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Classical Greek & Latin - Medieval
Perseus Digital Library (at Tufts University) - Latin & Greek Classics.
The Internet Classics Archive - 441 works of classical literature by 59 authors (MIT).
The Latin Library - Classic, medieval and Neo-Latin.
Peitho's Web - Classic Rhetoric and Persuasion.
Textkit - Greek and Latin learning tools - the internet's largest provider of free and fully downloadable Greek and Latin grammars and readers.
Armarium Labyrinthi - Labyrinth Latin Bookcase - Includes the Latin Vulgate and other bibles, Liturgical texts and Classical Greek and Latin texts mostly in translation.
Bibliotheca Latina Intratext - A rich collection of Latin texts, including medieval, Neo-Latin and ecclesiastic.
Bibliotheca Augustana - A collection of classical, medieval and Neo-Latin texts presented as bitmap. Also classics in other European languages: English, French, German, Russian.
Corpus Scriptorum Latinorum - A collaborative aiming to create a digital library of all Latin literature. Currently it is mainly a linked catalogue of Latin texts available on the internet.
Thesaurus Linguae Graecae - Founded in 1972 TLG has collected and digitized most literary texts in Greek from Homer to the fall of Byzantium in 1453 - For non-subscribers the TLG Canon and the Abridged Online TLG are freely accessible (University of California, Irvine).
The Little Sailing - Ancient Greek Texts - an electronic library of full texts in Greek.
Classics Gateway - University of Reading.
Interclassica - Universidad de Murcia.
Kirke - Katalog der Internetressourcen für die Klassische Philologie (Berlin).
Project Libellus (University of Washington, Seattle) - presents texts from 13 authors in Latin (html and TeX).
White Trash Scriptorium - Latin E-books.
Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse - (University of Michigan). See also The Middle English Compendium.
The Online Medieval and Classical Library - A collection of some of the most important literary works of Classical and Medieval Civilization.
Netserf.org - The internet Connection for Medieval Resources.
Medieval Literature (Netserf).
Orb Text Library - On-line Reference Book for Medieval Studies. Transcriptions and translations.
The Labyrinth - Resources for Medieval Studies (Georgetown University).
Medieval Texts - in Galician.
The Worldwide Virtual Library - History index - Medieval Europe (Michigan State University).
Projektet Källtext - Medieval Swedish literature and a dictionary of medieval Swedish.
The Ovid Project - Metamorphosing the Metamorphoses (Hope Greenberg, University of Vermont) - Images from 1640 and 1703 illustrated editions.
Anthology of Medieval German (A.K. Wimmer) - An online collection of texts with introductions to and commentaries of each text - spanning centuries between 750 and 1500.
SORGLL - Society for the Oral Reading of Greek and Latin Literature - Listen to Greek and Latin.
A Companion to ME Literature - (Heinrich-Heine Universität Düsseldorf) - Elementary but extremely rich and well-illustrated introduction to the canon of Middle English literature. Mainly 12 authors: Chaucer, Langland, Cower, Lygate, ...
Rialc - Repertorio informatizzato dell'antica letteratura catalana - The 'Digital repository of old Catalan literature' is a project by a group of scholars from the University of Naples Federico II and the University of Barcelona. Available for free is a good selection of medieval Catalan literature from the 12th to the 15th centuries....
An Electronic Corpus of 15th Century Castilian Cancionero Manuscripts - Joint online project of the Universities of Liverpool, Birmingham and Barcelona. The site contains two medieval corpora, the Dutton Lyric corpus of 15th century cancioneros, and the Severin-Maguire corpus of didactic poetry.
Library of Ancient Texts Online - A gateway site which has been created by Peter Gainsford, a classicist in New Zealand as a catalogue of online editions of old Greek texts, both in the original Greek language and in English or in modern Greek translation.
Scaldic Poetry Project of the Scandinavian Middle Ages - An international project to edit the corpus of medieval Norse-icelandic scaldic poetry.
Medieval Irish Poetry - Created By Maureen O'Brien - Makes available a selection of Irish poetry in both the early modern Irish (classical Gaelic) and English translation.
Archivio della Latinità Italiana del Medioevo - Fonti letterarie - ALIM is an online archive of medieval Italian texts written in Latin from 11th to 14th century. Offers free and immediate access to a wide range of texts including: epic and lyric poetry, history and drama; and philosophical, religious and scientific writings. Texts can be read online or are available to download as word files.
L'Antiquité Grèque et Latine du Moyen Âge - is a.o. a massive collection of antique and medieval texts, translated into French. The site has 13 parts. Translations of Latin, Italian, Iberian, Arabic and Persian, and Nordic authors - and some authors from the Balkan. And of course authors in French languages (Provençal, Breton and old French) - Latin and Greek texts with translation and commentaries - and also links to a list of reference works concerning Antiquity. An enormous effort by Philippe Remacle.
Teams Middle English Texts Series - This site contains hundreds of Middle English texts including lyrics, poems, and tales such as "The Prophecy of Merlin," and "Robyn Hod and the Shryff off Notyngham." Each text is edited to "maintain the linguistic integrity ...(Rochester University)
Literature of the French Middle-Ages - Hot-links researched and programmed by the Globe-Gate Project (directed by TennesseeBob Peckham).
In Parentheses - (York University Canada) - International Medieval texts in English translation.
Quellen zur Geistesgeschichte der Spätmittelalters
Narpan - espai virtual de literatura i cultura medieval - Some literature in Catalan and translations (primary and secondary).
The Internet Classics Archive - 441 works of classical literature by 59 authors (MIT).
The Latin Library - Classic, medieval and Neo-Latin.
Peitho's Web - Classic Rhetoric and Persuasion.
Textkit - Greek and Latin learning tools - the internet's largest provider of free and fully downloadable Greek and Latin grammars and readers.
Armarium Labyrinthi - Labyrinth Latin Bookcase - Includes the Latin Vulgate and other bibles, Liturgical texts and Classical Greek and Latin texts mostly in translation.
Bibliotheca Latina Intratext - A rich collection of Latin texts, including medieval, Neo-Latin and ecclesiastic.
Bibliotheca Augustana - A collection of classical, medieval and Neo-Latin texts presented as bitmap. Also classics in other European languages: English, French, German, Russian.
Corpus Scriptorum Latinorum - A collaborative aiming to create a digital library of all Latin literature. Currently it is mainly a linked catalogue of Latin texts available on the internet.
Thesaurus Linguae Graecae - Founded in 1972 TLG has collected and digitized most literary texts in Greek from Homer to the fall of Byzantium in 1453 - For non-subscribers the TLG Canon and the Abridged Online TLG are freely accessible (University of California, Irvine).
The Little Sailing - Ancient Greek Texts - an electronic library of full texts in Greek.
Classics Gateway - University of Reading.
Interclassica - Universidad de Murcia.
Kirke - Katalog der Internetressourcen für die Klassische Philologie (Berlin).
Project Libellus (University of Washington, Seattle) - presents texts from 13 authors in Latin (html and TeX).
White Trash Scriptorium - Latin E-books.
Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse - (University of Michigan). See also The Middle English Compendium.
The Online Medieval and Classical Library - A collection of some of the most important literary works of Classical and Medieval Civilization.
Netserf.org - The internet Connection for Medieval Resources.
Medieval Literature (Netserf).
Orb Text Library - On-line Reference Book for Medieval Studies. Transcriptions and translations.
The Labyrinth - Resources for Medieval Studies (Georgetown University).
Medieval Texts - in Galician.
The Worldwide Virtual Library - History index - Medieval Europe (Michigan State University).
Projektet Källtext - Medieval Swedish literature and a dictionary of medieval Swedish.
The Ovid Project - Metamorphosing the Metamorphoses (Hope Greenberg, University of Vermont) - Images from 1640 and 1703 illustrated editions.
Anthology of Medieval German (A.K. Wimmer) - An online collection of texts with introductions to and commentaries of each text - spanning centuries between 750 and 1500.
SORGLL - Society for the Oral Reading of Greek and Latin Literature - Listen to Greek and Latin.
A Companion to ME Literature - (Heinrich-Heine Universität Düsseldorf) - Elementary but extremely rich and well-illustrated introduction to the canon of Middle English literature. Mainly 12 authors: Chaucer, Langland, Cower, Lygate, ...
Rialc - Repertorio informatizzato dell'antica letteratura catalana - The 'Digital repository of old Catalan literature' is a project by a group of scholars from the University of Naples Federico II and the University of Barcelona. Available for free is a good selection of medieval Catalan literature from the 12th to the 15th centuries....
An Electronic Corpus of 15th Century Castilian Cancionero Manuscripts - Joint online project of the Universities of Liverpool, Birmingham and Barcelona. The site contains two medieval corpora, the Dutton Lyric corpus of 15th century cancioneros, and the Severin-Maguire corpus of didactic poetry.
Library of Ancient Texts Online - A gateway site which has been created by Peter Gainsford, a classicist in New Zealand as a catalogue of online editions of old Greek texts, both in the original Greek language and in English or in modern Greek translation.
Scaldic Poetry Project of the Scandinavian Middle Ages - An international project to edit the corpus of medieval Norse-icelandic scaldic poetry.
Medieval Irish Poetry - Created By Maureen O'Brien - Makes available a selection of Irish poetry in both the early modern Irish (classical Gaelic) and English translation.
Archivio della Latinità Italiana del Medioevo - Fonti letterarie - ALIM is an online archive of medieval Italian texts written in Latin from 11th to 14th century. Offers free and immediate access to a wide range of texts including: epic and lyric poetry, history and drama; and philosophical, religious and scientific writings. Texts can be read online or are available to download as word files.
L'Antiquité Grèque et Latine du Moyen Âge - is a.o. a massive collection of antique and medieval texts, translated into French. The site has 13 parts. Translations of Latin, Italian, Iberian, Arabic and Persian, and Nordic authors - and some authors from the Balkan. And of course authors in French languages (Provençal, Breton and old French) - Latin and Greek texts with translation and commentaries - and also links to a list of reference works concerning Antiquity. An enormous effort by Philippe Remacle.
Teams Middle English Texts Series - This site contains hundreds of Middle English texts including lyrics, poems, and tales such as "The Prophecy of Merlin," and "Robyn Hod and the Shryff off Notyngham." Each text is edited to "maintain the linguistic integrity ...(Rochester University)
Literature of the French Middle-Ages - Hot-links researched and programmed by the Globe-Gate Project (directed by TennesseeBob Peckham).
In Parentheses - (York University Canada) - International Medieval texts in English translation.
Quellen zur Geistesgeschichte der Spätmittelalters
Narpan - espai virtual de literatura i cultura medieval - Some literature in Catalan and translations (primary and secondary).
Technical and scientific
FreeBooks4Doctors! - Site dedicated to the promotion of free access to medical books on the internet. 550+ books to read online in English, French, German, Spanish - plus a few titles in Catalan, Italian, Portuguese, Norwegian, Romanian, Russian and Turkish.
FreeScience - More than 2.000 scientific books. (Physics, mathematics, medecine,...)
FreeBookCentre.net - A US site linking to free online technical books, on subjects including computer science, medicine, electronics and mathematics.
Historical Math Monographs (Cornell University).
National Science Digital Library - ...the Nation's online library for education and research in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.
Digital Library of Science - Mathematical e-books, and some philosophy, physics, economics, linguistics in pdf.
Vittorio Gallese @ Department of Neurosciences (University of Parma) - an interesting list of publications, research on the subject of mirror-neurons and philosophical implications.
Citizen428.net - 30 free programming books - Lisp, Ruby, Javascript,...
PaperC (German orig. / English) - Large collection of freely accessible specialist books to read online.
World Digital Mathematics Library - Is a project to digitise and provide online access to past mathematics literature. Provides links to collections of digitised books and journals, links to current and past digitisation project websites and links to registries of digital mathematical material.
Free online textbooks on mathematics - ... and lecture-notes, tutorials and videos (New York University).
FreeComputerBooks.com - Free Computer, Mathematical, Technical e-books and Lecture-notes.
Sciyo.com - Free scientific books, journals and video.
Open Culture - (D. Coleman, Stanford University) - 150 Free Textbooks.
National Centre for Biotechnology Information - Bookshelf - Number of biomedical works, searchable, readable, and a good number to download in pdf, some also in pda format.
National Institute of Medecine - Digital Collections.
Free Programming E-books (appsapps.com)
FreeScience - More than 2.000 scientific books. (Physics, mathematics, medecine,...)
FreeBookCentre.net - A US site linking to free online technical books, on subjects including computer science, medicine, electronics and mathematics.
Historical Math Monographs (Cornell University).
National Science Digital Library - ...the Nation's online library for education and research in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.
Digital Library of Science - Mathematical e-books, and some philosophy, physics, economics, linguistics in pdf.
Vittorio Gallese @ Department of Neurosciences (University of Parma) - an interesting list of publications, research on the subject of mirror-neurons and philosophical implications.
Citizen428.net - 30 free programming books - Lisp, Ruby, Javascript,...
PaperC (German orig. / English) - Large collection of freely accessible specialist books to read online.
World Digital Mathematics Library - Is a project to digitise and provide online access to past mathematics literature. Provides links to collections of digitised books and journals, links to current and past digitisation project websites and links to registries of digital mathematical material.
Free online textbooks on mathematics - ... and lecture-notes, tutorials and videos (New York University).
FreeComputerBooks.com - Free Computer, Mathematical, Technical e-books and Lecture-notes.
Sciyo.com - Free scientific books, journals and video.
Open Culture - (D. Coleman, Stanford University) - 150 Free Textbooks.
National Centre for Biotechnology Information - Bookshelf - Number of biomedical works, searchable, readable, and a good number to download in pdf, some also in pda format.
National Institute of Medecine - Digital Collections.
Free Programming E-books (appsapps.com)
Audio Books
Librivox - 3.136 audiobooks available for free online (MP3 or Ogg Vorbis).
AudioBooksForFree.com
BooksShouldBeFree.com
Learn Out Loud - Free Audio & Video - Over 10.000 educational audio books, MP3 downloads, podcasts and videos.
Literal Systems - Classic literature and poetry - recited, performed and made into downloadable mp3 for your enjoyment.
Radio Books- Stories by Dutch and Flemish authors written and read aloud on commission to DeBuren in English (Flemish-Dutch Cultural House in Brussels). Also in Dutch, French and Spanish.
AudioLibros - Albalearning - Spanish, free for personal use - text available - download mp3 or listen online.
ALK Libri Audiolibri - Classic, mostly Western European works read in Italian - free to listen online.
Japanese Classical Literature at Bedtime - Japanese language audiobooks, mostly creative commons.
Litterature audio.com - Plus de mille livres audio gratuits! French literature, some Greek and Latin and Western classics from Shakespeare to Grimm.
Leer Eschuchando (Read Listening) - Free downloadable audiobooks in mp3 (GNU Free Documentation License) - classics, children's classics, poetry, history, unpublished works and more.
ULITKA - A large collection of works by Russian and European authors, read in Russian (mp3).
Vorleser Net - 550 free audiobooks in mp3 and in German.
ejunto - Public Domain Audiobooks - history and philosophy.
Podiobooks.com - 7997 episodes available for download in 402 titles (mostly creative commons).
Roland Barthes (UBUWEB) - Lectures at the Collège de France 1977-1978: Inaugural lecture - Comment vivre ensemble (14 lectures in mp3) - Le neutre (13 lectures in mp3).
Henry Miller - ... reads from "Black Spring" and "The Colossus of Maroussi" (1949).
Eugène Ionesco - La cantatrice chauve - sound recording (voice of the author) - (UBU)
Audio Stories 4 Kids - 1940's and 1950's gems - 200 stories available in mp3.
Naropa Poetics Audio Archives - (hosted by The Internet Archive) - Naropa University Archive Project is preserving and providing access to more than 5.000 hours of recordings made at Naropa University, Boulder, Colorado. Readings, lectures, performances, seminars ... (a.o. by Anne Waldman and Allen Ginsberg).
Lit2Go - Free online collection of stories and poems in mp3 (Educational Technology Clearinghouse - University of South Florida).
The Voices of the Poets (The Poet's Cooperation) - Hundreds of mp3 recordings of spoken word artists.
The Spoken Alexandria Project - Creating a free Creative Commons library of spoken word recordings, consisting of classics in the public domain and modern works with permission. AAC, Ogg Vorbis and mp3 audiobooks available for free download and redistribution.
Il Narratore - Audiolibri - Free online archive of audio files of Italian literature recited by actors. Almost every mp3 file is accompanied by the text as pdf file and each author featured has a dedicated page with a short biography, bibliography and links to relevant Web resources.
Wired for Books - Poems, stories, plays, essays, lectures, and interviews for children and adults - many in RealAudio (Ohio University).
LoudLit.org - Literature for your eyes and ears.
Free Audio Books Online - Gizmo Freeware list - also some miscellaneous smaller collections.
Pötalfi Irodalmi Muzeum - Hungarian authors read from their works in native language (site itself also accessible in French and German).
Art
smarthistory - a multimedia book about art and art history.
Digital Scrolling Paintings Project - Center for the Art of East Asia, University of Chicago.
International Dunhuang Project - international collaboration to make information and images of all manuscripts, textiles and artefacts from Dunhuang and archaeological sites of the Eastern Silk Roads freely available.
Artists' Books Online - An online repository of facsimiles, metadata and criticism.
RA Collection - Royal Academy of Arts (UK) - Works of Art, Books and Archives - ... about 850 paintings, 350 sculptures, 15.000 prints and drawings, 12.000 historic books, 2.000 historic photographs and 500 plaster casts.
Cabaret Mechanical Theatre - description at Intute.
Great Caricatures - 18th and 19th century prints and drawings (Thomas Nast, James Gillray, Honoré Daumier,...)
Ehon: The Artist and the Book in Japan - (New York Public Library) - more than 1.000 images encompassing 1.200 years of book art in Japan.
Delhi Art Gallery - Contains a very large selection of images of works that are on display in the gallery, or have been in the past. Impressive website, giving extensive access to important collections.
The Wenceslaus Hollar Digital Collection (Toronto University) - Etchings and book illustrations.
The Estate of Francis Bacon
Egon Schiele - The complete works.
the-artists.org - Modern and contemporary artists and art.
The Floating World of Ukiyo-e - Showcases the Library of Congress' holdings of Japanese prints, books and drawings from the 17th to the 19th centuries.
bpi1700 - British Printed Images until 1700 - (Birkbeck College) - Online library of over 10.000 printed images from early modern Britain.
Database of Mid-Victorian Illustration - 868 literary illustrations that were published in or around 1862, providing bibliographical and iconographical details, as well as the ability for users to view images at high quality.
The Art of Harry Clarke - Illustrations of Irish artist Harry Clarke (a.o. for Poe, Andersen, ...).
Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture - (University of Wisconsin Madison) - Electronic facsimiles of primary texts and Chipstone Collection.
The Huntington Archive - Digital database - Collection of about 30.000 digitized photographs of Buddhist and related art.
Born Magazine: Art and Literature Collaboration - Quarterly publication to "create storytelling artworks". Founded in Seattle, 1996. Present and past issues completely available.
TAGallery's Bookmarks on Delicious - "...extends the idea of a 'tagged exhibition' and transfers the main tasks of non-commercial exhibition-spaces to the discourse of an electronic data-space."
ArtMagick - A virtual museum displaying paintings mostly from 19th and 20th century Pre-Raphaelite and Symbolist movements; it also covers such movements as Art Nouveau, the Romantic, Victorian and Surrealist.
Spanish Arts - An introductory tour to Spanish art and literature.
Léon Spilliaert - Belgian painter from Ostend (1881-1946) - (Large number of his paintings available for viewing).
University of British Columbia Library - Art + Architecture + Planning - Massive resource: links to collections, databases, e-journals,...
History of Art - From Paleolithic Age to Contemporary Art. - One of the strongest in the visual I encountered - amount and quality of images is striking.
Centre Pompidou (Paris) - Online collection of 60.000 works of art.
WWW Virtual Library Museum Page (Jonathan Bowen) - Links to museums around the world.
Rhizome | ArtBase - (The New Museum, Bowery, NY) - Founded in 1999, the Rhizome ArtBase is an online archive of new media art containing some 2.531 art works, and growing.
Olga's Gallery - Set up to help children and college students learn the history of painting. Searchable collection of over 10.000 works of art, by artist, country, movement and name of subject.
CGFA - A Virtual Art Museum - Extensive database containing digital images of paintings, drawings, etchings, watercolours and many other works of art by artists from a broad period from about 700 years (ca. 1200-1900)
Art History - Resources on the web - This comprehensive Art History resource organizes links by civilization and then by subheadings, such as Prehistoric Art with Paleolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic Art as subheadings. It proceeds through Ancient Near East, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Art in Early Europe, and so on,...
Islamic art network - A large-scale project undertaken by the Thesaurus Islamicus Foundation, makes images of and information about Islamic art and architecture digitally available on the Web.
Art cyclopedia - 9.000 artists listed, 2.900 art-sites indexed, 160.000 links.
BibliOdyssey - books - illustrations - science - history: blog with a marvellous collection of book art.
Digital Scrolling Paintings Project - Center for the Art of East Asia, University of Chicago.
International Dunhuang Project - international collaboration to make information and images of all manuscripts, textiles and artefacts from Dunhuang and archaeological sites of the Eastern Silk Roads freely available.
Artists' Books Online - An online repository of facsimiles, metadata and criticism.
RA Collection - Royal Academy of Arts (UK) - Works of Art, Books and Archives - ... about 850 paintings, 350 sculptures, 15.000 prints and drawings, 12.000 historic books, 2.000 historic photographs and 500 plaster casts.
Cabaret Mechanical Theatre - description at Intute.
Great Caricatures - 18th and 19th century prints and drawings (Thomas Nast, James Gillray, Honoré Daumier,...)
Ehon: The Artist and the Book in Japan - (New York Public Library) - more than 1.000 images encompassing 1.200 years of book art in Japan.
Delhi Art Gallery - Contains a very large selection of images of works that are on display in the gallery, or have been in the past. Impressive website, giving extensive access to important collections.
The Wenceslaus Hollar Digital Collection (Toronto University) - Etchings and book illustrations.
The Estate of Francis Bacon
Egon Schiele - The complete works.
the-artists.org - Modern and contemporary artists and art.
The Floating World of Ukiyo-e - Showcases the Library of Congress' holdings of Japanese prints, books and drawings from the 17th to the 19th centuries.
bpi1700 - British Printed Images until 1700 - (Birkbeck College) - Online library of over 10.000 printed images from early modern Britain.
Database of Mid-Victorian Illustration - 868 literary illustrations that were published in or around 1862, providing bibliographical and iconographical details, as well as the ability for users to view images at high quality.
The Art of Harry Clarke - Illustrations of Irish artist Harry Clarke (a.o. for Poe, Andersen, ...).
Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture - (University of Wisconsin Madison) - Electronic facsimiles of primary texts and Chipstone Collection.
The Huntington Archive - Digital database - Collection of about 30.000 digitized photographs of Buddhist and related art.
Born Magazine: Art and Literature Collaboration - Quarterly publication to "create storytelling artworks". Founded in Seattle, 1996. Present and past issues completely available.
TAGallery's Bookmarks on Delicious - "...extends the idea of a 'tagged exhibition' and transfers the main tasks of non-commercial exhibition-spaces to the discourse of an electronic data-space."
ArtMagick - A virtual museum displaying paintings mostly from 19th and 20th century Pre-Raphaelite and Symbolist movements; it also covers such movements as Art Nouveau, the Romantic, Victorian and Surrealist.
Spanish Arts - An introductory tour to Spanish art and literature.
Léon Spilliaert - Belgian painter from Ostend (1881-1946) - (Large number of his paintings available for viewing).
University of British Columbia Library - Art + Architecture + Planning - Massive resource: links to collections, databases, e-journals,...
History of Art - From Paleolithic Age to Contemporary Art. - One of the strongest in the visual I encountered - amount and quality of images is striking.
Centre Pompidou (Paris) - Online collection of 60.000 works of art.
WWW Virtual Library Museum Page (Jonathan Bowen) - Links to museums around the world.
Rhizome | ArtBase - (The New Museum, Bowery, NY) - Founded in 1999, the Rhizome ArtBase is an online archive of new media art containing some 2.531 art works, and growing.
Olga's Gallery - Set up to help children and college students learn the history of painting. Searchable collection of over 10.000 works of art, by artist, country, movement and name of subject.
CGFA - A Virtual Art Museum - Extensive database containing digital images of paintings, drawings, etchings, watercolours and many other works of art by artists from a broad period from about 700 years (ca. 1200-1900)
Art History - Resources on the web - This comprehensive Art History resource organizes links by civilization and then by subheadings, such as Prehistoric Art with Paleolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic Art as subheadings. It proceeds through Ancient Near East, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Art in Early Europe, and so on,...
Islamic art network - A large-scale project undertaken by the Thesaurus Islamicus Foundation, makes images of and information about Islamic art and architecture digitally available on the Web.
Art cyclopedia - 9.000 artists listed, 2.900 art-sites indexed, 160.000 links.
BibliOdyssey - books - illustrations - science - history: blog with a marvellous collection of book art.
Music
European Archive - Music, Video and Web. Collection of 842 classical recordings (digitized LP records) to download.
Choral Public Domain Library - ChoralWiki - free collection of sheet music.
Ancient Greek Music - All published fragments of ancient Greek music with notes.
IMSLP/Petrucci Music Library - public domain music scores, and composers willing to share.
Mutopia - Free sheet music for everyone - classical and contemporary music - 1.640 pieces now available.
ESM - Sibley Music Library - (University of Rochester) - large collection of sheet music, part of it unavailable elsewhere, to download in pdf (create account as non-affiliated).
Music Library Scores Collection - Works featured here represent a variety of styles and genres, including songs, solo and chamber music, operas and compositions for orchestra. (University of Michigan)
Sheet Music Consortium - 4 collections ... huge.
The Internet Chinese Music Library - hosted by ibiblio.
Luc Brewaeys - Belgian contemporary composer - a lot of the music can be listened to online with sheet music available.
MusicTheory.net - lessons, trainers, utilities (Ricci Adams).
Irish Traditional Music Archive - Taisce Cheol Duchais Eireann - The collection contains books, audiovisual material including sound recordings, videos and photographs.
Arvo Pärt
Avant Garde Project - (curator of UBU) - A series of recordings of 20th-century classical, experimental and electroacoustic music. 15-04-2011 - moved to UBU sound
Kiddie Records - Classics from the Golden Age - (Used to be hosted by UBU) - 'Over the years, these forgotten treasures slipped off the radar and it became our mission to give them a new lease on life by sharing them with today's generation of online listeners'.
Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum - Evolving database of the entire corpus of Latin music theory written during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
Coil- Official site at Brainwashed.
Crossfade - Atau Tanaka: Ju-jikan: 10 hours of sound from Japan.
Opsound - The open sound pool - A project of artist Sal Randolph - large and diverse collection of music (creative commons to listen to online or download).
California Gold - Northern California Folk Music from the Thirties - is a multi-format ethnographic field collection that includes sound recordings, still photographs, drawings and written documents from a variety of European ethnic and Spanish- and English-speaking communities in Northern California. The collection comprises 35 hours of folk music recorded in twelve languages representing numerous ethnic groups and 185 musicians.
Hommage à Brel - Filip Jordens sings Jacques Brel - ..."Il ne croyait ni en Dieu, ni au paradis, ni à l'enfer. Selon Brel, le paradis ne pouvait exister que sur terre. Pour lui, l'Homme représentait Dieu".
Zemerl- Jewish Song Lyrics - Yiddish, Hebrew, Ladino and more.
OperaGlass - (Stanford University) - Detailed information on many operas.
Stadtbücherei Stuttgart: Musikbücherei - Outstanding collection of music links.
Philip Glass
African Music Encyclopedia - Listed by author or country, and a collection of links.
Werner Icking Music Archive - contains a miscellany of subject-specific musical material. Click on the name of a subdirectory containing scores, sound files, typesetting source files, additional README-files etc., or follow the composer links to enjoy fully all of the Archive's possibilities.
SheetMusicFox - Download and print free public domain sheet music.
Art Song Central is principally an archive and directory of free, printable sheet music for singers and voice teachers. An emphasis is placed on standard classical and traditional repertoire.
Free Music Archive - "Its not just free music; it's good music."
Chazzanut Online - Comprehensive site on Jewish Liturgical music (chazzanut), with a large amount of cantorial music scores, midi sound, annotated links and background information.
Digital Mozart Edition - Complete scores of all works, letters and documents available online.
Johann Sebastian Bach - A complete scan of the 19th century Bach collected works in djvu format.
Choral Public Domain Library - ChoralWiki - free collection of sheet music.
Ancient Greek Music - All published fragments of ancient Greek music with notes.
IMSLP/Petrucci Music Library - public domain music scores, and composers willing to share.
Mutopia - Free sheet music for everyone - classical and contemporary music - 1.640 pieces now available.
ESM - Sibley Music Library - (University of Rochester) - large collection of sheet music, part of it unavailable elsewhere, to download in pdf (create account as non-affiliated).
Music Library Scores Collection - Works featured here represent a variety of styles and genres, including songs, solo and chamber music, operas and compositions for orchestra. (University of Michigan)
Sheet Music Consortium - 4 collections ... huge.
The Internet Chinese Music Library - hosted by ibiblio.
Luc Brewaeys - Belgian contemporary composer - a lot of the music can be listened to online with sheet music available.
MusicTheory.net - lessons, trainers, utilities (Ricci Adams).
Irish Traditional Music Archive - Taisce Cheol Duchais Eireann - The collection contains books, audiovisual material including sound recordings, videos and photographs.
Arvo Pärt
Avant Garde Project - (curator of UBU) - A series of recordings of 20th-century classical, experimental and electroacoustic music. 15-04-2011 - moved to UBU sound
Kiddie Records - Classics from the Golden Age - (Used to be hosted by UBU) - 'Over the years, these forgotten treasures slipped off the radar and it became our mission to give them a new lease on life by sharing them with today's generation of online listeners'.
Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum - Evolving database of the entire corpus of Latin music theory written during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
Coil- Official site at Brainwashed.
Crossfade - Atau Tanaka: Ju-jikan: 10 hours of sound from Japan.
Opsound - The open sound pool - A project of artist Sal Randolph - large and diverse collection of music (creative commons to listen to online or download).
California Gold - Northern California Folk Music from the Thirties - is a multi-format ethnographic field collection that includes sound recordings, still photographs, drawings and written documents from a variety of European ethnic and Spanish- and English-speaking communities in Northern California. The collection comprises 35 hours of folk music recorded in twelve languages representing numerous ethnic groups and 185 musicians.
Hommage à Brel - Filip Jordens sings Jacques Brel - ..."Il ne croyait ni en Dieu, ni au paradis, ni à l'enfer. Selon Brel, le paradis ne pouvait exister que sur terre. Pour lui, l'Homme représentait Dieu".
Zemerl- Jewish Song Lyrics - Yiddish, Hebrew, Ladino and more.
OperaGlass - (Stanford University) - Detailed information on many operas.
Stadtbücherei Stuttgart: Musikbücherei - Outstanding collection of music links.
Philip Glass
African Music Encyclopedia - Listed by author or country, and a collection of links.
Werner Icking Music Archive - contains a miscellany of subject-specific musical material. Click on the name of a subdirectory containing scores, sound files, typesetting source files, additional README-files etc., or follow the composer links to enjoy fully all of the Archive's possibilities.
SheetMusicFox - Download and print free public domain sheet music.
Art Song Central is principally an archive and directory of free, printable sheet music for singers and voice teachers. An emphasis is placed on standard classical and traditional repertoire.
Free Music Archive - "Its not just free music; it's good music."
Chazzanut Online - Comprehensive site on Jewish Liturgical music (chazzanut), with a large amount of cantorial music scores, midi sound, annotated links and background information.
Digital Mozart Edition - Complete scores of all works, letters and documents available online.
Johann Sebastian Bach - A complete scan of the 19th century Bach collected works in djvu format.
Some miscellaneous, individual book-sites.
David Ewick @ Chuo University - Two books about English-Language Verse and Japan: 'Emerging from Absence: An Archive of Japan in English-Language Verse' - 'Japonism, Orientalism, Modernism - A Bibliography of Japan in English-Language Verse of the Early Twentieth Century.'
Artamène ou le grand Cyrus - Le site d'Artamène offre l'intégralité du texte du plus long roman de la littérature française 'Artamène ou le Grand Cyrus' (1649-1653) de Madeleine de Scudéry. The book has been made very accessible (search, etc.) and can be downloaded in different formats.
Coyote's Song - The Teaching Stories of Ursula K. LeGuin by Richard D. Erlich.
The Mabinogion and the Four Branches of the Mabinogi - A quartet of four stories written in the Middle-Welsh - this is a full translation.
The Poems of Ossian - An online transcription of 'James McPherson's The Poems of Ossian' - The Ossian poems, first published in the 1760s, were marketed as translations of lost Scottish bardic epics, but were soon identified as being largely the product of McPherson's imagination..
John Foxe's Book of Martyrs - Provides searchable online texts of the four editions of Foxe's 'Acts and Monuments of the English Martyrs' published during the author's lifetime (1563, 1570,1576, 1583).
ChaosBook.org - Chaos: Classical and Quantum (P. Cvitanovic, R. Artuso, R. Manieri, et al.)
Fields - W. Siegel (C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics) - First free comprehensive textbook on quantum (and classical) field theory.
The Joy of Visual Perception - Peter K. Kaiser - provides supplemental information to those teaching and studying in the field of vision and visual perception.
The Anatomy of Melancholy - Robert Burton (1577-1640) - Full text taken from an edition published in 1850, scanned pages in pdf, or text.
Medieval English Political Writings - ed. James M. Dean (Rochester University) - Near complete online text of the printed book. Full-text of medieval poems and documents with political leaning.
A Looker On in London - Mary H. Krout - Victorian London - Social Investigations/Journalism - (J. Ewing Ritchie, 1860).
Demonic Texts and Textual Demons - Fran Ikka Mayra - The Demonic Tradition, the Self and Popular Fiction.
Death and Dying - an online textbook - Philip A. Pecorino (Prof. of Philosophy, Queensborough Community College, CUNY).
Semiotics for Beginners - Daniel Chandler, lecturer in media and communication studies at the University of Wales (Aberystwyth).
Archimedes - The Palimpsest Project - Devoted to the oldest surviving manuscript containing the work of the Greek thinker Archimedes of Syracuse (ca. 287-212 BC) It includes the only copy of the treatise Method of Mechanical Theorems and it is also the only source in the original Greek for the treatise On Floating Bodies.
Calculus-Based Physics - A Free Physics Textbook - Jeffrey W. Schnick.
Light and Matter - Introductory physics textbooks (pdf and html) released under Creative Commons.
Motion Mountain - Free Physics Textbook - 'With little mathematics, starting of observations of everyday life, the text presents the best stories, images, movies and puzzles in physics'.
Inquiries by Herodotus - (Shlomo Felberbaum) - A serialized new translation of the ancient Greek historical narrative by the fifth century BCE thinker, Herodotus of Halicarnassus.
ReligionFacts - Purpose is to provide 'just the facts' on the world's religions and topics of religious interest. The information on the site is intended to be comprehensive enough for students, teachers, journalists or religious professionals.
Doctor Who e-books - Rare and acclaimed Doctor Who novels available to read for free! - All feature brand new artwork and extensive notes by the original authors. (Virgin New Adventures at BBC)
Earthbound - The five novels, free to download in diverse formats or read online.
Cassel's Old and New Edinburgh - James Grant's history in 6 volumes.
The Legends of the Jews - Louis Ginzberg - Four volumes.
The Cervantes Project (housed at Texas A&M University) - a.o. several searchable editions of the Quijote.
William Godwin's Diary - online edition.
Instead Of A Book, By A Man Too Busy To Write One - Benjamin R. Tucker
Artamène ou le grand Cyrus - Le site d'Artamène offre l'intégralité du texte du plus long roman de la littérature française 'Artamène ou le Grand Cyrus' (1649-1653) de Madeleine de Scudéry. The book has been made very accessible (search, etc.) and can be downloaded in different formats.
Coyote's Song - The Teaching Stories of Ursula K. LeGuin by Richard D. Erlich.
The Mabinogion and the Four Branches of the Mabinogi - A quartet of four stories written in the Middle-Welsh - this is a full translation.
The Poems of Ossian - An online transcription of 'James McPherson's The Poems of Ossian' - The Ossian poems, first published in the 1760s, were marketed as translations of lost Scottish bardic epics, but were soon identified as being largely the product of McPherson's imagination..
John Foxe's Book of Martyrs - Provides searchable online texts of the four editions of Foxe's 'Acts and Monuments of the English Martyrs' published during the author's lifetime (1563, 1570,1576, 1583).
ChaosBook.org - Chaos: Classical and Quantum (P. Cvitanovic, R. Artuso, R. Manieri, et al.)
Fields - W. Siegel (C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics) - First free comprehensive textbook on quantum (and classical) field theory.
The Joy of Visual Perception - Peter K. Kaiser - provides supplemental information to those teaching and studying in the field of vision and visual perception.
The Anatomy of Melancholy - Robert Burton (1577-1640) - Full text taken from an edition published in 1850, scanned pages in pdf, or text.
Medieval English Political Writings - ed. James M. Dean (Rochester University) - Near complete online text of the printed book. Full-text of medieval poems and documents with political leaning.
A Looker On in London - Mary H. Krout - Victorian London - Social Investigations/Journalism - (J. Ewing Ritchie, 1860).
Demonic Texts and Textual Demons - Fran Ikka Mayra - The Demonic Tradition, the Self and Popular Fiction.
Death and Dying - an online textbook - Philip A. Pecorino (Prof. of Philosophy, Queensborough Community College, CUNY).
Semiotics for Beginners - Daniel Chandler, lecturer in media and communication studies at the University of Wales (Aberystwyth).
Archimedes - The Palimpsest Project - Devoted to the oldest surviving manuscript containing the work of the Greek thinker Archimedes of Syracuse (ca. 287-212 BC) It includes the only copy of the treatise Method of Mechanical Theorems and it is also the only source in the original Greek for the treatise On Floating Bodies.
Calculus-Based Physics - A Free Physics Textbook - Jeffrey W. Schnick.
Light and Matter - Introductory physics textbooks (pdf and html) released under Creative Commons.
Motion Mountain - Free Physics Textbook - 'With little mathematics, starting of observations of everyday life, the text presents the best stories, images, movies and puzzles in physics'.
Inquiries by Herodotus - (Shlomo Felberbaum) - A serialized new translation of the ancient Greek historical narrative by the fifth century BCE thinker, Herodotus of Halicarnassus.
ReligionFacts - Purpose is to provide 'just the facts' on the world's religions and topics of religious interest. The information on the site is intended to be comprehensive enough for students, teachers, journalists or religious professionals.
Doctor Who e-books - Rare and acclaimed Doctor Who novels available to read for free! - All feature brand new artwork and extensive notes by the original authors. (Virgin New Adventures at BBC)
Earthbound - The five novels, free to download in diverse formats or read online.
Cassel's Old and New Edinburgh - James Grant's history in 6 volumes.
The Legends of the Jews - Louis Ginzberg - Four volumes.
The Cervantes Project (housed at Texas A&M University) - a.o. several searchable editions of the Quijote.
William Godwin's Diary - online edition.
Instead Of A Book, By A Man Too Busy To Write One - Benjamin R. Tucker
A collection of other useful links
... that will be constantly expanded. Any suggestions? Please let me know, thanks ...
Other sources ... online catalogues ...
The Online Books Page - (Maintained by John Mark Ockerbloom at Penn University - very nice resource for what moves in the field of e-books.)
Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts.
Open Library (a recent initiative from the Internet Archive - cataloguing texts available on the web and books elsewhere, striving to a page on the web for each book, cooperate if you find one that's not there.)
Inkmesh- Find free e-books and compare e-book prices.
ipl2 - (Internet Public Library) - ipl2 is a public service organization and a learning/teaching environment ("Ask an ipl2 librarian") - launched januari 2010 and merges the collections of resources from the Internet Public Library and the Librarians Internet Index websites.
TeleRead - Bring the E-Books Home - News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics.
The Japanese Literature Homepage - Literary news, history, information on authors and works, and links also to e-texts - a.o. the Shosetsu Shinzui (The Essence of the Novel)
Librarian Chick - free resources - links to A LOT (by Stacy Reed).
Historical Text Archive - Prof. Don Mabry's (Mississippi State University) archive is a wide-ranging directory of texts, articles and images which pertain to random subjects in history. 751 articles, 71 books and 7957 links.
Intute - Helping you find the best websites for study and research. (Collaboration of universities of Birmingham, Bristol, Manchester, Nottingham, Oxford, Heriot-Watt University and Manchester Metropolitan University). - Amazing!!!
Nichibunken Databases from the International Research Center for Japanese Studies - 44 rare books viewable and searchable online - collections of maps, photographs, etc.
Kritikos - International and interdisciplinary journal of postmodern cultural sound, text and image. The journal has a full archive dating back to 2004, and many contributions also include video or other media supplements.
The WWW Virtual Library Theatre and Drama - A wealth of useful links, websites and other theatre and drama resources aimed at 'professionals, amateurs, academics and students'.
PhilPapers - Online Research in Philosophy - with links to articles and books (main site editors: David Bourget and David Chalmers).
Library and Archives Canada - Enormous resource for Canadian history and culture.
American Literature - Donna M. Campbell (Washington State University) - Extensive links to webresources for American literature up to the early part of the 20th century.
ORB - The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies (College of Staten Island - City University of New York).
Library and Archival Exhibitions on the Web - (Smithsonian Institution Libraries) - Links to online exhibitions that have been created by libraries, archives and historical societies, as well as to museum online exhibitions with a significant focus on library and archival materials.
PAL - Perspectives in American Literature (Paul P. Reuben) - Aims to provide information on all American literary figures and movements from the sixteenth century to the present.
Literature in Latin-America (LANIC) - (University of Texas) - Extensive list of resources concerning every aspect of literature in South America.
Monde Berbère - Provides primary and secondary source material related to language, literature, history and culture of the Berbers of North Africa - The website is available in French, English and Tamazight (though most of the content is in French and Tamazight).
The Digital Librarian - A librarian's choice of the best of the Web.
Patrimoine numérique - Catalogue des collections numérisées.
Zentrales Verzeichnis Digitalisierter Drücke
Digital Image Library (University of Oxford) - Digitized images from the special collections of the Bodleian Library.
Culture.fr - (Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication) - Vast gateway and information service for all aspects of French culture.
Repositories of Primary Sources (Terry Abraham, Idaho University) - A list of over 5.000 websites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs and other primary sources.
Japan, my Japan - A Guide. (Mitsuharo Matsuoka, Nagoya University) - Also Japanese literature. (At bottom of page links to other literary pages of the editor).
Media Resources Center - Online Media Collections - (Berkeley University) - Miscellaneous collection video and audio - Lectures by James Baldwin, Michel Foucault, Noam Chomsky, ...
Virtuelle Allgemeinbibliothek (Ingrid Strauch) - Information, Bildung, Freizeit, Unterhaltung, Orientierung im WWW - Hyperlinks: Texte, Verzeichnisse, Datenbanken..
Erlanger Liste - (University of Erlangen) - The German list features sets of annotated links on literature, visual arts, photography, encyclopedias, and dictionaries. The site is part of the Germanistik im Internet Platform.
Near Eastern Collections (Yale University) - Extensive listing of both online and library resources related to all aspects of the study of the Near and Middle East.
Khyber.ORG - Pashto Resources - Dedicated to the promotion of poetry, music, art and culture in the Pashto language.or originating in the Afghan/Pakistan border areas in which the language is predominant. Part of the site is in English.
Portals to the World from the Library of Congress - Links to electronic resources from around the world.
Dokumentasjonsprosjektet - Provides online public access to an extensive range of digitised archives and collections relating to many aspects of Norwegian language and culture, including: archaeology, ethnography, folklore, history, medieval studies, lexicography, literature, numismatics, and place-name studies.
The eBook.org - Russian site with a lot of (technical) information regarding e-reading and devices. Large forum with suggestions for e-books.
The Canadian Literature Archive - A comprehensive collection of information about Canadian writers, novelists, poets, and playwrights, as well as books, archives publications, and literary organizations. a good place to go for information on the Canadian literary scene.
The Page - Offers a digest of the web's best 'poetry, essays, language, ideas', updated daily. also included are extensive links to literary resources at the site, article and item level.
Guide to Poetry & Literary Webcasts - (Webguides, Library of Congress).
The American Museum- Repository of Ancient and Modern Fugitive Pieces, &c. Prose and Poetical.
WWW-VL: World History Catalogue - Part of the World Wide Web Virtual Library - enormous collection of resources with a.o. the Yiddish Sources-page.
The OAlster Database - (Started at University of Michigan - taken over by OCLC) - OAlster is a crucial database/catalogue for scholars to locate online digital resources. The best one!!!.
Zorba's Guide to Free Ebooks (Zorba Press - Michael Pastore).
Working on e-text: tools and information
Distributed Proofreaders. Exists about 10 years now - with a lot of volunteers proofreading, providing content, etc. Up to four different rounds through which texts pass ... Ideal if you don't have too much time to spare and don't care to do just a few pages of a book ...
Distributed Proofreaders Europe - European branch (other copyright regulations).
Distributed Proofreaders Canada
David's In-Progress List - listing of books in progress at DP or with individual volunteers.
Notepad++ is a free and handy editor for text and html.
Guiguts is an open source texteditor developed by people at Distributed Proofreaders - and is the one I myself mostly use. It also does a nice job in producing html.
Irfan View is a light-weight (only on resources) image viewer and manipulator.
Bite-Size Edits - Every text deserves new eyes ... a game where players get points for editing. Discover new writers and engage with great authors, while improving the world's sentences. Help edit texts, add your own or find out more.
The Book Oven - we make books (blog).
Memidex - Free online dictionary/thesaurus and more. Based on expanded and improved version of Wordnet (Princeton University). Both UK and US spellings.
The Septic's Companion - English to American dictionary - helps puzzled British English speaking people understand American expressions better, and vice versa.
The Online Etymology Dictionary - from historian and author Douglas Harper.
alphaDictionary - free online dictionaries, from Abenaki to Zulu (about 300 languages).
Dzongkha-English Dictionary (Gov.Bt) - Contents are based on the Dzongkha-English Dictionary, which was published in 2002 as the first of its kind (Dzongkha Development Commission). Online version may differ a little from the printed version in that it contains newly standardised Dzongkha spellings as well as additions and corrections of typographical errors in the dictionary published earlier.
Geiradur Prifysgol Cymru (University of Wales) - A Dictionary of the Welsh Language (viewable online).
Tesoro della lingua italiana delle origini - Online historical dictionary of ancient Italian.
Dictionary of the Scots Language - DSL is a searchable online dictionary of the Scottish language as written and spoken by lowland Scots in Scotland and Ulster from the 12th century onward.
Wordnik - New thesaurus.
Second-hand Books on the Web
AbeBooks.com
BetterWorldBooks
Alibris
Antiqbook - European site for all your antiquarian books.
International League of Antiquarian Booksellers
... Even for people in Europe, American offers - including shipping - are often very interesting ... check it out...
BetterWorldBooks
Alibris
Antiqbook - European site for all your antiquarian books.
International League of Antiquarian Booksellers
... Even for people in Europe, American offers - including shipping - are often very interesting ... check it out...
Books and Literature in general
Who Else Writes Like ...? A reader's guide to fiction authors.
Complete Review - A Literary Saloon and Site of Review - with extensive linkpage for international book reviews.
BiblioReview.com - A Gateway to book reviews and author interviews.
The Internet Review of Books
RALPH (The Review of Arts, Literature, Philosophy and the Humanities)
De Republiek der Letteren (Vrij Nederland) (Dutch)
Poëzieweblog De Contrabas
De Papieren Man - (Dutch) - Literaire berichtgeving à la carte.
Guardian unlimited - Good reviews and coverage of contemporary British literature - completely accessible.
Litsum - Free literature summaries and study guides.
Rare Book Room
Gnooks - Welcome to the World of Literature - ... a self-adapting community based on the gnod-engine. Discover new writers you will like, travel the map of literature, ...
Internet Book List
OCLC Fiction Finder - Provides access to 2.8 million works of fiction.
Quill & Quire - Canada's magazine of book news and reviews.
Thomas R. Pynchon - Essays
Allen Ginsberg - published as well as never-before-published text, photos, hand-written documents, audio and video ...
The Allen Ginsberg Project - "An Allen Ginsberg Gallimaufry" - amazing resource...
Kurt Vonnegut - official site.
Geerten Meijsing - Dutch novelist. - (seems not to work at this moment - checking it out - 04-11)
Thomas Pynchon Wiki - Exploring the novels of Thomas Pynchon and more...
Peter Sloterdijk
Arnon Grunberg
Yukio Mishima
Dylan Thomas - Official site - Thomas reads 'And death shall have no dominion' and 'Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night' (streaming or download at the Internet Archive).
Harold Brodkey Resources on the Web
Richard Dawkins - The Greatest Show on Earth
Daniel Dennett
Spanish Books - Online History of Spanish Literature, written in English and Spanish by Dr Miguel Pérez Rosado - three main periods: medieval age, Golden Age and contemporary literature.
The Beat Page - Pure Beat! Beat Generation Writers, Excerpts and Extensive Photo's.
The History of Comics (Comic Art and Graffix Gallery).
August Strindberg
Elfriede Jelinek
Consciousness, Literature and the Arts - Peer-reviewed online journal that focuses on the relationship between art and literature, and the nature of consciousness as explored in contemporary philosophy, cognitive science, neuroscience, computer science and physics.
Contemporary Writers in the UK (British Council) - 'This unique and searchable database contains up-to-date profiles of some of the UK and Commonwealth's most important living writers - their biographies, bibliographies, critical reviews, prizes and photographs'.
Jeanette Winterson
Labyrinthe - littérature française contemporaine (Christine Genin) - Immense gateway to online resources for the study of contemporary French literature.
SovLit.com - Soviet Literature Summarized - (Harvard) - Summaries and author's biographies of Russian literature during Soviet period.
Danteworlds (University of Texas, Austin) - An integrated multimedia journey-combining artistic images, textual commentary and audio recordings-through the three realms of the afterlife (Inferno, Purgatory, Paradise) presented in Dante's Divine Comedy.
Société Marguérite Duras
Daten der deutschen Literatur - (Facts on German literature) provides facts about numerous German speaking authors.
LosNoveles.net - Digital bi-monthly literary magazine for Spanish and Latin American new literature. Poems and short stories. Fully accessible archive.
August Strindberg - Strindbergmuseet.
Literatuurgeschiedenis.nl - Geschiedenis van de Nederlandse literatuur - Van 'Alla vogala' tot 'Tirza'.
Nederlands Letterenfonds - Extensive information on authors and literature in the low countries (Holland and Belgium).
Colin Wilson World - An appreciation of the philosopher, critic and novelist.
Dariana - Portal de la literatura nicaragüense (A.o. Poetry of Ruben Dario.)
Ivo Andric - (Ivo Andric Foundation) - The 20th century (1892-1975) Serbian writer (Nobel Prize: 1961) is mostly famous for his historical novels set in the Balkan. Excellent starting point for anyone interested in 20th century Serbian literary history.
Academia Brasileira de Letras
Literatura Ecuatoriana - Panorama of 20th and 21st century literature in Ecuador.
The Barcelona Review - Review of contemporary fiction - English, Spanish, French and Catalan.
La Habana Elegante - Three-monthly online version of the Cuban literary magazine.
El Hablador - revista virtual de literatura - Quality online magazine from Peru.- Focusing to some extent on Peruvian literature, the scope is reasonably broad.
Memoria de leitura - Read Only Memory Project - Good source for Brazilian literature with some texts available. Investigates different aspects of reading.
lletra - Literatura catalan a internet - Vast, quality website devoted to Catalan literature.
African Writing Online - Many literatures, One voice.
The Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Website (Université de Liège, Belgium) - site dedicated to this Nigerian author - browse and follow links.
Africa, South of the Sahara (Stanford University) - links to African literature on the Web.
Projeto Releituras - Devoted to Lusophone literature, with emphasis on Brazil, and makes available samples of work by a wide selection of writers (including translations into Portuguese). Also a film library where users may watch and download a selection of short films by Brazilian directors.
Literarisches Leben - (Universität Göttingen) - Internetdatenbank und Dokumentationsstelle zur Deutschsprachigen Literatur 1945-2000.
Modern Russian Writers - Reference Guide-On-Line - (Hokkaido University) - A comprehensive database of the works of contemporary Russian writers. The list - of the several hundred authors - is also available in Cyrillic.
Literary History - Selected annotated links to critical articles on British and American literature. All secondary works have been screened.
The Literary Review - Internet version of an international journal of Contemporary Writing, which has been published quarterly by Fairleigh Dickinson University since 1957. The full text of articles and reviews can be downloaded in pdf.
Cuba literaria - Portal de Literatura Cubana.
LitSite Alaska - Provides a range of resources dedicated to promoting literacy and the study of literature with special emphasis on Alaskan cultural heritage.
Decameron Web - (Massimo Riva at Brown University) - Extensive information about the life and work of Boccaccio. Texts are available in Italian and in English in several translations.
The International Virginia Woolf Society - (Modern Language Association of America, maintained by Melba Kuddy-Keane at Toronto University).
The Tibetan and Himalayan Library - The THL is a publisher of websites, information services and networking facilities relating to the Tibetan plateau and other Himalayan regions.
Cairo Review of Books - Monthly supplement to Al-Ahram weekly, current affairs newspaper published in Cairo. All types of literature and non-fiction are covered. Of particular value is the way it offers an Arab perspective on publications about the Middle East and Palestine.
Best of Legends - Website devoted to the enduring influence of myths and legends.
The Oxonian Review - The Oxonian Review of Books is a full-text online journal 'that is published three times a year by graduate members of the University of Oxford'. The journal also features essays, and archive is freely available.
Indian Literature (Indianetzone) - Extensive resource about Indian literature, ancient and contemporary.
Literary Kicks - Opinions, Observations and Research - Devoted to experimental literary movements. Beat generation, the American transcendentalists, the French aesthetes (referred to as 'La Bohème'), more recent French writers, and a grouping of postmodern experimental novelists.
The Arab Writers Union - contains materials related to literary works by Arab authors from different regions. Most are amateur. Several sections: literary studies, novels, short stories, children's literature, poetry and theatre.
Ovid's Metamorphoses - An introduction and commentary with discussion of myths and links to sources and influences in art and literature (Larry A. Brown).
Arte y Literatura Guatemalteca - Rich and valuable website devoted to Guatemalan literature from the pre-columbian age to the present day. It offers profiles of some of the best-known writers - novelists, poets, playwrights and literary critics - from Guatemala, together with samples of their work, critical reviews and scholarly articles.
It Fryske boek - Aims to promote reading, production and sale of Frisian books. The website presents information about promotional activities as well as about books and authors.
The Sakakini Cultural Centre - The Foundation works at organising projects that express intimately and creatively the Palestinian experience. This section presents some of the most prominent and emerging living Palestinian authors whose works are available in English.
Books from Lithuania - Promotes Lithuanian literature in the world. Lots of information on authors and works.
Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide (Paul P. Reuben, Prof. Em., California State University) - Detailed guide to finding literary criticism and commentary about American authors. Arranged by literary periods and includes introductions and general bibliographies for each period.
Bookslut - Proclaiming a deep love of books and promising to judge judiciously, this site is both a monthly web magazine and a daily blog, providing news, reviews, and commentary. The site was created by the magazine's editor-in-chief, Jessa Crispin.
Today in Literature - Features a new, original biographical story each calendar day about the great writers, books and events in literary history. Articles are supplemented with links to recommended websites where you will find author biographies, electronic texts, reviews, quotes and other reference materials of interest to avid readers.
The Modern Word - Provides biographical and critical essays, bibliographies, and links relating to experimental twentieth century authors, such as Pynchon, Kafka and Joyce.
ArmenianHouse.org - ...is an electronic library featuring a huge collection of documents on Armenian literature, history, religion and anything else Armenia-related. More texts are available in the Armenian and Russian sections of the library.
ThePedestalMagazine.com - A free bi-monthly online magazine featuring poetry, fiction, non-fiction, visual art and interviews with established writers.
Web del sol - Provides a mix of contemporary literature, as well as metazines, blogs, video, music, culture sites, and cinema arts.
Laurence Sterne in Cyberspace
The Paris Review - The DNA of Literature - An archive for hundreds of "Writers-at-Work" interviews "with poets, novelists, playwrights, essayists, critics, [and] musicians," previously published in the literary journal The Paris Review, starting in the 1950s. The interview ...
Academi - Welsh National Literature Promotion.
Saltana - A Journal of Literature & Translations (Catalan) - "We publish poetry, fiction and essays from all periods of history and national traditions, in bilingual or multilingual editions, from any language into Spanish, Catalan, Basque, Galician and Portuguese or vice versa."
Magister - travaux dirigés de français - Lycée , Prépas, BTS. (La littérature française pour l'enseignement.)
Iraqiwriter.com - some work in Arabic.
BibliOdyssey - books - illustrations - science - history: blog with a marvellous collection of book art.
The Living Handbook of Narratology - based on the Handbook of Narratology, first published by Walter de Gruyter in 2009. As an open access publication, it makes available all of the 32 articles contained in the original print version—and more: the LHN offers the additional functionality of electronic publishing including full text search facility, one-click-export of reference data and digital humanities tools for text analysis.
The Forgotten Books Page - where forgotten books are remembered - reviews and links. A Gem!!!
Complete Review - A Literary Saloon and Site of Review - with extensive linkpage for international book reviews.
BiblioReview.com - A Gateway to book reviews and author interviews.
The Internet Review of Books
RALPH (The Review of Arts, Literature, Philosophy and the Humanities)
De Republiek der Letteren (Vrij Nederland) (Dutch)
Poëzieweblog De Contrabas
De Papieren Man - (Dutch) - Literaire berichtgeving à la carte.
Guardian unlimited - Good reviews and coverage of contemporary British literature - completely accessible.
Litsum - Free literature summaries and study guides.
Rare Book Room
Gnooks - Welcome to the World of Literature - ... a self-adapting community based on the gnod-engine. Discover new writers you will like, travel the map of literature, ...
Internet Book List
OCLC Fiction Finder - Provides access to 2.8 million works of fiction.
Quill & Quire - Canada's magazine of book news and reviews.
Thomas R. Pynchon - Essays
Allen Ginsberg - published as well as never-before-published text, photos, hand-written documents, audio and video ...
The Allen Ginsberg Project - "An Allen Ginsberg Gallimaufry" - amazing resource...
Kurt Vonnegut - official site.
Geerten Meijsing - Dutch novelist. - (seems not to work at this moment - checking it out - 04-11)
Thomas Pynchon Wiki - Exploring the novels of Thomas Pynchon and more...
Peter Sloterdijk
Arnon Grunberg
Yukio Mishima
Dylan Thomas - Official site - Thomas reads 'And death shall have no dominion' and 'Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night' (streaming or download at the Internet Archive).
Harold Brodkey Resources on the Web
Richard Dawkins - The Greatest Show on Earth
Daniel Dennett
Spanish Books - Online History of Spanish Literature, written in English and Spanish by Dr Miguel Pérez Rosado - three main periods: medieval age, Golden Age and contemporary literature.
The Beat Page - Pure Beat! Beat Generation Writers, Excerpts and Extensive Photo's.
The History of Comics (Comic Art and Graffix Gallery).
August Strindberg
Elfriede Jelinek
Consciousness, Literature and the Arts - Peer-reviewed online journal that focuses on the relationship between art and literature, and the nature of consciousness as explored in contemporary philosophy, cognitive science, neuroscience, computer science and physics.
Contemporary Writers in the UK (British Council) - 'This unique and searchable database contains up-to-date profiles of some of the UK and Commonwealth's most important living writers - their biographies, bibliographies, critical reviews, prizes and photographs'.
Jeanette Winterson
Labyrinthe - littérature française contemporaine (Christine Genin) - Immense gateway to online resources for the study of contemporary French literature.
SovLit.com - Soviet Literature Summarized - (Harvard) - Summaries and author's biographies of Russian literature during Soviet period.
Danteworlds (University of Texas, Austin) - An integrated multimedia journey-combining artistic images, textual commentary and audio recordings-through the three realms of the afterlife (Inferno, Purgatory, Paradise) presented in Dante's Divine Comedy.
Société Marguérite Duras
Daten der deutschen Literatur - (Facts on German literature) provides facts about numerous German speaking authors.
LosNoveles.net - Digital bi-monthly literary magazine for Spanish and Latin American new literature. Poems and short stories. Fully accessible archive.
August Strindberg - Strindbergmuseet.
Literatuurgeschiedenis.nl - Geschiedenis van de Nederlandse literatuur - Van 'Alla vogala' tot 'Tirza'.
Nederlands Letterenfonds - Extensive information on authors and literature in the low countries (Holland and Belgium).
Colin Wilson World - An appreciation of the philosopher, critic and novelist.
Dariana - Portal de la literatura nicaragüense (A.o. Poetry of Ruben Dario.)
Ivo Andric - (Ivo Andric Foundation) - The 20th century (1892-1975) Serbian writer (Nobel Prize: 1961) is mostly famous for his historical novels set in the Balkan. Excellent starting point for anyone interested in 20th century Serbian literary history.
Academia Brasileira de Letras
Literatura Ecuatoriana - Panorama of 20th and 21st century literature in Ecuador.
The Barcelona Review - Review of contemporary fiction - English, Spanish, French and Catalan.
La Habana Elegante - Three-monthly online version of the Cuban literary magazine.
El Hablador - revista virtual de literatura - Quality online magazine from Peru.- Focusing to some extent on Peruvian literature, the scope is reasonably broad.
Memoria de leitura - Read Only Memory Project - Good source for Brazilian literature with some texts available. Investigates different aspects of reading.
lletra - Literatura catalan a internet - Vast, quality website devoted to Catalan literature.
African Writing Online - Many literatures, One voice.
The Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Website (Université de Liège, Belgium) - site dedicated to this Nigerian author - browse and follow links.
Africa, South of the Sahara (Stanford University) - links to African literature on the Web.
Projeto Releituras - Devoted to Lusophone literature, with emphasis on Brazil, and makes available samples of work by a wide selection of writers (including translations into Portuguese). Also a film library where users may watch and download a selection of short films by Brazilian directors.
Literarisches Leben - (Universität Göttingen) - Internetdatenbank und Dokumentationsstelle zur Deutschsprachigen Literatur 1945-2000.
Modern Russian Writers - Reference Guide-On-Line - (Hokkaido University) - A comprehensive database of the works of contemporary Russian writers. The list - of the several hundred authors - is also available in Cyrillic.
Literary History - Selected annotated links to critical articles on British and American literature. All secondary works have been screened.
The Literary Review - Internet version of an international journal of Contemporary Writing, which has been published quarterly by Fairleigh Dickinson University since 1957. The full text of articles and reviews can be downloaded in pdf.
Cuba literaria - Portal de Literatura Cubana.
LitSite Alaska - Provides a range of resources dedicated to promoting literacy and the study of literature with special emphasis on Alaskan cultural heritage.
Decameron Web - (Massimo Riva at Brown University) - Extensive information about the life and work of Boccaccio. Texts are available in Italian and in English in several translations.
The International Virginia Woolf Society - (Modern Language Association of America, maintained by Melba Kuddy-Keane at Toronto University).
The Tibetan and Himalayan Library - The THL is a publisher of websites, information services and networking facilities relating to the Tibetan plateau and other Himalayan regions.
Cairo Review of Books - Monthly supplement to Al-Ahram weekly, current affairs newspaper published in Cairo. All types of literature and non-fiction are covered. Of particular value is the way it offers an Arab perspective on publications about the Middle East and Palestine.
Best of Legends - Website devoted to the enduring influence of myths and legends.
The Oxonian Review - The Oxonian Review of Books is a full-text online journal 'that is published three times a year by graduate members of the University of Oxford'. The journal also features essays, and archive is freely available.
Indian Literature (Indianetzone) - Extensive resource about Indian literature, ancient and contemporary.
Literary Kicks - Opinions, Observations and Research - Devoted to experimental literary movements. Beat generation, the American transcendentalists, the French aesthetes (referred to as 'La Bohème'), more recent French writers, and a grouping of postmodern experimental novelists.
The Arab Writers Union - contains materials related to literary works by Arab authors from different regions. Most are amateur. Several sections: literary studies, novels, short stories, children's literature, poetry and theatre.
Ovid's Metamorphoses - An introduction and commentary with discussion of myths and links to sources and influences in art and literature (Larry A. Brown).
Arte y Literatura Guatemalteca - Rich and valuable website devoted to Guatemalan literature from the pre-columbian age to the present day. It offers profiles of some of the best-known writers - novelists, poets, playwrights and literary critics - from Guatemala, together with samples of their work, critical reviews and scholarly articles.
It Fryske boek - Aims to promote reading, production and sale of Frisian books. The website presents information about promotional activities as well as about books and authors.
The Sakakini Cultural Centre - The Foundation works at organising projects that express intimately and creatively the Palestinian experience. This section presents some of the most prominent and emerging living Palestinian authors whose works are available in English.
Books from Lithuania - Promotes Lithuanian literature in the world. Lots of information on authors and works.
Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide (Paul P. Reuben, Prof. Em., California State University) - Detailed guide to finding literary criticism and commentary about American authors. Arranged by literary periods and includes introductions and general bibliographies for each period.
Bookslut - Proclaiming a deep love of books and promising to judge judiciously, this site is both a monthly web magazine and a daily blog, providing news, reviews, and commentary. The site was created by the magazine's editor-in-chief, Jessa Crispin.
Today in Literature - Features a new, original biographical story each calendar day about the great writers, books and events in literary history. Articles are supplemented with links to recommended websites where you will find author biographies, electronic texts, reviews, quotes and other reference materials of interest to avid readers.
The Modern Word - Provides biographical and critical essays, bibliographies, and links relating to experimental twentieth century authors, such as Pynchon, Kafka and Joyce.
ArmenianHouse.org - ...is an electronic library featuring a huge collection of documents on Armenian literature, history, religion and anything else Armenia-related. More texts are available in the Armenian and Russian sections of the library.
ThePedestalMagazine.com - A free bi-monthly online magazine featuring poetry, fiction, non-fiction, visual art and interviews with established writers.
Web del sol - Provides a mix of contemporary literature, as well as metazines, blogs, video, music, culture sites, and cinema arts.
Laurence Sterne in Cyberspace
The Paris Review - The DNA of Literature - An archive for hundreds of "Writers-at-Work" interviews "with poets, novelists, playwrights, essayists, critics, [and] musicians," previously published in the literary journal The Paris Review, starting in the 1950s. The interview ...
Academi - Welsh National Literature Promotion.
Saltana - A Journal of Literature & Translations (Catalan) - "We publish poetry, fiction and essays from all periods of history and national traditions, in bilingual or multilingual editions, from any language into Spanish, Catalan, Basque, Galician and Portuguese or vice versa."
Magister - travaux dirigés de français - Lycée , Prépas, BTS. (La littérature française pour l'enseignement.)
Iraqiwriter.com - some work in Arabic.
BibliOdyssey - books - illustrations - science - history: blog with a marvellous collection of book art.
The Living Handbook of Narratology - based on the Handbook of Narratology, first published by Walter de Gruyter in 2009. As an open access publication, it makes available all of the 32 articles contained in the original print version—and more: the LHN offers the additional functionality of electronic publishing including full text search facility, one-click-export of reference data and digital humanities tools for text analysis.
The Forgotten Books Page - where forgotten books are remembered - reviews and links. A Gem!!!
Research, education and scientific publications
Coursera - free online courses from US Universities - Princeton, Stanford, Michigan Penn,...
Cogprints - Cognitive Sciences e‐Print Archive.
Digital Library of the Commons (Indiana University).
Electronics Library - A free technical library and professional community for electrical and electronic engineers
Wolfram Mathworld - A comprehensive and interactive mathematics encyclopedia intended for students, educators, maths enthousiasts and researchers..
Anthro.Net - research engine for the social sciences. (21–12 - "link locked" - checking out)
Anthropology Resources on the Internet
Encyclopedia Mythica - contains more than 7.000 articles.
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Facts - Information - Research - Refdesk.com
Center for Literary Computing
WebEc - World Wide Web Resources in Economics - not maintained anymore after May, 2007.
Intute - Helping you find the best websites for study and research. (Collaboration of universities of Birmingham, Bristol, Manchester, Nottingham, Oxford, Heriot‐Watt University and Manchester Metropolitan University).
American National Corpus - The project is creating a massive electronical collection of American English, including texts of all genres and transcripts of spoken data produced from 1990 onward.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas - online version of the Dictionary (ed. by Philip P. Wiener, 1972–73). Over 300 entries on the development of key ideas in Western thought, across a range of subjects.
The WWW Virtual Library - An authoritative network of online links pages for various subject areas.
MIT Open Course Ware - Open courses at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1.900) - lecture notes and textbooks.
World Lecture Hall (University of Texas, Austin) - Offering a collection of annotated links to course materials in a variety of subjects in the humanities and sciences.
Jim Breen's Japanese Page (Monash University) - Massive resource about Japan.
A Writer's Reference (Diane Hacker) - A Writer's Online Resources - Research and Documentation Online.
Wikiquote - Free online collection of quotations -Available in over 30 languages, the site quotes from literary works, films, proverbs and television shows, amongst others.
Orpheus: The Ancient World - Ancient Greek, Roman mythology and thematic connections - Interesting questions about the place of myth in the world in general, and its relevance toward all human beings.
Tutor Hunt - Private Tutors & Personal Tutors For Home Tuition - Free service in the UK for teachers and pupils.
National Library of Medicine (US) - Online exhibitions and digital projects.
Afrikaans Studiecentrum - African Study Center (Leiden, Nederland)
African Studies Association - Some links under 'resources'.
Afrique francophone - Links on this page are focused on, but not limited to francophone Africa.
JewishEncyclopedia.com - Contains the complete content of the Jewish Encyclopedia as it was originally published between 1901 and 1906, in 12 volumes in English. A major source of information on Jewish history, culture and religion up until the 19th century.
Thomas Green's Arthurian Resources - Website dedicated to the study of medieval legends of King Arthur. The essays on the site are presented (in pdf) in a scholarly way with extensive bibliographies. Also provided are links to other Arthurian sites.
Darkness Visible - A Resource for Studying Milton's Paradise Lost
In Our Time - Science Archive - BBC Radio 4 science program (Melvyn Bragg).
Oxford University Turkish Studies - Turkish for Self‐Study.
Internet Mathematician - Free teach yourself tutorial on the web, teaching internet information skills for mathematics.
H‐Africa - Africa's history, culture and African studies. Essential online resource for African studies in all disciplines including history, social studies, literature and film.
Icelandic Online Dictionary and Readings - (University of Wisconsin‐Madison) - public‐access internet resource developed to complement the University of Iceland's internet course Icelandic Online. Consists of interactive lessons and exercises, the unabridged content of the prestigious 1989 Islensk‐ensk orđabók (Concise Icelandic‐English Dictionary), and a set of readings in modern Icelandic life, literature and culture.
An Etymological Dictionary of Classical Mythology
So you really want to learn French - Online French language learning resource for English speakers of an intermediate standard. The website features interactive vocabulary games, a verb conjugator and various other tools and resources. Of particular note is the extensive grammar reference which contains 64 units targeted at AS/A level and undergraduate students.
Scots Project - The Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech - Aims to create a collection of audio and visual material and texts in electronic form which relate to language usage in Scotland (Scots and Scottish English, as well as other community languages.) The constantly evolving corpus is available online and is intended to present a linguistic picture of contemporary Scotland.
Classical Myth - The Ancient Sources - A concise guide to the major classical writings which provide our source material for the myths of the Olympian gods and goddesses, illustrated with a selection of images from ancient and modern artists.
Guarani Nanduti Rogue - Comprehensive searchable website which is devoted to the Guarani language and Paraguayan culture. Paraguay is the only Latin American country where an indigenous language shares official status with Spanish; about two‐thirds of the population speaks Guarani.
A Vision of Britain through Time - ...between 1801 and 2001. Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions. The largest collection of historical British travel writing on the web, each author gives a different perspective on the town and villages they visited.
Online Courses - Comprehensive information source for continuing and online education.
Connexions - A place to view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks that can be organized as courses, books, reports … Anyone can view and contribute.
Free Electronic Journals - Mathewson‐IGT Knowledge Center (University of Nevada, Reno) - Links to 1.500 free online academic journals, on almost 100 subjects.
Digital Dialects - Free online tutorials for over 50 languages teach basic vocabulary and verb use. Audio lessons and interactive games make learning a new language more fun than ever before. Learn words in Spanish, French, German, English, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, Russian and more.
Language Tools - Provides useful tools for translating, looking up words, thesauruses, a crossword and scrabble solver and a dictionary of technical or industry specific terminology.
Middle English Compendium - "The MEC has been designed to offer easy access to and interconnectivity between three major Middle English electronic resources: an electronic version of the Middle English Dictionary, a HyperBibliography of Middle English prose and verse based on the MED bibliographies, and an associated network of electronic resources."
WebExhibits - An interactive museum - 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.
World History Archives - (Hartford Web Publishing) - Offers documents to support the study of world history from a working‐class and non‐Eurocentric perspective.
VITELIU - The Languages of Ancient Italy - Information about the languages spoken in Italy before Latin was generally adopted.
Interactive Ancient Mediterranean - Online atlas of the ancient Mediterranean world designed to serve the needs and interests of students and teachers in high‐school, community college and university courses in classics, ancient history, geography, archaeology and related fields.
Latin Dictionary and Grammar Aid (University of Notre Dame) - Search for English definitions of 15.000 Latin words. There's also an accompanying alphabetical wordlist and grammar aid, with examples of translations for the various uses of several noun cases, and the endings for regular nouns, adjectives, active verbs and present participles.
Free Online Dictionary of Computing
CliffsNotes - Literature Study Guides.
Scholarpedia
Federal Resources for Educational Excellence - An annotated directory of "hundreds of Federally supported teaching and learning resources." Searchable, and browsable by subject (including arts, foreign languages, mathematics, health and safety, and science).
Sparknotes - Didn't have time to read the book for class? If so, come here to find out about the characters and get a summary of chapters. Or, if you already read the book, you can quiz yourself with the study questions.
glbtq - The world's largest encyclopedia of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer culture.
World Scripture - A Comparative Anthology of Sacred Texts - An online version of the text by the same name, this site contains over 4,000 scriptural passages from 268 sacred texts and 55 oral traditions, organized into 164 different themes common to all traditions.
Scribbling Women - A project of The Public Media Foundation that dramatizes stories by American women writers for national radio broadcast. This site provides classroom resources for teaching the rich tradition of American literature by women.
EDSITEment - Offers a treasure trove for teachers, students, and parents searching for high‐quality material on the Internet in the subject areas of literature and language arts, foreign languages, art and culture, and history and social studies. EDSITEment is a partnership among the National Endowment for the Humanities, Verizon Foundation, and the National Trust for the Humanities.
Free Online Courses from Great Universities (Charles Sturt University - Library Services).
Voice of the Shuttle - [First impression after some browsing: a lot of the links seem out‐of‐date - site seems to be under maintenance right now] - Web Site for Humanities Research. A vast database containing general philosophical resources such as guides to philosophy on the Internet; information about modern philosophical movements; materials about philosophers and their writings including interviews, critical writings, links ...VoS is woven by Alan Liu of the U. California, Santa Barbara, English Department with a team of department graduate students and others.
EpistemeLinks - Philosophy Resources on the Internet. The electronic texts section provides a database of over 2.100 electronic texts by famous philosophers throughout history.
Open Yale Courses - Courses about a wide range of topics, literature and sciences - available for download as text (htm), audio or video.
Fathom (Columbia University) - The Source for Online Learning - Collaboration of major universities and museums, that makes freely availble seminars, essays articles,...
Malay Concordance Project - (Australian National University) - a growing corpus of classical Malay texts, now comprising over 150 texts and 5.7 million words, including 130,000 verses. These texts can be searched on‐line to provide useful information about contexts in which words are used, etc.
Old Babylonian Text Corpus
Ottoman Text Archive Project - (University of Washington - Bilkent University)
Germanic Lexicon Project - Dictionaries, wordlists, grammars for historic Germanic languages and other Indo‐European languages.
Anarchy Archives - An Online Research Center on History and Theory of Anarchism.
Fraser - Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research - A digital library of documents relating to the history of the Federal Reserve System, and the economic and banking history of the United States.
Free Online College Courses (Bob Rankin) - links to e.g. M.I.T., Stanford, Tufts, for the free online courses.
Free Online Courses 2 (Bob Rankin - part deux) - ...'all you need is a computer with an internet connection and the will to learn...'
Worldwide Science - is a global science gateway—accelerating scientific discovery and progress through a multilateral partnership to enable federated searching of national and international scientific databases and portals.
Encyclopedia of Life - Global access to knowledge about life on Earth.
The Tutor Pages (London, UK) - ...allows students to contact tutors for free, and to browse hundreds of expert articles written by the tutors themselves.
Cogprints - Cognitive Sciences e‐Print Archive.
Digital Library of the Commons (Indiana University).
Electronics Library - A free technical library and professional community for electrical and electronic engineers
Wolfram Mathworld - A comprehensive and interactive mathematics encyclopedia intended for students, educators, maths enthousiasts and researchers..
Anthro.Net - research engine for the social sciences. (21–12 - "link locked" - checking out)
Anthropology Resources on the Internet
Encyclopedia Mythica - contains more than 7.000 articles.
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Facts - Information - Research - Refdesk.com
Center for Literary Computing
WebEc - World Wide Web Resources in Economics - not maintained anymore after May, 2007.
Intute - Helping you find the best websites for study and research. (Collaboration of universities of Birmingham, Bristol, Manchester, Nottingham, Oxford, Heriot‐Watt University and Manchester Metropolitan University).
American National Corpus - The project is creating a massive electronical collection of American English, including texts of all genres and transcripts of spoken data produced from 1990 onward.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas - online version of the Dictionary (ed. by Philip P. Wiener, 1972–73). Over 300 entries on the development of key ideas in Western thought, across a range of subjects.
The WWW Virtual Library - An authoritative network of online links pages for various subject areas.
MIT Open Course Ware - Open courses at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1.900) - lecture notes and textbooks.
World Lecture Hall (University of Texas, Austin) - Offering a collection of annotated links to course materials in a variety of subjects in the humanities and sciences.
Jim Breen's Japanese Page (Monash University) - Massive resource about Japan.
A Writer's Reference (Diane Hacker) - A Writer's Online Resources - Research and Documentation Online.
Wikiquote - Free online collection of quotations -Available in over 30 languages, the site quotes from literary works, films, proverbs and television shows, amongst others.
Orpheus: The Ancient World - Ancient Greek, Roman mythology and thematic connections - Interesting questions about the place of myth in the world in general, and its relevance toward all human beings.
Tutor Hunt - Private Tutors & Personal Tutors For Home Tuition - Free service in the UK for teachers and pupils.
National Library of Medicine (US) - Online exhibitions and digital projects.
Afrikaans Studiecentrum - African Study Center (Leiden, Nederland)
African Studies Association - Some links under 'resources'.
Afrique francophone - Links on this page are focused on, but not limited to francophone Africa.
JewishEncyclopedia.com - Contains the complete content of the Jewish Encyclopedia as it was originally published between 1901 and 1906, in 12 volumes in English. A major source of information on Jewish history, culture and religion up until the 19th century.
Thomas Green's Arthurian Resources - Website dedicated to the study of medieval legends of King Arthur. The essays on the site are presented (in pdf) in a scholarly way with extensive bibliographies. Also provided are links to other Arthurian sites.
Darkness Visible - A Resource for Studying Milton's Paradise Lost
In Our Time - Science Archive - BBC Radio 4 science program (Melvyn Bragg).
Oxford University Turkish Studies - Turkish for Self‐Study.
Internet Mathematician - Free teach yourself tutorial on the web, teaching internet information skills for mathematics.
H‐Africa - Africa's history, culture and African studies. Essential online resource for African studies in all disciplines including history, social studies, literature and film.
Icelandic Online Dictionary and Readings - (University of Wisconsin‐Madison) - public‐access internet resource developed to complement the University of Iceland's internet course Icelandic Online. Consists of interactive lessons and exercises, the unabridged content of the prestigious 1989 Islensk‐ensk orđabók (Concise Icelandic‐English Dictionary), and a set of readings in modern Icelandic life, literature and culture.
An Etymological Dictionary of Classical Mythology
So you really want to learn French - Online French language learning resource for English speakers of an intermediate standard. The website features interactive vocabulary games, a verb conjugator and various other tools and resources. Of particular note is the extensive grammar reference which contains 64 units targeted at AS/A level and undergraduate students.
Scots Project - The Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech - Aims to create a collection of audio and visual material and texts in electronic form which relate to language usage in Scotland (Scots and Scottish English, as well as other community languages.) The constantly evolving corpus is available online and is intended to present a linguistic picture of contemporary Scotland.
Classical Myth - The Ancient Sources - A concise guide to the major classical writings which provide our source material for the myths of the Olympian gods and goddesses, illustrated with a selection of images from ancient and modern artists.
Guarani Nanduti Rogue - Comprehensive searchable website which is devoted to the Guarani language and Paraguayan culture. Paraguay is the only Latin American country where an indigenous language shares official status with Spanish; about two‐thirds of the population speaks Guarani.
A Vision of Britain through Time - ...between 1801 and 2001. Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions. The largest collection of historical British travel writing on the web, each author gives a different perspective on the town and villages they visited.
Online Courses - Comprehensive information source for continuing and online education.
Connexions - A place to view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks that can be organized as courses, books, reports … Anyone can view and contribute.
Free Electronic Journals - Mathewson‐IGT Knowledge Center (University of Nevada, Reno) - Links to 1.500 free online academic journals, on almost 100 subjects.
Digital Dialects - Free online tutorials for over 50 languages teach basic vocabulary and verb use. Audio lessons and interactive games make learning a new language more fun than ever before. Learn words in Spanish, French, German, English, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, Russian and more.
Language Tools - Provides useful tools for translating, looking up words, thesauruses, a crossword and scrabble solver and a dictionary of technical or industry specific terminology.
Middle English Compendium - "The MEC has been designed to offer easy access to and interconnectivity between three major Middle English electronic resources: an electronic version of the Middle English Dictionary, a HyperBibliography of Middle English prose and verse based on the MED bibliographies, and an associated network of electronic resources."
WebExhibits - An interactive museum - 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.
World History Archives - (Hartford Web Publishing) - Offers documents to support the study of world history from a working‐class and non‐Eurocentric perspective.
VITELIU - The Languages of Ancient Italy - Information about the languages spoken in Italy before Latin was generally adopted.
Interactive Ancient Mediterranean - Online atlas of the ancient Mediterranean world designed to serve the needs and interests of students and teachers in high‐school, community college and university courses in classics, ancient history, geography, archaeology and related fields.
Latin Dictionary and Grammar Aid (University of Notre Dame) - Search for English definitions of 15.000 Latin words. There's also an accompanying alphabetical wordlist and grammar aid, with examples of translations for the various uses of several noun cases, and the endings for regular nouns, adjectives, active verbs and present participles.
Free Online Dictionary of Computing
CliffsNotes - Literature Study Guides.
Scholarpedia
Federal Resources for Educational Excellence - An annotated directory of "hundreds of Federally supported teaching and learning resources." Searchable, and browsable by subject (including arts, foreign languages, mathematics, health and safety, and science).
Sparknotes - Didn't have time to read the book for class? If so, come here to find out about the characters and get a summary of chapters. Or, if you already read the book, you can quiz yourself with the study questions.
glbtq - The world's largest encyclopedia of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer culture.
World Scripture - A Comparative Anthology of Sacred Texts - An online version of the text by the same name, this site contains over 4,000 scriptural passages from 268 sacred texts and 55 oral traditions, organized into 164 different themes common to all traditions.
Scribbling Women - A project of The Public Media Foundation that dramatizes stories by American women writers for national radio broadcast. This site provides classroom resources for teaching the rich tradition of American literature by women.
EDSITEment - Offers a treasure trove for teachers, students, and parents searching for high‐quality material on the Internet in the subject areas of literature and language arts, foreign languages, art and culture, and history and social studies. EDSITEment is a partnership among the National Endowment for the Humanities, Verizon Foundation, and the National Trust for the Humanities.
Free Online Courses from Great Universities (Charles Sturt University - Library Services).
Voice of the Shuttle - [First impression after some browsing: a lot of the links seem out‐of‐date - site seems to be under maintenance right now] - Web Site for Humanities Research. A vast database containing general philosophical resources such as guides to philosophy on the Internet; information about modern philosophical movements; materials about philosophers and their writings including interviews, critical writings, links ...VoS is woven by Alan Liu of the U. California, Santa Barbara, English Department with a team of department graduate students and others.
EpistemeLinks - Philosophy Resources on the Internet. The electronic texts section provides a database of over 2.100 electronic texts by famous philosophers throughout history.
Open Yale Courses - Courses about a wide range of topics, literature and sciences - available for download as text (htm), audio or video.
Fathom (Columbia University) - The Source for Online Learning - Collaboration of major universities and museums, that makes freely availble seminars, essays articles,...
Malay Concordance Project - (Australian National University) - a growing corpus of classical Malay texts, now comprising over 150 texts and 5.7 million words, including 130,000 verses. These texts can be searched on‐line to provide useful information about contexts in which words are used, etc.
Old Babylonian Text Corpus
Ottoman Text Archive Project - (University of Washington - Bilkent University)
Germanic Lexicon Project - Dictionaries, wordlists, grammars for historic Germanic languages and other Indo‐European languages.
Anarchy Archives - An Online Research Center on History and Theory of Anarchism.
Fraser - Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research - A digital library of documents relating to the history of the Federal Reserve System, and the economic and banking history of the United States.
Free Online College Courses (Bob Rankin) - links to e.g. M.I.T., Stanford, Tufts, for the free online courses.
Free Online Courses 2 (Bob Rankin - part deux) - ...'all you need is a computer with an internet connection and the will to learn...'
Worldwide Science - is a global science gateway—accelerating scientific discovery and progress through a multilateral partnership to enable federated searching of national and international scientific databases and portals.
Encyclopedia of Life - Global access to knowledge about life on Earth.
The Tutor Pages (London, UK) - ...allows students to contact tutors for free, and to browse hundreds of expert articles written by the tutors themselves.
