Some Useful Websites & Online Educational Support

Online Learning May Not Appeal To Everyone; However, The Sheer Number Of Online Learning Sites Suggests That There Is At Least A Strong Interest In Convenient, Portable Learning Options Many Of Which Are Study At Your Own Pace. While This Is Not a Rankings List by Any Means, (For That You Should Consult Our Ranking Of The Best Online Colleges) By Using a Variety of Criteria, We’ve Filtered in Some of The Most Popular Sites in Each Category.

1. Online Education Websites :

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

2. 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

3. Online Educational Support :

• http://www.ocwconsortium.org/ - The Global Network for Open Education
• 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/ -Open University
• http://ocw.usu.edu/ -Utah State University
• http://open.umich.edu/ -University of Michigan
• http://ocw.nd.edu/ -Nore Dame University

4. Answers To Questions :

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

5. 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)

6. 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)

7. 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)

8. 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)

9. 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)

10. Journals :

• http://www.indexcopernicus.com - Multidisciplinary
• http://www.ajol.info/ - African Journal Online
• www.doaj.org - directory of open access journal
• www.sabinet.co.za - South African 
• 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

11. Academic Search/Web Research Tools/Reference Managers :

• http://academic.research.microsoft.com - Multidisciplinary
• http://www.scirus.com - Scirus has retired
• 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 h system v
• www.ssrn.com/ - Social Science Research Network

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