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Noodle Tools: A suite of interactive tools designed tom aid students and professionals with their online research. From selecting a search engine and finding some relevant sources, to citing those sources in MLA or APA style.
Ask/ ERIC: An internet accessible index of articles from the ERIC Clearinghouses. Articles may have to be obtained at University libraries that have collections of ERIC documents.
Find Articles: If you are looking for free articles on a variety of research subjects, then Find Articles bills itself as the first, free web-based collection of articles.
MOSAIC Magazine Science Articles Archive: This free resource for science writers, educators and students is a product of research performed by the US Government's National Science Foundation. Articles published in MOSAIC Magazine are freely available for reproduction by teachers for classroom use.
BYTE.com: This site features the 1994-1998 archives of BYTE magazine that gives an historic picture of personal computing in the 1990s.

MAPS.COM: The place for world maps and maps of individual countries.
Map Digger: This site includes free maps including other types of maps than the usual physical or political maps.

CIA World Factbook: This site provides country profiles, maps, and other information in a database that is searchable by country name.
FAOSTAT: (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) This is an on-line and multilingual databases currently containing over 1 million time-series records covering international statistics in the following areas: Production, Trade, Food Balance Sheets, Fertilizer and Pesticides, Land Use and Irrigation, Forest Products, Fishery Products, Population, Agricultural Machinery, Food Aid Shipments.
UNESCO Institute for Statistics: Global and internationally comparable statistics on education, science, technology, culture and communication.
U.S. Census Bureau: A variety of sources of demographic information about the United States.
U.S. State Department: This cite includes information about countries and regions and includes Post Reports, international issues, and guidance for Americans planning on traveling to other countries.
WHOSIS: (World Health Organization Statistical Information System) The WHO Statistical Information System is the guide to health and health-related epidemiological and statistical information available from the World Health Organization. Most WHO technical programs make statistical information available, and they will be linked from here. You also have the possibility to search by keywords within the WHOSIS or throughout the entire WHO site.