Faculty Favorites & Library Websites

French:
http://www.lemonde.fr
http://www.figaro.fr
http://www.lesoir.be/rubriques/la_une/page_5682.shtml
http://www.frenchculture.org/aboutus/index.html
http://www.laits.utexas.edu/fi/
http://www.laits.utexas.edu/tex/

History:
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/
http://www.hrw.org
http://www.ibiblio.org
http://www.nytimes.org

Math:
http://www.coolmath4kids.com/
Math games, problems, calculators, puzzles, and fun and for all levels.
http://hotmath.school.aol.com/AOL-SCHOOL/index.html
The free Hotmath practice problems are great for self-paced learning. Teachers can even assign them for homework.
http://www.curiousmath.com/
Math Topics. Tricks and rules for quickly calculating certain types of problems.

Spanish:
http://www.colby.edu/~bknelson/exercises/index.html
http://cvc.cervantes.es
http://formespa.rediris.es/canciones/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/spanish
http://www.rae.es/
www.elmundo.es/diccionarios
www.elmundo.es
www.studyspanish.com
www.spanish.glencoe.com

Tolerance:
http://www.lgbtyouth.org.uk/
http://www.glsen.org/cgi-bin/iowa/home.html
http://www.tolerance.org/teens/?source=redirect&url=mixitup

LIBRARY

ART
Artcyclopedia - guide to museum-quality fine art on the Internet: http://www.artcyclopedia.com/

HISTORY

American Cultural History  - series of web guides on the decades of the twentieth century: http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/decades.html

Digital History - supports the teaching of American History in K-12 schools and colleges and is supported by the Department of History and the College of Education at the University of Houston: http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/
SCIENCE
Arctic Health –portal to issues affecting the well-being of northern-most inhabitants: http://www.arctichealth.org/

BioMed Central  - independent publisher of open access to peer-reviewed biomedical research: http://www.biomedcentral.com/

Chem ID Plus: http://chem.sis.nlm.nih.gov/chemidplus/

Genetics Home Reference – your guide to understanding genetic conditions: http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/

Household Products Databases – what’s under your kitchen sink…? http://householdproducts.nlm.nih.gov/

Tox Town- environmental health concerns: http://toxtown.nlm.nih.gov/

Visible Proof – forensic views of the body: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/visibleproofs/

Visible Human Project - complete, anatomically detailed, three-dimensional representations of normal human bodies. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/visible/visible_human.html

SOCIAL SCIENCES
Freedom House is a clear voice for democracy and freedom around the world: http://freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=362

Human Rights Watch is dedicated to protecting the human rights of people around the world: http://www.hrw.org/

Internet History Sourcebooks is a collection of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented for educational use.: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/

Perseus Project -a digital library of resources for the study of the humanities.  A collection of materials, textual and visual, on the Archaic and Classical Greek world. Other collections in development include the American Civil War: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/

Time Magazine Archive: http://www.time.com/time/archive/

MULTI SUBJECT

INFOMINE  -virtual library of Internet resources such as databases, electronic journals, electronic books, bulletin boards, mailing lists, online library card catalogs, etc relevant to faculty, students, and research staff. http://infomine.ucr.edu/

Intute is a free online service providing you with access to the very best Web resources for education and research: http://www.intute.ac.uk/

Project Guttenberg is the first and largest single collection of free electronic books, or eBooks: http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page

GOVERNMENT SITES
Central Intelligence Agency Factbook -The World Factbook provides national-level information on countries, territories, and dependencies:
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.html

U.S. Government Manual -As the official handbook of the Federal Government, the United States Government Manual provides comprehensive information on the agencies of the legislative, judicial, and executive branches: http://www.gpoaccess.gov/gmanual/index.html

Library of Congress Country Studies Series presents a description and analysis of the historical setting and the social, economic, political, and national security systems and institutions of countries throughout the world: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/

Department of State Background Notes - includes facts about the land, people, history, government, political conditions, economy, and foreign relations of independent states, some dependencies, and areas of special sovereignty. http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/

U.S. Government’s Official Web Portal: http://www.usa.gov/