SCHOOL: USEFUL WEBSITES FOR LEARNING, RESEARCHING AND STUDYING AS A STUDENT

SOME USEFUL  WEBSITES  FOR ONLINE EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT

www.khanacademy.org
www.academicearths.org
www.coursera.com
www.edx.org
www.open2study.com
www.academicjournals.org
codeacademy.org
youtube.com/education

BOOK SITES

www.bookboon.com
http://ebookee.org
http://sharebookfree.com
http://m.freebooks.com
www.obooko.com
www.manybooks.net
www.epubbud.com
www.bookyards.com
www.getfreeebooks.com
http://freecomputerbooks.com
www.essays.se
www.sparknotes.com
www.pink.monkey.com

ONLINE EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT

http://www.ocwconsortium.org/
http://www.ocwconsortium.org/en/courses/ocwsites
http://ocw.tufts.edu -Tuft University
http://ocw.upm.es -Univesidad Politechnica, Madrid
http://www.open.edu/openlearn/
http://ocw.usu.edu/ -Utah State University
http://open.umich.edu/ -University of Michigan
http://ocw.nd.edu/ -Nore Dame University

ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS

www.ehow.com
www.whatis.com
www.howstuffwork.com
www.webopedia.com
www.plagtracker.com
www.answers.com

SEARCH SITES

■ About.com (www.about.com)
■ AllTheWeb (www.alltheweb.com)
■ AltaVista (www.altavista.com)
■ Ask Jeeves! (www.askjeeves.com)
■ Excite (www.excite.com)
■ HotBot (www.hotbot.com)
■ LookSmart (www.looksmart.com)
■ Lycos (www.lycos.com)
■ Open Directory (www.dmoz.org)
■ Google (www.google.com)
■ Mamma (www.mamma.com)
■ Webcrawler (www.webcrawler.com)
■ Aol (www.aol.com)
■ Dogpile (www.dogpile.com)
■ 10pht (www.10pht.com)

SEARCHING FOR PEOPLE

■ AnyWho (www.anywho.com)
■ InfoSpace (www.infospace.com)
■ Switchboard (www.switchboard.com)
■ WhitePages.com (www.whitepages.com)
■ WhoWhere (www.whowhere.lycos.com)

SEARCHING FOR THE LATEST NEWS

■ ABC News (www.abcnews.com)
■ CBS News (www.cbsnews.com)
■ CNN (www.cnn.com)
■ Fox News (www.foxnews.com)
■ MSNBC (www.msnbc.com)
■ New York Times (www.nytimes.com)
■ USA Today (www.usatoday.com)

SEARCHING FOR SPORTS HEADLINES AND SCORES

■ CBS SportsLine (www.sportsline.com)
■ CNN/Sports Illustrated (sportsillustrated.cnn.com)
■ ESPN.com (espn.go.com)
■ FOXSports (foxsports.lycos.com)
■ NBC Sports (www.nbcsports.com)
■ The Sporting News (www.sportingnews.com)

SEARCHING FOR MEDICAL INFORMATION

■ healthAtoZ.com (www.healthatoz.com)
■ kidsDoctor (www.kidsdoctor.com)
■ MedExplorer (www.medexplorer.com)
■ MedicineNet (www.medicinenet.com)
■ National Library of Medicine
(www.nlm.nih.gov)
■ Planet Wellness (www.planetwellness.com)
■ WebMD Health (my.webmd.com)

JOURNALS

http://www.indexcopernicus.com Multidisciplinary
http://www.ajol.info/ - African Journal Online
www.africanjournalseries.com -
www.devconsortservices.com.ng
www.doaj.org - directory of open access journal
www.sabinet.co.za - South African Journals.
www.oajse.com - Open Access Journal Search Engine
http://www.lub.lu.se/en.html - Lund University
http://www.dovepress.com/ - Free Scientific & Medical Materials
http://www.copernicus.org/ - Access & Publication

ACADEMIC SEARCH/WEB RESEARCH TOOLS/REFERENCE MANAGERS

http://academic.research.microsoft.com - Multidisciplinary
http://www.scirus.com
www.scholar.google.com
http://dbis.uni-trier.de/DBL-Browser/ - Digital Bibliography Library Browser
http://academic.live.com - Live Search Academic
http://www.science.gov/ - USA government for Science
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/index - Computing & Information Sciences
http://www.mendeley.com/ - academic social network/collaboration
http://www.worldcat.org/ - Multidisciplinary
http://libserver.cedefop.europa.eu - Voc & Tech Education
http://inspirehep.net/ - Stanford physics information retrieval system
hsystemv  www.ssrn.com/ - Social Science Research Network