Center for International Earth Science Information Network

A center within Columbia University's Earth Institute, CIESIN provides an extensive gateway to data and other information focusing on human interactions in the environment.  Provides a topic search as well as subject access to spatial and tabular data sets held by CIESIN or hosted on its web site. 


Civil Rights Digital Library

Gateway to primary sources on the civil rights movement in the U.S., including films, oral histories, government documents, and editorial cartoons.


College and University Rankings

Links to various ranking services, "along with cautionary notes and a discussion of the ongoing controversy over rankings." Provided by the Education and Social Science Library of the University of Illinois.


Core Documents of U.S. Democracy

Articles of Confederation, Bill of Rights, Congressional Record, Constitution of the United States, Declaration of Independence, Public Laws, etc.


Digital Schomburg

Digital Schomburg from the New York Public Library provides access to online exhibitions, books, articles, photographs, prints, audio and video streams, and selected external links for research in the history and cultures of the peoples of Africa and the African Diaspora.


Digital South Asia Library

A digital collection of seminal South Asian reference and research materials, including historical dictionaries, photographs, maps, data, books, and newspapers. From the University of Chicago.


Digital Transgender Archive

Hub for trans-related archival materials. Focuses on materials produced or events that took place before 2000.


Directory of Open Access Journals

Index of free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals.


Discovering American Women's History Online

Gateway to digital collections of primary sources (photos, letters, diaries, artifacts, etc.) that document the history of women in the United States


Early Americas Digital Archive

"Collection of electronic texts and links to texts originally written in or about the Americas from 1492 to approximately 1820."