Best Internet Info: Subjects Areas & Archives

Arts & Letters Daily began in 1998 in the belief that the internet could be a vehicle for meaningful intellectual exchange. We’ve since linked to more than 17,000 articles, book reviews, and essays, an archive that adds up to a thinking person’s guide to the world of art and ideas.

This online archive seeks to stimulate cultural equity through preservation, research, and dissemination of the world's traditional music and dance, and to reconnect people and communities with their creative heritage.

Digital Bodleian is an effort to make portions of the Bodleian's extraordinary library collections open to a wide variety of users from around the world for learning, teaching, and research.

The LOC is the largest library in the world, with millions of books, recordings, photographs, newspapers, maps and manuscripts in its collections.

Created by the College of Education at the University of Houston, this site includes a U.S. history textbook; over 400 annotated documents, supplemented by primary sources, succinct essays, multmedia exhibitions, reference resources, an audio archive, and a visual archive.

Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.

This site features links to online exhibitions that have been created by libraries, archives, and historical societies, as well as to museum online exhibitions with a significant focus on library and archival materials. The scope is international and multi-lingual.

The Access to Archival Databases (AAD) resource provides online access to records in a small selection of historic databases preserved permanently in the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).

PDL maintains a searchable digital library with a particular focus on the history, literature and culture of the Greco-Roman world.

The WDL makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from all countries and cultures.

A digital collection of texts, maps, and images concerning the history of greater Cleveland and the Western Reserve region of northeastern Ohio.

A freely searchable online collection of digital photos, texts, oral histories, videos and other local history resources.

The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History represents the contributions of hundreds of academic scholars and talented amateur historians to the interpretation and understanding of the history of Greater Cleveland.

In this online portal, you will find some of the Lake County Historical Society's most requested archival pieces, including photos and genealogical records.

Ohio History Central is an evolving, dynamic online encyclopedia that includes information about Ohio's natural history, prehistory, and history.

Explore digital content from over 390 cultural heritage institutions representing all 88 of Ohio’s counties covering a wide range of topics from prehistory to present day.

Links to relevant Ohio archival websites.

CDC is the nation’s leading science-based, data-driven, service organization that protects the public’s health.

The mission of the NIDCR is to advance fundamental knowledge about dental, oral, and craniofacial (DOC) health and disease and translate these findings into prevention, early detection, and treatment strategies that improve overall health for all individuals and communities across the lifespan.

NIH’s mission is to seek fundamental knowledge about the nature and behavior of living systems and the application of that knowledge to enhance health, lengthen life, and reduce illness and disability.

NLM maintains and makes available a vast print collection and produces electronic information resources on a wide range of topics.... It also supports and conducts research, development, and training in biomedical informatics and health information technology.

PubMed Central® (PMC) is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM).

govinfo provides free public access to official publications from all three branches of the Federal Government, including Budgets of the U.S. Government, Congressional Documents, and Economic Indicators.

Public Agenda--a national, nonpartisan, nonprofit research and public engagement organization--provides research reports on education, health care, and other issues in order to strengthen democracy and expand opportunity for all Americans.

ChemSpider is a free chemical structure database providing fast access to over 67 million structures, properties, and associated information.

NSDL provides high quality online educational resources for teaching and learning, with current emphasis on the sciences, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines.

Science.gov searches over 60 databases and over 2,200 scientific websites to provide users with access to more than 200 million pages of authoritative federal science information including research and development results.

The Western Soundscape Archive offers thousands of recordings of Western animal species and their environments. Search by name or keyword, or browse all sounds currently available.

Database of and index to 5000+ full text, audio and video versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews, other recorded media events, and a declaration or two.