AskERIC - The Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC), a national information center funded by the U.S. Department of Education

Biography Resource Center - Search for people by personal facts such as birth and death year, nationality, ethnicity, occupation, or gender.

eLibrary - Searchable archive of books, articles, newpapers, transcripts, pictures and maps. After the seven day trial you still get abstracts free, but the full files will cost you.

Find Articles - A useful free search engine indexing published articles from more than 300 sources.

HIGHWIRE - Seach over 12 million fully indexed articles in over 4500 medline journals.

SEARCHeBOOKS - A full text index of e books. Enter "for this relief much thanks" and your instantly given a link citing Hamlet, Act 1 scene 1.

PUBMED - This service of National Library of Medicine provides access to over 12 millon Medline citations, going back to the mid-1960's