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Arts & Humanities Resources

Disciplines dealing with general cultural concerns, especially human values and the ability of the human spirit to express itself.

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Archives & Records Management

Archival science and the management of historical and current organizational records.

Culture

Fine Arts

The nonutilitarian arts, arts concerned primarily with the creation of beauty.

History

The telling, generally chronological, of human events, usually including an explicit interpretation of those events.

Language & Linguistics

The nature and structure of human speech and the use by humans of voice sounds and written symbols representing these sounds in organized patterns to express and communicate thoughts and feelings.

Libraries

Resources about library and information science or relevant to library professionals.

Literature

Imaginative or creative writing, prose and poetry of generally recognized artistic value.

Museum Studies

Resources related to museum studies or relevant to museum professionals.

Philosophy

The pursuit of wisdom by intellectual means and moral self-discipline; thought about knowing and meaning.

Religion & Theology

Belief in and reverence for a supernatural power or powers, usually regarded as creator and governor of the universe; systems of such belief and worship; the study of religious beliefs.

Resources in this category are:

Bloomsbury Magazine Research Centre

http://www.bloomsburymagazine.com/ARC/Arc_home.asp

The Bloomsbury Research Centre is a free online database of reference books (that Bloomsbury publishes) with over 17,000 entries. Resources include the Dictionary of English Literature,Biographical Quotations, Bloomsbury ThematicQuotations, Myth, the Good Word Guide, the Guide to Art, a thesaurus, and the Guide To Human Thought 
Searching is through a simple keyword box. Results arelisted in pages of twenty with an excerpt of the entryfound, source, and a link to the complete entry. Searchterms in the complete entry are highlighted in red.

Author: Bloomsbury Magazine

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities

Reference

Social Sciences--Customs, Etiquette, Folklore--Mythology & Folklore

Keywords: Literature

The Cambridge Classics External Gateway to Humanities Resources

http://www.classics.cam.ac.uk/Faculty/links.html

"The Cambridge Classics External Gateway to Humanities Resources is intended to provide a comprehensive list of Classics departments world-wide (via other metapages' links, where most efficient), and to link to a range of literary, linguistic, historical, and philosophical resources, beyond the purely classical."

Author:

Subjects:

Education--Higher Education--Faculty & Administration

Arts & Humanities

Keywords: archaeology; Greece; Rome; ancient history; ancient world

The Finnish Virtual Library

http://www.jyu.fi/library/virtuaalikirjasto/engvirli.htm

"The Finnish Virtual Library is a subject gateway for the scientific community. It contains descriptions of Internet resources in 51 general topics. The main language is Finnish, but some of the text is also in English. " Topics include science, social sciences, fine arts, and health sciences.

Author: Jyväskylä Univeristy Library

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities

Science & Technology

Humbul Humanities Hub

http://www.humbul.ac.uk/

Searchable, browsable collection of Internet resources in the fields of: English, History, Philosophy, History & Philosophy of Science, Theology, Religion, Modern Languages. Intended audience is students and faculty of higher education institutions, and other itnerested persons.

Author: Humanities Computing Unit, University of Oxford (HCU@oucs.ox.ac.uk)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities

Arts & Humanities--Language & Linguistics

Arts & Humanities--Literature

INFOMINE - Social Sciences and Humanities

http://infomine.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/search?liberal

Large annotated collection of Internet resources related to humanities and the social sciences, business, and general reference. Resources have been determined to be "'of use' as a scholarly information resource in research or educational activites at the university level." Collection can be searched or browsed by subject, keyword or title. Part of The Library of the University of California, Riverside's INFOMINE.

Author: Nancy Getty (gettyn@ucrac1.ucr.edu)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities

Social Sciences

MuseumNetwork.com

http://www.MuseumNetwork.com/

"Museumnetwork.com is a unique online offering. It gives consumers the reach of the Internet to visit museums and other cultural institutions throughout the world. They can take a virtual tour, make a purchase in the museum shop, and then effortlessly move on to the next museum or gallery they are interested in. In similar fashion, museum professionals now have access to literally millions of consumers worldwide. Suddenly, a museum in St. Petersburg can reach a consumer in San Francisco, for free."Museumnetwork.com is, however, much more than just a consumer portal site. It also has a strong commitment to providing information, assistance, and online infrastructure to the museum professional community; to creating an environment in which educators have easy access to museums' curriculum and other teaching materials; and providing museums access to new or increased revenue streams through content licensing, product development, fundraising, and the raising of capital."

Author:

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities

Arts & Humanities--Museum Studies

Science & Technology

Museums Universally Supporting Education and Entertainment (MUSEE)

http://www.musee-online.org/

"MUSEE is a not-for-profit organization which works with cultural institutions around the world to provide services to museums, schools, and the general public. MUSEE's mission is to enhance cultural awareness, advance education at all levels, and stimulate public interest in cultural institutions. MUSEE is helping cultural institutions prepare for the future by fostering information exchange on existing and emerging electronic technologies and by creating a forum or the discussion of other innovative approaches to education, culture, and entertainment using museum resources in tandem with these technologies. Through MUSEE's programs, museums should also be able to gain access to new forms of revenue generation. MUSEE serves as an advocate for museums to evaluate and pursue potential relationships with funders, commercial producers, programmers, and distributors to develop and market educational products based on museum collections, public programs, and scholarly research. MUSEE, for example, helps identify sources of professional assistance formuseums who wish to explore opportunities in electronic media. Such assistance should ensure the responsible use of a museum's staff, collections, and research materials." Site features a directory of museum Websites organized by subject, including: Science/Technology, Art, Natural History, Special Interest, History, Archaeology/Anthropology/Ethnography, Children's, Zoos/Gardens/Aquaria; or browsed alphabetically.

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Subjects:

Education

Arts & Humanities

Science & Technology

Keywords: Museums; Resources

The New York Public Library Digital Library Collections

http://digital.nypl.org/

"The New York Public Library Digital Library Collections represent a growing body of primary source materials created for the Web. The Digital Library Collections provide the public with digital versions of books, manuscripts, photographs, engravings, and other items as well as tools to browse, search, and analyze these materials remotely via the Internet. Many of the Digital Library Collections feature rich background and contextual information."

Author: The New York Public Library (webmaster@nypl.org)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities

Arts & Humanities--Libraries

Keywords: art; history

Scholarly Societies Project

http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/society/overview.html

This site contains a searchable database of links to and information about international academic and scholarly societies. Socities are indexed in a subject guide or can be found by searching by name or abbreviation. The site can be translated in German, French, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese.

Author: Jim Parrott

Subjects:

Education

Arts & Humanities

Science & Technology

Voice of the Shuttle: Web Page for Humanities Research

http://humanitas.ucsb.edu/

Partially annotated guide to Internet resources of interest to humanities researchers, browsable by discipline. Searchable.

Author: Alan Liu (ayliu@humanitas.ucsb.edu)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities

Keywords: Resources

WebExhibits

http://webexhibits.org/

"WebExhibits helps you find high quality exhibits on the internet" and focuses on illustrated educational exhibits, not just references."Exhibit sites range in subject from the ancient world to science and technology, and from the creative arts to health and medicine. All exhibits are easily indexed.

Author: Institute for Dynamic Educational Advancement (IDEA) (suggestions@webexhibits.com)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities

Reference

Science & Technology

Keywords: Culture; Health; Environment

Yenza

http://www.nrf.ac.za/yenza/

"'Yenza' -- a word meaning 'do it' in the Xhosa and Zulu languages -- is a guide to using the Internet for research and teaching in the Social Sciences and Humanities. The site includes links to resources for these purposes. In selecting them, the project team has tried to choose resources which are highly rated by subject experts."

Author: South African National Research Foundation and INFOLIT (aatothill@nrf.ac.za)

Subjects:

Computers & Internet--Internet

Arts & Humanities

Social Sciences

Keywords: research; teaching

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