Virtual/Web Reference

Various topics covered under "Roman Britain" heading including galleries of Hadrian's Wall & Roman mosaics, and overviews of the period

"Descriptions and images for over 100 illuminated European Hebrew manuscripts in the British Library."

300+ digital scans of religious texts from the 2nd century AD onwards.

Over 700 manuscripts are available, dating from 0 to 2000 CE.

Hosted by MIT the Internet Classics Archive contains 441 works of classical literature by 59 different authors all in English translation

Guide to sources on the web.

Bibliographic index only to secondary sources – no full text. Includes monographs, editions, journal articles, individual chapters from edited books, conference proceedings, & essay collections from international, national and local sources.

Database of medieval manuscript collections held in European libraries.

Home of the Irish Script on Screen (ISOS) Project and maintained by the School of Celtic Studies and Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies a variety of manusript texts have been digitized and are available in Gaelic or English.

Hosted by Tufts University the Perseus Digital Library covers the history, literature and culture of the Greco-Roman world.

A vetted list of Internet resources compiled by members of the AEA.

Official website of AERA, a professional organization dedicated to promoting education scholarship and its application to educational practice.

Official website of the AIR, a behavioral and social science research organization that frequently partners with the Department of Education on its initiatives.

Resource on policy and practice in Catholic education. Features research and professional development resources for Catholic educators.

Official website of the George Lucas Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to improving K-12 education. Focuses on research and promotion of best practices.

A curated list of websites that support the research and practice of educators. Maintained by Harvard's Gutman Library.

Official website of NASP, a professional organization for school psychologists in the U.S. Includes information on resources for research and professional development.

Official website of the NCEA. Provides information, support, and professional development resources etc. for Catholic schools and religious educators.

Official website of the NFER, a U.K.-based non-governmental organization dedicated to producing and disseminating education research.

Official website of the U.S. Department of Education.

Department of Education's official IDEA website. Features information and resources related to IDEA for parents, educators and policymakers.

Clearinghouse for statistics pertaining to American education from prekindergarten through graduate school. Maintained by the federal Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences.

Repository of evidence-based practices in American education from prekindergarten through college. Maintained by the federal Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences.

Official website of Rhode Island's state Department of Education.

Listing of websites for every state's Department of Education. Maintained by the federal Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences.

Official website of the ECS, an interstate agency dedicated to sharing research and ideas between education policymakers across all U.S. states and territories.

Official website of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization's Institute for Statistics. Presents data collected on many indicators from across UNESCO's numerous areas of operation.

Free resource that provides educational video programs and related online and print materials for the professional development of K-12 teachers. Also includes programs that are intended for students in the classroom.

Official web home of the Common Core K-12 educational standards. Provides an overview of the standards and information on their implemention in individual states.

A large collection of lesson plans across many subjects for K-12 students. Maintained by the National Council for Open Education.

Website offering a library of open-access educational resources across a wide range of educational levels and subjects.

Collection of educational videos, interactive resources, and lesson plans for teachers in the greater MA region. Maintained and curated by GBH. Requires a free account to access all available content.

Repository of teaching resources for K-12 classroom teachers. Maintained by The Source for Learning, a non-profit organization dedicated to helping educators.

Website featuring free lesson plans and other educational resources that involve incorporating videos into instruction. Most of the lesson plans are intended for students middle school age and older.

Career news, resources and job postings from the Wall Street Journal

Internet employment service for candidates and employers in Medicine, Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology, and other scientific fields

The Occupational Outlook Handbook (OOH) is a nationally recognized source of career information, designed to provide valuable assistance to individuals making decisions about their future work lives. The OOH contains information about the training and education needed for a given job, earnings, job prospects, what the job entails, and working conditions. The OOH is revised every two years.

A Straightforward identification of art.

The Encyclopedia is a free, fully searchable collection of content contributed by scholars, professionals, educators, practitioners and other experts.

Overview of mythology, folklore, and religion.

Over 100 dictionaries and encyclopedias

natural language question answering

The leading IT encyclopedia.

Digitized manuscripts of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, William Godwin, and Mary Wollstonecraft, contains over 90% of all known relevant manuscripts.

Fully annotated digital collection of Twain's work.

An open access site for the manuscripts of Emily Dickinson

Peer-reviewed, open access journal dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of comics and related media.

Site sponsored by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, this collection provides access to digitized primary materials that offer Southern perspectives on American history and culture.

Monolingual and bilingual dictionaries specifically designed for learners and teachers of English, and for people who need to use English as a second language at work.

Published by the Poetry Foundation, an independent literary organization committed to a vigorous presence for poetry in our culture.

Dedicated to avant-garde creative writing & poetry

Overview of mythology, folklore, and religion.

Almost every English word over the centuries.

Free Online Literature with more than 2000 Classic Texts.

Film review website maintained by the amateur film historian Tim Dirks. Includes hundreds of highly detailed reviews of historically significant films.

Website offering searchable records of information about films, television series, video games, and streaming content online. Includes cast, production crew, ratings, reviews and more.

Website that aggregates review scores and assigns a weighted average for films, TV shows, music albums and video games.

Online index of movie reviews. Links to reviews for more than 100000 titles.

Official website of the National Film Preservation Board's National Film Registry. The National Film Registry selects 25 films for preservation annually for their historical, cultural and aesthetic contributions to American film heritage.

Online collection of more than 53000 historically significant public radio and television programs from the past 70+ years. Maintained in collaboration between the Library of Congress and the WGBH Educational Foundation.

Online portal offering free access to thousands of archival audiovisual items from broadcasters and audiovisual archives in 19 European countries. Maintained by the European Commission.

Not-for-profit website dedicated to preserving and streaming documentary films on American folklife produced by independent filmmakers. Focuses on obscure pre-internet era content.

Digital collection of hundreds of early motion pictures and related content.

Website offering royalty-free stock footage and moving images for use in creative projects.

Extensive archive of in-depth video conversations with key figures from television history, both in front of and behind the camera. Maintained by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.

Website offering hundreds of movie scripts for download. Searchable by title, alphabetical listing, and by genre.

Online database featuring hundreds of downloadable scripts and screenplays. Includes content from movies, television, anime, and radio shows.

Google Books' digital archive of the American weekly general-interest magazine Life Magazine. Coverage from 1936 to 1972.

Online repository of millions of book and magazine pages drawn from the histories of film, broadcasting, and recorded sound. Maintained by the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research.

Official website of the National Film Preservation Foundation, a not-for-profit organization that works to preserve America's film heritage.

Instructions from the Preservation Division of the Library of Congress on the care, handling, and storage of motion picture film.

Website focusing on film festivals. Provides a database of international festivals and allows filmmakers to submit their films.

News and review website. Focused primarily on film festivals and independent films, but includes content about all aspects of the film and television industry.

Extensive glossary of terms used in the film industry from the New York Film Academy.

Blog featuring content that covers film and television news, commentary, and criticism.

Official website of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the professional honorary organization that runs the Academy Awards.

Official website of the American Film Institute, a not-for-profit film organization dedicated to educating filmmakers and honoring the heritage of the motion picture arts in the United States.

Official website of the American Society of Cinematographers, a professional organization for cinematographers.

Official website of the Motion Picture Association, a professional trade association that represents the five major American film studios and the streaming service Netflix.

Official website of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, the American professional service organization that promotes the arts and sciences of television and is responsible for the Emmy Awards.

Official website of the Producers Guild of America, an American trade association for television, film and New Media producers.

Official website of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, an international professional association for engineers, technologists, and executives in the media and entertainment industry.

Official website of the East Coast branch of the Writers Guild of America, a labor union that represents writers in film, television, radio, news, and online media.

Yahoo! Finance includes a profile section where you can get a quick snapshot of a company. It's easiest to use Yahoo! Finance if you already know the ticker symbol.

Online publication of the U.S. Forest Service

Online publication of the Society of Fire Protection Engineers

National Geographic

From the Library of Congress

University of Texas at Austin

Dates: 843-2015
Large collection of US and world maps.

Dates: 1482-1932
Maps from the colonial era Americas, from Hudson Bay to Tierra del Fuego.

From the US Dept. of State.

A compilation of data from such sources as the CIA World Factbook, UN, and OECD. You can generate maps and graphs on all kinds of statistics with ease.

Information on world population, health and environment

Search and download a variety of statistical resources from the UN system.

Official website of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization's Institute for Statistics. Presents data collected on many indicators from across UNESCO's numerous areas of operation.

Official website of the World Health Organization, the United Nations agency responsible for international public health. Features both quantitative and qualitative data on a myriad of health policy topics.

Easily track the activities of the U.S. Congress