ONLINE LEARNING RESOURCES:
-Students and Learners are encouraged to check these sites to improve their skills for better performance and productivity. Many of these sites are available to learners FREE.
The learning sites are:
• alison.com
• gatlininternational.com
• accredible.com
• ed2go.com
• eager2learn.com
• opencourseware.com
• Lynda.com
• EdX.com
• Edu-active.com
• University of the People
• iicseuniversity.org
• Worldquant University
• Educatisuniversity.org
• Africa Virtual University, Kenya
• Coursera
The following resources are available for students and learners on line for further education and learning purposes.
•Encyclopedia Britannia
•World Library
•Online Libraries
•In need of any book(.pdf) relating to any subject/field or topic?
•Go to your browser and type:
www.pdfdrive.net
You will get access to millions of books you need, for free.
Unlimited downloads.
•You may browse by title or author, etc.
Currently 274376478 books are available for free and every minute, around 50 new books are added to the database.
All downloads are free.
ONLINE EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT
www.khanacademy.org
www.academicearths.org
www.coursera.com
www.edx.org
www.open2study.com
www.academicjournals.org
codeacademy.org
youtube.com/education
BOOK SITES
www.bookboon.com
http://ebookee.org
http://sharebookfree.com
http://m.freebooks.com
www.obooko.com
www.manybooks.net
www.epubbud.com
www.bookyards.com
www.getfreeebooks.com
http://freecomputerbooks.com
www.essays.se
www.sparknotes.com
www.pink.monkey.com
ONLINE EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT
http://www.ocwconsortium.org/
http://www.ocwconsortium.org/en/courses/ocwsites
http://ocw.tufts.edu - Tuft University
http://ocw.upm.es - Univesidad Politechnica,
Madrid
http://www.open.edu/openlearn/
http://ocw.usu.edu/ - Utah State University
http://open.umich.edu/ - University of Michigan
http://ocw.nd.edu/ - Notre Dame University
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
www.ehow.com
www.whatis.com
www.howstuffwork.com
www.webopedia.com
www.plagtracker.com
www.answers.com
SEARCHING FOR THE LATEST NEWS
¦ ABC News (www.abcnews.com)
¦ CBS News (www.cbsnews.com)
¦ CNN (www.cnn.com)
¦ Fox News (www.foxnews.com)
¦ MSNBC (www.msnbc.com)
¦ New York Times (www.nytimes.com)
¦ USA Today (www.usatoday.com)
SEARCHING FOR SPORTS HEADLINES AND SCORES
¦ CBS SportsLine (www.sportsline.com)
¦ CNN/Sports Illustrated (sportsillustrated.cnn.com)
¦ ESPN.com (espn.go.com)
¦ FOXSports (foxsports.lycos.com)
¦ NBC Sports (www.nbcsports.com)
¦ The Sporting News (www.sportingnews.com)
SEARCH SITES
¦ About.com (www.about.com)
¦ AllTheWeb (www.alltheweb.com)
¦ AltaVista (www.altavista.com)
¦ Ask Jeeves! (www.askjeeves.com)
¦ Excite (www.excite.com)
¦ HotBot (www.hotbot.com)
¦ LookSmart (www.looksmart.com)
¦ Lycos (www.lycos.com)
¦ Open Directory (www.dmoz.org)
¦ Google (www.google.com)
¦ Mamma (www.mamma.com)
¦ Webcrawler (www.webcrawler.com)
¦ Aol (www.aol.com)
¦ Dogpile (www.dogpile.com)
¦ 10pht (www.10pht.com)
SEARCHING FOR PEOPLE
¦ AnyWho (www.anywho.com)
¦ InfoSpace (www.infospace.com)
¦ Switchboard (www.switchboard.com)
¦ WhitePages.com (www.whitepages.com)
¦ WhoWhere (www.whowhere.lycos.com)
ACADEMIC SEARCH/WEB RESEARCH TOOLS/REFERENCE MANAGERS
http://academic.research.microsoft.com – Multidisciplinary
http://www.scirus.com
www.scholar.google.com
http://dbis.uni-trier.de/DBL-Browser/ –Digital Bibliography Library Browser
http://academic.live.com – Live Search Academic
http://www.science.gov/ – USA government for Science
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/index – Computing & Information Sciences
http://www.mendeley.com/ – academic social network/collaboration
http://www.worldcat.org/ – Multidisciplinary
http://libserver.cedefop.europa.eu – Voc & Tech Education
http://inspirehep.net/ – Stanford physics information retrieval system
www.ssrn.com/ – Social Science Research Network.
SEARCHING FOR MEDICAL INFORMATION
¦ healthAtoZ.com (www.healthatoz.com)
¦ kidsDoctor (www.kidsdoctor.com)
¦ MedExplorer (www.medexplorer.com)
¦ MedicineNet (www.medicinenet.com)
¦ National Library of Medicine (www.nlm.nih.gov)
¦ Planet Wellness (www.planetwellness.com)
¦ WebMD Health (my.webmd.com)
JOURNALS
http://www.indexcopernicus.com Multidisciplinary
http://www.ajol.info/ – African Journal Online
www.africanjournalseries.com
www.devconsortservices.com.ng
www.doaj.org – directory of open access journal
www.sabinet.co.za –South African Journals.
www.oajse.com –Open Access Journal Search Engine
http://www.lub.lu.se/en.html – Lund University
http://www.dovepress.com/ – Free Scientific & Medical Materials
http://www.copernicus.org/ – Access & Publication
