Web Sites by Subject Reference

GENERAL REFERENCE

(Encyclopedia Britannica online. Also provides best Web sites and other features.)
(Over 100 online encyclopedias, dictionaries, and thesauri with facts, definitions, biographies, synonyms, pronunciation keys, word origins, and abbreviations.)
(Tips on how to bypass the automated phone systems to talk to a human)
Global Resources at NJCU Library (Books purchased under the World Languages and Cultures in Urban Education UISFL Title VI Grants.)
(Their different almanacs, including sports, entertainment along with Columbia Encyclopedia, and an Atlas)
(Merged from the Internet Public Library and the Librarians' Internet Index, the site is hosted by Drexel University, and maintained by a consortium of colleges and universities with programs in information science.)
(Webster Dictionary and Webster Thesaurus)
(My Virtual Reference Desk)
(Columbia University Libraries' subject guide to web versions of many US Government Publications, mostly statistical in nature.)
(CIA publications)

BIOGRAPHY

(Published by National Academy of Sciences)
(Plethora of free online biographical sources. Library of Congress)
(Sponsored by the Biography program that airs on A&E.)
(Collection of 631 detailed biographies on members of the scientific community during the 16th and 17th centuries)
(by National Library of Medicine)

BOOKS

(Extensive online directory of the publishing industry)
: an union catalog of electronic books, texts & documents
(A huge collection of free online computer, mathematics, engineering, and technical books, lecture notes and tutorials)
(historical monographs published by Columbia University Press in collaboration with the American Historical Association)
(tens of thousands of downloadable books available from a variety of sources)
(English Language Versions of Ancient Greek and Latin Authors)
(Publisher for the National Academies, over 1800 books in various subjects available free online)
( Over 800,000 free books on the web. Hosted by the University of Pennsylvania Libraries.)
(Free downloadable texts from hundreds of authors from ancient times to early 20th century.)
(Hundreds of monographs on diverse topics)
(Formerly eScholarship Editions)
(Million Book Collection - full text books in a variety of languages)
(Online texts of 3000 volumes.)

CAREER INFORMATION

COUNTRIES AND CULTURES

FINANCIAL AID

IMMIGRATION

(Information on 22 million immigrants who arrived at Ellis Island between 1898 and 1924)

LIBRARIES

(Merged from the Internet Public Library and the Librarians' Internet Index, the site is hosted by Drexel University, and maintained by a consortium of colleges and universities with programs in information science.)
(Find a local library in U.S.)

MAPS

(Cartography of the Americas from the 18th and 19th centuries, and also maps of the World, Asia, Africa, Europe, and Oceania)
(Rutgers University)
(UT Library)
(Library of Congress)
(UT Library)

MOVIES TELEVISION AND THEATER

(Internet Broadway Database: Provides updated Broadway theatre information and records of productions from the beginnings of New York theatre)
(Internet Movie Database. A comprehensive site listing over 150,000 movies, complete film credits, and, for current films, movie reviews.)
(Provides additional information on specials/ programs list extensive and excellent electronic resources)

NEWSPAPERS

(Sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress, it allows to search and read newspaper from 1900-1910 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present)
(Current issue of NY Times plus over 50,000 book reviews)
(Philadelphia Inquirer online. Coverage of South Jersey as well as New Jersey Statistics)
(Current issue plus ability to freely search paper's archives dating back to 1987)

PERIODICALS

(Access to free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals)
(Free full text articles from dozens of popular and scholarly journals)
(University of Louisville Libraries' site)
(Directory to sites containing hundreds of thousands of full text articles in the life sciences from scholarly, prestigious journals)
(Keyword searching of over 17,000 English language periodicals in a wide variety of disciplines)
(Over a million of free biomedical articles)

SPORTS

STATISTICS

(Statistical Abstract of the United States)
(Published by the UN Statistics Division, it provides statistics on population size and composition, births, deaths, marriage and divorce as well as a wide range of additional topics including economic activity, educational attainment, household characteristics, housing, ethnicity and language, among others.)
(A great deal of statistical information of the European Union)
(Over 70 federal sites that produce statistics can be accessed here)
(UN report regarding population in countries throughout the world)
(US Census Bureau)
(Published by the UN, it offers a good reference to the development of the Asian and Pacific region over the past 15 years)
(published by U.S. Department of Homeland Security)

WEB SEARCH ENGINES

(Google Scholar searches peer-reviewed papers, dissertations, citations, abstracts and reports from a variety of scholarly sources provided by academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and open access publishers. Searching Google Scholar from Guarini Library homepage, full text resources that are available from NJCU Library-subscribed databases or electronic journals will be automatically accessible. Gothic ID needed for off-campus access to Library-subscribed full text resources.

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Last updated: 11/3/2023