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Academic Archive or Library

Add free, open Archive	Web Site	Other Info	Language
AnthroHub	http://anthrohub.lib.berkeley.edu/	Anthropology Library at UC Berkeley.
Arxiv at Cornell University Library	http://arxiv.org/	arXiv is an e-print service of 538,000 articles in the fields of physics, mathematics, non-linear science, computer science, quantitative biology and statistics	English
Applied Math and Science Education Repository	http://amser.org/	A portal of educational resources and services built specifically for use by those in Community and Technical Colleges but free for anyone to use. AMSER is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) as part of the National Science Digital Library	English
Biodiversity Heritage Library	http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/	Ongoing project sponsored by ten natural history museum libraries, botanical libraries, and research institutions. Digitized biology texts, journals, ...	Languages
CogPrints - Cognitive Science ePrint Archive	http://cogprints.org/	an electronic archive for self-archive papers in any area of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Linguistics, and many areas of Computer Science, Philosophy, Biology, Medicine, Anthropology, as well as any other portions of the physical, social and mathematical sciences that are pertinent to the study of cognition.	English
Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network - CKAN	http://www.ckan.net/about	a registry of open knowledge packages and projects (and a few closed ones). CKAN makes it easy to find, share and reuse open content and data, especially in ways that are machine automatable. CKAN combines the features of a listing/registry, a package index and a wiki. As a registry it acts like freshmeat but for open data and content resources. However it adds to a simple registry in key ways.	English
DASH - Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard	http://dash.harvard.edu/	A central, open access repository for the scholarly output of faculty and the broader research community at Harvard.	English
Digital Collections and Content (DCC)	http://imlsdcc.grainger.uiuc.edu/	Digital Collections and Content contains descriptions of digital resources developed by IMLS grantees. Examples of what you will find here include: oral histories of African-Americans in the PacNW from Washington State's Columbia River Basin collection, wacky railroad pranks from Making Modern Michigan from Michigan State University, clipper ship advertisement cards from the Robert B. Honeyman, Jr. Collection, cookbooks from MSU's Feeding America.	English
Directory of Open Access Scholarly Journals in Education	http://www.ergobservatory.info/ejdirectory.html	The Education Research Global Observatory maintains a complete and current directory of open access peer-reviewed journals in education.	English
ERIC - the Education Resources Information Center	http://eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/search/extended.jsp	ERIC - the Education Resources Information Center - is an online digital library of education research and information. ERIC is sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education. ERIC provides ready access to education literature to support the use of educational research and information to improve practice in learning, teaching, educational decision-making, and research.	English
eScholarship	http://escholarship.org/	eScholarship provides a suite of open access, scholarly publishing services and research tools that enable departments, research units, publishing programs, and individual scholars associated with the University of California to have direct control over the creation and dissemination of the full range of their scholarship. With eScholarship, you can publish the following original scholarly works on a dynamic research platform available to scholars worldwide:	English
eTexts at Adelaide University	http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/	Free web books online	English
Ethos	http://ethos.bl.uk/Home.do	British Library - Opening access to UK theses.	English
Google Books	http://books.google.com/	Google Book Search	English
Harvard Libraries	http://lib.harvard.edu/	Harvard is contractually obligated to limit access to most Harvard Libraries e-resources to current Harvard students, faculty, staff, and researchers who hold Harvard IDs and PINs, but there's a lot of accessible information available online here at one of the biggest libraries in the world, anyway.	English
Harvard Page Delivery Service	http://hul.harvard.edu/ois/systems/drs/pds.html	Harvard University - Example: http://pds.lib.harvard.edu/pds/view/14115881?n=1&imagesize=1200&jp2Res=0.125	English
Harvard Law School Library Digital Collections	http://www.law.harvard.edu/library/special/exhibits/digital/	The Harvard Law School Library is dedicated to digitizing and making available online selections of its rare and important materials. In addition to bringing these materials to a wider audience, digitization facilitates access to unique and valuable materials while preserving and protecting fragile originals.	English
Hathi Trust	http://www.hathitrust.org/	HathiTrust is a partnership of major research institutions and libraries working to ensure that the cultural record is preserved and accessible long into the future. There are more than fifty partners in HathiTrust, and membership is open to institutions worldwide.	Languages
ibiblio	http://www.ibiblio.org/	ibiblio.org - the public's library and digital archiv	English
Internet Archive	http://www.archive.org/index.php	Universal Access to Human Knowledge; Wayback machine; Permanent access for researchers, historians, scholars, people with disabilities, and the general public to historical collections that exist in digital format; includes texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web pages in our collections, and is working to provide specialized services relating to training, education, or adaptive reading or information access needs of blind or other persons with disabilities	English
The Internet Public Library	http://www.ipl.org/div/subject/browse/hum45.70.00/	The Internet Public Library is a public service organization and a learning/teaching environment; Ask an IPL Librarian Reference Service.	English
The Internet Public Library 2	http://www.ipl.org/	The ipl2 is the result of a merger of the Internet Public Library (IPL) and the Librarians' Internet Index (LII).	English
International Children's Digital Library	http://en.childrenslibrary.org/	A Library for the World's Children	English
The Harvard Library Innovation Laboratory at Harvard Law School	http://librarylab.law.harvard.edu/		English
Library of Congress	http://www.loc.gov/index.html	A new lab exploring the future of libraries — because their future is open.	English
Library of Congress Twitter Archive	http://www.loc.gov/tweet/how-tweet-it-is.html		English
LibriVox: Acoustical Liberation of Books in the Public Domain	http://librivox.org	Free audiobooks: volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain and release the audio files back onto the net. Our goal is to make all public domain books available as free audio books.	English
MIT Classics	http://classics.mit.edu/Browse/index.html	Bringing the wisdom of the classics to the Internet since 1994	English
MyLOC	http://myloc.gov/pages/default.aspx	Your tool for exploring the world's largest library. The Library's new, personalized site, myLOC.gov, presents many of these items in compelling online exhibitions that reveal our nation's history, knowledge and creativity through primary sources, engaging activities and materials for teachers and students. Plan your visit. Touch history. Get lesson plans. Zoom into maps. Do a word search related to the founding documents of the United States. Try your hand at re-writing the Declaration of Independence.
My Open Archive	http://www.myopenarchive.org/	Open Archive in Japanese	Japanese
National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP)	http://www.neh.gov/projects/ndnp.html	The National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) is a partnership between the NEH, the Library of Congress (LC), and state projects to provide enhanced access to United States newspapers published between 1836 and 1922. NEH awards support state projects to select and digitize historically significant titles that are aggregated and permanently maintained by the Library of Congress.	English
National Science Digital Library	http://nsdl.org/	Nation's online library for education and research in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics; K-12 and higher education.
Nature Precedings	http://precedings.nature.com/	Connects thousands of researchers and provides a platform for sharing new and preliminary findings with colleagues on a global scale. Post pre-print manuscripts, posters and presentations on Nature Precedings to claim priority and receive feedback on your findings prior to formal publication.
Online Archive of California	http://www.oac.cdlib.org/	The Online Archive of California (OAC) provides free public access to detailed descriptions of primary resource collections maintained by more than 150 contributing institutions including libraries, special collections, archives, historical societies, and museums throughout California and collections maintained by the 10 University of California (UC) campuses.	English
Online Literature Library	http://www.literature.org/authors/	The online literature library	English
Opening History	http://imlsdcc.grainger.uiuc.edu/history/	U.S. History Resources from Libraries, Museums Archives	English
PLoS Biology	http://www.plosbiology.org/home.action	A peer-reviewed, open-access journal published by the Public Library of Science
PLoS One	http://www.plosone.org/home.action	An interactive open-access journal for the communication of all peer-reviewed scientific and medical research	English
Project Gutenberg	http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page	Over 100,000 titles are available at Project Gutenberg Partners, Affiliates and Resources	English
Prelinger Library	http://www.prelingerlibrary.org/	Prelinger Library Digital Collections Page, currently with 3,767 fully downloadable digital books, based in San Francisco	English
Public Resource	http://publicresource.org/	These new Public Law Libraries of legal records are a database of federal and state case law, accessible to both the public, attorneys and legal professionals, free of charge.	English
PubMedCentral	http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/	a free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the United States National Institutes of Health (NIH) and is developed and managed by NIH's National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) in the National Library of Medicine (NLM).	English
Social Science Research Network (SSRN)	http://www.ssrn.com/	devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of social science research and is composed of a number of specialized research networks in each of the social sciences; Each of SSRN's networks encourages the early distribution of research results by publishing Submitted abstracts and by soliciting abstracts of top quality research papers around the world.	English
Social Science Research Network (SSRN) eLibrary by Network / Journal / Topic	http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/DisplayJournalBrowse.cfm	SSRN eLibrary consists of two parts: an Abstract Database containing abstracts on over 280,600 scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers and an Electronic Paper Collection currently containing over 230,100 downloadable full text documents in Adobe Acrobat pdf format.	English
Stanford University's Cubberley Education Library	http://www.stanford.edu/group/cubberley/collections/websites/all AND Stanford Libraries in Second Life: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Stanford%20University%20Libraries/163/233/33	Broad coverage of education is offered in a collection of over 170,000 volumes. Part of this collection is stored off campus in SAL3 for preservation. These items may be paged to campus. Current subscriptions to journals and other serials number about 1100. Many of these are available electronically to those affiliated with Stanford. Cubberley offers access to myriad electronic resources, including articles, books, reports, government documents, and data. We have the ERIC documents, college catalogs, and Kraus Curriculum resources (in each case older ones are on microfiche & newer ones on the Web.) We have a small but growing curriculum collection, plus historical collections of textbooks and college catalogs in paper format. Doctoral dissertations for the School of Education are shelved in Cubberley, with those from 1989+ also available online for downloading by the Stanford community.	English
Twitter Biomedical Journals	https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=tecO4mLvNETuMvVDokltQIA&gid=0		English
University of Michigan Library	http://www.lib.umich.edu/	The University of Michigan Library now offers content on its website under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license. This announcement is significant because the Library had been using the more restrictive Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC) license. By switching to the Attribution license, the Library has granted more permissions to use, share, and repurpose its research and technology guides, video tutorials, toolkits, copyright education materials, bibliographies, and other resources.	English
University of Pennsylvania's Online Books	http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/	Listing over 35,000 free books on the Web	English
University of Virginia Library	http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/press/uvagoogle/faq.html	The University of Virginia Library, one of the oldest research libraries in the U.S., has partnered with Google to make selected books from the Library’s collections searchable online. For books in the public domain, full-text copies will be available at no charge through Google Book Search. Here are answers to frequently asked questions about this partnership.	English
World Digital Library	http://www.wdl.org/en/	The World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world.	Multilingual
	http://	About:	Languages

Academic Databases

Add Subject - free, open Educational Software Tools	Web Site	Organization (if any)	Degree / Non-degree	Location	Other Info	Language	Tags
NPLichen: A Database of Lichens in the U.S. National Parks	http://www.nbii.gov/nplichen				This database contains over 29,900 records of documented occurrences of lichens in units of the U. S. National Park System. The records were obtained from the scientific literature, from National Park Service reports, and from the University of Minnesota Herbarium.
Jobs in Academe	http://sterneworks.org/Academe/	Streneworks.org			material on conference presentation, the transition to assistant professor, mentorship, and academic couples.

Academic Jobs Wikis

Add Subject - free, open Educational Software Tools	Web Site	Organization (if any)	Degree / Non-degree	Location	Other Info	Language	Tags
Academic Jobs Wiki	http://acawiki.org/Home				A wiki for tracking searches in various categories for academic (i.e. faculty) positions. Please post listings by subject area
Jobs in Academe	http://sterneworks.org/Academe/	Streneworks.org			material on conference presentation, the transition to assistant professor, mentorship, and academic couples.

Accessible Books and Periodicals for Readers with Print Disabilities

Add Subject - free, open Educational Software Tools	Webpage	Tags
Bookshare	http://www.bookshare.org/	Bookshare.org			Bookshare is free for all U.S. students with qualifying disabilities; dramatically increases the accessibility of books; is a searchable online library; offers more than 70,000 digital books, textbooks, teacher-recommended reading, periodicals and assistive technology tools; for readers of all ages.

Add Subject - free, open

Educational Software Tools

Webpage

Algebra Homework Help

free Homework Help	Web Site	Kind of access	Location	Other Info	Language
Algebra Equation	http://www.solve-variable.com/	open	Browser	Having difficulties with algebra homework? Trust our free algebra tutorials and learn how to solve linear equations, factor polynomials, work with fractions and whatever algebra topic you need to improve.	English
Factoring Binomials	http://algebra-equation.com/	open	Browser	Stop struggling against those linear equations! Search our free algebra tutorials and find the one that fits you best. Other topics available: adding, subtracting and multiplying polynomials, systems of equations, monomials, binomials and trinomials and many others.	English
Linear Equations	http://rational-equations.com/	open	Browser	Learn how to solve linear equations, quadratic equations, rational equations, systems of linear equations and many other topics by reading our free tutorials.	English

Collaborative Knowledge Bases

Add Subject - free, open Educational Software Tools	Web Site	Organization (if any)	Degree / Non-degree	Location	Other Info	Language
AcaWiki	http://acawiki.org/Home	AcaWiki		All ages	Make academic research more accessible and interactive” by “[enabling] users to easily post and discuss human-readable summaries of academic papers and literature reviews online.
Europeana: Think Culture	http://www.europeana.eu/portal/aboutus.html	European Commission		All ages		Europeana.eu is about ideas and inspiration. It links you to 6 million digital items. Images - paintings, drawings, maps, photos and pictures of museum objects; Texts - books, newspapers, letters, diaries and archival papers; Sounds - music and spoken word from cylinders, tapes, discs and radio broadcasts; Videos - films, newsreels and TV broadcasts. Some of these are world famous, others are hidden treasures from Europe's museums and galleries, archives, libraries, audio-visual collections
Fotopedia	http://www.fotopedia.com/	Fotopedia	The first collaborative photo encyclopedia - lets photographers and photo enthusiasts collaborate and enrich images to be useful for the whole world wide web.	All ages
Fotopedia Heritage Project	http://www.fotopedia.com/heritage	Fotopedia	Welcome to an endless visual journey; 890 UNESCO World Heritage Sites; 20 000 Pictures, 3 000 Points of Interest; Thousands of photographers, Hundreds of curators. For iPhone and iPad.	All ages
Freebase	http://www.freebase.com/	MetaWeb	Freebase is a large collaborative knowledge base. It is an online collection of structured data harvested from many sources, including individual 'wiki' contribution.	All ages
Mendeley Research Networks' Public Collections	http://www.mendeley.com/collections/33560/ICP-Diagnostics-Pipeline/	open	Browser	Organize, share, and discover research papers! Mendeley is a research management tool for desktop & web. You can also explore research trends and connect to other academics in your discipline.	English
Webnographers.org	http://www.webnographers.org	open	Browser	A central hub for those interested in ethnography and anthropology of the internet - bibliographies, ideas, library, tools, directories.	mostly English so far

Countries' Libraries

Add Subject - free, open Educational Software Tools	Web Site	Organization (if any)	Location	Language
Austrian Books Online	http://www.onb.ac.at/bibliothek/austrianbooksonline.htm		All ages	Eine der weltweit ersten Nationalbibliotheken wird die Österreichische Nationalbibliothek ihren kompletten historischen Buchbestand vom 16. bis zum 19. Jahrhundert – eine der fünf international bedeutendsten Sammlungen historischer Bücher – digitalisieren und online zugänglich machen.
National Library of Norway	http://www.nb.no/english/	National Library of Norway	All ages	The National Library of Norway is one of the main sources of knowledge about Norway, Norwegians and Norwegian matters, at home and abroad. It builds, preserves and makes available collections of many kinds in all media formats.
National Library of the Netherlands	http://www.kb.nl/index-en.html	National Library of the Netherlands	All ages	Vision: We offer everyone everywhere access to everyhthing published in and about the Netherlands; We play a central role in the (scientific) information infrastructure of the Netherlands; We promote permanent access to digital information nationally and internationally.
			All ages

Dictionaries

Add free, open Encyclopedias	Web Site	Kind of access	Location	Other Info	Language
The Free Dictionary	http://www.thefreedictionary.com/	open	Browser		English

Encyclopedias

Add free, open Encyclopedias	Web Site	Kind of access	Location	Other Info	Language
Bibliotheca Alexandrina - The New Library of Alexandria	http://www.bibalex.org/Home/Default_EN.aspx	open	Browser	Digital Library	English
Citizendium	http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Welcome_to_Citizendium	open	Browser	a "citizens' compendium of everything", is an open wiki project dedicated to creating a free, comprehensive, and reliable repository of structured knowledge	English
Encyclopedia of Life	http://www.eol.org/	open	Browser	An electronic page for each species of organism on Earth?	English
Insectopedia	http://www.insectclopedia.com/		Browser	Research portal pertaining to entomology and its related fields. After submission, all resources are classified by our staff of professional educators, including species, research, insect control, communication, pictures, schools, conservation, identification, expertise, hobbies and other important services.	English
Knol	http://knol.google.com/k		Browser	dedicated to advancing the study of economics, markets, and liberty. It offers a unique combination of resources for students, teachers, researchers, and aficionados of economic thought.	English
Library of Economics and Liberty	http://www.econlib.org/index.html	Liberty Fund, Inc.	Browser		English
Musipedia	http://www.musipedia.org/	open	Browser	Welcome to Musipedia! Inspired by, but not affiliated with Wikipedia, we are building a searchable, editable, and expandable collection of tunes, melodies, and musical themes.	English
Wikipedia	http://wikipedia.org/	open	Browser	The free encyclopedia	272 languages and growing

Free Books Sources

Add free, open Book Sources	Web Site	Kind of access	Location	Other Info	Language
We Give Books	http://www.wegivebooks.org/			Pearson Foundation. Read a Book. Give a Book. Actual books.

High School Resources

Add free, open Book Sources	Web Site	Kind of access	Location	Other Info	Language
Earth’s Changing Surface: Science Images and Animations	http://explore.ecb.org/videos/VLC_media?P1=VLC101			Educational Communication Board (ECB) VideoLink offers high-quality digital media for Wisconsin's K-12 students
We Give Books	http://www.wegivebooks.org/			Pearson Foundation. Read a Book. Give a Book. Actual books.

How-To Wiki Manuals

Add free, open How-To Manuals	Web Site	Kind of access	Location	Other Info	Language
wikiHow	http://www.wikihow.com/Main-Page	interactive		The How-to Manual That You Can Edit
Maps	http://	non-credit, so far	Browser	Activities and learning resources

Ideas (Academic)

Add free, open Maps	Web Site	Kind of access	Location	Other Info	Language
Conversations with History	http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/conversations/	Institute of International Studies: University of California, Berkeley	Browser	The Institute of International Studies promotes interdisciplinary research in international, comparative, and policy studies on the Berkeley campus of the University of California. Established in 1955, the Institute focuses today on the following intellectual themes: Peace and global security in the 21st century; Environment, demography, and sustainability; Globalization, development, and human rights; Technological change and the transformation of the global economy	English
TED Talks	http://www.ted.com			TED is an academic organization dedicated to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design

Institutes

Add free, open courses	Web Site	Degree / Non-degree	Location	Other Info	Language
Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education	http://www.iskme.org/about-us/about-iskme	open	Browser	ISKME's mission is to understand and improve how schools, colleges, universities, and the organizations that support them build their capacity to collect and share information systematically, apply it to well-defined problems, and create knowledge-driven environments focused on learning and success.	English

Journalism Library Resources

Add free, open Journalism Library Resources	Web Site	Kind of access	Location	Other Info	Language
New York Times Cybernavigator	http://www.nytimes.com/navigator/		Browser	The New York Times Newsroom Navigator
	http://	non-credit, so far	Browser	Activities and learning resources

Manuals

Add free, open Manuals	Web Site	Kind of access	Location	Other Info
Floss Manuals	http://en.flossmanuals.net/		Browser	Free Manuals for Free Software
The Professor's Manual Wiki	http://professor.wikia.com/wiki/The_Professor%27s_Manual_Wiki	non-credit, so far	Browser	a wiki guide to being a university professor
	http://	non-credit, so far	Browser

Maps

Add free, open Maps	Web Site	Kind of access	Location	Other Info	Language
Google Earth	http://earth.google.com/	interactive	Google Earth Viewer	Activities and learning resources
Maps	http://	non-credit, so far	Browser	Activities and learning resources

Math Books

Add free, open eBooks	Web Site	Kind of access	Location	Other Info	Language
Free Mathematics Books	http://www.e-booksdirectory.com/mathematics.php	open	Browser	E-Books for free online viewing and/or download	English

Medical References

Add free, open eBooks	Web Site	Kind of access	Location	Other Info	Language
University of Michigan Medical Gross Anatomy	http://anatomy.med.umich.edu/anatomytables/anatomy_tables.html	open	Browser	University of Michigan Medical Gross Anatomy Tables	English

Mobile Device Collections

- includes audiobooks, ebooks, audio language courses, streaming music, films, images, etc. which can be used on mobile devices. These collections can either be downloaded from the library websites on user's own mobile devices or libraries lend mobile devices with the collections already on them.

Add free, open Mobile Device Collections	Web Site	Kind of access	Location	Other Info	Language
Crouch Fine Arts Library at Baylor University audio streaming databases	http://www.baylor.edu/lib/FineArts/index.php?id=52075	open	Browser	Music files from these databases can be downloaded on user's mobile devices	English
The C/W MARS library network in Massachusetts	http://cwmars.lib.overdrive.com/A7EA430F-765D-4306-AB3D-E2ED2ECB8016/10/344/en/Default.htm	open	Browser	offer ebooks and audiobooks via the OverDrive service, also for the Mac.	English
Duke University Libraries digitized image collections	http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/	open	Browser	available through the DukeMobile iPhone app (over 32,000 images)	English
International Children's Digital Library	http://en.childrenslibrary.org/	open	Browser	A Library for the World's Children	English
iPhone - All Free iPhone Applications	http://www.allfreeiphoneapps.com/	open	Browser		English
iPhone - Free iPhone Applications	http://www.freeiphoneapplications.com/	open	Browser		English
New York Public Library ebooks and audiobooks	http://ebooks.nypl.org/35E3E0ED-BCEE-4291-A3E6-5D5F6D514269/10/257/en/Default.htm	open	Browser	ebooks and audiobooks via the OverDrive service, also for the Mac.		English
University of Alaska Fairbanks - Audiobooks	http://listenalaska.lib.overdrive.com/F7F1D30D-101C-4CC6-A9F1-E5DE9F846DA3/10/337/en/Default.htm	open	Browser	ListenAlaska web portal	English
University of Virginia Library Electronic Text Center	http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/ebooks/	open	Browser		English
IEEE Xplore Mobile Digital Library	http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/mobile/	open	Browser	IEEE Xplore documents directly on your mobile device. You can view up to [only] TEN (10) article abstracts per search. To view full-text articles, send the article links to your e-mail address.	English

Music for Kids

Add free, open eBooks	Web Site	Kind of access	Location	Other Info	Language
Music for Kids	http://www.sfskids.org/templates/splash.asp	open	Browser	Symphony music education online for kids	English

Musical Scores

Add free, open Scores	Web Site	Kind of access	Location	Other Info	Languages
8notes.com	http://www.8notes.com/	open	Browser	Free Sheet Music, Riffs, Lessons and Tools for musicians who play.	English
Choral Public Domain Library	http://www2.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page	open	Browser	Welcome to ChoralWiki, home of the Choral Public Domain Library!]. (CPDL is one of the world's largest free sheet music sites, begun in 1998. You can use CPDL to find scores, texts, translations, and information about composers	English
Free Sheetmusic Library	http://scorelib.com/	open	Browser	Use our music score search engine to quickly search over 80.000 pieces of sheet music that are available for free download on the web. Most of the music notes are in PDF format (mainly SATB notation), some in HTML format (mostly TAB notation).	English
International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP), also known as the Petrucci Music Library	http://imslp.org/wiki/Main_Page	open	Browser	goal is to create a virtual library containing all public domain music, as well as music from composers who are willing to share their work with the world without charge.	English
Music scores	http://www.music-scores.com/	open	Browser	Join Music-Scores.com as a member for unlimited downloads of our sheet music. Non-members may download over 290 of our files for free. No registration required more details.	English
The Mutopia Project: Free sheet music for everyone	http://www.mutopiaproject.org/	open	Browser	The Mutopia Project offers sheet music editions of classical music for free download. These are based on editions in the public domain, and include works by Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Handel, Mozart, and many others.	English
		open	Browser		English

Natural History References

Add free, open Natural History References	Web Site	Kind of access	Location	Other Info	Language
North American Insects and Spiders	http://www.cirrusimage.com/	open	Browser	A catalog of over 7,000 high-resolution close-up pictures of live, wild insects and spiders with descriptions and natural history.	English

Online Textbooks

Add free, open eBooks	Web Site	Kind of access	Location	Other Info	Language
California Learning Resource Network (CLRN) - Free Digital Textbook Initiative	http://www.clrn.org/FDTI/index.cfm	open	Browser	a list of standards aligned free digital textbooks for high schools that cover the course content in mathematics and science subject areas.	English
cK-12's FlexBook Tool	http://www.ck12.org/flexr/	open	Browser	8 textbooks; A place where you can find and customize content. Physical Sciences, Optics, Elements and the Periodic Table, Behavior of Gases, Mathematics, Advanced Geometry, Functions, Trigonometry, Life Science, Human Biology, Living Systems, Genetics	English
Community College Open Textbook Collaborative	http://collegeopentextbooks.org/thetextbooks/textbooksbysubject.html or http://oerconsortium.org/discipline-specific/	open	Browser	Open Textbooks by Subject	English
Connexions	http://cnx.org/	open	Browser	1 textbook; a place to view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks called modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports, etc.	English
Curriki	http://www.curriki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/	open	Browser	2 textbooks; Curriki is an online environment created to support the development and free distribution of world-class educational materials to anyone who needs them	English
English / Language Arts		open	Browser	Need free, world-class elementary level textbook	English
English Language Development		open	Browser	Need free, world-class elementary level textbook	English
Flat World Knowledge Textbooks	http://www.flatworldknowledge.com/	open	Browser	Remixable Textbook by Expert Authors. Free online. 'We preserve the best of the old — books by leading experts, peer‑reviewed and developed to high editorial standards, fully supported by review copies, teaching supplements and great service. Then we change everything. Our textbooks are: Free online; Affordable offline; Open–licensed; Customizable by educators.'	English
Foreign Language		open	Browser	Need free, world-class elementary level textbook	English
Health Course		open	Browser	Need free, world-class elementary level textbook	English
History-Social Science		open	Browser	Need free, world-class elementary level textbook	English
Mathematics		open	Browser	Need free, world-class elementary level textbook	English
Science		open	Browser	Need free, world-class elementary level textbook	English
The 21st Century Physics Flexbook: A Compilation of Contemporary and Emerging Technologies	http://www.ck12.org/flexr/flexbook/735	open	Browser	Virginia Department of Education's open textbook	English
WikiBooks	http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page	open	Browser	a Wikimedia community for creating a free library of educational textbooks that anyone can edit. Wikibooks began on July 10, 2003; since then Wikibooks has grown to include over 38,073 pages	English
		open	Browser		English

Online Texts

Add free, open eBooks	Web Site	Kind of access	Location	Other Info	Language
California Legacy Project	http://californialegacy.org/	open	Browser	over 500 California Legacy Project Radio Anthology scripts, with some Machinima	English
Classic Book Shelf	http://www.classicbookshelf.com/library/	open	Browser	The literature network - We currently have over 1900 full books and over 3000 short stories and poems by over 250 authors. Our quotations database has over 8500 quotes.	English
Dave McKay's Philosophy Books	http://davemckay.co.uk/philosophy/	open	Browser	Philosophy texts	English
E-Books Directory	http://www.e-booksdirectory.com/	open	Browser	E-Books Directory is a daily growing list of freely downloadable ebooks, documents and lecture notes found all over the internet. You can submit and promote your own ebooks, add comments on already posted books or just browse through the directory below and download anything you need.	English
EPubs	http://www.epubbooks.com/	open	Browser	EPUB formatted eBooks which will allow users of modern eBooks readers to have the best possible reading experience.	English
Free Books	http://www.free-books.org/index.php	open	Browser	A lifetime of free audio ebooks and chapters	English
The European Library	http://search.theeuropeanlibrary.org/portal/en/collections_all.html			All ages		The European Library searches the content of European national libraries.
Europeana: Think Culture	http://www.europeana.eu/portal/aboutus.html	European Commission		All ages		Europeana.eu is about ideas and inspiration. It links you to 6 million digital items. Images - paintings, drawings, maps, photos and pictures of museum objects; Texts - books, newspapers, letters, diaries and archival papers; Sounds - music and spoken word from cylinders, tapes, discs and radio broadcasts; Videos - films, newsreels and TV broadcasts. Some of these are world famous, others are hidden treasures from Europe's museums and galleries, archives, libraries, audio-visual collections
Free Books - Australia	http://www.e-book.com.au/freebooks.htm	open	Browser	Many book collections in the public domain may be freely accessed here	English
Hongkiat's Free eBooks	http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/20-best-websites-to-download-free-e-books/ and http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/20-best-websites-to-download-free-e-books-part-ii/	open	Browser	20 Best Websites To Download Free EBooks, Parts i & ii	English
The Free Library	http://www.thefreelibrary.com/	open	Browser	News, Magazines, Newspapers, Journals, Reference Articles and Classic Books	English
Gigapedia	http://gigapedia.com/	open	Browser	lots of free quality ebooks!	English
Library Thing	http://www.librarything.com/	open	Browser	A home for your books. Enter what you’re reading or your whole library. It’s an easy, library-quality catalog. A community of 900,000 book lovers. LibraryThing connects you to people who read what you do.	English
Online Text	http://www.online-literature.com/	open	Browser		English
Planet Book	http://www.planetebook.com/	open	Classic literature for download as free eBooks	English
Project Humanity and Earth	http://www.project-humanity-earth.org/e-library	open	A Online Library for All of Humanity!	English
Poem Hunter	http://www.poemhunter.com/eBooks/	open	Browser	Free Poetry Ebooks E-books	English
Read Print	http://www.readprint.com/	open	Browser	Free online books library for students, teachers, and the classic enthusiast.	English
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Science Resources & Tools

Add free, open Resources	Web Site	Made by	Kind of access	Location	Other Info	Language
Periodic Table	http://www.galaxygoo.org/biochem/PeriodicTable.htm	Galaxay Goo	non-credit, so far	Browser	Activities and learning resources

Second Life Teaching and Learning Resources

Add free, open Resources	Web Site	Kind of access	Location	Other Info	Language	Tags
Discover Second Life	http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Discover		Browser	A simple list of ways to discover cool stuff in Second Life.	English	education, virtual worlds, Second Life
Global Kids' Digital Media Initiative - "Education" search	http://www.holymeatballs.org/mt/mt-search.cgi?IncludeBlogs=1&search=education		Browser	Global Kids explores how to bring a youth development model around global issues into an island within this teen grid, including education-wise	English	education, virtual worlds, Second Life
ISTE Eduverse Talks	http://www.iste-eduverse.org/		Browser	highlights innovations in educational technology, in both real life and Second Life.	English	education, virtual worlds, Second Life
Learning in Second Life	http://twitter.com/learninginworld		Browser	where educational institutions are using Second Life as a cost-effective platform to augment an existing curriculum or explore new mode	English	education, virtual worlds, Second Life
Metaverse Journal	http://www.metaversejournal.com/		Browser	site devoted to bringing an Australian perspective to virtual worlds	English	education, virtual worlds, Second Life
SalamanderWiki - Second Life Resources	http://www.eduisland.net/salamanderwiki/index.php?title=Main_Page	open	Browser	a folksonomy of practical and theoretical applications, builds and designs in the Virtual World of Second Life for the purposes of teaching and learning	English	education, virtual worlds, Second Life
Second Life Education in New Zealand	http://slenz.wordpress.com/2009/08/24/slenz-update-no-131-august-24-2009/		Browser		English	education, virtual worlds, Second Life
Second Life Education Programs' manager, Claudia Linden of Linden Lab	http://twitter.com/claudialinden		Browser	shares great examples and ideas about education in Second Life	English	education, virtual worlds, Second Life
Second Life Education Roundtable	https://blogs.secondlife.com/community/learninginworld	non-degree	Second Life	Linden Lab’s Learning Inworld blog where we explore how teachers, students, and administrators—within educational institutions—are using Second Life as a compelling and cost-effective platform to augment existing curriculum and practice new models of learning	Multiple Languages	education, virtual worlds, Second Life
Second Life Educational Events' Calendar, Where You Can Teach, Too	http://secondlife.com/events	non-degree	Second Life	Select 'Education;' Teach and learn virtually in Second Life via educational events' calendar	Multiple Languages	education, virtual worlds, Second Life
Second Life Educators' Email List	https://lists.secondlife.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/educators	non-degree	Second Life	This list is for educators interested in or currently using Second Life, and we will be using it to send out information we feel is of interest to educators and academic	Multiple Languages	education, virtual worlds, Second Life
Second Life Tours	http://secondlife.iste.wikispaces.net/sltours	open	Browser, Second Life	Second Life Tours	English	education, virtual worlds, Second Life
Sim Teach	http://simteach.com/sled/db/	open	Browser, Second Life, virtual worlds	Resource Database for Second Life Educators - Keep track of educational content and organizations in the popular virtual world.	English	education, virtual worlds, Second Life
Virtual Worlds Roundtable	http://www.virtualworldsedu.info/vwer/index.html AND http://www.virtualworldsedu.info/slroundtable/	open	Montclair State University	links to transcripts of the weekly meeting of the SL Education Roundtable as well as transcripts of the annual EDUCAUSE Virtual Worlds sessions.	English	education, virtual worlds, Second Life

Template for New Sections or Resources

Add free, open Library	Web Site	Kind of access	Location	Other Info	Language
Books	http://	non-credit, so far	Browser	Activities and learning resources
		open	Browser		English
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Twitter for Learning

Add Subject - free, open Educational Software Tools	Web Site	Organization (if any)	Degree / Non-degree	Location	Other Info	Language	Tags
Internet Papers	https://twitter.com/internetpapers	Edu-Tweets	Internet Papers	Many Levels	English

Video

Add Subject - free, open Educational Software Tools	Web Site	Organization (if any)	Degree / Non-degree	Location	Other Info	Language	Tags
New York Times' Video Library	http://video.nytimes.com/video/	New York Times			English

WUaS Idea- and Academic Resources

Ideas

Select Bibliographies

Select Blogs

Select Book Reviews

Select Books

Select Journals, Serials, etc.

Select Libraries

(See also editable World University and School's Library Resources page: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Library_Resources).

Select Maps

Select Museums

Select Photos

Select Programs, Applications, Software

Select References

Ashar, Amar. 2010. Berkman Center Announces Digital Public Library Planning Initiative. December 13. Cambridge, MA: Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.

Google Books' Library Partners. 2011. [1]. (Best viewed in Chrome Browser].

Nesson, Charles. 2010. design opportunity: not extraordinarily complex compared to cataloging the stars. November 21. Cambridge, MA: blogs.law.harvard.edu/nesson

Palfrey, John. 2011. Digital Public Library of America, Session 1 Notes. March 1. Cambridge, MA: Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.

Palfrey, John. 2011. Digital Public Library of America, Session II. March 1. Cambridge, MA: Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.

Palfrey, John. 2011. Digital Public Library of America, Session III. March 1. Cambridge, MA: Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.

Palfrey, John. 2011. Digital Public Library of America, Session IV. March 1. Cambridge, MA: Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.

Singer, Natasha. 2011. Playing Catch-Up in a Digital Library Race. January 8. New York, NY: The New York Times.

Select Simulations, Applets and Visualizations

Select Slideshows

Select Societies, Associations, etc.

Select Study Guides

Select Syllabi

Select Tests, Exams, etc.

Select Textbooks

Select Video and Audio

Select Websites

Select Wikis

World University and School Links

WUaS Navigation

Calendar (Schedule what you'd like to teach)

Join the World University and School Google Group to add to its wiki-like calendar to teach an open, free class or course, converse about ideas, and jam (e.g. musically or theater improvisation): http://groups.google.com/group/World-University-and-School.

Digital To Do

Broadcast to radio frequency

Create EMail group for page

Digital Text to Audio file format (Browse Aloud / Read Aloud?)

Recommend

Send to phone

Translate

Videophone

Free Degrees / Credit

In Google Earth

Google Earth.

In Virtual World

Second Life, or other virtual world or space, Uniform Resource Locator (URL) for classes? Check out Harvard's virtual island in Second Life: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Berkman/115/53/25 and teach, learn and share ideas - in voice or in type chat.

Travel to this virtual island to learn building in Second Life:

Item Number

Labels

RSS Feed

Social Bookmarking

Teach and Learn using free Social Bookmarking software to identify what courses, etc. you find edifying.

Delicious - http://delicious.com/

Digg - http://digg.com/

Facebook

Google Buzz

Twitter

World University & School subject group

World University & School Share This

TV-Live Broadcasting

Broadcast to television

Teach and learn using free TV-Live Broadcasting software to the web:

Livestream TV - http://www.livestream.com

Justin TV - http://www.justin.tv

Ustream TV - http://ustream.tv

Video Communication

Teach and learn using free TV-Live Broadcasting software

Google Video Conferencing - in Gmail

iChat - http://www.apple.com/macosx/what-is-macosx/ichat.html

Skype - http://www.skype.com/

Wiki Software for Courses

Media Wiki - http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki

PB Works - http://pbworks.com/

Wikia - http://www.wikia.com/Wikia

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 Nesson, Charles. 2010. [http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/nesson/2010/11/21/design-opportunity/ design opportunity: not extraordinarily complex compared to cataloging the stars]. November 21. Cambridge, MA: blogs.law.harvard.edu/nesson
+Palfrey, John. 2011. [http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/palfrey/2011/03/01/digital-public-library-of-america-session-1-notes/ Digital Public Library of America, Session 1 Notes]. March 1. Cambridge, MA: Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.
+Palfrey, John. 2011. [http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/palfrey/2011/03/01/digital-public-library-of-america-session-ii/ Digital Public Library of America, Session II]. March 1. Cambridge, MA: Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.
+Palfrey, John. 2011. [http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/palfrey/2011/03/01/digital-public-library-of-america-session-iii/ Digital Public Library of America, Session III]. March 1. Cambridge, MA: Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.
+Palfrey, John. 2011. [http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/palfrey/2011/03/01/digital-public-library-of-america-session-iv/ Digital Public Library of America, Session IV]. March 1. Cambridge, MA: Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.
 Singer, Natasha. 2011. [http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/09/business/09stream.html Playing Catch-Up in a Digital Library Race]. January 8. New York, NY: The New York Times.