Free Resources

Lists out free, web-based resources available to editors, as well as indexes to help point to sources.

The G. Robert Vincent Voice Library is a collection of over 100,000 hours of spoken word recordings, dating back to 1888. The collection includes the voices of over 500,000 persons from all walks of life. Political and cultural leaders and minor players in the human drama are captured and cataloged to serve the research needs of a local, national and international user base.

Google Scholar is a search engine that provides a simple way to search broadly for scholarly literature. Search across many disciplines and sources like articles, books, abstracts, etc.

The Library of Congress is the research library that officially serves the United States Congress and is the de facto national library of the United States.

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is the United States record keeper. Their mission is to drive openess, cultivate public participation, and strengthen democracy through public access to high-value government records.

OER Commons is a public digital library of open educational resources. The OER believes that access to high-quality education is a human right, and facilitates collaborative teaching and learning.

The mission of Open Access Digital Theological Library (OADTL) is to curate high-quality content in religious studies and related disciplines from publisher websites, institutional repositories, scholarly societies, archives, and stable public domain collections.

The ultimate goal of Open Library is to make all the published works of humankind available to everyone. Discover digital copies of books from multiple genres like art, biography, science fiction, and more.

Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the world. It conducts public opinion polling, demographic research, media content analysis and other empirical social science research.

Project Gutenberg is an online library of free eBooks that can be downloaded or read online.

ResearchGate is the professional network for scientists and researchers. Over 20 million members from all over the world use it to share, discover, and discuss research. Their mission is to connect the world of science and make research open to all.

The Smithsonian Online Virtual Archives (SOVA) provide integrated access to descriptions and detailed inventories of thousands of primary resources maintained across the Smithsonian Institution.

VOTE411 is committed to ensuring voters have the information they need to successfully participate in every election, regardless if it's local, state, or federal.

WorldCat is the world's largest network of library content and services and lets you search the collections of libraries in your community and around the world. WorldCat also is dedicated to providing access to their resources on the web, where most people begin their search for information.