Online Resources

[SaberKitty]

Why schlep to the library, when you can research from home?

Post your helpful online resources here (along with a brief description and other necessary information).

http://www.americanhistory.abc-clio.com
Documents, biographies, images, timelines, audio clips and maps about U.S. History
Login and password: oaktonhs

http://www.worldhistory.abc-clio.com/
Documents, biographies, images, timelines, audio clips and maps about World Hisotry
Login and password: oaktonhs

http://www.accessscience.com/
Encyclopedia of science and technology with research updates and biographies
click “subscriber log-in” Login: oaktonhs Password: cougars

And more

[Antrax]

http://www.imdb.com
Everything you want to know about movies.

http://www.tvtome.com
Like IMDB for TV series.

http://www.mobygames.com
And likewise for computer games.

http://www.dictionary.com
Duh

Antrax

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"Look, that's why there's rules, understand? So that you think before you break 'em" - Lu-Tze, Thief of Time

[Gomez]

Some general and more specialist links.

CIA World Fact book - Essential cultural, historical and geographical facts about every country in the world.

Mathworld encyclopedia of mathematics - Exhaustive but quite technical.

Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Not exhaustive but pretty decent resource that has good, detailed information on virtually all the key philosophers. Is a little light on theory though.

Wikipedia.com Superb free online encyclopedia.

For English Students

English syllabuses vary from school to school but the odds are you'll have to read quite a bit of lit from the Western Canon and Gradesaver has good free info on lots of them and their major works.

For Media Students

Daniel Chandler is a media professor at UWA and his website has dozens of pages of great material. I've lost count of the number of times this guys pages have helped me out of a tight spot. Since his site is an absolute bitch to navigate I've put up links to each section.

Semiotics
Film theory - Portrayal of technology in cinema and literature
Film Theory - The Gaze The Gaze is a tough principle to grasp and these pages make life a lot easier
Genre Theory
Theories of Bias info on phonocentrism, graphocentrism and logocentrism
Marxist Media Theory
Technological Determinism

That's about it for the time being. I'll add some more tonight.



[This message has been edited by Gomez (edited 03-20-2004 10:44 AM).]

[extropalopakettle]

A great Math site - http://mathworld.wolfram.com/

The above site was created by one Eric Weisstein (google), who has a bunch of great sites (including physics, music, astronomy, ...), linked to from here: http://www.treasure-troves.com/

[This message has been edited by extropalopakettle (edited 03-20-2004 02:48 PM).]

[Lucky Wizard]

In Saberkitty's first image, I must highlight the last two resources -- EBSCOhost and eLibrary. I've used both of them many times over the past five years, and have found them to be quite good.

I just looked at the bibliography/works cited sections of most of the reports I've written in the past four years, because I was looking for sources that are websites that would be described as "resources".

I found these four resources:

http://www.cdc.gov/node.do/id/0900f3ec8000e035 -- from the CDC's website. Has extensive information on many diseases.
http://www.webelements.com -- an online periodic table with extensive information on each element.
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/index.html -- an extensive resource about the history of mathematics. The most impressive part of the site is their biographies of the mathematicians.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/ -- an online edition of the Catholic Encyclopedia. For obvious reasons, the site is biased towards Christianity, though it's still a useful resource if you work around the bias.

I didn't check all the reports I wrote because not all of them are on this computer. Sometime I'll look through reports that are elsewhere; if I find any good online resources, I'll post them here.

[Celt.]

http://helios.gsfc.nasa.gov/ -- Everything you ever needed to know about Cosmic Rays

[Digglu]

http://scholar.google.com -- For a bunch of electronic versions of research papers, with inward links (who cites that paper) listed.

http://www.citeseer.com -- Sorta the same thing, but not quite as reliable server-wise.

[Sessie]

http://www.onelook.com/reverse-dictionary.shtml - Reverse Dictionary. Look up a concept or definition, and it gives you a list of possible words. I thought it was pretty neat.
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[Lepton]

http://xxx.lanl.gov - my favourite mirror to the arXiv preprint archive for physics, mathematics, and quantitative biology.
http://integrals.wolfram.com/ - solves definite integrals using Mathematica software (linked from the other Wolfram sites)

[Courk]

Chuck posted this in another thread: http://www.research.att.com/projects/tts/demo.html - converts text into speech. It seems like one of those "Oh, if only I coudl remember where that thing was!" type of things.

[Dragon Phoenix]

Want to know how an album or single did in the UK charts?

http://www.everyhit.com/

[Hardcore]

Most things you want to know here



-you know the score-

[Leptonn]

http://atom.kaeri.re.kr/index.html
Table of the Nuclides. Check out the sponsor!

[MatthewV]

www.google.com :-)

and Lynch, guide to grammar and style is an excellent source of English language thingies and whatnots.

[PedanticPasserby]

Need to work out something on paper?

Print your own Graph Paper. Various styles available.
Design your own or choose from the pre-generated formats.

http://www.incompetech.com/beta/plainGraphPaper/

[Chuck]

Cartoon Encyclopedia

[extro...]

http://www.math-atlas.org/

[Jack_Ian]

http://www.falstad.com/mathphysics.html

A veritable cornucopia of applets and visualisations, that would be of interest to anyone remotely interested in maths or engineering.

[Courk]

A less educational resource: http://gifworks.com/image_editor.html

I mainly use it for making gif images transparent, but there are a few other things it can do.

[Courk]

http://thomas.loc.gov/
The database of Congressional happenings.

[austinap]

https://www1.fishersci.com/acros/techresources.jsp - a great site for looking up MSDS sheets. Just search for the compound name and pick a result that seems to be what you're looking for. I suppose you could also buy the chemicals here if you really wished to.

http://www.chemweb.com/ - a pretty good overall chemistry reference site.

http://libraries.mit.edu/help/virtualref.html - a great overall reference site for just about anything.

http://www.stolaf.edu/people/giannini/biological%20anamations.html - some biology animations.

http://www.sumanasinc.com/webcontent/animation.html - some good biochem/molecular bio animations. Good stuff, but not very extensive.

http://www.biochemweb.org/ - good biochem reference. Lots of pathways, etc. Lots of information, but not always easy to find what you're looking for.

http://www.uwsp.edu/chemistry/pdbs/ - a good chemical structures site. Helps with visualization.

ocw.mit.edu - MIT open courseware. Though maybe not a real reference, theres a ton of information here if you spend the time to look. Some classes have great notes, and can at least point you in the direction of some good reading.

http://knowmore.org/ - a corporation search engine. They give a tons of information on most corporations. Pretty interesting stuff.

http://www.world-newspapers.com/ - links to newspapers from around the world. They give a pretty good selection.

and last but certainly not least:
http://www.classtab.org/ - the best online source of classical guitar tablatures. Every tab I've looked up on here so far has been accurate and complete, and they have a good selection.

[Jack_Ian]

Physics Virtual Bookshelf
I particularly liked the Flash Animations for Physics.

[Leptonn]

Google Print

Google has, by some miracle, convinced copyright holders to allow them to scan and display textbooks online. Last night, a search brought up the textbook for a class that I haven't bothered to buy. If you play around with it, you'll notice that it takes a bit of effort but it is not impossible to "flip through" a given book. (for example, that textbook that I haven't bothered to purchase... now I have no reason to =])

[worm]

reached a restricted page. it had a link if you want to know why...

[alphatango]

May need to hurry up while it lasts: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11/01/google_resumes_scanning/
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Keeper of the Eternal Flame of the Inner Geek.

[Chuck]

The Song Tapper

[Omega Centauri]

For political and social issues

www.factcheck.org
www.issues2000.org
www.religioustolerance.org

For games

www.ign.com

[HyToFry]

http://www.tv.com

It's to replace tvtome.com (from Ant's post#2.)

It's not NEARLY as good as tvtome, but tvtome sold rights to it, and now it's the best thing that we have.

http://www.myepisodes.com is the best place for keeping track of when your favorite shows are on.
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"History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again." Hi ho.

[Chuck]

100 Windows shortcut keys

[Jack_Ian]

http://spacegeek.org/
A series of movies with a science theme.

[wordcross]

http://www.wowio.com/index.asp

free downloadable books. the registration is a bit survey-ish, and i wouldn't rule out the possibility that they'd spam whatever e-mail address you give them, but that can be avoided
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[Jack_Ian]

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/

[Courk]

http://www.findsounds.com/

A search engine for sounds.

[Jack_Ian]

http://www.wikisky.org/

[Jack_Ian]

http://www.soundsnap.com/

[Jack_Ian]

Need to give a warning about a link? Use The Indirectotron 9000™
mirrored at http://uftoolbox.info/indirectotron/indirectotron.php
It will provide the user with a warning before allowing them to proceed.

Unfortunately, this will result in a very long URL, which brings me to this next utility available at http://tinyurl.com/

[Lepton*]

zonalmarking.net - superb analysis of the technical side of soccer/football, particularly positional play.

[RubberDuck]

Does anyone know any free online resources for languages?
I'm looking to learn Russian.

I've found the travel linguist Russian 101 on Youtube videos and a Russian Character keyboard, which is a start but not much more than that.

[The Ragin' South Asian]

My local library gives me free access to some paid online language stuff, might want to check for something like that.