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Academic Info
- directory of Internet resources tailored to a college audience.
Argus
Clearinghouse: a selective collection of
internet subject guides
Digital Librarian
- a librarian's choice of the best of the Web
Find it Virginia
- With
your Virginia Public Library Card, you can research any topic
Google Scholar
INFOMINE: Scholarly Internet Resource
Collections
Internet Public Library Reference Center
Librarian's Index to the Internet
Libraryspot
LookSmart
Refdesk.com
Scout
Report:
Search a database of the best Internet resources
Snap
Virtual Reference Shelf
WWW Virtual Library:
the oldest catalog of the web
xrefer - great search engine
Yahoo
General Search Engines
Top
Ask.com
Go
(used to be Infoseek)
Google
Bing
Open Text Index
Newsgroup Engines
Top
Alta Vista News
Yahoo! News
FindNews
HeadlineSpot
Moreover
Yahoo News
Ananova
Today's
Front Pages - Online graphic reproductions of front
pages from dozens of newspapers around the world. Most
of the 50 states are represented. Pages are presented
in original language only and are posted daily by 9:30
a.m., Eastern Time.
Pandia
Newsfinder
IMAGES:
AllTheWeb
AltaVista Photo Finder:
search for photos or artwork on the Web
AMICO: Art Museum Image Consortium
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A
huge catalog of thumbnail images of over 100,000 digitized works of art, text,
and multimedia provided by a consortium of over 35 art museums around the world.
ARTstor
(TIP: you may need to press the Control key while you click on
an image for images to appear)
Corbis: Search
a database of over 1 million photographs. They DO
charge, so you might want to use this only as a last resort.
Ditto.com:
the web's leading visual search engine.
Fine Arts Museums of San
Francisco Art Imagebase: Search 15,000 artists in more than 60,000 works
Google Image
Search the most comprehensive on the Web,
with more than 1 trillion, 187 billion, 63 million images!
Ithaki
Ixquick
New York Public Library Picture
Collection
- 30,000 images organized into more than 24 subjects, with
photos, illustrations, and postcards that have been clipped from books,
newspapers, and magazines dating back to the 1700s through roughly 1925.
NYPL
Digital Gallery - provides access to over 275,000 images digitized from
primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public
Library, including
illuminated manuscripts,
historical maps,
vintage posters,
rare prints and
photographs,
illustrated books,
printed ephemera, and more.
Picsearch
Picture
Collection Online - From the New York Public
Library, this is a "collection of 30,000 digitized,
public domain images from books, magazines and
newspapers as well as original photographs, prints and
postcards, mostly created before 1923.
Prints
and Photographs Online Catalog
- from the Library of Congress
Yahoo Image Surfer:
search by keyword or browse by subject
AUDIO:
National Sound Archive
- 2.5 million commercial and non-commercial
recordings held at the British Library. Music, oral history, wildlife
sounds, drama and literature.
Radio
Pandia Radio Search
Listen to the World
Live Internet Tuner
Public Radio Fan
Music
Buymusic
Emusic
iTunes
MusicMatch
Mp3MusicLive
- for a fee
Roxio
Speeches
AmericanRhetoric.com
- repository
of audio and text of 200 speeches and an index of over 5,000 more.
Includes movies.
Great American
Speeches/Words that Men Live By
History Channel:
Speeches
Online Speech Bank
Voices from the
Archives/BBC
VIDEO:
ABC News.com: NewsClips
CNN.com Video
Internet Archives
MSNBC Live Video
Online Newshour Video Search/PBS
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Last Update: 8/18/09