Electronic Libraries
Electronic Libraries are sites that have extraordinary collections of digital information. They are usually well organized and come equipped with a powerful search engine. Any of these sites are a good place to start your research.
- Academic Info
- "Welcome To Academic Info Your Gateway to Quality Internet Resources. Academic Info is a subject directory of Internet resources tailored to a college and university audience. Each subject guide is an annotated listing of the best general Internet sites in the field, as well as a gateway to specialized and advanced research tools. On each page you may find links to online publications, language and study aids, reference materials, databases, archives, virtual libraries, tutorials or other educational materials."
- ANU - Coombsweb Social Sciences Server.
- The Homepage for Australia National University. The site is updated daily. It has 5000+ links to scholarly resources maintained by research institutes, libraries and universities. International in scope. Each individual site that they list may or may not have a search engine or use a standard subject heading such as the Library of Congress. Excellent international information (and U.S. information) can be found here.
- The Argus Clearinghouse
- A large listing of guides that identify and evaluate information resources on the Internet. Many of the more recent guides are rated for their usefulness. Guides older then 12 months are separated into their own database. One can search by menu choices or by using a search engine. The Search engine searches the Title, Author, Institution and Descriptive keywords of the guides. Boolean operator "AND" "OR" are available. Truncation is allowed.
- Digital Librarian
- This site provides links to creditable websites -- compiled by a librarian -- on a broad variety of subjects. Users can visit a subject link and select from the web pages grouped there.
- Documenting the American South: The Church in the Southern Black Community
- This digital library focuses on the history of African-American Christianity in order to show what the church has meant to African-Americans, both spiritually and metaphorically. The growing collection of electronic texts includes slave narratives, diaries of white travellers in the ante-bellum South, and texts designed to teach Christianity to slaves.
- Humbul Humanities Hub
- "The Humbul Humanities Hub is part of the nationally-funded Resource Discovery Network (RDN). The RDN is funded by JISC, AHRB and other bodies and consists of a central organisation, the Resource Discovery Network Centre (RDNC) and a number of independent service providers called hubs. The RDN as a whole aims to provides effective access to hand-selected Internet resources for the UK learning and research communities. Over the next couple of years, the RDN will develop to provide rich entry points to a full range of Internet, bibliographic, documentary and data resources. The Humanities Hub provides data for the RDN and tailors its services to the needs of the humanities communities. As part of the RDN the Hub delivers data which is interoperable with the other hubs within the RDN. Through the ResourceFinder at http://www.rdn.ac.uk/, for example, you are able to search both the Humanities Hub together with, for example, the hub for the social sciences, business and law (SOSIG), biological and life sciences (BIOME), engineering, mathematics and computing (EEVL) or the physical sciences (Psigate). Hubs for the arts and creative industries; geography; education; and sport, tourism amd leisure have recently been announced. This cross-searching should help ensure that interdisciplinary subjects are adequately covered and give you the greatest flexibility in deciding what you want to search for and how you wish to conduct the search."
- INFOMINE: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections
- The University of California, Riverside's "virtual library" is one of the best on the world wide web. They have concentrated on including sites that are scholarly or of high quality. They use Library of Congress Subject Headings and have a powerful search engine. An excellent source to search.
- International Directory of Art Libraries
- "Welcome to the IFLA Section of Art Libraries International Directory of Art Libraries. This Directory is provided as a means to access nearly 3,000 libraries and library departments with specialized holdings in art, architecture, and archaeology throughout the world. Data recorded for each institution includes address, telephone and tele-facsimile numbers, hours of operation, annual closings, and listings of professional personnel. It also includes electronic mail addresses of individual librarians and direct web links to institutional home pages."
- IPL The Internet Public Library
- The Internet Public Library is organized like a traditional public library. It has a reading area, a reference area, a classroom, exhibits, etc... Has material for children, teens, adults and even librarians. A nice place to relax and enjoy.
- Librarians' Index to the Internet
- A comprehensive source of information that is nicely arranged in an easy to use format. It can be searched by browsing topics or by using a search engine. It is updated regularly.
- Library of Congress World Wide Web (LC Web) Home Page
- The Library of Congress Homepage. Here you will find the "American Memory" archives of digital images of United States history. Access to U.S. legislative actions can be accessed from here. Copyright information, exhibitions, legal information and much more are available from this site. The Library of Congress has some unique and valuable databases that are accessible to all levels of sophistication. A search engine is provided. Included on the Library of Congress web site is their Search Library of Congress Finding Aids page. "The Encoded Archival Description Working Group at the Library of Congress has announced the first release of a search system for archival finding aids at the LOC. These finding aids are extremely useful to researchers because they offer more detailed information on primary source material than standard catalog records, often providing "information about a collection's provenance and the conditions under which it may be accessed or copied; biographical or organizational histories related to the collection; a note describing the scope and content of the collection; and progressively detailed descriptions of the parts or components of the collection together with the corresponding call numbers [or] container numbers." The aids have been encoded in SGML using Encoded Archival Description (EAD), and search returns are available in both HTML and SGML. Users can search by keyword or browse by subject, name, collection title, or collections by date."
- Michigan eLibrary
- Michigan eLibrary has links to numerous information sources including: business, children's resources, computers, education, entertainment, government, health, humanities, science, social science and many other subjects. This site is strong on Michigan information but also has a lot of other national and international sources. The information is evaluated for quality, usefulness and relevancy. A search engine is available.
- Social Science Information Gateway - SOSIG
- This site provides access to international social science data. It is particularly strong in European information but includes U.S. information. All information is chosen based on quality and is annotated. A search engine is provided.
- University of Virginia Library
- The University of Virginia has a truly comprehensive site of quality sites on the World Wide Web. They have library catalogs, encyclopedias, dictionaries, newspapers, journals, books, images, maps and statistical data. Some of the information is accessible to Virginia residents only. But a surprising amount is available to anyone. Can be searched by menus or by specialized search engines. An excellent place to search for information.
- The WWW Virtual Library
- A distributed subject catalog arranged by subject. Library of Congress subject headings, along with other subject headings, are used to classify the information. Individual entries have brief explanations. It is international in scope. There is no search engine.
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