Where to start looking for digital learning materials

Thank you for participating in our research on the use of digital materials and collections in education, if you aren't a partcipant and found this page, welcome. Here is the list of libraries that we promised to get you started. You will notice it is Science/Technlogy heavy, but at the end of the list you will also find libraries and gateways to resources for other fields. And, MERLOT, one of the first links, is a multidisciplinary digital library. This is just a starter list, but there is plenty to look at here.

Here is a brief list to get you started in looking for materials for your teaching and research

For Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
there is a one-stop shop for collections:

http://nsdl.org

Some collections to get things started:

GENERAL LIBRARIES

MERLOT

http://www.merlot.org

iLumina

a collection of reuasable objects from a variety of disciplines
http://www.iLumina-dlib.org

The Gender & Science Digital Library

http://gsdl.enc.org

LIFE SCIENCE LIBRARIES

EARTH SCIENCE LIBRARIES

Digital Library of Earth Science Education

http://www.dlese.org

GROW - Geotechnical, Rock and Water Resources Library

http://www.grow.arizona.edu/index.shtml

SERC - Science Education Resource Center

http://serc.carleton.edu/index.html

PHYSICS and ASTRONOMY LIBRARY

comPADRE - Resources for Physics and Astronomy Education

http://www.compadre.org/

MATHEMATICS LIBRARIES

Mathematical Sciences Digital Library

http://mathdl.maa.org/

Math Forum

http://mathforum.org/

ENGINEERING LIBRARY

NEEDS - National Engineering Education Delivery System

http://www.needs.org/

NON-STEM LIBRARIES

Library of Congress

http://www.loc.gov/index.html

HUMBUL Humanities Hub

http://www.humbul.ac.uk/

Social Science Information Gateway

http://www.sosig.ac.uk/

Resource Discovery Network (RDN) Virtual Training Suite

A United Kingdom web site that offers suggestions for discipline specific information for searching for digital materials. There are many good suggestions here.
http://www.vts.rdn.ac.uk/

Academic Info - Digital Library List

In looking past the advertising needed to maintain the site, they have a very interesting list of digital libraries and other collections for many academic disciplines.
http://www.academicinfo.us/digital.html

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This page was modified October 17, 2006 by Alan Wolf

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