Compiled by Dr. John Jaeger. Reference Librarian Dallas Baptist University - July 2005

Advertising & Marketing

• Ad*Access - http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/adaccess
• Emergence in Advertising in America - http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/eaa
• The Museum of Advertising Icons - http://www.toymuseum.com

Agriculture

• AgEcon Search - http://agecon.lib.umn.edu
• AgNIC - http://www.agnic.org - The Agriculture Network Information Center
• Agricultural Communications Documentation Center - http://web.aces.uiuc.edu/agcomdb/docctr.html
• FAOSTAT - http://apps.fao.org/default.jsp - Statistics related to Agriculture and other Areas

Art, Image, & Architecture

• Art & Architecture Thesaurus and Artist list- http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/
• The Fine Art Search Engine - http://www.artcyclopedia.com
• CalPhotos - http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu/photos
• Clearinghouse of Image Database - http://www.library.arizona.edu/images/image_projects.html
• Image Collections - http://dsal.uchicago.edu/images/index.html
• ImageBase - http://www.thinker.org/index.asp - Images at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
• InformeDesign - http://www.informedesign.umn.edu - Interior Design Research Resource
• The Picture Collection - http://digital.nypl.org/mmpco
• Union List of Artist Names Online - http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/ulan

Biology

• Animal Info: Rare, Threatened & Endangered Mammals - http://www.animalinfo.org
• APIRS ONLINE: Aquatic, Wetland, and Invasive Plant Database - http://plants.ifas.ufl.edu/search80/NetAns2
• Bio-DiTRL - http://bio-ditrl.sunsite.ualberta.ca
• CBS Databases - http://www.cbs.knaw.nl/databases/index.htm (Yeasts, Filamentous Fungi, etc.)
• Cell Line Data Base - http://www.biotech.ist.unige.it/interlab/cldb.html
• Directory of Research Systematic Collections Database: National Biological Information Infrastructure - http://159.189.176.70/drsc.asp
• DNA Patent Database - http://dnapatents.georgetown.edu
• eNature - Field guides to plants and animals - http://www.enature.com/
• The e-Skeleton Project - http://www.eskeletons.org
• Fishbase: A Global Information System on Fishes - http://www.fishbase.org/home.htm
• FORMIS: A Master Bibliography of Ant Literature - http://cmave.usda.ufl.edu/~formis/
• FS INFO Database - http://fsinfo.fs.fed.us/cgi-bin/gw_43_0/chameleon
• The Forest Service Information Database Insect Bibliography Server - http://entobib.unl.edu
• The International Plant Names Index - http://www.ipni.org/index.html
• National Image Library (U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service) - http://images.fws.gov
• NEPIS - http://www.epa.gov/nepis - Environmental Protection Agency Documents
• Organic Eprints - http://orgprints.org
• Plant Fossil Record Database - http://www.biodiversity.org.uk/ibs/palaeo/pfr2/pfr.htm
• Plant Image Gallery - http://www.noble.org/imagegallery/
• PrimateLit - http://primatelit.library.wisc.edu
• ScaleNet - http://www.sel.barc.usda.gov/scalenet/scalenet.htm
• UNEP-WCMC Conservation Databases - http://www.unep-wcmc.org/
• Urban Forestry - http://forestry.lib.umn.edu/bib/urban.phtml
• World Biodiversity Database - http://www.eti.uva.nl/tools/wbd.php

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Business

• Historic Annual Reports - http://oldsite.library.upenn.edu/etext/collections/lippincott
• Historical Statistics on Banking - http://www2.fdic.gov/hsob
• Quality and Performance Improvement Database - http://www.csom.umn.edu/Page1294.aspx
• RAM Database - http://www.eevl.ac.uk/ram/index.php - A Database of Citations in Manufacturing.
• SalaryExpert.com - http://salaryexpert.com - Salary and Benefits for Hundreds of Jobs in Different Cities
• Working Papers and Other Publications - http://fic.wharton.upenn.edu/fic/papers.html

Chemistry

• The Alchemy Web Site - http://www.levity.com/alchemy
• The Hazardous Chemical Database - http://ull.chemistry.uakron.edu/erd
• Preprint Archive - http://www.sciencedirect.com/preprintarchive
• Communication Vincent Voice Library - http://www.lib.msu.edu/vincent Collection of Spoken Utterances

Computer Science

• The Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies - http://liinwww.ira.uka.de/bibliography/index.html
• CORR: Computing Research Repository - http://www.acm.org/corr
• Preprint Archive - http://www.sciencedirect.com/preprintarchive
• Scientific Research on the Internet - http://www.webuse.umd.edu

Cultural, Ethnological & Gender Studies

• Africabib.Org - http://www.africabib.org
• Diotima - http://www.stoa.org/diotima
• Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World Early Modern Women Database - http://www.lib.umd.edu/ETC/LOCAL/emw/emw.php3 Period is 1500-1900
• Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index - http://www.haverford.edu/library/reference/mschaus/mfi/mfi.html
• Gender Inn - http://www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/englisch/datenbank/e_index.htm
• Gender Studies related to American or English History GenderStats - http://devdata.worldbank.org/genderstats
• Gender Statistics for Foreign Countries HLAS Online: Handbook of Latin American Studies - http://lcweb2.loc.gov/hlas
• KVINSAM: Women's Studies - http://dijkstra.libris.kb.se/kvinnsam.html
• Women and Society - http://www.womenandsociety.buffalo.edu
• ViVa Bibliography of Women's History - http://www.iisg.nl/%7Ewomhist/index.php

Drama, Film, & Television

• The Film File - http://www.newyorker.com/online/filmfile/?030317onremo_index
• 2,000 Movie Reviews Internet Archive: Movie Collection - http://www.archive.org/details/movies
• Inter-Play - http://www.lib.pdx.edu/systems/interplay
• Motion Picture and Television Photo Archive - http://www.mptv.net/main/main_elements/mainpage.htm
• The New York Times Movie Reviews http://movies.nytimes.com/ref/movies/reviews
• Vanderbilt Television News Archive - http://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu
• Women's Studies Database: Film Reviews - http://www.mith2.umd.edu/WomensStudies/FilmReviews

Economics

• Center for International Development - http://www.cid.harvard.edu/cidinformation
• EH.NET: Economic History Services - http://www.eh.net
• ELAND: Research For Development - http://www.1site-europe.net/eland/04/index.html
• FRAZER: Federal Reserve Archive System for Economic Research - http://fraser.stlouisfed.org
• Global Financial Data - http://www.globalfindata.com
• HUD USER - http://www.huduser.org/search/search.asp - Housing statistics
• Interactive Currency Table - http://www.xe.com/ict
• International Monetary Fund Publications - http://www.imf.org/external/pubind.htm
• JOLIS Library Catalog - http://jolis.worldbankimflib.org/e-nljolis.htm -
  World Bank and IMF library network
• International Labour Organization - LABORSTA - http://laborsta.ilo.org Document search - Labordoc - http://labordoc.ilo.org
• STAT-USA - Fee based individual user link- http://www.stat-usa.gov/tradtest.nsf
• OECD Washington Center - http://www.oecdwash.org/DATA/online.htm
• RePEc - Research in Economics - Research articles online - http://ideas.repec.org
• World Bank Documents and Reports - http://www-wds.worldbank.org
• World Bank Photo Library - http://secure.worldbank.org/photolibrary/servlet/main?pagePK=149932

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Education

• AEI-International Education Network - Some are fee based - http://aei.dest.gov.au/AEI/PublicationsAndResearch/ResearchDatabase/Default
• The Gateway to Educational Materials - http://www.thegateway.org
• VOCED - http://www.voced.edu.au Database for Technical and Vocational Education and Training

Ethics

• Amnesty International Library - http://web.amnesty.org/library/engindex
• Human Rights Library - http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts

General Research

• Bloomsbury Research Center - http://www.bloomsbury.com/ARC/arc_home.asp
• Digital Book Index - http://digitalbookindex.com/about.htm
• Free Public Records Directory - http://www.searchsystems.net
• Guidestar - http://www.guidestar.org
• Guide to Nonprofit Organizations Idea Generator - http://www.lib.odu.edu/libassist/idea/index.php
• IngentaConnect - http://www.ingentaconnect.com Company that provides a large (28,000 journals, 18 million articles) free citation database and attempts to sell full text articles
• MInd: The Meetings Index - http://www.interdok.com/mind
• myLITsearch: Scholarly Resources for Academic Research - http://www.mylitsearch.org
• Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations - http://www.theses.org
• Philanthropic Studies Index - http://cheever.ulib.iupui.edu/psipublicsearch
• Scholarly Societies Project - http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/society/overview.html
• Search Adobe PDF Online - http://searchpdf.adobe.com
• Univ. of Califor. eScholarship Repository - http://repositories.cdlib.org/escholarship

Geography

• Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) - http://geonames.usgs.gov
• The Thesaurus of Geographic Names - http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/tgn

Geology

• American Environmental Photographs, 1891-1936: Images from the University of Chicago Library - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/icuhtml/aephome.html
• Global Change Master Directory - http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov
• National Archive of Geological Photographs - http://www.bgs.ac.uk/photoarchive/home.html
• PEER Strong Motion Database - http://peer.berkeley.edu/smcat
• The Quakeline Database - http://mceer.buffalo.edu/utilities/quakeline.asp

Health & Medical

• BioMedWorld - http://www.sciencekomm.at
• Medical and Bioscience Reference and Resource Site Bristol Biomedical Image Archive - http://www.brisbio.ac.uk
• CDC WONDER - http://wonder.cdc.gov
• Public Health Data and Reports Online CHID Online - http://chid.nih.gov
• The Combined Health Information Database CIRRIE - http://cirrie.buffalo.edu
• Center for International Rehabilitation Research Information &Exchange ClinicalTrials.gov - http://clinicaltrials.gov
• Entrez: Life Science Search Engine - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gquery/gquery.fcgi
• HerbMed - http://www.herbmed.org IBIDS - http://ods.od.nih.gov/Health_Information/IBIDS.aspx "The International Bibliographic Information on Dietary Supplements"
• Images from the History of Medicine - http://wwwihm.nlm.nih.gov
• Index to Chiropractic Literature 1985-2004 - http://www.chiroindex.org MyPACS
• Teaching Files - http://www.mypacs.net
• 8,000 Radiology Cases Online NIAAA Alcohol and Alcohol Problems Science Database - http://etoh.niaaa.nih.gov
• Safe Medication - http://www.safemedication.com
• USDA National Nutrient Database - http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/search

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History

• Bibliogr. of the History of Western Sexuality - http://www.univie.ac.at/Wirtschaftsgeschichte/sexbibl/about.html
• Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml
• Congressional Biographical Directory, 1774-Present - http://bioguide.congress.gov/biosearch/biosearch.asp
• The Costume Gallery - http://www.costumegallery.com Over 37,000 images
• Directory of Dissertations in Progress - http://www.historians.org/pubs/dissertations
• History On-Line - http://www.history.ac.uk/search/welcome.html
• New Deal Network - http://newdeal.feri.org
• Oral History Directory - http://alexanderstreet2.com/oralhist/new_site/ohd.htm
• Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Coll. - http://www.library.cornell.edu/mayantislavery
• World Biographical Index - http://www.saur-wbi.de

Home Economics

• The Recipe Source - http://www.recipesource.com

Information Science

• The Bryn Mawr Classical Review - http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/archive.html
• Book History Online - http://www0.kb.nl/bho/
• BookPage Book Review Archives - http://www.bookpage.com/archive.html
• BookReporter.com - http://www.bookreporter.com/reviews/index.asp
• Archive of Past Book Reviews The Claremont Review of Books - http://claremont.org/writings/crb
• Political Science Reviews from 2002 CNN.com - http://www.cnn.com/books/reviews Collection of 150+ Entertainment Book Reviews
• The Complete Review - http://www.complete-review.com/main/main.html Over 1,400 Book Reviews
• DoIS: Documents in Information Science - http://wotan.liu.edu/dois
• H-Net Reviews - http://www.h-net.org/reviews
• Book Reviews in Humanities and Social Science Index Translationum - http://www.unesco.org/culture/xtrans Index of Translated Books
• The Medieval Review http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=tmr;cc=tmr;tpl=browse.tpl
• New York Times Book Review Index Archive - http://www.nytimes.com/pages/books/index.html 1996- present
• San Francisco Chronicle - http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/artlist.cgi?key=RV&directory=Reviews - Bk Reviews 1995-pr.

Literature and Linguistics

• A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism, and Philology, 10th Edition, (2005) http://155.210.60.15/FILOLOGIA_INGLESA/bibliography.html
• BL Online: Bibliographie Linguistique - http://www.kb.nl/blonline
• Digital Collection of Mexican and Argentine Presidential Messages - http://lanic.utexas.edu/project/arl/pm/sample2
• The IPL Literary Criticism Collection - http://ipl.si.umich.edu/div/litcrit/
• LANIC - http://www1.lanic.utexas.edu Latin American Network Information Center
• LAPTOC - http://lanic.utexas.edu/project/arl/laptoc.html Latin American Periodicals Tables of Content
• Science Fiction & Fantasy Research Database - http://lib-oldweb.tamu.edu/cushing/sffrd

Mathematics

• Front for the Mathematics ArXiv - http://front.math.ucdavis.edu
• MathTutor History of Mathematics Archive - http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/history
• MathSearch - http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au:8000/MathSearch.html
• Preprint Archive - http://www.sciencedirect.com/preprintarchive
• Zentralblatt MATH - http://www.emis.de/ZMATH

Music

• Aria Database - www.aria-database.com
• CAIRSS for Music - http://imr.utsa.edu/CAIRSS.html
• Bibliographic Database for Music Research Literature The Cyber Hymnal - http://www.cyberhymnal.org
• Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology Online - http://www.music.indiana.edu/ddm
• Opera Del Vocabolario Italiano - http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/efts/ARTFL/projects/OVI 1,800 Operatic Texts I
• Hear America Singing - http://www.loc.gov/rr/perform/ihas/ihashome.html
• Karadar Classical Music - http://www.karadar.com/Default.htm
• Milken Archive: American Jewish Music - http://www.milkenarchive.org
• Music Education Resource Base - http://www.fmpweb.hsd.uvic.ca/merb
• Music Research Databases - http://www.music.indiana.edu/music_resources/research.html

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Philosophy & Religion

• Bibliographic Information Database in Patristics - http://www.bibl.ulaval.ca/bd/bibp/english.html
• Online Papers on Consciousness - http://consc.net/online.html
• The Paideia Project ON-LINE Archive - http://www.bu.edu/wcp/PaidArch.html
• PhilSci Archive - http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu
• RAMBI: The Index of Articles on Jewish Studies - http://jnul.huji.ac.il/rambi
• Review of Biblical Literature - http://www.bookreviews.org
• Sites with Online Papers in Philosophy - http://members.aol.com/kiekeben/links2.html
• TOCS-IN: Tables of Contents of Interest to Classicists - http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/amphoras/tocs.html

Physics & Engineering

• Alternative Fuels Data Center - http://www.eere.energy.gov/afdc/resources/doc_database.html
• Civil Engineering Database - http://www.pubs.asce.org/chrhome2.html
• DOE R&D Project Summaries - http://rd.osti.gov/
• Energy Citations Database - http://www.osti.gov/energycitations
• How Things Work - http://howthingswork.virginia.edu
• Information Bridge - http://www.osti.gov/bridge
• Knovel Critical Tables - http://www.knovel.com/knovel2/Toc.jsp?SpaceID=10093&BookID=761
• The NASA ADS Abstracts Service - http://adswww.harvard.edu/ads_abstracts.html
• Physical Review Online Archive - http://prola.aps.org
• SPIRES: High-Energy Physics Literature Database - http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/index.shtml
• U.C. Berkeley Physics Lecture Demonstrations - http://www.mip.berkeley.edu/physics/index.html

Political Science

• Constitution Finder - http://confinder.richmond.edu
• CR Info - http://v3.crinfo.org "A Comprehensive Gateway to Conflict Resolution Resources"
• European Union - Law & Finance - Europa documents - http://europa.eu.int/index_en.htm
• GLIN - http://www.glin.gov Global Legal Information Network
• HPOL: History and Politics Out Loud - http://www.hpol.org
• Legal Contents Page Search Database - http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/tallons/content_search.html
• NATLEX - http://www.ilo.org/dyn/natlex/natlex_browse.home International Database on Labor, Social Security*
• Political Database of the Americas - http://www.georgetown.edu/pdba
• Public Agenda Online - http://www.publicagenda.org
• Research Studies and Issue Guides Society for Political Methodology: Working Papers - http://polmeth.wustl.edu/workingpapers.php
• UNESCO Documents and Publications - http://unesdoc.unesco.org/ulis/index.html
• Women in Politics Bibliographic Database - http://www.ipu.org/bdf-e/BDFsearch.asp
• Working Paper Sites of Political Science - http://workingpapers.org

Psychology

• CBIR Online - http://www.buffalostate.edu/orgs/cbir
• Creativity Based Information Resources PILOTS Database - http://www.ncptsd.org/publications/pilots/index.html
• Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder The Princeton BBS Preprint Archive - http://www.bbsonline.org/bbsprints.html
• World Database of Happiness - http://www.eur.nl/fsw/research/happiness

Research Data and Statistical Information

• IPUMS - http://www.ipums.umn.edu Two large census database projects: (1) IPUMS-USA - A National Census Database covering 1850-2000, and (2) IPUMS-International - A project focused on gathering and sharing International Census Information.
• Virtual Data Center - http://vdc.hmdc.harvard.edu/VDC/index.jsp

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Science & Technology (General)

• BioMedCentral - http://www.biomedcentral.com Over 100 Open Access Journals
• Biomedical Databases on the Web - http://databases.biomedcentral.com/browsecatalog Over 1,100 Database Sites
• CiteSeer - http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/cis "Scientific Literature Digital Library"
• E-print Network - http://eprints.osti.gov GrayLit Network - http://graylit.osti.gov "A Science Portal to Technical Reports"
• Highwire: Free Online Full-Text Articles - http://highwire.stanford.edu/lists/freeart.dtl
• ISIHighlyCited.com - http://www.isihighlycited.com Highly Cited Researchers in a Range of Fields
• NCSTRL - http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/NCSTRL Networked Computer Science Technical Reports Library
• NTRS: NASA Technical Reports Server - http://ntrs.nasa.gov Public Access to NASA's Technical Literature
• PhilSci Archive - http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu Archive of Preprints on the Philosophy of Science
• Preprints and Working Papers - http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/physics/research/preprints.html
• PubMed Central - http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov - Search Full-Text Life Science Database
• Science.gov - http://science.gov "A Gateway to Authoritative Selected Science Information"
• SCIRUS - http://www.scirus.com/srsapp Science-Specific Search Engine
• SIMBAD Astronomical Database - http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/Simbad
• STINET - http://stinet.dtic.mil Science and Technology Database of Information

Sociology

• AATA Online - http://aata.getty.edu/NPS Material Cultural Heritage Literature
• AgeLine (AARP Research) - http://research.aarp.org/research/ageline AARP Research
• Anthro.Net - http://www.anthro.net
• Anthropological Index Online - http://aio.anthropology.org.uk/cgi-bin/uncgi/search_bib_ai/anthind
• Bibliography of Nordic Criminology - http://bibliography.nsfk.org
• Child Trends Databank - http://www.childtrendsdatabank.org
• CSPV Violence Literature Database - http://ibs.colorado.edu/cspv/infohouse/violit
• International Data Base - http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idbnew.html
• The Int. Bibliography of Historical Demography - http://www.ulg.ac.be/hiecosoc/bidh/uk/aboutuk.shtml
• National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect Information - http://nccanch.acf.hhs.gov
• NCJRS Abst. Database - http://abstractsdb.ncjrs.org
• Criminal Justice Database Population Index on the Web, 1986-2000 - http://popindex.princeton.edu
• ESRC - http://www.regard.ac.uk Economic and Social Research Council
• Index Resources for Methods in Evaluation and Social Research - http://gsociology.icaap.org/methods
• Social Science Research Network - http://www.ssrn.com
• Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics Online - http://www.albany.edu/sourcebook
• TRANweb: Transportation Article File - http://tran.library.northwestern.edu
• UK Data Archive - http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/index.asp

Tests

• TestLink: The ETS Test Collection - http://www.ets.org/testcoll/index.html
• Test Reviews Online: Buros Institute - http://buros.unl.edu/buros/jsp/search.jsp

Unusual Phenomena

• The Black Vault - http://www.blackvault.com "Online Military and Government Research Center."
• Global Sighting Information Database - http://www.nicap.dabsol.co.uk/search.htm
• The Memory Hole - http://www.thememoryhole.org Information that is hard to find, not widely known, or perhaps some would prefer was not known.

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