Useful Websites
This page contains links to recommended internet resources grouped by subject.
Art and architecture
- Architecture.com (RIBA) — "One of the world’s most extensive built environment portals", run by the RIBA
- Architecture and Building/UNLV Libraries — Selective guide to Internet resources covering topics such as architecture, building, construction, design, real estate, housing, energy and the environment, landscape architecture, etc.
- Artcyclopedia — "Guide to museum-quality fine art on the internet."
- Artlex Art Dictionary
- Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History — “The Timeline of Art History is a chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of the history of art from around the world.”
- International Architecture Database — “This database includes information over more than 29000 built and unrealized projects from various architects and planners.”
- Intute — Helps to find recommended web resources selected and evaluated by a network of subject specialist from universities across the UK.
- McGraw-Hill Construction Sweets Network — It is a comprehensive, easy to use online resource for building product information.
- SIBMAS International Directory of Performing Arts Collections and Institutions
- World Wide Arts Resources
Atlases and maps
- Historical Atlas of the Twentieth Century
- Reference Desk: Atlas and Maps — Links to atlas and maps web sites.
- Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection — The Perry-Castaneda map collection of the University of Texax-Austin Libraries includes different types of maps, whether historical or topical maps. Links are also provided to related maps over the internet.
Biography
- Biography.com — This web site, from A&E Television Network, offers over 25,000 biographies for people past and present
- Classical Net: Composer Master Index — This index lists those composers for which there is a dedicated page at this site that may include a biography, recommended works, recommended recordings, and other related reviews and articles.
- Directory of Royal Genealogical Data
- Distinguished Women of Past and Present
Business and business-related
- BigCharts — Provides access to interactive charts, quotes, industry analysis, and market news and commentary.
- Country Indicators for Foreign Policy (CIFP) — Provides statistical data which includes measures of The CIFP project represents an on-going effort to identify and assemble statistical information conveying the key features of the political, economic, social and cultural environments of countries around the world.
- Economist Country Briefings — Provides profile on 60 major world countries.
- Hoovers — Provides information on over 12 million companies.
- The World Bank
- World Development Indicators — “The primary World Bank collection of development indicators”.
- World Trade Organization (WTO)
Computers and Information Technology
- TechEncyclopedia —Provides definitions for more than 20,000 information technology terms
Currency Exchange and other Conversions
Dictionaries and encyclopedias
- Allergy Glossary
- Answers.com — It searches and cross-indexes online research tools such as The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, Merriam Webster’s Dictionary, etc.
- Artlex Art Dictionary
- Bartleby Reference — “Combines the best of both contemporary and classic reference works into the most comprehensive public reference library ever published on the web.”
- Dictionary of Islamic Philosophical Terms
- Encyclopedia Mythica — An encyclopedia on mythology, folklore, and legend.
- Encyclopedia of Psychology
- Environment Glossary
- TheFreeDictionary
- FreeThesaurus.net
- The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- LookLex / Encyclopaedia
- Medical Dictionary/MedlinePlus
- MediLexicon — Over 230,000 medical, pharmaceutical, biomedical and healthcare acronyms and abbreviations.
- MedTerms / MedicineNet.com
- Merriam-Webster Online — Includes Merriam-Webster Dictionary and Merriam-Webster Thesaurus.
- Merriam-Webster Visual Dictionary Online — "Explore the 15 major themes to access more than 6,000 images and see words like never before."
- Mondofacto: Online Medical Dictionary
- Psychology Dictionary
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Webopedia — Dictionary and search engine for computer and Internet technology.
- Who Named It? — A Biographical dictionary of medical eponyms.
- Wikipedia
- YourDictionary.com — An authoritative and comprehensive language portal with more than 2500 dictionaries in over 300 languages.
Education
- 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.”
- OECD Directorate for Education
- UNESCO/Education
Environment
- Environment Glossary
- International Water Law Project
- Republic of Lebanon: Ministry of Environment
- United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
- World Health Organization / Protection of the Human Environment
- World Resources Institute
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.
- FreeBooks4Doctors
- HathiTrust — 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.
- 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.
- PubMed Bookshelf — Searchable biomedical books available through PubMed.
- UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004 — “Includes almost 2,000 books from academic presses on a range of topics, including art, science, history, music, religion, and fiction.”
General sources
- British Library Direct — Multidisciplinary database containing 20,000 journals and focusing predominantly on the subjects of science, technology and medicine
- Database for Accredited Postsecondary Institutions and Programs — Compiled from publicly available information reported to the U.S. Department of Education by recognized accrediting agencies and state approval agencies that have been asked to provide information for each institution and/or program accredited by that agency.
- 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 Directory of Published Papers — Locates events and procures published proceedings from thousands of conferences, congresses, meetings & symposia.
- Intute — Helps to find 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
Geography and history
- Calendars throught the Ages
- Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names Online
- U.S. Board on Geographic Names — Contains information about almost 2 million physical and cultural geographic features in the United States.
- The Web Chronology Project
Islamic studies
- ABZU A Guide to information related to the study of the Ancient Near East on the Web.
- Dictionary of Islamic Philosophical Terms
- Islam and Islamic Studies Resources
- Islamic Philosophy Online
- Virtual Religion Index/Islamic Studies
Law
- American Law Sources On-Line — A comprehensive, uniform, and useful compilation of links to freely accessible on-line sources of law for the United States and Canada.
- FindLaw
- NOLO: Legal Solutions for You, Your Family & Your Business
Lebanese and Middle East
- 5INDEX: Lebanon’s information provider — Lebanese directory and search engine
- Central Administration for Statistics / Lebanese Republic
- Lebanon Atlas City Guide
- LookLex/Encyclopedia Previously “Encyclopaedia of the Orient”.
- LEBCOM — Lebanese directory and search engine.
- Social and Cultural Development Association (INMA) — Non-profit, non-governmental organization whose scope of activities is normally based on servicing a cluster of Lebanese villages.
Library and information studies
Medicine SEE Pharmacy, Nursing, Medicine and Health related
- All Nursing Schools Directory of accredited nuring schools searchable by location, degree, and/or program area.
- Allergy Glossary
- ABX Guide Provides concise, clinically useful, and up-to-date information about the evaluation and treatment of infectious diseases in adults.
- American Cancer Society “Supports education and research in cancer prevention, diagnosis, detection, and treatment… Provides news, information on types of cancer, patient services, treatment options, sections on children with cancer and living with cancer, and cancer statistics.”
- Approved Drug Products with Therapeutic Equivalence Evaluations (Orange book)
- Asbestos.com A comprehensive and up-to-date resource on asbestos and mesothelioma-related issues, ranging from occupational exposure to treatment options.
- BioMedSearch Combines MedLine/PubMed data with data from other sources to provide comprehensive biomedical information.
- Cancer.gov It is the official website for the The National Cancer Institute. It provides access to a wide range of cancer information, including clinical trials, statistics, news releases, etc.
- CDC: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention US Department of Health and Human Services’ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
- Citing Medicine: The NLM Style Guide for Authors, Editors, and Publishers
- Coffee Break “Coffee Break is a resource at NCBI that combines reports on recent biomedical discoveries with use of NCBI tools.”
- DailyMed
- Drugs@FDA: FDA Approved Drug Products
- Drug Information Portal Provides information to more than 18,000 drugs.
- DrugWatch “It is a comprehensive Web site database featuring extensive information about thousands of different medications and drugs currently on the market or previously available worldwide.”
- Drugs.com: Drug Information Online
- Facts & Comparisons Facts and Comparisons’ web site which provides drug new update as well as drug information, etc.
- Epocrates ” Epocrates is the # 1 mobile drug reference resource used by healthcare providers at the point of care. Trusted for accurate content and innovative offerings, physicians choose Epocrates 3 to 1 as their point of care drug reference of choice.”
- FDA: U.S. Food and Drug Administration
- FreeBooks4Doctors!
- FreeMedicalJournals.com
- Genomics.energy.gov Genome programs of the US Department of Energy Office of Science.
- Healthfinder It links to carefully selected information and Web sites from over 1,500 health-related organizations.
- Healthline
- HIV InSite Provides comprehensive, up-to-date information on HIV/AIDS treatment, prevention, and policy from the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine.
- IMEMR Index Medicus for the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region Provides access to the health literature published in the Eastern Mediterranean Region.
- Intute: Nursing, Midwifery, and Allied Health Provides access to high quality web resources selected and evaluated by a network of subject specialist from universities across the UK.
- Martindale’s Health Science Guide Contains links to over 63,600 teaching files, over 138,525 medical cases & grand rounds, 1,370 courses and textbooks, 470 journals, 4,580 databases, etc.
- Mayo Clinic A not-for-profit medical practice dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of virtually every type of complex illness.
- MedCalc One of the most popular medical applicatios on iPhone. It provides easy access to a wide array of medical formulas and score.
- MediLexicon Over 230,000 medical, pharmaceutical, biomedical and healthcare acronyms and abbreviations.
- Medical Dictionary/MedlinePlus
- Medscape Pharmacists
- MedTerms/MedicineNet.com
- Merck
- Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
- Mesothelioma & Asbestos Awareness Center Provides relevant and authoritative information regarding asbestos and health complications associated with asbestos exposure.
- MLANET: user’s guide to finding and evaluating heatlh information on the web Provides in addition to a guidelines that help in the evaluation of internet websites, MLA top ten most useful consumer health websites, MLA recommended cancer websites, MLA recommended diabetes websites, MLA recommended heart disease websites.
- Mondofacto: Online Medical Dictionary
- NOAH New York Online Access to Health
- Nursing Degree Guide
- OncoLinkThe Web’s first cancer resource
- PDRHealth
- Pharmacotherapy Update/Cleveland Clinic
- PubMed Bookshelf Searchable biomedical books available through PubMed.
- Quertle Created by biomedical scientists, chemists, and literature informatics experts, Quertle includes all of MEDLINE/PubMed, TOXLINE, PubMed Central, BioMed Central, and the NIH RePORTER database of grant applications.
- Webicina.com “The world’s first and only free service that provides curated medical social media resources in over 80 medical topics in over 17 languages”.
- WebMD
- WHO/Health Topics
- Who Named It? A biographical dictionary of medical eponyms.
- WHO Statistical Information Service (WHOSIS)
Meta search engines
- 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.
- Yippy — Formerly known as Clusty, “Yippy queries several top search engines, combines the results, and generates an ordered list based on comparative ranking.”
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.
- Middle East News & World Report.
- World-newspapers.com — Covers world newspapers online and news sites in English and also links to selected magazines.
- WorldNews Network
Nursing SEE Pharmacy, Nursing, Medicine and Health related
Nursing SEE Pharmacy, Nursing, Medicine and Health related
Political science and international affairs
- Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs
- Center for International Development & Conflict Management (CIDCM)
- Council on Foreign Relations — The Council is an independent organization dedicated to producing and disseminating ideas regarding the foreign policy choices facing the United States and other governments. It provides in-depth analysis and background on major foreign policy and international affairs issues of the day
- Country Indicators for Foregin Policy (CIFP) — The CIFP project represents an on-going effort to identify and assemble statistical information conveying the key features of the political, economic, social and cultural environments of countries around the world.
- Government Document Center/University of Michigan Library
- GPO Access — It is a service of the U.S. Government Printing Office that provides free electronic access to a wealth of information products produced by the the Federal Government, i.e. Congressional Record, etc.
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- International Peace Research Institute (PRIO)
- United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR)
- The WWW Virtual Library: International Affairs Resources — An internet directory of over 2600 annotated links in a wide range of international affairs, international studies, and international relations topics.
Population
- POPIN Western Asia — It constitutes a comprehensive population information gateway for the Arab region.
- Population and Health InfoShare — Features documents in reproductive and child health, HIV/AIDS, and population.
- United Nations Population Division: World Population Prospects
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
- Bible Gateway — A service for reading and researching scripture online, all in the language or translation of your choice.
- The Koran
- Papal Encyclicals Online — Provides papal encyclicals and other Catholic Church documents from 1226 to the present
- ReligiousResources.org — A directory of internet resources for all major religions.
- Resource Pages for Biblical Studies
Sciences
- Abbreviations of Chemical Compounds
- Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology — An inter- and multidisciplinary research institute devoted to basic research in the physical sciences, computation, engineering, biology, behavior, and cognition.
- British Library Direct — Multidisciplinary database containing 20,000 journals and focusses predominantly on the subjects of science, technology and medicine.
- iCivilEngineer: The Internet for Civil Engineers
- Intute: Science, Engineering & Technology — Provides access to “Web resources for education and research, evaluated and selected by a network of subject specialists. It covers the physical sciences, engineering, computing, geography, mathematics and environmental science.”
- Martindale’s Calculators Online Center — Link to over 18,000 science and math calculators.
- The Math Forum: Internet Mathematics Library
- 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.”
- Science.gov — A gateway to authoritative selected science information provided by U.S. Government agencies. It allows searches across 30 scientific databases and more than 1,700 science Web sites.
- Scirus – for scientific information only —The most comprehensive science-specific search engine on the internet.
- TechXtra — A free service which can help find articles, books, valuable websites, latest industry news and research, technical reports, thesis & dissertations, etc. It cross-searches 31 different collections relevant to engineering, mathematics and computing.
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
- Central Administration for Statistics / Lebanese Republic
- Country Indicators for Foregin Policy (CIFP) — The CIFP project represents an on-going effort to identify and assemble statistical information conveying the key features of the political, economic, social and cultural environments of countries around the world.
- NationMaster.com — “One-stop resource for country statistics on anything and everything, whether it be soldiers, Olympic medals, tourists, English speakers or wall plug voltage.”
- OFFSTATS: Official Statistics on the Web — “A metasite that pulls together links to official statistics from countries, governement agencies and intergovernmental organizations.”
- Statistical Resources on the Web/University of Michigan Library: Government Documents Center
Tourism
Weather
Last Updated: March 1, 2012
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