgh Research Archive  full-text digital Theses and Dissertations and more

Digital Library of MIT Theses  Full text of selected MIT master's and doctoral theses

Caltech Electronic Theses  Open access (full text)

                                                                                                                                                                       


Many of the resources on this page are 'open access;' to learn more about the open access movement, please visit the 

Open Access Trade Page

 

Other related Sherif A. Masoud's pages are:

Learning Administration &  Index of Trade Pages

 

Copyright © to Sherif Masoud; last Revised: 05-Oct-06 12:38:30 PM; please use this page fairly for educational or other useful purposes, giving credit to the source(s); please report any broken links or other comments by email.

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