·http://eric.ed.gov/

Founded in 1964, the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) has been a powerful research support for half a century. The current iteration, an academic search engine, is elegant yet comprehensive, with two valuable, user-friendly tools. Use the Collections tab to search the dozens of educational journals indexed in ERIC’s database. For instance, an entry of "cyberbullying" currently turns up 241 articles in 72 journals, with a list of referenced sources by publication date, descriptor, source, author, publication type, education level, and intended audience. Use the Thesaurus tab to expand and clarify keyword searches. [CNH]

·http://ccrc.tc.columbia.edu/

With the increasing cost of four-year colleges, as well as some stats that show wages of graduates from two-year colleges can outpace those with bachelor’s degrees, community colleges are becoming more popular every year. The Community College Research Center at Columbia University has its finger on the pulse of this trend. With a refreshingly open source attitude, the center offers recently published articles for free download. Current topics include "Evaluating Your College's Readiness for Technology Adoption" and "The Effects of English as a Second Language Courses on Language Minority Community College Students," among many others. Educators and administers alike will benefit from this beautifully maintained and generously informative site. [CNH]

·http://www.rand.org/topics/continuing-education.html

The Rand Corporation, host of this excellent site, defines continuing education as "postsecondary education that advances one's career or provides personal enrichment without leading to a degree." Visitors will find resources that vary in depth and accessibility, from terse blogs to complex journal articles – all dedicated to the subject of continuing education. Additional resources include writings demarcated by author and by project, as well as edifying news releases outlining current research endeavors. Anyone curious about the cutting edge of continuing education should make a beeline to this visually-pleasing website. [CNH]

·http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hi/te_index.asp?i=10

Few cultures on earth can boast a history of art as sophisticated and variegated as Japan's. This show stopping collection from The Metropolitan Museum of Art traces Japanese art back to the Neolithic Jomon Culture (c.a. 10,500-c.a. 300 B.C.). Illuminating essays accompany all 38 segments of the collection. Of special interest are the pieces from the Asuka and Nara Periods (538-794), when Buddhism was introduced to Japan from China and Korea. Readers will also find much to savor in the Samurai and Zen Buddhism sections. For viewers drawn to Japan's globally influential modern design culture, the collection offers several satisfying pages of radically minimalist home and office décor. [CNH]

·http://www.scoop.it/t/digital-humanities-tool-box

The Digital Humanities Tool Box, hosted on Scoop.It!, bills itself as a web site packed with "Links, ideas, and tools for humanities instructors." And that’s exactly what it is. Curated by a history professor at Arizona State University (web name: Stillwater Humanities), the site "scoops" resources from around the web. Recent gems include articles like "History’s Future" and "A Brief History of the Hashtag, and Other Unusual Punctuation Marks," as well as infographics (for example, "6 Ways Social Media Will Change in 2014") and blog entries (e.g. "What Digitization Will Do for the Future of Museums"). [CNH]

·http://www.atnf.csiro.au/

The Australia Telescope National Facility manages four large, state of the art radio telescopes in Southeast Australia. ATNF’s web site is a complex configuration of resources for researchers, technicians, educators, and cosmology buffs. Amateur enthusiasts will want to navigate to the Outreach section, with its trove of photographs and educational materials. In particular, check out the Cosmic engine for senior students, an overview of past and current theories of the universe. Here you’ll find modules such as Early Models of the Universe and The Lives of Stars. Also in Outreach, What is Radio Astronomy? provides a welcome overview of the technical basics of these impressive examples of modern technology. [CNH]