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;
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
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;