Student Research

Some of the best websites for you to use for your research and projects!

Pixabay – Copyright-free images, videos and music you can use anywhere
Unsplash – Freely usable images
Openverse – Millions of photos, songs and videos — available for free and legal use under the terms of CC’s copyright licenses
Pics4Learning – Thousands of copyright-free images for teacher and student use.
Free Music Archive – Free access to open licensed, original music by independent artists around the world
Wikimedia Commons – Millions of freely usable media files

NoodleTools – help with your research projects, including citing your sources in MLA, APA or Chicago/Turabian styles and creating Works Cited/References pages
Purdue Owl– Provides citation help for MLA, APA and Chicago

Digital Commons Network – Contains free, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of colleges and universities in a variety of subject areas.
Directory of Open Access Journals – Online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.
BASE – Search engine specifically for academic resources. Provides more than 100 million documents from more than 5,000 sources.
World Digital Library – Primary Sources from countries and cultures around the world.
Infotopia – Academic search engine accessing websites selected by librarians and teachers
Digital Public Library of America – Provides access to photographs, books, maps, news footage, oral histories, personal letters, museum objects, artwork, government documents from libraries, archives, and museums

Library of Congress – Largest library in the world online or in person.
GovInfo – Official information from all 3 branches of Federal government
USA.gov – Provides access to government information and services
Milestone Documents – 100 milestone documents from American history
Virginia’s Legislative Information Service – Search VA bills & resolutions, Code of VA and more.
Document Bank of Virginia – Historical primary source documents from the Library of Virginia
United Nations Digital Library – Explore UN documents, votes, speeches and more
Black Freedom Struggle in the United States: A Selection of Primary Sources – select primary source documents related to critical people and events in African American history

ScienceOpen.com – Freely accessible research platform that puts scientific research in context.
WorldWideScience.org – A global science gateway made up of national and international scientific databases and portals.
Public Library of Science – Provides peer-reviewed, open access journal articles in all areas of science and medicine.
Science Advances – Open access research from Science magazine
Frontiers – Open access science platform
EurekAlert! – Global source for science news
Science in the Classroom – a collection of freely available annotated research papers from the Science family of journals
Science.gov – access to more than 200 million pages of authoritative federal science information including research and development results.
Data.gov – home of the US Government’s open data
Dryad – curated resource that makes research data discoverable, freely reusable, and citable.
re3data.org – a global registry of research data repositories from different academic disciplines

National Institutes of Health – The largest biomedical research agency in the world. Research health topics, medical research and more.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – Research diseases and conditions, healthy living and more.
World Health Organization – Research health topics, find health-related statistics for countries around the world.
Medline Plus – Information from the U.S. National Library of Medicine on health topics, drugs and supplements. Includes a medical encyclopedia.
Mayo Clinic – Research health information and patient care.

Poets.org – poets, poems, bios and more from the Academy of American Poets
World Literature Today – digital access to one of the oldest literary periodicals in the United States
The Literary Encyclopedia – A repository of authoritative reference work about literary and cultural history.
Project Gutenburg – a library of over 70,000 free eBooks in the public domain
African American Women Writers of the 19th Century – a digital collection of published works by 19th-century black women writers, biographies for each author, citations and much more

The College Board – Register and practice for the SATs. Find the right college for you.
ACT – Register and practice for the ACTs
State Council of Higher Education for Virginia – Preparing for, choosing, and paying for college
Occupational Outlook Handbook – Career information on duties, education, training, pay, and outlook for hundreds of occupations
Virginia Workforce Connection – Employment information for Virginia