DataPlace

DataPlace

Demographic data -- HSM

DataPlace provides easy access to data at geographic scales ranging from the neighborhood to the nation. The site currently contains data from the 1990 and 2000 Censuses (demographic, economic, housing, and social characteristics), Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (home mortgage applications and loans), Section 8 Expiring Use database (neighborhood- and property-level data on federally assisted housing at risk of loss), and Consolidated Plan special tabulations (data on housing needs by household income level). DataPlace's data library will expand in the coming months to include information on topics such as business establishments from the Census Bureau's ZIP Business Patterns database and Low-Income Housing Tax Credit developments from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Maps
DataPlace provides a powerful yet simple mapping tool that allows you to produce colorful thematic maps with just a few clicks of the mouse. You can customize a map's appearance by selecting different color schemes or interval ranges for your themes and save the results to a PDF file. Future enhancements to the mapping tool will allow you to define your own market area by selecting groups of census tracts, counties, or states and upload your own data for mapping in conjunction with data already provided on DataPlace.

DataPlace

Free Online Course Materials | MIT OpenCourseWare

Free Online Course

MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity.

What is MIT OpenCourseWare?
MIT OpenCourseWare is a free publication of MIT course materials that reflects almost all the undergraduate and graduate subjects taught at MIT.

• OCW is not an MIT education.
• OCW does not grant degrees or certificates.
• OCW does not provide access to MIT faculty.
• Materials may not reflect entire content of the course.

Materials | MIT OpenCourseWare

Foundation Center - Knowledge to Build On

 Foundation Center - Knowledge to Build On

The Foundation Center's mission is to strengthen the nonprofit sector by advancing knowledge about U.S. philanthropy.

Established in 1956, and today supported by more than 600 foundations, the Foundation Center is the nation's leading authority on philanthropy, connecting nonprofits and the grantmakers supporting them to tools they can use and information they can trust. The Center maintains the most comprehensive database on U.S. grantmakers and their grants — a robust, accessible knowledge bank for the sector. It also operates research, education, and training programs designed to advance philanthropy at every level. The Center's web site receives more than 47,000 visits each day, and thousands of people gain access to free resources in its five regional library/learning centers and its national network of more than 340 Cooperating Collections

Foundation Center - Knowledge to Build On

American Women's History: A Research Guide

 American Women's History: A Research Guide

American Women's History: A Research Guide

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Focus on: Ellis Island Photographs, 1902-1913
I. Subject Index to Research Sources
II. State Index to Research Sources
III. Research Tools: Finding Primary Sources
IV. Research Tools: Finding Secondary Sources
Shortcuts to Popular Sources:
- Digital Collections of Primary Sources: Subject Index
- Digital Collections of Primary Sources: State Index
See Also:
- American Women Through Time (timeline with 800+ links)
- American Women's Letters and Diaries: A Bibliography

American Women's History: A Research Guide

Public.Resource.Org

 Public.Resource.Org

Welcome to Public.Resource.Org!

“Making Government Information More Accessible”

Public.Resource.Org

Newser - Current News - Breaking Stories | Newser: Know More. Search Less.

Newser - Current News - Breaking Stories | Newser: Know More. Search Less.

Newser gives you more news in less time. We search for the best and most important stories all over the web, read them for you, and deliver concise and sharp summaries—along with links to the full text. Newser provides a way to stay on top of an ever-expanding horizon of news and opinion—politics, sports, business, trends, technology, personalities, crimes, and controversies. Newser keeps you not just better informed, but, with our signature graphic interface and smart condensed format, more enjoyably informed.

Newser - Current News - Breaking Stories | Newser: Know More. Search Less.

InfoLit Global

InfoLit Global 

The Information Literacy Section of the International Federation of Library Association and Institutions (IFLA) has created this database to record information literacy materials from different parts of the world, on behalf of UNESCO.
Librarians, educators and information professionals are invited to participate. If you have developed information literacy materials and would like to share them with the world community, please submit the required data.

InfoLit Global

Consumer Reports WebWatch: The leader in investigative reporting on credibility and trust online

Consumer Reports WebWatch: The leader in investigative reporting on credibility and trust online

Consumer Reports WebWatch is the Internet integrity division of Consumers Union, the non-profit publisher of Consumer Reports Magazine, ConsumerReports.org, the Consumer Reports on Health and Money Adviser newsletters, BestBuyDrugs.org, and a variety of sites advocating consumer rights in the marketplace.

We assist Consumer Reports' editorial division in evaluating the credibility of Web sites, we investigate and research Web sites on behalf of consumers, and we advocate for consumer-focused Internet policy and governance. Consumer Reports WebWatch accepts no advertising or outside funding, other than from non-profit foundations.

Through research, the promotion of guidelines for best practices and other means, we seek to improve the credibility of content on the World Wide Web. Through research and analysis, we have developed guidelines for specific sectors of the Web. These sectors have included travel Web sites, search engines, auto insurance sites, and health sites.

Consumer Reports WebWatch: The leader in investigative reporting on credibility and trust online

Green Your Home Through Low Impact Living – www.lowimpactliving.com

Green Your Home Through Low Impact Living – www.lowimpactliving.com 

Low Impact Living, is designed to lower the environmental impact of your home and your daily life. To do that, we help you find the best green products, practices and service providers to help you achieve your environmental goals. And we will also help you understand the environmental benefits and economic trade-offs of your choices. In short, we want to be your One Stop Green Shop™.

Green Your Home Through Low Impact Living – www.lowimpactliving.com

World's biggest Open Access English Language Journals Portal - OPEN J-Gate

World's biggest Open Access English Language Journals Portal - OPEN J-Gate

What is Open J-Gate?

Open J-Gate is an electronic gateway to global journal literature in open access domain. Launched in 2006, Open J-Gate is the contribution of Informatics (India) Ltd to promote OAI. Open J-Gate provides seamless access to millions of journal articles available online. Open J-Gate is also a database of journal literature, indexed from 3000+ open access journals, with links to full text at Publisher sites.

World's biggest Open Access English Language Journals Portal - OPEN J-Gate

Welcome to Citizendium - encyclopedia article - Citizendium

Welcome to Citizendium - encyclopedia article - Citizendium

"What is the point of the Citizendium," you might ask, "when Wikipedia is so huge and of reasonably good quality? Is there really a need for it?"

There is a better way for humanity to come together to make an encyclopedia.

To put it forcefully: there is a better way for humanity to come together to make an encyclopedia. So we make this appeal to you. If we can do better than Wikipedia—or more positively, if we can pioneer a truly effective way to gather knowledge—then shouldn't we?

In response to this, a critic might argue: but you can't do better than Wikipedia. It has millions of articles, it is ranked #8 in traffic, it has thousands of very active contributors, and Nature did a report saying the accuracy of its science articles was not far below that of Encyclopedia Britannica. As the saying goes, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."

But to make our case, we don't have to say that Wikipedia is broken. While different Citizens have different views about Wikipedia's merits, we agree on one thing: we, humanity, can do better. But why think that the Citizendium, in particular, can do better?

Welcome to Citizendium - encyclopedia article - Citizendium

The Wellcome Library

The Wellcome Library 

Collections of books, manuscripts, archives, films and pictures on the history of medicine from the earliest times to the present day.

The Wellcome Library

Artcyclopedia

 

Artcyclopedia

About the Artcyclopedia

Our mission is to become the definitive and most effective guide to museum-quality fine art on the Internet:

• definitive: We have compiled a comprehensive index of every artist represented at hundreds of museum sites, image archives, and other online resources. We have started out by covering the biggest and best sites around, and have links for most well-known artists to keep you surfing for hours. Update January/2006: We have now indexed over 2,300 art sites, and offer over 95,000 links to an estimated 180,000 artworks by 8,200 renowned artists.
• most effective: The Artcyclopedia's custom search engine is already the fastest way to search the Net for information about fine artists. Period.
• museum-quality: There are scads of artists with home pages on the Web, many of whom are extremely talented. But we can't list every site, and we really don't want to set ourselves up as arbiters of who produces "quality" art and who doesn't - making such a judgment is impossible over the Internet in any case. We feel that fairest approach is to rely on the worldwide network of museum professionals to make that call. So our general policy is, if an artist is in an arts museum collection, then he or she is qualified to be listed in our database. See our Information for Artists page for more specific information.

What is and is not in the Artcyclopedia's database?
We only provide references to sites on the World Wide Web where artists' works can be viewed online. For calendars of real-world museum exhibits, try a resource such as Gallery Guide Online, or Traditional Fine Arts Online, or the Art Museum Network's ExCalendar, all of which seem to do an excellent job.
The vast majority of the fine artists in our database specialize in painting and sculpture.  Note that we are primarily oriented to searching by artist name, although we intend to add more and more access by artistic movement, nation, timeline and medium. At the moment we do not have entries for artworks by unknown artists. This includes works with such attributions as "follower of", "workshop of", or "school of" given artists. We do have entries for certain notable individual artists whose names have been lost (for example, the Master of the Saint Bartholomew Altarpiece).

About the Artcyclopedia

Wiktionary:Main Page - Wiktionary

Wiktionary:Main Page - Wiktionary 

Welcome to the English language Wiktionary, a collaborative project to produce a free-content multilingual dictionary.

Designed as the lexical companion to Wikipedia, the encyclopaedia project, Wiktionary has grown beyond a standard dictionary and now includes a thesaurus, a rhyme guide, phrase books, language statistics and extensive appendices. We aim to include not only the definition of a word, but also enough information to really understand it. Thus etymologies, pronunciations, sample quotations, synonyms, antonyms and translations are included.

Wiktionary is a wiki, which means that you can edit it, and all the content is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. Before you contribute, you may wish to read through some of our Help pages, and bear in mind that we do things quite differently from other wikis. In particular we have strict layout conventions and inclusion criteria. Learn how to start a page, how to edit entries, experiment in the sandbox and visit our Community Portal to see how you can participate in the development of Wiktionary.

Wiktionary:Main Page - Wiktionary

Online Searchable Death Indexes, Records & Obituaries

Online Searchable Death Indexes, Records & Obituaries 

Online Searchable Death Indexes & Records

A Genealogy Guide

This website is a directory of online death indexes listed by state and county. Included are death records, death certificate indexes, death notices & registers, obituaries, probate indexes, and cemetery & burial records. You can also find information here about searching the Social Security Death Index online.

Online Searchable Death Indexes, Records & Obituaries

NDLTD: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations — NDLTD

 

The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) is an international organization dedicated to promoting the adoption, creation, use, dissemination and preservation of electronic analogues to the traditional paper-based theses and dissertations.

This website contains information about the initiative, how to set up Electronic Thesis and Dissertation (ETD) programmes, how to create and locate ETDs, and current research in digital libraries related to NDLTD and ETDs.

NDLTD: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations — NDLTD

Sources And Methods: SAM Goes Back To School, Part 2: Top Firefox Add-Ons For Intel Studies Students

2 tools to look at once I upgrade to ff3 -- hsm

Morning Coffee. This add-on allows you to bring up a whole menu of websites with a single click. It is particularly useful if you are working on a project and want to monitor a number of sites routinely and simultaneously.

Ubiquity. I almost put this one first. It is one of the most advanced tools I have seen for Firefox. My only hesitation is that it is in extreme Alpha status right now (but getting better quickly!) and it requires Firefox 3. What does it do? Just about everything. Check out the video below

 

Sources And Methods: SAM Goes Back To School, Part 2: Top Firefox Add-Ons For Intel Studies Students