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| DLESE Digital Library for Earth System Education |
Supported by the National Science Foundation, the Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE) is a distributed community effort involving educators, students and scientists working together to improve the quality, quantity and efficiency of teaching and learning about the Earth system at all levels. Educational resources are located by grade level, resource type, collections and standards.
http://www.dlese.org/library/
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| DMOZ Open Directory Project |
The Open Directory Project is the largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web. It is constructed and maintained by a vast, global community of volunteer editors. The Open Directory powers the core directory services for the Web's largest and most popular search engines and portals, including Netscape Search, AOL Search, Google, Lycos, HotBot, DirectHit, and hundreds of others. Note the references here to distance learning, online courses, online teaching and learning, and more.
http://www.dmoz.org/
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| Education & Information Technology Library |
The EdITLib Digital Library is your source for peer-reviewed and published articles and papers on the latest research, developments and applications related to all aspects of Educational Technology and E-Learning.
http://www.editlib.org/?CFID=35794909&CFTOKEN=30134861
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| Exploratorium Digital Library |
SMETE (listed below) recently collaborated with the Exploratorium in San Francisco, CA to create the "Exploratorium Digital Library." The goal of the project is to provide access to high-quality teaching resources and learning activities that reflect the museum’s foundation of playful, exhibit-based inquiry in science, art and human perception.
http://www.exploratorium.edu/educate/dl.html
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| Florida —Educational Technology Clearinghouse |
Digital resources for Florida's schools. Arranged by subject areas, types of resources and a reference desk.
http://etc.usf.edu/index.html
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| Florida —PALMM |
Publication of Archival, Library & Museum Materials (PALMM) is a cooperative initiative of the public universities of Florida to provide digital access to important source materials for research and scholarship.
http://palmm.fcla.edu/
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| GALILEO (Georgia Library Learning Online) |
GALILEO, an acronym for Georgia Library Learning Online, is an initiative of the University System of Georgia and serves as the state's virtual library. GALILEO provides access to multiple information resources, including secured access to licensed products. Public library users can access many of GALILEO's resources at home through remote password access. Some resources are free. Log in as a guest and find links to nearly 100 online resources.
http://www.georgialibraries.org/galileo/
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| Georgia —Digital Library of Georgia |
The Digital Library of Georgia is a gateway to Georgia's history and culture, found in digitized books, manuscripts, photographs, government documents, newspapers, maps, audio, video and other resources. The Digital Library of Georgia connects users to 500,000 digital objects in 105 collections from 60 institutions and 100 government agencies.
http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/?Welcome
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| Kids Web — Digital Library for K-12 |
The goal of Kid's Web is to present students with a subset of the Web that is very simple to navigate and contains information targeted at the K-12 level. Each subject section contains a list of links to information that is understandable and interesting to school kids.Updated weekly, it focuses on math, science and social studies.
http://www.npac.syr.edu/textbook/kidsweb/
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| Internet Archive |
The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that was founded to build an Internet library, with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format. Browse through 85 billion Web pages archived from 1996 to a few months ago.
http://www.archive.org/web/web.php
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| Library of Congress |
The Library of Congress is the nation's oldest federal cultural institution and serves as the research arm of Congress. It is also the largest library in the world, with millions of books, recordings, photographs, maps and manuscripts in its collections. Find more than 10 million primary sources, interesting topics and links for teachers and kids and families here.
http://www.loc.gov/index.html
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| Library of Congress — American Memory |
American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps and sheet music that document the American experience. It is a digital record of American history and creativity. American Memory is a gateway to the Library of Congress’ vast resources of digitized American historical materials. Comprising more than 9 million items that document U.S. history and culture, American Memory is organized into more than 100 thematic collections based on their original format, their subject matter, or who first created, assembled or donated them to the Library. Browse collections by topic here.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
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| Lbrary of Congress — Science Reference Services |
The Science, Technology and Business Division’s primary responsibilities are to provide reference and bibliographic services and to develop collections in all areas of science and technology (with the exception of clinical medicine and technical agriculture). Access to numerous resources is available; see the A-Z Index. It includes a researcher’s library and resources for Students and Teachers.
http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/
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| MathDL |
The Mathematical Association of America’s Mathematical Sciences Digital Library (MathDL) is a component of the National Science Digital Library (NSDL). The Digital Classroom Resources (DCR) provide a select collection of free online learning materials that are available through the site. These materials have been classroom tested and peer reviewed. Open Source Sharable Applets (OSSLETS) are contained in the Digital Classroom Resources.
http://mathdl.maa.org/
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| Michigan eLibrary |
Databases, etc., are provided to residents of Michigan, but this site provides extensive free resources and is therefore worthy of inclusion here.As a starter, click on Best of the Web Pathfinders and explore Educator Resources.
http://www.mel.org/SPT--BrowseResourcesNewMeL.php
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| National History Education Clearinghouse |
Funded by the U.S. Department of Education, the National History Education Clearinghouse (NHEC) is designed to help K-12 history teachers access resources and materials to improve U.S. history education in the classroom. The Center for History and New Media (CHNM) and the Stanford University History Education Group have created the Clearinghouse with the goal of placing history content, teaching strategies, current research and issues, community building, and easy access to resources at center stage.
http://teachinghistory.org/
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| National Science Digital Library |
The National Science Digital Library (NSDL) was created by the National Science Foundation to provide organized access to high-quality resources and tools that support innovations in teaching and learning at all levels of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education.
The site Resources for K-12 Teachers features resources and information organized especially to fit the interests of teachers, media specialists and others working with K-12 students. Of particular interest in the NSDL Pathways is the Middle School Portal. MathDL (featured above) is a component of NSDL.
http://nsdl.org/
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| Ohio State University — Digital Library Projects |
Eight projects featured in the NSDL Middle School Portal are managed by Ohio State University. These include the NSDL Middle School Portal, content from NSTA (National Science Teachers Association), Federal Education Resources Digital Library, Gender and Science Digital Library, Innovate Curriculum Online Network (ICON), Ethnomatics Digital Library, The Learning Matrix, and the Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Mathematics and Science Education. A description and link to all the projects are located here.
http://msteacher.org/projects.aspx
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| Open Content Alliance |
The Open Content Alliance (OCA) represents the collaborative efforts of a group of cultural, technology, nonprofit and governmental organizations from around the world that will help build a permanent archive of multilingual digitized text and multimedia content. The OCA was conceived by the Internet Archive and Yahoo! in early 2005 as a way to offer broad public access to a rich panorama of world culture. The OCA archive will contain globally sourced digital collections, including multimedia content, representing the creative output of humankind.
http://www.opencontentalliance.org/index.html
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| Perseus Digital Library |
Perseus is an evolving digital library, engineering interactions through time, space and language. It is provided by Tufts University.
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/
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| SMETE Digital Library |
A collection of collections for students and teachers, the SMETE Digital Library is an online library and portal of services provided by the SMETE Open Federation for teachers and students. Access a wealth of teaching and learning materials as well as join this expanding community of science, math, engineering and technology explorers of all ages.
http://www.smete.org/smete/
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| Virtual Learning Resources |
The mission of the Virtual Learning Resources Center is to index thousands of the best academic information Web sites, selected by teachers and library professionals worldwide, in order to provide to students and teachers with current, valid information for school and university academic projects. The VLRC includes selected sites in a growing list of subject/information areas including: full-text magazines, newspapers, electronic text archives, art history, biography, biology, career information, psychology, history, government information, literature, medical information, social sciences, legal information and more.
http://www.virtuallrc.com/index.shtml
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