Academic Subjects Websites

General Subjects Research - Resources & Search Engine

  • Escholarship Repository - Provides access to peer-reviewed journals online in California Digital Library, central online location for depositing working papers, technical reports, research results, and conference proceedings by University of California faculty in all departments, research units, and centers
  • Google Scholar - Contains scholarly articles from peer-reviewed journals, bibliographic information about books (scholarly or not) from OCLC WorldCat database, book reviews, and links to Publishers' web sites, including the number of citations for each hit and links to those that are available
  • Learning Internet Resources - Web page with the objective of guiding learners to reliable Internet resources in almost all fields of knowledge
  • Librarians' Index to the Internet - Provides a well-organized point of access for reliable, trustworthy, librarian-selected internet resources, with a committment to data quality
  • RedLightGreen - Designed to use bibliogrpahic data as a means of providing undergraduates with authoritative sources of research information, exposing reliable sources largely hidden from Internet search engines by mining over 120 million records from research library holdings for conceptual relationships and holding data
  • Scirus Science - covers full-text articles and abstracts from scientific journal sources that include Medline, ScienceDirect, BioMed Central, and preprint archives
  • Zapmeta - As a meta-search engine, offers meta searching access to Teoma, Wisenut, AOL, Yahoo, MSN, Open Directory, AllTheWeb, HotBot, and Gigablast, with links to older versions of the resulting web sites through a link to the WayBackMachine which lists each time a site was updated and the number of pages changed for each update, including a human-edited directory for browsing in a particuar area

General Subjects Research - RSS Directories

  • 2RSS.com - Offers topical directory of nearly 10,000 RSS feeds in categories of Computers & Internet, News, Business, and Regionals, providing Web-based aggregators and its own Web-based RSS reader service
  • BlogStreet - Is a blog discovery and information portal including a search and directory service of blogs that are distributed as RSS feeds in areas of business, education, library, politics, science, etc.
  • Chordata - Provides research results for various categories of biology, environmental, life sciences, glucose tests, psychology, science & nature, etc.
  • Feed-Directory.com - As a complete directory of syndicated feeds, offers thousands of RSS and Atom feeds, with several thousands added every day
  • RSSfeeds.com - Lists RSS feeds by categories such as news, computers, arts, references, games, health, science, and sports

Astronomy - Metasites

  • Astronomy Net Astroguide - Provides access, through its browsable table of contents, to information about astronomy research, nonprofit organizations, practitioners, software, observatories, equipment, and university research projects, with a dedicated multilevel search engine and a link to evaluation, indicating popularity "star system"
  • AstroWeb: Astronomy and Astrophysics on the Internet - Offers links to information on history of astronomy, online bibliographies of astronomy materials, lists of international astronomy departments, newsgroups, educational resources, and astronomy libraries and also provides WAIS search engine, in addition to subject classification
  • High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center - Provides image and information links for such broad topics as solar eclipse, Mars, comets and meteors, space exploration, as well as access to astronomy magazines, hypermedia textbooks, Ask-A-High-Energy Astronomer service, image and video archives, software references, and other metasites, developed at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

Astronomy - Educational resources

  • Astronomy Picture of the Day - Contains the largest collection of annotated astronomical images on the Internet and offers a different space-related image or photograph with explanatory captions, an image archive, index, dedicated search engine, calendar, glossary, and related astronomy education links
  • Education Index: Astronomy Resources - Well annotated with direct links to each resource, searchable alphabetically by subject and subdivided by educational level, under subjects ranging from telescope making sites to a highly interactive tour of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
  • NASA Historical Archive for Manned Missions - Offers links to rocket history, the history of astronautics, a chronology of aeronautics and astronautics, and a history of Apollo Launch facilities and operations, providing information on manned missions and full-text access to key documents in the history of space policy, including the NASA Space Act of 1958
  • Royal Observatory Greenwich - Includes downloadable leaflets, night sky links, online exhibits, and special programs for K-12, under international topics, sponsored by the National Maritime Museum

Astronomy - Specialized astronomy Web databases

  • Center for Earth and Planetary Studies - Provides outreach materials and an extensive image collection, in addition to original CEPS research materials for Mars, Venus, Mercury, Earth and its Moon, with a dedicated search engine to search its planetary science, geophysics, and environmental information, as part of the Collections and Research Department of the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution
  • Chronology of Lunar and Planetary Exploration - Offers a timeline of space exploration from its beginnings with Sputnik 1 in 1957, providing, for each historical entry, links to images, descriptions, launch/orbital data, sponsoring agencies or countries, personnel information, and related resources, maintained within the NASA Web site
  • Planetary Data System - Includes information from NASA planetary missions, offering data and other PDS documentation, with links to an extensive image library, archiving software and multimedia instructional resources

Astronomy - Laboratories and preprint sites

  • Los Alamos National Laboratory Preprint Server - Accessible from the title page as well as chronologically organized information segments, browsable by year or searchable by title/author indexes, providing e-prints available in the area of astrophysics from 1992

Astronomy - Research and publication information

  • Astrophysics Data System - Contains abstracts from journal articles, conference proceedings, dotoral dissertations, and technical reports in the subject areas of astronomical and solar physics, instrumentation and engineering, and geophysics, and also includes preprints from Los Alamos National Laboratory, funded by NASA
  • Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society - Offers AAS meeting programs and annual reports of Astronomical Observatories and Departments, including reports and articles on graduate study in astronomy, and other research and education themes, with available documents arranged chronologically from 1997 to the present
  • Information Bulletin on Variable Stars - Provides access to scanned paper copies of bulletins from the first issue in 1961 to 1994, and more recent issues in computer typeset, searchable by IBVS issue number
  • Revised Catalog of MK Spectra Types for the Cooler Stars - Of interest primarily to the professional astronomer, downloadable from this site in both ASCII and HTML format, and classified through the Revised MK system, replacing the print version of the Perkins catalog of standard cooler (i.e., redder or darker) stars later than Spectral type GO, compiled by the Department of Astronomy, Ohio State University

Astronomy - Professional societies

  • American Association of Variable Star Observers - Offers data request services, alert notices, and "news flashes" about variable stars, featuring direct access to observing aids, software, and AAVSO meeting information, and additional links to online publications and E-mail discussion forums, sponsored by a society committed to serve both amateur and professional astronomers since 1911
  • American Astronomical Society - Provides access to the American Astronomical Society directory, other governance documents, meetings annuncements and notes, policy statements, projects and direct links to their journal hompages, as well as full-text information of selected reports, especially on education issues
  • Hubble Space Telescope - Offers links to information about the Hubble Space Telescope, including pictures, online exhibits, news releases, and relevant educational materials, functioning as a communications channel for researchers through the provision of fellowship and student programs, proposals, and application information
  • International Astronomical Union - Serves primarily as a communication instrument for the members from 66 countries, listing international astronomy meetings, which is of special interest to the general academic researcher, with accompanying association page links, contact information, and abstracts
  • Royal Astronomical Society of Canada - Listing astronomy-related book sites, reference materials, catalogs, images, bibliographies, time information, telescopes and other equipment, asteroid charts, and educational visual resources

Astronomy - Historical and biographical resources

  • History of Astronomy Resources - Features highly organized access to astronomy information by category, oral history projects, general catalogs, and specific (primarily European) libraries' online resources, providing annotations for many selected links, including language notes for non-English resources, maintained by Bonn University in Germany
  • Star*s Family: The Star Pages - Provides a directory of more than 5,500 personal Web pages of astronomers and other space scientists, searchable by name and/or institution, including separate links for international telephone and fax codes, as well as details for institutions linked through the personal homepage directory, maintained by the University of Strasboug in France

Astronomy - Discussion groups and communications channels

  • National Radio Astronomy Observatory Newsgroups and Mailing Lists - Offers alphabetical lists for astronomy-related newsgroups and astronomy mailing lists, including notations for many entries, which give provenance information, primary and secondary subjects, languages other than English, full-text availability, pertinent dates, and subscription instructions

Business and Economics

  • Business Resources on the Web - Provides information on various categories in the area of business, including A-Z list of all business resources, metasites and business portals, company directories, and business & industry statistics, maintained by Foster Business Library, University of Washington
  • FRASER - provides complete data series presented in preliminary, revised, and final releases, as well as the documents limited to government documents focused on national banking and economic data, ranging from 1896-1955 Banking Statistics to 1948-2005 Economic indicators
  • GATT Digital Library - Provides access to documents and information of and about the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), an organization that promoted international commerce and the reduction of trade barriers among member states from 1947-1994.
  • Globalization and Muslim Societies - To address the issues how to protect a unique heritage of muslim societies in the face of global pressure; to uphold religious traditions; to preserve linguistic purity; to defend social institutions; and ultimately, to maintain a viable identity in the midst of a rapidly changing global environment, the Library of Congress has organized a series of five symposia on Globalization and Muslim Societies, three of which were supported by a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation. More than three dozen intellectuals, policymakers, organizational leaders, journalists, bankers, lawyers and others, representing some of the best minds in the United States and the Muslim world, have been invited to share their thoughts on the issues and shed light on the debates.

Chemistry

  • Analytical Abstracts - Contains details of methods and results written from an analytical perspective covering relevant papers in more than 12 languages from more than 250 journals and books, updated monthly, by the Royal Society of Chemistry
  • Beilstein Abstracts - Is one of the world's most important sources of organic chemistry information, providing access to more than 140 top journals in organic and related chemistry from 1980 to the present
  • Links for Chemists - Provides links to international and national university chemistry departments, with sites indexes for chemical jobs/careers, chemical companies/industry, chemical literature and publishing, chemical information, chemistry software, and organization, by the University of Liverpool, Chemistry Dept.

Civil Rights Movement -- Digital collections of primary sources

Civil Rights Movement -- Famous people, events, and places

  • Brown v. Board of Education - Includes the text of the Brown decision, audio interviews with Cheryl Brown Henderson (daughter of Rev. Oliver L. Brown who filed suit) and others, and research, and activity guides for students, with links to the Brown Foundation and to the Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site
  • Greensboro Sit-ins: Launch of a Civil Rights Movement - Contains audio clips, photographs, and articles about the famous Greensboro Sit-ins, including newspaper articles and interviews
  • Malcolm X: A Research Site - Offers extensive bibliographies, letters, photographs, speeches, study guides, and a family tree
  • The Malcolm X Project at Columbia - Intends to provide a comprehensive biography of Malcolm X and multimedia research aids to accompany study of the Autobiography of Malcolm X
  • The Martin Luther King, Jr. - Provides complete citation information for all of King's published works, audio clips, and famous quotes, plus his biography, chronology, and historical background
  • Rosa Parks: A Woman Who Changed a Nation - Offers newspaper articles and photographs, along with a biography, timeline, booklist, and quiz
  • We Shall Overcome: Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement - Provides the National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary, which covers locations of importance to the Civil Rights Movement throughout the U.S., including a brief history of the era and the places, with the interactive map of important places in the fight for civil rights

Civil Rights Movement -- Government documents

  • Civil Rights Law and History - Introduces U.S. civil rights laws and their background, by the Department of Justice
  • FBI--Freedom of Information Act - Provides access to the formerly classified FBI files of civil rights figures such as Martin Luther King, Jr., Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and the Ku Klux Klan, including 948 pages on "Mississippi Burning," about the murder of three civil rights workers in Mississippi

Civil Rights - History and museums

  • Birmingham Civil Rights Institute - Provides educators' resources and multimedia exhibits, with a searchable database of manuscripts and oral histories
  • Civil Rights Memorial - Offers details about the memorial as well as an outstanding interactive timeline of the years 1954 to 1968
  • Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia - Describes a long history of steretypes and racism, with images of memorabilia accompanied by insightful, thought-provoking essays
  • The King Center - Offers detailed information about the King Center and its resources on Martin Luther King Jr. biographies, audio clips, chronologies, and more about Martin Luther and Coretta Scott King
  • National Civil Rights Museum - Offers online exhibits and a gallery of photographs of the sruggle for civil rights, including the annual Freedom Awards
  • Rosa Parks Library and Museum - Provides information about the museum, a biography of Parks, and background of the Montgomery Bus Boycott

Computer Science - Metasites/Starting Points

  • Computational Geometry Pages - Provides access to Web-based and print resources dealing with computational geometry, including links to research groups, forums, bibliographies, job announcements, books, journals, and software resources
  • Concurrent Systems - Contains pointers to information on concurrent (parallel) systems, including electronic repositories, research groups and centers, research projects, tools, meetings, and journals
  • Formal Methods - Provides links to information on formal methods, including announcements, introductory articles, publications (bibliographies, books, journals, and collections of technical reports), individual notations, methods, and tools, meetings, projects, companies, organizations, newsgroups and mailing lists, plus a "who's who"
  • The Genetic Programming Notebook - Offers an extensive collection of links to information on genetic programming, genetic algorithms, artificial intelligence, evolutionary computation, and robotics, including access to bibliographies, books, software, people, groups, journals, conferences, courses, tutorials, and news
  • Logic Programming - Contains links to general repositories, Prolog, window system interfaces, other logic programming systems, meetings, and books
  • Resources for Programming Language Research - Offers a collection of links to resources for research in programming language theory, design, implementation, and related areas, including language overviews with access to language-specific sites, bibliographies, publications, and conferences
  • Scientific Computing FAQ: S.C., Numerical Analysis, and Associated Fields Resource Guide - Lists and links to resources, such as electronic resources and software catalogs for numerical analysis and related fields in scientific computing
  • Theoretical Computer Science on the Web - Contains links to papers and sites of interest to the theory community, including organizations, journals, conferences, bibliographies, lecture notes, software, repositories, newsgroups, and mailing lists
  • The Virtual Museum of Computing - Provides Web sites connected to the history of computing and also lists online computer-based exhibits
  • WWW Computer Architecture Home Page - Offers access to computer architecture research groups, researchers, conferences, tools, simulators, benchmarks, books, online publications, organizations, and newsgroups

Computer Science - Academic departments and institutes

  • Computer Science Deparments Across the Web - Provides links to Web and gopher servers of academic computer science departments around the world
  • Graduate Assistantship Directory (GAD) - As a publication of the Association for Computing Machinery, it provides information on graduate programs in computing, including degrees offered and specialties, numbers of faculty and students, faculty interest areas, computer equipment available, types and amounts of financial aid available to qualified students, and admissions requirements and application deadlines
  • Supercomputing Centers and Parallel Computing - A listing of institutions from IEEE's ParaScope site involved in high-performance computing and parallel computing
Computer Science - Algorithm collections
  • Collected Algorithms (CALGO) of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) - Contains software associated with papers published in the ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software and other ACM journals (The software is refereed for originality, accuracy, robustness, completeness, portability, and lasting value. The site begins with number 49, issued in 1975, however there are several earlier algorithms.)
  • The Stony Brook Algorithm Repository - Contains a collection of algorithm implementations for more than 70 of the most fundamental problems in combinatorial algorithms, based on Steven S. Skiena's book titled The Algorithm Design Manual (He mounted this site.)

Computer Science - Associations, organizations, and societies

  • American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) - Contains information on artificial intelligence, AAAI publications (books, journals, conference proceedings, and technical papers), conference, workshop, and symposia information, and membership benefits
  • Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) - Includes information about ACM activities, services, conferences, publications, and policies, with full-text via subscription, but tables of contents and abstracts only for non-susbscribers
  • IEEE Computer Society - Contains a full range of information about conferences, standards, publications, activities, education, certification, and employment, with full-text available for subsribers but tables of contents and abstracts for non-sbuscribers
  • Resources of Scholarly Societies: Computer Science - Provides access to Web sites maintained by and for scholarly computer science societies around the world, by the University of Waterloo Library
  • Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) - Includes information about publications, conferences, meetings, and subscription access to SIAM's online journals, for members such as computer scientists, mathematicians, statisticians, and engineers

Computer Science - bibliographies/pre-prints/technical reports

  • The Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies - Contains references to journal articles, conference papers, and technical reports, covering most areas of computer science, from nearly 1,400 bibliographies, updated monthly
  • CogPrints Electronic Archive: Computer Science - Contains pre-refereed preprints and published papers that are pertinent to the study of cognition
  • Computer Science Technical Reports Archive Sites - Listing of academic and research institutions around the world that distribute online computer science technical reports
  • The Computing Research Repository (CoRR) - Seeks to be the single respository to which researchers from the whole field of computer science will submit reports as a means of rapid dissemination of research results, sponsored through a partnership of the ACM, the Los Alamos e-Print archive, and Networked Computer Science Technical Reference Library (NCSTRL)
  • Electronic Colloquium on Computational Complexity (ECCC) - Provides links to research reports, monographs, lecture notes, survey reports, and theses dealing with computational complexity
  • On-line CS Techreports - Listing with links to sites around the world that have online computer science technical reports
  • ePRINT Network - Furnishes access to electronic preprints available from academic institutions, research laboratories, and individual authors, with personal profiles to obtain access to new information as added
  • ResearchIndex - Contains citations to journal articles, conference papers, and technical reports in computer and allied sciences, mostly in full-text, with citation index
  • Virtual Technical Reports Center - Lists sites around the world that provide access to the full text of their technical reports, preprints, reprints, dissertations, theses, or research reports, arranged alphabetically by institution

Computer Science - Compilers and interpreters

  • Catalog of Free Compilers and Interpreters - Lists links to freely available software for language tools, including compilers, compiler generators, interpreters, translators, important libraries, and assemblers

Computer Science - Dictionaries and encyclopedias

Computer Science - Electronic journals

Computer Science - Employment

Computer Science - Meetings and conferences

Computer Science - Programming languages, courses, & tutorials

  • All Basic Code Archives - Comprehensive collection of BASIC Code for the various BASIC languages, covering all operating systems, but focusing on DOS and Windows, including source code packets available for QuickBasic, PowerBasic, VisualBasic, LibertyBasic, ASIC, Rapid-Q, and XBasic
  • CODE Visual Parallel Programming System - Computationally Oriented Display Environment (CODE), a visual parallel program that allows users to change a sequential program into a parallel one (Software must be downloaded and installed on a UNIX system
  • Computer Vision Handbook - Intends to outline important ideas and techniques used in computer vision and to furnish references to books, papers, and Web sites containing additional information
  • Designing and Building Parallel Programs - Integrates the contents of the book with a collection of public domain parallel software tools and a set of links to other information on parallel and distributed computing
  • The Fortran Library - Contains a collection of general purpose Fortran 90 routines that can be used to simplify the development of programs with a batch-style input/output interface (Most of the routines can used to perform standard non-numeric coding tasks.)
  • A Gentle Introduction to Haskell - Intends to provide an introduction to the Haskell programming language for a programmer who has experience with at least one other functional language
  • The GP Tutorial - Basic tutorial on genetic programming
  • Help-Site Computer Manuals - Contains links to computer-related support documents and sites, including FAQ lists, tutorials, manuals, and official or unofficial support sites
  • Learn C/C++ Today - Lists several tutorials available on the Web, after furnishing some background and tools required for C and C++
  • Linux Documentation Project (LDP) - Provides access to Linux guides (book length), HOWTOs (documents on specific subjects), FAQs (questions with answers), man pages (help with individual commands), and the "Linux Gazette" (a magazine with tips and tricks)
  • MSDN Online - Provides a bounty of technical information, sample code, documentation, technical articles, and reference guides for developers using Microsoft tools, products, and technologies, including standards and release information, as well as samples, downloads, and tutorials, by Microsoft Developers Network
  • searchVB.com - Technology specific search engine for Visual Basic (VB), providing access to VB Web sites, news, products, services, and technical tips
  • UNIXhelp for Users - Contains helpful information for users of the UNIX operating system, organized by tasks, commands, concepts, and utitlities, and includes a searchable glossary

Education - Alternative assessment in higher education: comprehensive sites

  • AAHE Assessment Forum - Provides readings on assessment quality, fair assessment practice, and other essential aspects of evaluation reform, with links to in-depth assessment glossaries, other assessment megasites and discussion lists
  • Field-Tested Learning Assessment Guide - Provides a primer on assessment that gives an overview of innovative alternative assessment strategies, including the description of each CAT (or classroom assessment technique), written by a university instructor, including personal experiences with the method, clear descriptions of what is involved, how to proceed, and how to analyze results, from the National Institute for Science Foundation, based at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Internet Resources for Higher Education Outcomes Assessment - Encyclopedic site, exceptionally useful for the range and depth of its coverage and the clarity of its annotations, with many links to college and university assessment pages which could be especially helpful to institutions taking on the task of designing a comprehensive assessment process
  • NCREL: Assessment - Contains essays on issues of assessment philosophy and practice, with embedded links to additional pages in which crucial points brought up in the body of the essay, examined in depth, a structure making for absorbing reading

Education - University and foundation sites: Alternative assessment in the classroom

  • About Prior Learning Assessment - Includes a suggested method for an experiential learning assessment procedure, prior learning assessment criteria, and a guide for portfolio preparation
  • Authentic Assessment Toolbox - Describes the Toolbox as "a how-to hypertext on creating authentic tasks, rubrics and standards for measuring and improving student learning", containing clear definitions of types of authentic assessments, justifications for these, and guidelines for designing each assessment process
  • Best Practices in Higher Education - Provides links for those interested in issues related to the teaching-learning-assessment dynamic, such as steps for encouraging critical thinking and assessing learning styles, including the Assessment and Evaluation link offering the Teaching Goals Inventory from the University of Iowa
  • Classroom Assessment Techniques - Contains an array of classroom assessment options for instructors to choose from, from Primary Trait Analysis to a student self-assessment of effective study habits
  • Center for Excellence in Learning and Teachning - Provides techniques for in-class assessment, developing collaborative and active learning situations, and strategies for encouraging student self-assessments
  • CSTL: Teaching Resources - Designed to assist Syracuse University faculty in supporting student learning, discussing best practice for the creation and use of student ratings of teaching effectiveness, as well as classroom dynamics, creating a course portfolio, and various aspects of student assessment
  • Faculty Resource Center - Provides a series of resources (some of which are free online), designed to guide faculty in developing opportunities for critical thinking in every area of course work: encouraging student capacities for self assessment as an essential component
  • Good Practices in Student Assessment - Contains a rich list of possibilities for assessing reflective writing, ideas for student-peer and self assessment, and other strategies for assessing subtle qualities such as problem-solving abilities, from the Centre for Teaching and Learning at University College Dublin

Engineering

  • Internet2's Engineering - Internet2's engineering efforts are generally organized around working groups. Common work patterns include identifying promising emerging standards and techniques, implementing testbeds to establish their feasibility and to refine them, and educating and assisting campuses, gigaPoPs, and backbones, as a consortium being led by 200 universities working in partnership with industry and government
  • Guided Tour on Wind Energy - Excellent site for information about wind power, with well thought-out topics, described technically for professionals without overwhelming the interested lay user, providing the animation to support the textual material

Information Technology - RSS feeds

  • Bytescout.com - Provides a list of links to many different sources of IT news
  • CERT (Computer Emergency Readiness Team) - Well-known resource for computer security alerts and bulletins, with a list of RSS resources linking to individual feeds
  • Microsoft.com - Includes an RSS feed page for Microsoft security updates, linking to many other RSS related pages

Information Technology Glossaries

International

  • Canadian Studies - Intended as a basic list for researchers in Canadian studies, arranged by subject and then alphabetically within each section, with a number of resources outside the British Library, including internet sites

Librarianship

  • ACRL Standards & Guidelines - Final standard approved in June 2004, by the College and Research Libraries Standards and Accreditation Committee and the ACRL Board
  • ebrary - Complementary Web site for librarians and MLS students, providing research materials, industry news and information related to librarianship and related fields (at no charge), including back issues of Advanced Technology Libraries among 30 full-text books (users must download ebrary reader, in order to access any of the titles)
  • The Informed Librarian Online - Monthly compilation of the most recent tables of contents from over 275 titles, related to the information profession, including domestic and foreign library and information-related journals, e-journals, magazines, newsletters and more
  • Librarian_wannabes - Discussion list for students in graduate programs of library and information science
  • LISFeeds.com: RSS feeds - As a web based RSS headline aggregator, scrapes headlines from blogs, web sites and services that specialize in library oriented news
  • NEWLIB-L, The Discussion List for New Librarians - An electronic list that provides an opportunity for new MLS recipients to share experiences, seek advice, and provide mutual support
  • Standards and Guidelines for Library Collection - Guidelines for for borrowing and lending special collections materials for exhibition

Library Employment Resources

Literary Theory & Criticism - Reference sources

  • Bibliography of Literary Theory and Criticism - More than 10,000 entries arranged by author/theorist name, critical school, and subject, maintained by University of Zaragoza in Spain
  • Guide to Philosophy on the Internet - Provides information on critical theories and theorists who have influenced historical and contemporary literary theory, including guides, journals, e-texts, newsgroups, bibliographies, associations, dictionaries, and individual philosophers.
  • Glossary of Literary Terms and Handbook of Rhetorical Devices - Provides short, concise definitions of terms along with examples, searchable and browsable alphabetically
  • UC Irvine Critical Theory Resource - Includes 3 sections: "Wellek Library Lecturer Bibliographies," "University of California Humanities Research Institute Bibliographies," and "Philosophy Colloquia Bibliographies", searchable and browsable in each section
  • The Untimely Past - Bibliography of English-language entries "relating to the intersection of historiographic practice with poststructuralism, postmodernism, and allied areas of theory/practice", with links to sites devoted to specific theorists and theories, as well as online articles
  • Words of Art - Browsable dictionary of terms related to art criticism, with application for literary criticism, sponsored by Dept. of Fine Arts at Okanagan University College in British Columbia, Canada

Literary Theory & Criticism - Introductory sites

  • Contemporary Literary Theory - Resource for a course on literary theory taught by John Lye at Brock University, featuring useful essays on differences among literary criticism, literary theory, and theory itself, providing characteristics of contemporary theory and a checklist of theoretical concerns, essays on structuralism, reader-response theory, and poststructuralism
  • Critical Readings: An Introduction to Literary Theory & Criticism - Addresses some issues in literary theory, such as the problem of meaning and authorial intention, with each page divided into three sections to answer three questions, "Why do we read? What do we read? and How do we read?", as a guide for undergraduate students, by Prof. Barry Laga at Mesa State University
  • Introduction to Modern Literary Theory - Covers fourteen major theories from archetypal/myth criticism to new criticism to postmodernism, with quick overviews of a wide variety of theories, providing links to suggested Web sites
  • Postmodernism and Its Critics - Examines basic premises and key works, contrasts modern and postmodern thinking, including a bibliography and links to related sites, as a guide prepared by students for students
  • SWIRL: Your Guide to Post-Millennial Paradigms - Offers comprehensive introduction to critical theory, including an introduction to theoretical paradigms, main issues, timelines of major critical theories, an overview of the major theorists, and controversies, maintained by English Professor, Warren Hedges at Southern Oregon University
  • Teacher's Guide to Postmodernism - Provides basic information on the literary canon debate, implications of teaching poststructuralism and deconstructive theory, and literary theory from the perspective of the writer, reader, and filmmaker, as a collection of issues developed for instructors interested in integrating postmodernism themes into their teaching
  • Undergraduate introduction to Critical Theory - Covers new historicism, cultural materialsm, feminism, and psychoanalysis, as one of the most-cited literary theory resources on Web, abd excellent introduction for students and others interested in theory but lacking specialized knowledge of different approaches, provided by Prof. Dino F. Felluga ar Purdue University, West Lafayette
  • www.theory.org.uk - Describes "social theory for fans of popular culture and popular culture for fans of social theory," providing information on social and cultural theory, gender and identity, and media studies, while also including a set of downloadable trading cards featuring major theorists and concepts

Literary Theory & Criticism - Continental philosophy resources

  • Continental Philosophy - Provides information about critical theory, cultural theory, deconstruction, existentialism, feminist theory, Marxism, post-colonialism, post-modern thought, semiotics, structuralism, and other theoretical approaches, covering theories and theorists from 19th and 20th centuries
  • The Eserver: Accessible Online Publishing - Offers 44 collections covering such areas as art, cultural logic, cultural theory, feminism, and philosophy, based at Iowa State University
  • Jack Lynch's Literary Resources: Literary Theory - Includes links to pages about contemporary theory, philosophy, cultural theory, and semiotics as well as links to the Web sites of individual theorists
  • Voice of the Shuttle: Literary Theory Page - Part of the Voice of the Shuttle Web site, an extensive site devoted to all aspects of literary research, with general theory resources in the Literary Theory Page, followed by links to theory sites from the classical period to the 20th century as well as links to e-journals, electronic lists, course syllabi, and conference announcements
  • Yahoo! Critical Theory - Extensive list of sites devoted to theories and theorists

Literary Theory & Criticism - Theorists

  • Illuminations: The Critical Theory - Concentrates on such figures as Theodor Adorno, Herbert Marcuse, and William Benjamin, based on the Frankfurt School
  • LitLinks: Critical Theory - Provides biographical information on various critics from the classical era to the present, as well as links to Web sites, e-texts, and interviews, simply arranged from A to Z
  • The Notebook for Contemporary Continental Philosophy - Concentrates on the philosophy of theroists rather than their critical approaches to literature, alphabetically arranged by theorist/philosopher, providing links to general philosophical resources and online journals and magazines, periodically updated
  • Popculture.com Theorists and Critics - Provides links to sites devoted to major contemporary theorists ranging from Adorno to Zizek
  • Thinka-Links - Presents bibliographies, e-mail forums, journals, organizations, papers, Web sites, and other information on five modern and postmodern thinkers: Bakhtin, Derrida, Freud, Lacan, and Zizek
  • Who's Who in Theory - Presents information on key figures in literary theory, including Jean Baudrillard, Jacques Derrida, and Stanley Fish, with description on the works of several theorists and list of suggested readings, and access to related resources for each entry

Literary Theory & Criticism - Theoretical approaches

  • Contemporary Philosophy, Critical Theory and Postmodern Thought - Provides links to individual theorists, contemporary general critical theory and philosophy resources and links to online readings, with the list of resources on critical pedagogy and semiotics, sponsored by the School of Education at the University of Colorado, Denver
  • Contemporary Postcolonial and Postimperial Literature in English - Covers postcolonial theory in general while concentrating on specific geographical areas and authors, which is particularly helpful for those interested in authors from developing countries frequently not covered by more traditional resources, compiled by George P. Landow, an English and art history professor at Brown University
  • Philosophy: Your Guide to the Wonderful World of (Post) Modern Thinking - Offers access to discussion forums, foundations, electronic journals, representative theorists, and various fields related to philosophy, concentratin primarily on postmodernism, providing links for such well-known critics as Saussure, Derrida, and Foucault, and also including other individuals, such as Ayn Rand, Camilia Paglia, and Marshall McLuhan, not covered elsewhere
  • Post World War II American Literature and Culture Database: Genres - Includes sections on bibliographies (searchable), postmodernism, feminism, multiculturalism, queer, and popular culture, with useful links to theoretical studies of contemporary American authors, sponsored by the University of California, Berkeley, English Dept.
  • Sites of Significance for Semiotics - Provides access to essays, glossaries, and online resources related to semiotics; also useful for this topic: David Chandler's Semiotics for Beginners
  • Studies Resources: Feminist Theory - Offers access to articles, bibliographies, and societies, as well as reviews of feminist theory books and images of women philosophers, compiled and edited by Karla Tonella at the University of Iowa

Literary Theory & Criticism - Electronic Journals

  • CT Theory - International weekly online journal of theory, technology, and culture, providing articles, interviews, and book reviews in contemporary discourse (Past articles of the journal are searchable and readers can make a request to receive each issue automatically.)
  • Cultural Logic: An Electronic Journal of Marxist Theory and Practice - Offers full-text online articles on Marxist theory and practice, as well as feature articles, poetry, and book reviews
  • Other Voices: The e-Journal of Cultural Criticism - Full-text publication issued free by the University of Pennsylvania, including essays, interviews, round-table discussions, lecture transcriptions, multimedia projects, translations, and reviews devoted to cultural criticism in the arts and humanities
  • Postmodern Culture - Presents an interdisciplinary approach to contemporary culture, theory, and the humanities, issued since 1990 as entirely Web-based scholarly journal (The complete searchable text with graphics is also available on Project Muse.)

Medieval Studies - Medieval gateways

  • Labyrinth - Provides resources carefully selected from the Internet, including primary texts, secondary texts and articles, course materials, bibliographies, images, maps, and other items, with 45 subject categories for browsing and category fields for a keyword search, available through Georgetown University
  • NetSerf - Contains annotated listings of Internet resources dealing with the Middle Ages, in the fields of art, history, and literature, with listing of associations & organizations, bibliographies, mailing lists and newsgroups, and maps
  • The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies (ORB) - Offers an ORB encyclopedia, a peer reviewed site seeking to aid instructors and students of medieval studies, with informative essays and bibliographies by scholars, divided chronologically and by topic, providing links to full-text translations of ancient and medieval works from reputable online sources in the Reference Shelf section of ORB, hosted the College of Staten Island-SUNY

Medieval Studies - Subject guides

  • Stanford University - Provides full-text sources, e-journals, and indexes/abstracts, with source collections, general bibliographies and guides, encyclopedias and dictionaries, and subject biographies, including annotated list of resources, religion & church history, theology, other religions, and single-volume works that are useful to medieval study, with additional links
  • University of Florida - Offers 25 different subject categories, subdivided, for example in the literature category into 12 different subtopics such as bibliographies, companions to literature, databases, journals, reference works, research guides, and Web sites, most of which are fully annotated
  • Yale University - Provides extensive annotated bibliography with main emphasis on history resources and reference works geared more towards graduate students and faculty, containing indexes/abstracts, e-journals, book reviews, discussion lists, university programs, and associations & organizations with links to medieval gateways and specialized Web sites

Medieval Studies - Subscription databases

The Middle Eastern World - Selected country information

  • Bahrain Government Homepage - Presents facts and figures about Bahrain and information about the kingdom (anthem, constitution, and charter) and the ruling family, including the ministries, history, geography and climate, currency, and tourism, with statistical link providing foreign trade and census information
  • The Central Intelligence Agency: World Factbook - Provides basic information on countries of the world and maps, covering background, geography, people, economic, government, and the military for each area
  • Israel Defense Forces (IDF) - Provides information on current and past IDF activities, listing IDF announcements, updated reports, useful information (statistics), and photos from the field, presenting specifics on Kassam rockets, smuggling tunnels, statistics on terror attacks, and additional pertinent topics, and offering information on the history, doctrine, and units of IDF

Psychology

  • American Psychological Association "Division 36 - Psychology of Religion" - Promotes the application of psychological research methods and interpretive frameworks to diverse forms of religion and spirituality; encourages the incorporation of the results of such work into clinical and other applied settings; and fosters constructive dialogue and interchange between psychological study and practice, on the one hand, and religious perspectives and institutions on the other
  • Classics in the History of Psychology - As history and theory of psychology electronic question and answer forum, provides full-text information from the scholarly literature of psychology and allied disciplines, maintained by York University in Toronto, Canada
  • Psychology of Religion Pages - Provides general introduction to the psychology of religion, for example, as it is studied by scientists in Division 36 of the American Psychological Association, and a description of what psychologists have learned about how religion influences people's lives
  • Psychotherapy and Spirituality Institute - interested in addressing an underlying connection between spiritual, emotional, and physical well-being in the psychotherapy process and provides expert psychotherapy and counseling services to people in the New York City area from all religious and spiritual orientations

Religion and Philosophy

Science & Technology

  • ECHO Science & Technology Virtual Center - General reference for seeking science-related materials classified by broad categories of the earth, physical, life, and medicine/behavioral sciences, aviation, engineering, and computers, with annotated entries, based at George Mason University's Center for History and New Media, funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
  • EPA' Science Inventory Press - The Science Inventory is a searchable, Agency-wide database of more than 4,000 scientific and technical work products, providing project descriptions (abstracts), contacts for additional information and links to final reports and related research
  • NASA/IPAC extragalactic database - Searchable for data such as position and red shift for extragalactic objects, providing a searchable knowledge base of information relevant to astronomy and astrophysics, updated every two or three months
  • NOAA paleoclimatology - Gateway for information, research, and data on climatic conditions, prior to the availability of instrumental data, which are recorded in naturally occurring sources including tree rings, coral reef skeletons, glacial ice cores, and laminated sediments
  • Science.gov - Government-funded clearinghouse for scientific, technical, engineering, and business-related information provided by various US government agencies
  • Yahoo.com: RSS feeds - Provides a series of RSS feeds related to technology