FREE E-RESSOURCES


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Don't know where to search, don't just google it! these links are very useful and free


This page contains links to recommended internet resources grouped by subject.

Art and architecture


Atlases and maps


Biography


Business and business-related


Computers and Information Technology

  • TechEncyclopedia —Provides definitions for more than 20,000 information technology terms

Currency Exchange and other Conversions


Dictionaries and encyclopedias


Education

  • The Educator’s Reference Desk — Provides access to the Resource Collection which links to over 3,000 resources on a variety of educational issues, to the ERIC database, etc.
  • The National Science Digital Library (NSDL) — “Provides organized access to high quality resources and tools that support innovations in teaching and learning at all levels of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education.”
  • ERIC — the Education Resources Information Center - is an online digital library of education research and information.

Environment


Free books

  • Digital Book Index — Provides link to more than 126,000 title records. About 86,000 of these titles are available free, while many others are available at very modest cost.
  • eScholarship Editions — Includes more than 1,400 books from academic presses on a range of topics, including art, science, history, music, religion, and fiction.
  • FreeBooks4Doctors!
  • Hoover Books Online
  • The National Academies Press — Provides free online access to more than 3,000 books.
  • Online Library of Liberty — Provides access to some classic books about individual liberty, covering the disciplines of economics, history, law, literature, philosophy, political theory, religion, war, and peace.
  • Project Gutenberg — Provides free online access to more than 15,000 books.

General sources

  • British Library Direct — Multidisciplinary database containing 20,000 journals and focusing predominantly on the subjects of science, technology and medicine
  • GuideStar: The National Database of Nonprofit Organizations — Provides detailed information on more than 850,000 nonprofit organizations.
  • Infoplease — Provides authoritative answers to all kinds of factual questions.
  • InterDok — Locates events and procure published proceedings from thousands of conferences, congresses, meetings & symposia.
  • The Library of Congress’s Portals to the World — Contains selective links providing authoritative, in-depth information about the nations and other areas of the world.
  • Intute — Provides access to recommended web resources selected and evaluated by a network of subject specialist from universities across the UK.
  • ipl2: Information You Can Trust — It is the result of a merger of the Internet Public Library (IPL) and the Librarians’ Internet Index (LII). It povides a searchable, browsable collection of high-quality websites selected by librarians.
  • Martin Luther King, Jr. (with links to Civil rights Movement)
  • RefDesk — A portal for quick facts. Lookup weather, zip codes, stock prices,daily almanac, quotations, grammar, news, etc.
  • Repositories of Primary Sources — A listing of over 5,000 websites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary sources for the research scholar.
  • Time and date
  • The World Factbook
  • Érudit Érudit est un consortium interuniversitaire composé de l'Université de Montréal, de l'Université Laval et de l'Université du Québec à Montréal. Société sans but lucratif, Érudit propose un modèle innovateur de promotion et de diffusion des résultats de la recherche.

Geography and history


Islamic studies


Law


Lebanese and Middle East


Library and information studies


  • Clusty It searches several top search engines, groups the results into clusters or topics, and generates an ordered list based on comparative ranking which helps raise the best results to the top.
  • Dogpile — It sends search to a customizable list of search engines, directories and specialty search sites just like Metacrawlers, then displays results from each search engine individually.
  • iBoogie — In addition to being a meta search engine, it also performs real-time clustering of results, creating a list of categories related to your search terms for easy browsing
  • Metacrawler — One of the oldest meta search engines, Metacrawler searches Google, Yahoo, Altavista, Ask Jeeves, About, LookSmart, Overture, FindWhat, etc.
  • Mamma — One of the oldest meta search engines, Mamma searches against a variety of major crawlers, directories, and specialty search sites and then displays results in a uniform manner according to relevance.
  • See Metacrawlers and Metasearch Engines for more information and a comprehensive list of meta search engines.

News sites and communication arts

  • AKHBAAR —Arabic Middle East news directory, where you may link to Annahar newspaper, Assafir, Aljazeera, Arabic CNN, etc.
  • HeadlineSpot — A news portal that provides links to thousands of the best U.S. and international news resources
  • The Internet Movie Database — Provides information on thousands of films in all genres and from all around the world.
  • MiddleEastNews.com — Middle East news and world report directory.
  • NewsDirectory — Provides access to thousands of news sources, including more than 3,600 newspapers, 4,800 magazines and hundreds of television stations worldwide, etc.
  • World-newspapers.com — Covers world newspapers online and news sites in English and also links to selected magazines.
  • WorldNews Network

Pharmacy, medicine and health-related


Political science and international affairs


Population


Quotations

  • Bartleby.com — Provides the best of both contemporary and classic quotations collections such as Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, The Columbia World of Quotations, Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations.

Religion


Sciences


Social Science

  • National Criminal Justice Reference Service — Provides access to a wealth of information, including statistics, research findings, etc. on crime, juvenile justice, victims of crime, etc.
  • The National Science Digital Library (NSDL) — “Provides organized access to high quality resources and tools that support innovations in teaching and learning at all levels of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education.”
  • Questia — An online library that provides 24/7 access to a large online collection of books and journal articles in the humanities and social sciences, as well as magazine and newspaper articles

Statistics


Tourism


Weather


Source : LAU library website