Research and Professional Web Sites

Listed below are some very good, research quality and professional web sites. However, the library also has many more sites accessible through the catalog. Check the library catalog by searching your topic and the word

"web ".   You might just get the perfect site to use in your paper.

Art, Music and Humanities   |Business and Economics   | Education and Children’s Literature  Ethic and Gender Studies
Health, Psychology and Science | History and Biography | Law, Criminal Justice and Social Work  Literature and Writing | News and Communication | Physical Education and Sports
Political and International Studies | Religion and Philosophy

Art, Music and Humanities

• American Studies Web
• Art Institute of Chicago
• Billboard Online
• CARLI Digital Library - 30,00 digital images of paintings, sculpture and architecture, including images from various museums and art history texts.
• Classical Net (classical music)
• Database of Recorded American Music
• Digital Scores - Loeb Music Library - Harvard College Library
• Jazz (PBS series by Ken Burns)
• Kennedy Center's Arts Edge
• Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City)
• The National Gallery of Art
• Perseus Digital Library - covers Western literature, humanities and some history.
• Project Gutenberg- electronic books in literature, philosophy, history and other topics
• Performing Arts Encyclopedia
• Rolling Stone
• Voice of the Shuttle - humanities research

Business and Economic

• Advertising Age (current issue only)
• AgEcon Search (research in agricultural and applied economics)
• Better Business Bureau
• Federal Consumer Information Center
• Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
• Inc.Com (small business)
• Internal Revenue Service
• ThomasNet (US Industrial Directory)
• US Exchange and Securities Commission
• Wall Street Journal (daily only)

Education and Children's Literature

  Children's Literature

• Database of Award Winning Children's Literature
• International Children's Digital Library
• Literature for Children
• Web Guide to Children's Literature

   Education, K-12 and Higher Education

• Illinois State Board of Education
• Institute for Information Literacy
• National Council for the Teachers of English
• National Council for the Teachers of Mathematics
• National Science Teachers Association
• Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education
• PRIMO (peer reviewed instructional materials online)
• US Department of Education
• Teachers' Domain: Multimedia Resources for the Classroom
• W3 Schools (information for creating web sites and other online tools)
• Web English Teacher

Ethnic and Gender Studies (see also History, Politics)

• 4000 Years of Women in Science
• African American Odyssey (Library of Congress)
• American Women
• Diotima (women and gender studies in the ancient world)
• Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress
• NAACP
• National Organization for Women
• NativeWeb (for information on Native Americans)
• Women's Sports Foundation

Health, Psychology and Science

• American Psychological Association
• Deaf Resource Library
• Disability Resources on the Internet
• Drugs@FDA
• Encyclopedia of Earth
• Encyclopedia of Psychology (Jacksonville State University)
• Food and Nutrition Information Center
• Human Genome Project
• Illinois Department of Human Services
• Math Archives
• Mathematical Association of America
• Mayo Clinic (help with health questions)
• NASA
• National Council on Aging
• National Institute of Mental Health
• PubMed Central (archive of free life sciences journals)
• ScienceGOV
• Social Psychology Network
• WebMD
• World Health Organization

History and Biography (see also Ethnic, Law, Politics)

    American History

• American Civil War Homepage
• American Memory (all periods of US History, primary sources)
• American President
• American Revolution
• France in America= La France en Amerique
• George Washington papers at the Library of Congress, 1741-1799
• Smithsonian Institution (all periods of American art and history, includes links to National Zoo and other national museums)
• Thomas Jefferson papers at the Library of Congress
• Veterans History Project (Quincy University is participating in this project)
• Vietnam Project

    Illinois and Regional History

• Abraham Lincoln papers at the Library of Congress
• Center for the Study of Southern Culture
• Early Illinois Women (Quincy University contributed to this site)
• Encyclopedia of Chicago
• Illinois Alive (Quincy University contributed to this site)
• Illinois Harvest (a gateway to resources about Illinois from University of Illinois
• Illinois State Museum
• Missouri History Museum
• Photographs from the Chicago Daily News, 1902-1933
• Quincy Lincoln Bicentennial Commission

    Ancient, African, Asian, and European history

• Africa south of the Sahara
• Ancient Greek World
• British history Online
• British Museum
• Cold War International History Project
• Digital Egypt for Universities
• EuroDocs (primary historical documents from Western Europe)
• Labyrinth (resources for Medieval Studies)
• Victorian Web

Law, Criminal Justice and Social Work

• American Bar Association
• The Avalon Project (from Yale Law School, documents in law, history and diplomacy)
• ChildStats. Gov
• US Department of Health and Human Services
• History of the Supreme Court
• National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect Information
• National Crime Prevention Council
• Social Security Administration
• Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics
• Supreme Court of the United States
• Terrorism: Law and Policy

Literature and Writing

• Academy of American Poets
• Acronym Finder
• American Authors
• American Folk life Center
• The American Verse Project
• English and American Literature Resources (Stony Brook University Libraries)
• Irish literature, mythology, folklore, and drama
• Plagiarism and other Writing/Research Errors
• Project Gutenberg
• Shakespeare: Complete Works

News and Communication

(see also the Popular News Links on the library's home page)

• Library of American Broadcasting
• Mike Wallace Interviews (Early years, 1957-1960)
• NewsWatch (Consumer's guide to the news)
• Pew Research Center for People and the Press

Physical Education and Sports

• American College of Sports Medicine
• AAHPERD (American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance)
• ESPN
• NCAA
• Olympics (official site of the Olympic Movement)

Politics and International Studies (see also History, Law)

  United States and US Elections

• Common Cause (government watchdog)
• Democratic Party
• Election Resources on the Internet (U.S. and international)
• FedStats
• FirstGov (US government information)
• First Amendment Center
• Republican National Committee
• Tracked in America (history of US government surveillance from the ACLU)
• US House of Representatives
• US Senate
• The White House

  International Studies

• African Studies
• Asian Studies
• Background Notes (brief information on various nations published by the US Department of State)
• Central Intelligence Agency
• LANIC (Latin American Information Center)
• Middle East Network Information
• United Nations
• United Nations Statistics Division

Religion and Philosophy

• ARDA (American Religion Data Archive-also has international information)
• Bible Gateway
• Bible-King James Version
• BuddhaNet
• Catholic Research Resources Alliance - primary sources held in American Catholic universities
• Christianity Today
• EWTN
• Franciscans (Order of Friars Minor)
• Islam 101
• Judaism 101
• New American Bible
• Papal Encyclicals Online
• Religion in Latin America
• The Vatican (Holy See)

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