Public and University Libraries

The Imperial College Rock Library is an information resource on petrology and mineralogy of rock samples based on the collections of the Department of Earth Science and Engineering and the Royal School of Mines. The Library contains detailed descriptions of the mineralogies, textures and petrology of a large number of specimens, including explanations of their petrogenesis and access to mineral and rock identification tools, for use by students, academics and industry partners. The Library also contains learning tools and activities designed to enable users to improve their skills in practical sample identification and interpretation designed to accomodate users with a wide range of experience.

Academic research and engagement underpins much of what we do at The National Archives: capturing the historical record of government, preserving digital and paper records and providing effective services to researchers.

We are recognised by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) as an Independent Research Organisation.

As an originator and supporter of research, we maintain an innovative programme to develop and test new ideas, for the benefit of government, information and preservation professionals.

Of all documents and materials created in the course of business conducted by the United States Federal government, only 1%-3% are so important for legal or historical reasons that they are kept by us forever. Those valuable records are preserved and are available to you, whether you want to see if they contain clues about your familys history, need to prove a veterans military service, or are researching an historical topic that interests you.

Established in 1879 to build and organize a collection of scientific materials in the earth sciences, the U.S. Geological Survey Library is now the largest library for earth sciences in the world. The Library includes four central libraries and is part of Core Science Systems within the USGS.

Online collections from CalTech University Library.

The CERN Scientific Information Service (currently the RCS-SIS group) has for its mandate the management of the Library and the Historical and Scientific Archives of CERN. Online resources include the CERN Document Server, books, journals, databases, and more.

Resumption resources, databases, electronic journals, resources by subject.

The Goddard Library website provides access to the Library's resources, print and electronic, as well as tools, services, staff expertise, and the ability to search a wide range of Internet resources. We are committed to providing timely access to scientific, technical and management information. No matter where or who you are, we encourage you to explore the site, bookmark it, and use it often. You will find an ever-growing array of information resources and services designed with your research needs in mind. Researchers throughout the world are encouraged to use the the Library website, although some online services and resources are available only to those affiliated with Goddard.

Find quick links to chemistry journal databases, references, tutorials, books, and more.

On this site maintained by the American Museum of Natural History, you will find the world's first & only large collection of full colour, high-resolution images of faithfully transcribed Darwin manuscripts. These manuscripts record Charles Darwin's work as a practicing scientist. Whether you are a student or a researcher, our goal is to offer you digital access to the primary evidence for the birth and maturation of Darwin's attempts to explore and explain the natural world.

Charles Darwin’s Library is a digital edition and virtual reconstruction of the surviving books owned by Charles Darwin maintained by the Biodiversity Heritage Library. This BHL special collection draws on original copies and surrogates from other libraries. It also provides full transcriptions of his annotations and marks. In this first release (2011) we provide 330 of the 1480 titles in his library, concentrating on the most heavily annotated books.

The Digital Public Library of America brings together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world. It strives to contain the full breadth of human expression, from the written word, to works of art and culture, to records of America’s heritage, to the efforts and data of science. DPLA aims to expand this crucial realm of openly available materials, and make those riches more easily discovered and more widely usable and used. DPLA is generously supported by a number of foundations and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Libraries are the memory of humankind, irreplaceable repositories of documents of human thought and action. The New York Public Library is such a memory bank par excellence, one of the great knowledge institutions of the world, its myriad collections ranking with those of the British Library, the Library of Congress, and the Biblioth�ue nationale de France. Virtually all of the Library's many collections and services are freely available to all comers. In fact, the Library has but one criterion for admission: curiosity. The New York Public Library comprises simultaneously a set of scholarly research collections and a network of community libraries, and its intellectual and cultural range is both global and local, while singularly attuned to New York City. That combination lends to the Library an extraordinary richness. It is special also in being historically a privately managed, nonprofit corporation with a public mission, operating with both private and public financing in a century-old, still evolving private-public partnership. The research collections (for reference only, and organized as The Research Libraries, with four major centers) resemble the holdings of the great national and university libraries, and the community circulating libraries (organized as The Branch Libraries) resemble classic American municipal libraries.

Find free health and medical information online and through videos, e-books, databases, and articles from the Stanford Health Library website of the Stanford University Medical Center.

Find online publications, journals, supplements and transcripts, workshops, symposia, lectures, book collections, media, theses. databases, other labs.

The GrayLIT Network makes the gray literature of U.S. Federal Agencies easily accessible over the Internet. It taps into the search engines of distributed gray literature collections, enabling the user to find information without first having to know the sponsoring agency. The GrayLIT Network is the world's most comprehensive portal to Federal gray literature. By offering a mode of communication for this hard-to-find class of literature, the GrayLIT Network enables convenient access by the American public to government information. The Department of Energy (DOE) provides public access to this research tool. Federal Agencies participating in this project are DOD/DTIC, DOE, EPA, and NASA.

WorldCat is the world's largest network of library content and services. Find books, DVDs, CDs, journals, magazines, and everything else in libraries near you.

The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom and one of the world's greatest libraries.

The central information source for NOAA documents, databases, e-journals, maps, goverment documents, photos, and links to various branches of NOAA, including research groups. The library has an extensive collection of historical Coast and Geodetic Survey materials (from 1807) and Weather Bureau materials (from the 1830's), including foreign meteorological data. These materials include historical meteorological data, historical local climate data, information on instruments, and metadata. Most of these materials are found nowhere else in the world. These materials have proved critical for NOAA studies of previous weather and oceanographic conditions. Recent examples include research on the 1982-3 El Ni�, development of a flood model for the Nile River, and predictions of 1993 mid-west floods.

The Internet Public Library (IPL), is a public service organization and learning/teaching environment at the University of Michigan School of Information. We provide library services to Internet users. Activities include: finding, evaluating, selecting, organizing, describing, and creating information resources; and direct assistance to individuals.