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Historical research resources about Jesus and Christianity.

free online reference management for clinicians and scientists

The Center for Internet Research (TCFIR) is a transdisciplinary research organization created with the purpose of systematically investigating the vast intersection of Internet technology and the human experience.

An annotated list of libraries with online content accessible from anywhere.

Quora is a continually improving collection of questions and answers created, edited, and organized by everyone who uses it. The most important thing is to have each question page become the best possible resource for someone who wants to know about the question.

HathiTrust is a partnership of major research institutions and libraries working to ensure that the cultural record is preserved and accessible long into the future. There are more than fifty partners in HathiTrust, and membership is open to institutions worldwide.

Fagan Finder’s goal is to help people find what they are looking for.

The BBC has just launched an online video archive of LGB material from the past 50 years:

SweetSearch is a Search Engine for Students. It searches only the 35,000 Web sites that our staff of research experts and librarians and teachers have evaluated and approved when creating the content on findingDulcinea. We constantly evaluate our search results and "fine-tune" them, by increasing the ranking of Web sites from organizations such as the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian, PBS and university Web sites.

“Making Government Information More Accessible” Public.Resource.Org, home of the Seal of Approval.

PSFK is a New York City based trends research and innovation company that publishes a daily news site, provides trends research and innovation consultancy, manages a network of freelance experts and hosts idea-generating events. We aim to inspire our readers, our clients and our guests to make things better – whether that’s better products, better services, better lives or a better world.

Bringing transparency to the world of philanthropy.

The Community of Practice on Communities of Practice

Lazyfeed is Conveyor belt sushi for your interest. Lazyfeed is all about letting you watch live updates on every topic you care about. Just add the topics you are interested in and start watching. Real-time updates on those topics will continuously flow in automatically.

New project in scramble to save vanishing internet links

Earlham, Goshen and Manchester colleges, collaborating in the Plowshares peace initiative, have released more than 32,000 pages of documents online. The Plowshares Virtual Peace Library collection covers 300 years and contains material from diaries, minutes, books, journals, questionnaires, newsletters, newspapers and essays. Much of the collection is available online at the Plowshares Digital Archive.

Medical research reference from the NIH.

Instant Domain Name Search Tool.

A free resource to discover learning and research materials, covering all subjects, from 38 national libraries across Europe.

The primary mission of the IMA is to harness the power of the Internet and other new media platforms for the benefit of public broadcasters.

Work Literacy is a network of individuals, companies and organizations who are interested in learning, defining, mentoring, teaching and consulting on the frameworks, skills, methods and tools of modern knowledge work.

The Pew Internet Project is an initiative of the Pew Research Center, a nonprofit “fact tank” that provides information on the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. Pew Internet explores the impact of the internet on children, families, communities, the work place, schools, health care and civic/political life.

The Times Developer Network is our API clearinghouse and community. Get the latest news about New York Times APIs, read the API documentation, browse the application gallery and connect with other developers in the forum.

Librarians' Internet Index (LII) is a publicly-funded website and weekly newsletter serving California, the nation, and the world.

Some of these are really useful!

American taxpayers spend over $100 million a year to fund the Congressional Research Service, a "think tank" that provides reports to members of Congress on a variety of topics relevant to current political events. Yet, these reports are not made available to the public in a way that they can be easily obtained. A project of the Center for Democracy & Technology through the cooperation of several organizations and collectors of CRS Reports, Open CRS provides citizens access to CRS Reports already in the public domain and encourages Congress to provide public access to all CRS Reports.

SearchMonkey is Yahoo! Search's open developer platform. All the info you need - including an overview, documentation, tutorials - is right here.

Exploring new technologies as they impact the working lives of information professionals, explains resources for specific topic areas, and expounds on information management tools and techniques.

A selective guide to business, financial and investing resources on the Internet.

Selected Internet resources covering all academic subject areas.

Information from the CIA about countries around the world.

Interesting. "They" say that Search Engine Land is a must read hub for news and information about search engine marketing, optimization and how search engines such as Google, Yahoo, Microsoft Live.com and Ask.com work for searchers.

Quintura is a visual search engine. It extracts keywords from search results and builds a word cloud. By clicking words in the cloud, you refine your query.

Keep track of alternative search engines and upcoming technology.

Bartleby.com publishes thousands of free online classics of reference, literature and nonfiction. - Encyclopedia, Dictionary, Thesaurus and hundreds more.

A reference tool that allows you to save sites that you want to read later. Very cool!

A compilation of online video resources.

The Metropolitan Museum of Arts interactive web site.

OCLC Online Computer Library Center is a nonprofit, membership, computer library service and research organization whose computer network and services link thousands of libraries worldwide.

A new tool from Google that allows you to search broadly for scholarly literature; papers, theses, books, abstracts, etc. There is a neat Library Links feature, also, that connects you to other collections (the libraries have to be linked, but that has...

Drawing from large open data sets like Wikipedia, MusicBrainz, and the SEC archives, it contains structured information on many popular topics, including movies, music, people and locations – all reconciled and freely available via an open API.

Links to every state's information on where to write for birth, death, marriage, or divorce records.

My mission is to identify new quality business sources, link to breaking business information industry news, and facilitate thoughtful discussion on both.

Join an experiment and you'll see that feature whenever you do a Google search.

A useful tool for valuing airplanes.

A pretty good tool for finding birthdays.

History and classification of american wealth, of millionaires and billionaires and the wealthy families of the United States of America

This looks like a really useful tool for gathering and managing information. Made for researchers by researchers. Zotero is a production of the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. It is generously funded by the United States In...

A tool that helps you find sites similar to the one you are currently visiting. I could see it being a potentially useful research tool.

An alternative search engine that categorizes your search results.

Another search engine.

Microsoft's search labs. Some interesting new search tools in development here.

MSN's search engine.

Google API proximity search, and other useful search tools.

An alternative search engine.