Websites and Web Applications
The following websites cover a variety of medical, scientific, reference, and educational topics. Browse the alphabetical list or search for terms that appear in the website descriptions.Browse
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MULTICULTURAL Websites
The Library has 396 websites and
11 results for the descriptor "multicultural".
- Provider:U.S. Census Bureau
- Keywords: census , data , general reference , genetics , multicultural , society , statistical , U.S. Government , demographics , population
- Description: Contains population, economic, housing and geographic data based on the latest Decennial Census. Includes interactive maps, downloadable summaries, reports and useful links to related information.
- Provider:Joslin Diabetes Center, Boston, MA
- Keywords: consumer health , diet , internet , multicultural , nutrition , patient education , demographics , multilingual
- Description: Joslin Diabetes Center's Asian American Diabetes Initiative (AADI) Web site is a bilingual (English-Chinese) site with interactive tools dedicated to improving diabetes awareness and management in Asian-American populations.
- Provider:EurasiaHealth Knowledge Network and American International Health Alliance
- Keywords: consumer health , multicultural , portal , public health , AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) , multilingual
- Description: In addition to patient education materials in Eurasian languages, this organization provides a service for finding medical professionals in Eurasian countries, links users to toolkits of the AIHA Healthy Communities program, provides a special section focusing on AIDS/HIV; and more.
- Provider:World Health Organization
- Keywords: agriculture , gateway , health sciences , healthcare policy , multicultural , open access , public health , social sciences , WHO , environmental
- Description: "A virtual platform pointing to reliable health collections and systems with a particular focus on developing countries." Contains links to searchable "libraries," or portals, of health, agricultural, earth and environmental science, social science and other categories of information arranged according to World Health Organization regional offices. Searches may return full-text articles from open-access journals in various languages (including English); grey literature; WHO reports and other WHO publications; and some proprietary content not accessible from this site to users in the United States, such as the Cochrane database. The WHO regions covered are: Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Eastern Meditteranean, Europe, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific.
- Provider:Internet Archive (nonprofit organization)
- Keywords: books , culture , education , general reference , history , internet , libraries , multicultural , multidisciplinary , open access , popular , technology , video , digitization , collaborative , full text , continuing education , images , multilingual
- Description: The Internet Archive, a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts, holds a great many free diversions, and many of these are educational-- full-text books, university lectures, music, films, photography and software. There is also the Wayback Machine, for viewing earlier versions of websites: "Browse through 85 billion web pages archived from 1996 to a few months ago." In collaboration with the National Federation of the Blind, Internet Archive now also provides free access to more than a million books for blind, sight-impaired and dyslexic readers.
- Provider:Fordham University History Department
- Keywords: education , history , literature , multicultural , open access , philosophy , women
- Description: An extensive collection of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts and original sources, divided into sections on Ancient, Medieval and Modern history, with geographic and demographic sub-categories, as well as a number of special resource collections. Some resources are linked and others are provided directly by Fordham University.
- Provider:New South Wales (Australia) Department of Health
- Keywords: alcoholism , cancer , consumer health , drugs , general health , mental health , multicultural , nutrition , multilingual
- Description: The NSW (New South Wales) Multicultural Health Communication Service helps health professionals communicate with non-English-speaking communities. The website links to patient education publications on a wide range of health topics and in about 65 languages.
- Provider:National Library of Medicine
- Keywords: consumer health , multicultural , NLM , refugee , healthcare professional , patient education
- Description: This website provides links and full text health education materials for non English-speaking patients in a wide array of languages. (Not all materials are available in all languages.) Also included: information for the health care provider
- Provider:TED Conferences, LLC
- Keywords: art , creative commons , culture , multicultural , multidisciplinary , science , video
- Description: "Ideas Worth Spreading." This organization has posted free videos of talks given at the TED annual conferences, with Creative Commons licensing that allows free downloading and re-use as well as viewing. "The annual conference now brings together the world's most fascinating thinkers and doers, who are challenged to give the talk of their lives (in 18 minutes)." Speakers include world-renowned scientists addressing global issues; performers include musicians and other artists.
- Provider:UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization)
- Keywords: astronomy , multicultural , multidisciplinary , natural sciences , social sciences , international , multilingual
- Description: This is the website of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
- Provider:Library of Congress and UNESCO (United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization)
- Keywords: books , culture , digital , films , general reference , history , history of North America , libraries , monographs , multicultural , multidisciplinary , research , serial , digitization , collaborative , full text , international , repository , images , maps , multilingual , museum , archive
- Description: Initiated as a joint project of the Library of Congress and UNESCO (United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization) and launched in 2009, the World Digital Library is a curated collection of a variety of digitized items- books, art, film, periodicals and more, many of them considered primary source materials- representing the cultural identities and histories of UNESCO's member nations through every branch of learning. In the initial exploration one can view thumbnails of content according to time, place, topic, item type or institution.
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