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 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.
If you have any websites that you would suggest adding to
this page, please contact the Omnilore Webmaster.
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
Study & Research Skills
This website organizes and links to tips for improving
skills in reading, time management, test taking, note
taking, writing a research paper, and conscientiously
doing citations. Although the website nominally
targets MBA students, the links at the start of the
website in the six afore-mentioned categories are chock
full of tips that could be valuable to Omniloreans in
their SDGs and even in organizing and improving other
aspects of our lives.
http://www.onlinembaprograms.org/
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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