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Academic Archive or Library

Add free, open Archive Web Site Kind of access Location Other Info Language Labels
AnthroHub http://anthrohub.lib.berkeley.edu/ open Browser Anthropology Library at UC Berkeley.
Arxiv at Cornell University Library http://arxiv.org/ open Browser 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/ open Browser 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
CogPrints - Cognitive Science ePrint Archive http://cogprints.org/ open Browser 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
DASH - Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard http://dash.harvard.edu/ open Browser A central, open access repository for the scholarly output of faculty and the broader research community at Harvard. English
ERIC - the Education Resources Information Center http://eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/search/extended.jsp open Browser 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/ open Browser 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/ open Browser Free web books online English
Ethos http://ethos.bl.uk/Home.do open Browser British Library - Opening access to UK theses. English
Google Books http://books.google.com/ open Browser Google Book Search English
Harvard Page Delivery Service http://hul.harvard.edu/ois/systems/drs/pds.html open Browser Harvard University - Example: http://pds.lib.harvard.edu/pds/view/14115881?n=1&imagesize=1200&jp2Res=0.125 English
ibiblio http://www.ibiblio.org/ open Browser ibiblio.org - the public's library and digital archiv English
Internet Archive http://www.archive.org/index.php open Browser 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/ open Browser 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/ open Browser 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/ open Browser A Library for the World's Children English
Library of Congress http://www.loc.gov/index.html open Browser English
Library of Congress Twitter Archive http://www.loc.gov/tweet/how-tweet-it-is.html open Browser English
LibriVox: Acoustical Liberation of Books in the Public Domain http://librivox.org open Browser 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 open Browser Bringing the wisdom of the classics to the Internet since 1994 English
My Open Archive http://www.myopenarchive.org/ open Browser Open Archive in Japanese Japanese
National Science Digital Library http://nsdl.org/ open Browser Nation's online library for education and research in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics; K-12 and higher education.
Nature Precedings http://precedings.nature.com/ open Browser 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/ open Browser 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/ open Browser The online literature library English
PLoS Biology http://www.plosbiology.org/home.action open Browser A peer-reviewed, open-access journal published by the Public Library of Science
PLoS One http://www.plosone.org/home.action open Browser 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 open Browser Over 100,000 titles are available at Project Gutenberg Partners, Affiliates and Resources English
PubMedCentral http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/ open Browser 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/ open Browser 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 open Browser 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
Twitter Biomedical Journals https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=tecO4mLvNETuMvVDokltQIA&gid=0 open Browser English
University of Pennsylvania's Online Books http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/ open Browser Listing over 35,000 free books on the Web English
University of Virginia Library http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/press/uvagoogle/faq.html open Browser 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/ open Browser 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

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 Web Site Organization (if any) Degree / Non-degree Location Other Info Language 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.


Collaborative Knowledge Bases

Add Subject - free, open Educational Software Tools Web Site Organization (if any) Degree / Non-degree Location Other Info Language Tags
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.
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
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


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
Wikipedia http://wikipedia.org/ open Browser The free encyclopedia 272 languages and growing

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


Insitutes

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 Language
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
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



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
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
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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
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
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/ Browser Classic literature for download as free eBooks English
Poem Hunter http://www.poemhunter.com/eBooks/ open Browser Free Poetry Ebooks E-books 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/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
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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