Established in 2000, with a series of innovative grants and funding schemes from the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development, the Chronic Poverty Research Center (CPRC) is primarily concerned with researching chronic poverty around the globe and creating well thought out analyses that will be useful to different government agencies, non-governmental organizations, and other...

The Education Policy Analysis Archives is well regarded for its peer-reviewed articles that deal with a broad range of topics related to education policy, ranging from articles on college graduation rates to developing culturally sensitive teaching materials. One of the most recent articles will be of great interest to those with an interest in the problem of teacher turnover and attrition in...

If you've ever dreamed of reading the January 2, 1900 edition of Paris, Kentucky's "Bourbon News", this site will offer a form of wish fulfillment. This newspaper (and many others) are part of the Chronicling America website, which was produced by the National Digital Newspaper Program. The program is the result of a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of...

The late Winston Spencer Churchill was many things, including a fine diplomat, an excellent statesmen, and quite a prodigious author. Of course, he was also a good friend to the United States, and this online exhibit from the Library of Congress explores Churchill's long relationship with the U.S., which he referred to as "the great Republic". With generous funding from John W. Kluge (and the...

Known to several generations of students as a potentially valuable source of basic information about the various nations of the world, the CIA's World Factbook has been published every year since 1962. Since 1971, the Factbook has been available to the general public, and in recent years, the CIA has made new editions of the work accessible via the Internet. From the homepage, visitors can select...

How do you measure the innovative spirit of a place or region? Perhaps you might look at the number of patents filed in a given period. Public policy folks have looked at the number of patents filed in the Silicon Valley and other high-tech nodes for decades. Similarly, this rather intriguing site, crafted by the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, brings together the patents issued...

If you've ever had the desire to learn more about cinematic traditions in the Netherlands, you'll be pleased to learn about the Cinema Context website. This database contains four separate databases related to Dutch film culture, including those related to films, cinemas, people in the industry, and film companies. These databases can be found in the sections titled "People", "Companies",...

For librarians of all stripes, Circulating Ideas is a regular podcast that, "facilitates conversations about the innovative people & ideas allowing libraries to thrive in the 21st century." This podcast is hosted by public librarian Steve Thomas, is supported by the University of South Carolina School of Library and Information Science, and features interviews with library professionals across the...

The purpose of Cite Black Women is encompassed by its name. The collective works "to push people to critically rethink the politics of knowledge production by engaging in a radical praxis of citation that acknowledges and honors Black women's transnational intellectual production." In other words, "it's time to give credit where credit is due." Readers may want to begin by browsing the Our Praxis...

The University of Washington Libraries Digital Collection online projects and archives are well-regarded, and this database proves to be no exception to that highly positive trend. Started in 1995, the Cities and Buildings Database contains over 10,000 digitized images of buildings and cities culled from all historical periods and from all over the world. Visitors may wish to start with a simple...