“Full text access to the world's highest quality technical literature in engineering and technology .” -IEEE Xplore iLumina “iLumina is a digital library of sharable undergraduate teaching materials for chemistry, biology, physics, mathematics, and computer science. It is designed to quickly and accurately connect users with the educational resources they need. These resources range in type from highly granular objects such as individual images and video clips to entire courses. Resources in iLumina are cataloged in theMARC and NSDL metadata formats, which capture both technical and education-specific information about each resource. iLumina contains thousands of educational resources and several virtual collections.” Resources for Science and Mathematics “IMS GLC is a non-profit consortium whose contributing members are leading institutions, suppliers, and governments worldwide that collaborate on: Interoperability: A supplier-neutral open standards-based platform that enables innovative digital content, learning applications, and tools to be seamlessly integrated with campus learning and administrative systems – from on campus or the cloud. Adoption: Community support for institutional and system-wide adoption of standards-based digital learning innovations, such as e-books, e-learning, e-classroom, e-homework. Learning Impact: An annual conference and awards program that feature a focus on evaluation of the application of technology to the effective delivery of education.”—IMS Global Learning Consortium Key learning objects repository listings. Informing Science Institute Learning Objects Repository “Informing Science Institute (ISI) is an organization of colleagues helping colleagues. We draw together people who teach, research, and use information technologies to inform clients (regardless of academic discipline) to share their knowledge with others.” -Informing Science Institute “Tools designed for stand-alone applications in analyzing or organizing numbers and data.” -Interactive IRis IRis is a digital archive that collects, manages, preserves, and shares the intellectual output and historical record of Northeastern University. It is a service of the University Libraries. “Library of over 2,400 videos covering everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history and 125 practice exercises, we're on a mission to help you
access records and images of the many varied objects and paper-based items in the museum and archives.” -Royal Academy of Music Search texts, audio, images, and video learning objects from Rutgers University archives and scholarly materials. Saint Louis Art Museum Cultural art and artifacts from various historical time periods. “The Scholarly Repository features selected research and scholarly works prepared by faculty, students, and staff at the University of Miami. This archive is a digital initiative of the Otto G. Richter Library1, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science Library2, Louis Calder Memorial Library at the Miller School of Medicine3, the Marta and Austin Weeks Music Library4, the Paul Buisson Reference Library5 (Architecture), and the Judi Prokop Newman Information Resources Center6 (Business).” -University of Miami “The Virtual Courseware Project produces interactive, online simulations for the life science laboratory or for earth science field studies. The activities are designed to enhance an existing curriculum and include online assessments. They can be used by students ranging from middle school, high school, or college classrooms.” -science courseware.org ScotGEN-Scottish Genetics Education Network List of learning objects that advance the study of genetics in the classroom. “A collective collection of reusable learning objects for higher education which could be used in learning management systems such as Moodle.” -SCRATCH “The indigenous heritage of Alaska and adjacent regions is woven from the arts, knowledge, values, and beliefs of many cultures. Explore the Smithsonian collections with Native traditions bearers and learn about the peoples of this northern world.” -Alaska Native Collections Learning object repository of folk music. “Search over 7.4 million records, with 568,100 images, video and sound files from Smithsonian museums, archives, and libraries.” –SIRIS “The SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) is a Digital Library portal for researchers in Astronomy and Physics, operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) under a NASA grant. The ADS maintains three bibliographic databases containing more than 9.0 million records: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Physics, and arXiv e-prints. The main body of data in the ADS consists of bibliographic records, which are searchable through highly