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Research: Subject Information

General

CQ Reseacher Online (oncampus) and offcampus
Internet Public Library maintained ed by University of Michigan School of Information
Ready Reference Using the Internet created by Ellen Berne, updated Carla Boscok The Winsor School, Boston
Points of View Reference Center
United Nations public databases e.g. food, education, jobs, energy, environment, population, trade, and more from the world's nations and regions, including forecasts.

Agriculture

Agricola index/database of publications on all aspects of agriculture, plant and animal sciences, forestry, etc. developed by the National Agricultural Library (NAL).
WV Agricultural Statistics Publications includes links to WV and federal data on agriculture, profiles breaks out by county, other census links.

Allied Health

Art

The Mother of all ART HISTORY link pages with over 400 links provided by the University of Michigan School of Art & Design.

Biology

Tree of Life Web Project "A collaborative effort of biologists and nature enthusiasts..., the project provides information about biodiversity, the characteristics of different groups of organisms, and their evolutionary history (phylogeny)."
BioTech Life Sciences Resources and Reference Tools - biology and chemistry links and dictionary.
Agricola National Agricultura Library's database of citations to agricultural literature.
Information Bridge Over "200,00 full-text documents and bibliographic citations of [US] Department of Energy (DOE) research report literature. Documents are primarily from 1991 forward and were produced by DOE, the DOE contractor community, and/or DOE grantees."
The Living Skeleton: a Tour of Human Bones by Carolyn Csongrad, provided by Access Excellence@ the National Health Museum Resource Center.
NCBI coffee break collection of short reports on recent biological discoveries provided by the National Center for Biotechnology Informaton.

Business

Pathfinder

Encyclopedia of Business and Finance
Encyclopedia of Management
Entrepreneurshop and Innovations in E-Business: An Integrative Perspective
The First 10 Yards: The 5 Dynamics of Entrepreneurshop and How They Made a Diffierence at DHL and Other Successful Startups
Outsourcing and Offshoring in the 21st Century: A Socio-Economic Perspective

Yahoo! Finance | Google Finance
US Small Busines Administration
entreworld.org provides solutions to businesses based on their development stage
Edward Lowe Peerspectives information for the second-stage entrepreneur and small businesses
West Virginia Census Information | WV Bureau of Employment-Statistics | WV Geological & Economic Survey
Bureau of Business and Economic Research College of Business, WVU maintains a number of publications including West Virginia Business and Economic Review
CEOExpress: Business portal for executives links to business sites sorted by topic, most info free, but some sources require subscription.
Business ethics created by Sharon Stoerger. Some links require registration.
Financial Accounting Standards Board and Government Accounting Standards Board
Forecastcenter.com maintained by Irving Leveson, selected from various sources. Registration allows access to discussion forums and more material.

Chemistry

Information Bridge Over "200,00 full-text documents and bibliographic citations of [US] Department of Energy (DOE) research report literature. Documents are primarily from 1991 forward and were produced by DOE, the DOE contractor community, and/or DOE grantees."
Periodic Table from Lenntech, includes chemical properties, health effects and environmental effects.
Periodic Table on the Net provided by Mark Winter, University of Sheffield, England.

Communication

Journalism Resources compiled by Karla Tonella, University of Iowa. Extensive list of journalism links, including citation guides for electronic/internet sources.
Communication & Mass Media Complete An Ebsco index
ComAbstracts on campus access only
Encyclopedia of Children, Adolescents, and the Media (Gale Virtual Reference Library)

Criminal Justice

WV Crime Rates 1960-2015 | WV Division of Justice & Community Services. Statistical Analysis Center
The Supreme Court of the United States - Opinions,Oral Arguments, Case Documents
OYEZ U.S. Supreme Court Multimedia Oral arguments in the Court since 1995; selective arguments on key constitutional cases earlier (increasing). QTVR tour of the Supreme Court building.
West Virginia Code and West Virginia Legislature
U.S. Code from the U.S. House of Representative.
State, Federal and International legal facts, decisions, code, etc from Washburn University School of Law
Thomas - Legislative Information on the Internet
Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics

Economics

Federal Reserve Board

Education

Skewl sites: the best in educational Web sites, sites examined by practicing teachers for primary, intermediate, and secondary teachers and selected as the best.
Child & Family WebGuide from Tufts University, has sections on Family/Parenting, Health/Mental Health, Education/Learning, Typical Development, Childcare/Daycare.
American Memory Learning Page provided by Library of Congress
ERIC Education Resources Information Center provides a free search version of the ERIC Database. Full text of ERIC documents (ED) are available on the site. WVSU library also has a subscription to the database as one of the Ebsco databases.
Educational Software Directory.net annotated directory of educational software/technology resources, includes links to education organizations, publications and reviews.

English

MLA International Bibliography (Ebsco index)
Guide to Grammar & Writing from Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing Lessons from Online Schools
Literature Criticism Online (oncampus) and (off campus) (Gale Reference Book)
Something About the Author (oncampus) and (off campus) (Gale Reference Book)
Year's Work in English Studies (campus only-checks for campus IP addresses) For "the qualitative narrative bibliographical review of scholarly work on English language and literatures written in English."
Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory (campus only-checks for campus IP addresses) "a companion volume to YWES....a narrative bibliography of work in the field of critical and cultural theory, recording significant debates and issues of interest in a broad field of research in the humanities and social sciences."

Environmental Safety

WV Geological & Economic Survey

Health & Human Performance

West Virginia Therapeutic Recreation Association
Consumer Health Complete (Ebsco Database)

History

Great Events from History: Ancient World
Great Events from History: Middle Ages
Exploring Ancient World Cultures provided by the University of Evansville, Indiana. Essays on ancient cultures: Near East, India, Egypt, China, Greece, Roman, Islam, Europe and translations of ancient texts.
Resources Guide to History on the Web from the Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University. A search line is available.
The History of Jim Crow - African-American experience of segregation from the 1870s through the 1950s, teachers's resources included. The library has the four videos listed under television (circ desk videos, E185.61 .R57 2002)
Country Studies from Library of Congress (check listing of the 101 countries covered on the bottom of their page.)
West Virginia: Big Coal River Valley - Library of Congress' Tending the Commons Folklife and Landscape in Southern W.V. includes sound recording, photographs, etc.

Law

Gale Encyclopedia of American Law (Gale Virtual Reference Library)

Mathematics

arXiv.org Open access to over 500,000 e-prints in physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitiative biology and statistics.
HMC Mathematics Online Tutorial from Harvey Mudd College Mathematics Dept.; S.O.S. Mathematics commercial site check their free resources/explanations; Intro page for On-Line Tutorials by Stefan Waner & Steven R. Costenoble
Stony Brook algorithm repository, web site for the book The Algorithm Design Manual

Medicine

Gale Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol & Addictive Behavior (Gale Virtual Reference Library)
Magill's Medical Guide under Salem
Medscape

Military Science

Department of Defense "Almanac"

Modern Foreign Languages

Multicultural Studies

Music

allmusic.com from AMG, a commercial site for media (music and movie) purchases. Site allows searching by artist, albums, songs, style, label. Results produce review, song/track list, album release dates, discography, format
Red Hot Jazz Archive a history of Jazz before 1930 includes profiles of important jazz singers and musicians.

Physics

arXiv.org Open access to over 2.4 million scholarly articles on physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitiative biology and statistics.
Information Bridge Over "200,00 full-text documents and bibliographic citations of [US] Department of Energy (DOE) research report literature. Documents are primarily from 1991 forward and were produced by DOE, the DOE contractor community, and/or DOE grantees."

Political Science

US Census Bureau with Demographic and Economic Data on World Nations
NACo: National Association of Counties includes research about counties on a national level, links to US Census for county demographic data, links to county homepages. Site is regularly updated.
Foreign Embassies of Washington, D.C. maintained by TeleDiplomacy, Inc.
Country Studies/Area Handbook online versions maintained by the Library of Congress.
Regional Bureaus & Offices and Countries and Areas with Travel Advisories organized by the US Department of State .
Foreign Policy Association, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization seeking to foster popular debate on international issues
The 9/11 Commission Report, the full report (585 pages)

Psychology

American Psychological Association
PsycArticles (Ebsco database)

ROTC

See Military Science above

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Science

Social Work

Sociology

United Nations public databases e.g. food, education, jobs, energy, environment, population, trade, and more from the world's nations and regions, including forecasts.