Databases

Places to find information

Searchable catalogs of information or digital materials

Miscellaneous

All available database sites
3D NIH
"NIH 3D is an open, community-driven portal to download, share, and create bioscientific and medical 3D models for 3D printing and interactive 3D visualization, including virtual and augmented reality."
Animated Knots
"Animated Knots by Grog is the web’s #1 site for learning how to tie knots. From Boating Knots, Fishing Knots and Climbing Knots to tying a tie, or even Surgical Knots — we’ve got it covered."
"Follow along as ropes tie themselves, showing just the essential steps, so you can master a knot in no time. Jump into any category to get started. If you’re unsure where to begin, try starting with the Basics, our Knot of the Day, Grog’s Blog or check out every knot we’ve got!"
Archive of Our Own
"A fan-created, fan-run, nonprofit, noncommercial archive for transformative fanworks, like fanfiction, fanart, fan videos, and podfic."
Archives of Nethys
Information about Pathfinder (1st Edition).
Aromantic and Asexual Characters Database
A searchable database of aromantic and asexual characters in prose fiction.
Behind the Name
"[T]he etymology and history of first names".
Chunkbase
Tool for Minecraft Java or Bedrock players to input world seeds and output the intended location of various world structures.
CK-12
"The CK-12 Foundation was founded with the mission to enable everyone to learn in his or her own way. We pair high quality content with the latest technologies. We equip students, teachers, and parents with everything they need. For free."
ComicFury
"ComicFury webcomic hosting is a free, easy to use and advertisement-free tool that will help you easily set up and host a website for your webcomic, without any technical knowledge. All you will have to worry about when using ComicFury is actually making the comics, the rest is provided by us."
E-Fauna BC
"E-Fauna BC is a biogeographic atlas of the wildlife species of British Columbia. It includes a significant citizen science data component."
Embodi 3d
"We offer the largest, most reputable, and fastest growing library of affordable medical 3D printable models. Search through thousands of models and files, each based on real medical scans, for use in medicine, veterinary practice, and anthropology."
Epocrates
"Since 1998, epocrates has served essential, continually researched and updated clinical content to more than a million users. Get to know the app our clinicians have called "my second brain" and "absolutely essential to modern practice.""
Expat Info Desk
"Explore our professionally written city guides written by expats for global nomads and expatriates. Explore, Live, Enjoy"
Fontspace
"130,000+ Free Fonts... Free downloads of legally licensed fonts that are perfect for your design projects."
Freesound.org
"Freesound aims to create a huge collaborative database of audio snippets, samples, recordings, and all sorts of bleeps, ... released under Creative Commons licenses that allow their reuse."
Friendship-bracelets.net
Crowd-sourced site of friendship bracelet examples, patterns, and tutorials.
GIMP image editor
"The Free & Open Source Image Editor"
HORG
"The Holotypic Occlupanid Research Group: A Database of Synthetic Taxonomy".
Instructables
"Instructables are created by you. No matter who you are, we all have secret skills to share. Come join our community of curious makers, innovators, teachers, and life long learners who love to share what they make."
JSTOR
"Explore the world’s knowledge, cultures, and ideas... Search journals, books, images, and primary sources"
LGBTQIA Wiki
"The LGBTQIA+ Wiki is a resource of LGBTQIA+ terminology and labels used by various queer communities, as well as the questioning and/or curious. The wiki is designed to be a helpful resource for explaining identities both known and unknown."
Live Well Bake Often
"Here at Live Well Bake Often you’ll find hundreds of classic baked goods and desserts that I’ve created in my own kitchen. All of the recipes on my site are tested multiple times to ensure their accuracy. You’ll also find step-by-step instructions and as much detail as possible with each recipe because I want you to have 100% success when you make them. My hope is that Live Well Bake Often will be your ultimate resource for baking. I want you to feel completely confident when it comes to making any recipe on my site – even if you’ve never baked from scratch in your entire life."
Mogai Wiki
"You’ve landed at the MOGAI Wiki — An inclusive Wiki on Miraheze for every MOGAI identity, where anyone can edit."
MOGAI Wiki
"This wiki was made to catalog and organize MOGAI identities. Our goal is to provide an easier way to find the definitions, flags, and creators for niche identities which otherwise may be difficult to find. Check out the discover section below to start diving in and learn more about the wiki."
Morpho Source
"Find, view, and download 3D data representing the world’s natural history, cultural heritage, and scientific collections. Data are contributed by museums, researchers, and scholars to share findings, increase impact, and improve access to material critical for scientific discovery and the advancement of human knowledge."
Open Source Innovations
"The mission of Open-Source Innovations is to promote, share ideas, methods, and prototypes for Do-it-Ourselves/DIY adapted mobility devices. There’s a heavy focus in the DME industry on primarily expensive/medical/utilitarian/low performance based mobility solutions . We propose to enable fun and exciting recreational activities through promoting inexpensive performance based adaptive mobility devices."
sekai best
Database of information for mobile game Project Sekai.
Sekaipedia
"Sekaipedia is a wiki dedicated to Project SEKAI: Colorful Stage! (????????? ???????? feat.????), a Japanese mobile rhythm game for iOS and Android. Our goal is to give players all the information they need to enjoy the game, such as story and mechanic translations, card stats, and more. Story and character content translations are also found here."
Sheep and Stitch
"Sheep & Stitch is more than just a site for knitting tutorials, patterns and inspiration. It’s based on a larger philosophy that everyone is a creator."
The Phrontistery
"Welcome to the Phrontistery! Since 1996, I have compiled word lists and language resources to spread the joy of the English language in all its variety through time and space. A phrontistery (from the Greek phrontistes ’thinker’) is meant to be a thinking-place for reflection and intellectual stimulation. I invite you to explore the various site features relating to language and lexicography, find that half-remembered rare or obscure word you’ve been looking for, or to read and explore essays on language, linguistics, and culture. Have a look around, and enjoy!"
The Spriter's Resource
"This website is a part of several websites under the belt of "The VG Resource" - websites that are dedicated to the collection, archival, and appreciation of materials from video games."
"These resources are collected for personal projects and non-commercial work. Many of our users utilize the sprites, models, textures, and sounds found on our sites to make comics or games and more still just browse them to reminisce on games they’ve played."
Theoi
"Welcome to the Theoi Project, a site exploring Greek mythology and the gods in classical literature and art. The aim of the project is to provide a comprehensive, free reference guide to the gods (theoi), spirits (daimones), fabulous creatures (theres) and heroes of ancient Greek mythology and religion."
Warfare History Network
"From the armies of ancient Rome and Greece, to the World Wars of the 20th Century and beyond, Warfare History Network’s in-depth articles feature detailed accounts of the battles, the soldiers, the weapons, and much more. In addition, our articles are illustrated with historic photos, paintings, drawings, and maps from museums and historic collections around the world. Our members are a community of serious readers of history that often join in the conversation in our article comments. Join us on a trip to the front lines."

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