Internet Resources

These are a listing of the links and resources provided in the Internet modules. For further information on computing, the Writing Center has collected links to other instructional sites at MSU.

Table of Contents:
  1. MSU Links
  2. Download Sites
  3. Software
  4. HTML
  5. Web Page Design
  6. Photoshop Tools
  7. Image Sites for Web Design
  8. Fonts
  9. Major Search Engines
  10. Humanities and Social Science Resources
  11. Commercial Humanities and Social Sciences Resources
  12. Special Topics
  13. Audio Archives
  14. Humanities Computing Centers
  15. Humanities Computing Professional Organizations
  16. Galleries, Museums, Exhibits
  17. Collections of Images
  18. Web Site Evaluation
  19. Online Citation Guides

 

 

MSU Links:
  • Dial-up Information (http://www.msu.edu/user/cic/) - Find out how to connect to MSU from both on and off campus.
  • PC Dial-up Information (http://www.msu.edu/user/cic/net-dial/pc-dial/index.html) - Information on how to connect to the campus network with Windows.
  • Macintosh Dial-up Information (http://www.msu.edu/user/cic/net-dial/macdial/index.html) - Information on how to connect to the campus network with a Macintosh computer.
  • MSU Computer Consulting (http://cstore.msu.edu/ciss/consulting/consult.html) - Get dial-up and network help via e-mail or telephone consulting.
  • MSU Computer Store (http://cstore.msu.edu/) - Visit the MSU Computer Store to purchase computers and software at educational prices.
  • Pilot User and Access Manual (http://www.msu.edu/user/cic/pilot/manual/index.htm) - Learn how to access and use Pilot.
  • MSU Microlabs (http://www.msu.edu/service/mlab/web/index.htm) - Visit here for further information on computing at MSU and about MSU's computer labs.
  • Magic (http://magic.lib.msu.edu/screens/opacmenu.html) - Search the MSU library with Magic 2.

 

Download Sites
  • TUCOWS: Uses a system of affiliated sites around the world to ensure quicker downloads. Not too well organized, however, and short on descriptions of programs. (http://www.tucows.com)
  • Download.Com: Large, non-specialized site with simple layout organized by categories ranging from business, education, and development tools through Internet, games, and home/personal. Features a front-page section of news and updates as well as reviews and tips. (http://www.download.com)
  • JUMBO: Not for the timid. This site boasts over 300,000 shareware and freeware programs in a multitude of categories, including several feature categories (games, multimedia, etc.) and a search engine to find your program. (http://www.jumbo.com)
  • Builder.Com: Primarily a site for advanced amateur web designers featuring tips, tools, and reviews, this site also has a large collection of software tucked away on a separate, searchable page. (http://www.builder.com)

 

Software
MSU Resources:

Browsers:


E-mail:


Graphics Compression Utilities:


HTML Editors:


Image Editors:

 

HTML

 

Web Page Design
 
High Five A site dedicated to web design that provides tutorials, reviews of web sites, and profiles of web designers
Yale Web Design Manual A site that deals with the rhetoric of web site design. This site explores how different aspects of a web site effect how users interact with a site.
The Web Publishing Resource Guide One of the most comprehensive web site tutorials out there. Information on all aspects of web publishing as well as reviews of books and links to other great sites.
Jeffrey Zeldman Presents... Check out the "Ask the Web Doctor" Sections as well as Jeffrey's great collection of free graphics.
HTML Goodies A nice how-to site whose author encourages theft of the tutorials he provides
David Siegel - Creating Killer Web Sites A web design site that has a lot of handy how-to hints as well as a nice assortment of well designed sites which Siegel analyzes.

Photoshop Tutorials

 

Image Sites for Web Design
  • MSU Images and Icons - A full selection of MSU logos, images, and various icons
  • Icon Bazaar - A huge image site with icons, images, and backgrounds
  • Texture Station - A great collection of backgrounds and wallpapers for you web pages or resumes
  • Realm Graphics - Another site that has lots of icons, backgrounds, and images to jazz up your page

 

Fonts

 

Major Search Engines:

 

 



Humanities and Social Science Resources

The following sites specialize in collecting humanities and social science resources. Use them to explore the online resources available as well as to begin your research projects.
  • VOICE OF THE SHUTTLE: Meta-directory for Humanities Research - Yahoo-like breakdown that organizes links by general fields, broader areas, and specific topics. Links include other directories, articles, academic sites, general information pages, commercial sites, galleries, etc. Links to courses/programs, journals/zines, listservs/newsgroups, conferences/calls for papers in separate directories under each general field heading. Good cross-referencing between fields and topics. Linked-site orientation/inclusion is broad and non-discriminatory. But short on link annotation. Many dead links. Site search engine doesn't work. No use of graphic aids to ease search. (http://humanitas.ucsb.edu/)
  • Humanities Hub - http://www.spaceless.com/hub/researchers.html or http://www.gu.edu.au/gwis/hub/hub.home.html could not find this one anywhere.
  • American Studies Crossroads Project: International networking and curriculum innovation project sponsored by the American Studies Association. Includes news of opportunities and resources for the American Studies community; ASA field guides, links to American
  • Studies programs on the web, an extensive syllabus library; indexes to online courses and interactive syllabi, model assignments and
  • course-based electronic projects; and online reference materials for the field of American studies. Easy navigation. Search engine. (http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads/)
  • Electronic Archives for Teaching the American Literatures - Contains essays, syllabi, bibliographies, and other resources for teaching the multiple literatures of the United States. Created and maintained by the Center for Electronic Projects in American Culture Studies (CEPACS) at Georgetown University's American Studies Program. (http://www.georgetown.edu/tamlit/tamlit-home.html)
  • Index of Resources for Historians - Simple index offering about 4000 connections arranged alphabetically by subject and name. (http://ukanaix.cc.ukans.edu:80/history/)
  • The George Mason University Center for History and New Media - Short list of links to web sites for historians. *Recommend dropping from list. (http://web.gmu.edu/departments/history/faculty/rrosenzw/websts.html)
  • Literary Resources on the Net - A collection of links to sites on the Internet dealing especially with English and American literature, excluding most single electronic texts, and limited to collections of information useful to academics. Well annotated. Simple search engine. (http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/)
  • H-Net Home Page - Hosts over 100 free electronic, interactive
  • newsletters ("lists") edited by scholars in North America, Europe, Africa, and the Pacific, reaching over 60,000 subscribers in more than 90 countries. H-Net also offers an extensive online scholarly review journal, as well as teaching resources, and the H-Net academic job guide. The site is fully searchable. (http://h-net2.msu.edu)
  • The English Server - The English Server's primary function is to publish texts in the arts and humanities. Collections include art, architecture, drama, fiction, poetry, history, political theory, cultural studies, philosophy, women's studies and music. Also publishes journals such as Bad Subjects, Cultronix and Sudden, and disseminate information of use to scholars such as calls for papers and academy sites. Easily navigable. Search engine. (http://english-server.hss.cmu.edu/)
  • Apple/Excite Arts and Humanities - General arts and humanities links, including commercial and non-affiliated sites. (http://www.excite.com/apple/guide/Arts_and_Humanities/)
  • Project Gutenberg - A large collection of texts in the public domain, organized in three main categories: Light Literature; such as Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass, Peter Pan, Aesop's Fables, etc. Heavy Literature; such as the Bible or other religious documents,
  • Shakespeare, Moby Dick, Paradise Lost, etc. References; such as Roget's Thesaurus, almanacs, and a set of encyclopedia, dictionaries, etc. (http://promo.net/pg/pgframed_index.html)
  • National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) - Documents and images pertaining to government activity throughout American history. (http://www.nara.gov/)
  • Wiretap - Extensive collection of government treaties, resolutions, bills, etc., not limited to American government. Also has a library of online books, fiction and non-fiction, in the public domain. Wiretap is a free public service in gopher form. Non-searchable. (http://wiretap.area.com/)
  • The Etext Archives - Gopher archive of electronic texts of all kinds, from the sacred to the profane, from the political to the personal. Categories include e-zines, politics, fiction, religion, and poetry. Also stores the old Quartz gopher archives. (http://www.etext.org/)
  • The On-Line Books Page - A fully searchable listing of more than 9,000 books of all kinds available online. Also has related news, features, and links. (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/books.html)
  • Project Runeberg - More than 200 titles of Nordic literature digitized. Mostly Swedish, but also some Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, and Icelandic texts. Searchable. (http://www.lysator.liu.se/runeberg/)
  • Project Wittenberg - A cross-section of classic and historic texts written by Lutherans. Documents are posted in their original languages, in English translation and other languages as they are available. Project Wittenberg selects texts that are in the public domain or whose translators are willing to yield rights to free distribution of their work on the Internet. Searchable. (http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/text/wittenberg/wittenberg-home.html)
  • Christian Classics Ethereal Library - Classic Christian books in various electronic formats. Searchable. (http://ccel.wheaton.edu/)
  • Project Bartleby Archive - A collection of traditional classic British/American literature in the public domain. Searchable. (http://www.cc.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/index.html)
  • The Naked Word - A collection of not-so-classic fiction by both famous and obscure authors. (http://server1.softdisk.com/comp/naked/index.html)
  • The Marx & Engels WWW Library - A near-complete collection of digitized Marx/Engels works. Searchable. (http://csf.Colorado.EDU/psn/marx/Archive/)
  • Eighteenth-Century E-Texts - An extensive collection of 18th Century English-language texts, organized alphabetically. Other 18th Century resources as well. (http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/18th/etext.html)
  • The Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia - Holdings include approximately 45,000 on- and off-line humanities texts in twelve languages, with more than 50,000 related images. The use of a large number of items is restricted to UVA and VIVA (Virtual Library of Virginia) users. No search engine. (http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/)
  • Representative Poetry On-line - Over 2,000 English poems by 310 poets from the early medieval period to the beginning of the 20th Century. Many classics; includes criticism. Searchable index. (http://library.utoronto.ca/www/utel/rp/intro.html)
  • The Internet Medieval Sourcebook - Large collection of texts and resources related to the study of medieval times. Searchable through external engines. (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html)
  • Early Modern Literary Studies - A gathering of links to select electronic texts of fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth century materials on the Internet, as well as others which have bearing upon this time period. No search engine, but manageable size. (http://unixg.ubc.ca:7001/0/e-sources/emls/emlsetxt.html)
  • Books.com - An extensive collection of public-domain e-texts in the following categories: ancient European literature, fiction, humor, Italian literature, nonfiction, and poetry. Strong side is fiction, European, and poetry. Also accessible via FTP. Searchable. (http://www.books.com/scripts/lib.exe)
  • Humanities Text Initiative at the University of Michigan - Restricted access to most of the collections, but an excellent collection of public-domain Modern English works is available to the public. Also the Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse, the Book of Mormon, the Koran, and several versions of the Bible. Searchable. (http://www.hti.umich.edu/)
  • Making of America (MOA) - A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection currently contains approximately 1,600 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints. A collaborative effort between the University of Michigan and Cornell University. Seachable. (http://www.umdl.umich.edu/moa/)
  • The Oxford Text Archive - Founded in 1976, the OTA is one of the oldest
  • and best-known electronic text centers in the world. Currently distributes more than 2500 resources in over 25 different languages. The OTA collects high-quality scholarly electronic texts and linguistic corpora (and any related resources) of long-term interest and use across the range of humanities disciplines. Text availability in many formats, and great search capabilities. (http://firth.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/ota/public/index.shtml)
  • Perseus Project - An evolving digital library of resources for the study of the ancient world and beyond. Searchable. (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/)
  • AS@UVA Hypertexts - A digitized American originals collection focusing on the study of American culture. (http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/hypertex.html)
  • Women Writers Project - A Brown University long-term research project devoted to early modern (1300-1820) English language women's writing and electronic text encoding. Approximately 50 texts. Searchable. (http://www.wwp.brown.edu/index.html)
  • The Victorian Women Writers Project - Transcriptions of works by British women writers of the 19th century. Includes anthologies, novels, political pamphlets, religious tracts, children's books, and volumes of poetry and verse drama. (http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/index.html)
  • CELT (Corpus of Electronic Texts) - The online resource for contemporary and historical Irish documents in literature, history and politics. In progress. Searchable. (http://www.ucc.ie/celt/)
  • The Online Literature Library - Limited collection of traditional classics from Edgar Rice Burroughs to Voltaire. (http://www.literature.org/)
  • Athena - A non-language-specific meta-listing of direct links to electronic texts on various sites and servers around the Internet. Wonderful if you know what you are looking for. Searchable. (http://un2sg4.unige.ch/athena/html/authors.html)

Commercial Humanities and Social Sciences Resources

  • The History Net - Large collection of popular history articles from a number of print magazines such as Historic Traveler, Women's History, and Military History Quarterly. Categories range from World History through Homes & Heritage. (http://www.TheHistoryNet.com/)

Special Topics

  • The Valley of the Shadow Project - The project takes two communities, one Northern and one Southern, through the experience of the American Civil War. The project is a hypermedia archive of thousands of sources for the period before, during, and after the Civil War. Those sources include newspapers, letters, diaries, photographs, maps, church records, population census, agricultural census, and military records. (http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vshadow2/)
  • The Library Company of Philadelphia - An independent research library with collections documenting every aspect of the history and background of American culture from the colonial period to the end of the nineteenth century. Current virtual exhibition: Ardent Spirits - The Origins of the American Temperance Movement. (http://www.librarycompany.org/)
  • Drawing Shadows to Stone - This exhibition commemorated the centennial of one of the most significant expeditions in the history of American anthropology, the American Museum of Natural History's Jesup North Pacific Expedition (1897 -1902). Providing a rare and compelling visual record of northern peoples and their cultures, the exhibition includes approximately 1200 archival photographs depicting scenes from daily life. (http://www.amnh.org/Exhibition/Jesup/index.html)

 

Audio Archives

  • National Gallery of the Spoken Word - From Thomas Edison's first cylinder recordings, to the voices of Babe Ruth and Florence Nightingale, and Studs Terkel's timeless interviews, the National Gallery of the Spoken Word (NGSW) will preserve and, within the limits of copyright law, make these and other historically significant voice recordings freely available and easily accessible via the Internet. The NGSW will create a significant, fully searchable, online database of spoken word collections that span the 20th century. (http://www.ngsw.org)
  • US History and Politics Out Loud - A collection of audio materials from presidential libraries and other archives in RealAudio format. (http://www.hpol.org/)
  • Oyez oyez oyez - US Supreme Court Cases. (http://oyez.nwu.edu/)
  • U.S. Labor and Industrial History Audio Project - Recordings relating to American labor history. (http://www.albany.edu/history/LaborAudio/)
  • Pluralism and Unity - Exploring the idea of Americanism in the early part of the 20th century. With audio clips from figures such as Jane Addams, Samuel Gompers and Woodrow Wilson. (http://www.expo98.msu.edu/)
  • The History Channel - Short clips from three categories: Politics & Government, Science & Technology, and Arts, Entertainment & Culture. (http://www.historychannel.com/speeches/index.html)
  • John F. Kennedy - From the Kennedy Library. Samples of recordings of President Kennedy's meetings, conversations, phone calls and dictation. Tapes include conversations with Presidents Hoover, Eisenhower & Truman. (http://www.cs.umb.edu/jfklibrary/tapes_1998.html)
  • Historic Audio Archives - A hodge-podge of mostly short audio clips and some video. Includes among others Richard Nixon, Joe McCarthy, and Leon Trotsky. (http://www.webcorp.com/test/audioarchive.htm)
  • Great speeches - A few excerpts and some complete speeches from American history, 1940s through the 1990s. (http://www.chicago-law.net/speeches/speech.html)
  • EarthStation1: The History Sounds & Pictures Page - Audio, video, and still images from American and world history. Organized by the potpourri principle. (http://www.earthstation1.simplenet.com/history.html)
  • Harappa - Glimpses of South Asia before 1947. With short audio files of notables like Gandhi, Jinnah, and Nehru. Also images and movies. (http://www.harappa.com/)
  • Storytelling of the North Carolina Native Americans - Stories from Cherokee, Lumbee, and Occaneechi tradition. Sound and video. (http://metalab.unc.edu/storytelling/index.html)
  • History Happens: Cool Stories! - Stories from American History presented in musical format. Interesting approach. (http://www.ushistory.com/cool.htm)
  • Radio Advertising Bureau Collection - Samples of vintage radio commercials from the University of Maryland Library of American Broadcasting. (http://www.lib.umd.edu/UMCP/LAB/AUDIO/soundbites.html)
  • Radio Days - A great repository of 20th century American radio. Categories include radio news (with historic broadcasts from reporters such as Edward R. Murrow and Eric Sevareid), mystery, private eyes, comedy, and science fiction. (http://www.otr.com/new_index.shtml)
  • National Public Radio - Search and listen to the archives of programs like Talk of the Nation, The Diane Rehm Show, and All Things Considered, and Morning Edition. (http://www.npr.org/programs/)
  • Normandy: 1944 - A virtual march through the World War II invasion by means of photos, articles and essays, interactive maps, audio and video clips, and transcripts of first-person accounts. (http://normandy.eb.com/)
  • The Whole World Was Watching: an oral history of 1968 - The resource contains transcripts, audio recordings, and edited stories of a series of interviews conducted in the spring of 1998. Members of the Sophomore Class at SKHS interviewed Rhode Islanders about their recollections of the year 1968. (http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/1968/)
  • Voices from Beijing - A series of interviews from participants at the United
  • Nations Fourth World Conference on Women, including Bella Abzug. (http://www.iisd.ca/linkages/4wcw/voices.html)
  • Hong Kong 1997 Handover - Audio and video from the Farewell Ceremony, the Salute to the Hong Kong Handover, the Handover Ceremony, the Ceremony for the Establishment of the HKSAR of the PRC and the Inauguration of the Government of the HKSAR, and the Ceremony to Celebrate the Establishment of HKSAR. (http://www.rthk.org.hk/rthk/hk97/replay.htm)




Humanities Computing Centers
  • Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/) at the University of Virginia has a horrible interface with no clear explanation of what it is they do, or links to resources managed through the Institute. The research and centers page (http://www.uva.edu/rsch.html) under the university's homepage actually provides a much better gateway to the electronic resources available at UV, with an "electronic centers" heading that sends the user to various collections and services. Some of the subsites at UVA are interesting. The Digital Media Center (http://www.lib.virginia.edu/dmc/) has a substantial database of digital images to support teaching and research in the humanities, as well as support services for this. The projects in The Virginia Center For Digital History (http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vcdh/) presents material in a well organized, and visually pleasing manner. The top level of the Special Collections Digital Center (http://www.lib.virginia.edu/speccol/scdc/scdc.html), however, is poorly designed, though some of the exhibitions underneath are well done. A general problem with the UVA pages is a lack of clear organization as well as uniformity in presentation.
  • Computing in the Humanities and Social Sciences (CHASS) (http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/) at the University of Toronto. Wonderfully navigable interface. The top level provides a clear overview of the site, and the pages underneath branch to subcategories underneath them again, rather than trying to cram everything onto one or a few pages. The site itself doesn't offer any academic content, but works well as a jump station to finding resources and material. There is also clear information about support services and tutorials.
  • Humanities Computing Unit (http://info.ox.ac.uk/departments/humanities/) at Oxford University does not have a very good interface, and seems quite limited in what they try to cover. Subunits include the Centre for Textual Studies, the Oxford Text Archive, and the British National Corpus. And that's pretty much it. Some local support services, and how-to online instructions, but generally unexciting and underdeveloped.
  • The Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH) (http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/) at King's College London. Thin, though under the "Resources" heading they have a similar approach to the MSU Writing Center.
  • School of Arts and Sciences Computing (http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/) at the University of Pennsylvania seems to provide the necessary links and support services for faculty interested in teaching with technology. With some digging one also gets to actual-content links, but only by jumping to departmental homepages. Design is functional, but could be better. A bare-bones approach.
  • Humanities Computing at New York University (http://www.nyu.edu/acf/humanities/). Good approach, though use of frames and graphics could be better. Pretty, but not very effective in guiding the user's eye.
  • The Humanities Computing Facility of Duke University (http://www.lang.duke.edu/) is not very exciting.
  • Humanities Computing at the University of Georgia (http://virtual.park.uga.edu/hc/) has a number of useful articles and guides on what humanities computing is, how it is useful, and well annotated links to tutorials, etc.
  • Humanities Computing Facility at UCLA (http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/hcf/). A technical support service exclusively for UCLA.
  • The Humanities Information Technologies Research Programme (HIT) (http://www.hit.uib.no/english/) at the University of Bergen. Under development.
  • The Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/HATII/) at the University of Glasgow. Operates humanities computing courses for both students and faculty, as well as a couple of research projects, one of which deals with Post Hoc Rescue of Digital Material.

 

Humanities Computing Professional Organizations
  • The Association for Computers and the Humanities - The major professional society for people working in computer-aided research in literature and language studies, history, philosophy, and other humanities disciplines, and especially research involving the manipulation and analysis of textual materials. (http://www.ach.org/)
  • The Association for History and Computing - An international organization which aims to promote and develop interest in the use of computers in all types of historical study at every level, in both teaching and research. Has sub-branches all over the world. (http://grid.let.rug.nl/ahc/welcome.html)
  • Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities - ATH's goal is to explore and expand the potential of information technology as a tool for humanities research. To that end, we provide our Fellows with consulting, technical support, applications programming, and networked publishing facilities. We also cultivate partnerships and participate in humanities computing initiatives with libraries, publishers, information technology companies, scholarly organizations, and others interested in the intersection of computers and cultural heritage. (http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/)
  • The Association for Computers and the Humanities - The major professional society for people working in computer-aided research in literature and language studies, history, philosophy, and other humanities disciplines, and especially research involving the manipulation and analysis of textual materials. (http://www.ach.org/)
  • The CTI Centre for Textual Studies - Part of the University of Oxford's Humanities Computing Unit and one of twenty-four centres promoting and supporting computers in university teaching. This site carries a wide range of information and resources to help you make the most of communication and information technologies for teaching and learning in the humanities and arts. A joint programme of the Department of Education in Northern Ireland and the Higher Education Funding Councils of England, Scotland, and Wales. (http://info.ox.ac.uk/ctitext/)
  • The Association for History and Computing - An international organisation which aims to promote and develop interest in the use of computers in all types of historical study at every level, in both teaching and research. Has sub-branches all over the world. (http://grid.let.rug.nl/ahc/welcome.html)


Galleries, Exhibits, and Museums
  • American Memory - The American Memory Historical Collections at the Library of Congress, a major component of the Library's National Digital Library Program, are multimedia collections of digitized documents, photographs, recorded sound, moving pictures, and text from the Library's Americana collections. There are currently over 50 collections in the American Memory Historical Collections. (http://memory.loc.gov/)
  • The Library of Congress Exhibitions - Various collections focusing on the development of the American nation. (http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/)
  • The History Place - A variety of mainly photographic exhibits from American history. (http://www.historyplace.com/)
  • The Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE - Digital text and image collections focused on, but not limited to, California. (http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/)
  • The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New Yorkhttp://www.metmuseum.org/
  • Smithsonian http://www.si.edu/
  • The Art Institute of Chicago http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/index.html
  • The National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC http://www.nga.gov/collection/collect.htm#painting Great on-line access, with tours and context for multiple paintings, multiple artists. The National Gallery of Art houses one of the finest collections in the world illustrating major achievements in painting, sculpture, and graphic arts from the Middle Ages to the present. Search the collection by specific artist, title, or a combination of criteria. Tour the collection by medium and school, or choose a foreign language gallery guide (PDF format) for your visit. In-depth studies focus on artists and works of art.
  • Uffizi Galleryhttp://www.uffizi.firenze.it/welcomeE.html
  • The Los Angeles County Museum of Art http://www.lacma.org/ Contains images, text, although largely on formal aspects. Complicated format yet not always clear. Problem: canít enlarge images.
  • Guggenheim Virtual Museum http://www.guggenheim.org/virtual/index_fst.html The Guggenheim's Web site is in the midst of a landmark project that will set it apart from any other on-line presence of a cultural institution in the world. Conceived as another Guggenheim Museum, the Guggenheim Virtual Museum will be both a window into the activities of the Guggenheim Museums in New York, Bilbao, Venice and Berlin as well as window onto itself, with dedicated programs and artists' projects developed primarily for its spaces.
  •  New Museum of Contemporary Art in NY--online exhibits, but do relate to social contexts http://www.newmuseum.org/
  • California Museum of Photography http://www.cmp.ucr.edu/
  • The Louvre. ver 1500 pictures and descriptions of the most famous museum in the world : discover the Louvre on line with its 350 rooms. http://www.smartweb.fr/louvre/index.html
  • Narional Museum of American Artóunder collections and exhib., says they have 3000 online images searchable by subject. It features collections and exhibitions online, such as ěPosters American Styleî and ěAmerican Kaleidoscope: Themes and Perspectives in Recent Art http://nmaa-ryder.si.edu/collections/online-index.html
  • All major museums accessed here but not connecting http://www.amn.org/
  • Links to many major museums http://www2.links2go.com/more/mistral.culture.fr/louvre
  • World Wide Web Virtual Library: Museums around the world organized by country http://www.icom.org/vlmp/world.html
  • World Wide Arts Resources - museum holdings by country or theme (ie: film, folk art, glass, Greek info) http://wwar.com/museums.html This page offers access to museums from all across the world. We will lead you to art museums, contemporary art centers, natural history museums, photography museums, living history museums, sculpture parks, military museums, aviation museums and craft museums to name only a few. You will find access to paintings, sculpture, photography and many different kinds of media. You will also be able to find art movements such as impressionism, expressionism, surrealism, minimalism and more. Simply select your country or category from below.

 

Collections of Images
  • George Eastman House, International Museum of Photography and Film, containing photography and motion picture, and technology collections. http://www.eastman.org/
  • The Lycos Image Gallery. This is a searching database. Browse or search through more than 80,000 free images, current pictures and vintage illustrations. It allows you to click on a category, ranging from Americana to history to Entertainment, Science and Techology. http://www.lycos.com/picturethis/
  • ArtServe: The Australian National University http://rubens.anu.edu.au/index2.html This server, in the Department of Art History & Visual Studies at the Australian National University, offers access to around 80,000 images - i.e. some 23Gb of data - all concerned in some way with the history of art and architecture, and the great majority unavailable elsewhere on the Web. For simple or boolean queries, search the whole site. For higher resolution images, register, login, or simply enter one of the menus below (you will be prompted to register if you try to access large images).
  • http://www.caltech.edu/archives/ Researchers will also find here a wealth of sources for the history of science and technology worldwide, stretching from the time of Copernicus to today.
  • http://ap.accuweather.com/apphoto/index2.htm AccuNet/AP Photo Archive is an electronic library containing the Associated Press' current photos and a selection of pictures from their 50 million image print and negative library. The largest collection of news photos available online, it allows students, teachers and librarians to see for themselves virtually all the major news events photographed from the 1840s to today. Photos of major events from around the world are available within minutes of being placed on the AP Photo Wire. It is also a great curriculum tool in all departments.
  • Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/ It includes digitized collections such as ěHistoric American Sheet Musicî published between 1850-1920, images from the theme, ěThe Urban Landscape,î documents from the Womenís Liberation Movement, collections of writings from African-American women, Civil War Women, the Economistsí Papers Project,
  • National Archives http://www.nara.gov/exhall/exhibits.html
  • Vintage Magazine Company http://www.vinmag.com/piclib.htm
  • Burns Archive: Historic Vintage Photographs http://www.burnsarchive.com/catagories.html UNIQUE IN ITS BREADTH AND SCOPE, The Burns Collection houses the nation's largest and most comprehensive collection of early medical photography (1840-1920). The Archive offers publishers, exhibitors, authors, researchers and the media its consultation services and the use of its images, as well as of its extensive library of medical history.
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