SELECTED WEBSITES
JUNE-SEPTEMBER 2007

BUSINESS

Everything International
http://faculty.philau.edu/russowl/russow.html
This portal to free, valuable internet resources relevant to global business and country studies was established in 1996 by Lloyd Russow (international business and marketing, and Associate Dean, School of Business Administration, Philadelphia University). The site is divided into ten main lists such as County and Regional Data, Education, Mega Sites, Company and Industry Data and Market Entry Assistance. The content is regularly updated with dead links removed.

Start Here, Go Places
www.startheregoplaces.com
Created by the American Institute of CPAs, this site is intended to provide students, high school through college, with free resources related to careers in business and accounting. Future CPAs will find information and links to availability of scholarships, jobs and internships, simulation games, and individual profiles of accountants in the workforce.

Free the World.com
www.freetheworld.com
This is a useful resource on free market economic thinking and international development theory. It is the website of the Economic Freedom Network whose purpose is to bring the “topic of economic freedom into mainstream public debate.” Its 71 members issue an annual report containing an index ranking 130 economies on a 1-10 scale in five categories: size of government; legal structure/security of property rights; access to sound money; freedom to exchange with foreigners; and regulation of credit, labor and business. Sources of data used in compiling the reports are reported.

The Motely Fool
www.fool.com/index.htm
Started by two brothers, David and Tom Gardner, The Motely Fool partnered with AOL to go online in 1994. It describes itself as the world’s premier multimedia financial education company. The company’s mission is to “educate, enrich, and amuse” individual investors around the world. The primary topics are Investing, Personal Finance and Products and Services. The sub-topics are typically what one would expect to find on such a site: bonds, index funds, mutual funds, stock ideas, credit reports, IRAs, Savings/CDs, home buying/rates, stock advisor, hidden gems, global gains, to name a few. The brothers have published eight books on investing and have offered commentary or appeared on CNN, CNBC, and NPR and the website’s nationally syndicated weekly newspaper column now appears in 200 papers. A UK edition of the site was started in 1998. In addition, almost $3 million has been raised for charities by The Motely Fool website.

EDUCATION

New Teachers Home Page
www.inspiringteachers.com/home/newteachers.html
Created by educators, this is a site for the beginning teacher. There are resources available for purchase (e.g. Survival Kit for New Teachers) but many feature and links are free. Newsletters, teaching tips, advice and chat lists are among such lists. Additional resources are articles on Classroom Management, Discipline, and Parent Support.

Autism Information Center
www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/autism
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has created this site for physicians, therapists, researchers, students and families of children with the diagnosis of autism, Asperger syndrome and “pervasive developmental disorder- not otherwise specifies.” Information about symptoms, causes, resources, government initiatives is given with cited resources and the date of the last update. Other areas addressed include behavioral disabilities and ADHD.

EduHound: Everything for Education K-12
www.eduhound.com
EduHound offers a comprehensive menu of educational resources. The creator of the site is a former teacher who has “mined” the Internet for classroom resources and tools to enhance learning. There are links to museums, grants and funding, lesson plans and plus a directory of schools and classrooms that have active web sites. There is a weekly newsletter that highlights web sites and online seasonal resources.

The Power of Place: Geography for the 21st Century
www.learner.org/resources/series180.html
This is part of Annenberg Media that is dedicated to the needs of K-12 and college educators concentrating on skills and concepts necessary for an understanding of the field and covering all aspects of geography necessary to examine the relationship between people and the natural environment. Among the links are case studies from 50 locations in three dozen countries and related sources on geography, such as teaching the discipline in both electronic and print form.

HUMANITIES

Greek Mythology Link
www.maicar.com/GML
This site is by Carlos Parada, the author of Genealogical Guide to Greek Mythology. The myths are retold with links to chronology, genealogy, and sidebars linking myth to science, politics, history, philosophy, and religion. This is a very user-friendly site with maps, drawings, photos, biographies and dictionaries describing Greek gods, goddesses, heroes and heroines.

Open Source Shakespeare: An Experiment in Literary Technology
www.opensource.shakespeare.org
Eric M. Johnson, a former Washington Times reviewer started OSS in 2003. It contains Shakespeare’s complete works in full text. There is an advanced search function, a concordance, and a character search. The texts are from the Complete Moby Shakespeare which is based on the 1866 Global Edition of the complete works.

Digital Mozart Edition
http://dme.mozarteum.atl
This site is a reproduction of the new collected edition of Mozart’s works in a digitized format. In addition to reproducing Mozart’s works digitally, it aims toward easier access to different variants and versions of individual compositions and simultaneous access to scores and critical commentaries. A reviewer for CHOICE judged this to be an essential source.

LiTgloss
http://wings.buffalo.edu/litgloss
A joint effort of the University at Buffalo and the National Endowment for the Humanities, this is a collection of literary, historical, and culturally significant texts written in languages other than English. It was designed to promote language study and knowledge of other traditions and cultures. Currently it contains more than 150 texts in 24 languages, ancient and modern. Benito Mussolini’s La dottrina del  fascismo is an example of the type of historical document found here. Some documents require UB password for access.

NATURAL SCIENCES AND MATHEMATICS

Contributions of 20th Century Women to Physics
http://cwp.library.ucla.edu
Between 1995 and 2001, Nina Byers and several other physicists in southern California assembled biographical and bibliographical information for 86 women who made theoretical contributions to physics from 1900-1975. Each biography page contains a photograph of the physicist, her major contributions and publications, honors, employment, education, additional information and recommended reading.

Intute: Science, Engineering and Technology: Chemistry
www.intute.ac.uk/sciences/chemistry
The Intute Web is a meta search engine with a buffet-style collection of topics. Searches include traditional titles like chemistry, physics, and astronomy. There are also interesting links to other, more creative ones such as Science Data, Hot Topics, Natural Hazards and Worldguide. Worldguide provides satellite images of fires, deserts, hurricanes, lakes, mountains, rivers, volcanoes, and cloud formations as well as fact sheets on national and urban populations and densities, acid rain, floods, earthquakes, physics of sports, comets thermoplastics, waste management, and anti-matter, to name a few. The Virtual Training Link provides short tutorials on a variety of chemical topics found in most introductory chemistry textbooks along with self-tests. Chemistry has subdivisions like organic, general, and analytical and websites for further reading.

Algebasics
www.algebasics.com
This resource is an easy-to-use tutorial in secondary level algebra. The main menu lists 16 topics such as the basics of algebra, inequalities, polynominals, factoring linear equations, functions quadratics, and applications. When selecting a topic, the user is given a choice of one general description and up to 25 examples, ranging from simple to more complicated. Upon selecting an example, the process involved in its solution is discussed on a step-by-step basis.

Calculus on the Web
www.mathtemple.edu/%7Ecow
This site provides a huge assortment of guided practice problems, created and partially funded through Temple University National Science Foundation Grant. The authors succeeded in creating a format that is clearly organized and thorough. The site includes the precalculus/calculus sequence content as well as linear algebra, number theory, and abstract algebra. Problems within each topic include prompts to guide the user from one step to the next.

SOCIAL SCIENCES

CensusScope
www.censusscope.org
The Social Science Datal Analysis Network, based at the University of Michigan created this tool for the study of demographic data. It allows users to explore demographic trends, copy maps, charts, and tables, and further manipulate the data. The US Census is the source of the data. CensusScope graphically illustrates issues such as racial diversity, segregation, population growth, educational levels, language diversity, foreign-born residents, and internal migration. Information is available at the national, state, county, and metropolitan levels. There is a quantity of data from 1900, and some from 1960 but the largest amount is censuses from 1980-2000.

The Presidential Timeline of the Twentieth Century
www.presidentialtimeline.org
This online resource provides an interactive time line of Presidents Hoover through Clinton, which highlights major political and personal events for each president and links to the presidential repositories. Users can link to Exhibits (specific events such as Truman’s decision to drop the atomic bomb, Nixon’s diplomatic trip to China) and Gallery (collection of presidential documents, photos, letters, and audio and visual clips).

The History of the Supreme Court
www.historyofsupremecourt.org
Authored by professors, this site includes teacher resources, time lines, factual articles, and a separate encyclopedia. There are lesson plans on this site as well as an open call for lesson plans. There are links to other online resources and some sites sponsored by law schools. Construction of this site is ongoing with three sections unoperational but despite that this is still a good introduction to our Supreme Court.

Frontline Diplomacy: The Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/diplomacy
This collection of foreign affairs oral histories is hosted by the Library of Congress. It contains an electronic collection of transcribed interviews of foreign service officers (FSO) who served in the diplomatic corps in the 1920s to the 1940s with the bulk of the collection post WWII. The more than 1300 interviews focus on Europe and Latin American relations. The collection is growing as more interviews are scheduled to be added.