2. Workshop Outline
1. Digital Libraries/Archives
2. Library of Congress Digital Collections
3. Searching Tools & Search Engines
4. Useful Websites: National & International
5. Images, Sounds, Video
6. ESL Websites
7. Webquests
8. Free English Dictionaries
9. Websites & Databases Specialized in the Sciences
10. Data Depositories & E-Print Archives
11. Science Literacy
3. Digital Libraries/Archives
World Digital Library
http://www.wdl.org/en/
Digital Public Library of America
http://dp.la/
Digital Comic Museum
http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/
4. Library of Congress Digital
Collections
Teacher Resources http://www.loc.gov/teachers/
Classroom Materials
http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials
Other Useful LC Resources:
Science Reference Services. Library of Congress
(LC) http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/
Science, Technology, Business. Digital
Collections. LC
http://www.loc.gov/topics/science.php
Everyday Mysteries. Fun Science Facto from the
Library of Congress
5. Searching Tools & Search
Engines
Internet Public Library. http://www.ipl.org
Wikimedia Commons
http://commons.wikimedia.org
Search Creative Commons
http://search.creativecommons.org/
Google Scholar http://scholar.google.com/
7. Specialized EFL Websites (I)
Teaching English (British Council/BBC)
http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/
English Central
http://www.englishcentral.com/
8. Specialized EFL Websites (II)
Internet TESL Journal Links Page http://iteslj.org/links/
ESL Gold http://www.eslgold.com/
Randall’s ESL Cyber Listening Lab http://www.esl-
lab.com/
English as a Second Language Online
http://www.usingenglish.com/
EverythingESL.net http://www.everythingesl.net/
Learn English Using Online Resources. NYPL
http://www.nypl.org/help/community-outreach/immigrant-services/learn-
esol-online-resources
10. Free English Dictionaries
Learners Dictionary – Merriam Webster
http://www.learnersdictionary.com/
Forvo http://www.forvo.com
Offers pronunciations for over 1 million words in many
languages
Pronny http://www.rightpronunciation.com
Pronny gives you the right pronunciation of important
names belonging to the major languages of the world
Engineering
http://dictionary.babylon.com/science/engineering/
11. Websites Specialized in the
Sciences
Public Library of Science http://www.plos.org/
Science.gov
Gateway to U.S. Federal Science. It “searches over 60 databases and
over 2200 selected websites from 15 federal agencies, offering 200 million
pages of authoritative U.S. government science information including
research and development results”
UAlbany Databases by Subscription
http://library.albany.edu/db/subject?n=nano
12. Data Depositories & E-Print
Archives Sciences
Specialized in Engineering:
http://libguides.lib.uci.edu/content.php?pid=226364&sid=1874263#engineering
Find repositories:
Registry of Open Access Repositories http://roar.eprints.org/
Databib http://databib.org/
Databib is a searchable catalog / registry / directory / bibliography of research data
repositories.
Figshare http://figshare.com/
A repository where users can make all of their research outputs available in a citable,
shareable and discoverable manner.
E-Print Network
http://www.osti.gov/eprints/
13. Science Literacy
The Information Literacy User’s Guide
http://opensuny.org/omp/index.php/SUNYOp
enTextbooks/catalog/book/170
Read chapter 9. Science Literacy