Wikipedia:Free online resources

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The following list is meant to help you with your own research, by offering links to respectable information sources on the web, available free of charge. Inclusion on the list doesn't automatically mean the absolute truth is on these websites, so always be critical and compare information between different sources.

The content of the subsections is alphabetically organized.

Please add free online sources if you know some that are missing in this list, but try to keep it relevant and trustworthy.

Contents

[edit] General resources and link lists

  • Wikiversity provides information on most academic subjects.
  • FindArticles: Search results usually include free access to articles (esp sourced from British newspapers and magazines) not found through Google, including articles that pre-date widespread use of the Internet and even from the late 80s. Provided by LookSmart.
  • Footnote: Images of original (historical) source documents from various large archives (partly free).
  • Google Scholar: Searches peer-reviewed sources.
  • The Internet Public Library: a collection of helpful, vetted links to major topics.
  • Librarian's Index to the Internet: websites reviewed by librarians on all sorts of topics.
  • Refdesk: Facts subject index of websites.

[edit] News agencies

[edit] Philosophy

[edit] Science, mathematics, medicine & nature

[edit] Medicine

  • PubMed Entrez Global Query Cross-Database Search System. Free access to biomedical databases: online science textbooks, clinical trials, biomedical literature, Human genome, protein structure, taxonomy, etc. Put out by the National Library of Medicine.
  • UN World Health Organization Statistical Information System (WHOSIS) "The WHO Statistical Information System is the guide to health and health-related epidemiological and statistical information available from the World Health Organization."

[edit] Technology & computer science

[edit] Social sciences

[edit] History

[edit] Law

[edit] Economics

[edit] Political science

[edit] Religious studies

[edit] Anthropology

[edit] Information and library science

  • Library, Information Science & Technology Abstract (LISTA): free article abstracts from "more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s."

[edit] Places, geography & travel

[edit] Culture

[edit] Sports

  • The LA84 Foundation Digital Archive: "Digital resources include academic journals, scholarly books, popular sports magazines of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and an extensive offering of Olympic publications. The Olympic titles include a complete run of back issues of Olympic Review, the official publication of the International Olympic Committee, and two dozen Olympic Games official reports."

[edit] Biographies

  • Australian Dictionary of Biography Online: Biographies of over 10,000 people "significant in Australian history", mainly those who died before 1980.
  • Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online: Biographies of people who have had an impact on Canada and who died between 1000 and 1920 or whose last known date of activity falls within these years.
  • Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Resource for 55,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the earliest times to the year 2003. Login is required to access, and it's not strictly free - however, if you're in the UK, entering your library card number will almost certainly get you in. Many libraries elsewhere in the world also have unrestricted access.

[edit] See also

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