Research Links

Search Engines

California Health Interview Survey - quickly search for health statistics on your county, region and state.
Statistical Abstract of the United States : Published since 1878, it is the authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States.
Open Directory Project
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Infomine : Internet resources relevant to faculty, students, and research staff at the university level
RefDesk
LibrarySpot
Bartleby (Books online)
Virginia e-Text (Books online)
fedstats.gov: The official gateway to Governmental statistics

Project Gutenberg: Free "classic" e-books
The Online Books Page: Lists over 30,000 free e-books.
The Internet Public Library Online Texts Collection: Over 50 links to databases of online texts in the public domain, from Aesop's Fables to the Victorian Women’s Writing Project.
Google Books
OAISTER: Catalog of digital resources (articles, books, images, movies, etc).
amazon.com

Findarticles (Magazines)
MagPortal (Magazines)
Directory of Open Access Journals: Free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. Includes more than 4000 journals in the directory, with more than 300,000 articles included.
HighWire Press : More than 6 million full-text articles from over 140 scholarly publishers.
OAISTER: Catalog of digital resources (articles, books, images, movies, etc).
Appeal-Democrat Online
Sacramento Bee Online
San Francisco Chronicle (SF Gate)
San Jose Mercury News
New York Times

MayoClinic.com
National Library of Medicine - National Institutes of Health
Medscape
Healthfinder
eMedicine
KidsHealth
Web MD: Valuable health information, tools for managing your health, and support to those who seek information.
MedlinePLUS: Free, high quality health information in English, Spanish, and more than 40 other languages.
PubMed: Service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 19 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to 1948. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources.

Eric Online digital library of education research and information sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education.

Calisphere: Calisphere is the University of California's free public gateway to a world of primary sources. More than 150,000 digitized items — including photographs, documents, newspaper pages, political cartoons, works of art, diaries, transcribed oral histories, advertising, and other unique cultural artifacts.
Library of Congress American Memory Project