October 30, 2009 – 12:42 pm
nbsp;http://amser.org
AMSER is a portal of educational resources and services built specifically for use by those in Community and Technical Colleges but free for anyone to use.
source: Scout report
October 30, 2009 – 12:40 pm
nbsp;http://www.biosciednet.org/portal/
This impressive portal (referred to in the shorthand as “BEN”), was created by the National Science Digital Library (NSDL) in order to bring high- quality educational resources to science educators everywhere. The entire project is managed by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and the resources here total over 14,000, and they [...]
October 19, 2009 – 1:52 pm
nbsp;http://www.biomedcentral.com/gateways/st…
“Welcome to BioMed Central’s Stem Cells Gateway, highlighting the latest articles we have published in this field. Content is continually updated, so please bookmark this page and ensure you check it regularly.”
October 9, 2009 – 1:31 pm
nbsp;http://www.histpop.org/ohpr/servlet/
A collection of British Historical Population Reports
The Online Historical Population Reports (OHPR) collection provides online access to the complete British population reports for Britain and Ireland from 1801 to 1937.
The collection goes far beyond the basic population reports with a wealth of textual and statistical material which provide an in-depth view of the economy, [...]
October 9, 2009 – 12:55 pm
nbsp;http://www.squidoo.com/researchinformati…
What information is available without the need for paid subscription?
Google Scholar http://scholar.google.co.uk) leads to increasing numbers of articles and books – but many (most?) of the items retrieved can only be read on payment of a fee. (Tip – sometimes a revised search in the main version of Google, using the title of an article [...]
October 9, 2009 – 12:41 pm
nbsp;http://www.confusingwords.com/
Confusing Words is a collection of 3210 words that are troublesome to readers and writers. Words are grouped according to the way they are most often confused or misused.
Some of these words are homonyms (words that sound alike but are spelled differently) and some are just commonly confused.
source: IRN
October 9, 2009 – 12:08 pm
nbsp;http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/wwiposhtml/wwip…
During World War I, the impact of the poster as a means of communication was greater than at any other time during history. The ability of posters to inspire, inform, and persuade combined with vibrant design trends in many of the participating countries to produce thousands of interesting visual works. The Library of Congress [...]
October 9, 2009 – 7:18 am
nbsp;http://www.vangoghletters.org/vg/index.h…
While Vincent van Gogh has become almost as famed for his troubled mind as for his paintings, a new exhibition in the Van Gogh Museum seeks to remind us there was more method than madness to his style.
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Seeing the letters next to the paintings underlines Van Gogh’s professionalism, which is sometimes overlooked amid spectacular biographical [...]
October 8, 2009 – 12:30 pm
nbsp;http://www.corral.org.uk/
What are we doing?
CORRAL is an imaging and digitising project funded by JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) whose website can be found at http://www.jisc.ac.uk/. The project began on 1st October 2008 and is funded until 30th September 2009 during this time its principal objective is to image ship’s logbooks of particular historic and scientific value, and [...]
October 6, 2009 – 7:54 am
nbsp;http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) has some tremendous online resources, and the recent addition of the Holocaust Encyclopedia continues in this tradition. The interactive Encyclopedia includes hundreds of articles that cover topics like the Third Reich, refugees, ghettos, and the liberation of Nazi camps. Each entry contains hypertext links to other entries and [...]
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