Humanities Resources

  • Search Engines to start your search
  • Collection of Search Engines
  • Online Libraries
  • The Bentley Historical Library

    Internet Public Library

    WWW Virtual Library

    Perseus Project (Ancient Greece & Rome)

    III. Archives of Electronic Texts

    Electronic Text Center

    Gutenberg Project

    Humanities Text Initiative

    Alex: A Catalog of E-Texts on the Internet
    ARTFL (French e-texts) -- French literature database
    CETH Directory of Electronic Text Centers

    Electronic Beowulf

    Example of New Electronic Texts for Information:

    Maya Angelou Home Page
    Web Page for Alice Walker
    Literary Locales
    1. Specific Humanities resource pages that help to limit your search or provide an index for literature categories
    2. VOICE OF THE SHUTTLE HOME PAGE
      Voice of the Shuttle: The Myth
      Voice of the Shuttle: Cultural Studies Page
      Voice of the Shuttle English Literature: Creative Writing
      The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism
      NetSERF (Medieval materials)
      Rossetti Archive
      Shakespeare Text Search
      Work in Progress: James Joyce in Cyberspace
      Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies
      Romance Languages Resource Page

      Searching for topic areas under University web sites as an example of limiting your search.

      Ex: Postcolonial Theory

      Postcolonial at Emory
      Postcolonial and Postimperial Literature at Brown
      Labyrinth (Medieval materials)
      Searching for topic areas under University professors with similar interests as an example of limiting your search.
      Ex: Jack Lynch's Home Page (Rutgers)
    3. General Humanities Index pages
    4. Literary Resources (Jack Lynch at Rutgers)

      The English Server (CMU) -- The "English Server -- Carnegie Mellon" is a cooperative that has published humanities texts to the Internet since 1900. It links to philosophy guides, drama, and other literature-related areas.
      Index of Articles
      ACCORD (showcase of on-line resources)
      ACLS Webography
      EDSITEment! - Top Sites & Guides
      H-Net (Humanities and Soc Sci OnLine)
    5. Dictionaries, reference sources, quotation source
    6. Electronic Reference Shelf (U-M)

      Internet Public Library Reference Desk

      Library of Congress Catalog
      My Virtual Reference Desk
      American Heritage Dictionary
      OED (Oxford English Dictionary)
      Webster's Dictionary
      National Archival Information Locator
      Strunk, William. 1918. The Elements of Style.
    7. Popular Opinion
    8. The English Browser

      Arts and Letters Daily

      The Mining Company (Authors and Reviews)

      NYTimes Book Review (searchable)

    9. Online Journals and e-journals
    10. Index of Print Journals Online -- have only Information available online
      University of Houston Libraries -- Index of Scholarly Journals on the web.
      Internet Public Library Online Literary Criticism
      e-journals
      Arts and Humanities e-journals
      Indiana University Press Journals
      Victorian Studies
      Kairos (journal on writing for the web)
      Epiphany Project -- Teacher resource files

      JOUVERT: a journal of postcolonial studies

      Comparative Literature and Culture

    11. Elists -- Literature Chat rooms and/or Email list serves
    12. MLA

      AmLit-L

      Victoria

      Milton-L

      Postmodernism, Deconstructionism, Criticism

      Mark Twain

      Robert Frost

      Ernest Hemingway

      Later Medieval Britain

      DialogNet Literary Email lists

      Humanist Discussion Group

      Computer-Mediated Communication Info Sources

      Alliance for Community Technology

      COW, Conferencing On the Web

    13. Professional Organizations and Activity Online
    14. MLA

      MMLA

      Conference Call For Papers

    15. Web Authoring

    Eastgate

    Hyperizons (Hyperfiction on the Web)

    UbuWeb (Concrete and Found Poetry)

    XII. Copyright
    Copyright & Fair Use (Stanford)
    U-M Library Copyright Information Page