Bob Jensen's Links to Electronic Literature

Bob Jensen at Trinity University.
Email: rjensen@trinity.edu

Please let me know when links become broken.

Please send me links to good electronic literature that you think should be added to this page.

Free Online Textbooks, Videos, and Tutorials --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm#Textbooks
Free Tutorials in Various Disciplines --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#Tutorials
Edutainment and Learning Games --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/thetools.htm#Edutainment
Open Sharing Courses --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
The Master List of Free Online College Courses --- http://universitiesandcolleges.org/

Lost Titles, Forgotten Rhymes: How to Find a Novel, Short Story, or Poem Without Knowing its Title or Author --- http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/lost/

Online Electronic Book and Short Story Finders

Online Poem and Poet Finders

Online Audio Books and Poems 

Online Journal and Magazine Finders

Free Online Videos, Textbooks, Cases, and Tutorials

Free and Fee Accounting Software --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob1.htm#AccountingSoftware

Online Books and Authors

Banned (Forbidden) Books

Online Poems and Poets

Especially for Children 

Online Multimedia (Audio and Video) (Including Video and Television Show Dialog)

Online Reviews and Journals

Online Links to Quotations

Dictionaries, Acronyms, Abbreviations, Encyclopedias, Anagrams,
     Entertainment, Humor, Catalogs, and Other References

Fascinating Statistics --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/FascinatingStatistics/Statistics.htm

United Nations World Digital Library --- http://www.wdl.org/en/

Links to Free Online Video and Music --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/music.htm

Acceptance Speech for the August 15, 2002 American Accounting Association's Outstanding Educator Award --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/AAAaward_files/AAAaward02.htm

Bob Jensen's Blogs --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/JensenBlogs.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called New Bookmarks --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookurl.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called Tidbits --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/TidbitsDirectory.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called Fraud Updates --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudUpdates.htm
Bob Jensen's past presentations and lectures --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/resume.htm#Presentations   

Free Online Textbooks, Videos, and Tutorials --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm#Textbooks
Free Tutorials in Various Disciplines --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#Tutorials
Edutainment and Learning Games --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/thetools.htm#Edutainment
Open Sharing Courses --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI

FREE access to ANNUAL REPORTS in XBRL --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/XBRLandOLAP.htm#TimelineXBRL
From EDGAR Online --- http://www.tryxbrl.org/

History of XBRL --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/XBRLandOLAP.htm

 

Bob Jensen's Helpers for Writers --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/BookBob3.htm#Dictionaries 

Bob Jensen's Education Technology Workshop --- http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/EdTech/

Bob's Story About Growing Up
Short story entitled My Glimpse of Heaven:  What I learned from Max and Gwen

Bob Jensen's Grammar Helpers --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/BookBob3.htm#Dictionaries

Education Tutorials

Free Images from the U.S. Government --- http://rastervector.com/resources/free/free.html

Free Federal Resources in Various Disciplines --- http://www.free.ed.gov/

Bob Jensen's threads on general education tutorials are at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#EducationResearch

2009 WebWise Conference on Libraries and Museums in the Digital World http://www.tvworldwide.com/events/webwise/090226/

"U. of Manitoba Researchers Publish Open-Source Handbook on Educational Technology," by Steve Kolowich, Chronicle of Higher Education, March 19, 2009 --- http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=3671&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en

Technology is changing the way students learn. Is it changing the way colleges teach?

Not enough, says George Siemens, associate director of research and development at the University of Manitoba’s Learning Technologies Centre.

While colleges and universities have been “fairly aggressive” in adapting their curricula to the changing world, Mr. Siemens told The Chronicle, “What we haven’t done very well in the last few decades is altering our pedagogy.”

To help get colleges thinking about how they might adapt their teaching styles to the new ways students absorb and process information, Mr. Siemens and Peter Tittenberger, director of the center, have created a Web-based guide, called the Handbook of Emerging Technologies for Learning.

Taking their own advice, they have outfitted the handbook with a wiki function that will allow readers to contribute their own additions.

In the its introduction, the handbook declares the old pedagogical model—where the students draw their information primarily from textbooks, newspapers, and their professors—dead. “Our learning and information acquisition is a mash-up,” the authors write. “We take pieces, add pieces, dialogue, reframe, rethink, connect, and ultimately, we end up with some type of pattern that symbolizes what’s happening ‘out there’ and what it means to us.” Students are forced to develop new ways of making sense of this flood of information fragments.

But Mr. Siemens said that colleges had been slow to appreciate this fact. “I don’t see a lot of research coming out on what universities might look like in the future,” he said. “If how we interact with information and with each other fundamentally changes, it would suggest that the institution also needs to change.”

Handbook of Emerging Technologies for Learning ---
http://ltc.umanitoba.ca/wikis/etl/index.php/Handbook_of_Emerging_Technologies_for_Learning

Preface

This Handbook of Emerging Technologies for Learning (HETL) has been designed as a resource for educators planning to incorporate technologies in their teaching and learning activities.

Introduction

How is education to fulfill its societal role of clarifying confusion when tools of control over information creation and dissemination rest in the hands of learners[3], contributing to the growing complexity and confusion of information abundance?

Change Pressures and Trends

Global, political, social, technological, and educational change pressures are disrupting the traditional role (and possibly design) of universities. Higher education faces a "re-balancing" in response to growing points of tension along the following fault lines...

What we know about learning

Over the last century, educator’s understanding of the process and act of learning has advanced considerably.

Technology, Teaching, and Learning

Technology is concerned with "designing aids and tools to perfect the mind". As a means of extending the sometimes limited reach of humanity, technology has been prominent in communication and learning. Technology has also played a role in classrooms through the use of movies, recorded video lectures, and overhead projectors. Emerging technology use is growing in communication and in creating, sharing, and interacting around content.

Media and technology

A transition from epistemology (knowledge) to ontology (being) suggests media and technology need to be employed to serve in the development of learners capable of participating in complex environments.

Change cycles and future patterns

It is not uncommon for theorists and thinkers to declare some variation of the theme "change is the only constant". Surprisingly, in an era where change is prominent, change itself has not been developed as a field of study. Why do systems change? Why do entire societies move from one governing philosophy to another? How does change occur within universities?

New Learners? New Educators? New Skills?

New literacies (based on abundance of information and the significant changes brought about technology) are needed. Rather than conceiving literacy as a singular concept, a multi-literacy view is warranted.

Tools

Each tool possesses multiple affordances. Blogs, for example, can be used for personal reflection and interaction. Wikis are well suited for collaborative work and brainstorming. Social networks tools are effective for the formation of learning and social networks. Matching affordances of a particular tool with learning activities is an important design and teaching activity

Research

Evaluating the effectiveness of technology use in teaching and learning brings to mind Albert Einstein’s statement: "Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted". When we begin to consider the impact and effectiveness of technology in the teaching and learning process, obvious questions arise: "How do we measure effectiveness? Is it time spent in a classroom? Is it a function of test scores? Is it about learning? Or understanding?"

Conclusion

Through a process of active experimentation, the academy’s role in society will emerge as a prominent sensemaking and knowledge expansion institution, reflecting of the needs of learners and society while maintaining its role as a transformative agent in pursuit of humanity’s highest ideals.

 

Bob Jensen's threads on education technology --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/0000start.htm

 

 

Electronic Reading Devices and the History of Electronic Books --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ebooks.htm

How to Find Books and Compare Prices --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/searchh.htm#Books

BookFinder online textbook aggregator http://www.bookfinder.com
Compares prices and shipping costs of alternative sellers of hard copy textbooks.

Rare Book Room --- http://www.rarebookroom.org/  
Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America --- http://www.abaa.org/books/abaa/index.html
Other Rare Book Sources --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Searchh.htm#RareBooks
National Yiddish Book Center --- http://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/

Bob Jensen's links to art, entertainment, history, and museums --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#History

Online Training and Education Alternatives --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/CrossBorder.htm

Bob Jensen's Search Helpers --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/searchh.htm

The Library Thing: Catalog Your Books Online --- http://www.librarything.com/

Trade In Your Books for Other Books
BookMooch allows you to trade books on your shelf for other books --- http://bookmooch.com/

"Only minutes after creating a list of books I am willing to give away on Bookmooch, I already had enough points to request free books from others. Tomorrow, I am mailing two complete strangers some old books. And four strangers have promised to send me books I was planning to buy on Amazon. An excellent trade! Bookmooch works!"
- Solana Larsen (a BookMooch member)
See Joanne Kaufman, "Clear the Bookshelf and Fill It Up Again, All Online," The New York Times, October 15, 2007 --- Click Here

Donating Used Textbooks --- http://www.nationalserviceresources.org/node/17645
Swap Books Online
USA Today, February 14, 2006 --- http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2006-02-14-book-sharing_x.htm
BookMooch --- http://www.bookmooch.com/
Also see the message blog at http://1389moblog.blogspot.com/2007/10/bookmooch-social-network-for-people-who.html
Paperback Swap --- http://www.paperbackswap.com/press_media/press_media_detail.php?id=30
Campus Book Swap --- http://www.campusbookswap.org/index.asp
Bookins Book Exchaznge --- http://www.airnyc.org/info/Bookins-Book-Exchange-61303.html
There are many, many other "Book Swap" alternatives on a Google search

March 27, 2007 message from Tina Bungert [tina.bungert@hitflip.de]

. . . I would like to introduce you to our service and web site Hitflip that might be an interesting addition to your links for books and education. Hitflip is a community to swap used books and other original media. It is therefore an easy and cheap alternative to the existing online book stores. You can find hitflip at http://www.hitflip.de  .
The just recently launched English version can be found at http://www.hitflip.co.uk

Other alternatives for trading and donating books --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/searchh.htm#BookTrading

You can also sell used books and other products on Amazon.com ---
http://www.amazon.com/gp/seller-account/mm-summary-page.html?ie=UTF8&topic=200257910

And there's eBay --- http://hub.ebay.com/buy

And there's CraigsList --- http://www.craigslist.org/about/sites.html

From the National Science Foundation
 The Birth and Rise of the Internet --- http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/nsf-net/?govDel=USNSF_51

Also see Richard Jensen's (History, U of Illinois-Chicago) --- Scholars' Guide to WWW

From The Scout Report on January 23, 2009

Codex Sinaiticus [Macromedia Flash Player] http://www.codexsinaiticus.org/en/ 

The Codex Sinaiticus is certainly one of the most important books in the world, and this delightful website provides users with a way to view the book in its entirety. The goal of this project is "to reunite the entire manuscript in digital form and make it accessible to a global audience for the first time." The project partners include The British Library, the National Library of Russia, St. Catherine's Monastery, and Leipzig University Library. First-time visitors may wish to click on the "About" area to learn more about the document's tremendous significance (among other things, it includes the oldest complete copy of the New Testament) and to read answers to several frequently asked questions about the Codex Sinaiticus. Anyone with an interest in conservation, digitization, and transcription will want to check out the "About the Project" page. Here they will find information about all of these subjects, and information about translations of the Codex. Finally, visitors will obviously want to head on over to the "See The Manuscript" area. Here they can read a side-by-side translation of each page, zoom in and out on the Codex, and even browse around by passage.

 

How do scholars search for academic references?

Scholarpedia --- http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Main_Page

PLoS One --- http://www.plosone.org/home.action

Google Scholar --- http://scholar.google.com/
Not to be confused with Google Advanced Search which does not cover many scholarly articles --- http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en

Microsoft's Windows "Live Search" or  "Academic Search" ---
http://search.live.com/results.aspx?scope=academic&q=

Amazon's A9 --- http://a9.com/-/search/advSearch 

Beginning October 23, 2003, Amazon.com offers a text search of entire contents of millions of pages of books, including new books  ---
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/10197021/ref%3Dsib%5Fmerch%5Fgw/104-3984945-7813514 

How It Works --- http://snurl.com/BookSearch 
A significant extension of our groundbreaking Look Inside the Book feature, Search Inside the Book allows you to search millions of pages to find exactly the book you want to buy. Now instead of just displaying books whose title, author, or publisher-provided keywords that match your search terms, your search results will surface titles based on every word inside the book. Using Search Inside the Book is as simple as running an Amazon.com search. 

Soon to be the largest scholarly library in the world:
Google Book Search --- http://books.google.com/advanced_book_search 

Answers.com --- http://www.answers.com/

Wikipedia (heavily used by scholars in spite of authenticity risks)--- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%s

Other Scholarly Search Engines (CrossRef and Scirus.) --- http://privateschool.about.com/b/a/116956.htm
Also see http://www.library.uq.edu.au/internet/scholsearch.html

Scholarly search tools

  • CiteBase
    Citebase is a trial service that allows researchers to search across free, full-text research literature ePrint archives, with results ranked according to criteria such as citation impact.

     

  • Gateway to ePrints
    A listing of ePrint servers and open access repository search tools.

     

  • Google Scholar
    A search tool for scholarly citations and abstracts, many of which link to full text articles, book chapters, working papers and other forms of scholarly publishing. It includes content from many open access journals and repositories.

     

  • OAIster
    A search tool for cross-archive searching of more than 540 separate digital collections and archives, including arXiv, CiteBase, ANU ePrints, ePrintsUQ, and others.

     

  • Scirus
    A search tool for online journals and Web sites in the sciences.
 

UCLA Library Scholarly Search Helpers --- http://www2.library.ucla.edu/googlescholar/searchengines.cfm

University of Kansas Scholarly Search Helpers --- http://www.lib.ku.edu/technology/searchengines/scholar.shtml

Social scientists and business scholars often use SSRN (not free) --- http://www.ssrn.com/

If you have access to a college library, most colleges generally have paid subscriptions to enormous scholarly literature databases that are not available freely online. Serious scholars obtain access to these vast literature databases.

Librarian's Index to the Internet --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/searchh.htm#Librarian'sIndex

Searching the Deep Web --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/searchh.htm#DeepWeb

Open Access Shared Scholarship --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI

University Channel (video and audio) ---  http://uc.princeton.edu/main/

Bob Jensen's links to electronic literature, including free online textbooks and other learning materials --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm

Bob Jensen's search helpers are at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/searchh.htm

Bob Jensen's Archives of New Bookmarks --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookurl.htm

Bob Jensen's Tidbits Blog --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/TidbitsDirectory.htm

Bob Jensen's Updates on Fraud --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudUpdates.htm

Links to Documents on Fraud --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Fraud.htm

Bob Jensen's search helpers are at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/searchh.htm

Bob Jensen's Bookmarks --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob.htm

Bob Jensen's links to free electronic literature, including free online textbooks --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm

Bob Jensen's links to free online video, music, and other audio --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Music.htm

Bob Jensen's documents on accounting theory are at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/theory.htm 

Bob Jensen's links to free course materials from major universities --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI

Bob Jensen's links to online education and training alternatives around the world --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Crossborder.htm

Bob Jensen's links to electronic business, including computing and networking security, are at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ecommerce.htm

Free Online Textbooks, Videos, and Tutorials --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm#Textbooks
Free Tutorials in Various Disciplines --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#Tutorials
Edutainment and Learning Games --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/thetools.htm#Edutainment
Open Sharing Courses --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
The Master List of Free Online College Courses --- http://universitiesandcolleges.org/

Bob Jensen's links to education technology and controversies --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/0000start.htm

 

Links to Bob Jensen's Workshop Documents on Education and Learning
Bob Jensen's Education and Learning Bookmarks

Bookmarks

The Shocking Future of Education 

First File

Second File
E-Learning and Distance Education's Top 
(Award-Winning) Illustrations

Detail File

Bob Jensen's Threads on Cross-Border (Transnational) Training and Education
 (Includes helpers for finding online training and education courses, certificate programs, and degree Programs)		 Detail File

Alternatives and Tricks/Tools of the Trade
     (Including Edutainment and Learning Games)
     (Includes aids for the handicapped, disabled, and learning challenged)

 First File

Second File
The Dark Side of the 21st Century: Concerns About Technologies in Education

 Detail File
Assessment Issues, Case Studies, and Research Detail File
History and Future of Course Authoring Technologies Detail File
Knowledge Portals and Vortals Detail File
Bob Jensen's Advice to New Faculty (and Resources) Detail File
Bob Jensen's Threads on Electronic Books Detail File
Threads of Online Program Costs and Faculty Compensation Detail File
Bob Jensen's Helper Videos and Tutorials Detail File
Jensen and Sandlin Book entitled Electronic Teaching and Learning: Trends in Adapting to Hypertext, Hypermedia, and Networks in Higher Education
(both the 1994 and 1997 Updated Versions)		 Old Book

Some Earlier Papers

 

  
Additional Links and Threads Threads

 

Sony Reader:  The New eBook Alternative
Electronic books have traditionally gone straight from the manufacturer to the remainders bin -- but the market has never gone away entirely, despite years of tepid sales and failed predictions. Now a new device from Sony is generating buzz worthy of a Stephen King novel. Some people are even wondering whether the Sony Reader might be just the ticket to kick the e-book market into high gear.
Dylan Tweney, "Screening the Latest Bestseller," Wired News, January 24, 2006 --- http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70039-0.html?tw=wn_tophead_13

"The Incredible Vanishing Book," by Christopher Conway, Inside Higher Ed, November 3, 2008 ---
http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2008/11/03/conway

We don’t know how soon it will happen, but it is happening and it will be consummated soon. The commodity of the book, as we have known it for the last few decades, is vanishing and being replaced by new electronic media. Paper-and-binding books have irrevocably begun to fade away as products of mass consumption and will soon transform themselves into curios like vinyl records. The age of the massive emporium bookstore is coming to an end under the crushing, virtual weight of the Internet. Amazon’s Kindle e-book reader is doing well and it promises to get better and cheaper in the future. Textbook companies have developed publishing platforms, like www.ichapters.com, for textbooks to be digitally delivered to students through a price-per-chapter system. And worst of all, if you’re a paper-and-binding book lover such as myself, people are reading less paper than before.

In the diverse, mostly Latino first generation student population that I teach, responses to the paper-and-binding book are often mediated by practical economics. A few years ago I assigned Antonio Skármeta’s beautiful, hardcover children’s book about dictatorship, The Composition, to a Latin American literature class. The Spanish edition I assigned cost about $25, which I didn’t consider to be too much, especially because the total cost for all the books in my class was under $70. All but one of the books I assigned were books that I thought were beautiful as artifacts and as stories. These books, I believed, would command students’ minds and hearts to such a degree that students would want to keep them after the class was over. Most of all, Skarmeta’s book, with its color illustrations and poignant lessons about life and death issues was a book that I was excited to teach to my students. When we got to discussing the book in class, several of my students did not have the book, only black and white photocopies because they could not or did not want to buy the book. I felt a strange mix of powerlessness, disappointment and distance. I had conscientiously made my class inexpensive compared to other classes, but it was not inexpensive enough.

Lest you think that this was an isolated situation, a few examples from one of my current classes come to mind. I have one student who has not bought any of the books on the syllabus because he reads the 19th-century classics I have assigned off of the Internet on his laptop, which he brings to class for discussions. Another student has already begun returning the books we’ve read in class so far, after confirming that they would not be covered in the final exam. A third student, a talented and curious young man who arrives to class with an ipod plugged into his ears, is a graduating senior who had never read a novel before my class. They are all bright, responsible and hard-working students but they are not consumers of books. This is also reflected in the reaction that dozens upon dozens of students have had upon entering my office over the years and noticing my 5 or 6 huge bookshelves full of books. They ask: “Have you really read all of these books?” Which sometimes leads to an interesting conversation about my library, in which I explain which parts are my teaching reference and which parts are the books that I’ve read cover to cover.

The fate of the book in the university classroom is impacted by many factors: the use of instructional technology, the economics of textbook publishing and the pedagogical idiosyncrasies of professors, who either promote the disappearance of the paper-and-binding book or try to reinforce its value in the classroom. Let’s look at each one of these factors for a moment. Naturally, in some contexts and disciplines, it is relatively easy to teach a class without books thanks to the wealth of realia and sources on the Web, whether they be freely available, or available through institutionally subscribed databases. In fact, I find great material online and value its role in my courses. I think that we can agree that some material may be best taught off of the Internet.

The economics of textbook publishing is a little bit more complicated and ties in with the surprising choices some faculty members make as teachers. The bottom line is that a lot of textbooks are just too expensive for what you get. There are certain kinds of textbooks, ubiquitous in certain disciplines, that have become monsters of paper and color, a carnival of colored insets and attention-getting graphic design and layout. They are alternately exciting or stupid, but always exhausting. Worst of all, they are dreadfully disposable. The dizzying rate at which one edition substitutes another so that a publisher can make a profit or stay in business makes these books as valuable and as enduring as colored photocopies. This wasteful, pathetic cycle is the best argument for doing away with over-saturated textbooks altogether and going to an online, subscription model.

Other textbooks are more modestly priced and dispense with the graphic fireworks and multiple editions. These thoughtful anthologies or edited volumes are reasonably priced and straddle the border between textbook and stand-alone book. You can see their classroom application immediately but you can also see these books sitting on a public or university library shelf, and yes, even resting on your average reader’s night table. These books are the innovative work of professors, not a corporate marketing team, and are designed for other professors to use in their classes. Although reasonably priced, you would be mistaken to think that all professors value such books. Many professors will spend countless hours putting together elaborate and voluminous course packets of photocopies for classroom use (I used to be one of them). And now, it is more frequent for technologically minded teachers to file-share large numbers of PDFs through password protected sites on campus. This is so wrong it hurts. We are killing our own chances to have readers in the future or be remunerated for the scholarship we do. It’s not only about the modest royalties that faculty authors may or may not receive, it’s about the principle of valuing each other’s scholarship and editorial work. I order good, attractive and useful paper-and-binding books or textbooks for my classes because I want there to be a system in place to support my work as an author and editor in the future.

If the paper and binding book vanishes as a dominant commodity, as it seems to be, maybe the new virtual system of book distribution, reproduction and delivery will allay some of the problems I describe in relation to photocopies and PDFs. It is becoming increasingly easier to put together affordable ‘readers’ or anthologies culled from existing print material without bypassing rights and fees and without overloading students with unnecessary expense. If this wave of the future takes hold and becomes the new standard in textbook publishing, I think it will be good for all parties involved. But what about the paper-and-binding book? Say you are teaching David Copperfield by Charles Dickens and you had a choice between an excellent paper-and-binding edition by a major academic press, with useful footnotes and front matter, and an electronic edition that students could download to their handy e-book readers, along with selected secondary articles you have selected for them to read? What if their e-book readers had a stylus and/or a network that enabled the class to annotate those assigned texts, and share them over the class network? I don’t think anyone’s nostalgia for paper-and-binding can replace the pedagogical value of my not-so-fanciful or far-fetched e-book scenario.

And yet I am sad about the fading of the paper-and-binding book and I am not going into the good night without putting up a good fight. I am committed to making the cost of my assigned books affordable. I order my books with care and I try to use them in their entirety, so that students get affordable books that are actually used in the class. This does not mean that I limit myself. I do use the occasional supplement (or two or three) and I share with my classes my disagreements with the books or textbooks that I am using. I continue to pick books that I believe are worth keeping and treasuring, both for the words they contain and for their tactile beauty as works of art and design. I want the books that my students hold in their hands to have the heft of what is important and of what is beautiful. I want that student who never read a novel before my class to value the physicality of the reading a paper-and-binding book. This endangered act, after all, will connect him to a centuries-old, vanishing tradition that has touched the lives of millions and altered the course of history on many occasions. That’s just too good to pass up.

Bob Jensen's threads on electronic books are at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ebooks.htm

Bob Jensen's threads on available online books are at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm

 

Amazon Pages:  Amazon's Breakthrough Technology to Help Quadriplegic's Read

"Turning Pages for Those Who Can't," by Steven Edwards, Wired News, January 24, 2006 --- http://www.wired.com/news/columns/0,70052-0.html?tw=wn_tophead_4

I've been watching companies' efforts to develop e-book offerings for a long time. As a quadriplegic, I can't hold a book, so reading literature on the computer seems like an obvious solution.

Alas, companies like Microsoft, Adobe and Palm have failed in their e-book endeavors. They've introduced proprietary, encrypted formats that require their respective software to be installed before reading them, in effect destroying a book's inherent characteristic: portability.

Amazon seems to be on the brink of doing e-books right, and I'm keeping my proverbial fingers crossed. By taking advantage of the web's ubiquity, Amazon can restore portability: Pay once, read anywhere.

In November, Amazon announced two new services for accessing books online. The company seems to be targeting programmers and students who would welcome freedom from toting enormous texts. But Amazon has another, perhaps unforeseen, set of customers: the disabled.

Amazon Pages will allow readers to buy online access to individual pages and chapters from books instead of the entire thing, presumably for a few cents a page. Amazon Upgrade will let readers purchase, for a similar premium, perpetual access to an online digital copy of the text.

If the services turn out to be as good as they sound, I plan on taking full advantage of them. I miss the comforting sensation of curling up with a good book at night, promising myself that I would only read one more chapter before becoming so engrossed in the story that I devour it whole and am barely aware of the fact that, as my eyelids are closing, the sun is rising on the next day.

It truly is the little things in life that make it worth living.

The joy of holding a book again won't be happening in the next year, but Amazon's proposed services, assuming they are well implemented, will reopen the boundless horizons of literature to me and other similarly disabled readers.

Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon, told Fox News that publishers will decide whether their books will be included in the programs, unlike Google Print, which requires publishers to opt out. Among the publishers I'm rooting for are Penguin Group and Tor. (So, give Mr. Bezos a call. Today. Please? The Shadowrun and The Wheel of Time series, among others, beckon.)

The Amazon services should allow publishers to have their content available as plain text, as do niche sites such as The National Academies Press, InformIT's Safari and Safari's predecessor site, MacMillan's Personal Bookshelf (an all-time favorite, now deceased, that allowed me to learn a lot for free).

Continued in article

Bob Jensen's threads on electronic books are at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ebooks.htm

Bob Jensen's threads on learning aids for the handicapped, disabled, and learning challenged persons --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/thetools.htm#Handicapped

Santa Clara University Virtual Library --- http://campustechnology.com/articles/48506 .

January 6, 2006 message from Carolyn Kotlas [kotlas@email.unc.edu]

COMPARISON OF SCHOLARLY PRINT AND E-JOURNAL EDITORS

Using examples from the library publishing field, Julie Banks and Carl Pracht examined the roles of editors of traditional print journals and newer electronic journals. The authors findings, reported in "Movers and Shakers in the Library Publishing World Highlight Their Roles: Interviews with Print and Electronic Journal Editors - A Comparison" (E-JASL, vol. 6 no. 3, Winter 2005), show that the two formats were "more similar than different from each other in terms of the editors' and editorial boards' roles, relationships, work loads, and utilization of peer review." The paper is available online at http://southernlibrarianship.icaap.org/content/v06n03/banks_j01.htm .

E-JASL: The Electronic Journal of Academic and Special Librarianship [ISSN 1704-8532] is an independent, professional, refereed electronic journal dedicated to advancing knowledge and research in the areas of academic and special librarianship. E-JASL is published by the Consortium for the Advancement of Academic Publication (ICAAP), Athabasca, Canada. For more information, contact: Paul Haschak, Executive Editor, Board President, and Founder, Linus A. Sims Memorial Library, Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, LA USA;
email: phaschak@selu.edu ; Web: http://southernlibrarianship.icaap.org /.

For another publishing viewpoint, see:

"The Shift Away From Print" By Eileen Gifford Fenton and Roger C. Schonfeld INSIDE HIGHER ED, December 8, 2005 http://insidehighered.com/views/2005/12/08/schonfeld

 

Online Book and Table of Contents Finders


Online Books Page --- http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/
From the University of Pennsylvania
Online Books --- http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/

Online-Literature --- http://www.online-literature.com/

storySouth (showcases top fiction) --- http://www.storysouth.com/

From MIT
Classics Archive --- http://classics.mit.edu/

MIT OpenCourseWare: Major European Novels --- http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Literature/21L-472Fall-2008/CourseHome/index.htm

Bartleby's Free Online Books --- http://www.bartleby.com/titles/

Public.Resource.Org --- http://public.resource.org/

Lost Titles, Forgotten Rhymes: How to Find a Novel, Short Story, or Poem Without Knowing its Title or Author --- http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/lost/
 

How do scholars search for academic references? --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/searchh.htm#Scholars

February 1, 2008 message from Carolyn Kotlas [kotlas@email.unc.edu]

OVERVIEW OF INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORIES

Charles W. Bailey, Jr., compiler of SCHOLARLY ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING BIBLIOGRAPHY (now in its 70th edition), has recently published "Institutional Repositories, Tout de Suite", a work "designed to give the reader a very quick introduction to key aspects of institutional repositories and to foster further exploration of this topic though liberal use of relevant references to online documents and links to pertinent websites." The document covers definitions of institutional repositories, why institutions should have them, and the issues authors face when contributing to repositories.

"Institutional Repositories, Tout de Suite" is available at http://www.digital-scholarship.org/ts/irtoutsuite.pdf. The work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License, and it can be freely used for any noncommercial purpose in accordance with the license.

You can access all of Bailey's publications on scholarly communication at http://www.digital-scholarship.org/.

LibrarySpot (left column library finder links)  --- http://www.libraryspot.com/

Shmoop is an online study guide for English Literature, Poetry and American history --- http://www.shmoop.com/

JURN (search engine for humanities and social science research) --- http://www.jurn.org/

Soon to be the largest scholarly library in the world:
Google Book Search --- http://books.google.com/advanced_book_search

June 6, 2008 message from Carolyn Kotlas [kotlas@email.unc.edu]

GOOGLE BOOK SEARCH BIBLIOGRAPHY

Charles W. Bailey, Jr. recently published the second version of "The Google Book Search Bibliography." The resource provides citations and links to over a hundred English-language references to scholarly papers and newspaper articles. The bibliography presents a comprehensive examination of the Google service and the "legal, library, and social issues associated with it." The bibliography is available at http://www.digital-scholarship.org/gbsb/gbsb.htm

Bailey is a prolific compiler of scholarly communication bibliographies, notably the "Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography" (now in its 70th edition). You can access all his publications at http://www.digital-scholarship.org/

Jensen Comment
Also see http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=3069&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en

 

One Million University of Illinois (Free) Books to be Digitized by Google --- http://www.cic.uiuc.edu/programs/CenterForLibraryInitiatives/Archive/PressRelease/LibraryDigitization/index.shtml
Google Digitized Books --- http://books.google.com/advanced_book_search?q=Accounting
For example, key in the word "accounting"
Then try "Accounting for Derivative Financial Instruments"
Then try "Robert E. Jensen" AND "Accounting"
Update on December 31, 2007
Million Book Project Reaches 1.5 Million Book Mark
From the Carnegie Mellon newsletter... http://www.cmu.edu/news/archive/2007/November/nov27_ulib.shtml 

Forgotten Books --- http://www.forgottenbooks.org/catalog/index.php

The Million Book Project, an international venture led by Carnegie Mellon University in the United States, Zhejiang University in China, the Indian Institute of Science in India and the Library at Alexandria in Egypt, has completed the digitization of more than 1.5 million books, which are now available online. For the first time since the project was initiated in 2002, all of the books ... are available through a single Web portal of the Universal Library (www.ulib.org), said Gloriana St. Clair, Carnegie Mellon's dean of libraries.
The University of Illinois Issues in Scholarly Communications Blog, November 30, 2007 --- http://www.library.uiuc.edu/blog/scholcomm/

"Million Books Scanned at U. of Michigan -- and Counting," Jeffrey R. Young, Chronicle of Higher Education, February 4, 2008 ---  Click Here

Librarians at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor threw themselves a party on Friday to celebrate a milestone in their ambitious effort to scan every single book in the collection. They scanned the one millionth book, leaving just 6.5-million to go.

Most of the scanning has been done as part of the library’s controversial deal with Google. The search giant is working with dozens of major libraries around the world to scan the full text of books to add to its index. But Michigan is one of the only institutions to agree to scan every one of its holdings — even those that are still covered by copyright. Some publishers have sued Google for copyright infringement over the scanning effort, though officials from Google say their effort is legal because they are not making the full text of copyrighted books available to the public.

The University of Pittsburgh’s University Library System (ULS) and University Press have formed a partnership to provide digital editions of press titles as part of the library system’s D-Scribe Digital Publishing Program. Thirty-nine books from the Pitt Latin American Series published by the University of Pittsburgh Press are now available online, freely accessible to scholars and students worldwide. Ultimately, most of the Press’ titles older than 2 years will be provided through this open access platform.
The University of Illinois Issues in Scholarly Communications Blog, December 5, 2007 --- http://www.library.uiuc.edu/blog/scholcomm/

Generation of online libraries is born --- http://physorg.com/news81346069.html

Institute of Museum and Library Services: Primary Source http://www.imls.gov/news/source.shtm

Open Library --- http://www.openlibrary.org/
For a good review, see http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2007/08/08/mclemee

Open Humanities Press --- http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/

The Digital South Asia Library --- http://dsal.uchicago.edu/

Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts --- http://manuscripts.cmrs.ucla.edu/

From the American Library Association
Library Support Staff Resource Center --- Click Here

The Electronics Books Page --- http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/

From The Scout Report on January 23, 2009

Codex Sinaiticus [Macromedia Flash Player] http://www.codexsinaiticus.org/en/ 

The Codex Sinaiticus is certainly one of the most important books in the world, and this delightful website provides users with a way to view the book in its entirety. The goal of this project is "to reunite the entire manuscript in digital form and make it accessible to a global audience for the first time." The project partners include The British Library, the National Library of Russia, St. Catherine's Monastery, and Leipzig University Library. First-time visitors may wish to click on the "About" area to learn more about the document's tremendous significance (among other things, it includes the oldest complete copy of the New Testament) and to read answers to several frequently asked questions about the Codex Sinaiticus. Anyone with an interest in conservation, digitization, and transcription will want to check out the "About the Project" page. Here they will find information about all of these subjects, and information about translations of the Codex. Finally, visitors will obviously want to head on over to the "See The Manuscript" area. Here they can read a side-by-side translation of each page, zoom in and out on the Codex, and even browse around by passage.

 

The University of California's eScholarship Repository has recently exceeded five million full-text downloads, according to the university ---
http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/article/17141

Connecting to Collections: A Call to Action (for searching history and museums) --- http://www.imls.gov/collections/index.htm

Project Gutenberg and World eBook Library plan to make ''a third of a million'' e-books available free for a month at the first World eBook Fair. Downloads will be available at the fair's Web site from July 4, the 35th anniversary of Project Gutenberg's founding, through Aug. 4. The majority of the books will be contributed by the World eBook Library. It otherwise charges $8.95 (euro6.98) a year for access to its database of more than 250,000 e-books, documents and articles. But the book fair will not be the last chance for e-bookworms to devour works ranging from ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' to ''Old Indian Legends,'' not to mention dictionaries and thesauruses, without paying for them. Project Gutenberg founder Michael Hart, who first announced the ambitious plan a month ago, said Friday the partners are on track to make 1 million books available for the annual fair's one-month run in 2009, with more appearing in subsequent years. About 100,000, he said, will be permanently available at the handful of Project Gutenberg sites on the Internet.
"Electronic book devotees may want to set aside some extra screen time this summer, as two nonprofits are preparing to provide free access to 300,000 texts online," PhysOrg, June 2, 2006 --- http://www.physorg.com/news68484530.html
Project Gutenberg --- http://promo.net/pg/
World eBook Library --- http://worldlibrary.net/
World eBook Fair --- http://worldebookfair.com/
Also see http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?id=16956

How many millions of free books were downloaded from the Project Gutenberg online library in the past 30 days?
Answer:  http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/scores/top
What were the Top 100 downloads in the past 30 days?

Forensic Chemistry Lab Manual (includes interesting short  stories) --- http://www.asdlib.org/onlineArticles/elabware/thompson/Home1.html

Project Gutenberg Update --- http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/

The Literary Traveler --- http://www.literarytraveler.com/

From the University of Virginia
Browse Collections by Language --- http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/collections/languages/

Great Books and Classics --- http://www.grtbooks.com/

Perseus Digital Library --- http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/

Other Free eBook Links:

American Libtrary Association Archives Digital Collections --- 
http://web.library.uiuc.edu/ahx/ead/ala/digital/ala-digital.html

Rare Book Room --- http://www.rarebookroom.org/

The (alleged) 10 Best Places to Get Free Books --- http://www.friedbeef.com/2007/04/02/top-10-best-places-to-get-free-books-part-1/
(I tend to agree with the choices)

Turning the Page (from the British Library) ---  http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/ttp/ttpbooks.html

The Pulitzer Prizes --- http://www.pulitzer.org/ 

American Library Association --- http://www.ala.org/ala/booklist/booklist.htm

Free eBooks --- http://www.free-ebooks.net/

Great Books Index --- http://books.mirror.org/gb.titles.html

Free Library (in topic categories) --- http://www.thefreelibrary.com/

Full Text Classics --- http://www.bookspot.com/features/fulltextfeature.htm

From the University of Pennsylvania
Online Books Page --- http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/

The Nineteenth Century in Print: The Making of America in Periodicals ---
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpcoop/moahtml/snchome.html

Serendipity Books --- Click Here

The University of Vermont Libraries' Center for Digital Initiatives: Fletcher Family
http://cdi.uvm.edu/collections/getCollection.xql?title=Fletcher Family

Critical Postmodern Theory --- http://www.uta.edu/huma/illuminations/

November 18, 2007 message from Asia Lu [asiaing.lu@gmail.com]

Dear Bob:

I think you maybe interested in this:

Top Ten Free eBook Websites

1. Project Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org

2. Asiaing.com: http://www.asiaing.com

Over 2,000 free ebooks & free magazines. Most of them can be downloaded directly. I love the slogan: "Knowledge shared, power gained!."

3. The Online Books Page: http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/

Listing over 25,000 free books on the Web. The site is hosted by the University of Pennsylvania Library.

4. PSU's Electronic Classics Site:

http://www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/jimspdf.htm

Classic works of Literature.

5. PlanetPDF http://www.planetpdf.com/free_pdf_ebooks.asp?CurrentPage=1

Classics works of Literature.

6. University of California, eScholarship Edition:

Knowledge Rush --- http://www.knowledgerush.com/kr/jsp/db/directory.jsp

http://content.cdlib.org/escholarship/

The eScholarship Editions collection includes almost 2000 books from academic presses on a range of topics, including art, science, history, music, religion, and fiction.

7. University of Adelaide Library's collection of Web books:

http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/

The collection includes classic works of Literature, Philosophy, Science, and History.

8. AvaxHome.ru: http://www.avaxhome.ru

Some new ebooks. Rapidshare download links. Copyright is a problem.

9. The National Academies Press: http://www.nap.edu Read more than 3,000 books online FREE!

10.You! Everyone has his own favorite ebook website. Maybe It's already on the list. Maybe not. It doesn't matter. The most important thing is that you love eBook.

Have a wonderful day.

Asia Lu

Digital Defoe Reviews of 18th Century Literature --- http://www.english.ilstu.edu/digitaldefoe/features/index.shtml

Internet Book List --- http://www.iblist.com/

Classics Reader --- http://www.classicreader.com/

University of Missouri Digital Library --- http://digital.library.umsystem.edu/
Includes such things as sheet music and photographs.

American Library Association Mystery Showcase ---
http://www.ala.org/ala/booklist/mysteryshowcase/mysteryshowcase.htm

Digital Library Books Page --- http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/

Free eBooks for your PDA (or iPod) --- http://manybooks.net/

Free from Random House, The 100 Best Novels --- http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/100bestnovels.html

From MIT
The Internet Classics Archive --- http://classics.mit.edu/

The Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library --- http://www.woodrowwilson.org/

From Carnegie-Mellon University
Interactive Fiction Page --- http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/wsr/Web/IF/homepage.html
(Somewhat dated but still interesting.)

Great Books (Classics from the Access Foundation) --- http://www.anova.org/ 

Classics at the Online Literature Library --- http://www.literature.org/authors/

Writing World --- http://www.writing-world.com/fiction/

The Reader's Robot --- http://www.tnrdlib.bc.ca/rr.html

Readprint.com offers thousands of free books for students, teachers, and the classic enthusiast. To find the book you desire to read, start by looking through the author index --- http://www.readprint.com/

From the University of Pennsylvania
Online Books Page --- http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/new.html

Classic Literature Library --- http://www.classic-literature.co.uk/

The Literature Page (Classics) --- http://www.literaturepage.com/

Harvard Classics Fiction --- http://www.bartleby.com/hc/

Planet eBook (download the classics) --- http://www.planetebook.com/

Poets & Writers --- http://www.pw.org/

Internet Public Library  --- http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/

Imagine a (wiki) library that collected all the world's information about all the world's books and made it available for everyone to view and update. We're building that library.
Open Library (Not yet fully operational) --- http://demo.openlibrary.org/

From the University of Illinois Issues in Scholarly Communication Blog on June 7, 2007 --- Click Here
Internet Archive Texts - a part of the broader Internet Archive, an non-profit organization founded with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format. The Internet Archive includes texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web pages
Google Books
 Microsoft's Live Search Books
 Amazon's Search Inside

Literature Collection --- http://www.literaturecollection.com/

Free PDF eBooks Archive --- http://www.planetpdf.com/free_pdf_ebooks.asp?CurrentPage=1

The Literary Encyclopedia --- http://www.litencyc.com/
Note the link to new articles.

Electronic Literature Organization --- http://www.eliterature.org/ 

From the British Library --- http://www.bl.uk/sacred
"The world's greatest collection of Jewish, Christian, and Muslim holy books."

Bibliochaise online library --- http://www.nobodyandco.it/sito/inglese/the bibliochaise.html

Gothic Texts --- http://www.litgothic.com/index_fl.html

The Literature Network --- http://www.online-literature.com/

Overbooked (includes reviews) --- http://www.overbooked.org/

I like to search for book contents at http://www.lib.uwo.ca/newalpha.shtml 

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign announces the availability of a newly-digitized collection of Abraham Lincoln books accessible through the Open Content Alliance and displayed on the University Library's own web site, as the first step of a digitization project of Lincoln books from its collection. View the first set of books digitized at: http://varuna.grainger.uiuc.edu/oca/lincoln/

Documents dating back to the early 19th-century about historically black colleges can be viewed online thanks to a new digital collection available to the public. The site includes campus charters, student yearbooks, campus architectural drawings, and photographs from 10 historically black institutions: Alabama State University, Atlanta University Center, Bennett College for Women, Fisk University, Grambling State University, Hampton University, Southern University, Tennessee State University, Tuskegee University, and Virginia State University.
Andrea L. Foster, Chronicle of Higher Education, February 13, 2008 --- Click Here

LitWeb --- http://litweb.net/
Find over 500 biographies of the most important writers with our Authors Index, selected bibliographies, and the winners, past and present, of the top literary prizes since they began.

Literature Project --- http://www.literatureproject.com/

The Internet Classics Archive --- http://classics.mit.edu/

Online Library of Literature --- http://www.literature.org/

Literature.org --- http://www.literature.org/ 

Bookyards --- http://www.bookyards.com/

Book TV (CSPAN interviews with authors) ---  http://www.booktv.org

The Literature Network --- http://www.online-literature.com/

Book-a-Minute --- http://rinkworks.com/bookaminute/classics.shtml

Octavo Digital Rare Books --- http://www.octavo.com/

Santa Clara University Virtual Library --- http://campustechnology.com/articles/48506

Library of Congress Information Bulletin --- http://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib

Classic Short Stories --- http://www.classicshorts.com/

ShortStories --- http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/indexframe.html

Short Stories --- http://www.short-stories.co.uk/

East of the Web Short Stories --- http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/

East of the Web Interactive --- http://www.eastoftheweb.com/hyperfiction/index.html

CELT Corpus of Electronic Texts --- http://www.ucc.ie/celt/publishd.html

Commonwealth Writers Prize --- http://www.commonwealthwriters.com/

Planet PDF (free PDF eBooks) --- http://www.planetpdf.com/free_pdf_ebooks.asp?CurrentPage=1

All-Story Short Stories --- http://www.all-story.com/

Salon Books (note especially the posthumous memoir from murdered journalist Anna Politkovskaya gives readers a glimpse of the dark side of post-Soviet Russia in A Russian Diary) --- http://dir.salon.com/topics/books/

Authorama.com, featuring completely free books from a variety of different authors, collected here for you to read online or offline --- http://www.authorama.com/

VYOM eBooks Directory --- http://www.vyomebooks.com/

The 25 Funniest Analogies (Collected by High School English Teachers) --- Click Here

eNotes.com features high-quality study guides, lesson plans, and other reference material in various academic areas --- http://www.enotes.com/

The Million Books Project at Carnegie Mellon University --- http://www.library.cmu.edu/Libraries/MBP_FAQ.html

Project Gutenberg --- http://www.gutenberg.org/

Bibliomania --- http://www.bibliomania.com/0/0/frameset.html

The Hypertexts of Writers and Poets --- http://www.thehypertexts.com/

Read Print (online library) --- http://www.readprint.com/

FullBooks --- http://www.fullbooks.com/ 

Boston Public Library
100 Most Influential Books of the Century Booklists for Adults ---
http://www.bpl.org/research/AdultBooklists/influential.htm

University of Michigan Internet Public Library --- http://www.ipl.org.ar/ref/QUE/FARQ/bestsellerFARQ.html

Logos Free Books --- http://www.logosfreebooks.org/ 

University of Adelaide Library’s collection of Web books --- http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/

Find over 500 biographies of the most important writers --- http://litweb.net/

Internet Book List --- http://www.iblist.com/list.php?type=book&key=A&by=genre&genre=4

The Internet Classics Archives from MIT --- http://classics.mit.edu/

The Free Library --- http://www.thefreelibrary.com/

Eye on Europe: prints, books & multiples / 1960 to now --- http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/2006/eyeoneurope/

Short Story Classics --- http://shortstory.byethost6.com/

Renascence Editions from the University of Oregon --- http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/ren.htm

Full 'Text Classics --- http://www.bookspot.com/features/fulltextfeature.htm

100 Best Novels --- http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/100bestnovels.html

Bibliomania --- http://www.bibliomania.com/0/0/frameset.html

Great Books Index --- http://books.mirror.org/gb.titles.html

Best History Websites --- http://www.besthistorysites.net/

Bartleby's Great Books Online --- http://www.bartleby.com/titles/

Bartleby.com: Nonfiction --- http://www.bartleby.com/nonfiction/

A Victorian Anthology, 1837-1895 --- http://www.bartleby.com/246/

British History Online --- http://www.british-history.ac.uk/

Classic Reader --- http://www.classicreader.com/

Anthology of English Literature --- http://www.luminarium.org/lumina.htm

Classic Literature Library --- http://www.classic-literature.co.uk/

The Literature Network --- http://www.online-literature.com/yeats/

University of Southern California Digital Archive --- http://digarc.usc.edu:8089/cispubsearch/

Great Books Index --- http://books.mirror.org/gb.titles.html

Brain Juice Biographies --- http://www.brain-juice.com/main.html

Literature Mania --- http://www.literaturemania.com/

The University of Virginia's E-Book Library --- http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/ebooks/subjects/subjects.html

Carnegie Mellon University's Universal Library --- http://www.ulib.org/html/

Brain Juice Biographies --- http://www.brain-juice.com/main.html

Planet eBook --- http://www.planetebook.com/

knowledgerrush (a variety of online literature categorized by topic) --- http://www.knowledgerush.com/kr/jsp/db/directory.jsp

Yahoo's links to Humanities Dectionaries, Libraries, and Literature --- http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Reference/

A Collection of the World's Fairy Tales --- http://www.fairytalescollection.com/

eServer Books --- http://eserver.org/books/

Literary Resources on the Net --- http://www.andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/

Books in Depth (including downloads of sample chapters) --- http://www.booksindepth.com/
Magazine, Periodical and Website Book Reviews from around the World ---
http://www.booksindepth.com/period.html

Mystery books and short stories --- http://www.strandmag.com/mccall.htm

Celt Corpus Electronic Books --- http://www.ucc.ie/celt/publishd.html

God's Debris --- http://www.andrewsmcmeel.com/godsdebris/

LiteratureMania.com --- http://www.literaturemania.com/

Electronic Sources of Information: A Bibliography http://library.usask.ca/~dworacze/BIBLIO.HTM 

Hyper History Online --- http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html

Literary Resources on the Net --- http://www.andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/

The Online Books Page --- http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/

Internet Book List --- http://www.iblist.com/

Book Crossing --- http://bookcrossing.com/home

Globusz Digital Publishing --- http://www.globusz.com/

eServer Books --- http://eserver.org/books/

Questia (fee-based huge library of electronic books) --- http://www.questia.com/

The Literature Network of online books --- http://www.online-literature.com/

The Free Library --- http://www.thefreelibrary.com/

Free Electronic Books --- http://www.awriteshop.com/e_reading.html 
Many of the books are scanned photographs of actual book pages.

Bartleby's Great Books Online --- http://www.bartleby.com/titles/

More Free Electronic Books --- http://www.wordtheque.com/pls/wordtc/new_wordtheque.main?lang=EN&source=author

WORDTHEQUE - Word by word multilingual library ---  http://snipurl.com/cv97

Free Australian electronic books --- http://www.e-book.com.au/freebooks.htm

BiblioMania --- http://www.bibliomania.com/0/0/frameset.html

Authors Directory --- http://authorsdirectory.com/title.shtml

The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest --- http://www.bulwer-lytton.com/

A Write Shop --- http://www.awriteshop.com/e_reading.html 
Many links to free books and other readings online.

The Modern World --- http://www.themodernword.com/eco/eco_papers.html

Online Books Library (including some banned books) --- http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/banned-books.html
The above site is not a free book site.  You might identify something like a banned book and then find it free at another search site --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/searchh.htm#ElectronicBooks

Free eBooks for your PDA (or iPod) --- http://manybooks.net/

Modern literature links --- http://www.themodernword.com/themodword.cfm

Serendipity Books --- http://snipurl.com/SerendipityBooks

Literature Project --- http://www.literatureproject.com/

Source Text --- http://www.sourcetext.com/

Memoware (Free and fee electronic books) --- http://www.memoware.com/

Bookfinder.com Journal --- http://journal.bookfinder.com/

What Should I Read Next? --- http://www.whatshouldireadnext.com/books/search?email=oblio@inter.net

Reader2 --- http://reader2.com/

The Library of Economics and Liberty --- http://www.econlib.org/index.html

Altered Books --- http://www.logolalia.com/alteredbooks/
Altered Books --- http://www.art-e-zine.co.uk/alteredbook.html
Altered Books Index --- http://karenswhimsy.com/altered-books/index.htm

Famous Farewells --- http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/6537/fareidx.htm
Famous Last Words --- http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/6537/

Book download frequencies --- http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/scores/top

Science Fiction --- http://www.knowledgerush.com/kr/jsp/db/directory.jsp?categoryId=13&categoryName=top%2FScience%20Fiction

Free eBooks and AudioBooks for Mobile Computers --- http://tuxmobil.org/ebook.html

Page by Page Books --- http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/

God's Debris --- http://www.andrewsmcmeel.com/godsdebris/

Book Table of Contents Finders --- http://alpha.lib.uwo.ca/

Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography ---  http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html  

Free Electronic Books --- http://www.awriteshop.com/e_reading.html  
Many of the books are scanned photographs of actual book pages.

Children's Books Online ---  http://www.childrensbooksonline.org/

One More Story is an interactive online library for children --- http://www.onemorestory.com/

An electronic library that teaches children how to read better
Chelsea Waugaman, "Read the story again? Sure. Computers don't get tired," The Christian Science Monitor, July 11, 2005 --- http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0711/p12s01-stin.html

 Mystery Net --- http://www.mysterynet.com/

Mystery books and short stories --- http://www.strandmag.com/mccall.htm

The Mississippi Review --- http://www.mississippireview.com/

Manybooks.net --- http://www.manybooks.net/  

All About Famous People --- http://www.aboutfamouspeople.com/

Russian Folk Tales --- http://russian-crafts.com/tales.html

Writers Write --- http://www.writerswrite.com/

SCHOLARLY ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING BIBLIOGRAPHY http://www.escholarlypub.com/digitalkoans/
The weblog is online at http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepw.htm    

HarperCollins Electronic Books (not free) ---
http://us.perfectbound.com/B3063A9B-5F19-48AB-8598-11F59922FDF4/10/1/en/Default.htm  

Rogue Scholars --- http://roguescholars.com/opus/default.html

LibraryThing --- http://www.librarything.com/ 

BookBrowse.com --- http://www.bookbrowse.com/  
This site is very efficient for finding the latest and greatest books on a wide range of topics.

How to Find Books and Compare Prices --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/searchh.htm#Books  

Barnes and Noble Book Browser --- http://www.barnesandnoble.com/bookbrowser/Welcome.asp?

Story Code Book Finder --- http://www.storycode.com/

Helper Site if You Are Looking for a Book to Read Whichbook --- http://www.whichbook.net/index.jsp  
     (Note that you click on a category and then slide a pointer)

Glossary of Book Collecting Terms --- http://hardyboys.bobfinnan.com/bookterms.htm 

The Experience of Technology in Literature and Art --- http://commhum.mccneb.edu/PHILOS/techlit.htm

World History --- http://www.fsmitha.com/maps.html

Macro History --- http://www.fsmitha.com/

Brainy History --- http://www.brainyhistory.com/ 

History of Costume
Fashion in Color ---  http://ndm.si.edu/EXHIBITIONS/fashion_in_colors/

Find rare and used books on BiblioFind ---
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/subst/books/misc/bibliofind.html/104-2407774-3526314

All-Time Bestselling Books and Authors --- http://www.ipl.org.ar/ref/QUE/FARQ/bestsellerFARQ.html

University of Southern California Digital Archive --- http://digarc.usc.edu:8089/cispubsearch/

Digital Orchid Library from Michigan State University --- http://digital.lib.msu.edu/projects/orchids/

A good  place to find a book --- http://www.bookfinder.com/ 

A good place to find books and compare prices --- www.AAABookSearch.com  .

You can also compare prices and shipping costs at www.CampusBooks4Less.com

A good place to find the best price (including shipping) if you know the ISBN number --- http://isbn.nu/ 

The best places to find electronic books --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/searchh.htm#ElectronicBooks 

Free service for book search and price comparison from among over 40 bookstore, www.AAABookSearch.com .

Rare, second hand, and out-of-print books --- http://shop.barnesandnoble.com/oopbooks/oopsearch.asp?sourceid=00382445673057253564&bfdate=04-13-2001+09:18:42 

The Nobel Prize for Literature --- http://nobelprize.org/literature/

Literature Map --- http://www.literature-map.com/

The Invisible Library --- http://www.invisiblelibrary.com/

Propaganda The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly --- http://www.newspeakdictionary.com/cc-books.html

Journal of Electronic Publishing ---  http://journalofelectronicpublishing.org/

Prints With/Out Pressure: American Relief Prints from the 1940s through the 1960s http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/print/exhibits/pressure/index.html

From NPR
Librarian's Picks: Books for a Rainy Day --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5162810

Rare Book Manuscript Library --- http://www.libs.uga.edu/darchive/hargrett/maps/maps.html

Barnes and Noble Book Browser --- http://www.barnesandnoble.com/bookbrowser/Welcome.asp?

Fiction Press --- http://www.fictionpress.com/

ebookshare.net --- http://www.ebookshare.net/

Public.Resource.Org --- http://public.resource.org/

Folger Shakespeare Library --- http://folger.edu/index.cfm 

Shakespeare's Staging --- http://shakespeare.berkeley.edu/

Arden: World of William Shakespeare --- http://swi.indiana.edu/arden/gi_specs.shtml

From the Scout Report on March 13, 2009

Original Shakespeare portrait unveiled Is This a Shakespeare Which I See Before Me? http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/10/world/europe/10shakespeare.html?ref=world 

Why is this the definitive image of Shakespeare? http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7936629.stm 

Shakespeare's first theatre found http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7931823.stm 

William Shakespeare at the National Portrait Gallery
http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person.php?search=ss&role=sit&LinkID=mp04051 

William Shakespeare Quiz http://www.npg.org.uk/learning/digital/history/shakespeare-quiz.php 

William Shakespeare Birthplace Trust http://www.shakespeare.org.uk/index.html

The Complete Works of William Shakepeare http://shakespeare.mit.edu/

 

SOURCETEXT.com (with much emphasis on Shakespeare)
A home for specialized, reason-provoking texts that appeal to the eternally curious and to those who value wit and character --- http://www.sourcetext.com/

Literary Locales (from the English Department at San Jose State University) --- http://www2.sjsu.edu/depts/english/places.htm

Book Cover Art by William S. Burroughs --- http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/burroughs-books/index.h

The Literary Encyclopedia is an expanding global literary reference work written by over 1400 specialists from universities around the world, and currently provides over 3550 authoritative profiles of authors, works and literary and historical topics. We will provide over 3800 by the end of this year and aim to publish at least 800 new profiles (circa 1.6m words) in the next 15 months. We also list nearly 19,000 works by date, country and genre, and provide advanced software tools. Membership costs only $17.95 for a full year (circa Ł10.00 or € 14.50) and helps us to build this valuable resource. In May 2006 we delivered over 1.8m pages to over 500,000 visits.
The Literary Encyclopedia --- http://www.litencyc.com/

From the Scout Report on January 16, 2009

Research posits that Victorian novels may have aided the cause of altruism and fairness in society Victorian novels helped us evolve into better people, say psychologists http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/jan/14/victorian-novels-evolution-altruism  

Victorian novels like Pride and Prejudice teach us how to behave
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/4239733/Victorian-novels-like-Pride-and-Prejudice-teach-us-how-to-behave.html  

Hierarchy in the Library: Egalitarian Dynamics in Victorian Novels --- http://www.epjournal.net/filestore/ep06715738.pdf 

Believing in 19th century novels
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2009/jan/14/literature-evolutionary-advantage-university-missouri 

Gruel served up to hungry public http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/7825015.stm 

Medieval Food and Cooking: Gruel Recipes http://www.medievalplus.com/food-cooking/recipes-gruel.html

 

Also see http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm#History

 

Audio Books and Poems for Listening

All About Audio (a Digital Duo Video) --- http://www.pcworld.com/digitalduo/video/0,segid,186,00.asp 

Electronic Literature Directory --- http://directory.eliterature.org/
(There are links to audio books here)

LibriVox Free Audio Books --- http://librivox.org/

Free Classics (audio books) --- http://www.freeclassicaudiobooks.com/

Poetry Out Loud [mulitimedia] --- http://www.poetryoutloud.org/ 

Find music and audio books from Akuma --- http://www.akuma.de/

Historical and Philosophical Audio Books --- http://www.ejunto.com/

Stories from the Heart of the Land (audio) ---  http://www.nature.org/heart/about/

Hear Carl Sandburg --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6382389

The Living History Farm (Video) --- http://livinghistoryfarm.org/index.html

Turning the Page (from the British Library) ---  http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/ttp/ttpbooks.html

From the University of Pennsylvania
PENNsound [audio poetry, literature, and reviews) --- http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/

From the University of Wisconsin
Beowulf: A New Translation for Oral Delivery --- http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/Literature/subcollections/RinglBeowulfAbout.shtml

The translation is intended for "oral delivery," that is, to be read or recited aloud. Accordingly this work includes an audio stream in which the translator provides a reading of his version of the poem. This reading is meant to model metrical and rhetorical features of the translation, not to lay down the law about how it should be "performed." It can be listened to uninterruptedly from start to finish--which takes about three hours--or it can be accessed at the beginning of any of the forty-three sections into which it is divided (and which correspond to the numbered sections of the surviving manuscript).

'The Cremation of Sam McGee' (Humorous audio poem) --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5672398

Audio Books (a Digital Duo Video) --- http://www.pcworld.com/digitalduo/video/0,segid,189,00.asp

Audio Readings of Poems --- http://www.wiredforbooks.org/poetry/

Kay Ryan, a prize-winning poet who teaches remedial English at the College of Marin, will today be named poet laureate of the United States, The New York Times reported. The article includes links to some of her writing.
Inside Higher Ed, July 17, 2008 --- http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/07/17/qt

 

Academy of American Poets (also has audio) --- http://www.poets.org/

The British Library: Listen to Nature [Audio] http://www.bl.uk/listentonature

Favorite Poem Project (videos) --- http://www.favoritepoem.org/

Poetry Online (read and/or listen to the poems) --- http://www.wiredforbooks.org/poetry/

BBC Radio 4: The Living World --- http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/livingworld.shtml

Jane Fonda's Broadcasts on Radio Hanoi (audio) --- http://www.wintersoldier.com/index.php?topic=FondaHanoi

From the University of Virginia (more than just an online version of the book)
Uncle Tom’s Cabin & American Culture --- http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/utc/

James Joyce's Poems Get a Musical Facelift --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91757715  

From Harvard University
Listen to Milman Parry’s field recordings on-line! The first of the recordings slated for digital reformatting as part of our ongoing digitalization project are now available. Use the Collection Database or the Milman Parry Songs page to access digital materials --- http://chs.harvard.edu/mpc/

From NPR
Jack Gilbert: Notes from a Well-Observed Life (with audio readings of four poems) ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5370284

WindowsMedia.com http://www.windowsmedia.com/ 
A search engine for online audio and video

Word for Word (news) --- http://wordforword.publicradio.org/

Audio Resources for Literature --- http://www.nt.armstrong.edu/audio.htm

Dan Roberts delivers two-minute history lessons on public radio stations around the world. --- http://www.amomentintime.com/

Free audio book downloads --- http://www.freeclassicaudiobooks.com/

Voices in the Dark (audio books) --- http://www.voicesinthedark.com/content.php?iContent=50

HarperCollins Audio Books --- http://www.harpercollins.com/channels.asp?channel=Audio

History of Politics Outloud (audio) --- http://www.hpol.org/

The Experience of Technology in Literature and Art --- http://commhum.mccneb.edu/PHILOS/techlit.htm

Audio Books, Clips, Lectures, and Speeches --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/searchh.htm#Audio

Ruth Padel reads her poems --- http://www.ruthpadel.com/

Poetry Everywhere --- http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/poetryeverywhere/

Thought Audio free MP3 downloads --- http://www.thoughtaudio.com/

Talking History:  Aural History Productions (audio) --- http://www.talkinghistory.org/

The Virtual Gramophone: Canadian Historical Sound Recordings ---
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/gramophone/index-e.html

From NPR
History in Audio --- http://www.npr.org/programs/lnfsound/audio/

Poetry Archive (with audio readings) ---  http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/home.do

Podcast Central from TechWeb --- http://www.techweb.com/podcasts/

Documenting the American South: Oral Histories of the American South ---  http://docsouth.unc.edu/sohp/

From NPR
Skyler Pia: 'One World, One Kid,' One Good Cause (audio) --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5343500

Book TV (CSPAN interviews with authors) ---  http://www.booktv.org

THE HYPE MACHINE audio blog aggregator --- http://hype.non-standard.net/

National Institutes of Health: Radio --- http://www.nih.gov/news/radio/index.htm

Augusten Burroughs' Mother Speaks Out (poems with audio) ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6209286

Love, War and History: Israel's Yehuda Amichai (audio poetry) ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9699843

Sound Effects Library --- http://www.audiolicense.net/sfx/

Slave Narratives --- http://moadsf.org/salon/exhibits/slave_narratives/flash.php

From the University of Wisconsin:  South African Voices --- http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/SouAfrVc/

The Cornell Daily Sun Digitization Project --- http://cdsun.library.cornell.edu/

Garrison Keillor's Writer's Almanac (audio) --- http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/

Invented by Thomas Edison in 1877, the phonograph was a device with a cylinder covered with a soft material such as tin foil, lead, or wax on which a stylus drew grooves --- http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/
The University of California at Santa Barbara has over 6,000 historic cylindars that you can now listen to free over online
Cylindar Radio --- http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/

University Channel (video and audio) ---  http://uc.princeton.edu/main/

 

The University Channel makes videos of academic lectures and events from all over the world available to the public. It is a place where academics can air their ideas and present research in a full-length, uncut format. Contributors with greater video production capabilities can submit original productions.

The University Channel presents ideas in a way commercial news or public affairs programming cannot. Because it is neither constrained by time nor dependent upon commercial feedback, the University Channel's video content can be broad and flexible enough to cover the full gamut of academic investigation.

While it has unlimited potential, the University Channel begins with a focus on public and international affairs, because this is an area which lends itself most naturally to a many-sided discussion. Perhaps of greatest advantage to universities who seek to expand their dialog with overseas institutions and international affairs, the University Channel can "go global" and become a truly international forum.

The University Channel aims to become, literally, a "channel" for important thought, to be heard in its entirety. Television has become so much a part of the fabric of our world that it should be more than an academic interest. It should be an academic tool.

The University Channel project is an initiative of Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, which is leading the effort to build university membership and distribution partners. Technical support, advice and services are provided through the generosity of Princeton University's Office of Information Technology. Digital video solutions courtesy of Princeton Server Group.

 

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Online Poem and Poet Finders

Lost Titles, Forgotten Rhymes: How to Find a Novel, Short Story, or Poem Without Knowing its Title or Author --- http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/lost/

Links to Poets and Their Online Poems --- http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc/authors/

Poets of Old and Their Poems --- http://oldpoetry.com/oauthor/list

My Favorite Poem Project (including a video reading by Hillary Clinton when she was the First Lady of the United States) --- http://www.favoritepoem.org/videos.html

I especially liked the video reading by Nancy Nersessian
Especially note how Professor Nerseeian relates the poem to her broken brother.

The Sentence

by Anna Akhmatova

And the stone word fell
On my still-living breast.
Never mind, I was ready.
I will manage somehow.

Today I have so much to do:
I must kill memory once and for all,
I must turn my soul to stone,
I must learn to live again—

Unless . . . Summer's ardent rustling
Is like a festival outside my window.
For a long time I've foreseen this
Brilliant day, deserted house.

 

 

Electronic Literature Directory --- http://directory.eliterature.org/

Poetry Foundation (a very wealthy foundation) --- http://www.poetryfoundation.org

Poets & Writers --- http://www.pw.org/mag/

International War Veterans' Poetry Archives --- http://iwvpa.net/index.php

Open Humanities Press --- http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/

Representative Poetry On-line --- http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/display/index.cfm

Electronic Literature Organization --- http://www.eliterature.org/  

Poets' Gravesites --- http://www.poetsgraves.co.uk/

Many free classic poems by famous poets --- http://www.well.com/user/eob/poetry.html

National Poetry Month 2007 (poems chosen by the Academy of American Poets) ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9043294&ps=h1

Favorite Poem Project --- http://www.favoritepoem.org/
Includes Hillary Clinton reading The Makers --- http://www.favoritepoem.org/FlashVideo/hclinton.html

Poetry Out Loud [mulitimedia] --- http://www.poetryoutloud.org/ 

Library of Congress: Poetry --- http://www.loc.gov/poetry/

The Poetry Pages --- http://www.poetrypages.com/

Sonnet Central --- http://www.sonnets.org/

"St. Olaf Wrestles With Milton's Angel, and Prevails," by Jennifer Howard, Chronicle of Higher Education, November 21, 2008 --- http://chronicle.com/weekly/v55/i13/13a00104.htm

Here are some of the things you learn when you participate in a Milton marathon:

  1. Milton is not as boring as you think. Paradise Lost has something for everyone: Hot but innocent sex! (You thought Adam and Eve spent all their time in Eden gardening?) Descriptions of hellfire that would make The Lord of the Rings' archfiend, Sauron, weep with envy! Epic battles, with angels hurling mountains at their demonic foes! This is edge-of-your-seat material. "It's a really cool story, which I wasn't expecting," said Anna Coffey, a sophomore who took part in the reading to get a jump on her homework for a "Great Conversations" core-curriculum course.

     

  2. Milton is not that hard to read out loud. As Mr. DuRocher pointed out in a set of "Guidelines for Reciting" he handed out before the marathon, "Paradise Lost is written in modern English." Compared with Beowulf, Paradise Lost is a walk in the park.

     

  3. Milton is really hard to read out loud. Very few people get words like "puissance" right on the first try. Milton loved a runaway sentence and just about any now-obscure classical or geographical reference he could get his hands on, many of them polysyllabic nightmares. Partway through Book VI, Mr. DuRocher offered advice to the tongue-tied. "Whenever you encounter a word you don't know, that's a word to pronounce with special certainty," he said. "It's probably best to mispronounce demonic names anyway."

     

  4. It's worth it. "It's really a good poem," said Mr. Goodroad. "It's a lot better to hear it than to read it."

From Dartmouth College
Poems 1645 --- http://www.dartmouth.edu/~milton/reading_room/contents/

Citizen (John) Milton --- http://www.cems.ox.ac.uk/citizenmilton/

From UC Davis University
British Women Romantic Poets (1789 - 1832) --- http://digital.lib.ucdavis.edu/projects/bwrp/

Poetry Everywhere --- http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/poetryeverywhere/

From the University of Michigan
The American Verse Project --- http://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/amverse

Bad Poetry --- http://unix.cc.wmich.edu/~cooneys/poems/bad/

From the University of Pennsylvania
PENNsound [audio poetry, literature, and reviews) --- http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/

Live Poetry Slam --- http://live-poetry-slam.group.stumbleupon.com/forum/12400/

Academy of American Poets (also has audio) --- http://www.poets.org/

American Life in Poetry --- http://www.americanlifeinpoetry.org/

Poet's Corner --- http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/  

More Than Words (poetry) --- http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~vivy/Poetry/Poetry_Result.htm

Anthology of Poetry --- http://www.web-books.com/Classics/Poetry/Anthology/contents.htm

Double-Dactyl --- http://lonestar.texas.net/~robison/dactyls.html

From Rice University
The Wondering Minstrels (Poems) --- http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/

From the University of Toronto
Representative Poetry Online --- http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/2909.html

Poetry Portal --- http://www.poetry-portal.com/

The Online Corpus of Old English Poetry --- http://www.oepoetry.ca/

A Small Anthology of Poems from the English Department of Western Michigan University --- http://unix.cc.wmich.edu/~cooneys/poems/

American Verse Project (From the University of Michigan in collaboration with the Michigan Humanities Text In-------Initiative) --- http://www.hti.umich.edu/a/amverse/

Yahoo's links to Poetry --- http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/Literature/Poetry/Thematic_Poetry/Humorous_Poetry/

The University of Illinois Modern American Poetry Site --- http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/index.htm

Poetry Magazines --- http://www.poetrymagazines.org.uk/

The Literature Network --- http://www.online-literature.com/

Shadow Poetry --- http://www.shadowpoetry.com/

Poetry Connection --- http://www.poetryconnection.net/

Poem Hunter --- http://www.poemhunter.com/

Poets Graves --- http://www.americanpoems.com/

Poem Hunter --- http://www.poemhunter.com/p/m/poem.asp?poet=6617&poem=29635

Poetry Daily --- http://www.poems.com/

The EServer Poetry Collection --- http://eserver.org/poetry/

Shmoop is an online study guide for English Literature, Poetry and American history --- http://www.shmoop.com/

Electronic Poetry Center --- http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc/authors/

Poetry Library --- http://www.poetrymagazines.org.uk/

U.K. Poetry Magazine --- http://www.poetrymagazines.org.uk/

Poetry International Web --- http://www.poetryinternational.org/

Find a poet and/or share your poetry --- http://www.everypoet.com/

Song Meanings --- http://www.songmeanings.net/

Chinese Poetry --- http://www.darsie.net/library/chinese.html

Graphic Poetry --- http://www.graphicpoetry.net/

Favorite American Poems --- http://www.americanpoems.com/

Tibet Writes (Poetry) --- http://www.tibetwrites.org/

Poems by Form --- http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/forms.do

Starlight Cafe's Poetry Corner --- http://www.thestarlitecafe.com/

Literature.org --- http://www.literature.org/ 

Literature Project --- http://www.literatureproject.com/

Poem Tag Project --- http://www.poemtag.com/

British Women Romantic Poets, 1789-1832 (from U.C. Davis) --- http://digital.lib.ucdavis.edu/projects/bwrp/

New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre --- http://www.nzepc.auckland.ac.nz/

Swarm Behive Poetry Anthology --- http://beehive.temporalimage.com/content_apps04/swarm/

Funny (at times) Poetry --- http://oldpoetry.com/poetry/19811

Belfast Poets --- http://www.belfastpoets.com/

T.S. Eliot Poems --- http://www.coldbacon.com/poems/eliot.html

Hysteria by T.S. Eliot http://www.famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/t__s__eliot/poems/15187 

Beautiful Words Poems --- http://www.beautifulwords.com/

The Hypertexts of Writers and Poets --- http://www.thehypertexts.com/

The Kenyon Review (Journal) --- http://www.kenyonreview.org/

American Poems --- http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/poe/1504

HAIKU for PEOPLE (by categories) --- http://www.toyomasu.com/haiku/

Glossary of Hard Boiled Slang --- http://www.miskatonic.org/slang.html

FreeNet Pages Poetry --- http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/freeman/

Poetry Archive --- http://www.poetry-archive.com/

I Love Poetry --- http://www.ilovepoetry.com/

Arcanum Cafe (for poets) --- http://www.arcanumcafe.com/

Poets Corner --- http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/

American Verse Project (From the University of Michigan in collaboration with the Michigan Humanities Text In-------Initiative) --- http://www.hti.umich.edu/a/amverse/

Poem Hunter --- http://www.poemhunter.com/

Best Poems --- http://100.best-poems.net/

Poetry Critical --- http://poetry.tetto.org/

Poets.org: Autumn http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/19533

PoetryPoetry --- http://www.poetrypoetry.com/

Poetry Society --- http://www.poetrysociety.org.uk/npd/2000/hannah.htm

Robert Burns Poems and Songs --- http://www.robertburns.org/

Poems showing the absurdities of English spelling --- http://www.spellingsociety.org/news/media/poems.php

British Women Romantic Poets, 1789 - 1832 (from U.C. Davis) --- http://digital.lib.ucdavis.edu/projects/bwrp/

Swarm Behive Poetry Anthology --- http://beehive.temporalimage.com/content_apps04/swarm/

Funny (at times) Poetry --- http://oldpoetry.com/poetry/19811

Love Poems --- http://www.love-poems.me.uk/

Lyric Line Personal Poetry Reading --- http://www.lyrikline.org/

Representative Poetry Online from the University of Toronto Library --- http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/display/index.cfm

Poetry Online (read and/or listen to the poems) --- http://www.wiredforbooks.org/poetry/

Verse Daily --- http://www.versedaily.org/

Lyrics Directory --- http://www.lyricsdir.com/

Poem Hunter --- http://www.poemhunter.com/p/m/poem.asp?poet=6834&poem=33052

Poetry Critical --- http://poetry.tetto.org/

Greenleaf Poetry --- http://thegreenleaf.co.uk/PP/PP.htm

poetrypoetry.com --- http://www.poetrypoetry.com/

Poetry Slam --- http://live-poetry-slam.group.stumbleupon.com/forum/12400/

Old Poetry --- http://oldpoetry.com/

Poets.org --- http://www.poets.org/  

April 2006 National Poetry Month --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5323934

Common-Place Poems and Other Things --- http://www.common-place.org/

Poems and stories forwarded by Janie --- http://jbreck.com/janieswebsiteII.html
Also see here Website III for poems, stories, and music --- http://jbreck.com/janieswebsiteIII.html

Poetry Archive (with audio readings) ---  http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/home.do

The Poems --- http://www.favoritepoem.org/poems/index.html

Poetry Magic from the U.K. --- http://www.poetrymagic.co.uk/

Create Your Own Virtual Poem --- http://www.poetrylibrary.org.uk/?flash=yes

This is Outstanding!
Ted Kooser is the author of The Poetry Home Repair Manual --- http://unp.unl.edu/bookinfo/4864.html  

Audio Readings of Poems --- http://www.wiredforbooks.org/poetry/

Rhyming Dictionary and Thesaurus --- http://rhyme.poetry.com/

Literature and Lullabies from the 'Axis of Evil' --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6249823

Lyrics Directory --- http://www.lyricsdir.com/

From the University of Toronto
Representative Poetry Online --- http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/872.html

PoetryMagic --- http://www.poetrymagic.co.uk/siteplan.html

Rogue Scholars --- http://roguescholars.com/opus/default.html

The Literary Encyclopedia is an expanding global literary reference work written by over 1400 specialists from universities around the world, and currently provides over 3550 authoritative profiles of authors, works and literary and historical topics. We will provide over 3800 by the end of this year and aim to publish at least 800 new profiles (circa 1.6m words) in the next 15 months. We also list nearly 19,000 works by date, country and genre, and provide advanced software tools. Membership costs only $17.95 for a full year (circa Ł10.00 or € 14.50) and helps us to build this valuable resource. In May 2006 we delivered over 1.8m pages to over 500,000 visits.
The Literary Encyclopedia --- http://www.litencyc.com/

Working Poets featured in The New Yorker, October 23, 2006 --- http://www.newyorker.com/online/content/articles/061030on_onlineonly03

Type in a word to find its rhymes, synonyms, and more --- http://rhyme.poetry.com/

May 20, 2006 message from Diana Collins [diana@famouspoetsandpoems.com]

We have developed a site about poetry and famous poets, we have put this project together with our friends. We are all enthusiasts, and we consider poetry to be one of the most wonderful and remarkable branches of art.

Our site url: http://www.famouspoetsandpoems.com  and we eager to know what you think of it?

We also linked our site http://www.famouspoetsandpoems.com/links_poetry.html  to your site and hope that it will help our visitors to get acquainted with your site and find detailed information about their favorite poets.

Our project is very young and we continue to develop it.

Our mission is to introduce to many people the poetry and poems of famous poets.

We think that in our modern and hitech developed world many people forget about poetry and its importance in our culture.

And so we would like you to support us and we will be happy if you link your site to our site, so that your visitors and readers as well as ours could find more information about poetry and their favorite poets. Also it will draw a lot of readers, both those who already enjoy poetry and those who will use it to discover these writers for the first time.

Looking forward to you reply,

Thanks in advance,

Diana.

 

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Open Science Directory --- http://www.opensciencedirectory.net/

JSTR - The Scholarly Journal Archive --- http://www.jstor.org/

Electronic Literature Organization --- http://www.eliterature.org/ 

Internet Library of Early Journals --- http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ilej/

All Free Magazines (links to free magazines) --- http://www.all-freemagazines.com/mag.html
These are classified by subject matter.
Many are offer free trial subscriptions for one year.

WindowsMedia.com http://www.windowsmedia.com/ 
A search engine for online audio and video.

FindArticles.com - search through an archive of articles from over 300 magazines and journals -- http://www.findarticles.com/ 

The Atlantic Online --- http://www.theatlantic.com/books/books.htm

The Library of Economics and Liberty --- http://www.econlib.org/index.html

You can order back issues or relevant links management and accounting books and journals from MAAW --- http://maaw.info/

Free Access to Back Issues of The Accounting Review --- http://maaw.info/TheAccountingReview.htm 
 

A great index of electronic journals (although admittedly not comprehensive)--- http://ejw.i8.com/ 

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If you cannot find information herein, you are encouraged to use a mega search engine such as 37.com, profusion.com, search.com, Google, or Alltheweb.
 

The Following Sites provide access to free journal articles online.
Find Articles.Com at http://www.findarticles.com where articles can be accessed using a subject search. For a mega-site of free e-journal sources.
 

Subject Index to Literature on Electronic Sources of Information http://library.usask.ca/~dworacze/SUBJIN

Ejournal SiteGuide : a MetaSource http://www.library.ubc.ca/ejour/abc.html,
 

Electronic Journal Miner, http://ejournal.coalliance.org/
 

Highware Press, http://highwire.stanford.edu,
 

Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography, http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html
 

Australian Journals Online, http://www.nla.gov.au/ajol/,
 

Journals - QQQ Research, http://www.qqqresearch.com/journals/
 

An Archive of Life Science Journals, http://www.pubmedcentral.gov/
 

GoArticles.com, http://www.goarticles.com  Over 7,200 articles that can be sent via e-mail
 

ArticleCity.com,http://www.ArticleCity.com Indexed collection of copyright-free articles on various subjects neatly organized by category.

The 1,000 Journals Project, University of New Orleans --- http://1000journals.com/

Journal of Electronic Publishing ---  http://journalofelectronicpublishing.org/

Center for Applied Science Technology ---  http://www.cast.org/

 

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Free Online Videos, Textbooks, Cases, and Tutorials


 Bob Jensen's threads on education technology tools and tricks of the trade --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/thetools.htm
Especially note the section on Edutainment!

There are now nearly 7,000 accounting education videos on YouTube, most of which are in very basic accounting.
But there are nearly 150 videos in advanced accounting.
Sometimes the videos are advertisements such as an advertisement for downloading
INTERMEDIATE ACCOUNTING 12th ED Solutions Manual by KIESO, WEYGANT, WARFIELD
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ca08uh1cq1Y

There are nearly 70 videos on XBRL.

More than 100 colleges have set up channels on YouTube --- http://www.youtube.com/edu
Many universities offer over 100 videos, whereas Stanford offers a whopping 583

"YouTube Creates New Section to Highlight College Content," by Jeffrey R. Young, Chronicle of Higher Education, March 27, 2009 --- http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=3684&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en

More than 100 colleges have set up channels on YouTube, and this week the popular video service unveiled a new section that brings together all of that campus content in one area.

It had been difficult to find college lectures on YouTube, since they are generally far less popular than the site’s humorous and outrageous clips, and so they do not show up in lists of the most viewed videos on the site. Although YouTube has long had an education category, it relies on users who post videos to decide whether to categorize their videos as educational, and as a result the definition of education is very broad. The new YouTube EDU page includes only material submitted by colleges and universities.

Spencer Crooks, a spokesman for YouTube, said in a statement that the site now features complete lectures for some 200 full college courses. “Subjects range from computer science to literature, biology to philosophy, history, political science, psychology, law, and much more,” he said. “You can search within YouTube EDU to find videos on topics of interest.”

The new section makes it possible to find out which college-produced video is most popular. The winner so far is an interview with a University of Minnesota professor discussing the science behind the new movie Watchmen. That video has been viewed about 1.5 million times. The most popular lecture video on YouTube is from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, on the subject of “Advanced Finite Elements Analysis” (which has been viewed about 19,000 times).

Bob Jensen's threads on open sharing are at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI

Bob Jensen's threads on general education tutorials are at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#EducationResearch

Creative Commons --- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons
Creative Commons Home Page --- http://creativecommons.org/
Creative Commons Directory of Resources --- http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Content_Curators 

Bob Jensen's threads on global online training and education alternatives --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Crossborder.htm

Community College Open-Textbook Project Gets Under Way
Especially note the open sharing sources being used

The Community College Open Textbook Project begins this week with a member meeting in California," by Catherine Rampell, Chronicle of Higher Education, April 29, 2008 --- Click Here

At the meeting, representatives of institutions around the country will start reviewing open-textbook models for “quality, usability, accessibility, and sustainability,” according to a news release. They will initially review four providers of free online educational resources: Connexions, run by Rice University; Flat World Knowledge, a commercial digital-textbook publisher that will begin offering free textbooks online next year; the University of California’s UC College Prep Online, which offers Advanced Placement and other courses online; and the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources, which was founded by the Foothill-De Anza Community College District and the League for Innovation in the Community College.

The open-textbook project was paid for by a $530,000 grant to the Foothill-De Anza Community College District from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.

Bob Jensen's threads on open sharing are at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI

Bob Jensen's threads on free online tutorials in various academic disciplines are at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#Tutorials

A frequently-updated blog to free lectures from prestigious universities --- http://www.oculture.com/2007/07/freeonlinecourses.html
Bob Jensen's threads on open sharing courses and videos --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI

Harvard College's Computer Science 50 (video tutorials for learning about computers) --- http://cs50.tv/

From the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia
The Batten Institute (for creation of knowledge about entrepreneurship) ---
http://www.darden.virginia.edu/BattenInstitute/BattenInstitute.aspx?menu_id=494 
 

Bob Jensen's threads on blogs and listservs are at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ListservRoles.htm

Note the excellent tutorial course at http://newmediaocw.wordpress.com/

 

YouTube Video Lectures for Your Very Own to Keep and to Hold and to Love
Note that most of these are entire courses!

"New From YouTube: Free Downloads of College Lectures," by David Shieh, Chronicle of Higher Education, February 13, 2009 ---
http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=3615&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en

YouTube began testing a new feature that lets users download videos posted to the site from partner institutions — including colleges — rather than just watching the videos in a streaming format. That means people can grab lectures from Duke and Stanford Universities and several institutions in the University of California system to watch any time, with or without an Internet connection.

YouTube partners have the option of charging users for such downloads, but all the universities have offered to make their lecture videos free instead, using Creative Commons licenses that restrict usage to non-commercial purposes and prohibit derivative work.

Some universities already allow users to download lectures through campus Web sites or through Apple’s iTunesU using Creative Commons licenses. But Obadiah Greenberg, a strategic-partner manager at YouTube, said in an interview this week that the site’s new feature would allow an even larger audience to take advantage of such content.

Scott Stocker, director of Web communications for Stanford, said the university had made audio and video content available for download through Apple’s iTunesU since 2007. But Mr. Stocker said that iTunesU and YouTube attract different audiences: Users of iTunesU generally search out content to download to their devices, while YouTube users stumble upon content through videos embedded on blogs or links shared among friends.

Mr. Stocker said Stanford had no plans to charge money for its video downloads, since the university sees giving away lectures as part of its educational mission.

Other YouTube partners participating in the test include a weekly Web show hosted by Dan Brown of Lincoln, Neb., and Khan Academy, a non-profit organization that offers video lectures on subjects like physics and finance for 99 cents per download.

"YouTube Goes Offline," YouTube News Announcement, February 12, 2009 --- http://www.youtube.com/blog?entry=Mp1pWVLh3_Y

We are always looking for ways to make it easier for you to find, watch, and share videos. Many of you have told us that you wanted to take your favorite videos offline. So we've started working with a few partners who want their videos shared universally and even enjoyed away from an Internet connection.

Many video creators on YouTube want their work to be seen far and wide. They don't mind sharing their work, provided that they get the proper credit. Using Creative Commons licenses, we're giving our partners and community more choices to make that happen. Creative Commons licenses permit people to reuse downloaded content under certain conditions.

We're also testing an option that gives video owners the ability to permit downloading of their videos from YouTube. Partners could choose to offer their video downloads for free or for a small fee paid through Google Checkout. Partners can set prices and decide which license they want to attach to the downloaded video files (for more info on the types of licenses, take a look here).

For example, universities use YouTube to share lectures and research with an ever-expanding audience. In an effort to promote the sharing of information, we are testing free downloads of YouTube videos from Stanford, Duke, UC Berkeley, UCLA, and UCTV (broadcasting programs from throughout the UC system). YouTube users who are traveling or teachers who want to show these videos in classrooms with limited or no connectivity should find this particularly useful.

A small number of other YouTube partners, including khanacademy, householdhacker and pogobat, are also participating in this test as an additional distribution and revenue-generating tool.

So how do these downloads work? The video watch pages of the participating partners link to the download option below the left-hand corner of the video. To help you keep track of the videos you have previously purchased, we have created a new "My Purchases" tab under "My Videos."

If you are a partner who is interested in participating, you can find out more about the test and enter your information here.

Please do share your feedback with us by joining the discussion here.

Best,
Thai Tran
Product Manager

Bob Jensen's links to free online videos and tutorials in higher education are at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI

Bob Jensen's Threads on Free Learning Materials
Shared Open Courseware (OCW) from Around the World: OKI, MIT, Rice, Berkeley, Yale, and Other Sharing Universities --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI

Distance Education.org or DistanceEducation.Org is a Great Helper Site
Ben Pheiffer in San Antonio forwarded this link to a terrific listing (with pricing estimates) of online training and education degree programs and courses from respectable universities --- http://www.distance-education.org/Courses/
Both graduate and undergraduate degree programs are listed as well as training courses (some free). I added to my listings of worldwide online training and education programs at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Crossborder.htm 

Open Science Directory --- http://www.opensciencedirectory.net/

Teach Philosopy 101  --- http://www.teachphilosophy101.org/
This site presents strategies and resources for faculty members and graduate assistants who are teaching Introduction to Philosophy courses; it also includes material of interest to college faculty generally. The mission of TΦ101 is to provide free, user-friendly resources to the academic community. All of the materials are provided on an open source license. You may also print as many copies as you wish (please print in landscape). TΦ101 carries no advertising. I am deeply indebted to Villanova University for all of the support that has made this project possible.
 John Immerwahr, Professor of Philosophy, Villanova University

Ask Philosophers --- http://www.amherst.edu/askphilosophers/

 

  • This site puts the talents and knowledge of philosophers at the service of the general public. Send in a question that you think might be related to philosophy and we will do our best to respond to it. To date, there have been 1375 questions posted and 1834 responses.

    Philosophy Talk (Audio) --- http://www.philosophytalk.org/

    London School of Economics Information Systems and Innovation Group Video Archive ---
    http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/informationSystems//newsAndEvents/videoArchive.htm

    Understanding Economics --- http://www.henrygeorge.org/

    PhilPapers is a comprehensive directory of online philosophy articles and books by academic philosophers.
    We monitor journals in many areas of philosophy, as well as archives and personal pages. We also accept articles directly from users, who can provide links or upload copies. Some features require that you sign in first, but creating an account is easy and free ---
    http://philpapers.org/
    Jensen Comment
    Some of the submissions to this site are not available elsewhere.

    Chronicle of Higher Education review on June 2, 2009 ---
    http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=3803&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en

    Harvard U. Students Support Open Access for Student Theses A Harvard University student group
    Harvard College Free Culture, has created a freely accessible Web site for seniors’ theses, according to a staff editorial last week in the campus newspaper, The Harvard Crimson. Students voluntarily post their theses to the Web site. The editorial announced its support for the project, saying it “should help students find models for senior theses as they enter the daunting process” of writing their own theses. The paper also stated that the project fits well with the open access plan recently adopted by the university’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
    Andrea L. Foster, Chronicle of Higher Education, April 14, 2008 ---     Click here

    Jensen Comment
    This makes both plagiarism by students of the world and detection of plagiarism by instructors of the world simultaneously easier ---     http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Plagiarism.htm

    Bob Jensen's threads on open access of learning materials are at the following three sites:

    This also makes Harvard seniors models for judging how well top students write as seniors in college. How well are your students doing in comparison?

    Financial Education For All:  Federal Reserve Bank of New York --- http://www.newyorkfed.org/education/econ_eduforall.html

    The Federal Reserve (a five part video series) --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dmPchuXIXQ&feature=related

    Financial Times: Podcasts --- http://podcast.ft.com/

    Bob Jensen's Primer on Derivatives --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/2008Bailout.htm#Primer

     

    Free Textbooks and Cases --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm#Textbooks

    Free Mathematics and Statistics Tutorials --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#050421Mathematics

    Free Science and Medicine Tutorials --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#Science

    Free Social Science and Philosophy Tutorials --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#Social

    Teaching Materials (especially video) from PBS

    Teacher Source:  Arts and Literature --- http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/arts_lit.htm

    Teacher Source:  Health & Fitness --- http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/health.htm

    Teacher Source: Math --- http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/math.htm

    Teacher Source:  Science --- http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/sci_tech.htm

    Teacher Source:  PreK2 --- http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/prek2.htm

    Teacher Source:  Library Media ---  http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/library.htm

    Free Education and Research Videos from Harvard University --- http://athome.harvard.edu/archive/archive.asp

    VYOM eBooks Directory --- http://www.vyomebooks.com/

    Free eBooks --- http://www.free-ebooks.net/

    From Princeton Online
    The Incredible Art Department ---     http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/

    Online Mathematics Textbooks --- http://www.math.gatech.edu/~cain/textbooks/onlinebooks.html

    National Library of Virtual Manipulatives --- http://enlvm.usu.edu/ma/nav/doc/intro.jsp 

     

    Bob Jensen's threads on free online mathematics tutorials are at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#050421Mathematics

     

    Chem1 Virtual Textbook --- http://www.chem1.com/acad/webtext/virtualtextbook.html

     

    Bob Jensen's threads on online helpers for science and medicine learning are at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#Science

     

    Bob Jensen's threads on open sharing of courseware are at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
     

    Free Library (in topic categories) --- http://www.thefreelibrary.com/

     

    Open Library --- http://www.openlibrary.org/
    For a good review, see     http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2007/08/08/mclemee

    Some of Bob Jensen's Tutorials

     

     

     

    Moodle 1.7 --- http://moodle.org/ 

    The word moodle is an acronym for "modular object-oriented dynamic learning environment", which is quite a mouthful. The Scout Report stated the following about Moodle 1.7. It is a tremendously helpful opens-source e-learning platform. With Moodle, educators can create a wide range of online courses with features that include forums, quizzes, blogs, wikis, chat rooms, and surveys. On the Moodle website, visitors can also learn about other features and read about recent updates to the program. This application is compatible with computers running Windows 98 and newer or Mac OS X and newer.

    July 14, 2006 message from Ivy Banaag [ibanaag@ECNext.com]

    Hello Bob,

    My name is Ivy Carla, and I work for ECNext, Inc. After reviewing your website, specifically the Helpers for Searching the Web section,     http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/searchh.htm, I wanted to propose you consider adding a new online textbooks site, iChapters.com.

    iChapters.com offers brand new textbooks, in electronic & print formats. Electronic versions of college textbooks, including individual chapters, are available for immediate download at affordable prices. Only at iChapters.com can you choose to buy just what you need at the price you want to pay.

    Students who frequent your website, especially those with a tight budget, will surely benefit from iChapters. I am hoping that you can help them find us by including iChapters (    http://www.iChapters.com) on your Helpers for Searching the Web section.


    Please don’t hesitate to contact me (ivy@ecnext.com) if you have any questions.

    Ivy Carla
    iChapters.com

    From the University of Illinois Issues in Scholarly Communication Blog, February 7, 2006 --- http://www.library.uiuc.edu/blog/scholcomm/

    Publisher Launches Ad-Supported Online Text HarperCollins has announced a new program that will make book content available free online, supported by advertiser links that share the page with the text. Officials from the publisher said the Harper program will focus on nonfiction and reference books, noting that advertisers are likely not as interested in paying to support literary fiction. The first book offered in the program, "Go It Alone! The Secret to Building a Successful Business on Your Own" by Bruce Judson, was published in 2004 and later released in paperback. One test of the program will be whether ad sales offset lost sales, according to Murray, group president of HarperCollins. Despite the ongoing squabbles over online access to books, supporters of the idea still believe it has potential. Author M.J. Rose said that no one wants to read an entire book online but that if they have easy access to a text on the Web and they like it, they will be encouraged to buy a copy. Associated Press, 6 February 2006 Edupage, February 06, 2006 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060206/ap_en_bu/publishing_free_text 

    Wikibooks, the open-content textbooks collection --- http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikibooks:Business_bookshelf

    Community College Open-Textbook Project Gets Under Way
    Especially note the open sharing sources being used

    The Community College Open Textbook Project begins this week with a member meeting in California," by Catherine Rampell, Chronicle of Higher Education, April 29, 2008 --- Click Here

    At the meeting, representatives of institutions around the country will start reviewing open-textbook models for “quality, usability, accessibility, and sustainability,” according to a news release. They will initially review four providers of free online educational resources: Connexions, run by Rice University; Flat World Knowledge, a commercial digital-textbook publisher that will begin offering free textbooks online next year; the University of California’s UC College Prep Online, which offers Advanced Placement and other courses online; and the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources, which was founded by the Foothill-De Anza Community College District and the League for Innovation in the Community College.

    The open-textbook project was paid for by a $530,000 grant to the Foothill-De Anza Community College District from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.

    Bob Jensen's threads on open sharing are at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI

    Bob Jensen's threads on free online tutorials in various academic disciplines are at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#Tutorials

     

    Online Textbooks and Tutorials in Accounting and Finance

    Free CPA Review Course --- http://cpareviewforfree.com/

    November 5, 2008 Reply from Bob Jensen

    Hi Mark

    Although this link is far too advanced for basic accounting students, there’s a terrific summary of the mathematics of finance at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics_of_finance
    I think it is better summary than you will find in most textbooks.

    I don't think PowerPoint is as effective as using Excel itself to explain basic or advanced mathematics of finance.

    My preference is to teach basic mathematics of finance and Excel functions at the same time in basic accounting or basic finance.
    In particular, Excel has a number of quirks when using functions. I have a helper Excel workbook that I developed over the years of dealing with Excel function quirks that confuse students learning the basic of Excel financial functions  ---     http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/funclong.xls
    Students can always select a cell and then view the Excel function that generated the number.
    The can also see why a particular function did not work because of using the wrong syntax.

    I also have an introduction Excel workbook that explains, among other thing, how present value tables are derived.
    See     http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/funcIntro.xls
    Students can always select a cell and then view the Excel function that generated the number.

    The Journal spread sheet has a pretty good illustration of notes payable amortization schedule derivation and graphing ---
    http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/133spans.xls
    This is also one of the more popular illustrations of swap accounting in my workshops.

    Video on the History of Present Value --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqbLxnzhp1E
    I don’t quite know what to think about this one other than it needs more dialog and less music.

    Future Value Video --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTWE0KpbgmA

    Video on the basics of Excel functions --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZA-SxS6LmE

    Video on the NPV function in Excel --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOqEpxNGQjk
    Calculating NPV with a romantic Irish accent ---     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqc5n4nMbVI

    Budgeting and Internal Rate of Return Video --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B89vwItBFfk

    Financial Analysis Using Excel
    Part 1 ---     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fM63moi1Qjo
    Part 2 ---     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJIqK4nCo_M
    Part 3 ---     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPrGiyjiiuc
    Part 4 ---         http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfjiWmVK2Z4

     Susan Crossan has some video lectures on bond discounting (see her Chapter 10 videos) ---
    http://inst.sfcc.edu/~SCrosson/Fall%202007/Flip%20Videos%20Fall%202007/FA%20Videos.htm

    In advanced (probably graduate) courses students may want to study benchmarked interest accounting ala FAS 138 ---
    http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/138bench.htm

    Bob Jensen

    November 5, 2008 reply from AMY HAAS [haasfive@MSN.COM]

    Check out this website. FINANCIAL MATH http://math247.pbwiki.com/Financial+Math  This excellent web site has step-by-step instructions for solving financial math problems. Check it out for help with appendix A: The time value of money. Here's the link that you can paste into your browser: http://math247.pbwiki.com/Financial+Math 

    Amy Haas

    November 5, 2008 reply from Patricia Walters [patricia@DISCLOSUREANALYTICS.COM]

    Here's a link that I like:

    http://www.studyfinance.com/lessons/timevalue/index.mv 

    It's possible someone else sent it to you previously, but I actually like redundancy.

    Regards,
    Pat

    Introduction to Security Edition 7, by Robert J. Fischer and Gion Green (Elsevier, 2004)
    Note that this link provides a very generous preview ---     Click Here
    Parts could be used by students for free and other readers gainfully for no charge.

    Bob Jensen's threads on general education tutorials are at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#Tutorials

    Financial Education For All: Federal Reserve Bank of New York --- http://www.newyorkfed.org/education/econ_eduforall.html

    Financial Times: Podcasts --- http://podcast.ft.com/

    Community College Open-Textbook Project Gets Under Way
    Especially note the open sharing sources being used

    The Community College Open Textbook Project begins this week with a member meeting in California," by Catherine Rampell, Chronicle of Higher Education, April 29, 2008 --- Click Here

    At the meeting, representatives of institutions around the country will start reviewing open-textbook models for “quality, usability, accessibility, and sustainability,” according to a news release. They will initially review four providers of free online educational resources: Connexions, run by Rice University; Flat World Knowledge, a commercial digital-textbook publisher that will begin offering free textbooks online next year; the University of California’s UC College Prep Online, which offers Advanced Placement and other courses online; and the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources, which was founded by the Foothill-De Anza Community College District and the League for Innovation in the Community College.

    The open-textbook project was paid for by a $530,000 grant to the Foothill-De Anza Community College District from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.

    Bob Jensen's threads on open sharing are at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI

    Bob Jensen's threads on free online tutorials in various academic disciplines are at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#Tutorials

    A frequently-updated blog to free lectures from prestigious universities --- http://www.oculture.com/2007/07/freeonlinecourses.html
    Bob Jensen's threads on open sharing courses and videos ---     http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI

    Financial Executives International (FEI) free television --- http://www.financialexecutives.org/eweb/startpage.aspx?site=_fei
     

    Bob Jensen's essay on the financial crisis bailout's aftermath and an alphabet soup of appendices can be found at
    http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/2008Bailout.htm

    Distance Education.org or DistanceEducation.Org is a Great Helper Site
    Ben Pheiffer in San Antonio forwarded this link to a terrific listing (with pricing estimates) of online training and education degree programs and courses from respectable universities --- http://www.distance-education.org/Courses/
    Both graduate and undergraduate degree programs are listed as well as training courses (some free). I added to my listings of worldwide online training and education programs at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Crossborder.htm 

    MIT's Sloan School of Management Open Sharing Course Materials (including some accounting courses) ---
    http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Sloan-School-of-Management/index.htm

    CPA Examination --- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cpa_examination
    Free CPA Examination Review Course --- http://cpareviewforfree.com/
    AccountingWeb Student Zone ---     http://www.accountingweb.com/news/student_zone.html 

    Free Accounting Video (YouTube) Tutorials
    May 27, 2008 message from Crosson, Susan [susan.crosson@SFCC.EDU]

    I have done both Financial and Managerial Accounting videos for my students and posted them on YouTube. They are free to anyone. In fact, they have been viewed by over 70,000 folks worldwide.

    Here are the easy links organized by topic and chapter:

    Financial:         http://inst.sfcc.edu/~SCrosson/Fall 2007/Flip Videos Fall 2007/FA Videos.htm

    Managerial:      http://inst.sfcc.edu/~SCrosson/Fall%202007/YouTube.htm 

    or go to YouTube.com directly and input my account SusanCrosson or http://www.youtube.com/SusanCrosson 

    If you have any other questions, glad to answer...
    Susan Crosson

    Quamut's Free Basic Accounting Tutorial --- http://www.quamut.com/quamut/accounting_basics

    "A Quick Tour of Basic Accounting Concepts: No Extra Caffeine Required!" by Michael Sack Elmaleh --- http://www.understand-accounting.net/

    Annuity Buyer's Guide --- http://www.annuitybuyersguide.com/

    One of the earliest and probably the most famous accounting and investment scandal was the South Sea Bubble in 1720
    From the Harvard University Business School
    Sunk in Lucre's Sordid Charms: South Sea Bubble Resources in the Kress Collection at Baker Library ---     http://www.library.hbs.edu/hc/ssb/
    Bob Jensen's threads on accounting history ---     http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/theory01.htm#AccountingHistory

     

    Free Accounting Tutorials in Basic Accounting, Intermediate Accounting, and Managerial/Cost Accounting --- http://www.studymyaccounting.com/
    The site is maintained by Professor Janice Cobb - TCU
     2006 Texas Society of CPAs Outstanding Educator Award Winner --- http://www.tscpa.org/studentLounge/educators/College/OutstandingEd.asp
    It was later pointed out to me that some, but not all, the content is free.

     
    So, you want to learn Bookkeeping! by Bean Counter's Dave Marshall --- http://www.dwmbeancounter.com/tutorial/Tutorial.html
     

    Principles of Accounting by Larry Walther --- http://www.principlesofaccounting.com/
    (A free online textbook without advertising)

    NetTom Financial Analysis site (from Africa) --- http://cbdd.wsu.edu/kewlcontent/cdoutput/TOM505/index.htm

    Matthew Averkamp sent me the link to the Accounting Coach tutorial site that bills itself as "The World's Largest Free Online Accounting Course" --- http://www.accountingcoach.com/

    AccountingCoach.com was developed by Harold Averkamp, a university senior lecturer emeritus and consultant known for his ability to explain material in a clear manner. Mr. Averkamp realized that the Internet would allow him to share his knowledge and passion for teaching accounting with people throughout the world in a convenient, cost-effective manner. The combination of educator, consultant, real-world examples, and computer links provide for an ease in understanding.

    • Crystal-Clear Explanations of 27 Accounting Topics
    • Links to an Accounting Dictionary with More Than 1,000 Accounting Terms Defined.
    • Q&A Blog Where Accounting Questions are Answered Weekly.
    • Drills and Exams with Immediate Feedback.
    • 50+ Interactive and Printable Accounting Crossword Puzzles.
    • Community Forum with Accounting Related Discussions.
    • More Than 790 Testimonials and 2,000,000 Visitors!

    Jensen Comment
    I commend Professor Averkamp for providing so many free samplings of accounting education material online. However, it should also be noted that this is a lead in promoting the sales of books that are not free ---     http://www.accountingcoach.com/affiliates.html
    However, a very large amount of material is free.

    Educational Resources from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco --- http://www.frbsf.org/education/

    "Currency Translation Adjustments:  Use Excel to understand how multinational companies manage currency translation risks,"
    by Susan M. Sorensen and Donald L. Kyle, 

    EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

    Accounting for currency translation risks can be very complex. This article addresses only the basics and provides some tools to help the reader understand the issues and find resources.

    Globalization has changed the old accounting rule that debits equal credits. Net income became just one part of comprehensive income, and the equity part of the accounting equation became: Equity = Stock + Other Comprehensive Income + Retained Earnings. Other comprehensive income contains items that do not flow through the income statement. The currency translation adjustment in other comprehensive income is taken into income when a disposition occurs.

     Accounting risk may be hedged. One way that companies may hedge their net investment in a subsidiary is to take out a loan denominated in the foreign currency. Some firms experience natural hedging because of the distribution of their foreign currency denominated assets and liabilities. It is possible for parent companies to hedge with intercompany debt as long as the debt qualifies under the hedging rules. Others choose to enter into instruments such as foreign exchange forward contracts, foreign exchange option contracts and foreign exchange swaps. Unfortunately, FX rate changes cannot always be anticipated and hedging has risks and costs.

    Susan M. Sorensen, CPA, Ph.D., has 30 years of public accounting experience and is an assistant professor of accounting, and Donald L. Kyle, CPA, Ph.D., is a professor of accounting, both at the University of Houston–Clear Lake. Their e-mail addresses are sorensen@uhcl.edu and kyle@uhcl.edu, respectively.

    Bob Jensen's threads on free accounting tutorials are at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm#Textbooks
    Scroll down to the accounting textbooks, videos, and tutorials

    The AICPA maintains a helper site for guidance on the replacement of FASB/SEC standards with IASB international standards --- http://www.ifrs.com/
    Also see     http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/theory01.htm#MethodsForSetting
    And see     http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/theory01.htm#FASBvsIASB

    Question
    Where can students substitute their college instructors for an online ($399) McGraw-Hill tutor for possible college credit?

    An accounting tutor (not for advanced courses)  is listed at http://straighterline.com/courses/descriptions/#accounting1

    Other course tutors, including college algebra and English composition, are listed at http://straighterline.com/

    "Who Needs a Professor When There's a Tutor Available?" by Jeffrey R. Young, Chronicle of Higher Education, June 17, 2008 --- http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=3095&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en

    An unusual new commercial service offers low-cost online courses and connects students to accredited colleges who will accept the courses for credit. The only thing missing: professors.

    The service, called StraighterLine, is run by SmartThinking, a company that operates an online tutoring service used by about 300 colleges and universities. The online courses offered by StraighterLine are self-guided, and if students run into trouble they can summon a tutor from SmartThiking and talk with them via instant messaging. Students turn in their assignments or papers to tutors for grading as well.

    “We’re using our tutoring service as the instructional component,” says Burck Smith, CEO of SmartThinking. “Students move through the course, and when they have a problem they click a button and they’re talking with a tutor.”

    The courses cost $399 each, which includes 10 hours of time with a tutor. If students need more one-on-one help, they can pay extra for more tutoring.

    The courses themselves were developed by McGraw-Hill, and StraighterLine uses Blackboard’s course-management service. So this virtual college is essentially cobbled together from various off-the-shelf learning services.

    So far three colleges have agreed to grant credit for the StraighterLine courses — Fort Hays State University, Jones International University, and Potomac College.

    The colleges see the partnership as a way to attract new students. “One of the things we hope to do is convert those students to Jones students,” says D. Terry Rawls, a vice chancellor at Jones International. “My expectation is that in reality students will take one maybe two courses with StraighterLine and then the students will take the rest of their courses with us.”

    Richard Garrett, a senior analyst for Eduventures, sees the service as part of a broader trend of colleges granting credit for unconventional college experience, provided that the students can pass a test or otherwise demonstrate competency. And that raises the question, he says, “what is the core business of the academy versus what can be outsourced?

     

    Jensen Comment
    It may well be that colleges and universities may soon have to accept transfer credit for these tutors from such places as Fort Hays State University ---     http://www.fhsu.edu/

    In addition to its onsite programs in Hays, Kansas, Fort Hays State University has its own online degree programs at http://www.fhsu.edu/virtualcollege/

    Bob Jensen's threads on asynchronous learning --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/255wp.htm

    Bob Jensen's threads on distance education training and education alternatives --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/crossborder.htm

    Bob Jensen's threads on free online video courses and course materials from leading universities --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI

    Bob Jensen's threads on assessment --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/assess.htm

    Bob Jensen's threads on the dark side --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/theworry.htm

    Bob Jensen's threads on education technology --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/0000start.htm

    Free online tutorials --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#Tutorials

    Free textbooks and tutorials --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm

    Excel Tutorial Videos

    Eileen Taylor asked me to forward her message about some Excel helper videos --- http://www.showmeacademy.com/
    Eileen Z. Taylor, PhD
    Assistant Professor, Department of Accounting
    North Carolina State University
    Campus Box 8113, Nelson Hall
    Raleigh, NC 27695-8113
    919-513-2476
     eileen_taylor@ncsu.edu

    Show-Me Academy provides concise video tutorials that show you how to accomplish specific tasks within common products or programming languages. All 54 of our video tutorials start with a common theme - Show me how to...

    I also provide some home made Excel and MS Access helper tutorials at http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/video/acct5342/
    PQQ stands for Possible Quiz Questions (which is how I motivated students to study these videos outside the classroom)

    Free Online Textbooks, Videos, and Tutorials --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm#Textbooks
    Free Tutorials in Various Disciplines ---     http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#Tutorials
    Edutainment and Learning Games ---     http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/thetools.htm#Edutainment
    Open Sharing Courses ---     http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI

    Harvard College's Computer Science 50 (video tutorials for learning about computers) --- http://cs50.tv/

     

    Freeload Press ((Free books with advertising)) --- http://www.freeloadpress.com/

    Freeload Press Finance Books

    Financial Management: Principles and Practice, 4e
    (Gallagher)---  http://www.freeloadpress.com/bookDetail.aspx?bId=1011
     

    Fundamentals of Financial Managing, 2e
    By Werner and Stoner
     Book Synopsis | Instructor Download
     

    Corporate Finance Tutorial --- http://michaelguth.com/economist/corporate_finance_tutorial.html

    Free Finance Tutorials --- http://www.learnthat.com/finance/

    Budgeting
    Credit Cards and Debt
    Finance
    Personal Finance

    Free Tutorials in Business and Finance --- http://www.mytutorials.com/cat/more/256/Finance/


    Free Tutorials from Finance Scholar --- http://www.financescholar.com/

    Road Runner Free Tutorials in Various Categories --- http://www.tutorialselect.com

    Kennolyn --- http://www.kennolyn.net/1970/01/01/free-online-personal-finance-tutorials/

    The Washington Post Tutorial Finder --- http://mediadesigner.digitalmedianet.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=317758
     

    Freeload Press Accounting Books --- http://www.freeloadpress.com/cataloginstructor.html
    (Free books with advertising)

    Accounting Books:

    1. A Website Devoted to Introductory Accounting
       Intro to Accounting - Simple (Lessons, Problems, Solutions) --- http://www.simplestudies.com/
       
    2. Financial Accounting: A Business Perspective, 9e
      By Hermanson and Edwards
       Book Synopsis | Download Book
       
    3. Study Guide: Financial Accounting: A Business Perspective, 9e
      By Hermanson and Edwards
       Book Synopsis | Download Book
       
    4. Working Papers: Financial Accounting: A Business Perspective, 9e
      By Hermanson and Edwards
       Book Synopsis | Download Book

       
    5. Accounting Principles: A Business Perspective, 8e
      By Hermanson and Edwards
      Book Synopsis | Download Book
       
    6. Study Guide: Principles of Accounting, 8e
      By Hermanson and Edwards
      Book Synopsis | Download Book
       
    7. Working Papers: Principles of Accounting, 8e
      By Hermanson and Edwards
       Book Synopsis | Download Book

       
    8. Managerial Accounting, 8e
      By Hermanson, Edwards, and Ivancevich
      Book Synopsis Coming Soon |       Download Book
       
    9. Study Guide: Managerial Accounting, 8e
      By Hermanson, Edwards, and Ivancevich
      Book Synopsis Coming Soon | Download coming soon!
       
    10. Working Papers: Managerial Accounting, 8e
      By Hermanson, Edwards, and Ivancevich
      Book Synopsis Coming Soon | Download coming soon!
       

    April 14, 2006 message from Don Edwards [edwards26@charter.net]

    You may be interested in what your old friend has been doing for the last several months. The website www.freeloadpress.com  contains the publication of three Accounting Textbooks which have been made available to college & University students FREE:

    • Accounting Principles
    • Financial Accounting
    • Managerial Accounting

    The element that makes the books available for free is based on sponsorships by American businesses. You may want to visit this website and access either the instructors area or the students area. This is an interesting adventure for us and it could be meaningful for both students and instructors, again at NO COST.

    If you have a reaction to this, I would be glad to hear from you.

    All the best,

     J. Don Edwards

    James Don is a former President of the American Accounting Association and member of the Accounting Hall of Fame --- Click Here

    Online Accounting Tutorials

    Bean Counter's Dave Marshall --- http://www.dwmbeancounter.com/tutorial/Tutorial.html

    Simple Studies --- http://www.simplestudies.com/

    Middle City --- http://www.middlecity.com/

    Responsive --- http://www.responsive.co.nz/tutorial.html

    From WordPress --- http://freeaccountingtutorial.wordpress.com/2006/11/21/how-to-maintain-accounts-book-keeping-free-accounting-tutorial/

    Cash Flow Analysis --- http://www.cashflow.in/

     

    O'Keefe Accounting Library  http://library.sau.edu/bestinfo/Majors/Accnt/accindex.htm

    Dan Gode's Financial Accounting Tutor (not Free) --- http://www.almaris.com/fact/fact-overview.htm
    Dan Gode's home page --- http://www.dangode.com/

    Free Statements on Management Accounting (SMAs)  and Tutorials for Managment Accounting
    From the Institute of Management Accountants ---     http://www.imanet.org/publications_statements.asp

    Some combinations of fee-based accounting and business books and (possibly free) online supplements are listed at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob1.htm#BooksandCases
    Note that most of these listings are not repeated above, so please click on the above link.

    Bob Jensen's search helpers are at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/searchh.htm 
    Accounting topic search helpers ---     http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/searchh.htm#Accounting
    Note that most of these listings are not repeated above, so please click on the above link.

    Free Access to Back Issues of The Accounting Review --- http://maaw.info/TheAccountingReview.htm

    Free and Fee Accounting Software --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob1.htm#AccountingSoftware

    You can order back issues or relevant links management and accounting books and journals from MAAW --- http://maaw.info/

    Free Access to Back Issues of The Accounting Review --- http://maaw.info/TheAccountingReview.htm 

    A First Course in Linear Algebra (free online textbook)  http://linear.ups.edu/opentexts.html

    A frequently-updated blog to free lectures from prestigious universities --- http://www.oculture.com/2007/07/freeonlinecourses.html
    Bob Jensen's threads on open sharing courses and videos ---     http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI

    Excel Tutorial Videos

    Eileen Taylor asked me to forward her message about some Excel helper videos --- http://www.showmeacademy.com/
    Eileen Z. Taylor, PhD
    Assistant Professor, Department of Accounting
    North Carolina State University
    Campus Box 8113, Nelson Hall
    Raleigh, NC 27695-8113
    919-513-2476
    eileen_taylor@ncsu.edu

    Show-Me Academy provides concise video tutorials that show you how to accomplish specific tasks within common products or programming languages. All 54 of our video tutorials start with a common theme - Show me how to...

    I also provide some home made Excel and MS Access helper tutorials at http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/video/acct5342/
    PQQ stands for Possible Quiz Questions (which is how I motivated students to study these videos outside the classroom)

    Free Online Textbooks, Videos, and Tutorials --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm#Textbooks
    Free Tutorials in Various Disciplines --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#Tutorials
    Edutainment and Learning Games --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/thetools.htm#Edutainment
    Open Sharing Courses --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI

     

    Online Economics Textbooks
                

    From the London School of Economics
    LSE Information Systems and Innovation Group Video Archive ---
    http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/informationSystems//newsAndEvents/videoArchive.htm

    Understanding Economics --- http://www.henrygeorge.org/

    A frequently-updated blog to free lectures from prestigious universities --- http://www.oculture.com/2007/07/freeonlinecourses.html
    Bob Jensen's threads on open sharing courses and videos ---     http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI
     

    See http://www.oswego.edu/~economic/newbooks.htm

    Web Resources in Economics --- http://www.helsinki.fi/WebEc/WebEc.html

    EconPhD --- http://www.econphd.net/
    Lecture notes, book notes. etc.

    Economics Principles and Practices --- http://econsources.com/EconSourcesBook.asp?PageID=1

    Economics Net-Textbook ---     http://nova.umuc.edu/~black/pageg.html 

    Economy Professor (with a great glossary) ---     http://www.economyprofessor.com/

    Economics and Game Theory by David K. Levine --- http://levine.sscnet.ucla.edu/

    Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith --- http://geolib.pair.com/smith.adam/woncont.html

    Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (History of Economic Thought) --- http://www.frbsf.org/publications/education/greateconomists/

    Economics Website --- http://www.mcwdn.org/ECONOMICS/EconMain.html
    This site is an introduction to basic concepts on economics and contains information, quizzes, activities and links to various online resources to learn more about our global economy.

    Introduction to Economic Analysis --- http://www.introecon.com/

    CyberEconomics --- http://ingrimayne.saintjoe.edu/econ/

    The Library of Economics and Liberty --- http://www.econlib.org/index.html

    The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith (1776) --- http://geolib.pair.com/smith.adam/woncont.html

    Mankiw’s Ten Principles of Economics, Translated by Yoram Bauman, University of Washington --- http://www.improbable.com/airchives/paperair/volume9/v9i2/mankiw.html

    From McMaster University
    Archive for the History of Economic Thought ---     http://socserv.socsci.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/

    Econ Sources --- http://www.econsources.com/

    Economic History Classics --- http://www.eh.net/

    Socialism by Ludwig von Mises --- http://www.econlib.org/library/Mises/msStoc.html

    Yahoo Groups Economics Collections --- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/conflictransition/messages/

    Tutor2u (economics) --- http://www.tutor2u.net/revision_notes_economics.asp

    Money:  What it is and how it works --- http://wfhummel.cnchost.com/

    Economics Working Papers --- http://econwpa.wustl.edu/

    International Monetary Fund (economic history) --- http://www.imf.org/external/np/exr/center/mm/eng/mm_cc_01.htm

    World in Conflict and Economies in Transition --- http://samvak.tripod.com/guide.html

    The Research Library of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis --- http://liber8.stlouisfed.org/

    Wall Street & Stock Market History --- http://www.atozinvestments.com/history-of-wall-street.html

    History of Fraud in America --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/415wp/AmericanHistoryOfFraud.htm

    Bob Jensen's economic statistics bookmarks ---
    http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob1.htm#EconStatistics

    Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research --- http://siepr.stanford.edu

    A First Course in Linear Algebra (free online textbook)  http://linear.ups.edu/opentexts.html

    Teach Philosopy 101  --- http://www.teachphilosophy101.org/
    This site presents strategies and resources for faculty members and graduate assistants who are teaching Introduction to Philosophy courses; it also includes material of interest to college faculty generally. The mission of TΦ101 is to provide free, user-friendly resources to the academic community. All of the materials are provided on an open source license. You may also print as many copies as you wish (please print in landscape). TΦ101 carries no advertising. I am deeply indebted to Villanova University for all of the support that has made this project possible.
     John Immerwahr, Professor of Philosophy, Villanova University

    Ask Philosophers --- http://www.amherst.edu/askphilosophers/

     

  • This site puts the talents and knowledge of philosophers at the service of the general public. Send in a question that you think might be related to philosophy and we will do our best to respond to it. To date, there have been 1375 questions posted and 1834 responses.

    Philosophy Talk (Audio) --- http://www.philosophytalk.org/

    London School of Economics Information Systems and Innovation Group Video Archive ---
    http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/informationSystems//newsAndEvents/videoArchive.htm

    Understanding Economics --- http://www.henrygeorge.org/

     

    Oswego Links to Electronic Textbooks

    Introductory Economics

    *Cybernomics: A Semi-Interactive, Almost Multimedia Way to Learn Economics
    An online principles text by Robert E. Schenk (Saint Joseph's College, IN)

     

    *The Economics Net-TextBook by Ted Black (University of Maryland)
    This online text provides useful simulation and review material on an extensive collection of micro, macro, and international economics topics.

     

    *Essential Macroeconomic Principles by John Bouman (Howard Community College)
    An online macroeconomics text available in either Adobe pdf or Microsoft Word format.

     

    *Essential Microeconomic Principles by John Bouman (Howard Community College)
    An online microeconomics text available in either Adobe pdf or Microsoft Word format.

     

    *The Best of Economics by Arnold Kling
    An online textbook containing a discussion of a wide variety of economics topics.

     

    *Essential Principles of Economics: A Hypermedia Approach by Roger A. McCain (Drexel University)
    The most extensive attempt at an online economics text using hypermedia.

     

    *Human Society and the Global Economy by Kit Sims Taylor (Bellevue Community College)
    This site contains an online version of a survey text in economics that relies on an institutionalist/Post-Keynesian approach. The text may be viewed online or Word 7.0 copies of the chapters may be downloaded.

     

    *A Pedestrian's Guide to Economics by Orley Amos (Oklahoma State University)
    An online expanded version of his Economic Literacy book. This book is designed to provide an intuitive explanation of economic concepts to the general public (and struggling principles students).

    Introductory Microeconomics

    *Basic Microeconomics by R. Larry Reynolds.
    This online textbook is accompanied by online Flash and QuickTime tutorials, interactive spreadsheet, and PowerPoint slides.

     

    *Introduction to Economic Analysis by R. Preston McAfee.
    This online textbook, provided by R. Preston McAfee (Calfornia Institute of Technology) provides a rigorous coverage of a wide range of microeconomic topics. It's a remarkably comprehensive introductory text.

     

    *Quantum Microeconomics by Toram Bauman
    An alternative introductory/intermediate textbook that focuses on optimization analysis and game theory.

     

    *Quantum Microeconomics with Calculus by Toram Bauman
    An alternative introductory/intermediate textbook that focuses on optimization analysis and game theory.

    Intermediate Macroeconomics

     

    *Macroeconomic Theory and Policy by David Andolfatto.
    This text provides a modern treatment of macroeconomic analysis. Particular emphasis is placed on the development of the microfoundations of macroeconomic theory. This textbook is available as a .pdf file.

    Intermediate Microeconomics

     

    * Price Theory: An Intermediate Text, by David Friedman
    An online copy of the text that was published by SouthWestern College Publishing.

     

    *Elements of Economics: The People's Introduction to Economic Theory by Richard Ruble (University of Virginia)
    This work is a draft of an introductory/intermediate level microeconomics text.

     

    *Introduction to Economic Analysis by R. Preston McAfee.
    This online textbook provides a rigorous coverage of a wide range of microeconomic topics. While it is listed as an introductory textbook, it covers a wide range of topics that is equivalent to an intermediate level textbook.

     

    *Quantum Microeconomics by Toram Bauman
    An alternative introductory/intermediate textbook that focuses on optimization analysis and game theory.

     

    *Quantum Microeconomics with Calculus by Toram Bauman
    An alternative introductory/intermediate textbook that focuses on optimization analysis and game theory.

    Graduate Microeconomics

    *Lecture Notes in Microeconomic Theory: The Economic Agent by Ariel Rubinstein
    This text, published by Princeton University Press (2006) contains a set of lecture notes for the first quarter of a graduate microeconomics course. These notes were developed by Ariel Rubinstein will teaching graduate microeconomics courses at Tel Aviv, Princeton, and New York Universities. A printable verion of this text, corrections, links, and minor modifications may be found at: http://arielrubinstein.tau.ac.il/index.html.

    Agricultural and Resource Economics

    *Agricultural and Environmental Policies: Economics of Production, Technology, Risk, Agriculture, and the Environment by David Zilberman
    An online agricultural and resource economics text at an intermediate to advanced level.

    Auction Markets

    *Auctions: Theory and Practice by Paul Klemperer.
    This is a near-final draft of the 2004 Princeton University text with the same title.

    Bounded Rationality

    *Modeling Bounded Rationality by Ariel Rubinstein
    The entire 1998 MIT Press text is available online at this site. This book contains an investigation of methods that have been used to introduce the effects of bounded rationality into economic models.

    Computational Economics

    *Computational Economics by Hans M. Amman and David A. Kendrick
    This online text provides an overview of computational economics.

    Economics and Language

    *Economics and Language by Ariel Rubinstein
    This website contains links to the full-text of this collection of five essays examining the relationships between economics and language. These essays are extended versions of the Churchill lectures delivered by Ariel Rubinstein in May 1998. Among other issues, these essays examine the relationship between mathematical language and natural language in economic analysis. This was initially published by Cambridge University Press in 2000.

    Econometrics

    *A Course of Econometrics by D.S.G. Pollock.
    This online text contains a discussion of econometric theory written at an advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate level.

     

    *Discrete Choice Methods with Simulation by Kenneth Train.
    The entire text of the 2003 Cambridge University Press text is available here in PDF format for personal research and study.

     

    *Econometrics by Michael Creel
    An open source econometrics textbook.

     

    *Handbook of Econometrics, vol. 1-5
    Elsevier has now placed the first 5 volumes of the Handbook of Econometrics online in Adobe pdf format.

     

    *Lectures in Optimization by Pravin Varaiya.
    This is the text of a book that has been out of print since 1975. It provides a discussion of mathematical programming, optimal control, and dynamic programming.

     

    *Lectures in Introductory Econometrics by D.S.G. Pollock.
    This online booklet contains a discussion of basic econometric theory written at an advanced undergraduate or graduate level.

     

    *Probability Theory with Economic Applications by Efe A. Ok
    This online text contains a graduate-level discussion of basic concepts of probability theory. Economic examples are used throughout the text.

     

    Structural Analysis of Discrete Data and Econometric Applications, edited by Charles F. Manski and Daniel L. McFadden
    The complete text of this classic 1981 MIT Press volume is available in either Adobe PDF or Postscript format.

     

    Numerical Recipes in C
    The entire 2nd edition of Numerical Recipes in C is available on ths site.

     

    Numerical Recipes in Fortran 77
    The entire 2nd edition of Numerical Recipes in Fortran 77 is available on ths site.

     

    Numerical Recipes in Fortran 90
    The entire 2nd edition of Numerical Recipes in Fortran 90 is available on ths site.

     

    *Topics in Econometric Theory by D.S.G. Pollard.
    This work consists of a series of essays on applied econometric topics.

     

    Urban Travel Demand: A Behavioral Analysis by Tom Domencich and Daniel L. McFadden
    The entire text of this 1975 North-Holland volume is available at this site in both Adobe PDF and Postscript formats.

    Game Theory

    *Bargaining and Markets by Martin J. Osborne and Ariel Rubinstein.
    This is an online version of the text published by Academic Press in 1990.

     

    *Strategy and Conflict: An Introductory Sketch of Game Theory by Roger A. McCain
    This online text contains a brief, nontechnical solid introduction to game theory concepts and their application to economics.

    History of Economic Thought

     

    *History of Economic Thought by R. Larry Reynolds
    This website contains a draft of an online textbook on the history of economic thought. (Some of the sections are currently available only in outline format.)

    International Economics

    *International Trade Theory & Policy Analysis by Steven M. Suranovic (George Washington University)
    This web site contains links to a free html version of the text as well as a pay-per-view version in Adobe Acrobat format. The free version does not contain answer keys.

     

    *International Economics by Robert A. Mundell.
    This is the complete text of Robert A. Mundell's 1968 text. It was originally printed by Macmillan, but is now out of print.

    Law and Economics

    *Encyclopedia of Law and Economics, edited by Boudewijn Bouckaert and Gerrit De Geest.
    The entire 5-volume Edward Elgar publication is available online.

     

    *Law's Order: What Economics Has to Do With Law and Why It Matters" by David Friedman.
    This online copy of a 2000 Princeton University Press text provides a superb introduction to the relationships between law and economics. Topics included in this text include economic analyses of: crime, externalities, marriage, fertility, divorce, the value of life, contract law, tort law, and many other topics.

    Economic History Services ---      http://eh.net/

    Mathematical Economics

    *Real Analysis with Economic Applications by Efe A. Ok
    This online text contains a discussion of topics in real analysis that are extensively used in economics. Economic examples are used throughout the text.

    Public Choice

    *Understanding Democracy: An Introduction to Public Choice by J. Patrick Gunning
    This text provides a basic introduction to public choice theory. He asks that users of this text provide him with feedback and suggestions.

    Production Economics

    *Production Economics: A Dual Approach to Theory and Applications. Volume I: The Theory of Production, edited by Melvyn Fuss and Daniel L. McFadden
    The entire text of this 1981 North Holland volume is available online in either Adobe pdf or Postscript formt.

    Public Finance

    *Public Finance: Government Revenues and Expenditures in the United States Economy by Randall G. Holcombe
    This site provides the complete text (in either .pdf or Word format) of the Public Finance text published by West in 1996 (currently out of print).

    Statistics

    *Electronic Statistics Textbook by StatSoft
    An online statistics textbook from the company that provides the statistical software package, Statistica.

     

    *HyperStat Online Textbook by David M. Lane.
    An online statistics textbook containing Java and Javascript applications.

     

    *Lectures in Mathematical Statistics by D.S.G. Pollock.
    This site contains a series of detailed lecture notes on statistics at an advanced undergraduate or introductory graduate level.

     

    *Introductory Statistics: Concepts, Models, and Applications by David W. Stockburger.
    This online text contains an introductory discussion of basic statistical concepts.

     

    *Statnotes: An Online Textbook by G. David Garson.
    This online text contains a discussion of basic statistical concepts.

     

    *SurfStat Australia
    An online introductory statistics text in HTML format.

    Free Economics and Social Science Tutorials --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#Social

    National Association for Business Economics --- http://www.nabe.com/index.html

    Theoretical Economics
    An open-access journal in economic theory ---     http://www.econtheory.org/

    Top 100 Economics Blogs --- http://www.currencytrading.net/2007/the-top-100-economics-blogs/
    Bob Jensen's threads on blogs and listservs ---     http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ListServRoles.htm 

    A First Course in Linear Algebra (free online textbook)  http://linear.ups.edu/opentexts.html

    Distance Education.org or DistanceEducation.Org is a Great Helper Site
    Ben Pheiffer in San Antonio forwarded this link to a terrific listing (with pricing estimates) of online training and education degree programs and courses from respectable universities --- http://www.distance-education.org/Courses/
    Both graduate and undergraduate degree programs are listed as well as training courses (some free). I added to my listings of worldwide online training and education programs at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Crossborder.htm 

    Free eBook from TechLearning (Registration Required)
    Technology and the Future of Learning: Mobile Computing Makes the Difference in Preparing Students for the 21st Century ---     http://www.techlearning.com/content/epubs/gateway

    A First Course in Linear Algebra (free online textbook)  http://linear.ups.edu/opentexts.html

    July 23, 2007 message from Thomas Weise [tweise@gmx.de]

    Dear Mr. Jensen.

    I am currently writing an open, freely available computer science e-book. This e-book is devoted to global optimization algorithms, which are methods to find optimal solutions for given problems. It especially focuses on evolutionary computation by discussing evolutionary algorithms, genetic algorithms, genetic programming, learning classifier systems, evolution strategy, differential evolution, particle swarm optimization, and ant colony optimization. It also elaborates on meta-heuristics like simulated annealing, hill climbing, tabu search, and random optimization.

    With this book, I want to make it easier for students and fellow researchers to get started with these interesting topics. I believe that it is a valuable resource for both, students and (beginning) fellow researches.

    I would be very happy if you would add it to your catalogue. You can find the book at http://www.it-weise.de/projects/book.pdf . It includes a bibtex citation-suggestion . Notice that the book is currently worked on, it will be improved, revised, extended, and corrected consecutively. This means that providing a downloaded copy on your site would probably make no sense, a direct link would be better. This book is licensed under the Gnu Free Documentation License FDL.

    Kindest regards,
    Sincerely yours,
    Thomas Weise.

     

    Bob Jensen's links to mathematics and statistics tutorials are at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#050421Mathematics

    A First Course in Linear Algebra (free online textbook)  http://linear.ups.edu/opentexts.html

    Bob Jensen's threads on science and medicine tutorials are at
    http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#050421Science%20and%20Medicine
     

    Community College Open-Textbook Project Gets Under Way
    Especially note the open sharing sources being used

    The Community College Open Textbook Project begins this week with a member meeting in California," by Catherine Rampell, Chronicle of Higher Education, April 29, 2008 --- Click Here

    At the meeting, representatives of institutions around the country will start reviewing open-textbook models for “quality, usability, accessibility, and sustainability,” according to a news release. They will initially review four providers of free online educational resources: Connexions, run by Rice University; Flat World Knowledge, a commercial digital-textbook publisher that will begin offering free textbooks online next year; the University of California’s UC College Prep Online, which offers Advanced Placement and other courses online; and the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources, which was founded by the Foothill-De Anza Community College District and the League for Innovation in the Community College.

    The open-textbook project was paid for by a $530,000 grant to the Foothill-De Anza Community College District from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.

    Bob Jensen's threads on open sharing are at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI

    Bob Jensen's threads on free online tutorials in various academic disciplines are at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#Tutorials

     

    Bob Jensen's threads on mathematics and statistics tutorials are at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#050421Mathematics

    A frequently-updated blog to free lectures from prestigious universities --- http://www.oculture.com/2007/07/freeonlinecourses.html
    Bob Jensen's threads on open sharing courses and videos ---     http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI

    Distance Education.org or DistanceEducation.Org is a Great Helper Site
    Ben Pheiffer in San Antonio forwarded this link to a terrific listing (with pricing estimates) of online training and education degree programs and courses from respectable universities --- http://www.distance-education.org/Courses/
    Both graduate and undergraduate degree programs are listed as well as training courses (some free). I added to my listings of worldwide online training and education programs at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Crossborder.htm 

    HyperStat Online Statistics Textbook --- http://davidmlane.com/hyperstat/

    1. Introduction to Statistics
    2. Describing Univariate Data
    3. Describing Bivariate Data
    4. Introduction to Probability
    5. Normal Distribution
    6. Sampling Distributions
    7. Point Estimation
    8. Confidence Intervals
    9. The Logic of Hypothesis Testing
    10. Testing Hypotheses with Standard Errors
    11. Power
    12. Introduction to Between-Subjects ANOVA
    13. Factorial Between-Subjects ANOVA
    14. Within-Subjects/Repeated Measures ANOVA
    15. Prediction
    16. Chi Square
    17. Distribution-Free Tests
    18. Measuring Effect Size

    Glossaries
    HyperStat

     STEPS

     Statistics Explained

    Concept Stew

    NSF

    Stat Trek

    Review by the Scout Report on June 23, 2006

    Does the mere mention of the phrase “sampling distributions” bring a tingle to your spine? Visitors to this site will fear this basic concept of statistics (along with many others) no longer, as it does a fine job of explaining them in a fashion that is both lucid and jargon-free. Created and maintained by Professor David M. Lane of Rice University, the HyperStat Online site contains an online introductory statistics textbook, complete with sections on normal distributions, confidence intervals, prediction, and the logic of hypothesis testing. Each section contains a number of discrete subsections, and users can feel free to browse around at their leisure. Professor Lane has also included a number of external links to related resources, including a visual statistics site by David Krus of Arizona State University and a “Stat Primer”, authored by Bud Gerstman of San Jose State University. Overall, this site is tremendously helpful, and will be of great assistance to those entering the world of statistics for the first time.
     

    PBS Teacher Source: Math --- http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/math.htm

    Not free but good supplements for statistics learning:

    • Statistics For People Who (Think They) Hate Statistics by Neil Salkind (with humor) --- Click Here
       
    • Statistics for the Utterly Confused (Utterly Confused Series) by Lloyd R. Jaisingh --- Click Here

    Free Public Affairs Case Teaching Materials and Sometimes Entire Course Materials from the University of Washington
    The Electronic Hallway ---     https://hallway.org/

    The Electronic Hallway is pleased to announce a unique and progressive new product— Integrated Management: A Complete Core Curriculum — a previously untested venture in presenting an entire course package using online technology. This package represents a 30 week integrated core management curriculum.

    Bob Jensen's threads on distance education and training alternatives are at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/crossborder.htm

    Resources for the Study of Art History --- http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks2.html

    Vatican Museums Online --- http://mv.vatican.va/3_EN/pages/MV_Musei.html

    A variety of free technical textbooks (many in science, computing, and engineering) --- http://www.e-dsp.com/free-ebooks/

    From NASA
    Virtual Skies: Aeronautics Tutorial ---     http://virtualskies.arc.nasa.gov/aeronautics/tutorial/intro.html 

    Emily Post: Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home ---  http://www.bartleby.com/95/

    Sample Pages from Dick and Jane Readers --- http://faculty.valpo.edu/bflak/dickjane/

    Online Bookstores

    http://www.amazon.com/ 
     http://www.bn.com/ 
     http://www.efollet.com/ 
     http://www.buy.com/ 

    Other Online Textbooks

    Other Online Publishers

    Taxpoint: http://taxpoint.swcollege.com/taxpoint_2001/taxpoint.html 
    StudyLive:     http://www.swcollege.com/acct/studylive/studylive.html 
    INTACCT:     http://www.swcollege.com/acct/rama/intacct/intacct.html 
    Computerized Principles of Accounting:      http://www.swcollege.com/acct/klooster_introacct/klooster.html 

     Also see my Wizeup discussion at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ebooks.htm#051500 

    History Online

    Bob Jensen's History, Art, and Entertainment Bookmarks --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#History

    Shared Open Courseware (OCW) from Around the World: OKI, MIT, Rice, and Other Sharing Universities --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI

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    Online Books and Authors


     Lost Titles, Forgotten Rhymes: How to Find a Novel, Short Story, or Poem Without Knowing its Title or Author --- http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/lost/
     

    Rare Book Room --- http://www.rarebookroom.org/

    Open Library --- http://www.openlibrary.org/
    For a good review, see     http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2007/08/08/mclemee

    Readprint.com offers thousands of free books for students, teachers, and the classic enthusiast. To find the book you desire to read, start by looking through the author index --- http://www.readprint.com/

    Finnegans Wake Extensible Elucidation Treasury --- http://www.fweet.org/

    Good Wives by Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) --- Click Here

    Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) --- Click Here

    From the University of Pennsylvania
    PENNsound [audio poetry, literature, and reviews) ---     http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/

    Free Book (very creative)
    The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual ---     http://www.cluetrain.com/book/introduction.html

    Little Women by Louisa May Alcott. --- http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/AlcLitt.html

    Great electronic "books" from the University of Texas and Princeton University
    Dante Inferno, Purgatory, and Paradise (a multimedia learning experience) ---     http://danteworlds.laits.utexas.edu/
    Also see Princeton University's contribution (in Italian or English) ---     http://etcweb.princeton.edu/dante/pdp/
              Princeton's versions have both lectures and multimedia!

    Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (1775-1817) --- Click Here
    Pride and Prejudice (hypertexted to a fault) by Jane Austen --- http://www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/pridprej.html

    Mansfield Park by Jane Austen (1775-1817) --- Click Here

    Emma by Jane Austen --- Click Here

    Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen (1775-1817) --- Click Here

    Persuasion by Jane Austen (1775-1817) --- Click Here

    Sense And Sensibility by Jane Austen (1775-1817) --- Click Here

    Lady Susan by Jane Austen (1775-1817) --- Click Here

    Martha Ballard's Diary --- http://www.dohistory.com/

    Peter Pan by James Matthew Barrie --- Click Here

    Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens by James Matthew Barrie (1860-1937) --- Click Here

    Margaret Ogilvy by James Matthew Barrie (1860-1937) --- Click Here

    The Boarded Window by Ambrose Bierce (1842 1914) --- Click Here

    Fantastic Fables by Ambrose Bierce (1842 1914) --- Click Here   

    The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce (1842 1914) --- Click Here

    My Favorite Murder by Ambrose Bierce (1842 1914) --- Click Here

    Can Such Things Be? by Ambrose Bierce --- Click Here

    Bulgakov's Master and Margarita (Russian Novel) http://cr.middlebury.edu/public/russian/Bulgakov/public_html//index.html

    Dante Worlds (Multimedia) --- http://danteworlds.laits.utexas.edu/

    The Willa Cather Archive --- http://cather.unl.edu/

    The Thomas Carlyle Letters Online --- http://carlyleletters.dukejournals.org/

    The Milton Reading Room from Dartmouth --- http://www.dartmouth.edu/~milton/reading_room/contents/

    Ralph Waldo Emerson --- http://www.rwe.org/comm/

    Anthology of Modern American Poetry (Oxford University Press, 2000) Edited by Cary Nelson --- http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/

    The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson --- http://www.hti.umich.edu/e/emerson/

    A Pair Of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) --- Click Here

    The Zora Neale Hurston Plays at the Library of Congress --- http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/hurston/

    Hemingway Archives --- http://www.jfklibrary.org/Historical+Resources/Hemingway+Archive/

    The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam --- http://www.omarkhayyamrubaiyat.com/

    DH Lawrence --- http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/l/lawrence/dh/

    John Steinbeck

    Oscar Wilde Collection --- http://www.planetmonk.com/wilde/
    Oscar Wilde Collection     ---     http://www.oscarwildecollection.com/

    The Fisherman and His Soul A Fairy Tale by Oscar Wilde --- http://www.artpassions.net/wilde/fisherman_and_his_soul.html

    Grimm's Fairytales (from National Geographic) --- http://www.nationalgeographic.com/grimm/

    The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith (1776) --- http://geolib.pair.com/smith.adam/woncont.html

    Can Such Things Be? by Ambrose Bierce (1842 1914) --- Click Here

    Giving Alms No Charity by Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) --- Click Here

    William Gedney Photographs and Writings --- http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/gedney/

    Edgar Allen Poe --- http://eserver.org/books/poe/

    Knowing Poe --- http://knowingpoe.thinkport.org/default_flash.asp

    The Pit And The Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) --- Click Here

    Landor's Cottage by Edgar Allan Poe (1809 1849) --- Click Here

    A Descent Into The Maelstrom by Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) --- Click Here

    Eleonora by Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) --- Click Here

    Berenice by Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) --- Click Here

    Hap-Frog by Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) --- Click Here

    Mellonta Tauta by Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) --- Click Here

    The Balloon Hoax by Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) --- Click Here

    William Wilson by Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) --- Click Here

    From the Scout Report on September 14, 2008

    The Bibliothecary: Ed & Edgar --- http://bibliothecary.squarespace.com/ed-and-edgar/ 

    The Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore --- http://www.eapoe.org/ 

    Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site --- http://www.nps.gov/edal/ 

    Edgar Allan Poe --- http://etext.virginia.edu/poe/poebiog.html 

    Scholar, Athlete, and Artist: Edgar Allan Poe at University of Virginia --- http://www.literarytraveler.com/literary_articles/edgar_allan_poe_author.aspx

    In an effort to return Edgar Allan Poe to the City of Brotherly Love, scholar and pundit issues a challenge Baltimore Has Poe: Philadelphia Wants Him [Free registration may be required] --- http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/06/us/06poe.html?em

    From NPR
    Matthew Pearl explores Poe's mysterious death in The Poe Shadow. Louis Bayard's The Pale Blue Eye focuses on Poe as a West Point cadet ---
    http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5543300

    Beowulf in Hypertext --- http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~beowulf/main.html

    ProcrastinatorsGuidetoSuccess.pdf

    Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867), and in particular to Les Fleurs du mal (Flowers of Evil) --- http://fleursdumal.org/

    Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) ---