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Livemocha provides lessons in a large number of languages including Spanish, Bulgarian, Mandarin Chinese, and many more. Every lesson includes practice in reading, writing, listening and speaking. Livemocha is a social network applied to a useful purpose—your exercises will always be reviewed by another user of the site who is a native speaker of the language you are learning—and there are many opportunities to interact with users in a large variety of languages.

ScienceDaily is one of the Internet’s most popular science news web sites and offers readers breaking news about the latest scientific discoveries.

Thumbnail biographies and trivia about thousands of famous people.

The Consumer Product Information Database (CPID) contains health effects information for products used in the home and in some commercial/institutional settings that contain chemicals. The CPID links brand names to health effects and allows you to select brands based on your individual sensitivity to specific chemical ingredients.

Search passenger records of the 12 million immigrants who entered the US through the Port of New York/Ellis Island between 1892-1954. Sponsored by the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation.

MedLinePlus provides consumer health information. Available in English and Spanish it is a librarian favorite for reputable health information online.

Provided by the National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health.

The National Library of Medicine’s gateway to over 14 million abstracts and citations for biomedical journal articles dating back to the 1950s. Links to sites providing full text articles. If full-text isn’t available online, ask the Reference Librarian about getting a copy through Interlibrary Loan!

Provided by the National Library of Medicine.

A collection of toxicology information from the National Library of Medicine.

The Massachusetts Division of Career Services (DCS) offers the Massachusetts Career Information System (MassCIS) free on-line to all Massachusetts residents. MassCIS is designed to provide occupational and educational information to help people make better-informed career and school choices. It includes tools such as assessment tests and resume builder, plus in depth information about careers, salaries, education and training, and job growth outlook.

The online version, published every 2 years by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Includes information about a huge range of occupations including job titles, nature and conditions of work, training or certification required, prospects for growth, and typical salaries.