Arts and
Humanities Data Service [AHDS]
a national service in the United Kingdom which aims to collect,
describe and preserve digital research data and distribute these
for the use in teaching and research. It documents and promotes
information interchange standards, and facilitates more uniform
access to on-line catalogues, finding aids and other networked
resources. The site offers general information about AHDS and AHDS
service providers devoted to archeology, history, literary,
linguistic and other textual studies and the performing and visual
arts. A newsletter is included.
Australian
Humanities Review Australian Humanities
Review is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary electronic archive
published bi-monthly with weekly updates by La Trobe University.
It aims to present an eclectic range of voices and discourse from
the Humanities in Australia, and is published in electronic form
only. Access to the archive of back issues is restricted to
subscribers.
Handbook
of human symbolic evolution The printed
edition of this book appeared in december 1996 (Oxford, Clarendon
Press). It deals with verbal- and non-verbal-communication in the
broadest sense. This web version contains only the contents and
abstracts of every chapter, but has some added value because it's
also used for 'the process of continuous revision", by linking to
new materials in the field.
°History/Social
studies website:The major purpose of
this home page is to encourage the use of the World Wide Web as a
tool for learning and teaching and to provide some help for K-12
classroom teachers in locating and using the resources of the
Internet in the classroom.
The H-Net review project H-Net
Reviews in the Humanities and Social Sciences is an online
scholarly review journal.
University of Michigan Humanities
Text Initiative.Building on Michigan's
ground-breaking efforts since 1990 in providing online access to
full text, the Humanities Text Initiative (HTI) is an umbrella
organization for the acquisition, creation, and maintenance of
electronic texts, as well as a mechanism for furthering the
University's capabilities in the area of online text.
MCS
: The media and communication studies
site The MCS is a British-based gateway
to Web resources useful in the academic study of media and
communication. It was established in Spring 1995 and is being
developed by Dr Daniel Chandler, lecturer in Media Theory at the
Department of Education in the University of Wales. It is
'British-based' firstly in that it is produced in Wales and
secondly in that it is intended to give priority to issues of
interest to both British scholars in the field and to others who
are interested in media in the UK. An excellent guide for all kind
of resources. With search options.
°Orientalism
Confirmed Orientalism and epistemology should be re-discussed in
the age of Digital Information.
Representations
online Representations online is a quarterly interdisciplinary
e-journal devoted to the cultural sciences, humanities and
interpretive social sciences, published by the University of
California Press. It's the electronic edition of the printed
journal 'Representations', which is published since 1994. The
issues before spring 1996 are not online available.
Research
Institute for the Humanities This
research oriented web site is located in the Research Institute
for the Humanities (RIH), Faculty of Arts, The Chinese University
of Hong Kong. It is maintained by the Humanities Computing and
Methodology Programme in the Institute. The site contains
meta-indices of humanities resources worldwide, and locally
developed texts, tools and pages covering various interests in
humanistic scholarship. The site offers a retrieval
system.
Resource
Center for Cyberculture Studies -- The
internet has only been a popular success for a few years, but
already it is the target of much sociological scrutiny. This site
brings together monthly book reviews, links to interviews with
influential cyberpundits, a bibliography and other useful
features.
RussGUS
:The database contains documents in the field of the study of the
USSR and its neighbour-states in the widest sense of the word.
Topics on politics, history, literature and geography can be
found.
Russian
Studies On The Web Refers to sites of
universities and academies of sciences in Russia, and of Slavic
departments of universities in the United States of America,
Europe and the rest of the world.
School of
Oriental and African Studies,
University of London: Home page of one of Europe's leading centres
for the study of Asia and Africa. Information about language
courses and research: languages (ranging from those from ancient
Babylonia to those of modern China), economics, political science,
developmental studies, law, anthropology, ecology, history,
religious studies, art and archaelogy.
°Sociosite
(also Dutch): a Site dedicated to sociological studies. The
"Yellow pages" for the sociologist.
° (Dutch) SWO
Segbroek Loosduinen Stichting Welzijns
Organisatie: een organisatie die verantwoordelijk is voor het
welzijnsaanbod ten behoeve van de inwoners van de stadsdelen
Segbroek en Den Haag.
The
Geography of Cyberspace : What does
internet look like? It's everywhere and nowhere, but there are
academics attempting to map out this new terrain. Martin Dodge at
University College London's Centre
for Advanced SpatialAnalysis has
constructed an extensive series of links to resources on the size
and shape of the internet, including an Atlas.
THEOLDI:
Documentation of Theological and Interdisciplinary Literature
Online bibliographies maintained by the School of Theology at the
University of Innsbruck. They offer a.o. databases on the
religious anthropology of Rene Girard, Bible studies, systematic
and fundamental theology and canon law.
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° The
Stranger Box: Cultural studies of the
underground, alternative religions, history, psychology, deviance,
the horror genre, and philosophy. By an undergraduate philosophy
major.
The Virtual
Community: site with sociological
literature on the internet and Electric
Minds: A bulletin board system on the
Web created by Howard Rheingold, one of the first people to write
about "virtual communities". Includes a Virtual Community
Directory which indexes other dicussions. Topics on EMinds are
diverse, but its core is discussion of where technology in its
broadest sense and the internet in particular is leading
us.
Universitätsbibliothek
Tübingen : Sammelschwerpunkt
Allgemeine und vergleichende Religionswissenschaft . Access to the
online catalogue of the University Library of Tübingen and
information concerning inter-library loan and document delivery.
This library has national subject responsability for theology and
religious studies.
°The Woodrow
Wilson International Center for
Scholars (knowledge in the public
service) is a presidential memorial that fosters scholarship and
dialogue in the humanities and the social sciences. By bringing
Fellows from around the world to Washington, D.C., encouraging
discourse among disciplines and professions, and publishing the
results of these activities, the Center enriches the quality of
knowledge and debate in the nation's capital and throughout the
world.Includes the Wilson
Quarterly : an international review of
ideas and information written and edited for the general reader.
Its crisp reports and reviews survey the latest thinking in every
field, from foreign policy to science to belles lettres. Original
articles by leading writers and thinkers take up subjects ranging
from the decline of civility to the history of jazz to the future
of science.
for selected resources on this subject.