Nota Bene: New Resources of Interest
CDC Public Health Image Library (PHIL) was created by a Working Group at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the PHIL offers an organized, universal electronic gateway to CDC's pictures. PHIL is open to public health professionals, the media, laboratory scientists, educators, students, and the worldwide public to use this material for reference, teaching, presentation, and public health messages. The content is organized into hierarchical categories of people, places, and science, and is presented as single images, image sets, and multimedia files.
Small Business Administration offers free online training courses for small business administrators. It is part of the Small Business Training Network (SBTN) a customer-focused SBA strategy designed to enrich, educate and empower small businesses. It is an Internet-based learning environment - operating like a virtual campus - offering online courses, workshops, publications, information resources, learning tools and direct access to electronic counseling, and other forms of technical assistance.
Creative Commons is a non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative work available for others legally to build upon and share. The organization has released several copyright licenses known as Creative Commons licenses. These licenses, depending on the one chosen, restrict only certain rights (or none) of the work. You can use their search page to look for videos, music, power points, and web pages that you can use for the classroom or presentations.
Learning Express Library is a comprehensive, interactive online learning platform of practice tests and tutorial course series designed to help students and adult learners succeed on the academic or licensing tests they must pass.
The Encyclopedia of Earth (EoE) seeks to become the world's largest and most authoritative electronic source of information about the environments of Earth and their interactions with society. It is a free, fully searchable collection of articles written by scholars, professionals, educators, and experts who collaborate and review each other's work with oversight from an International Advisory Board. The articles are written in non-technical language and are available for free, with no commercial advertising to students, educators, scholars, professionals, decision makers, as well as to the general public. (quoted from the D-lib article).
The National Library of Medicine has a new online exhibit called Visible Proofs: Forensic Views of the Body. Visible Proofs is about the history of forensic medicine. Over the centuries, physicians, surgeons, and other professionals have struggled to develop scientific methods that translate views of bodies and body parts into "visible proofs" that can persuade judges, juries, and the public.
Check out the National Library of Medicine's Household Product Database. What's under your kitchen sink, in your garage, in your bathroom, and on the shelves in your laundry room? Learn more about what's in these products, about potential health effects, and about safety and handling.
Women Working, 1800 - 1930 focuses on women's role in the United States economy and provides access to digitized historical, manuscript, and image resources selected from Harvard University's library and museum collections. The collection features approximately 500,000 digitized pages and images.
The
Cosmic
Evolution web site is primarily based on the book Universe: An Evolutionary
Approach to Astronomy by Eric J. Chaisson and published in 1988 by Prentice Hall
(a more advanced version of which was recently published as Cosmic Evolution:
The Rise of Complexity in Nature, 2002, Harvard University Press). The material
from the book has been recently and significantly updated for presentation on
the web site, which is hosted by the Wright Center for Science Education at
Tufts University.