Language
- ARTFL Project, U. of Chicago American & French Research on the Treasury of the French Language
- Best Information on the Net, St. Ambrose U.: Foreign Language
- BUBL language resource links
- Early Modern English Dictionaries Database (EMEDD)
- Foreign Languages for Travelers includes searchability for 60+ languages and Travlang's Translating Dictionaries
- Human Languages Collection (Willamette)
- Ling@net: websites for languages
- Literature & Languages Research Institute for the Humanities, Chinese University of Hong Kong.Worldwide sites, divided by language
- MLA-Modern Language Association including MLA style information
- OneLook Dictionaries 580 dictionaries
- SYMBOLS.com -- the world's largest online encyclopedia of graphic symbols
- Universal Survey of Languages
- World Language Pages described as "materials for language learning"
- Yamada WWW Language Guides information about 115 languages and a font archive
Literature
- About.com Guide to Authors on the WEB
- Aesop's Fables online collection includes fairytales by Hans Christian Andersen as well, and will includes the Grimm's Fairytales in the near future.
- African American Women Writers of the 19th Century NYPL Schomburg Digital Collection
- Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
- Bulfinch's Mythology
- Complete Works of William Shakespeare
- Domestic Goddesses women writers, beginning in the 19th century, who wrote "domestic fiction"
- Dostoevsky: the Website
- Drew's Script-O-Rama hundreds of links to fulltext film and television screenplays
- Encyclopedia Mythica
- Fairy Tales: Origins & Evolution
- Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts
- Henry James Scholar's Guide to Web Sites
- Ibsen Center In English and Norwegian
- International James Joyce Foundation
- JRR Tolkien page by Bruce Jewell
- Legends
- Literary Prizes, Awards etc.
- Literature & Culture of the American 50's
- Mark Twain Resources
- Mr. William Shakespeare & the Internet
- Mythology and Folklore by Philip R. "Pib" Burns
- Myths and Legends
- Plays of William Shakespeare
- Pulitizer Prizes
- Shakespeare Illustrated: (famous artists interpret scenes from Shakespeare)
- Shakespeare's Globe
- Tolstoy Library links to works, biographies and criticisms
- Toni Morrison References on the Internet
- Victorian Women Writers Project Indiana U.
- Voice of the Shuttle: Literary Theory Page
- Voices from the Gaps: Women Writers of Color (U.Minn)
- William Faulkner on the Web
Poetry
- Academy of American Poets
- American Verse Project archive of volumes of American poetry prior to 1920
- Baragona's Chaucer Page
- British Women Romantic Poets, 1789-1832 U. California at Davis
- CMU Poetry Index of Canonical Verse
- Contemporary American Poetry Archive archive of out-of-print American poetry
- Electronic Poetry Center SUNY Buffalo
- geoffreychaucer.org an annotated guide to sources
- Geoffrey Chaucer Website Harvard U.
- Internet Poetry Archive
- lyrics.ch the international lyrics server
- Poetry Archives ~4000 works by 70 poets and growing
- Poetry Links on the Web
- Poets & Writers Online
- Representative Poetry On-Line Poetry edited by members of the Department of English at the University of Toronto from 1912 to the present (all public domain)
- Walt Whitman Hypertext Archive
Literature-Organized Collections of Links
- American Literature on the Web Japanese site in both English and Japanese. Very extensive and well organized.
- Best on the Net, St. Ambrose U.: English Literature links to English, American & multi-cultural literature; indexes, texts, authors, and writing & style guides
- BUBL (Bulletin Board for Librariees) literature resources links
- Digitized Humanities Collections-Literature U. North Carolina
- Digital Text Collections
- English & American Literature English Dept. Northwestern U.
- Hot Sites with a Focus: Asian American, Latino/as, Native American, and African American.
- Literary Menagerie U. Mississippi
- Literary Resources on the Net Rutgers U. links to sites for English & American literature
- Literature & Languages Research Institute of the Humanities, Chinese University of Hong Kong. Worldwide sites, divided by language
- Online Literary Criticism Collection Internet Public Library
- Voice of the Shuttle: English Literature also include Minority Literatures and Other Literatures Written in English
Writing
Electronic Journals
Philosophy
- American Philosophical Association
- Best Information on the Net: philosophy , ethics and bioethics Links to indexes, e-texts, organizations, employment sources and codes of conduct
- Björn's Guide to Philosophy includes a biographical sketch of every philosopher, with links to their works, papers on them, discussion lists. Also links to philosophy journals, e-texts, programs. This site is no longered updated as of 12/98, but useful while it lasts.
- The Critical Thinking Community Contains articles focused on the background and theory of critical thinking, guidelines and lessons for integrating critical thinking into the curriculum and information on critical thinking seminars, academies, inservices, and summer conferences. Includes links to sponsoring educational non-profit organizations.
- Digitized Humanities Collections: Philosophy - A Luddite's Guide to Digitized Humanities Collections by Tom Nixon and Gary Pattillo, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Ethics & Public Policy Center Library includes Center Conversations, Books, and Articles
- Guide to Philosophy on the Internet (Peter Suber-Earlham College) world listing, divided by language, highly recommended
- Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy ed. by James Fieser. Includes a timeline and a search engine
- The Notebook for Contemporary Continental Philosophy by Scott Moore at Baylor University. It provides links to specific philosophers as well as links to journals and schools of thought.
- Philosophy in Cyberspace by Dey Alexander at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. Very comprehensive, award winning, includes a search engine.
- Philosophy on the Web Utrecht University
- Philosophy Pages from Garth Kemerling, information for the study of traditional Western philosophy
- Philosophy Research Base this meta-index features thousands of annotated links, text resources and community services for students and teachers in philosophy and related subjects.
- Philosophy Resources on the Internet a database of over 800 links to electronic texts by famous philosophers throughout history
- Research Institute for the Humanities: Philosophy Resources Chinese University of Hong Kong provides worldwide sites and full-text sources
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy the "first dynamic encyclopedia" with an enormous list of topics
- Voice of the Shuttle: Philosophy Page includes pages on fields and movements of philosophy, e-texts of philosophical works organized by philosopher, journals, conferences, newsgroups, etc.
Religion
- Academic Jewish Studies Internet Directory U. Duisburg, DE
- American Religion Data Archive collects quantitative data sets for the study of American religion
- Best Information on the Net: Catholic Resources, Christianity, General Religion Sources, Other Religions, and Religious Controversies
- BeliefNet providing information (original analysis and links) and inspiration
- Buddhist Studies WWW Virtual Library Edited by Dr T.Matthew Ciolek and Prof. Joe Bransford Wilson
- Digitized Humanities Collections: Religion - A Luddite's Guide to Digitized Humanities Collections by Tom Nixon and Gary Pattillo, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Facets of Religion maintained by Casper Voogt
- Finding God in Cyberspace A Guide to Religious Studies Resources on the Internet by John L Gresham
- Hindu Universe by GHEN Global Hindu Electronic Networks
- ICLnet Institute for Christian Leadership has provided links to Christian literature and resources.
- Islamic Texts and Resources MetaPage Muslim Student Association, U. Buffalo
- Pragmatism Cybrary maintained by John Shook
- Psychology of Religion Page by Michael Nielsen, Ph.D.
- Religion & Scriptures U. Maryland pages on resources organized by religion
- religion-online.org Full texts by recognized religious scholars
- Religious Movements Page U. Virginia
- Research Institute for the Humanities: Religion Resources Chinese University of Hong Kong provides worldwide sites and full-text sources, divided by type of religion
- Unbound Bible collection of searchable Bibles consisting of: - 7 English versions including the NASB;Greek and Hebrew Versions (the original Bible languages);4 ancient versions; and 27 versions in other languages
- Virtual Religion Index Rutgers U. Religion Dept.
International Relations - World
- Address Directory for Politicians of the World
- Best Information on the Net: Political Science Links to international relations and human rights resources, research and data collections, voter information and indices to political sciences resources
- Canadian Institute of International Affairs-Links to International Relations Sites
- Center for Migration Studies includes publications, a library, contact info for many related organizations, and related web links.
- Constitutions of the World
- Elections Around the World
- Electronic Embassy Links to Embassies in Washington, D.C. with Websites
- EmbassyWeb.com Links to Embassies in Washington and worldwide
- Foreign Affairs Online
- Foreign Government Resources on the Web U. Michigan Documents Center
- G8 Information Centre University of Toronto
- Human & Constitutional Rights
- Lijphart Elections Archive U. Cal. San Diego
- Nationalism Project contains essays, articles, dissertations, book abstracts and reviews, a book list containing over 200 titles, a bibliography of over 1000 journal articles, and links to nationalism-related resources; no political agenda,
- Online Intelligence Project current international affairs
- Parliaments Around the World
- Parties Around the World
- Political Resources on the Web Sites sorted by country with links to parties, organizations, governments, media and more from around the world.
- Social Science Information Gateway to Politics includes elections, international relations, systems and ideologies
- To the World International Development Research Centre, CA; Sites related to international development
- United Nations
- Women in Politics international bibliographic database of books and articles with search engine presented by the Inter-Parliamentary Union
- World Constitutions & International Treaties
- WWW Virtual Library on International Affairs Resources maintained by Elizabethtown College. 1400 links organized and annotated.
International Relations - Regional
- Africa: south of the Sahara Standford University
- African Studies Center U. Penn
- Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies Bar-Iln University
- BosniaLINK Official Dept. of Defense information about U.S. military activities in Operation JOINT ENDEAVOR, includes maps, photos, factsheets, news releases, etc.
- Canadian Politics on the Web
- Central Eurasian Project Soros Foundation Network dedicated to building Open Societies
- Encyclopedia of the Orient encyclopedia for North Africa and the Middle East
- euroguide guide to European Information on the Internet
- European Union in the US
- Institutions of the European Union
- North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
- Organization of American States
- Political Database of the Americas provides documentary and statistical political information on Latin America, including constitutions, electoral laws, legislative and executive branch information and election data.
- Republic of China Govt Information Office includes info on culture, news, Taiwanese and Mainland China issues, official speeches, and links to related sites.
- Russian and East European Network Information Center (REENIC) U. Texas Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies
- Russian Studies column on sites written for College & Research Libraries News; as well as links to sites it has a listing of Russian search engines for finding Cyrillic sites
- UK Official Publications on the Internet
- Washington Report on Middle East Affairs is a journal and a web site with lots of links to other resources on the Middle East, including, news services and newspapers, country information, organizational, cultural and religious links, etc.
Public Policy
- American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
- Brookings Institute
- Cato Institute
- CRS-Congressional Research Service Reports made available thru access to the National Library for the Environment
- Congressional Research Service WWW Accessible Reports including links to a growing list of state and foreign legislative research organizations, compiled and organized by: Gary Price, MLIS George Washington University
- Ethics & Public Policy Center Library includes Center Conversations, Books, and Articles
- Foreign Policy Association includes maps, weekly articles & nonpartisan commentary on world news
- Foreign Policy IN FOCUS A joint project of the Interhemispheric Resource Center and the Institute for Policy Studies
- Gallup Organization for public opinion research
- Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
- Jerome Levy Economics Institute
- Opinion-Pages Editorial, Opinion and Comment pages from online English newspapers around the world, plus opinions from other thought-provoking Web sites
- Policy.com public policy resources
- PollingReport.com for public opinion research
- Public Agenda Online for public opinion research
- Roper Center for public opinion research
- Urban Institute
Historical Documents and Speeches
- AMDOCS: documents for the study of history U Kansas
- Avalon Project the Yale Law School has provided access to over 150 digital documents pertinent to the fields of history, economics, law, politics, diplomacy and government.
- Challenge of Democracy: U.S. History Out Loud digitized speeches
- Douglass: Archive of American Public Address This site is a dynamic collection of American speeches organized by speaker, by title, chronologically, and by controversy/movement. There are also links to other relevant websites and to information on Frederick Douglass.
- From Marx to Mao
- Historical Text Archives
- History Computerization Project
- Internet History Sourcebooks Project Paul Halsall, editor - includes public domain sources on Ancient, Medieval and Modern History, as well as subsidiary sourcebooks on African, East Asian, Indian, Islamic, Jewish, Women's, and Global History and the History of Science.
- Nineteenth Century Documents Project
- Repositories of Primary Sources
War
- American Civil War Homepage
- www.revwar.com American Revolutionary War page and related links.
- Desert-Storm.com Gulf War page
- Korean War Project
- Military History from ancient times to twentieth century worldwide, includes timeline
- Remember the Maine! Centennial events and related links.
- Vietnam: Yesterday & Today
- Wars for Viet Nam, 1945-1975
- World War I - Trenches on the Web
- World War I Document Archive
- World War II Best of the Web listing of several World War II sites
Topical Sites
- Africa: South of the Sahara
- Ancient World Web
- Bucknell Russian Page
- Frederick Douglass National Historic Site
- Ethics & Public Policy Center Library includes Center Conversations, Books, and Articles
- Handbook of Latin American Studies, Library of Congress
- History of American Education Web Project
- Labyrinth WWW Server for Medieval Studies (Georgetown University)
- Lives, the Biography Resource
- Literature & Culture of the American 50's
- National Women's History Project
- POTUS: Presidents of the United States
- Russian History on the Web
- Sixties Project Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH), University of Virginia at Charlottesville
- United States Institute of Peace
- ViVa A Bibliography of Women's History in Historical and Women's Studies Journals
Collective Sites
- American Memory Project, Library of Congress historical digital collections.
- Best Information on the Net, St. Ambrose U.: History Links to all periods of history, covering chronologies, e-texts, organizations, reviews, and multimedia sources.
- Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet 24,100 links divided into 70 categories.
- HyperHistory Online timeline, maps and biographies
- History worldwide sites, divided by region, period and topic created by Research Institute for the Humanities-Chinese University of Hong Kong History
- WWW-Virtual Library for History links to maps, history by country, periods, and topic
- WWW-Virtual Library for Migration & Ethnic Relations
Sociology
- AARP Webplace issues on aging
- AIDS Virtual Library
- American Sociological Association
- American Studies Web
- Archive for Sexology Robert Koch Institute, Berlin
- Best Information on the Net: Sociology Links to data & research sources, sociology web indexes, and organization sites
- Centre for Policy on Ageing produces AgeInfo - information for everyone concerned with older people - free limited edition
- Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet 24,100 links divided into 70 categories.
- Dead Sociologists Society biographies of famous sociologists, with summaries of their work and ideas.
- Durkheim pages by Robert Alun Jones, U. Illinois
- LIBRAWeb at Rochester Public Library includes links to several Community Information Databases, such as, the Human Services Directory, the Rochester Neighborhood Associations List, the Directory of Clubs in Monroe County, the Directory of Associations, and the City Edition of Housing for Seniors in Monroe County.
- NISSO Database Netherlands Institute for Social Sexological Research has a searchable database of over 50.000 documents contains monographs, reports, conference proceedings, periodicals, articles, papers, brochures, etc.
- NYSid New York State Internet Directory includes connections to many city homepages in New York State
- Sexuality Research Information Service (SRIS) Kinsey Institute
- SOSIG-Social Science Information Gateway UK and world resources by subject
- Sociological Tour Through Cyberspace Trinity U. has a great list of sites, fully annotated, but also essays on sociology theory and practice
- Socionet Sociometrics Corporation data archives and web links
- SocioSite includes an extensive subject breakdown, besides links to sites on individual sociologists, libraries, associations, universities, newsletters/papers, and data archives.
- United Nations
- USA CityLink
- U.S.Dept. of Housing and Urban Development
- Work-Family Researchers Electronic Network
- WWW Virtual Library on Demography and Population Studies
- WWW Virtual Library on Social Sciences
Social Science Data
- Center for Demography and Ecology U. Wisconsin
- COOMBSPAPERS Social Science Research Data Bank
- CIESIN Center for International Earth Science Information Network within Columbia University's Earth Institute provides census, environmental and population data
- Children's Defense Fund includes access to Children in the States: 1998 data
- County and City Data Books (1988 and 1994 eds)
- Current Population Survey statistics from the Bureau of Labor
- Geospatial and Statistical Data Center U. Virginia
- ICPSR (U.Michigan) Inter-university Consortium for Political & Social Research. RIT is now a member of this organization through the College of Liberal Arts and has access to its data. Paul Stretesky in the Criminal Justice Dept. is our liaison for data acquisition.
- Indicators of Social Justice "indices provide quantitative estimates of levels of social injustice for the political, economic, cultural, and family institutional aspects of American society as a whole"
- International Social Survey Program
- Population Reference Bureau
- Population Research Institute Penn State U.
- Population Studies Center U. Pennsylvania
- Social Science Data Archive Yale U.
- Social Sciences Data Collection UC - San Diego
- Socionet Sociometrics Corporation data archives and web links
- State of the Cities Data Systems
- The State of the Nation's Cities: A Comprehensive Database on American Cities and Suburbs
- Survey Research Center Princeton U.
- United Nations Population Information Network (POPIN)
- U.S.Census Bureau
Internet Collections of Data
- Census and Demographics links from Mansfield U. are very well annotated
- Data on the Net-UCSD Search or browse their collection of 812 Internet sites of numeric Social Science statistical data, data catalogs, data libraries, social science gateways, addresses and more.
- FedStats Links to statistics and information from more than 70 agencies in the U.S. Federal Government.
- Internet Crossroads in the Social Sciences contains 650 annotated links to data-related resources on the Internet sponsored by the Data & Program Library Service of the U. Wisconsin at Madison
- Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute NIDI provides a comprehensive overview of demographic resources on the World Wide Web
- Population Reference Bureau includes "timely & objective information on population" and Popnet a link to global population information
- Population Studies Center U. Michigan
- Poverty Related Resources collected by Institute for Research on Poverty, U. Wisconsin
- Social Science Data Archives by Albert Benschop, U. Amsterdam provides strong access to International resources
- Statistical Data Locators Nanyang Technological University provides links to international statistical information using a geographical classification scheme
- Statistical Resources on the Web U.Mich-Documents Center
- Statistical Sites on the World Wide Web collected by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
- Statistics and Statistical Graphics Resources is an annotated, topic-based collection of available resources for statistics, statistical graphics, and computation related to research, data analysis and teaching by Michael Friendly, York U.
- Statistics on the Web by Clay Helberg includes info on statistics and statistical software
- StatLib Carnegie Mellon U. Dept. of Statistics
- WWW Virtual Libraries onDemography & Population Studies , Social Sciences , and Statistics
