User:Christine Bush/ResearchTools

Academic
The Chronicle of Higher Education

WorldCat

WorldCat Lists

Emergent Academic Resources

 * Open Syllabus Project (API access only)

Archives
Ancestry.com

Internet Archive

British Library

Folger Shakespeare Library Digital Image Collection (75,000 images/CC licensing)

Gallica (National Library of France cartographic collections)

Genealogy Bank

History Is A Weapon (Useful for researching historical sources, but the site itself is not rigorously edited enough to be used as a source itself.)

Library of Congress

Prelinger Archives (over 60,000 "ephemeral" films)

Prelinger Library

Project Gutenberg

WikiLeaks

Booksellers

 * Advanced Book Exchange


 * Folio Society


 * History Book Club


 * Powell's Books (Portland, OR)

Book Reviews

 * GoodReads.com Non-Fiction list (2013)


 * New York Review of Books


 * New York Times Books section

Broadcast Sources
Aljazeera America

Associated Press

British Broadcasting Service

Democracy Now!

National Public Radio

Reuters

Archives and Indexes

 * DeepDyve (great for independents without access to university library) $


 * Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)


 * Wiley Online Library $$$


 * ProjectMuse (access limited to federated institutions)


 * Questia $


 * Taylor and Francis $$


 * Taylor and Francis Open Access

Distinguished

 * Harvard Law Review


 * Nature (International Journal)


 * New England Journal of Medicine $$

Topical

 * Botany


 * Fremontia (California Native Plant Society)


 * Botanical Studies (OpenAccess Journal)


 * American Journal of Botany


 * New Phytologist


 * Geography


 * The California Geographer


 * Mapping The World (T&amp;F/Free Access)


 * Science (General)


 * Frontiers


 * Public Library of Science


 * Physics Today


 * Science


 * Scientific American


 * Technology


 * 2600-The Hacker Quarterly


 * Communications of the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

Magazines
ArcNews (Geospatial IT industry news from ESRI, Inc.)

The Atlantic

The Economist

National Geographic Society

The New Yorker

Smithsonian

WIRED

Archives and Indexes

 * ProQuest Historical Newspapers


 * Newspaper Archive ("World's Largest Collection")


 * World-Newspapers.com

Daily

 * Financial Times


 * The Guardian (UK, US, AUS editions available)


 * International Herald Tribune


 * New York Times


 * The Telegraph


 * The Times


 * Wall Street Journal


 * Washington Post

Other Encyclopedia
Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclo.co.uk (Sources)

Grove Music Online (the authoritative musicological resource; available through some libraries) $$$

New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture (print only)

Scholarpedia

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

WorldBook

Reference
Oxford English Dictionary $$ (free access available to OED Online via some local libraries)

Research Sources and Tools
N.B. This list is an ongoing, freely shared, work in progress.

Software
Evernote

Google Ngram Viewer

Google Scholar

Unrecoverable and As-Yet-Unrealized Sources
''...But new materials are continually being scanned, and the same methods that build a compelling historical argument one year may undo the argument the next because of new fodder for the keyword searches. In some cases, the answers to historians’ questions may lie forever out of reach, because they were printed in very minor publications that will never be captured by Google or ProQuest; or printed in sources now lost, like the newspapers in the British Museum destroyed by a German bomb in World War II; or discussed orally without ever being printed anywhere; or printed and digitized but expressed in discourse whose semantics cannot be matched by Boolean searching of words and phrases.''

Fred R. Shapiro, Yale Law School

"Who Wrote The Serenity Prayer?"

The Chronicle Review (May 2, 2014)

Recommended Reading for Citizens of the Compendium
The Uses of Being Wrong by Daniel W. Drezner

Ignorance: How It Drives Science by Stuart Firestein