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Welcome to World University and School Wiki and School Library Resources
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The Global, Virtual/Digital, Open, Free, {potentially Degree- and Credit-Granting},
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Academic Archive or Library
Add free, open Archive | Web Site | Kind of access | Location | Other Info | Language | Labels |
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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 | |
Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network - CKAN | http://www.ckan.net/about | open | Browser | 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/ | 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 Libraries | http://lib.harvard.edu/ | open | Browser | 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 | open | Browser | 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/ | open | Browser | 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 | |
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 | |
MyLOC | http://myloc.gov/pages/default.aspx | open | Browser | 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 | 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 | |
Stanford University's Cubberley Education Library | http://www.stanford.edu/group/cubberley/collections/websites/all | open | Browser | 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 | 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 |
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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 |
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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. |
Algebra Homework Help
Add free, Homework Help | Web Site | Kind of access | Location | Other Info | Language |
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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 | Tags |
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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 | National Library of the Netherlands | 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 | |||
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 |
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The Free Dictionary | http://www.thefreedictionary.com/ | open | Browser | English |
Encyclopedias
Add free, open Encyclopedias | Web Site | Kind of access | Location | Other Info | Language |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 | |
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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 |
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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 | Language |
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open | Browser | English |
Natural History References
Add free, open Natural History References | Web Site | Kind of access | Location | Other Info | Language |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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/ | Browser | Classic literature for download as free eBooks | English | |
Poem Hunter | http://www.poemhunter.com/eBooks/ | open | Browser | Free Poetry Ebooks E-books | English |
open | Browser | English |
Science Resources & Tools
Add free, open Resources | Web Site | Made by | Kind of access | Location | Other Info | Language |
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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 |
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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 |
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Twitter for Learning
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Internet Papers | https://twitter.com/internetpapers | Edu-Tweets | Internet Papers | Many Levels | English |