Research Links

Search Engines
Libraries
Arts/Images/Film/Performing Arts
Ethics and Philosophy
Foreign Languages
Health
History
Law/Government
Literature
Science

Search Engines

All Search Engines Lists major, meta, and specialized search engines/directories and URL submission sites by subject area (science, gaming, sports, foreign music etc.)

Colossus Foreign country and region-specific search engines. Search in foreign languages.

Directory of Open Access Journals Free access, full text, scholarly journals in the sciences, history, philosophy, mathematics, art and language.

Eureka Contains 45 popular search engines with reviews, a great starting point

Intute Database of peer reviewed, hand selected internet resources for education and research in the  Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences, Health and Life Sciences and Science, Engineering and Technology.  Search or browse the subject index.

Librarian’s Internet Index Search engine that indexes sites that have content reviewed by librarians for validity and content.

SciSeek Science Online Devoted to science content. Has a subject tree index.

Libraries

New York Public Library Catalogs for Research and Branch Library systems. Free access to online databases with a library card. Access to the Digital Gallery, images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more.

Westchester Public Library System Library catalog, free access to online databases with library card.

White Plains Public Library Library catalog, free access to online databases with library card.

Arts/Images/Film/Performing Arts

Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History (Metropolitan Museum of Art) World Maps, Timelines, Essays, Works of Art.  Browse works of art by subject, artist or work.  Browse timeline periods from 20,000 BC – present.  Browse Essays by subject.  Select maps by time period and world region.  Keyword search option that brings up hits in all categories.

IBDB (Internet Broadway Database) Official database for Broadway theatre provided by The League of American Theatres and Producers, Inc. A comprehensive database of shows produced on Broadway, including all "title page" information about each production. Also offers historical information about theatres and various statistics and fun facts related to Broadway.

IMDb (Internet Movie Database) Huge, fully-searchable database of film information, including credits, plot summaries, character names, movie ratings, year of release, running times, soundtracks, country of production, genres, production companies, distributors, special effects companies, reference literature, filming locations and movie trivia.

Museum of the City of New York: Byron Collection Primary Sources digital images and descriptive information about 22,000 photographs of New York City and its environs taken by the Byron Company between 1890 and 1942. Browse through selected topic or search the collection by word.

National Portrait Gallery's Portrait Search Portraits of American subjects or by American artists, generally limited to one-of-a-kind likenesses such as paintings, sculpture, drawings, miniatures, and silhouettes. Includes a special browsing collection of Hispanic portraits supported by Federal funds for Latino programming.

NYPL Digital Gallery Primary Sources Provides access to over 550,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more.

Ethics and Philosophy

Foreign Languages

ABU: la Bibliothèque Universelle French Texts in the public domain. Alphabetic title and author index, full text searchable, also has a dictionary.

Bibliotheca Augustana Latin and Greek A library of texts and Art from the classical era. Latin, Greek, Germanic, Anglo, Gallic, Hispanic, Italian, Polonic, Russic, Iidic, and Lusitanic authors.

Biblioteca Virtual Miguel De Cervantes Spanish (Java dependent) A library of books in Spanish. Sections on Generalities, Literature, History, Hispano Americana, Children’s and Young Adult books. Also a unique virtual Sign-Language selection.

Chinese Classical Literature Chinese classics with each character hyperlinked to its definition and etymology. No Chinese software is necessary - characters are displayed as images. Links to English translations are included for most works.

Chinese Character Genealogy Chinese Contains the complete text of : Chinese Characters: A Genealogy and Dictionary (Yale Univ. Press) using a character tree system. No Chinese software is necessary - characters are displayed as images. Also has links to other “cool” Chinese language sites.

The Latin Library Latin Classical Latin texts.

Perseus Latin and Greek Texts as well as lexicons and translation tools.

Health

NOAH New York Online Access to Health English and Spanish Everything you want to know about your body and your health. Keyword searchable, A-Z index or look through a list of topics. Maintained and edited by a consortium science librarians at of The City University of New York Office of Library Services; the Metropolitan New York Library Council; The New York Academy of Medicine Library; and The New York Public Library.

History

100 Milestone Documents Primary Sources 100 Documents compiled by the national Archives and Records Administration drawn from its holdings. The documents chronicle U.S. history from 1776-1965.

Abolition of the Slave Trade: the Forgotton Story (Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture) Primary Sources Essays, images, texts, maps, events, timeline on the African slave trade, African resistance, abolitionism, the U.S. Constitution and Acts, celebrations, the illegal slave trade, revival of the slave trade and suppression.

ACTUP Oral History Project  Primary Sources  A collection of over 100 interviews with surviving members of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, New York.  Documenting the fight for Gay rights and recognition of AIDS epidemic.

American Memory Primary Sources Library of Congress’s vast resources of digitized American historical materials that document U.S. history and culture. The original formats include manuscripts, prints, photographs, posters, maps, sound recordings, motion pictures, books, pamphlets, and sheet music.

AMDOCS Documents for the Study of American History Primary Sources Documents from 1492 - present. Includes inaugural addresses, diary extracts, treaties, letters, speeches, and more.

The Avalon Project at Yale Law School Primary Sources Digitized documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government. With links to supporting documents expressly referred to in the body of the text. Arranged by century. Also Linked to DIANA, Yale’s Human Rights Archive of legal cases and documents.

Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 Primary Sources (American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress).  More than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves.

Brooklyn Daily Eagle 1841-1902 – Primary Sources Major Brooklyn newspaper in PDF format, fully searchable.

Cornell Law School Legal Information Institute Constitutions, U.S. code, Supreme and State court opinions, law events in the news. Special section called “Law About” that indexes content into a subject tree – very useful for paper topic help.

EuroDocs: Online Sources for European History – Primary Sources a directory of primary and secondary electronic sources in European History. Pre-history to Current. Subject tree starting by country and keyword search.

Eyewitness to History Primary Sources Eyewitness accounts of historical events from ancient times to modern. Searchable and browsable.

Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History (Metropolitan Museum of Art) World Maps, Timelines, Essays, Works of Art.  Browse works of art by subject, artist or work.  Browse timeline periods from 20,000 BC – present.  Browse Essays by subject.  Select maps by time period and world region.  Keyword search option that brings up hits in all categories.

Making of America (Cornell University Site) Primary Sources Good for American Civil War topics. Journal literature from the antebellum period through reconstruction. Includes but not limited to: The Harper's New Monthly Magazine (1850 - 1899), North American Review (1815 - 1900), New Englander (1843 - 1892), Scientific American (1846 - 1869).

Making of America (University of Michigan Site) Primary Sources Good for American Civil War topics. Books and journals from the antebellum period through reconstruction. Search the catalog. Or browse approximately 10,000 books by title, author or subject. Journals include but not limited to Ladies Repository (1841-1876), Princeton Review (1831-1882), Overland Monthly (1868-1900).

Museum of the City of New York: Byron Collection Primary Sources Good for N.Y. City History. Digital images and descriptive information about 22,000 photographs of New York City and its environs taken by the Byron Company between 1890 and 1942. Browse through selected topic or search the collection by word.

National Archives Online Exhibits Primary Sources Digital exhibits of documents, images, speeches, etc. formed around subjects that change from time to time.

Spartacus Educational Primary Sources Index to primary and secondary sources from all times and areas of history. Searchable and browsable. Includes, Ancient World, Romans, Medieval, Victorian Britain, World Wars, Russian Revolution, Nazi Germany, Cold War, Slavery, American Civil War, Civil Rights Movement, McCarthyism, Women’s Emancipation, New Deal, Vietnam and many others.

Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Primary Sources Digital Archive of film footage documenting the Holocaust and World War II.  Some film clips by amateur cinematographers and others by German propaganda companies.

Voices of the Holocaust Primary Sources 70 of 109 interviews with corresponding notes and statistics collected by Dr. David Boder, a faculty member and former Head of the Department of Psychology and Philosophy at the Lewis Institute of Chicago. In 1946, Dr. Boder traveled to Europe to become the first researcher to record the actual testimonies of Holocaust victims while they were still in displaced persons camps around Europe -- only one year after their liberation from the death camps. Some of the interviews are available in their original audio form.

Veterans History Project (Library of Congress) Primary Sources Personal narratives, correspondence, and visual materials of U.S. Veterans from World War I, World War II, Korean War, Vietnam War, Persian Gulf War, Afghanistan and Iraq conflicts.  In addition, those U.S. citizen civilians who were actively involved in supporting war efforts (such as war industry workers, USO workers, flight instructors, medical volunteers, etc.).

Law/Government

Literature

Electronic Text Center - Modern English Collection A collection of thousands of full text works of English and American fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, letters, newspapers, manuscripts and illustrations from 1500 to the present. Searchable, and browsable by author, and subject.

Bartleby.com Large online text library of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, reference.

Bibliomania Over 2000 Classic texts, plus articles and interviews. Full-text searchable.

Lit Links Information about authors and literary periods with links to additional information sites.

The Online Books Page More than 25,000 English works in various formats. Also has an “Archives and Indexes” page that lists other sources of online books found on the web as well as other specialized literature search engines and indexes.

The Online Medieval and Classical Library Important literary works of Classical and Medieval civilization. Texts are English translations from Old English, Middle English, Old French, High German, Greek, Icelandic (Old Norse), Italian, Latin (classical and medieval) and Spanish.

Science

Chemistry & Structures & 3D Molecules This web site highlights areas of the chemical world. Has a section on Molecules of the Month, an A to Z Index of Structures, a Library of Inorganic Structures (over 1600 structures), and an Interactive 3D Periodic Table. Uses Jmol Java technology to display the interactive 3D models.

SciSeek Science Online Search engine devoted to science content. Searchable and browsable.

MadSciNet “A collective cranium of scientists providing answers to your questions”. Includes “Ask a Scientist” with searchable archive of science questions, “Mad lab” of science experiments, and “MadSci” search engine.

National Science Digital Library Digital texts, images, videos and audio files. Searchable by content, format and grade level (K-Graduate School).

Science.gov Authoritative, selected science information provided by U.S. Government agencies. Including research and development results.