A Good Place to Start: The IDS Knowledge Services Guide to Finding Development Information Online
This Insititute for Development Studies (IDS) guide provides links to a broad range of free online material on over 30 development themes, such as child labor, gender and conflict.
"Underlying all we do is our biblical faith in the living God, who made the world, loves it and entrusts it to the care of human society. We carry out research for the conservation and restoration of the natural world and run environmental education programmes for people of all ages." [from website]
The American Chemical Society is a self-governed individual membership organization that consists of more than 158,000 members at all degree levels and in all fields of chemistry. The organization provides a broad range of opportunities for peer interaction and career development, regardless of professional or scientific interests.
APIS is a collections-based repository hosting information about and images of papyrological materials (e.g. papyri, ostraca, wood tablets, etc) located in collections around the world. It contains physical descriptions and bibliographic information about the papyri and other written materials, as well as digital images and English translations of many of these texts.
AAHPERD is an alliance of six national associations, six district associations,
and a research consortium which support healthy lifestyles through high quality programs.
The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) is the national voice for America's baccalaureate- and higher-degree nursing education programs.
Under the "Get Fit" section of the site free exercises, recipes, and discussion boards with fitness professionals are available. A FitKids section is provided for young people
The American Customer Satisfaction Index is a national economic indicator of customer evaluations of the quality of products and services available to household consumers in the United States. It is updated each quarter with new measures for different sectors of the economy replacing data from the prior year. The overall ACSI score for a given quarter factors in scores from about 200 companies in 43 industries and from government agencies over the previous four quarters. The Index is produced by the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business in partnership with the American Society for Quality and CFI Group, and is supported in part by ForeSee Results, corporate sponsor for the e-commerce and e-business measurements.
Provides a timeline and information about major authors and literary movements and also includes a list of links to other American Literature web sites.
American Memory is the online resource compiled by the Library of Congress National Digital Library Program. It is a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. The site offers more than 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical collections.
The ANA advances the nursing profession by fostering high standards of
nursing practice, promoting the economic and general welfare of nurses
in the workplace, projecting a positive and realistic view of nursing,
and by lobbying the Congress and regulatory agencies on health care
issues affecting nurses and the general public" (from the web site).
"The American Scientific Affiliation (ASA) is a fellowship of men and women in science and disciplines that relate to science who share a common fidelity to the Word of God and a commitment to integrity in the practice of science." [from website]
The Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) is a not-for-profit organization of institutions with collections of art, collaborating to enable educational use of museum multimedia.
A free financial report service that offers PDF versions of company annual reports and HTML versions of their Form 10Ks, both of which are primary sources of financial information about a company.
Collects websites concerning the ethical aspects of business, research, media and more. Divisions include institutes, organizations, ethical topics and issues and appropriate publications.
AquaNIC houses or provides links to thousands of state, national, and international aquaculture publications, newsletters, visual media, calendars, job services, directories and specialty sections for species and production systems.
The AAT is one of three Getty Vocabulary Databases. It contains more than 125,000 terms covering fine art,
architecture, decorative arts, archival materials, and material
culture.
The Art Institute of Chicago, founded in 1879 as both a museum and school, seeks to acquire and exhibit art of all kinds and to conduct programs of education.
Among its more than 3,600 terms covering all aspects of art, ArtLex provides basic definitions of art terms, numerous illustrations, quotations, and pronunciation notes, and links to other Web resources. The site defines more than 1,700,000 words found in more than 200 dictionaries and glossaries.
A professional association for speech-language pathologists, audiologists, and speech, language, and hearing scientists in the United States and internationally.
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.
Edited by T. Matthew Ciolek.
Dedicated to the creation and maintenance of the world's most comprehensive, centralized database about American artists. Contains detailed information on nearly 30,000 American artists.
AstroWeb is a portal for astronomy-related information available on the Internet. The database is maintained by the AstroWeb Consortium, involving 9 individuals at 7 institutions.
Includes information about symptoms, conditions, and possible causes of ASD along with resources, information about congressional initiatives, and much more. Very frequently updated.
Provides primary documents relevant to the fields of law, history, economics, politics, diplomacy, and government from pre-18th century to the 21st century.