Online Students: Web Resources

American Memory provides free and open access to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience. It is a digital record of American history and creativity.

Access to free full-text classic works of reference, literature, and verse.

NYPL Digital Collections offers drawings, illuminated manuscripts, maps, photographs, posters, prints, rare illustrated books, videos, audio, and more. These materials represent the applied sciences, fine and decorative arts, history, performing arts, and social sciences.

The NYS Historic Newspapers project provides free online access to a wide range of newspapers chosen to reflect New York's unique history. The project includes significant runs of historic newspapers for every county in the state.

Project Gutenberg offers over 50,000 free ebooks: choose among free epub books, free kindle books, download them or read them online.

Statistics on America's people, places, and economy from the US Department of Commerce.

Google Scholar searches across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. To include Cayuga's holdings in a Google Scholar search, go to Settings, select Library Links, type "Cayuga Community College" in the search box, and check the box for Findit@Cayuga CC Library.

RefSeek is a web search engine for students and researchers that aims to make academic information easily accessible to everyone. RefSeek searches more than one billion documents, including web pages, books, encyclopedias, journals, and newspapers.

Yippy queries several top search engines, combines the results, and generates an ordered list based on comparative ranking. This "metasearch" approach helps raise the best results to the top and push search engine spam to the bottom. Similar results are grouped together into “clouds” to show relationships between items.