Selected Websites

Arts and Humanities

Automobiles

Boating

Business

Consumer Information

Education

Coursera

Provides free online courses covering a wide range of topics from universities around the world.

Information Works

Provides annual "reports cards" from 1998 to 2009 for Rhode Island's public schools, with individual school, school district, and statewide profiles.

InfoWorks!

Provides information about Rhode Island's public schools: individual schools, school districts, or statewide, from 2009 to the present.

Khan Academy

Free educational videos, each about 10 minutes. Subjects include math, science, computer science, finance and economics, and the humanities.

North Kingstown Community Workshops

Educational workshops for adults, sponsored by the North Kingstown Foundation.

Employment

Environment

BugGuide

Identification, images, & information for insects, spiders & their kin for the United States & Canada

Narragansett Bay Research

NarrBay.org is the one stop portal for researchers interested in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island. NarrBay is home to specialized coastal and marine datasets which can be downloaded in a variety of formats.

Narragansett Bay Research Reserve

Includes the Narragansett Bay Tide Calendar. The Narragansett Bay Research Reserve is one of 27 Reserves in the National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERRS). Currently, the NERRS protects over 1 million acres of estuarine waters and adjacent upland habitats. The Narragansett Bay Research Reserve is located in the heart of Narragansett Bay on four islands: Prudence, Patience, Hope and Dyer.
The Narragansett Bay Research Reserve protects approximately 4400 acres of land and water.
We are located in the Narragansett Bay Watershed which is comprised of 1,657 square miles. Sixty-one percent of the watershed is in Massachusetts and thirty-nine percent is in Rhode Island.

RI Sea Grant Sea Level Rise Mapping & Data Tools

A pilot project with the Town of North Kingstown has compiled and studied a large amount of data important for understanding sea level rise at the local level. Out of this effort have come new planning tools for government, community, and the private sector to use as they collaboratively make decisions about how to protect people and property as the ocean rises.

Finance

America's Credit Unions

Website of the Credit Union National Association.

AnnualCreditReport.com

Request a free credit report every 12 months from each of the 3 consumer credit reporting companies.

Bankrate.com

Compare rates for checking, savings, CDs, and mortgages. Also includes bank ratings and calculators to compare borrowing costs.

Bloomberg

Business, financial and economic news

Consumer’s Guide to Credit Cards

Guide from the Federal Reserve includes information about credit card rules, credit ratings and scores, and links to consumer help and bilingual resources.

My Credit Union

National Credit Union Administration's website with consumer information about credit unions.

Genealogy

Geography

Latitude-Longitude

A free latitude and longitude finder to locate known coordinates or to find the coordinates of a specific location on a map.

Government

Health

Healthfinder

U.S. Department of Health & Human Services website.

Kids Health

Physician-reviewed articles and advice for children, teens and parents.

Lyme Disease information

Links to articles and documents about Lyme Disease from Rhode Island state agencies such as the DEM and the R.I. Department of Health.

Medicare Hospital Compare

Find and compare quality of care information for over 4,000 Medicare-certified hospitals across the U.S.

Medline Plus

Health information from the National Institutes of Health and other trusted sources on over 900 diseases and conditions.

RIREACH - Rhode Island Insurance Resource, Education, and Assistance Consumer Helpline

Provides direct assistance to consumers who need help understanding and accessing their health coverage.

History

AnyDay -- Today in History

Includes POW-MIA Search Engine

Dorr Rebellion project

An online educational resource on the Dorr Rebellion by Providence College.

Internet History Sourcebooks Project / Fordham University

A collection of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly (without advertising or excessive layout) for educational use.

Hobbies

Home and Garden

Law

Libraries

InRhode

Providing access to approximately 6 million volumes, the InRhode Library Catalog combines the resources of the Brown University Library Catalog, JOSIAH, with those of the HELIN Library Catalog.

Magazine Articles

Maps

Math and Science

AAA Math

Interactive lessons on many math subjects, from kindergarten through the eighth-grade level.

Latitude-Longitude

A free latitude and longitude finder to locate known coordinates or to find the coordinates of a specific location on a map.

Movies Theater Radio TV

Music

Freegal Music Service

Download up to 3 songs per week with your library card from the North Kingstown Free Library.

NetHymnal - Hymn lyrics

Contains over 10,000 Christian hymns, Author Bios, Composer Biographies, Hymn Histories and Gospel songs from many denominations.

Sheet Music Catalog

Find music published in Sheet Music Magazine via Santa Cruz Public Libraries' Sheet Music Catalog.

Newspapers

North Kingstown

Rhode Island Sea Grant Sea Level Rise Mapping & Data Tools

A pilot project with the Town of North Kingstown has compiled and studied a large amount of data important for understanding sea level rise at the local level. Out of this effort have come new planning tools for government, community, and the private sector to use as they collaboratively make decisions about how to protect people and property as the ocean rises.

Phone Numbers

Reading and Literature

Reference

Rhode Island

Social Services and Seniors

Sports

Talking Books

Tax

Travel

Weather and Tides

Zip Codes

U.S. Postal Service ZIP Code Lookup

Zip Code search is in the left column.