General
3D Toad – an educational image database which contains 360° and 360° anaglyphic rotational images. Everything from ballet to yoga, frog dissections to human and animal skeletons, dental hygiene, music, and chemistry.
3 Practical Tips I Wish I’d Heard When I Started Grad School – These tips will work for undergrads, also.
Doodle – an easy way to schedule a meeting with other people based on when is best for everyone.
Guide to Google Tools – Tips and tricks to using Google services
Word Frequency Counter – Check the number of times words appear in your writing.
Information on Plagiarism
Common Copyright Myths – From Case Western University – very good information
College Majors With The Highest Salaries as of July 2017
Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA)
Otis College of Art and Design
Research
Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE)
Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC)
Google Books browse thousands of books, new to old, to find pages that include your search terms. Once you find the book you are looking for, you can look through pages, find online reviews and learn where you can get a hard copy
Google Scholar academic search engine…in other words, information that has been vetted to be factual
Infotopia academic search engine…in other words, information that has been vetted to be factual
iSeek retrieves information from trusted resources from universities, government and established non-commercial sites
Lexis Web law-related search engine
Microsoft Academic gathers content from over 120 million publications, including scientific papers, conferences, and journals
PowToon – Create animated videos and presentations
Print Friendly – Takes web pages and removes the junk (ads and such), makes an editable preview and then a printable .pdf file so that you print only what you need from a site. (check copyright when using:) )
PubMed Central healthcare or science search engine
ResearchGate with over 11 million researchers submitting their work, this site has more than 100 million publications that can be searched or researchers can be asked questions
Refseek searches over one billion web pages, encyclopedias, journals and books
Science.gov science related
Virtual Learning Resources Center online index of thousands of scholarly websites, by teachers and librarians from around the world.
Wolfram Alpha provides answers to questions instead of links to sources. For example, What does the liver do? Response: Functions in carbohydrate, lipid… Got a math question? This might be your new favorite site.
World Wide Science science related
Subscription Services (Payment Required)
Curiosity Stream – for as little as $3.00 per month or $35.88 per year this subscription access quality, factual television programming. It is available in 196 countries worldwide and works on multiple TV, desktop, and mobile devices. They create, curate, and distribute nonfiction documentary content without commercial interruptions. The service hosts over 1,500 titles providing deep dives into science, history, technology, and nature. You can cancel your subscription at any time.
Just For Fun
Brownie Locks – Fun, silly, serious, daily, weekly and monthly observances. Great for celebrating during the middle of the year when summer seems oh so very far away.
Brownie Locks Printable Calendar – Did you know that January 1st is Copyright Law Day? Or that July 23rd is *Pink Flamingo Day (Lawn Ornaments) Day? If not, this is the site for you. Printable calendars for every possible event or holiday fun you can imagine, and some you just can’t imagine. 🙂
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