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How do Researchers in the Humanities Use Information Resources?, Liber Quarterly, Volume 21 (2012), No.2.
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ACQUINE(Aesthetic Quality Inference Engine)                                                                         15 May 2009
machine-learning based online system of computer-based prediction of aesthetic quality for color natural photographic pictures; NOT designed for computer graphics, artificially-produced diagrams, figures, paintings, composite pictures, or casual family photos;

Actorama.com                                                                                                                           6 March 2010
place to find acting parts, database of monologues & scenes; search for types of monologues, browsed by whether role is for man or woman, is comic, dramatic, or serio-comic; search by Film, Play, Television or Book; or time period; subscribe free to Upload Scene or Monologue, summaries, comments, & videos for scene or monologue; Casting Calls link  to view casting calls or to post one (US, UK, Australia, Canada); contact pages are given for each casting call

Aesthetics + Computation Group: MIT Media Laboratory                                                        2 April 2011
encourages "design of advanced system architectures & thought processes to enable creation of unimaginable forms & spaces"; Theses written by participants; Cinema Fabrique aims to produce "engaging cinematic experiences in realtime for live audiences through natural
language & gestural control"; Treehouse Studio project to teach children & adults about digital arts & design using online exercises, tools, & activities;

Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts                                                                                             3 December 2002
documents from American & English literature & Western philosophy

AltWeeklies.com                                                                                                                         1 October 2004
news & arts from 100+ alternative weeklies; Editorial staff of  members of [US]Association of Alternative Newsweeklies exchange reprint permissions..

Anvil Academic fully digital, non-profit publisher for the humanities                                                17 February 2012
Council on Library & Information Resources(CLIR) & National Institute forTechnology in Liberal Education(NITLE); Publishes under Creative Commons licenses on Web & via apps on portable devices, conforms to DPLA standards & protocols, works closely with OAPEN guidelines, allows academic & cultural institutions, including CLIR & NITLE members, to publish under their own imprints;

Art & Architecture Artifacts Browser                                                                                          5 Septembetr 2010

Art & Art History                                                                                                                        24 August 2004

Artcyclopedia - search for fine art on the Internet                                                                           22 April 2009
primarily oriented to searching by artist name; intend to add more access by artistic movement, nation, timeline & medium; artists from museum sites, image archives, & other online resources; For calendars of real-world museum exhibits, try Gallery Guide Online, Traditional Fine Arts Online, or the Art Museum Network’s ExCalendar;

ArtFinder recommendation engine                                                                                                 31 May 2011
with database of artwork & artists, displaying biographies & images & a Shazam-like image recognition capability;

ART-Guide                                                                                                                                  9 February 2007
art history websites; subject gateways, image databases, search engines, mailing lists; European medieval, modern, contemporary art history, Aesthetics. checked for scientific relevance & library standards, updated frequently by linkcheckers;

Art History Resource Centre   links to newsgroups, mailing lists & journal indexes                       19 November 2006

Artifact – the arts & creative hub  also available via the Intute homepage                                      23 February 2007 

Art Movements Directory   alphabetical & chronological listings                                                 23 October 2004

Art Museum Image Gallery (HW Wilson)                                                                                    July 2005
replaced AMICO Library on dissolution of AMICO consortium in July 2005; searched alone or with other WilsonWeb databases, including Art Full Text, Art Index Retrospective, & Biography Reference Bank; fine art & historical image library with works from 1800+ sources worldwide..includes ancient civilizations, American, European & Medieval history, world religions, classical music, iconic images from history of art & architecture; from collections of respected museums of Europe, Africa, North & South America, Asia

Art Museums: a collection of searchable databases                                                                       7 July 2006

Artnet.com - Research Library                                                                                                    1 September 2006
browse or search 16000+ Grove Art database articles on artists in all media, 130+ on materials & techniques, 1000 styles & movements in art history mainly from Grove Dictionary of Art; free sample from each article;

Arts & craft movement in Australia                                                                                                19 March 2010

Arts & Humanities Data Service                                                                                                   26 August 2006
archaeology, history, literary, linguistic & textual studies, visual & performing arts; Centres collect, preserve, catalogue, & distribute digital resources relevant to their subject areas, facilitate good practice in creation & use; Tasks of AHDS: 10 Years On;

Arts & Humanities Resources on the Invisible Web                                                                     16 March 2006

ART-search.com & CRAFT-search.com                                                                                  22 December 2007
quick easy access to people, businesses & websites in Fine Art, Entertainment Arts & Crafts; content publishers for related websites.

Arts gateway(Australian Broadcasting Corporation)                                                                   31 October 2009
content from ABC Radio(Local Radio, Radio National, Classic FM) ABC News & Current Affairs, ABC Online, ABC Archives & ABC TV; Links to publications, arts companies & venues, galleries & museums, arts festivals, awards & prizes, arts organisations;

ARTstor sister organization to JSTOR                                                                                        5 August 2008
has digitized Illustrated Bartsch catalogue of 50000+ old master prints, 9 universities in Australasia, four in England & one each in Italy & China are the only non-US/Canadian subscribers (781 listed subscribers in June 2007)

Association for the Study of Australian Literature(ASAL)                                                                5 September 2011

AustLit Gateway                                                                                                                       30 August 2002
fee-based authoritative print & electronic information on creative & critical Australian literature - 60000+ Australian authors & organisations, from 1780; joint project of U of Queensland, U of Western Australia, U of Canberra, U of Sydney, Flinders U, Monash U & Deakin U, National Library of Australia; some author records can be viewed by non-subscribers, browse information on about 6600 authors(about 6.5% of AustLit's total agent holdings);

AusStage gateway to Australian perfomring arts                                                                         17 January 2003

Australian [& New Zealand] Art Auction Records Online                                                          25 January 2006
subscription database - $25/m; $120/yr Australian coverage from 1973, NZ from 1988;

Australian Literary & Historical Texts     300+ ebooks                                                               6 February 2008

Australian literary magazines of the twentieth century                                                                    10 April 2008

Australian Network for Arts & Technology(ANAT)                                                                    3 December 2009
bridging art, science & technology, enriching culture & industry, generating new creativities; innovative programs include immersive residencies, emerging technology labs, professional development grants, online research tools, publications, seminars & workshops;

Australian Poetry Library initiative of Uy of Sydney & Copyright Agency Limited(CAL)            25 Juen 2011
42000+ poems by 217 Australian poets, books by Australian poets, including verse novels & first volume of poetry ever published in Australia, Judge Barron Field’s First Fruits of Australian Poetry(Sydney, 1819); fully searchable, accessed & read freely; download & print poems for a small fee, part of which is returned to poets via CAL; create personalised anthologies, which can be purchased & downloaded. Print on demand versions will be availabe from Sydney University Press in the near future;

Baker's Student Encyclopedia of Music(eNotes)                                                                        8 December 2007

BBC Audio Interviews with Writers                                                                                            18 May 2003
decades of radio broadcasts; Kingsley Amis - why he started writing, Robert Graves discussing I, Claudius, Virginia Woolf's eulogy to words 30+ audio clips including Elie Wiesel, Alice Walker, William Styron, Susan Sontag, Salman Rushdie, George Bernard Shaw;

BBC British Novelists Archive Collection                                                                                     7 September 2010
complements BBC TV series In Their Own Words: British Novelists, charts history of C20th British novel, complete interviews & talks from 5 minutes up to an hour, broadcast from 1937; radio interviews from Book Club & Open Book; Man Booker prize;   

Bibliography of the History of Art (Getty Museum)                                                                    26 June 2010
basic search via keyword or title & advanced search return detailed record; international sources;

Bloomsbury Research Centre                                                                                                    1 March 2008
free online database of reference books published by Bloomsbury - search & browse literature, art, myth, human thought ,quotations, thesaurus;

Bonhams Magazine See also SCIPIO : Art & Rare Book Sales Catalogs(below)                      16 January 2010
world's oldest & largest auctioneer of fine art & antiques still in British ownership; archive goes back to the winter issue of 2007; for art historians, historians, & archaeologists et al;

Booklist Center(Dr. David Wilson Taylor)                                                                               6 July 2002
extensive collection of booklists - award-winning books from 1st year of award; 253 books in 62 categories; for literary scholars, researchers, readers.

British Academy PORTAL directory of online resources in humanities & social sciences            28 Aug 2007

British Literary Manuscipts Online major authors from Restoration to Victorian era(1660 - 1900)  18 August 2009

CAMEO; Conservation & Art Materials Encyclopedia Online                                                    18 August 2007
10000+ historical & contemporary materials used in conservation, preservation, & production of artistic, architectural, & archaeological materials; keyword search ; material search for description, boiling point, melting point, molecular weight; description, synonyms, & materials properties; images & authority; 

Central & Eastern European Online Library(CEEOL)                                                                  20 January 2009
online archive  fulltext PDF articles from 341 humanities & social science journals & re-digitized documents pertaining to Central, Eastern & South-Eastern European topics;

Classical Music Databases & Web Resources                                                                            7 July 2006

Classical Works Knowledge Base(CWKB) working prototype until 2012                               29 June 20010
Cornell U relational database linking citations of ancient texts to online versions(Ancient is about C8 BC to mid-C8 AD); parses OpenURL links (used in libraries to help patrons retrieve scholarly articles) once a citation has been clicked on, OpenURL metadata is sent to link resolver, which ‘creates several links for versions of the same citation, in original language & in translation; fully-functional version of CWKB will be available in about two years; 29 June 2010: See also Google Books: 500 volumes of Ancient Greek & Latin, dating from C16 through C19;

Classic Australian Works  25 books from our national cultural heritage                                     6 February 2008
important works of Australia's influential writers, a reflection of Australian character & values from C19 to last decades of C20;

Complete Review: A Literary Saloon & Site of Review                                                               25 August 2002
selectively comprehensive, objectively opinionated survey of books old & new, trying to meet all your book review, preview, & information needs

Cultural discussion lists                                                                                                               29 October 2004

Culture24 (UK; previously the 24 Hour Museum)                                                                       19 February 2009
not-for-profit online publisher promotes & supports cultural sector online & serves online audiences across arts, heritage, education, & tourism sectors; UK museums, galleries, archives & libraries, all in one place

Culture & Recreation Portal! (now called Culture Portal)  Australia                                             13 January 2002
1900+ websites and 850000+ pages; by category or location. Event finder; discussion lists; Grants & Services Finder & Training Course Finder; OzIndigenous search of online Indigenous collections uses OpenSearch protocol for parallel searches of agencies including National Film & Sound Archive, Australian Institute of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Island Studies, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Northern Territory Library, State Library of Queensland, Libraries Australia, Picture Australia & Collections Australia Network; The Culture Portal will close from 1 July 2010 as part of Mid-year Economic & Fiscal Outlook 2009-10 announced on 2 November 2009. Enquiries regarding this closure process should be addressed through the Comments and Feedback page, Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage & the Arts;

Cultural Landscapes(US Cultural Landscapes Foundation)                                                                14 November 2010
Provide a sense of place & identity;map our relationship with the land over time; part of our national heritage & of our lives; Search by pioneer of landscape design, design type, landscape style, region, state;

Cultural Shock Demos organization(London) think tank report                                                               13 November 2010
explores relationship between British government & culture & sport; argues that cultural policy must focus on equitable distribution of individuals' cultural capabilities, will require thinking anew about what form structures take, & how they are run;

Dance Research Resources: Finding Aids for Archival Collections                                                       1 May 2005

Design & Art Australia Online(DAAO) collaborative e-Research tool                                                 28 November 2011
open source freely accessible scholarly e-Research tool for biographical data about Australian artists, designers, craftspeople & curators built upon foundations of  Dictionary of Australian Artists Online; underlying principle of open access intellectual property rights sharing information & collaborative research

Dictionary of Art Historians (Duke U Department of Art,Art History &Visual Studies)                      8 January 2011
free online database of historic scholars, museum professionals, & academic historians of art; beginning point to learn background of major art historians of western art history; available in German, French, Dutch, & Italian;

Dictionary of Australian Artists Online artists’ lives, not just their work    See DAAO above             31 March 2009
7542(563 in progress) biographies by 400+ biographers, themes & patterns from 45 years of art scholarship; foundation biographies come from Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870 edited by Joan Kerr, Heritage: The National Women's Art Book edited by Joan Kerr, Aboriginal Artists of the Western Desert: A Biographical Dictionary by Vivien Johnson & biographies from collecting institutions & fine arts academics; new data from Storylines Project(College of Fine Arts, UNSW), partner organisations including National Gallery of Australia & Queensland Art Gallery, commercial galleries, academics and postgraduate researchers, artists & art lovers;

Digital Republic of Letters online research collaboratory of C17th correspondence                            18 October 2011
international collaboration of humanities scholars, project managers, database programmers, & data visualisation specialists; correspondence include works by famous scholars such as Descartes & ordinary citizens; aims to move beyond a repository & support humanities scholars’ collaboration online; projects involved are funded by grants from public bodies & private foundations; group consists of 9 organisations in 4 countries, with around 25 contributors at any given time;

Digital Research Tools (DiRT)                                                                                                    20 March 2009                                            
wiki information about tools & resources to help scholars(particularly in humanities & social sciences) conduct research more efficiently or creatively;

Discovering open access art history: a comparative study of indexing of Open Access art journals  8 January 2012
evaluates indexing of open access art journals in Art Full Text, ARTbibliographies Modern, Art & Architecture Complete, & Bibliography of the History of Art/International Bibliography of Art & compares to indexing of OA journals in Google Scholar;

Drawing out meaning: 500 years of architectural history Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) 9 January 2010
collection of 19 drawings culled from RIBA's holdings & those of Victoria & Albert Museum include works by Andrea Palladio, Inigo Jones, John Ruskin, & Buckminster Fuller;  high-resolution images with brief explanation of how each work fits into history of the relationship between drawing & architectural form & execution;

Dunn report:...on the concept of regional hubs(Collections Council of Australia Ltd, June 2007)     7 February 2010

Early American Imprints I & II                                                                                                     21 February 2010
fulltext databases of American history & literature through the colonial period to 1819; definitive source of information about every aspect of life in 17th-& 18th-century America, including foreign affairs & diplomacy, music & literature, religion & witchcraft; Access  to registered readers onsite at the National Library of Australia via their eResources portal;

E-Culture MultimediaN cultural heritage search                                                                              8 August 2009

EDSITEment,the Best of the Humanities on the Web                                                                    22 April 2006
National Endowment for the Humanities & MCI Foundation listing of resources from world’s museums, libraries, & universities; thematic tabs: history, art, literature,  foreign languages; monthly feature, lessons plans to promote active learning;

Eighteenth-Century E-Texts                                                                                                     2 October 2004
Browsable by author, & within author, by title; acronym key; links to resources from Online Book Initiative & University of Virginia are nonfunctional

Electronic Literature Organization                                                                                            7 January 2006
facilitate & promote writing, publishing, & reading of literature in electronic media

ExCalendar                                                                                                                               31 July 2003
Official Exhibition Calendar; World's Art Museums; keyword search; city name, exhibition title, artist; powersearch by city, museum, run dates, keyword

Getty Art and Architecture Thesaurus On Line                                                                           18 May 2003
structured vocabulary; 125000 terms; art, architecture, decorative arts, material culture,  archival materials..chart of thesaurus hierarchy; online help; FAQ

GloPAD (Global Performing Arts Database)                                                                             23 September 2006
multilingual descriptions of digital images, texts, video clips, sound recordings, complex media objects: productions, performers, & creators; 4,500+ records;  keyword/phrase searches; suggested searches - piece titles, people, genre, location, objects & activities; browse Performing Arts Type or Group, Place, Person, Piece, Production; QuickTime video clips; Cortona VRML Client browser plug-in for 3D; Chinese, German, Japanese & Russian as well as English; .

Glossary of the Humanities                                                                                                          9 July 2008

Goethe Institut & Germany on the Net: 2.500 Selected links                                                         19 March 2010

Google  Art Project browse art collections of museums & galleries worldwide                                1 May 2011                
collaboration between Google & 151 art partners from 40 countries using Google technologies & expert information provided by our museum partners; zoom into featured high resolution artworks with custom viewer; move around museum galleries, select works of art that interest you, navigate interactive floor plans & learn about the museum; save specific views of any of1000+ artworks for a personalised collection;

Google funding scholars in humanities to textmine Google Books corpus                                        5 April 2010

Granger's World of Poetry Online                                                                                              17 August 2002
30000+ complete poems, 300000 citations, glossary of terms & definitions, biographies of poets; fee; free trial -180 poems(no charge)

Guide to Australian Literary Manuscripts                                                                                    29 September 2007

H-Net Reviews in Humanities & Social Sciences                                                                        26 May 2007
H-Net electronic mailing lists about upcoming conferences, seminars, workshops, funding opportunities; some recent fulltext scholarly reviews, review guidelines; search for reviews since 1993; See also H-Human-Rights, H-Memory, & H-Material Culture

Humanities Resources on the Internet                                                                                        9 July 2008

Lost Titles, Forgotten Rhymes:How to Find a Novel,
Short Story, or Poem Without Knowing its Title or Author (Library ofCongress)                       30 May 2008

Humanities & Social Science Electronic Thesaurus(HASSET, V.3)                                          7 September 2004
developed to allow subject access to UK Data Archive's

Humanities Indicators(American Academy of Arts & Sciences)                                                   8 January 2009
statistical data about humanities in US collected & analyzed for 74 indicators, 200+ tables & charts & interpretive essays; prototype national system of humanities data collection with American Council of Learned Societies, American Academy of Religion, American Historical Association, American Political Science Association, Association of American Universities, College Art Association, Federation of State Humanities Councils, Linguistic Society of America, Modern Language Association &e National Humanities Alliance

Humanities Network(project HuNI) infrastructure for unlocking & uniting Australia's cultural data    2 March 2012
awarded Aust$1.3m by NeCTAR(National eResearch Collaboration Tools & Resources) will allow  "arts & humanities researchers to access &, through appropriate tools & services, work with combined resources of nation's  major cultural datasets & information assets. for new scholarly outcomes & create an enduring exemplar of national cultural  infrastructure to suit needs of future generations of researchers; names & links to all  the datasets;

Humanities Resources on the Invisible Web                                                                                 7 October 2006

Humbul Humanities Hub Funded by Joint Information Systems Committee, hosted by University of Oxford    12 January 2002
service of Resource Discovery Network (now Intute); language & literature, American studies, archaeology, philosophy; searchable archive links to museums & libraries; geography, education, sport, & tourism/leisure

Iconclass iconographic classification of art. Includes an online Iconclass Libertas browser             19 November 2006

Information skills for art & design:
The InfosmART project at Glasgow School of Art Library
By Duncan Chappell (FUMSI)        4 January 2011       
InfosmART portfolio of online learning modules in information & research skills designed for Glasgow School of Art's learning, teaching & research communities;

iLoveLanguages-Your Guide to Languages on the Web formerly the Human-Languages page          19 August 2001
guide to language-related Web sites; links to language dictionaries, lessons, free translations, teaching resources, job resources for multilingual

International Bibliography of Art(IBA) Getty discontinuing ProQuest adopting                           26 June 2010
Getty discontinuing support; ProQuest taking over the indexing function, putting database(2008 -2009) on the CSA Illumina platform,  bringing up to date & expanding geographic coverage to Asian, Latin American, & African art; Getty putting predessor Bibliography of the History of Art on its library website as a searchable database;

Internet Library of Early Journals                                                                                                  12 July 2002
C18th, C19th journals; images & bibliographic data. Gentleman's Magazine, Annual Register, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Notes & Queries, The Builder, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Blackwood's, Gentleman's, Notes & Queries, Philosophical Transaction searchable

Internet Resources for Music Scholars                                                                                        11 December 2005

Intwine Google custom search engine
covering URLs catalogued by Intute Arts & Humanities cataloguers at demise of Intute
                   6 August 2010

Irish Traditional Music Archive                                                                                                     2 June 2007
multi-media reference archive & resource centre for traditional song, instrumental music & dance of Ireland (Dublin)

Jensen's Scholars guide to Humanities & Social Sciences                                                             10 October 2004

JURN directory of 1500+ Open Access journals in arts & humanities                                          6 June 2009
Journals listed are either free, or offer significant free content; JURN search-engine indexing free open access ejournals in arts & humanities, other arts & scholarly journals offering free content; Short guide to free academic search; 25 May 2010: 6-monthly links check

Language Archives Community                                                                                                      2 November 2001
Open Language Archives Community(OLAC) international partnership of institutions & individuals creating worldwide virtual library of language resources by: (i) developing consensus on best current practice for digital archiving of language resources, & (ii) developing network of interoperating repositories & services for housing & accessing; .The OLAC cross-archive search engine now harvests 9000+ records from 10 OLAC archives; 

Latin Library classics scanned & formatted from texts in Public Domain; no translations                15 March 2005

Linguist's Search Engine                                                                                                              27 February 2005
syntactic searches on Internet data; 3m sentence corpus from Internet Archive & facilities to build & search corpora based around search results from AltaVista; login: guest password: guest if you do not wish to register; getting started

Literature-Map - tourist map of literature                                                                                       23 July 2008

Literature webliography                                                                                                                 28 August 2007

Literary Resources on the Net                                                                                                       14 June 2007
annotated links spanning Classical era to C20, movements & individual authors. Includes some links to non-English literatures;

LitMinds community                                                                                                                       23 June 2007
readers, authors, independent booksellers share reading interests, make friends, converse  free; 

Location Register of 20th-century English literary manuscripts & letters                                            27 November 2004
project funded by Laser Foundation, surveying holdings of modern literary manuscripts in British public libraries

London Review of Books                                                                                                               6 October 2005
open-access subset of substantial reviews & commentaries of "Europe's most-read literary magazine"; browse & search; Peter Jacso's review;

Looking for Good Art: Web Resources & Image Databases, Part 1                                                2 September 2004

Map of Early Modern London                                                                                                   31 August 2008
streets, sites, & significant boundaries of late C16 & early C17 London; theatres & landmarks of Shakespeare's time,  history & culture of the city in which he lived & worked.

McClure's Magazine, 1893 - 1922                                                                                           25 February 2010
 illustrated American magazine that published literature & journalism in C19 & early C20;

Mendeley | Academic software for research papers                                                                     5 April 2010
free research management tool for desktop & web; academic software indexes & organizes PDF documents & research papers into your digital bibliography, gathers document details from your PDFs to search, organize & cite; also looks up PubMed, CrossRef, DOIs & related document details automatically; Drag & drop functionality; Web Importer from resources such as Google Scholar, ACM, IEEE; Collaborate with fellow researchers & share information, resources & experiences with shared & public collections; automatically extracts bibliographic data, keywords, & cited references from your PDFs for a searchable fulltext database;

Microsoft Academic Search adds arts & humanities                                                                     16 Nov 2011
Bing's expanded specialist academic journal search engine now claims to index 1.1m+ publications in arts & humanities from paywalled services like Informaworld, Muse, & Oxford Journals & demands Silverlight (Microsoft's version of Flash);

Modernist Journals Project for students & scholars of Modernism                                              27 September 2008
multi-faceted project to be a major resource for study of modernism & its rise in English-speaking world, with periodical literature central; chronological range of 1890 to 1922(earliest journals currently on site date from 1904), & geographical range to wherever English language periodicals were published; range of genres extends to digital publication of books directly connected to modernist periodicals & other supporting materials for periodical study; Periodicals database (journals published 1890-1922); Poetry: a magazine of verse(1912-1921); Introduction to The English Review by Nora Tomlinson; Ford Madox Ford & The English Review(Ralph Ruedy, PhD dissertation, 1976); individual issues of British & American periodicals, 1910 - 1911 (OCR, not part of MJP searchable database); Virginia Woolf famously observed that “on or about December 1910 human character changed”; Search; Journals; Books: Essays; Biographies; chronological range,1890 - 1922, English language periodicals wherever published;

New York Times: Theatre Review Archive free access to theatre reviews since 1996                  15 April 2004
selected reviews back to 1905; browse by title, year, critic, award (Pulitzer, Tony); special feature: Unforgettable Plays of the Last Century -- "25 Broadway productions that defined the C20th & another 100 memorable productions"; links to reviews;

NY Times movie reviews archive                                                                                               25 May 2003
Reviews since 1983 free online; search (year, actor, keyword) or browse(title, genre, year); Selected reviews back to 1929 also free; all Best Picture Academy Award winners & selective list of 1,000 Best Movies

OAPEN(Open Access Publishing in European Networks) open library & publication platform    17 May 2012
independently operating commercial venture with the benefits of being embedded in scholarly community; collaborative initiative to develop & implement a sustainable Open Access publication model for academic books in Humanities & Social Sciences; Listing your titles in OAPEN Library involves a fee starting at around €700, depending on size of frontlist, & number of titles submitted to OAPEN Library;

Open Humanities Press(OHP) international OA publishing collective in critical & cultural theory   5 April 2010
Open Access(OA) initiative recognises publication of humanities research is less time sensitive & more reliant on long-form publication of books; free online HTML version has text + footnotes while ebooks have increased functionality with more content, conventional book like layout & index; journals are fully peer reviewed, scholarly publications chosen by OHP's editorial advisory board for outstanding contribution to contemporary theory, independent, published under open access licences ,free of charge to readers & authors alike;

OWL(Online Writing Lab) 1993-, Purdue University                                                                24 August 2007
84m hits from 125+ countries in 2006-2007; tutors answered 5000+ writing-related queries via e-mail;14900+ subscribers to Purdue OWL News free weekly e-newsletter; Graduate instructors, all experienced writing teachers; succinct, well-written tutorials by category; Writing Process; Professional, Technical, Job Search Writing(including writing for Chinese, North American, & Indian business audiences); General Academic Writing; Research & Citation(both APA & MLA); Grammar & Mechanics Exercises; English as a Second Language; Internet Literacy(including information on documenting electronic resources); Writing in the Social Sciences; Writing in Engineering; Literary Analysis and Criticism; Creative Writing; Teaching Writing; and Tutoring Writing; Chicago Manual Style;

Paris Review: The DNA of Literature                                                                                       19 November 2004
Writers-at-Work interviews; poets, novelists, playwrights, essayists, critics, musicians published since the 1950s; Browse by decade, name of author; interviewing significant writers in-depth since 1953; some fulltext (e.g. Aldous Huxley, Doris Lessing, Allen Ginsberg); 25 Oct 2010: Paris Review complete archive of author interviews beginning in 1953 with E. M. Forster, The Art of Fiction No. 1 through Michel Houellebecq, The Art of Fiction No. 206 browsed by name or by decade;

Patrick White: Series 2: Literary notebooks, 1930s-1970s   digitised progressively by NLA      13 March 2008

Pearson's Magazine(UK version, 1896-1939)                                                                           25 February 2010
British magazine of literature, politics, and the arts, published in London in  late C19 & early C20.

Pearson's Magazine (US version, 1899-1925)                                                                            25 February 2010
American magazine of literature, politics, & the arts, published in New York in late C19 & early C20; began publication in 1899 as a spinoff of the British magazine. The last issue of the American magazine was published in 1925;

Perseus Digital Library(Perseus Hopper): history, literature & culture of Greco-Roman world      5 September 2010
Perseus Hopper open-source suite of services for interacting with textual collections; language independent, but code includes native support for Greek, Latin & Arabic; word & phrase searches, in individual texts or collection include option to search all possible inflections of a word (powerful for morphologically rich languages like Greek, Latin & Arabic); search& browse tagged named entities (places, people, dates, date ranges) in a corpus; architecture for presenting archaeological artifact & image data separate from reading environment;

playdatabase.com                                                                                                                     23 February 2004
plays & monologues searched by title or author, cast size, length, synopsis; guidelines to potential directors, biographical information about playwrights; free

Play Index                                                                                                                                10 February 2006
contemporary playwrights, classic & historical plays in collections & anthologies.30000 plays published individually or in collections from 1949; one-act plays, pageants, plays in verse, radio & television plays, classic drama  written in & translated into English; Search by title, author, subject, cast type, 24 different styles & genres; limit results to plays with a specific number of male or female roles, by size of total cast, & propriety for grades pre-K to 6, 7 to 12, or adult; free trial;

Poetry Archive                                                                                                                       18 December 2005
recordings of poets reading their work searchable, & browsable by poem, poet, theme, poetic form, short poems, poems for children, & poems introduced by author ; entry includes text & background on poet; from Tennyson at end of c19, through Allen Ginsberg & Langston Hughes in mid c20, to contemporary poets including Seamus Heaney, Ruth Padel & Kathleen Jamie;

PriceMiner database                                                                                                              27 January 2006
8 years pricing data for art, antiques, collectibles sold online, pictures & descriptions. GoAntiques collects data itself, from eBay & Tias.com; Search/sort criteria include price range, category, sale date, data source, currency(converted to US$); graphs & charts include average price, number of items included in average, price range - highest to lowest, current estimate based on today’s market conditions with confidence factor; US$9.95/m, $99/yr;

Project Muse  partnership of not-for-profit publishers in humanities, arts & social sciences             26 April 2005
250 quality journals from 40 scholarly publishers; literature & criticism, history, visual & performing arts,cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies & economics; archived; RSS feeds for all journals;

Pseudonyms of Authors, Including Anonyms & Initialisms (Haynes, 1882)                                    26 June 2010

Quadrant Magazine online archives  Australia's independent review of literature & ideas               7 May 2005

Reinventing Research?: information practices in the humanities                                                    18 October 2011

Representative Poetry On-line                                                                                                  17 September 2006
3160+ English poems by 500 poets from Caedmon to present culled from Representative Poetry first published in 1912; index; browse chronologically from Bede’s Death Song(8th century); glossary of terms including adonic, gnomic verse, iambic trimester; University of Toronto English Library(UTEL);

Scholarly & Academic Research: Finding Journal Articles                                                        21 April 2006

SCIPIO : Art & Rare Book Sales Catalogs                                                                          5 October 2004
union catalogue of auction sales catalogues; 650000 bibliographic records from N. American & European auction houses & important private sales; late C16 to scheduled auctions; manuscripts, sculpture, world art from all periods, drawings, prints, photographs, musical instruments, furniture, objects d'art, decorative & applied arts; dates & places of sale, catalogue title, auction house, sellers & institutional holdings; search via KineticaWeb or through RLG Gateway ; KineticaWeb configures SCIPIO consistent with search strategies of other databases but there are differences; see  RLG Website

Search Pigeon(Google Custom Search engine)                                                                          25 June 2008
search open access humanities journals within topics or browse an annotated list of journals. Searches to article level in selected publications

Senses of Cinema                                                                                                                    22 April 2006
serious & eclectic discussion of cinema; funded partly by Australian Film Commission; reviews, interviews with filmmakers, film polls, soundtracks; Great Director profiles, auteurs; essays on Australian cinema & Australia’s colonial history in film;

Shakespeare in Quarto                                                                                                            11 September 2004

Shakespeare searched (built with Vivísimo Velocity)                                                             17 September 2006
quick access to passages from Shakespeare's plays & sonnets clustered topic, work, character

Short guide to free academic search, for UK students in the arts & humanities                            25 January 2011

Successful Writers Share Their Internet Research Secrets                                                          3 October 2002

Tate Channel - Tate Museums in England                                                                                 27 February 2010
Tate Modern & Tate Britain in London, Tates in Liverpool & St. Ives experimenting with presenting contextual information about artists & performers beyond what can be seen on walls of the museum; Videos, Artist interviews, Talks & symposia, Work in focus, Exhibitions, Performance, Films by artists; select from playlists "Editor's picks","In the galleries", or "Artists' studios";

TextGrid – Virtual Research Environment for the Humanities                                            9 October 2011
International Journal of Digital Curation, Issue 2, Volume 6 | 2011; consortium of 10 research institutions in Germany developing a virtual research environment for researchers in arts & humanities, services & tools for analysis of text data, supports curation of research data by means of grid technology;

Three Percent for readers, editors, & translators of modern & contemporary international literature   16 April 2011
3% of books published in US are works in translation; includes translations & reviews by students at U of Rochester, guest reviewers & commentators; Recent Reviews, Upcoming Translations Events, RSS feeds & newsletter; Reading the World podcast, links to weblogs, literary journals, & publishers;

Timeline of Art History(MOMA)                                                                                             11 December 2003
chronological, geographical, thematic history of world art illustrated by Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection; from prehistory to present; 

UC Berkeley & Internet Resources by Academic Discipline                                                      13 October 2003

ULAN: Union List of Artist Names On Line                                                                              12 June 2004
published by J. Paul Getty Trust; 250000 entries on artists throughout history & the world; art, architecture, & material culture

University of Adelaide Theatre Programs - Miss Angel Symon Collection (1890-1930)           20 October 2008

Victorian Anthology, 1837-1895 274 works of poetry by 343 authors, including Colonial Poets 15 April 2006
See also
Victorian Web(Nagoya U, Japan) materials on the times & mores of this historical era; Bibliography resource for young scholars;15 April 2006

Voice of the Shuttle(U of California, Santa Barbara)
one of few comprehensive research subject lists with a humanities orientation
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WikiPaintings encyclopedia of painting mixes public domain works with copyright works               14 May 2012
no way to filter to “just public domain works, 1800px+ in size”except via Google Images with search site:http://www.wikipaintings.org/en/ “artwork is in the public domain”then refine by size in pixels; allows unlimited copying, distributing & displaying of the images of public domain artworks; principle of wiki, i.e. free filling & editing contents of site by anyone who wants to participate; search artists by name, movement, group, genre, nationality, century, popularity; artworks by style, genre, technique; popularity, random browse;

WWW Virtual Library for Theatre & Drama                                                                             14 January 2005
resources in 50+ countries, for professionals, amateurs, academics, students of all ages; Links to theatre companies, academic programs, images, books, journals, electronic texts & plays;

The Yellow Book: An Illustrated Quarterly (13 volumes; 1894-1897) (full serial archives)            29 July 2010

Zotero Firefox 2.0 extension                                                                                                     6 October 2007
collect, manage, cite research sources; capture citations  from web pages, store PDF files, export;