100 Years of US consumer
spending: data for the Nation, New York City, & Boston
30 June
2006
longitudinal consumer expenditure data & decennial census
reports 100-year history of significant changes in consumer
spending, economic status, & family demographics in country as
a whole, in New York City & Boston;
2005
Index of Economic Freedom
23 January 2005
161 countries - 50 independent variables -10 aspects of economic
freedom: Trade policy, Fiscal burden of government, Government
intervention in economy, Monetary policy, Capital flows &
foreign investment, Banking & finance,Wages & prices,
Property rights, Regulation, Informal market activity; higher
score on a factor for greater government interference in economy;
analysis of factors that most influence institutional setting of
economic growth
Act of Union Virtual
Library
3 November 2006
unique collection of pamphlets, newspapers, parliamentary papers
& manuscript material contemporary with 1800 Act of Union
between Ireland & Britain;
AgeSource
Worldwide
30 July 2005
AARP database of links to 300+ libraries, clearinghouses,
databases, directories, bibliographies, metasites; AgeLine
database of abstracts of social gerontology & aging-related
articles, books, & reports
AllPsych Online
25
April 2008
920 individual, cross referenced, web pages & 3000 pages of
printed material;
American Folklore Society Ethnographic Thesaurus
beta version on Open
Folklore portal
16 August 2011
searchable online vocabulary to improve access to information
about folklore, ethnomusicology, cultural anthropology, &
related fields;
American Psychoanalytic Association On-Line Search Facility for the Jourlit/Bookrev Databases 11 September 2003
Ancient World Web
3 October 2003
portal of world prior to 700 AD, including daily life,
architecture, language & literature
Anthropological
Index of the Royal Anthropological Institute
28 July 2005
Anthropology Library of British Museum, London, formerly Royal
Anthropological Institute Library, from 1957; indexed periodical
titles; variable-language; free to individuals; Citations include
author, title, date, journal; full text or summaries are not
available
Antropologi.info
beta
version
Google
custom
search
engine
covering
OA journals of anthropology 6 August 2010
Applied
Macro- & International Economics (MIT OpenCourseWare)
30 July 2011
select lecture notes from the course, along with the assignments,
& a list of the readings; notes here include topics such as
"World through inflation", "Exchange-rate regimes", "Central
bank accounting"; Download Course Materials link;
Architecture
Museum
23 August 2005
200000+ documents from 70+ individuals & firms - 20000
drawings, personal papers, photos, colour slides, practice
records, books(2000+) & journals; (State Records of South
Australia holds Government architects’ records); Finding
Aids available as PDFs; Dr. David Chamberlain Collection of
rare architectural illustrations, etchings, engravings &
prints dating from 1625 to late C19; predominantly C18 & C19
British & European architectural prints &
engravings; Architects of
South Australia database;
Archive
for the History of Economic Thought
12 August 2005
significant texts in history of economic thought; including
representative texts of major thinkers & schools of thought;
& sub-fields of economics;
Argos
- Limited Area Search of the Ancient & Medieval Internet
(defunct)
6 February 2003
Argos went on-line for academic community October 3rd 1996 &
was taken offline February 6th, 2003 unable to fund regular upkeep
& maintenance;
Art of War by
Sun Tzu: Free Searchable Version
23
June 2006
Oldest Military Treatise in world translated from Chinese by
Lionel Giles, M.A; concepts & principles of (conventional) war
& military strategy written 2 millennia ago, still applicable
today, not only in military but in business management as well;
searchable eBook;
AskPhilosophers
10 March 2006
list of related sites includes links to radio show, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
& Philosophy, complete with archives;
Australian History on Internet 26 September 2002
Australian Institute of
Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Studies
16 June 2009
To
remove & protect: The 'protection' of Aboriginal people
had its origins in the recommendations of a British parliamentary
Select Committee on
Aboriginal Tribes (British Settlements) made to the House of
Commons in 1837. The Committee made recommendations that were
intended to protect Aboriginal people; State & territory
government legislation on this website was originally compiled for
the Bringing
Them Home Report (The
Stolen Children report) in documenting “strength &
struggles of many thousands of Aboriginal & Torres Strait
Islander people affected by forcible removal”; digitised
Legislation, Key Provisions & Protector's reports for each
state; See also Stolen
Generations documentary collection(Robert Manne, The Monthly)
Australian Social Science Data
Archive(ASSDA)
12
February 2010
consortium of national Australian universities, managed by
Australian National University(ANU) established at the ANU in 1981
to provide a national service for collection & preservation of
computer readable data relating to social, political &
economic affairs for analysis;
Best of History
Websites
6 July 2002
online history resources for history students, teachers, &
enthusiasts rated on a five star scale; Prehistory,
Ancient/Biblical, Medieval, US History, Early Modern European,
C20, World War II, Art History, General Resources, Maps - 700+
sites reviewed for quality, accuracy, & usefulness; British
History Timeline;
Bibliography
of British & Irish History(BBIH) NLA subscription
eResources
15
December 2011
bibliographic data on historical writing dealing with British
Isles, British Empire & Commonwealth, during all periods for
which written documentation is available - 55BC to the present;
subsumes Royal
Historical Society bibliography of British & Irish
History; aims to be as comprehensive as is practical for
publications since 1900. All titles included in The Royal Historical
Society Bibliography on CD-ROM(Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 1998) are included (excepting unpublished theses);
British Academy PORTAL directory of online resources in humanities & social sciences 28 Aug 2007
British History Online
(Institute of Historical Research & History of Parliament
Trust)
21 November 2005
primary source material in parliamentary history, local, urban
& metropolitan history, ecclesistical & religious history
including House of Commons journals, ordnance survey maps, Victoria
County Histories; See also British
History(CityArk); Journal
of the House of Lords images & transcripts from official
minute books, 21 January 1510 to 17 January 1832; British
History Timeline(interactive) Neolithic & Bronze Ages,
Iron Age, Roman Britain, Vikings & Anglo-Saxons, Norman
Britain, Middle Ages, Tudors, Civil War & Revolution, Empire
& Sea Power, Victorian Britain, World Wars, Britain: 1945 to
Present; Survey
of London series volumes for download;
British Library help
for researchers: Social Sciences BL
Collections; Topical
bibliographies
26 March 2012
British
Military & Aviation History
14 January 2006
British
Naval & Maritime History
14 January 2006
Brookings
Institution: World
7
February 2009
centers specializing in urban policy, economy, & foreign
policy; research, commentary, policy reports, & working
papers; sign up account for online portfolio to receive email
updates about topics and programs, RSS feed & newsletter;
BUBL Country
Studies identifies, describes & catalogs best country
information sites on Web 10 February 2002 .
Curious about Clio? History & Historians on the Web(Freepint article) 20 March 2004
Deb Lawson's
Historical Research Page
25 October 2007
General Research Pages; Advertising; Americana; Architecture;
Armor & Weapons, Art, Cartoons, Illustrations,
Photographs; Austen, Jane; Books; British Peerage; Calculators;
Calendars; Clothing & Accessories; Crime & Police;
Diaries, Letters, & Journals; Education; Entertainment;
Etiquette; Firearms; Food & Drink; Genealogy; Glossaries &
Timelines; Government, Law, & Politics; Household Matters,
Markets, & Shopping; Ireland; Knights & Heraldry;
Language; Translators; Maps; Maritime; Medicine, Herbs, &
Illness; Military; Money; Music, Song, & Dance; Names; Native
Americans; Newspapers, Magazines, & Trade Journals;
Occupations & Professions; Paranormal, Sci-Fi, Fantasy; Postal
History; Religion; Science, Inventions. & Technology;
Scotland; Sexuality, Marriage, & Family; Sport; The Old West;
Transportation & Travel; Virtual Tours; Workhouses & the
Poor; Writing: Writers, Blogs, Writing: Organizations, Techie
Stuff; Strong coverage of C17 & C19 GB; also has US social,
political & military history, architecture & religion;
Debunking Economics(Steve
Keen)
27 August 2008
presentations, lectures & academic papers on economics,
supplementary materials for book Debunking Economics, lectures on
economics & finance given at University of Western Sydney; blog on debt in
Australia includes Debtwatch report;
Dictionary of Canadian
Biography Online 14 v. print version, persons who died
1000 - 1920 9 February
2994
Digital [American]
History
15 July 2005
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;
Din Timelines: World
History Timelines
20 July 2002
Econlib:
Library of Economics & Liberty from Liberty Fund Inc.
23 August 2010
classic economic books, an online encyclopedia of economics,
articles discussing current economic topics, a moderated blog(Econlog) where economic
issues are discussed, & collection of podcasts (EconTalk); Concise
Encyclopedia of Economics, edited by David R.
Henderson(2007) first published as Fortune Encyclopedia of
Economics(1993);
search both for easy-to-read
articles
by 150+ economists, including Nobel Prize winners, 80+
biographies, tables & charts illustrating economics in action;
Economagic.com
16 March 2006
free economic time series data for economic research &
economic forecasting; 200000+ time series, data & custom
charts; Excel files for all series; US macroeconomic data(whole
US), employment data by local area - state, county, Metropolitan
Statistical Area (MSA), many cities & towns; Australian data;
Economic
History Services
1 April 2006
book reviews, course syllabi, directory of economic historians; EH.Net - How Much is That?
historical prices for goods & services, interest rates, wage
rates, & inflation rates; Ask The Professor & archive of
answered questions; calendar of events for upcoming lectures,
conferences, workshops;
Economic Indicators(Australia) on Internet 9 June 2006
Economic
Indicators : FDsys US April 1995 to present;
29 May 2010
Monthly issues prepared for Congress's Joint Economic Committee by
Council of Economic Advisers; tables of US economic indicators
(gross domestic product, income, employment, production, business
activity, prices, money, credit, security markets, Federal
finance);
Economics
Working Papers in Oxford
economists, policy analysts papers arranged chronologically from
series including Oxford
Financial Research Centre Economics Series & Global Poverty Research Group;
Economics
Search
Engine(ESE) uses Nutch
Search Engine
23 June 2006
323000 pages/11000 economics sites worldwide listed in RFE & Economics Departments, Institutes
& Research Centers in the World (EDIRC);
Economist:
Audio & Video
16 May 2009
free, no registation; view options video, audio, or subject(Asia,
Americas, Books & Arts, Science & technology);
Videographics feature uses animated graphics, charts or graphs,
rather than photographs or film, to explain concept;
Economist.com |
Country Briefings
22 July 2001
background profiles, forecast & statistics from Economist
Intelligence Unit, market & currency updates, links; Economist
Historical Archive subscription through National Library of
Australia's eResources;
8000 editions of The Economist magazine from
1843–2003 fully digitised & keyword searchablen contains
full-colour images, exportable financial tables, & a gallery
of front covers;
Economists Online
6 February 2010
world's leading institutions, scholars & academic publications
& datasets; 900000+ bibliographic references, many with links
to open access fulltext; combines content with RePEc(Research Papers in Economics)
archives to provide a new information service to economist;
EconPapers
open-access, partially fulltext database
16 January 2006
journal articles, working papers & software; 358000 records
for working papers(170000/1500 series), journal articles(185000
items/400+ journals), books(600), book chapters(1020), computer
programs(1300); subset of RePEc
database (See below);
EconStats
16 August 2008
economic data from US on inflation,unemployment levels,
productivity, new factory orders, price of crude oil; links to
economic data from Canada,Britain, Germany, European Union,
France, Italy, Russia, China; interest rates for countries, stock
markets, commodity & futures prices; Econ Chat;
Eco-Portal:
Environmental Sustainability Information Source
7 September 2002
information gateway empowering movement for environmental
sustainability; World Summit on Sustainable Development in
Johannesburg news & commentary about proceedings; search
engine for information about environmental concerns; links to
related organizations.
EH.Net(Economic
History Association)
14 June 2004
EH.Net operates Economic History Services fileserver &
electronic discussion lists for scholars in economic history; Encyclopedia of
Economic & Business History, Database directory, book
reviews, Ask the Professor; EH.Net
- How Much is That? value of a dollar in 1895? cost to
borrow money in 1929? questions of comparative value-purchasing
power, interest rates;
Emerson
Kent.com: History for the relaxed historian
7 July 2010
People in
history; Wars
battles & revolutions; History Maps
by Year; History
Maps by Continent; History
dictionary; Archaeological
records; History
Research
Hub: Connect with historians & researchers; Timelines;
Famous
speeches;
Encyclopaedia
of British History, 1500-1980
20 January 2005
short articles on events in British history; cross references to
other articles but no source information or citations for
additional reading
Encyclopaedia
Romana
1
October 2008
Ancient Rome; derived from SPQR(acronym
for
Senatus Populusque Romanus, "The Senate & People of Rome")
online game set in Roman Forum in AD 205; emphasis on architecture
& imperial forums to better understand that time & place;
includes Essays
on the Roman Provinces of Britannia & Hispania & on
Classical Greece; linked index & bibliography;
Encyclopedia of Mental
Disorders
8 September 2009
150+ organized alphabetically with definition, purpose,
precautions, description, & external resources of additional
information about every condition;
Encyclopedia of
nations
22 January 2006
population, history, ethnic groups, culture, language,
transportation, government structure, technology; notes about
museums, media, libraries, technology;
English
Historical Review, 1886-1922 archived
11 March 2010
oldest journal of
historical scholarship in English-speaking world; now
published
by Oxford University Press; official EHR website has
information about journal, & electronic access to recent
articles (most available only via subscription or
purchase);
Environmental
News Network
12 January 2003
environmental issues facing Earth; from major environmental
organizations; upcoming events; EarthNews Radio; email delivery of
latest ENN articles.
Enviropedia 300+ pages of
information about environment
14 May 2005
ERIC(Educational
Resources Information Center)
1
March 2004
Basic Search- keyword search limited by publication type, target
audience, record type(RIE/CIJE), EDRS electronic availability,
year added. Advanced Search Boolean operators AND & OR;
limited by author, title, electronic availability, target
audience, journal name, publication type. Topics Organized
Hierarchically 2000+ ERIC Topics in 50 subjects based on Thesaurus
of ERIC Descriptors. Topics Organized Alphabetically 2000+
ERIC Topics utilizes search/Content Management technology from
Artesia; Basic/Advanced search interfaces spell-check,
% truncation symbol. Results sorted by 12 criteria(Basic &
Advanced) Boolean Connectors AND/OR must be upper case
Records labeled. "ED" link to ERIC Document Reproduction
Service; ERIC
Users Information Exchange;
ESDS International
(Economic
& Social Data Service)
7 September 2004
free web-based access to regularly updated international macro
datasets; user guides, International data FAQs, case studies
& exemplars; OECD, UNIDO, IMF, World Bank, UN Common
Database, Eurostat New Cronos;
ESRC Society Today(Economic
& Social Research Council)
14 May 2005
high quality social & economic research from UK's largest
funding agency for research & postgraduate training relating
to social & economic issues
EuroDocs:
Primary Historical Documents From Western Europe
1 July 2006
key historical happenings within respective countries transcribed,
reproduced in facsimile, or translated; political, economic,
social & cultural history;
Fact
Sheets on Europe
4 December 2010
Feminist.com
31 October 2009
information about women's equality, justice, wellness, &
safety; familiar names speaking on societal concerns; links to
feminist news websites & blogs; Events;
Footnote:
history for the people
3
August 2007
14 m+ digitized documents, subscription-based; unaltered view of
events, places & people that shaped the American nation &
the world;
French
Revolutionary Pamphlets(U of Alabama
)
15 November 2008
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library's Rare Books Collection
includes writings by well-known participants Desmoulins, Danton,
Robespierre; browse or search for specific items of interest; in
French only;
FybreSearch
Religion Search
17 August 2004
Gallup
Poll
24
March 2007
Gallup performance management systems help organizations boost
organic growth by increasing customer engagement & maximizing
employee productivity through measurement tools, coursework, &
strategic advisory services; expertise in automotive, business
services, education, financial services, healthcare, hospitality,
retail, manufacturing industries;
Gateway to African
American History
10 February 2002
African-American history for people outside US; African-American
Art & Literature, Little Rock, extensive discussion of La Amistad slave mutiny.
GeoExplorer - Geography
Portal for students and teachers of geography
30
April 2002
GeoHive
8 March 2007
geopolitical data, statistics on human population - population
statistics of regions, countries, provinces & cities,
statistics on economic factors - wealth, infrastructure;
statistics on natural phenomena;
GEO Year Book
2007
9 February 2007
4th annual report on changing environment produced by UN
Environment Programme in collaboration with world experts includes
global & regional overviews of significant developments,
highlights linkages among ecosystem health, human wellbeing, &
economic development; examines new thinking on value of ecosystem
services & threat of degradation; recent research findings
& policy decisions that affect our awareness & response to
global change;
GEsource Geography
& Environment Gateway
31
October 2003
core database of high-quality Internet resources catalogued by
subject specialists; Browsable & searchable; links to
databases( free & subscription), reference sources, timelines,
career information, training materials.
Getty
Thesaurus
of Geographic Names(TGN)
20 February 2003
structured vocabulary; 1m+ names; all continents & nations of
modern political world, & historical places; physical features
& administrative entities, such as cities & nations;
emphasis on places important for art & architecture; Search by
name, place type, nation; browsable hierarchy of names..entry for
Alice Springs includes coordinates, historical notes(e.g. settled,
1860 under name Stuart) & place in hierarchy(World, Oceania,
Australia, Northern Territory); source information
Global Distribution of
Poverty(Center for International Earth Science Information
Network) 6 March 2008
CIESIN "to enhance current understanding of the global
distribution of poverty & geographic & biophysical
conditions of where the poor live"; maps, datasets(information
about malnutrition & infant mortality rates), papers &
presentations; 2006 "Atlas of Poverty";
Guide
to
History on the Web(CHNM)
20 March 2004
5000 US & world history websites; search by type of website,
geographical area & topic; similar database in History Online: resource
area
H-Bot answers
historical questions with natural language searching
16 October 2004
HEARTH
29 July
2003
core books & journals in Home Economics published, 1850 -
1950; fulltext, bibliographies & essays
HistCite algorithmic
historiography software product (Eugene
Garfield)
2
November 2007
Free 30-day trials; citation analysis tool to help users work with
large data sets from Thomson Scientific’s ISI Web of Science(WOS);
identifying core literature from Web of Science & analysing
it; launch;
Historical
Research
in Europe: Guide to Archives & Libraries
2 August 2003
focus on Western Europe; interactive database searched by keyword
or subject headings - Science, Audio-Video, Church Archives,
Foreign Relations; records returned include title, subject,
creator, & URL
Historical
Text Archive
27 January 2002
articles, books, maps, photographs on genealogy, history,
religion, rock-n-roll, wars, women's studies; information on
individual countries; 5000+ related links; history research papers
& reports; search by either keyword or subject area
History Guide
18
July 2003
Subject Index of 3000+ resources; search by region(ancient world,
Asia, Europe, Africa) time period(5 options, broad spans), &
subject(laws/constitution, culture, society, economy); browse by
time period, region, subject; Annotation; English & German;
organization & institution listings, virtual exhibits; Smarthistory multimedia art
history textbook with images, videos, podcasts organized by
timeline(Webby for best education site);
History Journals Guide
20
March 2004
searchable database of major journals with titles arranged
chronologically, thematically & geographically.
History
of Medieval & Renaissance Europe: Primary Documents
1 July 2006
HistoryPin
29 March 2012
photographic images, videos, audio clips, descriptive &
narrative text pinned directly to Historypin map by users; FAQ; Map
- Search by place, narrow down by date, subject; Channels;
Community incl. Libraries,
Archives & Museums homepage;
History.uk.com
directory of people, organisations & places associated with UK
history
5 October 2002
HistoryWorld
24 February 2004
Britain's Virtual Teacher Centre & National Grid For Learning;
400+ articles/300 narratives/10000 events/thematic tours through
time -TimeSearch; OCEAN directory; History
World:
History & Timelines;
Histpop:
Online Historical Population Reports(OHPR)
11
January 2007
British population reports for Britain & Ireland, 1801-1937;
in-depth view of economy, society (through births, deaths &
marriages) & medicine during C19 & early C20; ancillary
documents from National Archives, critical essays &
transcriptions of important legislation;
H-Net Reviews in
Humanities & Social Sciences
26 May 2007
reviews posted to H-Net
electronic mailing lists which disseminate information about
upcoming conferences, seminars, workshops, funding opportunities;
some recent fulltext scholarly reviews, their review guidelines;
search for reviews since 1993; See also H-Human-Rights, H-Memory,
& H-Material Culture
How To Find Out: Economics 15 Aug 2002
Humanities
& Social Science Electronic Thesaurus(HASSET, V.3)
7 September 2004
developed to allow subject access to UK Data Archive's
HyperHistory
Online major epochs of world history during last 3000 years;
(Before
1000 BC) 3 March 2003
Images
of History on Web web repositories of historical images(Searcher,
May 2002)
10 May 2002
IDEAS bibliographic
database see Internet Documents
In Economics Access Services(IDEAS) 4 May 2012
Fulltext papers listed on RePEc(Research Papers in Economics)
IDEAS clearing house & index for economics papers as of 3rd
May 2012, covering: creative industries; creative economy; economy
of arts & artists; 1m+ items of research to browse or searched
& downloaded fulltext; includes bibliographic metadata from
1400+ participating archives, including all major publishers &
research outlets
IMF Staff
Country Reports in Fulltext
4 February 2002
International Monetary Fund. Alternate address is
http://www.imf.org/external/country/index.htm
Institute of Historical
Research
22 August 2005
resource meeting place for world scholars; events, publications,
theses, research centres, online history links
International
Bibliography of the Social Sciences(IBSS) added
to ProQuest
15 January 2010
International
Union for Conservation of Nature & Natural Resources
19 November
2004
IUCN Red List of
Threatened Species; Global Species Assessment (GSA)
list is searchable. Includes bibliography, photo
gallery, excellent
collection of links, information about various
species.
Internet
Crossroads
in Social Science Data
28 August 2007
searchable, annotated list of data-related links to web sites
useful to social science researchers;
Internet Documents In Economics
Access Services (IDEAS) database
2
May 2009
700000+ citations including links to working papers, articles,
chapters, & books housed at U of Connecticut; listing of
contributing institutions; FAQ; 2 weblogs;
Internet Encyclopedia of
Philosophy
27 June 2005
25 editors & 200
authors hold doctoral degrees & use traditional peer
review likescholarly journals, individual articles are signed
by authors; unfunded, voluntary work by editors, authors &
technical advisors; Philosophy
democratized? A comparison between Wikipedia & 2 other
Web–based philosophy resources by Beate Elvebakk(First
Monday Volume 13, Number 3 - 3 March 2008);
Internet
for
Historians interactive guide for academic work
13
October 2006
survey of online resources, tips on planning effective search
strategies, techniques for evaluating websites, Quizzes &
exercises for individual use or class setting; updated &
maintained by staff at Intute: Arts & Humanities;
Internet Library of
Early Journals C18 & C19 journal images with
bibliographic data
12 July 2002
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
Transactions searchable
Internet Medieval Sourcebook 1 July 2006
Internet Resources in History 26 December 2002
Internet Sacred
Text Archive
3 May 2003
world's philosophical & religious traditions; sacred &
philosophical texts from public-domain sources, information about
sources & standards deployed for each project; topics range
from Atlantis to Zoroastrianism; accurately transcribed(sometimes
translated); primary & secondary documents, such as firsthand
collections of oral traditions; CD-ROM available for purchase
JewishEncyclopedia.com
21 December 2002
complete 12-volume Jewish Encyclopedia published 1901-6; 15000+
articles & illustrations, browse alphabetically, search
article titles, text, or image captions
Jewish Virtual
Library
2 October 2005
Keesing's World News Archives
18 March 2007
web-based subscription database of 95,000+ articles from 1931-87
as Keesing’s
Contemporary Archives, then as Keesing’s Record of World Events
from 1987; 150 articles/month, 6 step editorial process:
Locate & authenticate wide range of international news
sources; Examine & collate their daily news; Compare facts
& figures from different sources fore most accurate; Discard
biased, speculative, misleading or inaccurate material; Research
& verify remaining information; Use raw material to write
lucid & digestible articles which accurately summarise world
events, presenting them within an accessible narrative which
highlights their immediate & historical context; In
researching news & in writing articles we are guided by 4
essential editorial principles: Internationalism:
we are committed to providing comprehensive information on all
world regions, all major developments in all countries; Accuracy: our reputation for
accuracy, preserved & nurtured since Keesing’s was first
published in 1931. We work with benefit of greater hindsight than
that enjoyed by newspapers or electronic media & have more
time for checking facts & authenticating information; Objectivity: we aim to be as
objective as is humanly possible. We do not editorialise & we
do not pass judgement upon events we record. We are totally
independent, with no political agenda to promote & no external
commercial interests to placate; Permanence:
we are not producing disposable news. We are writing “for the
record”, & thereby providing a “first take on history”.
Keesing's aims to provide certain types of information (election
results, Cabinet changes, details of economic affairs) of all the
countries of world, regardless of size. Speculation is avoided.
Predictions & intentions are only recorded in special
circumstances, e.g. a new government outlining its policy
intentions, & it is always made clear who made predictions or
statements of intent &, if appropriate, where they were
reported. Any analysis is clearly signalled (Many commentators
suggested…Some analysts believed)& sources of information that
may be controversial or simply unconfirmed are always given, e.g.
'According to reports in The New York Times of Aug. 17; free
search, topic cloud, clustering;
Liber8 An economic
information portal for librarians & students(Federal Reserve
Bank of St. Louis) 24 June 2006
free online economic materials, databases, & Web sites with
in-house databases such as the International Economic
Statistics(IES);
Librarian's Resource
Center(American Psychological Association)
30 July
2005
gateway to information about APA publications; pricing, licensing
& technical info includes: PsychINFO User Guide, PsychNET
Librarian's Reference Desk, Library Research in Psychology
List
of fulltext creative industries/creative economy/arts papers on
IDEAS, May 2012
4 May 2012
Fulltext papers listed on RePEc
IDEAS(clearing house & index for economics papers), as
of 3rd May 2012, covering: creative industries; creative economy;
economy of arts & artists;
Making
of the Modern World: Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic
Literature
18 August 2011
Part 1: 1450-1850. Part II: 1851-1914 by subscription for
Australian residents via National Library of Australia eResources -
early economic, political, business, & social history; 62400+
titles from 1450-1914;
Managing
Migration: The Global Challenge(Population Reference Bureau)
5 March 2008
Population
Bulletin, V.63 No.1; international migration is at
an all-time high, 191m migrants in 2005, i.e. 3 % left their
country of birth or citizenship for a year or more. The number of
international migrants in industrialized countries more than
doubled between 1985 & 2005, from 55m to 120; reviews
migration streams of last several decades, globally by world
region;
Medieval
Page: Sources for Medieval Studies on the WWW
9 June 2006
primarily Western Medieval subjects, with a few Late Antique &
Byzantine sites organized by topic such as online journals,
religion & philosophy, witchcraft, women, literature, music;
From an art history teacher & enthusiast; See also NetSerf;
Medieval
studies: Gateways, subject guides
29 April 2005
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;
Mining History Network 30 July 2009
National
Archaeological Database(US)
22
November 2008
National Park Service & partners' 350000+ reports on
archaeological investigations over the past decades; standard or
expanded result for their search query; standard formats citation
or record in style of American Antiquity journal, expanded
result includes location of report & name of lead agency that
sponsored the report.
National Bureau of Economic
Research(NBER) Search Engines
21 January 2008
leading US nonprofit economic research organization; 600+
professors of economics & business; developing new statistical
measurements, estimating quantitative models of economic behavior,
assessing effects of public policies on US economy, projecting the
effects of alternative policy proposals; search for scholarly
publications, working papers, books, researchers;
NativeWeb
1 July
2006
indigenous nations, peoples, & organizations around world;
clearinghouse for ongoing archaeological excavations; to higher
education grants for organizations that serve indigenous peoples;
Resources links to high-quality online materials; email updates;
Nereus non-commercial databases
for economics research
23 October 2009
New Advent Catholic Encyclopedia 3 October 2003
News alerting services Google news alerts; Yahoo news alerts; 21 December 2007
Noesis Philosophical
Search Online
13
January 2009
academic scholarship in philosophy freely available online;
indexing regions, directories & subdirectories, rather than
their contents; scholarly articles, lecture notes, course
schedules, conference announcements, & miscellaneous
professional information; Author archives are directories set
aside by authors for collecting & disseminating their work; Scholarship
includes author directories, online journals, reference works,
& article archives coming from professional associations &
philosophy departments. As Noesis develops, filtering content to
these regions effectively reduces search return sets to target,
academic scholarship in philosophy; filter searches to
search the collective webspace of all indexed philosophy
departments, or search faculty webspace in a single pass; filtered
to content coming from professional organizations, online journals
or reference works;
Nonverbal
Dictionary of
Gestures, Signs & Body Language Cues
24 June 2001
researched by anthropologists, archaeologists,biologists,
linguists, psychiatrists, psychologists, semioticians, &
others
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;
OARE(Online Access to
Research in the Environment)
14 June 2007
launched October 2006 & coordinated by UN Environment
Program(UNEP) & scitech publishers for free access to 1000+
journals from 200+publishers;
OCEAN (One-Click
Edited-Access Network) from award winner HistoryWorld
18 March 2007
OCEAN index contains 35000+ precise links to external sites; only
place where human editors select best online pages for precise
historical content
OECD Factbook of
economic, environmental & social indicators
18 March 2005
Labour market data by age, gender, part-time working or
self-employment; 100 indicators covering organisations 30 member
nations; explanatory analysis & easy-to-read charts to enable
cross-country comparisons of long-term trends in: Population
& migration, Macro- economic trends, Economic globalisation,
Prices, Labour market, Science & technology, Energy,
Environment, Education, Public policies, Quality of life; latest
available internationally- comparable figures & historical
data for 10 years; projections of future trends- population
ageing, economics & the environment
Online Reference Book for
Medieval Studies
23 November
2002
general public & scholars; current research & previous
scholarship; high standards of accuracy, currency, &
relevance; time periods(e.g., early medieval, high medieval) &
thematic areas, such as religion & culture; book-length work
on medieval English towns & information on religious orders of
time; online textbook section contains full-length works & a
section for beginning scholars titled What Every Medievalist Should Know contains 45
lists of references for topics
Open Domesday: Opening
up a historical dataset
24 December 2011
records ownership of almost every acre of land in England in 1066
& 1086; previously available online at National Archives for
£2/page to download; full-page, high-resolution images of
Domesday folios now available under CC-BY-SA; browse or download
folios en masse at Internet Archive(recommended), or page-by-page
at Open Domesday; RESTful
API supports geographic queries & returns economic &
social statistics for each settlement – from number of households
to (where listed) number of pigs, sheep & oxen;
Opinion-Pages
31 July 2003
search editorial & opinion pages from 600+ publications around
world/200+ Letters to the Editor pages
ORB
See Online Reference Book for
Medieval Studies(above)
8
December 2002
Other Women's
Voices: Translations of Women's Writing before 1700
20 September 2007
webliography, bibliography, documentary resource guide &
excerpts from translated words of women of Europe & Asia
from 2000 BCE to 1700, biography;
Perseus Digital
Archive
27 March 2008
history, literature & culture of the Greco-Roman world;
texts, images, datasets & other primary materials;
encyclopedias, maps, grammars, dictionaries; 1.1m manually
created, 30m automatically generated links connect 100m words
& 75000 images in core Perseus collections. 850000
reference articles provide background on 450000 people,
places, organizations, dictionary definitions, grammatical
functions;
Philosophy
democratized? A comparison between Wikipedia & 2 other
Web–based philosophy resources by Beate Elvebakk(First
Monday Volume 13, Number 3 - 3 March 2008);
PhilPapers:
Online Research in Philosophy directory of online
philosophical articles &
books
4 May 2011
work by academic philosophers; exchange & development of
philosophical research through Internet; gathers & organizes
philosophical research on Internet & provides tools for
philosophers to access, organize, & discuss this research
Poll
Builder Build customizable polls for
your web site free; cut & paste; help facility
18 October 2004
Population Index on the
Web
8 August 2003
world's population literature; annotated bibliography of recently
published books, journal articles, working papers; searchable
& browsable; 46035 abstracts of demographic literature
published in Population
Index, 1986-2000; user's guide & list of sources
Portals
to
the
World
22 January 2002
authoritative, in-depth information arranged by country or area
sorted into broad categories, selected by area specialists using
Library of Congress selection criteria
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;
Psi Café: A
Psychology Resource Site
19
October 2003
clearinghouse of important resources; behavioral psychology,
experimental psychology, social psychology; headlines in
psychology news; dates in history of psychology; graduate
programs; key theorists browsed by last name or field
PsycARTICLES: The
American Psychological Association
7 October 2004
full-text articles from journals published by it & APA
Educational Publishing Foundation, Canadian Psychological
Association & Hogrefe & Huber; from 50+ peer- reviewed
journals & books, 1985- abstracts free but per article charge
for full-text.
PsychSpider
4 March 2007
English or German language interface; crawling 300+ [open web]
sites in Germany & other countries using Verity technology;
PsychSplash (Psych Central Network)
Surfing the web, one psychology site at a time
18 January 2009
PsycPORT News Service:
The American Psychological Association
7 October 2004
portal-like news service from media sources such as Associated
Press, United Press International, Washington Post, USA Today,
NewsRX.com;
RePEc[Research Papers in Economics]
See also Economists
Online (above) & IDEAS
16 February 2004
100+ volunteers in 41countries; decentralized database; 209000+
items, 117000+ online: 120000 working papers/88000 journal
articles/1000 software components; 600 book & chapter
listings; 3700 author & publication contacts; 7300
institutions; 4 May 2012: 1400+ archives from 75 countries
have contributed 1.2m research pieces from 1500 journals &
3300 working paper series; 30000+ authors have registered &
70000 email subscriptions are served every week;
Resources for Economists on the
Internet(RFE)
17 October 2003
1000+ item subject index; data pointers; sub-categories;
annotation; Complete Contents menu item; RFE ESE (Economics Search Engine)
uses Nutch to index 300000 pages from 10000 economics sites;
Materials indexed include text, PDF, & Microsoft Word
files;
Rosetta Project
global collaboration of language specialists & native speakers
26
August 2008
publicly accessible National Science Digital Library collection
of human languages now serving 100000 pages of material
documenting 2500+ languages;
Royal Historical
Society bibliography See also Bibliography
of British & Irish History(BBIH) above
22 August 2005
387000+ entries, 3 updates/yr; journal articles from 500+
journals, collective volumes, books; access to Irish History Online
& London's Past
Online; search by keyword; author, title, journal or series,
date of publication, subject & period covered; subject
classification scheme; full text, where available; authoritative
guide to British & Irish history from Roman period; guide to
historical record societies;
Scholarly & Academic Research: Finding Journal Articles 21 April 2006
Sisyphos
fulltext search-engine (U of Heidelberg)
15 March 2011
indexes online resources in Egyptology/Ancient Near
Eastern Studies /Classical Archaeology in personal
& institutional websites, online ebooks, &
100+ ejournals (current &scanned from the
archives); includes subject gateways, image databases,
search engines, discussion forums, or mailing lists; part
of Propylaeum:
the
Virtual
Library
Classical
Studies joint project of Bavarian State
Library(Special Subject Collections Early History,
Classical Philology);
Slave
Trade Archives & clearinghouse
3 September
2005
documention of transatlantic slave trade & slavery across both
hemispheres includes lists of external websites & multimedia
archives from other institutions; African Studies Collection at
Indiana University & Amistad Research Center at Tulane
University.
Social Issues Research
Centre
12 March 2005
independent, non-profit organisation researching social &
lifestyle issues, global sociocultural trends, human behaviour
& social relations; UK think tank; Advisory Board of eminent
scientists & consultants in variety of disciplines; .articles,
analyses & report -- SIRC's Timeline
of Dietary Advice; Passport
to the Pub: A guide to British pub etiquette & The Smell Report ( psychology
&d anthropology of scent); .SIRC Guide to Flirting
Social Psychology
Network(SPN)
14 October 2005
database of 11000+ annotated Web links; keyword & advanced
search; browse categories; restrict search to sites with
interactive forum, email listserv, searchable information,Web
guide, directory, or portal; PDF documents only; Links to specific
SPN site: Society for
Personality & Social Psychology, Society of Experimental Social
Psychology, UnderstandingPrejudice.org,
Research Randomizer, Stanford Prison Experiment, The Jigsaw Classroom
(cooperative learning technique that reduces racial conflict among
school children, promotes better learning, improves student
motivation, increases enjoyment of learning), JoeChemo.org Also here:
Social Psychology Links by Subtopic, online directory - 1000+
profiles of social or personality psychologists, Interactive
forums, for students, professionals, job seekers, etc.
Social Science Data Archives 1 August 2002
Social Science Gateways on the Net 21 October 2002
Social Science Research Network(SSRN)
SSRN
eLibrary
Database Search
2 December
2005
world wide scholars disseminating research; specialized research
networks, reviewing & publishing submitted abstracts; Abstract
Database contains information on 104100+ working papers &
forthcoming papers; The Electronic Paper collection of 76600
downloadable PDF documents. SSRN works with publishers of 700+
scholarly journals & 140 research institutions; search
Abstract Database by keyword(in title, abstract or both) or
author, & limit by date range; available fulltext paper
downloads in PDF; Top Downloads in each specialized network; .free
& fee-based journals; FAQ; Sub-networks:
Accounting
Research Network(ARN) - research in accounting topics
including financial accounting, managerial accounting & audit,
tax & litigation
Economics Research
Network(ERN) - publishes quality research in economics
currently covering 44 subject areas
Financial Economics
Network(FEN) - financial economics including corporate
finance, banking & financial institutions, capital markets,
derivatives & real estate
Information Systems
Network(ISN) - on-line access to working papers, tables of
contents of journals, professional announcements to eBusiness
& eCommerce
Legal Scholarship
Network(LSN) - publishes quality research related to law,
economics, & business in 61 different subject areas
Marketing Research
Network(MKTG) - working papers, tables of contents of
journals, & professional announcements of interest to
Marketing community
Negotiations Research
Network(NEG) - working papers & professional
announcements of interest to Negotiation & Dispute Resolution
community
Social Insurance
Research Network(SIRN) - social insurance: disability income
& work injury compensation; health care delivery &
financing; poverty, income distribution & income assistance;
social security, pensions, & retirement issues; &
unemployment insurance
Social
Sciences
literature in citation databases
1 April 2008
Thomson’s Web of Science(WoS), CSA Illumina, Google Scholar &
Scopus; WoS and Scopus offer the best social sciences coverage at
journal, article & cited reference level. Both have a
comprehensive ‘cover-to-cover’ indexing policy, although Scopus’
coverage only captures references for documents published after
1995;
Social
Sciences search FAQ
31 October 2008
SociologyOnline
14 June 2004
clearinghouse; SocioNews & SocioQuote; portals that organize
news pieces & other relevant materials under broad themes of
globalization & Palestine,
SocioSite 1996, U of
Amsterdam clearinghouse
24 March 2007
important annotated links to social sciences disciplines;
sections dedicated to journals, libraries, news groups, search
tools, institutions, associations, weblogs; What’s New
section includes Funny Stuff which features
sociological-related humor & wordplay;
SOSIG: Experts'
Choice
22 August 2002
Leading authorities from social science community recommend
favourite Web site in their subject area
SOSIG the Social Science Information Gateway 29 October 2001
Spartacus Educational History directory 22 January 2005
Spire Project:
Country Profiles
14
September 2001
data from large international organizations(UN, World Bank, WHO)
& government(CIA, UK Foreign Consular Office, Health Canada);
no longer updated
Stanford
Encyclopedia of Philosophy mirrored at Sydney
University
26 February 2003
dynamic reference work - Browse alphabetical
abridged table of contents; keyword search; extensive unabridged
table
of contents ; advanced
search options, such as case sensitivity & partial
match; What's New
page; browse
all
entries chronologically; Versions of SEP are “fixed” 4
times/year, previous versions retained in archives. Updates from
last 3 months listed in “What’s new?” & whether change
consists in adding a new entry, or revisions; .Philosophy
democratized? A comparison between Wikipedia & 2 other
Web–based philosophy resources by Beate Elvebakk(First
Monday Volume 13, Number 3 - 3 March 2008);
Statistical
Resources on the Web
16 August 20023
indexes & annotates statistical information sources giving
resource title, source or publisher, URL & description;
social, economic, political & international
Stolen
Generations documentary collection(Robert Manne, The Monthly)
6 June 2009
assembled for Melbourne Writers' Festival debate on September 3
2006; For several years Andrew Bolt has been informing readers in
the Melbourne Herald Sun that the claim that between 1900
& 1970 thousands of mixed descent aboriginal children were
removed from their mothers, families & communities
involuntarily & without justifiable cause for racist reasons
is an un-Australian, left-wing myth; selection of documents in
government archives & representative testimonies from those
who experienced removals directly;
Studies
in Scarlet: Marriage & Sexuality in the US & UK,
1815-1914
7 Fenruary 2008
Images of hundreds of documents involving legal proceedings about
divorce, domestic violence, homosexuality, abortion, adultery,
& related topics in C19 & early C20; Search, or browse by
subject, name, or genre. From Harvard Law School Library; .
Studs Terkel: Conversations
with America(Chicago Historical Society)
6 November 2008
audio recordings of interviews with Studs Terkel - oral historian,
playwright, radio news commentator, sportscaster, film narrator,
jazz columnist, disc jockey, & music festival host;
Searchable; Studs
Terkel, 1912-2008 blog entry compiles interviews;
transcripts, audio & video stream, MP3 downloads of four
interviews from 2003, 2005, and 2007; From daily TV/radio news
program Democracy Now!, hosted by Amy Goodman & Juan
Gonzalez;
SurveyMonkey free
do-it-yourself web survey tool to create & execute
web-based surveys 4 March
2004
Theology
resources (Awareness Watch, Marcus Zillman)
28
November 2007
Timelines of History 14 May 2003
TimeMaps Atlas of
World History
20
January 2009
world history website based around a map that can be navigated
geographically or chronologically to show each & every nation
rise & fall, starting at 3500 BC
TimeSearch: Search the Web
through Time 10000
events in timelines; HistoryWorld
spin-off 18
March 2007
See also Google News Timeline; Interactive
virtual timeline from British Library(BL Timeline);
U California at Berkeley & Internet Resources by Academic Discipline 13 October 2003
UNEP World Conservation
Monitoring Centre WCMC function of UN Environment
Programme 13 August 2004
foremost intergovernmental environmental organisation offers
up-to-date news & publications about world biodiversity issues
as well as information on UNEP projects ranging from habitat to
species to protected area issues; Interactive Map Services
Urbanization
Knowledge Platform(World Bank) announcement
27
March 2011
for policy makers, academics, World Bank & groups struggling
to address rapid increase in size & importance of world
cities; rapid exchange of information in urbanization field to
leverage power of conversation to solve policy questions;
knowledge exchanges on core themes: Economic Development, Social
Inclusion & Mobility, Environmental Sustainability, &
Governance; fora, real-time conversation, live online meetings
& presentations;
Victorian Web: literature,
history & culture in the age of Victoria
4 July 2010
Virtual Religion Index
designed to advance research in matters of religion;
7
September 2007
Wage Indicator(European)
17 July 2005
1700 professions; questionnaire on working hours, time perception,
working history, company, contract & personal matters;
Web
Guide for the New Economy(V8N7 Awareness Watch Newsletter,
July 2010)
26 June 2010
latest world wide web resources for discovering new knowledge
& understanding latest happenings regarding New Economy; new
economy analytics, resources & alerts;
WhoWhatWhen:
Interactive Historical Timelines
20 June 2003
people & events from 1000 A.D; timelines of periods in
history, lives of individuals; Search by date, year, famous
individual, or contemporaries
Women's
Library
Source Notes For Their Collections
12 April 2005
feminism, women & home, women & literature, women &
media, women & peace, women & politics, women &
prostitution; primary & secondary sources in collections
including material available in a variety of formats.
World Migration Map 17 November 2006
World Memory Project
information about individual victims of the Holocaust & Nazi
persecution 8 May 2011
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
historical documents made freely name searchable online with help
from Ancestry.com; 170m
pages of documentation featuring information on 17m+ individuals
with names, dates, locations, conditions, & physical
descriptions of victims; See also Yad
Vashem(The
Holocaust
Martyrs'
&
Heroes'
Remembrance
Authority) Resource Centre & Archives;
Worldometers
12
January 2003
automatic counters tallying real-time changes in global indicators
presented by o.s.EARTH, Inc.,
a nonprofit research & education organization providing
experiential, simulation-based learning & training about world
resources & issues; Population, Energy, Food Supply, Health,
Education, Environment, Economy & Government; simply
presented; look elsewhere for discussion of issues presented
World Wide
Encyclopedia of Christianity
31 October 2005
links to the contents of Catholic
Encyclopedia, Easton's Bible
Dictionary, Smith's Bible
Dictionary, Torrey's Topical
Textbook, Elwell's Dictionary
of Christian Theology, and Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of religious
knowledge;
Yad
Vashem(The
Holocaust
Martyrs'
&
Heroes'
Remembrance
Authority) Resource Centre & Archives 27 January
2011
extensive & comprehensive documentation in various forms;
125m+ pages of documentation including 100000+ survivor
testimonies, 350000+ photographs & 2.5m names registered on
Pages of Testimony in the Hall of Names; information about
murderers, persecutions, extermination process,
collaborators, bystanders, those who rescued Jews; focuses on the
years of persecution & war from early 1930s until 1945 but
includes material about Jewish life in years before the war as
well as fate of the survivors after the war & ramifications of
the Holocaust until the present time; Yad
Vashem [Holocaust] Photo Archive; See also World Memory Project;
Zoomerang Surveys(MarketTools)
See also Poll Builder
(above)
25 July 2001
Internet service for businesses & individuals to conduct
professional surveys, get prompt responses to questions &
analyze data in real time; Limited FREE surveys + $599/year(1000
survey responses); $500 for each additional increment of 1000
survey responses;