Suggested Resources for Alumni

Places to Start

• Public Libraries
  Some state libraries offer their residents access to subscription databases like the ones you might have used at Drew. Use the State Library tab to find out what your state offers.
• Google Scholar
  Search scholarly literature including journal articles, books, and patents. Set Scholar Preferences to Drew University or a college or university near you to find out if the school library has access to the full text of articles or owns the book.
• Library of Congress Home
  Access the catalog and digital collections of the world's largest library.
• THOMAS (Library of Congress)
  Legislative information from Library of congress
• DOAJ -- Directory of Open Access Journals
  Full text access to 6000+ scholarly journals containing 500,000+ articles.
• Wikipedia
  The encyclopedia ANYONE can edit.
• ODP - Open Directory Project
  A directory of websites, selected by humans and categorized by subject.
• PubMed home
  PubMed comprises more than 20 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.

Arts and Humanities

• INTER-PLAY
  Valuable resource for tracking down print copies of a particular play "hidden" in sources often not searchable in catalogs. "Contains . . . citations to plays, many of which are not included in the standard printed play indexes."
• National Endowment for the Arts Home Page
  
• Google Images
  
• ART HISTORY RESOURCES ON THE WEB: Ancient Egyptian Art
  

Business

• THOMAS (Library of Congress)
  Legislative information from Library of congress
• Congressional Research Service
  
• HBS Working Knowledge - Faculty Research at Harvard Business School
  Search or browse working papers on cutting edge business practices and topics.

Education

• US News: Education
  From U.S. News & World Report, their special section on Education. Useful for finding out the U.S. News college, graduate school, online and high school rankings, as well as some education-related advice and news. (Remember to view rankings skeptically, though.)
• BEN
  National Science Digital Library (NSDL) Pathway for biological sciences education. The BEN Portal provides access to education resources from BEN Collaborators and is managed by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Requires free
• ERIC – World’s largest digital library of education literature
  
• National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Home Page, a part of the U.S. Department of Education
  Collects and analyzes data related to education.

Government

Humanities

• INTER-PLAY
  Valuable resource for tracking down print copies of a particular play "hidden" in sources often not searchable in catalogs. "Contains . . . citations to plays, many of which are not included in the standard printed play indexes."
• Bartleby.com: Great Books Online -- Quotes, Poems, Novels, Classics and hundreds more
  

Health

• MedlinePlus: Medical Encyclopedia
  Containing 4000 entries on diseases, symptoms, tests and surgeries and includes illustrations, this reference is from A.D.A.M., a company accredited by the Anerican Accreditation HealthCare Commission and is also available in Spanish.
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
  Site facilitates access to technical data, regulatory material and compliance information, and the EPA policy line. Keyword and other search capabilities are provided.
• PubMed home
  PubMed comprises more than 20 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.
• WHO | World Health Organization
  
• National Library of Medicine - National Institutes of Health
  
• Harvard School of Public Health - HSPH
  
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  

Science and Technology

• NIST Handbook of Basic Atomic Spectroscopic Data
  From the introduction: "a selection of the most important and frequently used atomic spectroscopic data in an easily accessible format."
• arXiv.org e-Print archive
  Searchable collection of over half a million open access e-prints in math & computer science, statistics, physics, and quantitative biology.
• Encyclopedia of Earth
  Encyclopedia of Earth is a free, searchable, electronic, collaborative, peer-reviewed reference source produced by scholars and experts that aims to cover all topics about the earth and its environment.
• BEN
  National Science Digital Library (NSDL) Pathway for biological sciences education. The BEN Portal provides access to education resources from BEN Collaborators and is managed by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Requires free
• Google Scholar
  Search scholarly literature including journal articles, books, and patents. Set Scholar Preferences to Drew University or a college or university near you to find out if the school library has access to the full text of articles or owns the book.
• Congressional Research Service
  
• Browse by Discipline -- Subject Pathways for the E-print Network -- Energy, science, and technology for the research community -- hosted by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Department of Energy
  
• Where to find MSDS on the Internet
  
• Science.gov : USA.gov for Science - Government Science Portal
  
• PubMed home
  PubMed comprises more than 20 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.

Social Science

• Google Scholar
  Search scholarly literature including journal articles, books, and patents. Set Scholar Preferences to Drew University or a college or university near you to find out if the school library has access to the full text of articles or owns the book.
• WHO | World Health Organization