Internet Links
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Learning In Retirement Organizations
Here is a list of links to websites which many Omniloreans have
found useful or entertaining. They have been categorized into
the eight groups you see above.
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Books and Other Publications
ADDall.com
This website is for Internet book search and price comparisons when
looking to purchase a discounted book online:
www.addall.com
Cliffs Notes
Free Cliffs Notes study guides to literary classics can be read on
this website:
www.cliffsnotes.com
Directory of Open Access Journals
More than 800 professional journals concerning science, education,
the arts and other topics can be searched for free on this site:
www.doaj.org
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
An online encyclopedia of philosophy aimed at a general readership:
www.utm.edu/research/iep
Lazy Readers' Book Club
This is the website of Danny Brassell, who spoke at Omnilore's July
2005 forum. Each month he posts his 10 book picks in the categories
of Adult, Young Adult and Children, with short synopsis of why he
thinks it is worth reading. He is a passionate reader and highly
enthusiastic:
www.lazyreaders.com
LearnOutLoud
This website provides over 500 free audio and video titles taken from
the Internet. It features free audio books, lectures, speeches,
interviews and much more:
www.learnoutloud.com/Free-Audio-Video
LIBRIVOX
Here is a website that provides free audiobooks from the public
domain. There are 522 books which can be accessed, either by
specific title, or merely by browsing for something you might want to
listen to. A book can be opened and listened to immediately or with
a right click, it can be saved on your computer to be heard at
another time:
www.librivox.org/
NewsDirectory.com
Search for newspapers and magazines and this site takes you to their
website:
www.newsdirectory.com
Project Gutenberg
Read over 15,000 public domain electronic books here:
www.gutenberg.org
Spark Notes
Similar to Cliffs Notes study guides. Also message forums where you
can discuss the books with others online:
www.sparknotes.com
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
The online Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy that provides 1000
essays by professionals in the field of Philosophy:
plato.stanford.edu/contents.html
Stealing Our Votes
This is the website for George L. Clark’s book which will tell you
all you want to know about gerrymandering:
www.stealingourvotes.com
General Interest
Archaeology
This website provides links to archaeological sites as well as a
guide to recent magazines and journal articles on archaeology:
www.cyberpursuits.com/archeo
ARTLex
This art dictionary offers more than 3600 definitions for terms used
in discussing art and visual culture. Also includes images,
pronunciation notes, quotations and cross references:
www.artlex.com
Essentials of Music
Brief biographies of composers and descriptions of eras:
www.essentialsofmusic.com
Geography Game
This site provides a map of the Middle East and Africa along with a
list of country names. The objective of the game is to match the
name of the country with its location on the map:
www.rethinkingschools.org/just_fun/games/mapgame.html
Human Anatomy Online
An interactive guide to the skeletal, digestive, muscular,
cardiovascular and other body systems:
www.innerbody.com
Identify Email Hoaxes
To check the validity of an email message and to weed out the urban
legends go to:
www.snopes.com
KurzweilAI.Net
This site features the big thoughts of today’s big thinkers examining
the confluence of accelerating revolutions that are shaping our
future world, and the inside story on new technological and social
realities from the pioneers actively working in these arenas. This
website would be good for anyone who wants to keep track of trends in
various technologies (medicine, power, communications, computers,
materials technology). Over time, it will be interesting to see how
many of these become truly embedded in society. Of special interest
to retirement-age people might be the medical advances that allow us
to live on an extra five years for every year that passes; Kurzweil
wrote a book about living long enough to achieve immortality!:
www.kurzweilai.net/index.html?flash=1
Museum of Online Museums
This site links to online collections and exhibits covering a vast
array of interests:
www.coudal.com/moom.php
Radio Station Locations
Website for locating radio stations:
www.radio-locator.com
Wireless Technology
A glossary of Wireless Technology from CNN decodes the jargon of
wireless technology terms and will give you a look into this
technical world.
www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/10/25/glossary/index.html
Worldwide Internet Music Resources
From Indiana University comes this list of music links, organized by
genre, composer and performer. This site includes classical and
popular music:
www.music.Indiana.edu/music_resources
Online Courses
Links to free online foreign language courses:
www.word2word.com/coursead.html
MITOPENCOURSEWARE
From MIT, a free and open source for teachers, students and
self-learners:
ocw.mit.edu
History
A Chronology of U.S. Historical Documents
This University of Oklahoma site has text versions of famous
historical documents:
www.law.ou.edu/hist
The History Place
A site for all students, educators and those who enjoy history:
www.historyplace.com
Timeline of Art History
Metropolitan Museum of Art's timeline from cave drawings to present:
www.metmuseum.org/toah
WorldHistory.Com
Essays and timelines about significant events in world history:
www.worldhistory.com
World War II pictures in color:
www.ww2incolor.com
Research Tools
Answers.com
This is an answer search website which answers questions posed in
plain English, rather than directing you to pages that simply mention
the questions. Answers.com automatically reads the search results
and extracts the answer to your question. It’s the next evolutionary
step in search engines:
www.answers.com/bb/
Biographical Dictionary
This dictionary covers over 33000 notable persons:
www.s9.com/biography/index.html
CIA World Fact Book
The CIA World FactBook provides a "snapshot"
of the world. This online fact book is updated continuously
throughout the year:
www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
Electronic Reference Desk
This site provides links to numerous other resources:
www.refdesk.com/fastfact.html
Encyclopedia of Life
Comprehensive, collaborative, ever-growing and personalized, the
Encyclopedia of Life is an ecosystem of websites that makes all key
information about all life on Earth accessible to anyone, anywhere in
the world. This site is in its early stage of development:
www.eol.org
Ethnologue Languages of the World
Here is where you’ll get information on the world's 6,912 known
living languages:
www.ethnologue.com
Google Scholar
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly
literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines
and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and
articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint
repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. This
site will help you identify the most relevant research across the
world of scholarly research:
scholar.google.com
Internet Archive
A digital library of internet sites and other cultural artifacts in
digital form is being built. Like a paper library, they provide free
access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public:
www.archive.org
NationMaster.Com
A massive central data source and a handy way to graphically compare
nations. It is a vast compilation of data from such sources as the
CIA World FactBook, United Nations, World Health Organization,
World Bank, World Resources Institute, UNESCO, UNICEF and OECD.
Using the form on the site, you can generate maps and graphs on all
kinds of statistics with ease:
www.nationmaster.com
Online Conversion
This website provides conversion tables from just about anything to
anything else:
www.onlineconversion.com
Supranational Websites
Links to websites of governments worldwide, including some
governments in exile:
www.psr.keele.ac.uk/official.htm
Voice of the Shuttle
The Voice of the Shuttle (name refers to weaving on a loom) from the
University of California Santa Barbara compiles links to academic
topics. This site is still a work in progress:
vos.ucsb.edu
Wikipedia
This site provides a good free online encyclopedia. It is also an
outstanding example of an Internet cooperative effort:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Wiktionary
Free online dictionary which includes thesaurus and lexicon in every
language. In addition, it translates words from one language to
another:
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Main_Page
Libraries
INFOMINE
A virtual library of internet resources relevant to faculty,
students, and research staff at the university level. It contains
useful Internet resources such as databases, electronic journals,
electronic books, bulletin boards, mailing lists, online library card
catalogs, articles, directories of researchers, and many other types
of information:
Infomine.ucr.edu
The Internet Public Library
The University of Michigan School of Information site:
www.ipl.org
Palos Verdes Library
The PV library provides a great selection of online services and
databases. Based on its motto, “Connecting people, information, and
ideas”, it appears to do just that and is an excellent source for
research. For example, a full-text article can be sent to your email
address where it can be read at your leisure. To use these
resources, you must have a PV library card, which can be requested
from their website. The card will be delivered by postal mail and
should arrive within a few short days:
www.pvld.org
University of Washington Library
A fantastic site for obtaining maps and doing research:
www.lib.washington.edu/types/maps/U.html
Humor
Advice re Passing on Emails
info.org.il/irrelevant/may02-smilepop-soapbox4.swf
The End of the Internet
www.shibumi.org/eoti.htm
The Galaxy Song
Need something to perk you up? Here's a website that will help put
thing into perspective and certainly make you smile. Just click
below and turn on the sound:
dingo.care-mail.com/cards/flash/5409/galaxy.swf
LIR Organizations
A world-wide organization of Learning in Retirement (LIR)
organizations
This link appears to be based in the UK:
www.worldu3a.org
EIN
Elderhostel Institute Network:
www.elderhostel.org
OLLI
California State University Fullerton:
cle.fullerton.edu/
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute - CSU Long Beach
Cal State University Long Beach:
www.csulb.edu/centers/olli/
PLATO SOCIETY
University of California Los Angeles:
www.unex.ucla.edu/plato
Renaissance Society - CSU Sacramento
Cal State University Sacramento:
www.csus.edu/org/rensoc/
OLLI
University of Arizona:
www.ceao.arizona.edu/seniors/index.html
SAGE
Cal State University Northridge:
exlweb.csun.edu/sage/
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