The rise of Joplin, Missouri can largely be told in four words: lead and zinc ore. The city grew quickly as it became the world's premier supplier of these two minerals. The city is also known for its place as a byway along Route 66, its immaculately landscaped parks, and various recreation areas. This collection from the University of Missouri's Digital Library brings together over 500 postcards...

The Sechtl family has been in the photography business for over 150 years, and they have been working on digitizing their extensive archive for use by the general public. Of course, visitors can also visit their museum in the Czech Republic, but this website functions as a great entry point for learning about their body of work. Visitors may wish to start their journey by reading some of the...

Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain was a Civil War general, governor of Maine, and the president of Bowdoin College. Visitors interested in learning about Chamberlain's life from a spatial perspective should check out the "Biographical Map" feature accessible from the link near the top left hand side of the page. Using Google Maps or Google Earth, visitors can choose a place on the map that was a point...

Founded in 2017, the Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology continuously publishes scholarship on a range of topics, including spatial analysis, semantic web, and statistics. The journal hopes "to foster debate about the crucial role of digital technologies within archaeology, and to promote the theoretically informed and interdisciplinary use of digital methods." Interested readers can...

The Journal of Environmental Monitoring offers several articles free online in HTML and pdf formats. The articles include "primary research papers on all aspects of contaminant measurement relating to the ambient, indoor and workplace environments with a view to assessing exposure, environmental impact and health risks" and theoretical, fundamental and applied papers on a variety of topics in...

If you've ever had a yen to learn more about the traditional knowledge of wild edible plants used in Palestine or the medicinal plants of southeastern Ethiopia, then the Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine is for you. The Journal an open access, peer-reviewed journal published by BioMed Central, and visitors can browse through all the issues here and also take a gander at the top ten most...

The Journal of Human Sciences and Extension is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that publishes on a wide range of subjects, including human development, family studies, agricultural education, leadership development, and health and wellness among others. Each issue includes sections dedicated to Original Research, Brief Reports, and Practice and Pedagogy. Recent original research has included...

Created as an initiative by the College Sport Research Institute (CSRI) the Journal of Issues in Collegiate Athletics is "intended to foster an atmosphere that encourages personal and intellectual growth for faculty and students, demands excellence and professional integrity from faculty and student affiliates, supports independent critical college-sport research, and advocates for college...

Edited by Professor Mary Ann Beavis of the University of Saskatchewan, the Journal of Religion and Popular Culture is a “web-based, peer-reviewed journal committed to academic exploration, analysis and interpretation, from a range of disciplinary perspectives, of the interrelations between religion and religious expression and popular culture, broadly defined as the products of contemporary mass...

The Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society has been around since the early twentieth century, and it has chronicled many aspects of the state's cultural and social development. Recently, the Illinois State Library was able to utilize funds provided by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to create this digital archive of select Journal volumes. Currently, the digital...