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Mixed format sites (a little of everything)

Oaister
http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu/o/oaister/ - A huge database of resources from conference papers to theses.
SAILS e-prints
http://eprints.bo.cnr.it/ - papers, articles and technical literature from 72 (as of Oct, 2004) open access repositories.
Online Archive of California
http://oac.cdlib.org/texts/ - historical collections of texts, letters, oral history transcripts, etc.
ibilio
http://www.ibiblio.org/collection/ - "a conservancy of freely available information, including software, music, literature, art, history, science, politics, and cultural studies".
Government publications, such as the CIA World FactBook and the Occupational Outlook Handbook, are available in increasing numbers. Other agencies have collections of historical material, such as the National Parks Service Parks History site. Check the Government Printing Office (GPO) site, or the site for the appropriate agency. Or try a general search on a government portal such as FirstGov. Congressional Research Service Reports are not produced online by the government, but are archived by several institutions including the Federation of American Scientists (with links to other CRS collections).
DocuTicker
http://www.docuticker.com/ - covers recently released reports from government agencies, NGO's, think tanks and other similar groups. A search box is located in the right column, after the date listings.
Creative Commons
http://creativecommons.org/ - a giant repository of works licensed under the various Creative Commons licenses. CC licenses are more flexible than standard copyright and publishing licenses, many allowing free use without consigning the work to the public domain. Be sure to consult the exact text of the license before use.
Eserver
http://eserver.org/ - a collection of (mostly) independently published works from Iowa State University in the humanities and social sciences.
Molecular Biology Database Collection (2005 update)
http://nar.oupjournals.org/cgi/content/full/33/suppl_1/D5 - open access databases for molecular biology data. A listing of all the databases by category, with links to descriptive summaries, is at http://www3.oup.co.uk/nar/database/cap/.
Harvard's Open Collection Project
http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/ - The first collection is "Women Working, 1800-1930". The second collection "Emigration/Immigration: 1789-1930" will be available this fall. The collections consist of digitized images of books, serials, pamphlets, photographs, diaries (images of pages, not transcripts!), manuscripts, and catalogs. Keyword searching is available, and browsing by collection,material, and theme/subject.
IMLS Digital Collections Registry
http://imlsdcc.grainger.uiuc.edu/ - Over 130 digital collections funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services National Leadership Grant Program. Includes Connecticut History Online and the recently released New York Public Library Picture Gallery. Browse by Subject, Object (type of resource), Place, and Title, or search by keyword (very general topics work best).
CalTech Collection of Open Digital Archives (CalTech CODA)
http://library.caltech.edu/digital/ - articles, books, conference papers, technical reports, theses, and dissertations from CalTech's faculty and students. There are over a dozen collections and more coming. CODA is particularly strong in engineering, but covers all subjects.

Audio/Visual

Internet Archive: Audio Archive http://www.archive.org/audio/ - Live Music Archive, Netlabels, Presidential Recordings, and more.
Internet Archive: Moving Images Archive http://www.archive.org/movies/movies.php - advertising, animation, conference presentations, lectures, digital shows, etc.
Artcyclopedia
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/ - links to online museum collections by artist or work.
Ad*Access
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/adaccess/ - a collection of over 7,000 advertisements from U.S. and Canadian magazines from 1911-1955.
U.S. Geological Survey
http://www.usgs.gov/ - maps. Also environmental and map related educational materials.
Historical Voices
http://www.historicalvoices.org/ - audio collections and audio archiving standardization project.
New York Public Library's Digital Gallery
http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/ - 275,000 images (and growing) from NYPL's historical collections. Free for " individual private study, scholarship and research only."
MorgueFile
http://www.morguefile.com/ - stock photography for free commercial and non-commercial use. Named after the archives of newspapers. Click on Image Archive to search.
IMLS Digital Collections by Type of Object
http://imlsdcc.grainger.uiuc.edu/collections/GEMdcmi.asp - Includes Image, Sound, Moving Image and Physical Object (photos of objects), as well as Interactive, Text, and Data.

Guides

OpCit Metalist of Open Archive Eprint Archives http://opcit.eprints.org/explorearchives.shtml - A long list of open archives on a wide variety of topics.
eGranary Digital Library Web Resources Collection
http://www.widernet.org/digitalLibrary/DigitalLibraries.htm - Another long list of digital collections compiled by University of Iowa for the African eGranary project.
The Web Library: Building a World Class Personal Library with Free Web Resources http://www.ccsu.edu/library/tomaiuolon/theweblibrary.htm - online companion to the book The Web Library by Nicholas G. Tomaiuolo of CCSU. Finding articles, news, images, primary research, and more.
EDUCAUSE Resource Center (Browse by Topic) http://www.educause.edu/content.asp?SECTION_ID=11 - many resources on education techology. Especially see the "Distributed Education" section which includes distance education and online classes. You can also Search from the search link in the lefthand column.

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