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Open bibliography and Open Bibliographic Data. 2011. [http://openbiblio.net/principles/ Open bibliography and Open Bibliographic Data]. (Producers of bibliographic data such as libraries, publishers, universities, scholars or social reference management communities have an important role in supporting the advance of humanity’s knowledge. For society to reap the full benefits from bibliographic endeavours, it is imperative that bibliographic data be made open — that is available for anyone to use and re-use freely for any purpose).
Bibliographic Knowledge Network. 2011. [http://www.bibkn.org/ Bibliographic Knowledge Network]. (Open bibliographic data for the academic community. Easy to use tools for curating bibliographies
Shieber, Stuart. 2012. [http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic1076801.files/Archivist%20Video.mov Archivist Video]. (http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/pamphlet/2012/05/29/shieber/). Cambridge, MA: http://isites.harvard.edu.
Shieber, Stuart. 2012. [http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/pamphlet/2012/05/29/shieber/ Processing special collections: An archivist’s workstation]. May 29. Cambridge, MA: The Occasional Pamphlet.
Shieber, Stuart. 2012. [http://cm.dce.harvard.edu/1999/01/89001/P13/screen_H264LargeTalkingHead-16x9.shtml SEAS Colloquium Series]. (http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/pamphlet/2012/05/29/shieber/). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Extension School.
Shieber, Stuart. 2012. [http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic1076801.files/es96d.pdf ES/CS 96 FINAL REPORT: HARVARD LIBRARY SPECIAL COLLECTIONS]. (http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/pamphlet/2012/05/29/shieber/). Cambridge, MA: isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic1076801.files/es96d.pdf.
Stanford TEDx. 2012. [http://tedx.stanford.edu/ Stanford TEDx]. Stanford, CA: Stanford TEDx.
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Courses
Add free, open Computer Music subjects | Web Site | Organization (if any) | Degree / Non-degree | Instructor's Name | Location | Other Info | Language | Tags |
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Computer Science 96: System Design Projects | http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k83340 | Harvard | non-degree | Prof. Stuart Shieber | Browser | Start anytime | English | Undergraduate |
Copyright for Librarians | http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/copyrightforlibrarians/Main_Page | Harvard University | non-degree | Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society and Electronic Information for Libraries (eIFL) | Browser | Focuses on 50 countries in Africa, Asia and Europe. The goal of the project is to provide librarians in developing and transitional countries information concerning copyright law. More specifically, it aspires to inform librarians concerning: copyright law in general; the aspects of copyright law that most affect libraries; how librarians in the future could most effectively participate in the processes by which copyright law is interpreted and shaped. | English | |
Updated Class for Spring 2012: The Hyperlinked Library: Emerging Trends, Emerging Tech | http://tametheweb.com/2011/09/21/updated-class-for-spring-2012-the-hyperlinked-library-emerging-trends-emerging-tech/ | Tame the Web | non-degree | Michael Stephens | Browser | http://tametheweb.com/the-hyperlinked-library/ | English | |
non-degree | Browser | Start anytime | English |
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Academic Archive or Library
Add free, open Archive | Web Site | Other Info | Language |
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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 |
BioMed Central | http://www.biomedcentral.com/ | The Open Access Publisher | 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 |
eGranary Digital Library | http://www.widernet.org/egranary/ | The eGranary Digital Library - also known as "The Internet in a Box" - provides millions of digital educational resources to institutions lacking adequate Internet access. Through a process of garnering permissions, copying Web sites, and delivering them to intranet Web servers INSIDE our partner institutions in developing countries and other places aroung the globe, we deliver millions of multimedia documents that can be instantly accessed by patrons over their local area networks at no cost. | 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 |
Hindawi | http://www.hindawi.com/ | Hindawi is a rapidly growing academic publisher with more than 200 Open Access journals covering a wide range of academic disciplines. | 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 |
The National Academies Press | http://www.nap.edu/ | More than 4,000 National Academies Press books as PDFs Now Available to Download for Free as of June 2, 2011 | 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/?c9265798 and http://www.prelingerlibrary.org/ | Prelinger Library Digital Collections Page, currently with 3,767 fully downloadable digital books, based in San Francisco | English |
Public Library of Science (PLOS) | http://www.plos.org/ | PLoS is a nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource. | 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 |
Yale Digital Commons | http://discover.odai.yale.edu/ydc/ | Discover Yale Digital Commons: http://tinyurl.com/4x2x2f3 AND about: http://articles.boston.com/2011-05-11/news/29532887_1_collections-yale-center-british-art | Languages: English |
http:// | About: | Languages | |
The WWW Virtual Library | http://vlib.org/ | About: The WWW Virtual Library (VL) is the oldest catalogue of the Web, started by Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of HTML and of the Web itself, in 1991 at CERN in Geneva. Unlike commercial catalogues, it is run by a loose confederation of volunteers, who compile pages of key links for particular areas in which they are expert; even though it isn't the biggest index of the Web, the VL pages are widely recognised as being amongst the highest-quality guides to particular sections of the Web. | Languages |
Academic Databases
Add Subject - free, open Educational Software Tools | Web Site | Organization (if any) | Degree / Non-degree | Location | Other Info | Language | Tags |
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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 |
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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
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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
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 | 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) | Degree / Non-degree | Location | Other Info | Language | Tags |
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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 |
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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 | |
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 |
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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 |
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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
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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 | |||
Institutes
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Institute for Figuring | http://www.theiff.org/ | open | Browser | The Institute For Figuring is an educational organization dedicated to enhancing the public understanding of figures and figuring techniques. From the physics of snowflakes and the hyperbolic geometry of sea slugs, to the mathematics of paper folding and graphical models of the human mind, the Institute takes as its purview a complex ecology of figuring. | English |
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
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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 | |
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 | |
Free iphone application | http://freeiphoneapplication.com/ | open | Browser | Free iphone applications download. | 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 | Languages |
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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 |
Pianolicious | http://pianolicious.blogspot.com/ | open | Browser | Pianolicious - Free sheet music. | English |
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 Radio
Add free, open eBooks | Web Site | Kind of access | Location | Other Info | Language |
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DAR.fm - Digital Audio Recorder | http://www.dar.fm/ | open | Browser | Record, play and pause your favorite radio using DAR | 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 |
College Open Textbooks | http://collegeopentextbooks.org/ | open | Browser | College Open Textbooks is a collection of colleges, governmental agencies, education non-profits, and other education-related organizations that are focused on the mission of driving the awareness and advocacy for open textbooks. This includes providing training for instructors adopting open resources, peer reviews of open textbooks, and mentoring online professional networks that provide support to authors who open their resources. Through our community outreach, we have found that open textbooks should be: easy to use, get and pass around, editable so instructors can customize content, cross-platform compatible, printable, and accessible so they work with adaptive technology. | 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 | |
Smarthistory.org | http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/ | open | Browser | Smarthistory.org is a free, not-for-profit, multi-media web-book designed as a dynamic enhancement (or even substitute) for the traditional art history textbook. We are interested in delivering the narratives of art history using the read-write web's interactivity and capacity for authoring and remixing. Merged recently (2012) with KhanAcademy. | 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 | ||
The European Library | http://search.theeuropeanlibrary.org/portal/en/index.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 | ||
Good Reads | http://www.goodreads.com/ | open | Browser | Get great book recommendations from people you know; Keep track of what you've read and what you'd like to read; Form a book club, answer book trivia, collect your favorite quotes. | 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 | ||
Harvard University's Woodberry Poetry Room Listening Booth. | http://hcl.harvard.edu/poetryroom/listeningbooth/index.cfm# | open | Browser | HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE Woodberry Poetry Room AUDIO ARCHIVE | 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 Literature | 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 | ||
open | Browser | English |
Online Tools
Add free, open eBooks | Web Site | Kind of access | Location | Other Info | Language |
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Aardvark | http://vark.com/ | open | Browser | Aardvark was conceived as the first Social Search engine: a way to find people, not web pages, that have specific information. | English |
True Knowledge | http://www.trueknowledge.com/ | open | Browser | What would you like to know? | English |
Science Resources and 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/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 |
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Books | http:// | non-credit, so far | Browser | Activities and learning resources | |
open | Browser | English | |||
open | Browser | English |
Twitter for Learning
Add Subject - free, open Educational Software Tools | Web Site | Organization (if any) | Degree / Non-degree | Location | Other Info | Language | Tags |
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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 | |
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New York Times' Video Library | http://video.nytimes.com/video/ | The New York Times | non-degree | Browser | Start anytime | English | ||
Course's Name | http:// | non-degree | Browser | Start anytime | English |
WUaS Idea- and Academic Resources
Ideas
WUaS is a fan of Free Public Libraries, in general ... and WUaS will aggregate all of those online libraries with significant resources, in ALL languages, here on this page - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Library_Resources ... to participate not in only in the free, public library, historical fest, but also the free education fest (k-12 is free in the U.S.) ... as wiki, - with an invitation to edit this page :)
Publish my article in a WUaS academic journal in this subject
Open Journal Systems. 2012. Open Journal Systems. Public Knowledge Project.
Select Bibliographies
Select Blogs
Digital Public Library of America – Beta Sprint Blog. 2011. Digital Public Library of America – Beta Sprint. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University.
Select Book Groups, Study Groups, Musical Groups, etc.
Begin a Google + Hangout: https://plus.google.com/u/0/108179352492243955816/posts
Calendar: https://www.google.com/calendar/
Select Book Reviews
Select Books
Hertzog, Christine. 2011. Smart Grid Library. (see also her Smart Grid Dictionary, 2nd ed.). Smart Grid Library.
Select Databases
Select Films
Select Forums, Spaces, etc.
Select Humor
Select Idea Competitions / Conversations / Dialogues
Select Institutes, etc.
Select Interviews
Select Journals, Serials, etc.
Select Labs
Select Lectures
Select Libraries, Archives, Collections, etc.
Alexander Berkman Archive - An Online Research Center on the History and Theory of Anarchism.
International Youth Library - Internationale Jugendbibliothek Muenchen. 2011. International Youth Library - Internationale Jugendbibliothek Muenchen. Munich, Germany: International Youth Library - Internationale Jugendbibliothek Muenchen.
(See also editable World University and School's Library Resources page: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Library_Resources).
Select Maps
Select Museums
(See also editable World University and School's Museums' page: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Museums).
Select Office Hours
Select Photos
Select Programs, Applications, Software
Mang. 2010. New BookReader!. Deember 2. Open Library Blog.
Select Questions, Inquiries, Problems
Select Quotes, Quotations, etc.
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.
Darnton, Robert. 2011. A Digital Library Better Than Google’s. March 23. New York, NY: The New York Times.
Digital Public Library of America. 2011. Digital Public Library of America Steering Committee Announces the Beta Sprint Review Panel. (with other key links about the emerging DPLA). August 16. Cambridge, MA: cyber.law.harvard.edu.
Fialkoff, Francine. 2011. Digital Public Library of America: Pro and Con: Conference at Columbia brings together opposing players in the drive for a true digital public library. October 13. thedigitalshift.com.
Geuss, Megan. 2012. Exercises in democracy: building a digital public library. May 6. New York, NY: Ars Technica.
Google Books' Library Partners. 2011. Google Books' Library Partners. (Best viewed in Chrome Browser). encrypted.google.com/googlebooks/partners.html
Greenemeier, Larry. 2011. E-book lending services ramping up as e-readers storm the market. February 2. Scientific American.
Helft, Miguel. 2011. Judge Rejects Google’s Deal to Digitize Books. March 22. New York, NY: The New York Times.
Kumar, Gautam S. and Sirui Li. 2011. Harvard Leads Digital Library Initiative: Digital library might eventually include all printed books. (http://infodocket.com/2011/04/13/harvard-crimson-harvard-leads-digital-library-initiative/). April 12. Cambrigde, MA: The Harvard Crimson.
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.
Palfrey, John. 2011. Future of Law Libraries: The Future is Now?. June 16. Cambridge, MA: blogs.law.harvard.edu/palfrey.
Ragusea, Adam and Jeremy Bernfeld. 2011. Harvard Prof Proposes Free ‘Google Books’. April 6. Boston, MA: radioboston.wbur.org
Rapp, David. 2011. Harvard Library Lab Funds First Round of New Tech Projects. March 10. New York, NY: Library Journal.
Sheehan, Kate. 2011. We're For You, Not Against You: A Librarian's Take On E-book Lending. March 14. publishersweekly.com.
Shieber, Stuart. 2011. http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/pamphlet/2011/10/13/the-future-of-the-library-expressed-in-sculpture/. Cambridge, MA: The Occasional Pamphlet.
Singer, Natasha. 2011. Playing Catch-Up in a Digital Library Race. January 8. New York, NY: The New York Times.
Vaisman, Andries. 2011. Future of libraries? Improved search, content creation, panel says: With an avalanche of changes in the information landscape over the past decade, libraries are looking at ways to redefine themselves. But how?. April 20. knightblog.org.
Wojcicki, Esther. 2012. TEDxStanford Opens Its Doors Today With Free Live Streaming. May 19. huffingtonpost.com
Select RSS Feeds
Select Simulations, Applets and Visualizations
Select Slideshows
Select Societies, Associations, Groups, Networks, etc.
Select Study Guides
Select Syllabi
Select Teachers with Email Addresses/Contact Information
Select Tests, Exams, etc.
Select Textbooks
Select Timelines
Select Video and Audio
Palfrey, John. 2011. John Palfrey on The Digital Public Library of America Beta Sprint. May 19. Cambridge, MA: Youtube.com.
Palfrey, John. 2011. Update from John Palfrey on The Digital Public Library of America. May 19. Cambridge, MA: Youtube.com.
Select Websites
digitalculturebooks. 2011. digitalculturebooks. (digitalculturebooks is an imprint of the University of Michigan Press and the Scholarly Publishing Office of the University of Michigan Library dedicated to publishing innovative work in new media studies and the emerging field of digital humanities. digitalculturebooks seeks to explore all aspects of new media and its impact on society, culture, and scholarly communication and will present work that exhibits and advances the understanding of the relationship between humanities and digital technologies. The imprint aspires to both investigate and demonstrate new forms of scholarly practice in the humanities. digitalculturebooks is an experimental publishing strategy with a strong research component. By making our content available in print and online, we intend to: develop an open and participatory publishing model that adheres to the highest scholarly standards of review and documentation; develop a model for press/library collaboration at Michigan and elsewhere; showcase and extend Michigan's leading role in the development of digital resources; encourage and participate in a national dialogue about the future of scholarly communication). Ann Arbor, MI: Digital Culture Books.
The Harvard Library Innovation Laboratory at Harvard Law School. 2011. The Harvard Library Innovation Laboratory at Harvard Law School. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Law School.
New York Times' Video Library. http://video.nytimes.com/video/. New York, NY: New York Times.
Open bibliography and Open Bibliographic Data. 2011. Open bibliography and Open Bibliographic Data. (Producers of bibliographic data such as libraries, publishers, universities, scholars or social reference management communities have an important role in supporting the advance of humanity’s knowledge. For society to reap the full benefits from bibliographic endeavours, it is imperative that bibliographic data be made open — that is available for anyone to use and re-use freely for any purpose).
Bibliographic Knowledge Network. 2011. Bibliographic Knowledge Network. (Open bibliographic data for the academic community. Easy to use tools for curating bibliographies).
Shieber, Stuart. 2012. Archivist Video. (http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/pamphlet/2012/05/29/shieber/). Cambridge, MA: http://isites.harvard.edu.
Shieber, Stuart. 2012. Processing special collections: An archivist’s workstation. May 29. Cambridge, MA: The Occasional Pamphlet.
Shieber, Stuart. 2012. SEAS Colloquium Series. (http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/pamphlet/2012/05/29/shieber/). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Extension School.
Shieber, Stuart. 2012. ES/CS 96 FINAL REPORT: HARVARD LIBRARY SPECIAL COLLECTIONS. (http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/pamphlet/2012/05/29/shieber/). Cambridge, MA: isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic1076801.files/es96d.pdf.
Stanford TEDx. 2012. Stanford TEDx. Stanford, CA: Stanford TEDx.
Select Wikis
Digital Public Library of America planning initiative wiki. 2011. Welcome to the Digital Public Library of America planning initiative wiki!. May 19. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University.
World University and School Links
Open Access Resources: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Open_Access_Resources
Academic Advising at WUaS
Academic Press at World University and School
Academic Press at World University and School: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Academic_Press_at_World_University_and_School
Access to Live, or Email, University Technical Expertise
Ask a question in a specific discipline, or find, for example, a Robotics' or Computer programmer, or Translator, easily and freely.
Additional Categories
Admissions at World University and School
Admissions' Department: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Admissions_at_World_University_and_School
Blog at World University and School
http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/
Bookstore / Computer Store (New & Used) at World University and School
Bookstore / Computer Store (New & Used) at WUaS: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Bookstore_/_Computer_Store_%28New_%26_Used%29_at_WUaS
with educational electronics, as well; with musical instruments; value pricing ... 2% below market, consistently; available via mail and electronically;
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): https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/108179352492243955816/ .
Careers
Career counseling: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Career_counseling
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Counseling
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World University Music School: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Music_School
WUaS International Baccalaureate Diploma and Programme: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/WUaS_International_Baccalaureate_Diploma_and_Programme
In Google Earth
Google Earth.
In Virtual World
Active Worlds Educational Universe (AWEDU). 2012. http://www.activeworlds.com/edu/
Alice. 2012. http://www.alice.org/index.php?page=what_is_alice/what_is_alice Minecraft. 2012. www.minecraft.net
OpenSim. 2012. http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Main_Page (http://www.scribd.com/doc/57959626/OpenSimulator-School-Quick-Start-Guide)
Open Croquet. 2012. http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?OpenCroquet
Open Wonderland. 2012. http://openwonderland.org/
Quest Atlantis. 2012. http://crlt.indiana.edu/research/qa.html (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZoT3pilNPI).
ScienceSim. 2012. http://www.sciencesim.com/wiki/doku.php . Research, teach, learn and share ideas - in voice or in type chat.
Second Life - Harvard's virtual island. 2012. http://slurl.com/secondlife/Berkman/115/53/25 - and teach, learn and share ideas - in group voice chat, or in group type chat, and via building.
Unity3D. 2012. unity3d.com/
Add a learning-oriented virtual world here:
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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/
Universal Translator at WUaS
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/WUaS_Universal_Translator
Wiki Software for Courses
Media Wiki - http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki
PB Works - http://pbworks.com/
Wet Paint - http://wikisineducation.wetpaint.com/
Wikia - http://www.wikia.com/Wikia
Wikispaces - http://www.wikispaces.com/
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