Research Guides by Subject
Business
- Best of the Best Business Web Sites
Business Web sites selected by the Reference and User Services Association of the American Library Association.
- @brint.com
"The Premier New Economy Business Technology Portal."
- Bureau of Labor Statistics
A wealth of information in the broad field of labor economics and statistics.
- Business.com
"The leading business search engine and business directory designed to help its users find the companies, products, services, and information they need to make the right business decisions."
- GlobalEDGE: International Business Resource Desk
"An outline of the business climate, political structure, history, and statistical data for more than 190 countries."
- Internet Resources in Business & Economics
Research guide produced by the Thomas J. Long Business & Economics Library, University of California, Berkeley.
- SEC Edgar Database
Company 10K reports from filings with the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
- SuperPages.com
"Find any business in America." Map directions included.
- Thomas Register
Search for companies and products manufactured in North America.
Education
- Buros: Test Reviews Online
Information on tests from the Mental Measurements Yearbook series.
- The Chronicle of Higher Education
"The Chronicle is the No. 1 news source for college and university faculty members and administrators."
- Council for Christian Colleges & Universities
"As a professional association of academic institutions, the Council focuses on helping Christian colleges and universities advance the cause of Christ-centered education and effectively integrate biblical faith, scholarship and service."
- Curriculum Frameworks & Instructional Materials
"Curriculum frameworks are the blueprints for implementing the content standards adopted by the California State Board of Education."
- The Educator's Reference Desk
Access to the ERIC database plus lesson plans and online education information.
- ETS Test Collection
Collection of 20,000 tests and other research instruments.
- FastWeb
Scholarship search, college search, expert advice, cost calculators, and how-tos. Registration required.
- FinAid: The Financial Aid Information Page
"This page provides a free, comprehensive, independent, and objective guide to student financial aid resources on and off the World Wide Web."
- GRE Online
Graduate Record Examinations information from the Educational Testing Service.
- National Center for Education Statistics
Searchable database of statistics and facts about education in the United States and other countries.
- Peterson's Education Center
Search for information about educational institutions and programs.
- Web U.S. Higher Education
Alphabetical and state listings of links to home pages of colleges and universities.
Government
- The California Home Page
California state government web site providing comprehensive coverage
of government services, departments, agencies, and information.
- Census Bureau
Statistical data on the U.S. economy and people.
- FedStats
Statistics and information from more than 70 agencies of the U.S. Federal Government.
- Governments on the WWW
"Comprehensive database of governmental institutions" from more than 200 countries and territories.
- GPO Access
Government Printing Office provides free online searching of government databases. Search the Federal Register, the Congressional Record, and other government documents.
- Library of Congress
Search Library of Congress Catalogs or Research Tools such as THOMAS (U.S. Legislative Information), or the Country Studies: Area Handbook Program.
- Official California Legislative Information
The official web site for California legislative information.
- State and Local Government on the Net
Links to state, county, city, and other government sites.
- USA.gov
"The U.S. Government's Official Web Portal."
Intercultural Studies
- African Studies Center
Compiled by the African Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania. Focuses on the history and cultural diversity of sub-Sahara African peoples.
- Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library
"A global collaborative project which provides access in bibliographic and in hypertext terms to networked scholarly documents, resources and information systems concerned with or relevant to Asian Studies."
- Ethnologue
Wealth of resources on the languages of the world.
- Global Mapping International
"GMI is a Christian inter-denominational missionary agency." Links to numerous resources for missions research.
- Latin American Network Information Center
Research resources for Latin American studies.
- Middle East Network Information Center
"MENIC provides one of the largest and most comprehensive directories of online resources about the Middle East available on the Internet."
- MisLinks
A directory of resources for missionaries, mission pastors, teachers, researchers, and mission agencies.
- REESWeb: Russian and East European Studies
An indexed collection of annotated links to resources for the study of Russia and Eastern European countries.
- SIL International
Focus on the study of unwritten languages.
Literature
- Bartleby.com
"The preeminent Internet publisher of literature, reference and verse providing students, researchers and the intellectually curious with unlimited access to books and information on the web, free of charge."
- The Internet Public Library Online Literary Criticism Collection
"Critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by literary period."
- Literary Resources on the Net
"A collection of links to sites on the Internet dealing especially with English and American literature, excluding single electronic texts, and is limited to collections of information useful to academics." Maintained by Jack Lynch of Rutgers University.
Music
- Classical Music Resources
Classical music resources from the Duke University Libraries.
- Classical Net
Personal classical music metasite from Dave Lampson.
- Music Resources on the World Wide Web
Music Resources on the World Wide Web from Yale University.
- Worldwide Internet Music Resources
Worldwide Internet Music Resources from the William and Gayle Cook Music Library, Indiana University.
News
- ABC News
- BBC News
- CBS News
- CNN.com
- C-SPAN Online
- FOXNews.com
- Google News
- Los Angeles Times
- LexisNexis News
- Kidon Media-Link
- MSNBC News
- NewsMax.com
- The New York Times
- NPR's All Things Considered
- PBS: Online NewsHour
- PressDisplay.com
- The Orange County Register
- Topix.net
- USA Today
- The Wall Street Journal Online
- The Washington Post
- Whittier Daily News
- Yahoo! News
Philosophy
- EpistemeLinks.com
Links to more than 16,000 philosophy resources.
- Guide to Philosophy on the Internet
Comprehensive guide to philosophy materials compiled by Peter Suber at Earlham College.
- The International Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Articles written by specialist philosophers, the web site editors, and writers from the public domain.
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
A "dynamic reference work" authored by experts in philosophy. The encyclopedia in incomplete--a work in progress. Indexed and searchable.
- World Wide Web Subject Catalog: Philosophy
Internet resources in philosophy selected by subject specialists at the University of Kentucky.
Psychology
- American Psychological Association
- Buros: Test Reviews Online
- ETS Test Collection
- Psychology World Wide Web Virtual Library
Compilation of Web sites that have been evaluated for their adequacy as information sources.
- PsycSite: Science of Psychology Resources
"PsycSite is a public service 'launch pad' to Net sites that may be of use to psychologists, psychology students, and anyone else intersted in the science of psychology."
- Psych Web
"This web site contains lots of psychology-related information for students and teachers of psychology."
Theological Research
Guides
- The Wabash Center Guide for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion
"A selective, annotated guide to a wide variety of electronic resources of interest to those who are teaching or studying religion and theology at the undergraduate or graduate level."
- Religious Studies Web Guide
"This web site focuses on resources of use to researchers involved in the academic study of religion." Compiled by Saundra Lipton and Cheryl Adams.
- The New Testament Gateway
A comprehensive directory of internet resources for New Testament research.
- Virtual Religion Index
Index of web sites related to the study of religion compiled by the Religion Department at Rutgers University.
- Internet Christian Library
Archive of "classical" Christian resources including A Guide to Christian Literature on the Internet and the Guide to Early Church Documents.
Web Sites
- Academic Info: Religion Gateway
Internet resources for the study of religion. Compiled by Mike Madin of the University of Washington.
- Adherents.com
Statistics covering published membership and congregation statistics for over 4,200 religions, churches, denominations, and faith groups.
- The Association of Religion Data Archives (ARDA)
"The ARDA collection includes data on churches and church membership, religious professionals, and religious groups (individuals, congregations and denominations)."
- Barna Research Online
"Information and analysis regarding cultural trends and the Christian Church."
- Christian Classics Ethereal Library
Classic Christian books in electronic format (public domain) compiled by Professor Harry Plantinga at Calvin College.
- The Ecole Initiative
"A hypertext encyclopedia of early church history."
- Free Online Resources for the Study of Christianity
Links to web sites compiled by the Yale Divinity School Library.
- Internet Resources for the Study of Judaism and Christianity
Useful site for finding links to Jewish and Christian resources. Includes "Course Materials" from religious studies courses. Compiled by Jay Treat at the University of Pennsylvania.
- Religion-online
Full text books, book chapters, and articles in religious and theological studies.
- Resource Pages for Biblical Studies
Guide to a variety of resources for biblical studies.
- Review of Biblical Literature
"The Review of Biblical Literature (RBL), founded by the Society of Biblical Literature, presents reviews of books in biblical studies and related fields."
- Theological Journals Available Free on the Internet
Compilation of lists of free online theological journals compiled by Margaret Tarpley.
- Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN)
"TREN is a library of over 10,000 theological thesis/dissertation titles representing research from as many as 70 different institutions. TREN also makes available conference papers presented at annual meetings of several academic societies." Free downloads of dissertations, theses, and conference papers are available to the Biola community from the TREN e-docs database. Click on the blue link "Add to your TREN Subscription" in retrieved records in order to download for free.