Deep Web
This is not meant to be an all-inclusive list, the web is just to big for that. Merely however, a small taste of what’s out there. If you have a link you think I should add, please let me know.
Online Books
- UPenn Digital Library — Over 25,000 searchable titles.
- Free eBooks Directory — Good listing of places to get free eBooks, items in the public domain, or just random fiction.
Research
- HighWire Press — A searchable catalog of free full-text, peer-reviewed content, from over 1000 different journals.
- Internet Archive — A database old web pages and other online content, extensive material.
- Librarians’ Internet Index — Where librarians can go to find things; all peer reviewed.
- Smithsonian Institution Libraries — Simthsonian Libraries, need I say more?
- The National Archives — Listing of the U.S. National Archives’ research tools and databases.
- CIA Factbook — General repository of info on world countries.
- Directory of Open Access Journals — Over 2500 journals in various subjects.
- Humbul Humanities Hub — Wealth of information on almost every topic, from the U.K.
U.S. Government
- CIA Electronic Reading Room — Database of declassified CIA documents.
- American FactFinder — U.S. census data searchable by location.
- GPO Access — Anything government related in the past ~15 years that had to be made public, searchable.
- US Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774–1873 (Library of Congress) — Congressional records, bills, statutes, journals, and debates.
Random, but interesting
- The Complete Work of Charles Darwin — All of Charles Darwin’s published texts, fully searchable.
- US Consumer Products Safety Commission Recalled Products — Recalled products in the U.S.
- Complete Works of Mozart — Mozart’s music, all online.
- Pepys’ Diary — A presentation of the diaries of Samuel Pepys, the renowned 17th century diarist who lived in London, England. (Thanks Brian!)
