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Search the web clip art 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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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Last Updated: November 26, 2011 (hh)
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