Free Web-Based Tools for Everyone: Research

"Wolfram|Alpha's long-term goal is to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone."

This resource includes dictionaries in a variety of languages, translation tools, and links to language forums.

A directory of "academic, peer reviewed books in Open Access."

"The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that was founded to build an Internet library. Its purposes include offering permanent access for researchers, historians, scholars, people with disabilities, and the general public to historical collections that exist in digital format."

"EUscreen offers free online access to videos, stills, texts and audio from European broadcasters and audiovisual archives. Explore selected content from early 1900s until today."

"Open access to 799,332 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics."

"E-prints in Library and Information Science."

"The Electronic Journals Library was founded in 1997 by the University Library of Regensburg in co-operation with the Technische Universität München University Library within the framework of a project. "

"PMC is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM)."

"BASE is one of the world's most voluminous search engines especially for academic open access web resources." Use BASE to search open access repositories.

"The OpenDOAR service provides a quality-assured listing of open access repositories around the world."

"Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is a world wide collaborative of over 210,000 authors and more than 1.3 million users that is devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of social science research."

"Europeana is a single access point to millions of books, paintings, films, museum objects and archival records that have been digitised throughout Europe."

"The Miller Center is a nonpartisan institute that seeks to expand understanding of the presidency, policy, and political history, providing critical insights for the nation’s governance challenges. "

"GoodGuide provides the world's largest and most reliable source of information on health, environmental, and social impacts of consumer products."

"iSEEK Education is a targeted search engine for students, teachers, administrators, and caregivers."

The Digital Library of the Commons (DLC) is a gateway to the international literature on the commons providing free and open access to full-text articles, papers, and dissertations. It includes an author-submission portal; an Image Database; the Comprehensive Bibliography of the Commons; a Keyword Thesaurus, and links to relevant reference sources on the study of the commons.

"Currently in public beta, RefSeek is a web search engine for students and researchers that aims to make academic information easily accessible to everyone. RefSeek searches more than one billion documents, including web pages, books, encyclopedias, journals, and newspapers."