General Education Websites

Directory of Open Access Journals

Free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals, covering all subjects and many languages

HippoCampus

Free educational resources on a variety of subjects, in a variety of formats

infoUSA

Information about American society, political processes, official U.S. policies and culture

Internet Public Library Resources by Subject

"Information you can trust" on a variety of subjects

Khan Academy

Online video library covering primarily math and science, but also many other topics

ProCon.org

Pros and Cons of Controversial Issues from an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization

Language and Literature

IPL Online Literary Criticism Guide

Starting place for finding some of the best online critical writing

IPL Literary Criticism Site

Critical and biographical websites about authors and their works

Library Spot

Portal with links to literary criticism resources

Project Gutenberg Digital Library

Over 39,000 free eBooks to read on PC, IPad, Kindle, Android and other portable devices

Math

Phoenix College Math Videos

Over 2,500 free math tutorials on topics from basic arithmetic to calculus III and beyond, hosted on YouTube.

Nursing and Health

NLM Gateway

National Library of Medicine information portal

PMC (PubMed Central)

 Free full-text archive of biomedical & life sciences journal

WebMd

Consumer health information

Primary Sources for History

Library of Congress American Memory

Broad collection of documents, images, film and ephemera covering all aspects of American history

Library of Congress Chronicling America

Digital collection of American newspapers from 1836 to 1922 with a directory to information about American newspapers 1690-present

Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room

Manuscripts from over 30 collections reflecting a broad range of American history

Library of Congress Veterans History Project

Personal histories of veterans of America’s wars from World War I to the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars

History Matters: Many Pasts – George Mason University

Contains primary documents in text, image, and audio about the experiences of ordinary Americans throughout U.S. history

Biblion – New York Public Library

Official corporate records of the 1939–40 New York World's Fair, from technological innovation and classical music, to pop culture

World History Matters - Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media

Portal to world history websites with access to primary sources

Internet Archive

Digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form

The Avalon Project

Historical documents dating from ancient times to the 21st century

UT-Austin's Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection

General interest and thematic maps of the world, both present-day and historical

Legal Information Institute

"A not-for-profit group that believes everyone should be able to read and understand the laws that govern them, without cost"