Suggested Library Websites

Michigan Libraries

• Michigan Library Websites (including Michigan Library Catalogs) - view a directory of Michigan Libraries on the Web.
• Michigan Library Association - a list of Michigan Library Association member libraries´ webpages.
• MeL - The Michigan eLibrary - "is an anywhere, anytime information gateway to hundreds of full-text magazines and newspapers and more than 10,000 electronic books." Please take a look at "MeL Internet" selected by Librarians, especially the "Reference Desk."
• Michigan Census Information - "The Michigan Census Office has done a great job of reformatting the data into tables and maps and adding in-depth analysis of population trends for the 81 counties."
• OAIster - "The University of Michigan Library service establishes a broad, generic, information retrieval resource for information about publicly available digital library resources provided by the research library community." This resource will lead to entire articles on various topics.
• SVSU Melvin J. Zahnow Library - view SVSU Library's homepage.
• ipl2 (formerly University of Michigan Internet Public Library) - The mission of the U of M Internet Public Library is to: provide services and information which enhance the value of the Internet to its ever-expanding and varied community of users; work to broaden, diversify, and educate that community; communicate its creators vision of the unique roles of library culture and traditions on the Internet.
• Bay County Library System
• Public Libraries of Saginaw
• Detroit Public Library Calendar of Events

Other Libraries

• Libweb - search for other library web pages around the world.
• WorldCat can be an index to credible web pages by choosing the option "Internet Resources."

Research-Related Sites

• Best Information on the Net - from O´Keefe Library at St. Ambrose University.
• Bookshelf provides a "growing collection of full-text biomedical books that can searched directly."
• BUBL LINK - "is the name of a catalogue of selected Internet resources covering all academic subject areas."
• CyberStacks(sm) - a centralized, integrated, and unified collection of significant World Wide Web and other Internet resources categorized using the Library of Congress classification system.
• Delta Michigan Small Business & Technology Development Center
• Delta's T/LC Learning Resource and Academic Subject Links 
• The Digital Library Collections - this site provides a digital version to books, manuscripts, photographs, engravings and other items from the New York Public Library´s Research Collections.
• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) "This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. We aim to cover all subjects and languages."
• Documents, Historical Images, and Historical Maps - links to select electronic documents online, chosen by librarians at O´Keefe Library, St. Ambrose University.
• Electronic Reading Room - Full Text Books - links to electronic books online, chosen by librarians at O´Keefe Library, St. Ambrose University.
• FindArticles has magazine and journal articles from thousands of resources, with archives dating back to 1984.
• Folk Tales and Myths - links to electronic texts of folk tales and mythology, chosen by librarians at O´Keefe Library, St. Ambrose University.
• Free Medical Journals provides access to free online medical and scientific journals.
• Google Book Search provides links to some free online full-text books.
• Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, journals, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research.
• HireWire Press is a division of the Stanford University Libraries, HighWire Press hosts the largest repository of high impact, peer-reviewed content, with 999 journals and 3,785,634 full text articles from over 130 scholarly publishers.
• International Children's Digital Library provides links to free online children's books that are written in many different languages.
• ipl2 - They have changed now. ipl2 is the result of the merger of the Internet Public Library (IPL) and the Librarians' Internet Index (LII). 
• The Library Spot - a virtual library resource center for educators and students, librarians and their patrons, families, businesses and just about anyone exploring the Web for valuable research information.
• MagPortal.com "is a search engine and directory for finding online magazine articles."
• Online Books Page lists over 25,000 free books on the Web
• Online Poetry - links to poetry available on the Internet, chosen by by librarians at O´Keefe Library, St. Ambrose University.
• The Open Library "was created by the Internet Archive to demonstrate a way that books can be represented online. The vision is to create free web access to important book collections from around the world."
• Plagiarism Resources on the World Wide Web
• Project Gutenberg Free eBook Library "was the first producer of free electronic books (ebooks). There are 19,000 free books in the Project Gutenberg Online Book Catalog."
• PubMed is a service of the National Library of Medicine, that provides access to over 11 million MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's and additional life science journals. PubMed can provide some links to sites with free full-text scholarly journal articles and resources.

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