Educational Information Sources Online

The Library of Congress THOMAS Site has a number of useful links for classroom activities and lessons related to government.

The ENC Online is a portal for resources for math and science teachers. You can browse weblinks, curriculum resources, and professional development topics.

The Development Gateway is a site that offers access to educational resources. Here's a snippet from the site:

Over the past decade as learning content has cascaded into the Internet, for many, many subjects one website about it has become truly superb. This is a trend caused by an open network: users tend to flock to the best website for a topic and similar web pages that are less appealing tend to fade. An advantage to this effect is that students around the world are more and more tending quite literally to learn from the same page.

The really excellent websites for focused topics are not too surprising, because one or just a few experts in a field can fairly easily keep up with a limited subject. Small subject examples that are favorites of mine are Theban Mapping Project, Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum, and Avian Brains. The first is a magnificently illustrated ongoing description of the exploration of ancient Egyptian tombs. The second is a gorgeous online interface to great Dutch art.

Connexions is a rapidly growing collection of free scholarly materials and a powerful set of free software tools to help

• authors publish and collaborate
• instructors rapidly build and share custom courses
• learners explore the links among concepts, courses, and disciplines.

Our Content Commons contains small "knowledge chunks" we call modules that connect into courses. Thanks to a Creative Commons open license, anyone can take our materials, adapt them to meet their needs, and contribute them back to the Commons. And everyone is invited to participate!

First Gov For Science is a well laid out portal for all things government and science-related. This is your place to start.

I have a thing for portals and dictionaries and databases. Of course, I'm a librarian. Cornell Law School has a free law dictionary site just for you :)

The Open Access Toolbar allows users to find scholarly information that is free on the Internet. Some of the features include:

This information retrieval resource from University of Michigan  allows you to search  collections of freely available, academically-oriented web resources, including online books, full-text journal articles, images, and audiovisual files. Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. Currently 461 journals are searchable at article level. FindArticles:  FindArticles includes magazine and journal articles from more than 900 publications, dating from 1998 through to the present. Many of the millions of articles in FindArticles can be read in their entirety and printed at no cost.

CARLI is the Consortium of Research Libraries in Illinois and this site has a number of flash tutorials on how to conduct searches in their databases. Interesting if you're in charge of designing this type of thing for your patrons and students.

The Informed Librarian Online is a "monthly compilation of the most recent tables of contents from over 305 titles - valuable domestic and foreign library and information-related journals, e-journals, magazines, e-magazines, newsletters and e-newsletters. View the list in subject collections."

Just what the name says: a blog about multicultural issues in libraries.