Databases
The New York Times Book Review Archived reviews
General
Reference Sites
American National Biography: Selected biographies from a 24-volume reference work prepared under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies
Bullfinch's Mythology: Full text of Bulfinch's famous handbook of mythology. Includes graphics.
Encyclopedia Mythica: An online encyclopedia of mythology, folklore, and legend
European Map Collection: developed by the library at the University of Texas
The Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Mythology is a good set of web resources on mythology.
In-House Guide to
Copyright Ownership, the Public Domain, and Fair Use: Copyright guide
published by the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Internet Encyclopedia of
Philosophy: Excellent general philosophical reference source
The New Bartleby: A national digital library in the public interest. Begun in April 1997 after the original Bartleby Project terminated its affiliation with Columbia University and became an archive. Currently displays selected works of Theordore Roosevelt.
Project Bartleby Archive:
Archives of full text titles available online
The Study
Place: Project of the Institute for Learning Technologies at Columbia
University to "prototype and develop online academic resources and navigational
interfaces." Includes Study Spaces, i.e., virtual library carrels,
and links to full text databases
Virtual Library museums page: (VLmp) "a comprehensive directory of online museums and museum-related resources." Supported by the International Council of Museums.
Ancient Greek (Hellenic) Sites: includes links to just about every major classical web site, including search engines for the classics.
The Development of Western Civilization: an award-winning annotated list of links to many sites dealing with all aspects of Greek history, art, and literature.
Diotima: Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World. An attractive, comprehensive site.
HORUS: Web Links to History Resources, sponsored by the history department of the University of California at Riverside, is intended to be the "core of an experiment in using the internet for instruction and research."
VIVA, the Virtual Library of Virginia: A librarian-selected collection of electronic texts on many topics of interest to students
Voice of the Shuttle: Web site for humanities research sponsored by the Department of English at the University of California at Santa Barbara
Where the Wild Things Are: Librarians' Guide to the Best Information on the Net; includes links to a reference desk, hot research paper topics, important sites organized by discipline, faculty and administration resources, databases, and internet resources. Sponsored by O'Keefe Library of St. Ambrose University, Davenport, Iowa
Alta Vista: A favorite for its "refine search" capability which allows the user to include/exclude many categories to get a stronger, more limited search
Classical Search Engines: links to search engines for a wide variety of classical topics
HotBot: a search engine sponsored by Wired magazine.
InfoSeek: another comprehensive search engine
Metacrawler: a search engine that queries other search engines, then organizes and ranks results
Magellan: broadens the search by looking for concepts related to your search terms
Yahoo automatically goes to Alta Vista if its own search comes up empty
