Databases A-Z: Free

The A.D.A.M. Medical Encyclopedia includes over 4,000 articles about diseases, tests, symptoms, injuries, and surgeries. It also contains an extensive library of  medical photographs and illustrations.

The New York Society of CPAs (NYSSCPA) has prepared this glossary as an educational tool for journalists who report on and interpret financial information. Useful for accounting students.

The mission of the American Association of Medical Assistants is to provide the medical assistant professional with education, certification, credential acknowledgment, networking opportunities, scope-of-practice protection, and advocacy for quality patient-centered health care.

American Journeys is a digital library and learning center containing eyewitness accounts of early American exploration and settlement. The collection contains more than 18,000 pages of eyewitness accounts of North American exploration, from the sagas of Vikings in Canada in AD1000 to the diaries of mountain men in the Rockies 800 years later.

APhA leads the pharmacy profession by supporting pharmacists, student pharmacists, and pharmacy technicians in their role optimizing medication use and patient health outcomes and ensuring patients have access to pharmacists’ care. We do this through our strong and effective advocacy, top notch education, practice tools, and resources, dissemination of evidence, and opportunities for members to engage and learn from each other. APhA is the pharmacy voice at the table in developing national guidelines, policies, and best practices that advance the profession and patient care.

ASHP is the largest association of pharmacy professionals in the United States, representing 60,000 pharmacists, student pharmacists, and pharmacy technicians in all patient care settings, including hospitals, ambulatory clinics, and health-system community pharmacies. ASHP is the accrediting body for pharmacy residency and technician training programs, and provides comprehensive resources to support pharmacy professionals through every stage of their careers.

The APA's source for sharing current news regarding psychology.

The Astrobiology Web was founded Keith Cowing with a singular focus on Astrobiology. It is a gateway site to many resources and articles.

English lessons and resources for ESL students.

The CGP is the finding tool for more than one million publications from the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of the U.S. government.

We work at the intersection of well-being and racial justice for children and youth. We work alongside and amplify the power of youth and families through advocacy, community organizing, direct service, and public policy.

For 50 years, our work has expanded beyond serving children to including young people as they mature into adulthood. We’re training the next generation of leaders who will guide us toward a brighter future where every young person has the opportunity to thrive.

Our history is rooted in the Civil Rights and Women’s movements, and we’re carrying the fight for equity forward. Our legacy connects our work to the past. We’re answering the call to respond to this moment, dismantle racist policies, and overcome systemic inequities for our nation’s children and youth.

From the Library of Congress, search American newspapers from 1836-1963 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Includes many Minnesota newspapers, representing many ethnicities.

From the unique vantage point in space, NASA collects critical long-term observations of our changing planet.

Data Axle Reference Solutions was created in 1998, under the name ReferenceUSA, to provide libraries with the most up-to-date business and consumer data available.

Over 33 million images, texts, videos and sounds from American history archives. There is a banned book club with access to many banned book titles available for free.

On December 12, 2022, PubChem will serve as NLM's single source for chemical information. NLM is retiring ChemIDplus and the Drug Information Portal, two chemical property information sites, to better focus our development efforts on a single, integrated source of chemical information. All of the data found in ChemIDplus and the Drug Information Portal is currently available and will continue to be available in PubChem. 

EBSCO Information Services Support YouTube page. On this page you will find tutorials to help you learn about the key features of EBSCO's many research interfaces and databases, including EBSCOhost and EBSCO Discovery Service, helping you get the most from your research.

Math and other calculators and conversions with lecture notes (how to use, etc.)

Covers all types of U.S. governments documents, including Congressional reports, hearings, debates, and records; judiciary materials; and documents issues by executive departments (Defense, State, Labor, Office of the President, etc).

The UNC Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute (FPG) was founded by a small group of scientists with a shared vision: to conduct research that would make a difference in children's lives, support families, and inform public policy. Since its inception, FPG has recognized that every child deserves a safe, healthy, and stimulating childhood; and our work has been dedicated to making this experience a reality for all children. Our research and evaluation, implementation, technical assistance, and outreach have all shaped—and continue to shape—how the nation cares for and educates children.

We are committed to sharing the information we generate with the public and to supporting professionals' understanding and use of evidence-based practices. Like other top-tier research organizations, our work is published in the most respected journals in our field. What sets us apart is our effort to ensure that parents, educators, and other professionals who support children and families benefit from our work in a timely manner. FPG's dedication to both research and outreach is embodied in our motto: Advancing knowledge to transform children's lives.

A well-rounded science collection of in-depth information for scientific research needs. This consists of over 200 journal references encompassing the most popular scientific titles.

Gale partners with librarians and educators to provide researchers and learners with the content and technology that make greater discoveries and insights possible.

In addition to primary source archives and educational databases, tools include a topic finder with visualizations, subject guide search, and publication search. 
 

GovInfo provides free public access to official publications from all three branches of the Federal Government.

Documenting voluntary immigration to the United States from the signing of the Constitution to the start of the Great Depression.

The ICDL Foundation's goal is to build a collection of books that represents outstanding historical and contemporary books from throughout the world. Ultimately, the Foundation aspires to have every culture and language represented so that every child can know and appreciate the riches of children's literature from the world community.

AGRIS is a global public domain database with millions of structured bibliographical records on agricultural science and technology. Records primarily include citations from scientific journals, but also monographs, books, book chapters, conference proceedings, grey literature (e.g., theses and dissertations, working papers, technical reports) and datasets on a range of topics pertaining to food and agriculture. More than 100 different languages are represented. AGRIS is supported by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) .

More than 6,000 open access ebooks on a variety of subjects.

LibKey.io allows researchers to search for millions of articles by DOI or PMID.

MedEdPORTAL is a free peer-reviewed publication service and repository for medical and oral health teaching materials, assessment tools, and faculty development resources.

Medscape from WebMD offers specialists, primary care physicians, and other health professionals integrated medical information and educational tools. 

The Merck Manual Online is updated periodically with new information, and contains photographs, and audio and video material not present in the print versions.

This site contains a variety of educational and supporting materials for students and teachers of microbiology. 

The mission of the Minnesota Board of Nursing is to protect the public's health and safety through regulation of nursing education, licensure and practice.

Data on various topics concerning Minnesota communities. 

The Minnesota Digital Library (MDL) supports discovery and education through access to unique digital collections shared by cultural heritage organizations from across the state of Minnesota. Our contributors include libraries, historical societies, museums, and archives. The Minnesota Digital Library also provides education and training opportunities concerning digitization best practices, metadata for digital collections, and digital preservation.

Begun in 2003, the Minnesota Digital Library includes digital content from over 200 participating organizations from across the state. Together we have digitized more than 60,000 photographs, postcards, maps, documents, letters, and oral histories. These materials are available online in a free searchable database.

Minnesota Information on Public Health promotes public health by collaborating with communities to create and provide innovative and culturally appropriate prevention services and products worldwide.

The mission of the Minnesota Nurses Association is to promote the professional, economic, and personal well-being of nurses; uphold and advance excellence, integrity, and autonomy in the practice of nursing; and advocate for quality care that is accessible and affordable for patients and consumers.

Working with Minnesotans to protect, conserve and improve our environment and enhance our quality of life.

The mission of the American Association of Medical Assistants is to enable medical assisting professionals to enhance and demonstrate the knowledge, skills and professionalism required by employers and patients; protect medical assistants' right to practice; and promote effective, efficient health care delivery through optimal use of multiskilled Certified Medical Assistants (CMAs). 

This microsite is coordinated by the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health, Office of the Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

NASA explores the unknown in air and space, innovates for the benefit of humanity, and inspires the world through discovery. For more than 65 years, NASA has made the seemingly impossible, possible. At its 20 centers and facilities across the country and with U.S. commercial companies and international partners, NASA leads studying Earth science, including climate, our Sun, solar system, and the larger universe. We conduct cutting-edge research to advance technology and aeronautics. We operate the world’s leading space laboratory, the International Space Station, and will establish a sustainable and strong exploration presence on the Moon this decade through the Artemis campaign.

The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) is dedicated to improving the well-being of all young children, with particular focus on the quality of educational and developmental services for all children from birth through age 8.

The Center collaborates with a broad range of federal agencies, corporate and philanthropic partners, professional organizations, and academic institutions to provide resources geared to a broad audiences.

National Geographic supports critical expeditions and scientific fieldwork, encourages geography education for students, and promotes natural and cultural conservation.

The National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER) improves the learning and development of young children by collaborating with a network of local, state, national, and international early education practitioners to conduct, create and disseminate rigorous research, evaluation, and policy analysis that transforms early childhood policy and practice.  

We offer independent, research-based analysis and technical assistance that provides the following:  

• A rendering of early education excellence in terms policymakers can use and the public can understand
• Monitoring and evaluation of national and state progress toward early educational excellence 
• Development and analysis of model legislation, standards, regulations, and other policies required to improve quality and increase access to good preschool programs
• Compares the costs, outcomes, and economic benefits of alternative policies

The NIST Digital Archives (NDA) present images of NIST Museum artifacts and full-text NIST publications. The images showcase the scientific instruments on display in the NIST Museum located on the NIST campus in Gaithersburg, Maryland. The publications include the Journal of Research of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, which covers the broad range of research undertaken by NIST research staff, focusing on measurement methodology.

National Library of Medicine serves as a national information resource for the public, patients, and families by providing electronic access to reliable health information issued by the National Institutes of Health and other trusted sources.

The National Mental Health Consumers’ Self-Help Clearinghouse is a peer-run national technical assistance and resource center that fosters recovery, self-determination, and community inclusion. The Clearinghouse serves individuals with lived experience of a mental health condition, peer-run service and advocacy organizations, family members, mental health professionals and service providers, policy makers, and the public.

Natural Resources Conservation Service provides leadership in a partnership effort to help America's private land owners and managers conserve their soil, water, and other natural resources.

NYPL Digital Collections provide access to more than a million images and media digitized from The New York Public Library's vast collections, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints, photographs, film, recorded sound, video, and more.

This publication describes the nature of the work, working conditions, the training and education needed, earnings, and expected job prospects for a wide range of occupations. The Occupational Outlook Handbook (OOH) is published by the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).

 

OSTI is the US Department of Energy office that collects, preserves, and disseminates DOE-sponsored R&D results that are the outcomes of R&D projects or other funded activities at DOE labs and facilities nationwide and grantees at universities and other institutions. The information is typically in the form of technical documents, conference papers, articles, and software, collectively referred to as scientific and technical information.

Tables charting the chemical elements have been around since the 19th century - but this modern version has a short video about each one.We've done all 118 - but our job's not finished. Now we're updating all the videos with new stories, better samples and bigger experiments.

Plus we're making films about other areas of chemistry, latest news and occasional adventures away from the lab.

All these videos are created by video journalist Brady Haran, featuring real working chemists from the University of Nottingham.

Since 1995, PTCB has advocated for a single national standard for pharmacy technician certification that is recognized and supported by the profession. Establishing a national standard for pharmacy technician certification through PTCB is consistent with the approach used by other health professions, including the pharmacist licensure process.

There's a whole lot of stuff here, many thousands of pages of text, stories, pictures, and data. Most of it you get to by clicking on the individual elements on the front page, or using the navigation bar the top of nearly every page.

Independent mental health social network created and run by mental health professionals to guarantee reliable, trusted information and support communities.

PubChem is an open chemistry database at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). “Open” means that you can put your scientific data in PubChem and that others may use it. Since the launch in 2004, PubChem has become a key chemical information resource for scientists, students, and the general public.

PubMed comprises more than 30 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.

The Purdue University OWL (Online Writing Lab) includes detailed guides to citation styles, writing process strategies, academic genres, ESL resources, and job-search writing.

In thirty years of award-winning work, RRCHNM has developed more than sixty projects, including online resources for teachers; online collections, exhibits and collecting sites; open-source software; and forums to develop knowledge and build community among those in the humanities working with digital technology.

A gateway to authoritative, selected science information provided by U.S Government agencies, including research and development results.

Business resources and opportunities. 

The Bureau of Labor Statistics is the principal fact-finding agency for the Federal Government in the broad field of labor economics and statistics.

The Census of Agriculture is a complete count of U.S. farms and ranches and the people who operate them. Even small plots of land - whether rural or urban - count if $1,000 or more of such products were raised and sold, or normally would have been sold, during the census year. The Census of Agriculture, taken only once every five years, looks at land use and ownership, operator characteristics, production practices, income and expenditures. For America’s farmers and ranchers, the Census of Agriculture is their voice, their future, and their opportunity

The USDA Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion (CNPP) was established in 1994 to improve the nutrition and well-being of Americans. Toward this goal, CNPP focuses its efforts on two primary objectives:

1. Advance and promote dietary guidance for all Americans, and
2. Conduct applied research and analyses in nutrition and consumer economics.

MyPlate, USDA Food Guidance System, is a core project supporting CNPP's core objectives.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury's mission is to maintain a strong economy and create economic and job opportunities by promoting the conditions that enable economic growth and stability at home and abroad, strengthen national security by combating threats and protecting the integrity of the financial system, and manage the U.S. Government’s finances and resources effectively.

The mission of EPA is to protect human health and the environment.

The USGS monitors, assesses, maps, and conducts targeted scientific research so that policy makers and the public have the understandig they need to address complex environmental, natural resource, and public safety issues. 

We provide science about the natural hazards that threaten lives and livelihoods, the water, energy, minerals, and other natural resources we rely on, the health of our ecosystems and environment, and the impacts of climate and land-use change. Our scientists develop new methods and tools to enable timely, relevant, and useful information about the Earth and its processes.

 

Understanding Evolution (UE) is a non-commercial, education website, for teaching and learning about the science of evolutionary biology. This site is here to help you understand what evolution is, how it works, and how it factors into your life. This site is a project of the University of California Museum of Paleontology (UCMP).

Understanding Evolution is one of a suite of three educational websites produced by the UCMP that are designed to support teaching and learning about foundational science content:

• Understanding Evolution focuses on evolutionary biology
• Understanding Global Change focuses on Earth systems
• Understanding Science focuses on the nature and process of science

Each of these resources connect many disparate concepts to support deep, coherent understandings of Earth and biological sciences, and how we use science to learn more about the world around us.

VideoLectures.NET is a free and open access educational video lectures repository. The lectures are given by distinguished scholars and scientists at the most important and prominent events like conferences, summer schools, workshops and science promotional events from many fields of Science.

The Web Gallery of Art is a virtual museum and searchable database of European fine arts, decorative arts and architecture (3rd-19th centuries), currently containing over 52,800 reproductions. Artist biographies, commentaries, guided tours, period music, catalogue, free postcard and mobile services are provided.

From the U.S. Institute of Education, the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) provides the information you need to make evidence-based decisions in your classrooms and schools.

The World Factbook provides basic intelligence on the history, people, government, economy, energy, geography, environment, communications, transportation, military, terrorism, and transnational issues for 265 world entities.

For more than 60 years, WWF has worked to help people and nature thrive.

As the world’s leading conservation organization, WWF works in nearly 100 countries. At every level, we collaborate with people around the world to develop and deliver innovative solutions that protect communities, wildlife, and the places in which they live.

Harvard's Writing Center provides Strategies for Essay Writing, which includes guides to various aspects of writing academic essays. It is process-oriented, meaning that it  leads student writiers through the steps of reading the assignment prompt, generating ideas, outlining, and so on.

The UW-Madison Writer's Handbook hosts a broad range of guides to aspects of the writing process, argumentation, and genres.