web pages maintained by a real human being, as well as a meta-search engine that
includes in its results information gleaned from many of the best research portals and
university and public library Internet subject guides recommended by teachers and
librarians. The VLRC includes selected sites in a growing list of subject/information
areas including: full-text magazines, newspapers, electronic text archives, art history,
biography, biology, career information, psychology, history, government information,
literature, medical information, social sciences, legal information, American Civil War,
Art, Careers, Crime, Directories, Economics, Education, English Language, Electronic
Texts, Foreign Languages, Geography, Genealogy, Government
Information,Health/Medical, History, Legal Information, Lesson Plans, Literature,
Mathematics, Music, Reference, Science, Technology, Tutorials on the Web, and Writing
Style Guides. The Virtual LRC is actually a suite of three databases. In addition to the
main index/browser/subject guide, there is also VLRC MagBot, full-text magazine
reference and research site offering free hot-topic magazine and journal articles, and
VLRC Alphamarks, the subject-classified bookmarks of the Virtual Learning Resources
Center. Both VLRC MagBot and VLRC Alphamarks are indexed through the main
VLRC index/meta search engine/web directory. These three in combination offer a
powerful technology to help users find the most relevant information for their academic
needs. The Virtual LRC, a completely free resource, is the creation of Dr. Michael Bell,
former state chair of the Texas Association of School Librarians. The Virtual LRC is in a
constant state of revision.
Virtual Technical Reports Center
http://www.lib.umd.edu/ENGIN/TechReports/Virtual-TechReports.html
The Virtual Technical Reports Center - EPrints, Preprints, & Technical Reports on the
Web. The Institutions listed on this site provide either full-text reports, or searchable
extended abstracts of their technical reports on the World Wide Web. This site contains
links to technical reports, preprints, reprints, dissertations, theses, and research reports of
all kinds.
viXra.org - An Alternative Archive of 25,313 e-prints in Science and Mathematics
http://vixra.org/
ViXra.org is an e-print archive set up as an alternative to the popular arXiv.org service
owned by Cornell University. It has been founded by scientists who find they are unable
to submit their articles to arXiv.org because of Cornell University's policy of
endorsements and moderation designed to filter out e-prints that they consider
inappropriate. ViXra is an open repository for new scientific articles. It does not endorse
e-prints accepted on its website, neither does it review them against criteria such as
correctness or author's credentials.