Online Resources

Selected General Resources:

Expanded Academic ASAP (Login required)
A great database to start your research. Includes both indexed and full-text periodical articles in a wide variety of disciplines.

FirstGov
The official web portal of the U.S. Government.

Free Full Text from Scholarly Periodicals
Direct links to over seven thousand scientific scholarly periodicals with some or all content freely available on the web provided by Scientific Reference Resources. Remember that Interlibrary Loan can get you the content of those articles that do not show with full text.

Infomine Scholarly Internet Resources Collection
An online library of “academically valuable resources” in a large variety of subject areas including engineering, and visual and performing arts.

In the First Person (Login required)
An index to English language personal narratives, including letters, diaries, memiors, autobiographies, and oral histories.

Librarian's Index to the Internet
Another collection of librarian selected internet resources.

Library of Congress:
Many great resources including:
RedLightGreen
Built by RLG as a resource for undergraduate students. This resource is good for finding materials to request through Interlibrary Loan or for locating materials at other college libraries. This service will tell you the availability of books and research materials and automatically give you bibliographic citations in a variety of formats.

Selected Art and Animation Resources:

Animation Magazine Online
The online version of the magazine. Also available in print in the Library's periodical collection.

ArtLex Art Dictionary
An online art/visual culture dictionary created for artists, collectors, students and educators. This site includes selected images.

The Origins of American Animation
An animation collection from the Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division of the Library of Congress that presents a glimpse at early techniques in film drawn from the print media. Works shown here are from the period 1900- 1921.

Selected Audio Resources:

Harmony Central
Tools and resources, news, product reviews, classified ads, and discussion forums for musicians and music afficionados.

Music Reference from Library Spot
Library Spot links to essential music reference tools for the traditional music student.

Selected DDP Resources:

Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
Situation reports and training for emergency personnel as well as disaster reference materials.

National Emergency Training Center Learning Resource Center
NETC collects materials on fire and emergency management topics. Request NETC materials through InterLibrary Loan.

U.S. Fire Administration
A resource for news and resources relating to fire and fire fighting.

More resources

Selected Engineering Resources:

Software Engineering Resources
Over one thousand software engineering resources assembled by R.S. Pressman & Associates.

Selected Motion Picture Resources:

American Film Scripts Online (Login required)
Authorized full text film scripts with bibliographic and biographical information on writers and directors.

Internet Moving Image Archive
A free and open collection of films for noncommercial scholarly and research purposes.

Selected Teaching and Learning Resources:

The Educator's Reference Desk (formerly ERIC)
A project of the Information Institute of Syracuse.

DeLiberations on Learning and Teaching in Higher Education
An international website based in the Educational Development Unit at London Guildhall University.

TCRecord: The Voice of Scholarship in Education
From Teachers College, Columbia University.


Contact Bruce Dahms with questions or input about online resources.